Sunday, August 17, 2025

#983. Lineage of Song: “American Pie”

Madonna

Don McLean

Gosh, I guess I’m not really a fan of Madonna, but I still found it interesting for her to do a cover of “American Pie,” of all things, in one of her periodic drastic reinventions to find acceptance once the last thing was no longer working. Kind of a shame that eventually she just gave up, which is weird because there was about a quarter century where the act was endlessly successful. And now you never hear about her. Unlike Elvis, she did disappear into Europe.

2 comments:

The Armchair Squid said...

Such an amazing song. My wife hates it! But it holds a special place in my heart.

Tony Laplume said...

I originally had the official Madonna video included, but Blogger is sometimes forced to block videos for rights reasons. So I inadvertently ended up with lyric videos for both versions, which I thought worked out pretty well.

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