Not sure if you’ve heard but it’s VMA season again. To prep for the 2014 Video Music Awards we’re taking a look back at some of the award show’s most iconic moments and outfits. And in doing that, it becomes clear that there’s pretty much no one more intrinsically tied to the VMAs than Madonna. Let’s take a look back at Madonna’s most iconic moments.
1984: “LIKE A VIRGIN” MADONNA
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The one that started it all. Madonna’s debut as “virgin” bride during the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards (the very first VMAs EVER) accomplishes two things: it puts Madonna on the map as Queen of Pop Music (if anyone challenges me on this, I will fight you), and establishes MTV’s annual award show as the place where water-cooler moments happen. The bride wore white, dripping in pearls and rosaries, and was tightly cinched in place with a “Boy Toy” belt.
1989: “EXPRESS YOURSELF” MADONNA
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Madonna debuted her “Express Yourself” single with its first live performance ever at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards wearing a bustier, slouchy wide-legged railroad striped pants, and a magnifying glass necklace. On the beauty tip, baby Madonna’s sporting cropped curls and grown out roots presumably from her last film “Who’s That Girl?”
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For contrast, we’ve provided a photo of Madonna with a top on, which she wore while accepting the Viewer’s Choice Moonman in ’89. Because really, when hasn’t Madonna looked great in menswear?
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