{"id":793,"date":"2010-08-13T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-08-13T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:13:06","slug":"various-artists-glee-the-power-of-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/various-artists-glee-the-power-of-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"VARIOUS ARTISTS + Glee: The Power of Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Glee-The-Power-of-Madonna-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-794\" title=\"Glee-The-Power-of-Madonna-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Glee-The-Power-of-Madonna-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Glee: The Power of Madonna\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Glee-The-Power-of-Madonna-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Glee-The-Power-of-Madonna-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>V<\/strong><strong>ARIOUS ARTISTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Glee: The Power of Madonna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Columbia]<\/p>\n<p>So long has \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d been a camp classic that to see it performed on TV by characters actually contemplating their sexual awakening is astonishingly moving. That\u2019s the kind of reinvention that <em>Glee<\/em>, the music-packed hit show about a high-school glee club, does best. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that the standouts on this EP featuring the seven songs from the show\u2019s April all-Madonna episode are the frenetically catchy mash-up \u201cBorderline\/Open Your Heart,\u201d and an all-male take on \u201cWhat It Feels Like For a Girl\u201d that aptly echoes the original artist\u2019s gender-bending feminism. More straightforward covers like \u201cExpress Yourself\u201d feature stellar vocals but seem less essential. As a whole, <em>The<\/em> <em>Power of Madonna<\/em> can\u2019t quite capture the emotion of the episode itself, or the carnival-like fun of the show\u2019s other three compilation albums.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Katie Dodd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VARIOUS ARTISTS Glee: The Power of Madonna [Columbia] So long has \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d been a camp classic that to see it performed on TV by characters actually contemplating their sexual awakening is astonishingly moving. That\u2019s the kind of reinvention that Glee, the music-packed hit show about a high-school glee club, does best. It\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,389,425,70,426,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}