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.
Omg, so much NO. I was a ride or die Madonna fan back in the day and this song and video are nothing but a truckload of embarrassment. This is just tragic.
You are 100% right. Up until Confessions On A Dance Floor, every single Madonna new release was an event & a game changer. Then she decided, for whatever deluded reason, to start working with US based producers, and turned her sound into the generic boring pop with a dash of rap, coming out of the US now. She really needs to take a long, hard look at her product & direction. She is completely destroying the legacy she built up over the past few decades. She really doesn’t need to be Taylor Swift or Beyonce or Arianna Grande or any of the current crop of mediocre & boring songstresses. She just needs to get herself another European producer like Stuart Price or William Orbit & produce exciting, interesting music like she used to. At least, even if she is not making any new fans amongst the kiddies, she’s hanging onto the respect & admiration of her long term fans. She is making it awfully hard for even the most die hard of her fans to respect her with the rubbish she is releasing. One can leave all the silly, infantile bubblegum pop to the likes of la Swift, Nicki Minaj, Arianna Grande, etc. For so long she was the leader of the pack & now she’s coming across as a sad also ran. Come on Madonna your old fans expect a lot more from you!
I feel the same way about Mariah Carey. Trying to appeal to the ‘kiddies’ has ruined what was once so great in its artistry, maturity, and depth.
Don’t shit on American producers. They aren’t all that bad.
@Tristan Madonna has always worked with American producers. Do Nile Rodgers,Patrick Leonard, and Kenneth babyface Edmonds ring any bells? They produced some of her most successful songs.
Tristan, I totally see your point. But maybe instead of trying to “get back” to some sound that she once had, she just needs to accept that it’s time to stop trying to be on the cutting edge of music and retire with grace (although she’s pretty much ruined the grace part at this point). I read a quote once that said, in so many words, that it’s useless to try to go back to any certain place, and that all we can really do in life is move forward. I feel like this applies to Madonna because she could have preserved the legendary status she’d achieved by knowing when it was time to take a step back, and letting the new generation of talent make its mark on music. Instead, she’s trying so desperately to hold on to the “number one pop star” status that she once had, and we end up with junk like this as a result. Basically, I don’t think the solution is to try and go back to a certain type of sound, but rather, to know when it’s time to stop trying to be the freshest thing out there and move forward to a new chapter in life. I tried to get this to make as much sense as possible– sorry if it comes off super ramble-ish. Rambles from Shambles.
Finger Binger.
Madonna’s best work, obviously in my opinion & taste, was the period she worked with European producers – William Orbit, Stuart Price & Mirwais. Clearly, everybody has his or her own ideas of musical excellence, as with all things. However, you are right, the American producers you mention were all great in the ’80’s & ’90’s before r&b & hip hop took over and the American sound got boring & repetitive. The late ’80’s & early ’90’s were an amazing time for American dance & club music & I had the privilege of living in NYC during those amazing times, when every night out clubbing was the best night of your life.
Sadly, if you take any of the US produced pop & r&b being produced these days it is so formulaic & dull I am sure that whoever is producing it could do it in their sleep. Unfortunately this is all the kids today seem to want & know. It is a shame though, that an artist as interesting as Madonna was in her prime, feels she needs to compete with this morass of mediocrity.
It could also be that I have gotten crabby, old & living in past glories!
This. Sit down, Madge.
she should retire before she breaks her hip
You know I don’t think this is an age issue and I find it a little offensive that we label a woman “past her use by date” but the same does not apply to men (ie. David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Dave Grohl, Tom Jones, I could go on and on). I think this is a relevancy issue. Madonna is no longer relevant and is trying hard to be as up to date as she can and it isn’t working. I agree with the other posters she needs to go back to basics and do what she does best, pop music.
Yep. I remember when she dropped the crap and decided to become respectable, took voice lessons, was on Broadway and look at her now. She is a try too hard mess now. She is on the backside of fifty and she isn’t liking that fact. I just feel embarrassed by her now and the fact that I was her fan.
Did this remind anyone else of the Cory Feldman video “21st Millenia”? If you haven’t seen it please google.
Ohhhhh, Madge.
Arock- you win the inter webs today! Thank you for making me google that horrible pile that is a “video” but it did remind me of Madonna. In fact Cory Feldman & Madonna have a ton in common. So sad…..
I haven’t watched the video, but the title of the song reminds me of Britney’s “It’s Britney, bitch.” Not sure if that’s the actual title of that particular song, but it’s what Britney says in the video.
This is so very Mortifyingly BAD, Dated, CORNy and PLUS she looks like she begged people to turn Up and everyone said: LOL No Girl
BAD, embarrassing, cheesy, juvenile, auto-tuned beyond belief – why do we have to watch this exercise in egomania? The older she gets the more hyper and desperate she becomes. This is NOT working.
Same here. People used to follow in Madonna’s footsteps not the other way around. I was such a fan when I was younger but this is embarrassing.
