Comments on: Original American Life Video Sills

Original American Life Video Sills

DrDoberman — Thu, 15 May 2003 02:42:37 -0800

Stills from Madonna's American Life self-banned video for those of you who are interested. Madonna over reacting, or publicity genius (personally I think she should have kept the video and self-banned the rap section).
[Link via: PopBitch]

By: Potsy

Potsy — Thu, 15 May 2003 02:53:34 -0800

I think you meanPopBitch.

By: joedan

joedan — Thu, 15 May 2003 03:40:52 -0800

damn, never got to see madonna rapping. guess i really missed out there...

By: DrDoberman

DrDoberman — Thu, 15 May 2003 04:07:09 -0800

I think you think right Potsy ;)

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Thu, 15 May 2003 04:47:20 -0800

Remember the "Like a Prayer" video that pissed so many people off, and got Pepsi to drop sponsorship? This is prolly the last nail in the coffin of any edge she had...

By: dabitch

dabitch — Thu, 15 May 2003 05:38:21 -0800

marketing genius. she wrote the book on "how to steal the dixie chicks thunder".

By: yeahyeahyeahwhoo

yeahyeahyeahwhoo — Thu, 15 May 2003 08:11:21 -0800

IMHO, this review of the album is right on.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Thu, 15 May 2003 08:32:56 -0800

Why bother with stills when you can easily watch the whole thing? (blah-blah-Salon-day-pass-if-you're-not-a-subscriber-blah-blah)

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 15 May 2003 09:11:41 -0800

damn, never got to see madonna rapping. guess i really missed out there... It's on MTV2 all the time. You didn't miss a thing.

By: lychee

lychee — Thu, 15 May 2003 10:12:56 -0800

That "rap" was really awful; I changed the channel when she started "rapping" about lattes and whatnot.

By: mark13

mark13 — Thu, 15 May 2003 11:09:08 -0800

Let's hope this is the end of Madonna, but I expect she's got more lives than baby dangling freakazoid Michael Jackson. She might as well have done a press release saying "I'm against the war. Sort of, I think. Maybe. As long as it doesn't piss off my legion of fans." It's all so very Hollywood. I heard that from a lot of webloggers as well, who I've since learned to ignore. Goddamn, have an opinion and stick with it already!

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Thu, 15 May 2003 11:29:22 -0800

Can I just say something? Thanks. Ahem. I hate Jonas Åkerlund's work. I loathe his "ooh, I'm so controversial, me" stance. His storyboards are as interesting and chocking as a three-year-old going "fuck" once every two seconds. He shows no signs of finesse or intelligence in his frames, and the lighting is terrible. Phew. I feel so much better now.

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Thu, 15 May 2003 11:44:55 -0800

Yep, found it a waste of time. The "Madonna the attention whore" image is troubling and sad. The review posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo is indeed right on. What's worse, she's getting what she wanted by having us complain; it's not good attention, but it's attention.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Thu, 15 May 2003 15:17:15 -0800

Madonna is nowhere near as entertaining as reading and hearing people carp about Madonna.

By: konolia

konolia — Thu, 15 May 2003 17:21:01 -0800

So she gets to the end of the yellow brick road and discovers it's not all it's cracked up to be. I could have told her that years ago. If she is serious about feeling that way it's time to retire. The shark has been jumped. and that latte crap...lyricists everywhere wept.

By: nadawi

nadawi — Thu, 15 May 2003 18:32:44 -0800

She's probably just worried that MTV wouldn't ban it that she took care of it herself. Maybe she just likes the way that "Madonna" and "Banned" look like in a headline.