The Madonna Wannabe's: Black, White, Yellow, Red and Purple.

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Stacy Q: Two of Hearts (1986)

HI-NRG!!! - what they called dance/electronic music back in the day.

she was a skinny white hoe with a few hits, i loved this one and We Connect.

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Regina: Baby Love (1986)

everyone thought THIS was madonna on the radio. of course its written with Stephen Bray.

interesting note, i read an interview with her at the time she was 'hitting' and she was at The Music Building when madonna was there. she got a record deal (i think it fell through) before madonna did and regina said madonna came up to her asking her all these questions and said how lucky she was.

as i siad, something happened and it didnt happen and then of course madonna was signed to Sire in 1982 and the rest is history.

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Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - Can You Feel the Beat (1985)

all i remember about her is she was dump truck from spanish harlem. she didnt have much of a myth. but i loved them for a bit.

[karbatal]

That Regina song is so weird, because it has the magic of Bray but lacks the magic of Madonna and you are left there wanting something. Like when you cum with a dildo and then feel void because there's no warm man beside you

[karbatal]

And what about... MARTIKA?

[karbatal]

But to be fair 100% of the starlets have been a Madonna wannabe at a certain time of their career.

[loomer]

The biggest one of all time

[karbatal]

The biggest one of all time

Could you please stop bringing Kiko Milano in every thread?

[loomer]

Ha. I thought of her when I saw Kiko Milano as well, with her new name Kilo Mango.

[madmark]

Mitsou, the Canadian Madonna, even had her own Spanish influenced song, lol.

[ULIZOS]

There's this Mexican nothing that has basically copied every look in Madonna's entire career, from the 80s until today. it's so bizarre

[Roland Barthes]

Mylene Farmer (she's called the french Madonna) going as far as hiring Donna de Lory as a back up singer

(god i can't stand her. Tt's torture to even see her face for me)

[madmark]

Bleona Qereti calls herself the "Albanian Madonna", haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFN3KWqAC28

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Martika, Kylie - of course!!!

now in america, kylie had two hits in 1987. i should be so lucky and the locomotion. i believe the billboard charts, us radio and the GP didnt hear from her until Cant Get You Out of My Head in the '00's. i have to double check that.

1987 was when the LEGION of wannabes burst out everywhere. record companies would put little acts together. madonna responded to this because she was always asked and said something along the lines, "you spend years developing a sound and look and its irritating and sometimes when she hears songs on the radio shes like, is that me?" and then goes on to say shes more flattered than anything else.

i always knew of kylie because i was reading british publications like No.1, smash hits, Q and the like, where she was always mentioned. and in those days, when there were record stores, you had your major outlets like tower, the warehouse, sam goody but i would always go to Import stores (singles and records from all over the world) - to get the all the madonna stuff that would have different covers and posters and kylie was always a smash there.

[Roland Barthes]

When Debbie Harry worked with Jellybean in 1985

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There's this Mexican nothing that has basically copied every look in Madonna's entire career, from the 80s until today. it's so bizarre

is that paulina?

[madmark]

I love the Madonna's from around the world, haha

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When Debbie Harry worked with Jellybean in 1985

LOVE LOVE LOVE Feel the Spin. one of the writers was Toni C and i was CONVINCED it was madonna working under a pseudonym standing for Tony Ciccone.

[Roland Barthes]

LOVE LOVE LOVE Feel the Spin. one of the writers was Toni C and i was CONVINCED it was madonna working under a pseudonym standing for Tony Ciccone.

LMAO

[karbatal]

What about this delusional girl who is a superstar in Spain and has copied Madonna so much?

1. One day she said she couldn't go to New York because everybody thought she was Madonna and it was "so incredibly annoying"

2. She was there in that infamous Pedro Almodóvar party and then someone told Madonna "she's a singer" and Madonna said "oh, sing to me please" and Marta din't want to.

3. She is so annoying and so diva that her press assistant told us in our newspaper that she was fed up of her and that "she'd better stick her new cd up her cunt"

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^ not familiar with her, at all. karby.

[ULIZOS]

is that paulina?

Yuri.

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Yuri.

oh yes!!!

i believe she was on a variety show, with a blond ambition ponytail - she thought she was cool and it flew off during the performance.

[ULIZOS]

let's shut up before that Gang Bang comes in here and starts ranting about you know who (or you probably don't since it's just another Mexican nobody)

[nemo64]

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - Can You Feel the Beat (1985)

all i remember about her is she was dump truck from spanish harlem. she didnt have much of a myth. but i loved them for a bit.

Lost in Emotion was my fave Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam song, and I don't know why but Lisa Lisa reminds me of Paula Abdul.

I'll throw Shannon into the mix.

[ULIZOS]

Is that one chick who sings Girls Just Wanna Have Fun a Madonna wannabe?

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this is this is Company B - Fascinated, not so much wannabes as much as what was going on the peripheral during that 1987 time.

and, of course, Expose - Come Go With Me (1987)

you can hear similar madonna production styles, even song structure. madonnas influence was everywhere during this time.

[realityisalways]

There's this Mexican nothing that has basically copied every look in Madonna's entire career, from the 80s until today. it's so bizarre

That 'Mexican nothing' is much more relevant and successful than your flop fave Alejandra

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Lost in Emotion was my fave Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam song, and I don't know why but Lisa Lisa reminds me of Paula Abdul.

I'll throw Shannon into the mix.

paula reminded me of lisa lisa, too!!!

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Shannon - Let the Music Play - that and Holiday were the biggest club songs of 1983 that crossed over to national radio. shannon is really important when discussing madonna's early years and breaking from clubs onto the radio. they were neck and neck.

[ULIZOS]

That 'Mexican nothing' is much more relevant and successful than your flop fave Alejandra

Oh god, you see Pud, they're starting.