Britney Spears coined the phrase”It’s Britney Bitch” years ago. Madonna is a little late coming and very unoriginal. Does she think we’re all that stupid? I grew up listening to Madonna. She had her time in the spotlight, but now it’s gone. Bye bye Madonna.
I really like aya and bambi and was happy they were working with madonna but now after seeing this video it makes me question their decisions LOL but on the other hand this video isnt THAT BAD its kinda cute? and seeing chris rock made my day
I can’t watch.
Madonna please go the Cher route and come back at sixty with a hit like Believe
Cher has an innate cool factor that Madonna can never hope to achieve imo.
Even though Cher has had just as much work done to her face/body as Madonna, if not even more, Cher has an inner confidence in her uniqueness and appeal that Madonna clearly lacks. Cher doesn’t need a song called “Bitch, I’m Cher” because she knows herself, her audience, and the fact that what keeps her famous is just being herself!
Chris Rock was the one great thing about that video. The only thing.
It’s time Madonna stops trying to be relevant. So sad. So desparate.
she could have aged and matured her music way more gracefully. I get she wants to feel young and cool and just because you’re 56 doesn’t mean you have to clutch pearls the rest of your life…
but she could be every single person in that videos mother…come on now…
That song was a cussing nasty mess. I can’t play that crap for my kids! Her music used to be so coy and tongue and cheek. The music videos have always been controversial, but you at least had to listen to the lyrics to really get it.
This was just 3 minutes of I’m young, I have sex with anyone I want, I’m hot, bitch, bitch, bitch, I’m still super cool guys! SEX SEX SEX, CUSS WORDS FOR NO REASON, SEX!
reminds me of this:
http://gph.is/1cr362x
trying to be the cool mom…
+1
I was a massive madonna fan, saw her in concert ( the girly show, would have loved for it to be blonde ambition but she didn’t tour oz with it). I just think she is at an age and is so iconic that artists should be thrilled & scrambling to be working with her, but because she is so needing to be relevant and current that it has backed fired and it’s her that is desperate to work with them. If she would just tone it done & be comfortable in her own skin instead of pimping her self out in attire that really isn’t her or age appropriate. I’m not saying she shouldn’t dress edgy but in some cases and in hers, less is more ( not less clothes!!!!), but less grills and corsets/ body suits. Madge no one wants to see your vadge!!!
It’s quite embarassing, isn’t it? She’s dressed up and acting like a teenage girl. This bitch can do so much better!
Seriously embarrassing. Talking about how “we can drink and kiss anyone if we want to”. Girl, you’re about 55 yo. You’ve been legal for over 30 years! This is a young girl song. And flashing the pink panties. Aye yi yi.
Lol, never thought of it (as in the lyrics) like that but you have made a good point and me laugh!!!
It’s BRITNEY, BITCH!!!! ~ to quote B. Spears. Madonna, go away until you can be original again please. If that’s even possible.
I liked the sock puppets. Still doesn’t make me want to subscribe to Tidal though.
Video needed more sock puppets.
Everything needs more sock puppets.
I am terribly confused now – so which one is actually Madonna? Is it the sock puppets?
I think we need Cyn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCGw8_0NHk
I don’t get why Taylor wins, as I’m pretty sure it had nothing to do with her. It’s all about Madonna and how thinks she’s still relevant. Is everything Kary Perry does from now on going to be seen as a hit against Taylor?
Exactly ,I don’t get the connection with the Taylor Swift video,they have nothing to do with the other apart from getting cameos from their associates.
I mentioned yesterday that the media is really trying to create some drama with this video and connect it to Katy and Taylor and keep the fued going (yes I get that Katy and Taylor have made the dislike public) I just don’t like the media starts dragging everyone into the fued if they’re seen with Katy or seen with Taylor. So they try and pin tay and Madonna against eachother and it makes zero sense.
I still feel like the Perry/Swift thing is PR to get people to listen to their songs and watch their videos.
Referring to the article posted on this site today about how Cardashian gave tips and dished about Paris Hilton years back, and how tabloids plan out their storylines for celebs, I can see the whole things being just that: a fake story to get people to care about their stupid music by assuming its about hating one another.
It is odd that the “cover” image kind of matches though, or am I just imagining. With the “starring” concept and all.
I’ll stick to Ray of Light and prior Madonna.
Ray of Light was great !
This brings up an excellent point. She needs to go back to her Ray of Light/Bedtime Stories days. Her time as a pop music star are over. She no longer appeals to a young crowd, but she still has fans over 30 who would like to hear her make music that was actually good.
Ray Of Light was brilliant, but so were Music & Confessions On A Dance Floor. The latter was the last truly great record that she made.
Confessions on a Dance Floor is amazing. It is pop/dance music that has mature lyrics that young pop fans did love and brought her a lot of new younger fans. Madonna doesn’t have to leave dance/club music, but dumbing down her dance music isn’t the answer, which she desperately seems to think is the answer.
Agreed. I love the Confessions album. I think I was in my teens when I bought that album and I remember hearing it everywhere.
