Madonna's first video, "Everybody" (1982), was a low-budget work. Her first video to receive attention on MTV was "Borderline", followed by "Lucky Star" and "Like a Virgin", which popularized Madonna's image and fashion among the younger generation.[9][10] Her early videos were released commercially on Madonna (1984), which became the best-selling videocassette of 1985.[11] With the title track from her third studio album True Blue (1986), Madonna's impact on MTV and popular music was established when a contest entitled Making My Video, was held to create a music video for the song.[12] "La Isla Bonita" and "Who's That Girl", both released in 1987, showed Madonna's fascination with Hispanic culture and religious symbolism.[13] In 1989, the video of "Like a Prayer" portrayed her dancing in front of burning crosses, receiving stigmata, kissing a black saint and having sex with him in a church altar. It faced strong reaction from religious groups and media.[14] "Express Yourself" released the same year was critically appreciated for its positive feminist themes.[15]
In 1990, Madonna released the video for the song "Vogue", showing the underground gay subculture dance routine called voguing, and the glamorous look of golden era Hollywood.[16] She released her second video compilation, The Immaculate Collection (1990) to accompany the greatest hits album of the same name. She featured overtly sexual undertones with the videos of "Justify My Love" (1990) and "Erotica" (1992), which met with huge backlash.[17] By this point, Madonna had sold between 3 and 4 million copies worldwide of her video releases.[18][19] A toned down image of the singer appeared in the video for "Secret" from Bedtime Stories (1994).[20] Inspired by paintings of Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, the music video of "Bedtime Story" is permanently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[21][22] Madonna incorporated Asian culture in the videos of "Frozen" and "Nothing Really Matters" from her 1998 album Ray of Light.[23] The video for its title track was a high-speed one, portraying Japanese people going through their daily lives, interspersed with Madonna in black denim dancing to the music.[24] Most of her 1990s videos were released on The Video Collection 93:99.
In 2019, "Vogue" became Madonna's fourth music video to reach over 100 million views on YouTube across four different decades, following "Bitch I'm Madonna" (2015), "Hung Up" (2005) and "La Isla Bonita" (1987), making her the first female artist in history to achieve this feat within the streaming era.[32]
The video portrays Madonna in her boy-toy image, dancing in front of a white background, flanked by two dancers, one of whom is her brother, Christopher Ciccone. There are 2 versions of the video, a 4-minute and a 5-minute version.
The video portrays Madonna as a young woman who is dancing in the streets when she catches the eye of a professional photographer. She leaves her boyfriend and goes with the photographer. After accidentally spray painting the photographer's car during a photo shoot, he yells at her and she returns to her boyfriend.
In the video, Madonna roams around the streets of Venice and through marble-pillared rooms wearing a white wedding dress; this clip is interspersed by images of a lion and a man wearing a lion mask. There is an alternate edit of the video with slight changes.
The video portrays Madonna with a new pale and subtle look, her shoulder-length hair is wavy and golden blond.[44] Footage from the film At Close Range is interspersed, with Madonna appearing to speak for the character.
In this video, Madonna adopts the gamine look portrayed by Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn during the 1950s.[47] She portrays a tomboy who wants to tell her father about her pregnancy. Interspersed with scenes of a sexier Madonna with a toned body, wearing a black bustier.
The American version from MTV's "Make My Video Contest" was directed by Ángel Gracia and Cliff Guest, where Madonna does not appear. The international release directed by Foley portrays Madonna and her friends in an all-blue colored diner.
The video pays homage to actresses Liza Minnelli and Marlene Dietrich. Madonna plays an exotic dancer in a peep-show club who befriends a little boy and escapes from there. There is an edit of the video with an alternate ending.
Madonna plays a woman living in a Spanish barrio. She portrays two characters: a boyishly-dressed Catholic woman and a colorful Flamenco dancer. The video portrays Madonna's fascination with Hispanic culture and the inclusion of religious symbolism.
The video portrays Madonna to be a witness of an interracial murder and goes to pray in a church. Various scenes like Madonna kissing a black saint, receiving stigmata, scantily dressed and dancing in front of burning crosses are shown. In the end, she helps to free the man who is falsely accused of murder.
Inspired by the film Metropolis, the video portrays Madonna as the leader of a company, and later as a glamorous lady and chained masochist. Muscular men act as her workers. In the end, Madonna picks one of them to be her date. The music video for "Express Yourself" was the most expensive video at the time of its release with production cost of $5 million. There are 2 versions of the video, the original uses the Shep Pettibone House Remix, while a later version released on DVD uses another Shep Pettibone remix similar to the album version.
A black-and-white video portraying the death scene of a young mother and the tempestuous relationship that ensues between the husband and the daughter. Years later Madonna, as the grown-up daughter, reconciles with the father at the woman's grave. There are censored and uncensored versions.
