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....How Madonna Defined Pop Culture (Continued)

Exploiting her good taste

Madonna enlisted Nile Rodgers to work with her on Like a Virgin. "I am always amazed by Madonna's incredible judgement when it comes to making pop records,” he later said. “I've never seen anyone do it better, and that's the truth.” Since then, Madonna has displayed a canny sense of the zeitgeist, enlisting of-the-moment talents who spur each new phase of her career