Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from Petra Collins, María Isabel and Zack Fox. This week, our inimitable Editor-in-Chief Mel Ottenberg grabbed the aux to give our readers a long overdue education in the ABCs of Madonna. In honor of the magazine’s tenth cover featuring the Material Girl, Mel painstakingly curated almost five hours of essential Madonna listening, spanning the singer’s legendary four-decade-plus career. The playlist features both #1 hits you’re sure to recognize and deeper cuts that are about to become your new heavy-rotation faves. By the time you’re done listening to the whole thing, who knows, your Queen of Pop standom might even come close to rivaling Mel’s own.
