Faces

from the 12” single, Crash Records, 1985



It’s no secret that Madonna loved the italo sound & sought to re-create that in her early releases, but this track duly verifies that her passion was not merely a one way street, after her rise to fame anyways; hell, on paper it’s a match made in heaven (Madonna is Italian no less), and that certainly panned out in the charts. What’s odd is that, while America went about drooling over Madonna for decades, either deifying her image to unhealthy degrees or becoming possessed with seething rage at her global sex fête, the underlying musical inspiration for her groundbreaking sound, italo, is only just beginning to receive its comeuppance. This is another Roberto Ferrante masterpiece, so good (in my humble opinion) that it stands evenly beside Madge’s singles of the same time period; so it’s an italo take on Madonna’s take on italo, and though it may fall into the “guilty pleasure” category, I’m on vacation still, so it’s all about immediate gratification baby!