An animated video featuring Madonna as an animated fairy. Madonna does not appear in the video. The video was released in limited territories only outside the United States.
A black-and-white video recreating the glamorous look of old Hollywood with men in suits and Madonna dressed in gowns. It also displays the dance form called vogue.
A black-and-white video portraying Madonna coming to a hotel room to satisfy her sexual fantasy. Scenes of sadomasochism, voyeurism and bisexuality are also portrayed. Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
The video is a walk-through of Madonna singing about the old days, as the viewer flips through a photo album featuring moving images of a singing Madonna as well as images from the film A League of Their Own.
Madonna is portrayed as a masked dominatrix with a golden tooth and a whip. Montages of sexual imagery are shown that are shot during the photography of Madonna's Sex book. It is a montage of sexually charged images, designed to shock the audience. Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
Madonna portrays WarholprotégéEdie Sedgwick. She goes to a disco and looks for something which ends with a man releasing the balloons she is carrying. Interspersed with scenes of Madonna being photographed and she and her friends watching a man dancing in underwear. Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
The video opens and closes with shots of a murdered Madonna, who, having lived a life of promiscuous sex, presumably joins her dead lover and guardian angel, portrayed by actor Christopher Walken. Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
The video portrays Madonna as a Balinese idol with red hair and another shot of her being silver painted. Interspersed with scenes of a man in thongs, his body painted gold. The audio used in the video is the "Edit One" remix instead of the original album version.
The video portrays Madonna with short cropped, black hair, recording the song in a studio. Interspersed with scenes of Madonna kissing a man behind a glass on which water falls.
Madonna singing the song in a recording studio, while being directed by an androgynous version of herself. The video is interspersed with clips from the film With Honors.
A black-and-white video featuring Madonna as a blues singer singing in a club. Scenes of rebirth, transvestites and damnation are interspersed with Madonna walking down a street to her home.
Madonna portrays the mistress of a Spanish bullfighter. Their affair ends after Madonna is being abused by the fighter. Religious imagery forms the backbone of the video.
A surreal dream sequence arising from some sort of controlled experiment on a prostrate Madonna, lying in a blue spaceship-like room. The production cost of the video was $5 million, making it one of the costliest videos.
A sequel to the "Take a Bow" music video. Madonna leaves the bullfighter but he still chases her around the world. Ultimately she sets herself free from him. A Spanish version of the video released in Latin countries, "Veras" uses much of the same footage, but adds scenes of Madonna recording that version of the song in the studio.
Madonna was pregnant with her daughter Lourdes at the time of shooting the video. Her stomach was hidden behind a piano in the video. Interspersed with clips from the film Evita.
An all-blue video shot in the middle of Mojave Desert. Dressed in black clothing from head to foot, her long hair colored black and straight and mehndi on her hands, Madonna portrays a mystical creature and a witchy persona who sometimes turns into a dog, sometimes into a bird and sometimes levitates from the ground.
A high-speed video, showing ordinary people doing their daily routines. In between Madonna, dressed in casual jeans and flowing golden hair, dances to the song, ultimately falling asleep on a dance floor.
Madonna and her lover play chess, and Madonna wins. After her lover reprimands her, Madonna goes out to the beach and starts walking along the shore, where she possibly commits suicide. There is an alternate version of the video.
Madonna sings the song in front of a giant flag of the United States. Interspersed with scenes which are characteristic of the American life. Actor Rupert Everett makes an appearance. There is a version of the video with scenes from The Next Best Thing and a version without film footage.
Madonna and her friends board a limousine which takes them to a strip-club and disco. The strippers are brought over in the limousine by Madonna and her friends. An animated section is present where Madonna fights with some goons. A short and long version of the video was released.
The video shows Madonna walking on a conveyor belt in front of a video screen where cowboys are shown dancing. They join Madonna in front of the screen near the end of the video.
Madonna picks up an old woman from an old-age home and speeds down the streets with her in a car. While driving she commits a number of crimes, including theft, destruction of property and murder. The audio used in the video is the Above & Beyond remix instead of the original album version.
Features a heavily beaten-up Madonna being brought to be executed in a gas chamber. Interspersed with scenes of a white-dressed and black-dressed Madonna sword fighting. In the end Madonna escapes from the execution. The former's video was the second most expensive video, production cost being around $6 million.
Original video showed Madonna among military-garbed models at a fashion show. Interspersed with shots of the catwalk was footage of explosions and planes dropping bombs. The regular version of the video ends with Madonna throwing what appears to be a grenade into the lap of a George W. Bush lookalike, but in the "Director's Cut" the grenade is just thrown onto the catwalk. However, due to its controversy, Madonna cancelled the premiere and made the edited version of the video that features her singing in front of the world's flags.
