For this Gen X critic, the experience of revisiting Truth or Dare for the first time since its initial release prompted a flood of memories about Madonna's enormous influence on American culture, and, by extension, on my life: Nearly every conversation (public or private), academic essay, and broadsheet op-ed about race, gender, and/or sexuality from roughly the mid-Eighties through the mid-Nineties inevitably involved the Material Girl.
Melissa Anderson
August 23, 2016