Category: Madonna
Make Money First, “Do Art” Later: Madonna’s Madame X Theatre Tour Gets the Concert Video Treatment
The more time has gone on, the more Madonna can rely on self-referential material. Not only to reinvigorate it and apply it to the present, [Read More…]
New Madonna Is Better Than Old Madonna
There is a joke made in season one of Flack when addict/publicist Robyn (Anna Paquin) is trying to come up with ways to make her [Read More…]
Thanks for Being Holier Than Thou: The Cinematic Gods Smiled Upon A League of Their Own When Debra Winger Backed Out Because Madonna Joined the Cast
In 1992, Madonna had quite a few “failures” under her belt. Specifically filmic ones. After her success with 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, in which many [Read More…]
On Being An OG and Trying to Make “Fun” Happen in New York
Madonna, a bona fide OG of the era in New York that people still most romanticize—the 80s—has been unable to avoid trying to recapture the [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…]
So You Wanna Keep Dredging Up “Vintage” Instances of Women Being Abused by the Media?: Look at Madonna
Madonna long ago knew that she would not have the same kind of worshipful fame as Marilyn Monroe. Or any other “tragic” figure typically martyred [Read More…]
The Philistines Unable to Discern Maradona From Madonna
Granted, no one has been conditioned to expect much from Americans since, oh, around the time Nixon took office, let alone be aware of other [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…]
The Fine Line Between White Savior Grandiosity and the “Like A Prayer” Video Doing The Very Thing White People Are Being Called Upon to Do
There has been an accusation of late, one that can’t be quelled amid the present climate of hostility and rage that has been brewing for [Read More…]
2.23.20 Le Grand Rex: “I’ve noticed French people don’t laugh a lot.”
The Polaroid bitch (a nickname best used to describe those who shell out thousands of dollars/euros for a picture Madonna takes of herself during the [Read More…]
