she was never a good singer but an outstanding performer and media manipulator for 30 years...yeah currently she is long in the tooth..is it ageist, some say but she looks stiff in the clips I have seen...but does any say Mick Jagger is stiff at 80
Madonna could sing ok.
"Love Don't live Here Anymore" and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" were more than decent
I think a problem for Madonna was that she had roots in the club/dance scene that was on its last legs.
She was a dancer doing music seeded in dance.
Her live shows were dance oriented
Rap and Hip Hop started taking the divas out
Sade, Carey, T Braxton, L Hill, J Jackson and others started to fade as a leading cohort.
Madonna was also bombing in films and she moved to England.
She did a fade and so did her looks.
Her face got really bad and she tried the surgery but it made her face look like it was by Michelin.
She was never that attractive but she became an oddity