Madonna is just so very desperate and thirsty now, The video is seriously low rent, the song sucks and the way she tries to cling to youth make me sad. I’m actually embarrassed for her.
Yes. That was excruciating. A train wreck that I couldn’t look away from.
I thought I had somehow been transported to April Fool’s Day, because about 1/4-1/3 of the way through I began a desperate search for a pause button- there was none on my browser(did anyone else experience this horror?)! I finally was able to click forward to the last few seconds, and it started again!! What a nightmare!!
It was distasteful and irritating, from the nine year olds swearing to her high-schooler style rainbow-dyed hair to her Miley Cyrus/Ariana Latte hybridized, autotuned vocals, and children’s song cadence. Just vomitrocious all the way around.
Oh my goodness…. This is just… sad? The song is terrible too.
It reminds me of this friend I have, who incidentally kind of looks like Madonna. She’s almost 40 now but dresses like a 15 year old and on different social occasions always insists on giving everyone wet, sloppy kisses on the mouth to show how rebelious and anti-establishment she is. I mean I am not saying you should just give it up when you’re 40 and sit at home buried in diapers but my God, there must be something inbetween….
She’s actually 56! Which makes this even more scary!
Lol almost 40, your a joker.
Sexy can happen at 56, and no doubt Madonna -is- shocking the pop world by staying in the scene and not “sitting down”. Taylor Swift high budget with Lena Dunham and whatever other morons was pure desperation. I like this simple hot pink sleaze fest of a video; and no one- has- to fade away past 30.
Merski was talking about a friend being almost 40 and acting like Madge, not Madge herself, lol.
What your friend and Madonna both are afraid of is acting like a mature woman. So much of today’s culture is obsessed with remaining 18-21 forever. You know if you look at old movies, what strikes you is that at least ons of the ideals was to appear sophisticated and adult – not like a teenager. Boy that has changed!
I think that changed when Marilyn Monroe showed up.
You know it actually has nothing to do with age to me. She was famous years before I was even born. She’s always been someone who’s a decade older than my mother for me. And I loved her! I don’t remember life before loving Madonna. That is her 90s work up until she started rapping about soy lattes. My very first thought watching this–After the nod to “Like A Virgin” (because the kids totally know and care about that), seeing her getting physical in that outfit, after the ultra auto-tuned vocals kicked up (telling us the thrilling news that she just wants to party), and the paint by numbers EDM beat kicked in–Was, “This looks like a Miley video that I would roll my eyes at, call lame, budget, tired, and embarrassing. And equally I wouldn’t care and I’d instantly forget about it if it was a Miley video”. And I mean, if you need to say it and remind people of who you are like that, well… I agree with other people. Remind yourself that you’re Madonna and stop acting so desperate. You should be above it all. (Beyonce also didn’t start calling herself Queen Bey and constantly reminding us of how amazing she is until her album sales began to decline.) Even something as recent as “Hung Up” was actually above it all. Madge should be embarrassed by the damage she’s doing to her legacy putting out awful music, in such a tacky, cheap and try-hard package at that. So I don’t care who she be or who she used to be. If she made adult pop, maybe. But she seems determined to live in this particular pop music universe, competing with the Miley’s and Perry’s and any/all blips with an EDM/dance pop hit or two, where Rihanna puts out seven albums in eight years. There it only matters that you keep topping yourself and keep making hits, (and she’s clearly given up on being innovative). So showing me that pop-tartlets (that I don’t care about either) look up to you and trying to convince me of your awesomeness while playing that crap music just doesn’t cut any ice. Not to mention, I don’t recall MADONNA stroking herself a la Bey and Kanye. And MADONNA never used to repeat or look back at herself. MADONNA used to be ahead of a trend going mainstream. Now she’s averaging three years behind it. And the immaturity is tiresome when Taylor Swift does it. The try-hard “ratchetness” and desperate need for attention is boring when Miley does it. It’s not really because Madonna’s older. And sh*t half the people in this video aren’t even lip syncing properly! Like none of them could bear to listen to the song more than once and learn the *cough* “melody”.
twerkin Madonna. this is how far we’ve come.
Oh, Madonna, no. This video (and the song too) is straight-up embarrassing.
Wow, she’s not even selling sex as good as she used to.
I don’t know why I find this so funny, but I do..
God I’m so sick of all these people. Taylor and her crew and Madonna. It all feels like some creepy weird High School show.
What happened to singers singing and doing great music without all this dumb Girl Friends Silliness. They are all acting ridiculous.
When you’re a breath away from being 60, it’s time to tone it down. Sadly some women don’t get it.
I don’t even think tone it down is the right phrase. She needs to do something DIFFERENT. There’s an assumption that as you grow older you grow, you change, you are slightly different, and that should show up in your art. But for her, it’s like she’s stuck in her 20s. The rest of the world has moved on, and she hasn’t.
I kind of like the song, well the parts that aren’t the chorus anyway. Those clips with Miley, Beyonce, Kanye, etc were lame and could have been left out. I also didn’t care for Nicki’s rap either. Other then that, the video looked fun and I liked most of the dance sequences.
