It would’ve been a diva dream team with the Queen of Pop and the Queen of Buttah. That’s what almost happened when Madonna was supposed to pair up with Barbra Streisand on the latter’s 1993 “Back to Broadway” album. The sequel to Streisand’s 1985 “The Broadway Album” was set to feature Madonna on the classic … Read more
Cyndi Lauper said it’s unfortunate that she was pitted against Madonna when they were on their rise to fame in the 1980s. “Isn’t that sad, there can only be room for one? The hell was that? I didn’t like it,” Lauper, 70, told E! News last week. When asked if she ever spoke to Madonna, … Read more
The new Ariana Grande album is, as the kids say, a vibe. And the mood of “Eternal Sunshine” — the octave-leaping diva’s first LP since 2020’s “Positions” — is a forever forecast of cloud-busting, post-breakup bliss. Whether it’s self-renewal or a romantic one, Grande’s seventh studio set is the kind of spring awakening that we … Read more
Lifetime makes history of a sort with “Ladies of the ’80s: A Diva Christmas,” gathering pop-culture “divas” Morgan Fairchild (“Falcon Crest”), Linda Gray (“Dallas”), Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”), Loni Anderson (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) and Nicollette Sheridan (“Knots Landing”) to appear together onscreen for the first time. “We’re not divas — it’s an easy label to … Read more
Belt it out, set it free and put your lighters in the air my babies, let’s talk power ballads. Whether lamenting love gone wrong or celebrating life in all its failures and majesties, roses and thorns, purple rain and vivid pain, power ballads are the FM heart beat of the human experience. The 80’s era … Read more