I am SO disappointed. I thought Madonna would release her video for “Bitch I’m Madonna” and the sheer magnitude of Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and… Rita Ora… would be enough to knock Taylor Swift off her game. But after I watched Madonna’s video… nope. If anything, this makes me long for Tay-Tay’s utterly stupid “Bad Blood” video because at least she got her famous friends to SHOW UP for her. Here’s the video for “Bitch I’m Madonna” (incidentally, this song sucks).
Rita Ora, Diplo and Chris Rock are the only ones actually on the set with Madonna. The rest of the cameos are just video clips filmed somewhere else. Beyonce, Miley, Kanye and Katy are literally only on screen for about three seconds total and they have no real connection to the ‘90s rave-nightmare of the rest of the video. Even Minaj – who legitimately contributed a rap in the middle of the song – didn’t even bother coming to the real music video shoot.
And the grillz. My God, the grillz. Madonna is trying so hard to be hip and cool like the youngsters. Her goal at this point is to be referred to in a scathing takedown for being “ratchet.” Seriously, that’s her endgame. She would love it if Salon or The Daily Beast wrote a thinkpiece called “Is Madonna too ratchet?” Then she would be cool. Instead, the headlines are basically “Taylor Swift wins, Madonna’s new video is a budget mess.”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Madonna’s IG.
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