I’m so embarrassed for her…
Wow that is just bad! Madonna needs to retire her new material sucks she was cool in the eighties ok in the nineties but now she is just sad! Just go away for awhile then tour like the Stones do.
Omg – please – just make is STOP. Madonna looks bitchin tho…
I’m actually an old betch who likes EDM (elec dance music), and Diplo is a king of that ish, and his hands are all over this song. However, Madonna adds nothing to it. It’s like her co-opting this type of music immediately makes it less cool.
FYI Diplo is behind stuff you like and you don’t even know it. Like Major Lazer’s (one of his collabs) song “Pon de floor” is the basis of Bey’s “Run the World”
https://soundcloud.com/majorlazer/pod-de-floor-feat-vybz-kartel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmMU_iwe6U
Madonna just needs to step off.
Preach.
Very true about Diplo.
Sincerely,
A (semi) oldish betch who likes EDM
xo 🙂
I’m the complete opposite. I hate the song, just because it’s beneath Madonna, even if it is catchy for what it is. But it is so beneath Madonna to have even done.
Having said that, if she was going to do the video, she needed to embrace it and go all the way. She did. I loved the way it was shot, the bright color saturation of the video. I love the costumes everyone wore. Madonna nailed her outfit. I love Rita Ora, Diplo, and fashion designer Alexander Wang all having a blast. Love the cameo of Rocco. Thought son David’s dance routine was cute. I thought if she was going to do a video of that song, this embodied the spirit of the song in a great music video.
Downsides. She needed Nicki there, because I think Nicki’s rap is central to the song and a great rap. I don’t mind how they incorporated it, though, because they could all still be dancing while she’s rapping in the TV and it’s done very cartoonishly, which everything is in the video, on purpose. Still, if Nicki had been there in person, the video would have been better.
The splices in of Katy and Miley and Beyonce don’t add or take away They all look up to Madonna and are today’s pop icons. That part works if they were there.. But the point is they don’t add being spliced in. If they couldn’t be there, don’t bother, the same with Kanye. There are other people in town who would have been there, because the fun of the video is just the happy vibe and dancing. I do love the choreography and how they moved though the house. I actually enjoyed Chris Rock. LOL But loved Alexander Wang just dancing away. Loved all of her dancers.
Bottom line is it’s more fun than Taylor’s, but Taylor’s cameos did show up. Madonna shouldn’t have bothered with the ones that couldn’t show up, and using them wasn’t going to drive views to that lame Tidal, which is also what she was aiming for I think. I give the video a high five because it looked like everyone, even Madonna, was having a blast and choreographed well.
Taylor’s video had a plot and the song is relevant to her personal life. Fun or not, BB is a better song with a better MV. Taylor had Kendrick Lamar of all people wiling to sit next to her and add verses to her song. He had nothing to gain from it. People are more than happy to be associated with Taylor. You know the people who turned up wanted to do this for Taylor on their own free will. Time and energy was spend together on that set for HER. Even if some of them were B-list, Taylor is quite liked in the industry and by fans whereas even people who work with Madonna have nothing nice to say. Yeah, maybe about her work ethic etc but never personable things. She used to be liked during the 80s and 90s. Even early 00s. Now? Not so much.
Madonna’s video was basically a party and not 1 one the major stars, not even the Tidal partners were willing to hop up and down for somebody they claim to admire and went into business with. Jay-Z needed those stars to promote Tidal yet nobody showed up for M. and she arguably needs it the most. Rebelheart is a massive flop and fun video or not, she worked and is still working her ass off to promote it but people are just not buying the album. I’m not one of those who think Madonna doesn’t care and also does it for touring. This album was created to show off that she’s still a creative and artsy person with depth. And nobody’s checking for it.
I don’t think Madonna has had fun since 2005 tbh. She can do fun and not look silly and desperate: Music, right after her second child and when people also talked about her aging. She used to be able to change the conversation (her music after Erotica) but now she’s adamant to prove something. She herself said during the ROL-era to Rupert Everett that she doesn’t see herself in sexy clothing a decade from then. She had more perspective then. Her divorce and aging did a number on her, I swear to god…
Well said, I agree. Also, no matter if the video was better or who had more celebrities or whatever they’re trying to do, Taylor is at the top of her game right now and she is nearly unstoppable. Madonna may be the Queen of Pop and well-respected for her talents and decades of work, but just because she’s Madonna doesn’t mean everything she does is justified. Even greats can tarnish their own reputation if they make poor decisions on their image.
Madonna needs to remind HERSELF that she’s Madonna: girl, quit trying to out-stupid the newbies and get some confidence. Never thought I would say that, but sister has been trying to hitch her wagon to the youngins since about the millennium. If she would just do her OWN thing- like she used to- no one would care how old she was.
It is heartbreaking how women feel they are only valuable at 25. 🙁
I totally agree with you. If all the people in the video were acting the fool, she could have walked through the crowd and parted the way with class and style saying “b*itch, I’m Madonna”…. Instead of acting like a drunk college kid making out with randoms….that was gross.