Britney Spears and Madonna are shown in a club, playing opposite characters with Britney in the dark and Madonna in the white. A cat-and-mouse like chase ensues; Spears catches up to Madonna in the end. Two remix versions of the video were used for promotional purposes only.
The video portrays Madonna clad in a pink leotard dancing alone in a ballet studio and concludes at a gaming parlour where she dances with her backup troupe. Interspersed are scenes of people displaying their dancing skills in a variety of settings.
A continuation from the "Hung Up" music video. Madonna and her troupe go around the town in a white van and dance in a skating arena. There is a "Director's Cut" version of the video.
The video shows Madonna singing the song among graphical visuals portraying volcanoes erupting and a cityscape. Another animated "European Version" of the video was also released.
The video features Madonna in a blond bob wig and singing the song in front of several neon signs. The video also features dancers performing the physical discipline parkour.
Devastating images of people being displaced by climate change to inspire action. First shown on the backdrop screen of Madonna's Live Earth performance, then released on her YouTube channel.
Madonna and Timberlake sing and run away from a giant black screen that devours everything in its path. At the end of the video, Madonna and Timberlake are consumed by the screen.
A simple dance video featuring Madonna and her dancers doing the popping and locking style of dancing against black-and-white backgrounds. The audio used in the video is the Benny Benassi remix instead of the original album version. The alternate "Fan Version" of the video has a cameo by Madonna's daughter, Lourdes Leon.
The video shows Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. (who are featured in the song), in cheerleader outfits cheering on Madonna, who wears a black outfit for most of the video. It then leads into a scene where Madonna, Minaj, and M.I.A. are all dressed as Marilyn Monroe.
The black-and-white video opens with Madonna with a retro-glam look, followed by scenes of her against a stark white background, erotic scenes with shirtless / nude male models (Sean O'Pry, Simon Nessman, Jon Kortajarena), and a dance sequence with heeled male dancers (Kazaky). Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
After a successful escape from the paparazzi, Madonna rides through Florence, Italy, picking up the best looking men on the roadside. Censored and uncensored versions of the video exist.
Set in a post-nuclear destroyed city, the video shows Madonna as a survivor searching through the destruction, when she meets another man, played by actor Terrence Howard.
The "one-shot" colorful video shows Madonna in a party, dancing and interacting with the partygoers. Many celebrities appear in the video, some in the real footage (Rita Ora, Diplo, Chris Rock, Alexander Wang and Madonna's sons Rocco and David), while others (Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé and Kanye West) were added separately. Nicki Minaj appears on a screen at the party while she is rapping.
Madonna, as her persona Madame X, is a Cha-cha dance instructor who teaches Maluma in a class and is then shown dancing on a table at a Latin-style celebration. The video also features horseback riding, a chase sequence, and Madonna with Maluma in bed drinking Champagne.
After releasing pigeons from the roof of a New York City housing block, Madonna comes to meet Swae Lee. The two reach out to each other's hands which are surged with electricity.
Mykki Blanco, as Joan of Arc, is imprisoned and burned alive by religious authorities. One scene sees him dancing the "dark ballet" while wearing a cone bra.
On the same day of a fictional school shooting in Arizona, at night Madonna goes to a disco party with her friends at Studio 54. They are having fun dancing until they become dead victims from a mass shooting in which the gunman shoots himself after he commits his crime. The plot is narrated in reverse order. News footage of gun control protests and gun shows are shown intertwined at the end of the video, and a message of demanding immediate gun control is conveyed.
Madonna partnered with Time Studios to create a music video for the song. Madonna herself does not appear in the video, but it instead shows footage of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors, LGBTQ supporters, women's rights protesters, Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman's testimony about sexual abuse, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa's arrest, among other social justice movements.
Madonna and The Batukadeiras Orchestra sing and dance together next to the sea. The video references the slave ships which are believed to have brought the first slaves to Cape Verde in the 16th century. The distant ghost slave ships disappear as the women pray them away with the storm.
Numerous people getting obsessed with a maze-like symbol while under the influence of a mysterious glowing planet. Madonna does not appear in the music video.
Madonna and Tokischa dance and sing front an altar, at a house party and outside in the city. Madonna wears a flowing pink tracksuit with ginger hair as a nod to the original video.
The video's shots mix between The Weeknd dancing and drinking in Hatfield House, Madonna dancing and rolling around on a sofa in a high-rise apartment. Playboi Carti sits and dances around an expensive car. The video premiered exclusively on the streaming gaming platform Fortnite.
In between several religious imagery, Madonna appears voice-only as God and delivers a modified Ezekiel 25:17 quote from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, with Ariana Grande miming the words and throwing a hammer to break the ceiling of a grand hall.
Accompanied by A$AP Ferg, Julia Fox and the track artists, Madonna's face is cropped onto a muscular woman's body. In a warehouse, Madonna's character flexes her muscles and goes on the computer.
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