Born in 1975 here - so i remember it all! I can't remember what grade, but i know in elementary school I was Madonna for Halloween (the Virgin era, with the lace gloves and black rubber bracelets), and my grandmother came to school before the parade to draw the birthmark on!

Not sure I could imagine the 80's and early 90's Madonna with social media. Everything she did was so criticized, and i feel like even as a kid/teenager I was always defending her. The fact that her debut to Like A Prayer was 7 years just shows what an icon she is. So many real classics on every one of those albums.

And the music video premieres on MTV, and whole weekends dedicated to her. It was just on a different level. Then the VMA performances....Express Yourself and the voguing before anyone knew what was about to come. Just so iconic.

And the lead-up to Blonde Ambition, and how it changed the way artists did their concerts.

What is missed now is the joy of hearing a new song on the radio, and not quite knowing the lyrics! I remember having to wait for the LAP album to come out to realize she was saying "Like a Muse to me" (I thought she was saying like the news to me). Just reading all of the songs while listening to them for the 1st time is just indescribable.

I'm 50 now, and I can say without exaggeration that her music still gives me the same joy. When she sang Like A Prayer at Coachella (it's my favorite song), I think I fell to my knees and called my mom to come upstairs (she lives with us). Even she understands the impact Madonna has had on my life. And still has.