You can not listen to vogue without conjuring up the images of the video in your head. Effortlessly cool, Madonna at the height of her fame and beauty. Important to remember that in 1990 Aids was spreading fear through the world and the stigma for being gay was at an all time high. Madonna proved to be a major ally, pushing gay culture front and centre stage and also using main protagonists who developed vogueing on the New York gay underground scene. The middle eight name drop of the actors from the golden age of Hollywood is just genius and adds to the imagery of the song and video. Perfection!
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The artist not at her very best
Horst_In_Translation15 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
"Madonna: Vogue" is a 5-minute short film from 1990, so this one is already older than a quarter of a century and the title already tells us what we have here, namely the music video for the song "Vogue" by recording artist Madonna. Around that time, she was probably at the peak of her popularity, so it is no surprise that this one here also received a pretty solid deal of awards recognition. I cannot agree with that though. I have seen and liked a lot of stuff by Madonna and it's nice to see how she kept reinventing herself in more unique ways than one could ever imagine, but her take on Marilyn Monroe here did not impress me that much. The black-and-white movie as well as the song did not send me as much of an artistic message as some of her other works. A bit of a shame as here we have Madonna (in her early 30s) collaborating with David Fincher (in his late 20s). Madonna turns 60 next year and she left us an amazing heritage, but these five minutes are not en vogue in my opinion. Thumbs down.
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