TrevvieLand has edited a fabulous retrospective of all the best footage of Madonna performing "Vogue" over the years. It's a real salute to how this song—even with its distinctively 1990 sound—never ages. The same could be argued for Madonna, or not, depending on your definition.

Is "Vogue" her best song ever? I would say it has to be in her Top 3, along with "Into the Groove" and "Like a Prayer".

Her many reinterpretations look all the more brilliant one after another. All the more spectacular is the fact that some of these totally different takes were concocted within months of each other, while others are decades apart...

Multiple sources (with a shout out to Madonnarama) have said that the final setlist for The MDNA Tour is as follows (spoilers, duh)...

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

Madonna's first Grammy nomination was for 1985's "Crazy for You," her first win was not until 1992 and she won no significant Grammys until 1999 (for Ray of Light). To date, she has nine wins and, by my count, 30 nominations. (At the rate she's going, Katy Perry should surpass that in an album or so...)

This year, the Grammy nominations failed to include her for her Sticky & Sweet Long Form Music Video—even though it was quite a spectacular show not to mention the #1 solo tour of all time.

But David Guetta was nominated for his remixing services on "Revolver," a song a lot of Madonna's fans despise (I still like it, sorry!).

Here is his Grammy-nominated remix, the "One Love Club Remix":

As of midnight tonight, it will be exactly five years since my first post. It's hard to imagine it's been that long, and a lot's changed—the tone and subject matter are different, how often I post, my limits (no nudity in a couple of years due to ad constraints). I've devoted a crazy amount of time and money and energy to this blog for a very small financial return (you couldn't guess low enough), but it's always rewarding to have this forum with which to express myself, keep my writing ability fluid, perhaps influence a couple of people here and there, share obsessions with strangers (in both senses of the word) and learn new things.

Take That's Howard...can you believe this happened onstage at a pop concert?

Here are some of the posts that were most important to Boy Culture's history. For the uninitiated, some of the oldest ones refer to Boy Culture, the movie made of my novel; I started the blog at the time Boy Culture was being filmed as a way to keep people informed of the progress...and it all snowballed from there.

Subtle

Some of these posts are milestones when it comes to the hits they provided but most are filled with original writing and/or photography and video and are just the posts of which I'm proudest. I hope you'll take some time to click on them and send their links around to others—and some time is what you'll need...

MY ART

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novella, novel and movie Boy Culture; might be my ultimate post.

From '07, one of my faves. Old iPhones were better because they were worse.

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

TriBeCa is for Boy lovers...

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

I had the Fever for Jon-Erik Hexum

AN OBSESSION IS BORN (2009): One of my best posts about my obsession with...obsession.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

I was given the red-carpet treatment

HAVEN'T WE MET? (2010): Celebrating my time with someone I've only met once—Madonna.

Another Hard Candy leak, this time the rumored track "Latte". Hey, looks like she was playing with the gypsy stuff prior to scotching this and resuscitating parts for her live "La Isla Bonita" extravaganza on Sticky & Sweet.

Pretty, unassuming little song. Also hear some "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" in there.

Meck's "Feels Like Home" was a big hit in 2007, eventually attracting Madonna, who performed it in a show-stopping mash-up with "Like a Prayer" for Sticky & Sweet.

Now, with Madonna-like singer Dino added, "Feels Like a Prayer" is reborn as a single and video in its own right.

Via All About Madonna: Damages is one of the best shows I've ever seen, at least judging by this (last?) season, and of course Glenn Close has given many an amazing performance—she's got that acting-world gravitas, baby. That's why it sort of surprised me to read that she is an out-and-out Madonna fan...I guess I always worry that the Hollywood elite still look down on her (they probably do, when she whips out her plans to direct a fil-um)...maybe I'm too much like Madonna was onstage before singing "Sooner Or Later" at the Oscars, expecting the worst for her!

Glenn tells the Daily Record (I know, but it sounds real) she loves the Erotica album:

"Oh, my God...get on YouTube and watch Madonna's 'Bad Girl' video, man! [Laughs] That album is just genius and I guess it has so many memories for me and the first time I ever saw her live in MSG, I saw her live in 2008 and I got the chance to go backstage and I was so scared! [Laughs] But she is lovely and she is a fan of Damages, so not a bad compromise, right?"

So much for Madonna not watching TV. Maybe her assistants have convinced her Damages is a movie series, like the James Bond flicks?

Pop Eater has an exclusive preview of Madonna's Sticky & Sweet DVD (out April 6 in the U.S.) Unfortunately, it's her performance of "4 Minutes," one of the show's least exciting numbers thanks to Timberlake and Timbaland's parts being canned. Looks good, though, and I'm sure fans will be pleased with the full DVD. 

Now...Re-Invention? Blond Ambition?

Fans of Sticky & Sweet might be excited to hear that the show-stopping "Like a Prayer"/"Feels Like Home" mash-up will be commercially released.

"Feels Like a Prayer" by Meck feat. Dino already has mixes. As a friend notes, no Madonna vocals are heard in the snippets...?