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Aug 21, 2015
This in fact is not a Madonna song, but rather a song she wrote with her collaborator Pat Leonard and then offered British model-turned-singer Nick Kamen. The song was a major hit in Europe and Madonna can be heard on background vocals in Kamen's single. There is a bottleg version with Madonna singing the full song, this I think was part of the "True Blue" algum sessions and the song never really made the cut. Lyrically, it's interesting how it went from a female to a male interpretation with no real change. The line "a little voice inside me cries" sounds quite feminine, but otherwise it is perfectly interchangeable.
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The song is one of the most ironic takes on 80's consumerism. Madonna takes on the role of a girl whose only interest - or obsession - are her material possessions. It is also tongue in cheek, with lines like "if they can't raise my interest" and "boys may come" full of sexual innuendo. To some extent, there are also feminist undertones, since the girl in question seems to be much smarter than all the boys who chase her. Unfortunately, the song's irony was completely misunderstood in America, where Madonna is known as the "material girl" up to this day, as if the song represented her life philosophy.