Madonna wannabe

Instead, all of them, hundreds of thousands of young blossoms whose actual ages run from a low of about eight to a high of perhaps 25, are saving up their baby-sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings and fluorescent rubber bracelets like Madonna's, white lace tights that they will cut off at the ankles and black tube skirts that, out of view of their parents, they will roll down several turns at the waist to expose their middles and the waistbands of the pantyhose.

[8] In the TV program The 80's: The Decade that Made Us by the National Geographic, it was explained that "Madonna inspires countless girls across the globe to hit the nearest shopping mall to match her distinctive style".

[20] Editors of Garb: A Fashion and Culture Reader (2008), described the target as "an immense following of copycat teenagers",[21] and it led to American journalist Ricardo Baca call her "the most imitated woman" in the world.

[24] Madonna reacted to this trend, and revealed in an interview with The Washington Post her own surprise for this phenomenon at the fact that a way of dressing she had chosen had suddenly become, quite spontaneously in fashion.

[26] The Madonna wannabe phenomenon was studied by sociologists and other academics, as was noted by Spanish professor and philosopher Ana Marta González.

[7] By this time, using fashion and identity was a fresh concept, which according to Dawn Currie in Girl Talk (1999), coincided with the emergence of the "attitude dressing".

[11][7] Author Gary Goshgarian found that John Fiske and others interviewed young girls and find that the "Madonna wannabes are most taken with her assertive self-enjoyment, her seeming indifference to men".

This quest for Madonna-ness, almost down to the bones, provoked a consumerist desire in most of us, prompting periodic excursions to the mall to update our wardrobes to keep up with the ever-changing fashion statements of Madonna".

[31] Following the disappearance of the trend, critics and public used the term to refer female pop stars who had notable similarity with or majorly influenced by Madonna.

[33] A 2012 Star Tribune article ranked several singers as Madonna wannabees, including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga, who topped the list.