In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny Its window into the star’s uncensored world is a far cry from the celeb docs we see today
Tue, May 11, 2021, 06:00 Guy Lodge
When the teenage pop phenomenon Billie Eilish recently unveiled a
drastic new image on the cover of Vogue magazine, the internet went into feverish overdrive. Previously distinguished by raven-dark locks and loosely androgynous, body-concealing attire, the singer instead turned to hyperfeminised exaggeration: bombshell-style platinum curls atop a tightly cinched, rose-coloured bustier, with a polite nod to fetishwear in its visible buckles and accompanying nude PVC skirt.
As showbiz makeovers go, it was unexpected, though not without precedent: older onlookers were quick to note that the 19-year-old had effectively “done a Madonna”, not only borrowing the chameleonic in