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Madonna is either synonymous with popular culture or the Virgin Mary, but one thing is certain; wherever Madonna makes her appearance millions will follow. Many things can be said about Madonna: unconventional, anti-institutional religion, feminist and gay movement icon, a shrewd business woman, and, as quoted in Pamela Robertson’s book, Guilty Pleasures, “She’s become a repository for all our ideas about fame, money, sex, feminism, pop-culture, even death.” 1(Page 117) Michel Dion’s essay, “Madonna in the French Press”2, reveals the reasons why the French Press react to Madonna in such an extreme fashion, and one reason would be what he calls the “religious transgression”. (Page 285) To correctly understand Dion’s findings and the conclusion presented, a complete and accurate definition of pop culture is needed to fully realize the nature of Madonna’s “business”. In the essay “Madonna in the French Press”, he uses the Critical Approach of Intercultural Communication. The Critical Approach is a process of analysis whereby Dion attempts to analyze the ubiquitous coverage of Madonna in the French media. Dion states that he counted and analyzed over 800 articles in the French press on Madonna i