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The 12 months before, Madonna had launched Like a Prayer, a vital and industrial smash, and a crowning artistic achievement to wrap up her exceptional run through the Eighties. Coming off Like a Prayer, arguably her most personal album thus far, I’m Breathless could possibly be considered as a pivot to the comfort of character, however as a lot as the album is rooted in her Dick Tracy function, it simmers with a personal contact and tension that’s distinctly Madonna Louise Ciccone. Sometime in 1998: "I respect any artist who has expertise, and Michael Jackson and Prince are extraordinarily proficient artists," Madonna tells The Sunday Mail, as printed in an April 11, 1999, article about J. Randy Taraborrelli’s but-to-be-released Madonna: An Intimate Biography, which reasserts that Prince and Madonna had a two-month affair in 1985. "I do not care what they do out of the spotlight - that’s their business - but I do hope they proceed to do good work. "I don’t know that there are many individuals who can do as many things as Madonna can do as nicely," Beatty informed Vanity Fair in 1990. "People who are in a optimistic frame of mind, who convey as much energy and willingness to work as Madonna does.