Tag: Madonna videography
Gondola Antics Were So Much Better/Less Vexing When They Were Relegated to the “Like A Virgin” Video
Easily characterizable as yet another example in an endless series of bad tourist behavior (see also: etching your and your girlfriend’s name into a wall [Read More…]
Lolahol Finally Surrenders Full-Stop to Emulating Her Mother, “Spelling” Us With An Updated Take on the “Frozen” Video
The first introduction to Lourdes Leon a.k.a. Lolahol as a singer was 2022’s “Lock&Key.” More to the point, that introduction revealed Lolahol’s unexpected preference for [Read More…]
“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” Video Setting A Precedent for Something Like “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
In one of the many Instagram “vignettes” posted in late Summer 2020 of Madonna’s screenwriting workshops with Diablo Cody, there is a moment where she [Read More…]
Madonna’s “You’ll See”: The Music Video That Lends A Touch of Glamor to Seasonal Depression
In time for a seasonal and mid-decade shift, “You’ll See” served as the first single from Madonna’s 1995 compilation of ballads, Something to Remember. Unleashed [Read More…]
“Bedtime Story” and “Dark Ballet” Bone Fellini in “911”
While it is perhaps redundant (not reductive) at this juncture to point out that Lady Gaga has a tendency to “borrow” from Madonna–a fact that [Read More…]
The Lions of “Like A Virgin”
From the moment the paws of the lion co-starring in the “Like A Virgin” video skip to the beat of the signature keyboard notes, one [Read More…]
The “Levitating” Remix Video Might Not Feature Madonna, But It Does Have a Very Specific “Who’s That Girl” Reference
While the presence of “randos” in music videos feels like an ever-diminishing notion (apart from Kylie Jenner in “WAP”) with stymying COVID restrictions, back in [Read More…]
Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” Video Conjures Visions of Madonna’s “Dear Jessie”
At the end of 1989, Europeans were treated to a fourth single from Madonna’s Like A Prayer album, an unusual-for-her-style number called “Dear Jessie.” With [Read More…]
Every Madonna Song With Bull Imagery Is Taurus In Sentiment As All Get-Out
It began in 1994, of course, when Madonna and MTV joined forces (yet again) to air a making the video type special (before Making the [Read More…]
