Madonna

"In Italy, being the cosmopolitans that we are, we amplify everything and she seems like a giant of music before whom all of ours disappear, whereas all it would take is to remove our ham-slice glasses and we would see (or would have seen) a stout little woman, a bit uncouth, with the classic face of an American-Italian from a small town who, to stand out, becomes vulgar." Christian Calabrese, music journalist