The problem is not Madonna going too far. The problem is us, we tend not to see things as they really are. This video is a masterpiece, raw but real.

@terrystorey

5 ай бұрын

The point is that a lot of people were more upset about this video, which isn't real, then they were about the real war that was based on lies.

@tathidramatizoando1671

5 ай бұрын

​@@terrystorey👏👏👏✨️

The fact that audience enjoys watching horrors of war and have a great fun, but only feel threatened and worried once she throws a grenade towards them gets me every single time.

@NandoDisco

4 ай бұрын

Didn't think about that before but damn it adds another layer for sure. I think that's what happening now.

Although Madonna is still a legend she lost a lot of American fans after this song/video. I think time proved that Madonna was on the right side of history with her message but at the time it was just a little too much for most Americans to handle. It's still a very difficult video to watch. I respect the hell out of her for taking the risks she takes to try and bring awareness to issues even though it comes with consequences.

@oscardelgado1075

2 жыл бұрын

Well I'm from Spain and I was living in the US during the reinvention tour and I'm not agree, in fact all my American friends including military people were very impact in the good way with this song and video, all said that she had a great balls for did it

@MrDirtpaw

2 жыл бұрын

She never released the originally planned version of the music video for your exact reasons. This was the official version released: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fo2Y16ywZa_fdrA.html

@billiejoearmstrong3741

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscardelgado1075 but they are talking about the mass, the main market. And her public in a tour are usually only fans. And now, she has another challenge (sadly) an America ageist.

@oscardelgado1075

2 жыл бұрын

@@billiejoearmstrong3741 my friends are not fans

@JuanRodriguez-jx6uv

2 жыл бұрын

From a fan perspective, yes she was on the right side but sadly the way she expressed that out wasnt exactly artistic. Both the song and the music video were quite cringy tbh. The general public ignored the rest of her American Life studio album which is tbh a masterpiece.

One of the problems is no one wants to talk about it.

Love the American Life album.. it's a great mix of personal songs, soul searching, folk and electronica. It wasn't hugely successful at the time but has definitely grown in terms of respect over the years

@ScribblebytesWorldwide

2 жыл бұрын

American Life is my favourite record of hers. Last year when Chiptunes4Autism was compiling their charity record I submitted 2 songs and this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooybxpSemdqsd8o.html was heavily influenced by themes I resonated with in American Life. It's called Analyze This and the whole brief was that we had to use video game sounds for the songs. I wanted my vocal to sound like I was talking over a megaphone in a kind of dystopian progressive chiptune landscape. Obviously I'll never come close to Mirwais but, I love how he works. The second song I submitted was called Game Over and that also made in onto the record. That one is heavy chiptunes sound. I just love the coldness of electronic sounds in American Life juxtaposed with the warm fuzzy guitars especially in songs like Hollywood and I'm So Stupid and Mother And Father. I also love that syncopated beat structure that keeps you constantly engaged. I also love especially how rough the songs sound. Like they were made by some rebel chick in a garage somewhere. In Hollywood when the birds come in you can hear they're looped. Theyre not perfectly faded in. Its so artificial, but that's the point, because Hollywood is artificial. Just the way Madonna and Mirwais use the music as a reflection of theme discussed in the lyrics is high art. Thats I went for in the Game Over song. It sounds lik a Nintendo gameboy and its about overcoming bullying (I'm autistic). In the vocal I was inspired by Nobody Knows Me and I even did that weird garbled baby-voice thing 😂😂😂. I mean who comes up with that? Mirwais is a genius! And Madonna for being brave enough to leave it in. And I mean, the Synth on American Life (the song) literally sounds like a radio scrambler they use in the military and to take that and build a whole song around it is brilliance. I could go on and on about how rich American Life is as a concept record!

My God, Madonna has always a thing to be ahead of her time. She did it twice or probably more. First time with the video of Ghosttown where she predicts the covid-19 and the isolation of human race as it really happened and here the American Life with all the situation that is happening right now in Afghanistan, my god can this woman be better and Intelligent? Love her.

@bravesoul5743

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@i.c.s.8531

2 жыл бұрын

You know this song is from 2003, right?

@i.c.s.8531

2 жыл бұрын

There's another version where at the end it's a George Bush look alike is sitting next to Saddam Hussein and they use the granade to light up their cigars and then it explores

@giardinellimaurizio8974

2 жыл бұрын

Very hard to top Madonna .

