Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: A & E

Media Credit: Warner Bros./WEA

The 49-year-old, yogalate-practicing Madonna we are familiar with today has reinvented herself plenty of times and leaves some astonished at how she does it, every time.

One of my personal favorite Madonna eras was one of her earliest, so early that I wasn't even born yet.

Growing up, I listened to B101 with my mom whenever we were together and I became familiar with her music without knowing what any of it really meant. I enjoyed the song's melody and the words were just there for me to sing along with.

"Like a virgin" is the only Madonna album I own and it might just be my favorite. "Material girl" might have given the wrong impression to the younger generation with lyrics that suggest that money is everything and that if you have it, it will get you anywhere, but the truth is that she took society's materialistic views and used them to come up a way of being, a life-style, that ended up being very appealing.

In my opinion, her usage of sexually explicit lyrics in her 1984 album is no where near as controversial, if you can even call it that, as her other albums. This particular album is fun, for lack of a better word, and embodies all that is 80's music with its skillful use of the keyboard and other instruments that leaves a lot to the imagination.

While " Like a virgin" and "Material girl" are probably the most popular songs today from the "Like a virgin" album, songs like "Into the Groove" and "Dress you up" are still make for good head-bopping material whether you're in the car or at the office, and no one can say that they've never jammed to an old school Madonna song, because they'd be lying and everyone would know it.

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