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Madonna

MADONNA

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

Madonna

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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Class of 2008
Madonna's music dared you. Hell, it ordered you to express yourself.
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