@belleepoke

5 ай бұрын

i dont think that she done it all, I think it was her producer. It's not envy, because i'm Madonna fan and I think she's the greatest, But i think its not her credit, at least not alone. The producers and composers are almost always forgotten and shadowed by artist's light. Sorry for bad english, I'm still learning.

Madonna never fear to speak up her mind even if it hurts her career and record sales as this video and song did. But I think it speaks more about peoples ignorance than Madonna and what she does. Kudos to Madonna, love her.

The real version of this is where Madonna threw the grenade at a Goerge Bush impersonator.

@peterfcmdc

2 жыл бұрын

And have a version where George Bush and Saddam Hussein impersonators smokes together as best friends

She always expresses herself, she has the biggest balls in this business. America didn't like her criticism about the war in Afghanistan, she portrayed how americans see it as just spectators, they hated her for doing that. She put her career in risk, american radios banned her music, they tried to destroy her once again, but she's undestructible. Long live the one and only Queen of Pop, Her Madgesty!!

Great song and still relevant to what’s happening today in the world!! Again great reaction

One of my favorite videos of Madonna’s and wish it had been released then but even if not then on her celebration dvd of music videos.

Even more relevant now… ☮️

Thanks for reacting to this interesting video. I agree with you how it's relevant today with the pull out from Afghanistan and being the 20th anniversary of 9/11 today. . Besides The Dixie Chicks, I don't think there were any other mainstream artists questioning the American wars in the Middle East in 2003.

QUEEN

Thank you once again for another Madonna reaction especially to such an important message this video contains. 💗 💫 Hope you noticed all the cameos by actors & other celebrities 😉

This is one of my favorite song of hers! Loving your Madonna reactions! You got yourself a new subscriber! You definitely should react to her song deeper and deeper both the video (which has a lot of her famously friends in it) and the live performances from the girlie show tour. Amazing song!

hello there is also a version with a different ending where BUSH takes the grenade and .....

@teralmiles

2 жыл бұрын

Lights his cigar with it. I’ve got the official promo video that features that ending.

I love this whole album (American Life). Hollywood oficial video also has another cool message behind...u should react 👌🏻

I had never watched that version of the music video.

O planeta precisa de mais Madonnas!!!!...ela é necessária. Sempre foi.

More Queen Madonna please. Subscribed.

More Madonna video please

You should react to God Control, a recent song about gun control in America

Love that video.

Great reaction 👑

Did you notice the celebrity look-alikes in the fashion show audience? Sophia Loren and Jack Nicholson are in there. Meryl Streep is in there. The Clinton kids are in there. Sharing Stone is in there. She went all out here.

Very relaxing

Madonna is the QUEEN REVOLUCIONARY

Good human react 😢

This song is exactly about Politics and War

The uncensored banned video ended almost the same way, but at the end when Madonna threw the grenade it lands in front of a George Bush.

You can tell how uncomfortable he was at the end 😅🥺

This was the first video and time Madonna pulled a video. The idea was amazing. The song was not my thing. I do think she should have went with the original video, but, after Erotica and the backlash I guess she had worries.

@kirbygo3569

Жыл бұрын

A couple of things happened. The video was shot before the unlawful US invasion of Iraq. Madonna has always maintained that the video is an anti war video, not pro or against one side or the other. Her official reason why she pulled the video was hence because the war has already started and she doesn't want to cause undue emotional distress on fallen American soldier. Also, there were death threats against her and her children.

Fact. Madonna never officially released this version of the video. She was too scared of the backlash and didn't want the same negative career impacts experienced with her Erotica album. Instead she released a safe alternate version. Watch here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fo2Y16ywZa_fdrA.html

@zanyzander

2 жыл бұрын

She did release it in Australia.

10th album 😉 (5th is "I'm Breathless")

It actually ends with George W. Bush picking up the grenade at the end and fire up his cigar with it (It was the "Bush years") :)

This is not the true uncensored video. You can’t find that one anymore. At the end of the original video the grenade is thrown and caught by a Bush lookalike.

Plz react to "girl gone wild"

That is the reality of my country, we say USA vs the world, dead bodies everywhere everyday 😢

The video is just as relevant today as it was when it came out during the Bush administration. It definitely makes you think.

@Reactworks

3 ай бұрын

Seriously does!!!

..no, kids. don´t move to the next video...watch this and learn from reality....yes, i am from Germany, so what.... One of our school trips(1986) went to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

please, let her vogueing. i prefer her

@francescobattisti9926

Жыл бұрын

this socialist-like self conversion didn't work. she tried to add a new aspect to her story telling. it didn't work

What’d you have for lunch?