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Madonna’s Under The Covers is an unofficial, independently released compilation that gathers 20 live cover songs she has performed throughout her career, focusing specifically on “ the songs she didn’t write.” Issued on CD and as a double colored‑vinyl set in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it pulls audio from FM and soundboard broadcasts of concerts spanning nearly four decades, stitching them into a career‑length portrait of Madonna as an interpreter of other artists’ material. The packaging typically highlights this concept with the subtitle The Songs She Didn’t Write and notes that all tracks come from radio or broadcast sources recorded at various venues around the world.The tracklist features her takes on a wide range of songs—from rock and pop to musical‑theatre and standards—presented in the sometimes variable but generally solid quality typical of curated broadcast recordings. Rather than functioning as a polished, artist‑approved live album, Under The Covers plays more like a fan‑oriented document, emphasizing rarities and one‑off performances that never appeared on her official releases. For collectors, it offers a cohesive way to experience Madonna outside her own songbook, revealing how she bends others’ material to her vocal style and stage persona, even though it sits firmly in the grey area of unofficial/bootleg‑style releases rather than in her canonical discography. Show more