ABSTRACT
For many pop musicians, the struggle to stardom in the early 1980s occurred within an industry that was undergoing enormous change, especially with the advent of the pop video and launch of MTV in 1981. It is to this phenomenon of televisual development that Madonna owes her fame. There can be little doubt that music television asserted definite shifts in the ways in which music could be disseminated and received in the 1980s. Generally, of the studies that have focused upon commercial music of the 1980s and 1990s, the majority have skirted around the question of aesthetic function. Released in 1994 by Warner Brothers, Bedtime Stories consists of eleven tracks with words and music written by Madonna and Dallas Austin. Vocal delineations of identity are linked to processes of enjoying music, especially when the voice is experienced as playful and appealing.
