YEAR
2008
INDUCTED BY
Justin Timberlake
CATEGORY
Performers
The record-setting, line-crossing, sexuality-flaunting, ever-evolving Material Girl.
Madonna is an icon. With her larger than life persona and penchant for provocation, she needs no introduction.
Madonna
Justin Timberlake Inducts Madonna
Madonna Acceptance Speech
"Burning Up"
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Jim Farber
Forget her role as fashion plate. And businesswoman. And dancer. And sexual contrarian. And video groundbreaker. And PR powerhouse. And shock queen. And even as icon.
Yes, all those roles play their parts in the global juggernaut, and aesthetic nexus, that is Madonna, but, collectively, they offer one big distraction from the key element that anchors them all: the music.
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