2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor was doing her own thing and amazingly so. She brought back club music in a huge way in her music, and it was amazing and not immature. She’s been chasing the kids and trends since 2008’s Hard Candy, but at least Hard Candy did have a great vibe for me in some of the songs and most of her lyrics were not cringeworthy. That came in MDNA, her next album, and her dance songs in this new album. Though her ballads on her new album are quite lovely and mature..
That song was IRRITATING. It makes me want to burn down pop altogether. Nicki Minaj is gorgeous. The only thing I liked about the video was Kanye’s face. Chris Rock, whah?
That said, Taylor Swift’s music is not made of genius either.
Once I had to explain to my children that the pound sign wasn’t always a hashtag, people once had home phones that didn’t play Candy Crush, and music was on tapes an CDs.
Now I get to tell them Madonna use to make great music too.
Incidentally, did her tooth gap get gappyer?
Worse. It’s her diamond grillz that make it look gappier.
Why can’t she be a sexy and fresh 55 yr old without trying so hard to be hip and down with the kids? She’s reinvented herself so many times and this is the best she could come out with? I liked the 90’s theme but the whole video is just a try hard mess. And the best part of the song is Nicki’s rap imo.
She needs new producers and writers, even though I didn’t mind the “Ghosttown” song. Why didn’t she promote that song?
She did promote Ghosttown. She did an amazing music video, that was one of her best in ages. She performed it live on TV appearances overseas and here. She did a lot of promotion for Ghosttown, for Madonna at least, but most was overseas where more of her fans are — or used to be. It is played on the radio. I loved her TV performances overseas in France and Italy and England for the song. She also performed it on Ellen here and at the iHeartRadio show, with Taylor on guitar.
I like:
– Madonna’s jacket and hair, too bad it’s pink.
– the song (it’s a song to be heard, not seen). I can bop to it in a club, if I would ever go to one…which I don’t. It’s one of my fav songs on the album although that doesn’t say much. I only like 4 songs in total.
– sock puppets and choreography
– David dancing and Rocco’s cameo (support of the children is always sweet, they’re clearly attached to their mother)
– her face: that face does not look 56. It doesn’t even look like a a plastic surgery 56. It looks 30. Serving some Benjamin Button realness.
I hate:
– the blink-and-you-miss-them celeb cameos.Bey showed up for ‘Feelin’ Myself’ but not for M. who she admitted she admired for her business acumen? Ouch. Cyrus is a pot smoking partygirl with too much time on her hands as evidenced by social media. M. came out to support her but she didn’t return the favour. etc. It’s embarrassing and it’s obvious that no celeb really likes Madonna. I haven’t heard anybody really gush about her or being friendly with her. Don’t promote celebs when they are not there for you when you need them. And these are Tidal partners too. I’m starting to feel bad for M.
– the lack of creativity. Colours and dancing alone don’t make a good MV.
– the mess around the release: she never used to be this messy, what happened? Even when it came out, there were glitches. Both Tidal and her need to get their shit together because she’s even pissing off the fans.
– the grill and dress
– her dance troupe: not the actual dancers but the fact that they aren’t iconic like her previous ones. It felt like a family and their names were known.
I love her new face, either previous work settled or she found a holy grail, because look at that skin in Met Gala pics. Hate the song and the vid, mainly because OTT autotune and tryhard gimmicks.
Sounds like a children’s song. The vid looks like something that could be played on Nick Jr. Too much foley effects going on, reminds me of the hilarious Chris Brown an Busta Rhyme polka video. https://youtu.be/KlA3p_3oojU
I know she wants her song to appeal to young people but not that young, as in children. My 3 year old niece would love this song (and the neon sock puppets).
While I think that there’s no reason you can’t be sexy at 56, there’s a difference between being graceful about aging and being sexy and then just not owning your age. Firstly, I’m not entirely sure what is so embarrassing about Taylor Swift’s music video. If there was no back story behind it, I think everyone would think it was a cool video. And second, this video is gross. It’s full of cultural appropriation-look at me, I have sexy Asian lesbians, I have grills, I wear fitted caps, I throw gangster signs, I say ‘bitch’-and then her whole message rings false, ‘stay up all night, drink all night, party all night’-her songs were more evolved when she was younger. And the video is even dated. Black light, dubstep influence, grills, all that stuff is kind of not even in anymore.
“We’ll be drinking, and nobody’s gonna stop us?” OK. I certainly think a 56-year-old woman has earned the right to have a drink if she wants to. Go ahead. Nobody’s gonna card you, honey.
I somehow missed the Bad Blood video when it came out, so I just watched it. I actually think it’s hilarious. It looks like the TV show pilot Uma Thurman’s character was talking about making in Pulp Fiction. Madonna’s video unfortunately doesn’t compare.
I don’t have a cat in this “fight,” though. I was a Madonna fan back in the day (but really more of a Cyndi Lauper girl), and I give her props for her business sense and longevity. I can’t say I’m a Taylor fan, but I find her innocuous and harmless enough.
