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Cultural critic Mark C. Taylor in his book Nots (1993) felt that the postmodern art form par excellence is the video and the reigning "queen of video" is Madonna. He further asserted that "the most remarkable creation of MTV is Madonna.
- “Dark Ballet”
- “Girl Gone Wild”
- “Borderline”
- “American Life
- “Deeper and Deeper”
- “La Isla Bonita”
- “Cherish”
- “Bad Girl”
- “I Want You”
- “Secret”
The audacious, Tchaikovsky-sampling “Dark Ballet,” from Madame X, received an equally bold video starring Mykki Blanco as Joan of Arc. The clip is a tumultuously powerful, if unsubtle, depiction of resistance to transphobia and homophobia, and Madonna appears only briefly, leaving Blanco’s full-force dynamism to track each and every fluctuation in ...
As Madonna has aged, she has, frustratingly, become a caricature of her past incarnations, a quality tempered somewhat by both her obvious self-awareness and her critics’ stunning lack thereof. Sometimes she hits the mark, as she does so brazenly in 2012’s mesmerizingly campy “Girl Gone Wild.” Made up like a Russ Meyer-style super vixen, Madonna, t...
It’s entirely possible that part of the reason so many people took umbrage at Madonna’s unapologetic sexuality is because, at the dawn of her career, she had already given pop music some of its most winsome moments ever. The music video for “Borderline”—her first collaboration with Mary Lambert, who would go on to direct five Madonna videos, four o...
Filmed in the weeks leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, “American Life” may have been the first time in Madonna’s career where she voluntarily self-censored her work. In the original version, the artist and a band of unconventional beauties storm a fashion show that includes models dressed in military garb and gas masks, Middle Eastern...
A tribute to the films Andy Warhol produced for Paul Morrissey, “Deeper and Deeper” features a smorgasbord of contemporary cameos (Debi Mazar, Sofia Coppola, ChiChi LaRue) and Morrissey alums (Udo Kier, Holly Woodlawn) as patrons of a bustling Hollywood nightclub. Madonna, who portrays Warhol protégé Edie Sedgwick and arrives with balloons in hand,...
“I was Spanish in another life,” Madonna once cheekily declared. The artist’s belief, however serious, that her preoccupation with Latin culture is rooted in a sort of spiritual duality dates as far back as the video for 1986’s “La Isla Bonita.” In the clip, Madonna, wearing a simple white tank dress, peers longingly down from the austere confines ...
“Cherish” is notable for not just being the late photographer Herb Ritts’s first foray into music videos, but for its surprisingly lighthearted, family-friendly tone following the provocative “Like a Prayer” and “Express Yourself.” Despite three strapping mermen cavorting nearby in the ocean, captured sensually by Ritts’s lens, Madonna is content t...
The fourth and (sadly) final collaboration between Madonna and director David Fincher, the star-studded “Bad Girl” draws on more contemporary film references—the 1977 cautionary tale (some might say slut-shaming) Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Wim Wenders’s 1987 film Wings of Desire—than their previous videos. Madonna plays Louise Oriole, a bombshell ...
The video for Madonna and Massive Attack’s cover of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” takes place in a civil rights-era hotel room where a disheveled Madonna paces, literally wringing her hands as she waits for the telephone to ring. In a tactile, wordless performance that might be the most convincing evidence yet that Madonna the actress was born a centu...
The videos from Madonna’s R&B-influenced Bedtime Stories display an ostensible need on the artist’s part to explore her own conflict as a cultural riddle. In “Secret,” Madonna plays a white chanteuse in Harlem, but that she keeps a relative distance between herself and the mostly Black and Latino people in the video suggests an earnest belief that ...
Jul 27, 2023 · Themes of nudity, sadomasochism, bisexuality, and androgyny run throughout the Jean-Baptiste Mondino-directed video, which Madonna defended as a "celebration of sex" after it was banned from MTV.
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- ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ Before the release of her third album, True Blue (1986), Madonna was already a popular figure known for causing controversy with her image and themes.
- ‘Sex’ October 1992 marked a new era for Madonna. She released her fifth studio album, Erotica, and a coffee table book titled Sex. The book consisted entirely of sexually provocative and explicit images featuring her and several collaborators, photographed by Steven Meisel.
- ‘Evita’ Madonna’s road to star in Alan Parker’s adaptation of Evita started in 1986, eight years before production started. Paramount was starting to develop the project for film when the singer visited producer Robert Stigwood, producer of the West End adaptation dressed in a gown and a 1940s hairdo, expressing her interest in portraying the historical figure.
- ‘American Life’ and ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ Madonna started the 21st century with Music, her eight studio album in 2000, produced by electronic dance songwriter Mirwais Ahmadzaï.
Jul 30, 2023 · Link Copied! CNN —. Madonna’s self-titled first album was released 40 years ago this week. In a social media video she shared on Thursday, the pop culture icon marked the anniversary by ...
Aug 14, 2021 · Celebs. We Ranked Madonna's 21 Greatest Music Videos of All Time. Samuel R. Murrian. Aug 14, 2021. Born in 1958, Bay City, Michigan native Madonna is cited as the highest-selling female...
Sep 13, 2021 · With those words, Madonna opened the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, which along with her iconic 40-year career as the Queen of Pop, is also celebrating the network’s four-decades-long...
