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" Three words to give any potent pop fan the horn: Glee Does Madonna. Not only does the steely-eyed, tracksuit-sporting 50-something - Madge that is, not Sue Sylvester - have one of the best back catalogues in the business, but she&amp;#039;s got more in common with the show&amp;#039;s menagerie of misfits than one might initially imagine: besides being motherless since the age of five, and a failed dancer years before she became a pop sensation, what could make you feel more like an outsider than being The World&amp;#039;s Most Famous Woman? Thankfully, the idea succeeds on record as well as on paper. Glee: The Music, The Power Of Madonna - OK, so the title&amp;#039;s about as smooth as Rachel&amp;#039;s upper lip - collects seven of the tracks performed on the TV phenom&amp;#039;s much-hyped Madonna ep, which aired Stateside last night, while there&amp;#039;s a bonus track for iTunes buyers in the form of &amp;#039;Burning Up&amp;#039;. Pre-TX hype may have focused on Sue Sylvester&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Vogue&amp;#039; homage, which still manages to be entertaining shorn of its visuals, but it&amp;#039;s not the most imaginative reworking here. That honour goes either to the all-male rendition of &amp;#039;What It Feels Like A Girl&amp;#039;, complete with Puck and co delivering the Charlotte Gainsbourg spoken word intro, or a two-and-a-bit-minute mash-up of &amp;#039;Borderline&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Open Your Heart&amp;#039;. Both wind up strangely moving. The most fun moment, meanwhile, comes when Mercedes and Kurt vamp it up over a marching band take on &amp;#039;4 Minutes&amp;#039;.  The EP&amp;#039;s remaining tracks are surprisingly faithful recreations of the originals - yes, the covers of &amp;#039;Like A Virgin&amp;#039; (giddy), &amp;#039;Express Yourself&amp;#039; (bouncy) and &amp;#039;Like A Prayer&amp;#039; (predictably exultant) are essentially karaoke, but they&amp;#039;re spirited, affectionate and utterly infectious karaoke. Besides, if the Glee treatment encourages a few younger pop fans to invest in Madonna&amp;#039;s stellar recent hits collection, it can only be viewed as a good thing. And for those in the know, hearing five members of this thoroughly likable cast trilling &amp;#039;Like A Virgin&amp;#039; in harmony is so downright gleeful, well, it&amp;#039;s almost like being touched for the very first time.  &amp;gt; Click here to watch Sue Sylvester&amp;#039;s re-enactment of the &amp;#039;Vogue&amp;#039; video "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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