Her iconic status had been cemented with her first

greatest hits compilation,1990’s The Immaculate

Collection, which distilled her early career into one
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era-defining pop single after another (“Holiday”,

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“Like a Virgin”, “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Like a

Prayer”, “Vogue”) and sold 32 million copies
worldwide. The same year’s Blond Ambition World
Tour had raised the bar for arena pop shows,
being both more provocative and more
spectacular than pretty much anything before it.
She’d also celebrated her sexuality more overtly
than any other comparable artist, male or female,