I really didn’t know they were feuding. Are they? Or is this pure speculation?
” ‘We’ll be drinking, and nobody’s gonna stop us?’ OK. I certainly think a 56-year-old woman has earned the right to have a drink if she wants to. Go ahead. Nobody’s gonna card you, honey.”
LMAO!
If I had heard this song for the first time, I would have said “Britney Spears”.
IT”S BRITNEY BITCH!!!!!!! To quote Britney Spears. Go home Madonnal.
Wow. I think I’d rather watch Kim Kardashian’s ‘letter to her future self’ video again than watch this again … that was just depressing! For a woman who’s accomplished so much, she’s so pathetically thirsty, damn. The only good part was Nicki Minaj – her rap was awesome. Everything else … nah.
Le sigh. I feel for Madonna, obviously she’s been feeling left out by the younger set and where are her own contemporaries? She’s left everyone else in the dust and continues to try to blaze her way forward. The only problem is she’s fallen into the wrong track. Her music is pretty shitty in this video, I couldn’t even tell it was really her own voice in that. You know how a new Madonna song would come on the radio (yes, I still listen to the radio) and you could tell it was her’s from the voice, the lyrics and the styling? Can’t do that here. Really liked Minaj’s contribution, didn’t understand half of the appearances, why was Chris Rock even there? Just to have someone close to her age there? Everyone else was at least 15 years younger. It’s not shade on her age, but it’s something to think about. It’s hard to say where she needs to go, because again, where are her own contemporaries? But she needs to break away from the desperate and terribly thirsty stuff, and make her own path again. Then she’ll be relevant. I so wish for Madonna to be relevant again!
I know people like ROL but Bedtime Stories > ! Or if she would do an only-ballads album, I would be the first in line to buy a physical copy. She always kills ballads! My fav one is This Used to be My Playground and the songs about her mother and father on Like a Prayer. I was 15 (2005) when I got into her albums and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have like her last 3 albums back then either. The music was better in the past, she can do ‘young’ music and not be desperate and bad at it (e.g. Hung Up and Sorry was awesome and she was nearing 50). She can be Queen but she rather be Jester. Sad.
Yes, yes, yes.
And I have said the same for a while about her anonymous vocals starting back with MDNA and in some of the dance music on Rebel Heart, like this song. Madonna had a signature voice, her unmistakable tone. Starting with MDNA it could have been any pop girl’s voice.
At least, on Rebel Heart she did come back with many songs that have her vocals on it that sound like Madonna, mostly a lot of mature ballads, but her voice is the old Madonna. There are some truly lovely, very personal, heartfelt songs on Rebel Heart. Even this song off of it sounds like one of Madonna’s ’90s’ movie tracks she was known for as far as epic soundscape.
Messiah – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARdMOAX_yVQ
Um but the rest of her new album is amazing. “Ghost Town” in my opinion is a work of art- gorgeous, meaningful song, love the video. “Living for Love” I like less but one’s got to admit it’s vintage Madonna. This song and video are goofball (let’s admit that “BITCH I M MADONNA” gets stuck in your head and is fun to say) but you all are stretching things waaaaaay too far calling her old and telling her to sit down, go out to pasture, or whatever, over one video you don’t like. Does seem age-ist to me: first apparent flop, she’s out, look she’s in her 50s. Please. Look at her other new stuff. F*, she’s still got it.
I did, I just went and watched Ghosttown and Living for Love, fantastic!! I think the problem (and it’s just my opinion here, out on a limb) is that the videos and songs where she is trying to appeal to the younger set too much get the most attention, vis a vis people are upset because they make her look desperate and much too thirsty. And they do! Ghosttown and Living for Love, she’s separated from the group, she is held above the rest of the cast in these videos. She only interacts with them on HER terms. In this new one, she’s one of the crowd and tried too hard to stand out from them. She needs to hold herself more aloof, she is above it all. That’s when she is the Madonna we know her and love her to be! Maybe that should be her next transformation; she is ABOVE IT ALL because she’s MADONNA, BITCHES! She’s NOT on their level, she was there and gone long before. And now I have Living for Love stuck in my head.
I loved Ghosttown and Living for Love, but imo it’s not ageist to say that she could be a sexy ass woman in her 50’s without trying so hard to be cool. As you said she still got it, she doesn’t need to appeal and dress like a 15 year old to show that, you know? She could be fierce without trying so exhaustingly hard to fit with the youngins and just be herself.
She should push more for songs like Living for Love instead of this mess.
OMG!! She couldn’t have edited the stumble as she attempts to stand after the Chris Rock cameo?!?!
I was a huge Madonna fan but this mess is well…….a mess!!!!
We know she has no voice, she is an entertainer,
but the Auto Tune is just noise. False marketing,
All these big names, Beyonce, Perry, for what, one line cameo.
Pathetic, 56 yes old and still insists on acting like a teenage whore.
