"The Power of Good-Bye," Madonna (1998)

 "Learn to say goodbye/I yearn to say goodbye." In other words, doing it and still knowing it's going to be impossible. A deep track from Madonna's late imperial phase. Her 37th Top 20 hit. Still dropping bombs, like it ain't no thing. Louise Ciccone, Catholic girl from Michigan, makes it big in NYC, a disco dancefloor diva, Queen of Pop, doing her best lipstick feminist blues. Of course, it's Madonna's punky sass, or her tough dancefloor cheerleader energy, but she could as well bring to the sad ones a tangy counterpoint of human frailty and burning desire that is not easy to forget.