The Fame Monsters

Strangely no mention of the Blondely Ambitious one in this piece about "a certain monstrousness" of the popstar personality. Published in the winter 2009 edition of GQ Style, it's a Madonna-free zoneAlso absent is her inheritor Lady Gaga. With the long lead times with a quarterly magazine, I must have written it the late summer. I hadn't heard The Fame, was barely aware of singles like "Paparazzi" and I doubt I would have known a revamped version of the album titled The Fame Monster was coming out in November . But clearly there was something in the air. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^AMBITIONGQ Style, winter 2009by Simon ReynoldsJust a few months before Michael Jackson died, I felt the urge to write about him for the first time ever. I was in a café and "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" came on and even though I must have heard it hundreds of times since first seeing the video on Top of the Pops in 1979, for some reason the song hit me like a lightning bolt. For all its falsetto-funk silkiness ,…