Somebody needs to tell her that 56 is not old, is not being a granny but it is not also being Smiley. Ugh……Dissapointed, good thing I did not go on Tidal,lol
I prefer Britney, its Britney Bitch!!!!!
She lost me as a fan when she started using the n-word to sound cool! This b***h has two black kids!!!!! She probably use it in front them, trash!!
I strongly object to the word b**ch and even more so when young girls say it, like in the beginning of this video.
And just my opinion, I think this song is infantile and nothing Madonna-ish.
What a tired old slapper she’s turned into. If she wasn’t famous and a gazilionnaire she’d be haunting cougar bars trying to pick up the cute bartender.
I am 41 years old. This video makes me feel the way my teenaged kids must feel when I’ve had a bit too much wine and attempt to dance/sing.
Thank you, Madonna, for showing me the error in my ways; I will never EVER embarrass my kids or myself in that way again!
Exactly!
This is just sad! I thought Madonna would light the way and show the world how to be a badass as you aged. Nope. She’s every nightmare come true, for shame, because she had the power to change perceptions on aging and all she does is reinforce ugly stereotypes. Also, no denying her age, because she may be physically fit, but she moves slow. Sorry, but there are some things that belong to youth and there comes a time where we need to let go gracefully.
She’s trying so hard… Christ, it’s painful to watch. Seriously, so much secondhand embarrassment.
At least in Swiftys video they had that scene where they walked together like the mean girls into high school.
One can be sexy at any age! Just ask Maggie Smith. She was serving up some Dowager Countess sexy realness with the Russian Prince. Or Helen Miriam! Or Dame Judy Dench!
Okay maybe only English women can be sexy at any age, but you get my point. Sexiness is not all about looking like a 18 yr old.
Where’s Lourdes?
In hiding…
I’ll always love Madonna but this is the worst video she’s ever done. The Ghosttown video is better.
There’s been the big hoopla over the comparison with Taylor Swift, but even “Bitch I’m Madonna” sounds like a xerox of Britney’s “It’s Britney Bitch”. This and the tired grill wearing seems so un-like Madonna. Why aren’t her people giving her better advice?
I would imagine NO ONE gives Madonna advice. Only Madonna GIVES advice. And I bet she really sees herself as still being ‘cool’. A 56 year old white woman wearing a grill IS NOT COOL…ITS PATHETIC!!!! She really thinks she is better than ANY of the talent that came after her and, personally, I believe she couldn’t be more wrong.
I don’t understand the appeal of grills. Of course, I had an alcoholic orthodontist who kept me in pain a lot of the time with his misplaced braces until the regular dentist took one look and cut the $&@#%# things off… So I still cringe at the sight.
This is just so pathetic. I couldn’t watch the whole thing. Madonna is trying WAY too hard.
I am REALLY surprised Nicki went along with this mess. The rest of them don’t surprise me. Rihanna was the only smart one, apparently. SMH Madonna needs to keep her crypt keeper behind covered up and start acting somewhere CLOSE to her age. Her children must be absolutely mortified. I feel SO sorry for them. I have to say that I have always found her to be absolutely CLASSLESS. This is just the final nail in the coffin.
She has said it’s her kids’ favorite song off the album. Two of her kids are in the video. Nicki has a big rap part in the song. Why would she be ashamed? She did her booty music video, if anyone has forgotten.
My oldest niece 19 takes modern dance. She told me that Bitch, I’m Madonna one class has been choreographing a dance to it, that they love it for dance. She said there’s lot of videos on the internet of young people or groups doing choreography to Bitch, I’m Madonna. There’s even dance type exercise classes using it. I think the song is beneath her, but for dancer Madonna, I guess on that level the song worked as far as for the youth, which is what she was chasing
Here’s several groups of young dancers through an organization doing a choreographed dance-off to just a portion of Bitch, I’m Madonna. They’re good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzIWjRtcJo
Ohhhh noooooo….that was really bad. Is there any chance this video wasn’t meant to be taken seriously? If not, than….yikes.
Beyond budget and embarrassing! And those grillz………STOP ALREADY.
God, this is a real mess. It looks like they had little money and little time to record it. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Nicki Minaj is now stronger part of this duo. This is so sad. I used to be die hard fan of Madonna I was a child, but now… No, just no.
yeah, i work at the hotel where they recorded it, they took over a whole floor and the clubs, but just for the evening. Doesn’t it usually take a few days to shoot a video? They did this in a few hours, which is probably why it was so hard to get people to show up in person. On the plus side, Chris Rock is really nice in person!
I don’t follow contemporary mainstream music and the last Madonna song I could name is Ray of Light, so after watching this video my first thought is:
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MADONNA???!!
Gurl, power to you if you want to stay young-at-heart and roll with the times, but being young does not mean being as trashy as a rancid dustbin, or flopping around kissing randoms, or flashing your hot pink panties, or showing us your cauliflower vadge. It is not cool, it is not edgy, it just reeks of distaste and desperation.
Also, this music SUCKS. This hurts my soul.
Her hair makes me laugh. She has more than an inch of roots – yet the rest is all hair extensions and pink. I really believe she does this on purpose – that she dies her roots like this – to show that she isn’t greying yet.
So sad. She used to be such a trendsetter. Now she is just a trend follower.
*sings* The day….the music…….died.
So I’ll be singing….Bye, bye, GrandMadonna goodbye. Took your music to the autotune you’re no longer fly… and those good old tricks are now just basic and dry….so now this will be the day that I *sigh* .. The dayyyy….the muuuuuuusic…….died.
*hangs head*
Poor Madaonna jumped the shark years ago. Does no one close to her advise her better then this mess? Girl needs a hobby.
I think it was Katy Perry’s left shark she jumped. That dude looked traumatized on that SuperBowl stage! All crosseyed looking, dancing loopy and stuff….
The video is no longer available. Small mercies?
STAPH MADGE JUST STAPH.
Yep…I’ll bet she has one…but which kind? They’re all pretty nasty infections.
(I know it was just a typo….I just couldn’t help myself. *smiles*)
But my point stands. *wink*
Yeah. I guess now I can quit Madonna officially. I like her. I waited and waited for her to finally release hit song and be cool again. But song after song is awful. I tnink that Masterpice was her last really good song.
I just dont understand. She has all the money, fame, respect. Why cant she buy herself hit song? Cant she hear it when she records it? Cant she see what crap it is? And now this. Everything would be forgotten if song would be good. But no. Its crap again.
I quit you Madonna. Im tired of wating. It looks like you will never release good song again.
Why do so many women think that to be cool and sexy they have to call themselves bitches and use cuss words?
If you don’t want men calling you that don’t call yourself a bitch.
A woman who is powerful without flashing her bum and getting down to the lowest common denominator, that is sexy and men know it.
I am a prude apparently but this philosophy worked well for me.
I just wonder what her end game is? She’s 56 years old and it’s not like I expect her to retire. But there’s got to be some career options in between trying to live the public life of a 23 year old and retirement in Palm Springs. In her 30 year plus career she’s changed her sound and style many times so its not like she doesn’t understand that change is necessary. She just can’t figure out how to age gracefully. She doesn’t know how to be in the spotlight in a different way. She hasn’t figured out how to move on beyond the sex coffee table book and the shock factor of the Like A Virgin video. The beauty of being in her stage of life with her popularity is she doesn’t have to try so hard but she doesn’t get that when she does how bad it looks. Other commenters have compared her to Cher but in Madonna’s defense Cher is twelve years older and when she was in her mid 50s she was probably still going for shock value too.
Looks like she’s going for the appeal of the younger market, and to heck with anything else.
First, I want to point out that Madonna is older than me (by a week). Secondly, I admit to watching this three times this morning because I could not close my mouth or move my hands and the vid just kept on playing while I had my spasms. Lastly, I gathered a group of 20 to forty somethings in the office, cranked it up, and made them watch/listen. They all hate me now. At this point all my remaining brain cells can gather together to express is: 1) I do appreciate the 80s references); 2) it is catching in a ‘can’t get that song out of my head’ way (not good); and 3) I am so embarrassed.
The video/song is utter crap. I can’t stand seeing anyone, regardless of age or gender, swapping spit and crotch grinding everything that walks by.
But she looks amaze balls! All I kept thinking is, “Are you kidding me?!” Remember when she was looking like that Madame puppet on steroids? She doesn’t look like a pile of gristle, veins and tendons anymore. And her cleavage! She doesn’t have the wrinkly cleavage of a 60 year old woman. And her legs are that of an athlete. Jeezus. Is that ALL plastic surgery that’s finally settled in or the outcome of years of fitness and dietary maintenance or all of the above or what?? Bitch looks better than I do at 40…
Because it makes me feel better, I’m thinking that she may be using the highest paid affects artists from Jurassic World to smooth her out. .. Like maybe partial CG face replacement or something because I have such a hard time believing that she really looks like this, even with make-up.
Maddona paved the way for all the youngsters she’s now trying to emulate. I wish she would stick to what works for her, it’s one thing to grow with the times but she’s just moving backwards trying to act like she’s on her 20s. I also wonder if her edge is gone because now she has been rich for so long and lacks a certain depth/struggle to be able to write better songs. Either way it’s depressing to see her overpowering desperation.
I was not a fan of Madonna, even when I was younger, but I have to say I liked enough the Evita moment, and singles like Frozen. The style she adopted during those years could work even now, I think. But after the second divorce, I have the feeling she is trying desperately to tell the word: “Ehi, I’m Madonna, I’m still the sexiest woman in the world, the queen of NY nights, the best of all pop stars, ecc. ecc.” and this is so so sad …
Good for her not backing down with age, but bitch please on this. We know perfectly well that she’s a health food eating non drinking non smoking control freak mother of two, and good for her, but we all know this video is nonsense.
At least when Miley C does this stuff you know she means it.
As much as one loves their children (and one does) it must suck when they grow up to look EXACTLY like their dad / your ex.