Clad in the traditional black cape and spiky circlet of mourning, Madonna appeared at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The show’s producers, we assume, wanted to memorialize Franklin, marking the loss of a musical icon by having another famous singer reflect on a remarkable…
It’s been a few years, but Deadline is reporting that Madonna is about to return to her first and greatest love: directing feature films. Just 10 years after Filth And Wisdom (which wasn’t so good) and seven years after W.E. (which also wasn’t so good), Madonna has signed on to direct a movie for MGM called Taking…
While he’s best know for his appearances on Chappelle’s Show and his roles on Scandal and Dating Game Killer, Guillermo DĂaz is also a huge Madonna fan. In fact, he is such a fan, he has a tattoo of the pop icon on his right arm. We asked DĂaz to give us his five favorite Madonna songs, and like a true fan, he named…
Eventually, everyone succumbs to the desire to grab an acoustic guitar and illustrate that they, like, really like Elliott Smith. No, no, they know everyone does, but they really do. Generally this occurs sometime during late fall of freshman year, hair pulled beneath an unassuming beanie in the quad, the song…
Joseph Kahn has been active in the music video industry for more than 25 years, working with some of the biggest artists in the world on their most iconic videos, such as Eminem’s “Without Me,” Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” and Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” In the video above, Kahn tells us the five music videos that…
We recently learned the reasons for Madonna and Tupac Shakur’s breakup, via a letter the late artist wrote the erstwhile Material Girl from prison. In it, Shakur described the disparate effects of their relationship—while the revelation would just make her seem more “open and exciting,” it might be seen as a betrayal…
A few years ago, Madonna revealed on Howard Stern’s radio show that she dated the late Tupac Shakur for a spell in the mid-’90s. Others confirmed it, too: both actress Rosie Perez and Shakur’s brother, Mopreme Shakur, revealed that they played roles in hooking the pair up. Still, the nature of their relationship has…
Madonna has spoken out against plans to film an unauthorized biopic of her life, hopping on Instagram today to label anyone but her trying to tell her life story as a “charlatan and a fool.” (And a clown, going off of her emoji use.)
Madonna is pretty famous, at least as far as iconic music superstars go, but nobody’s ever made an emotional biopic about how she went from a non-famous baby to the woman behind “Borderline.” Now, finally, that might be changing. According to Variety, Universal has picked up the rights to Blonde Ambition, a script…
This week’s question comes from commenter nunyobini:
Unlike the much-celebrated early work of Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze, whose music videos are considered on par with their eventual feature films, David Fincher’s pop videos are generally thought of as merely an interesting addendum to his later work. We do not place Madonna’s videos for “Express Yourself” and “Vogue”…
If you are a successful pop star, conquering the movies appears to be the next logical step. After all, it worked (kind of) for Elvis. And Justin Timberlake! But it turns out that Elvis and JT are the rare exceptions. Most times, when movies are crafted around a particular pop star who’s new to film, the results are…
Look, we’ve never been president. So it’s hard for us to say how much time, exactly, is the right amount for the most powerful person in America to spend thinking about how angry he is at the combined forces of Madonna and Saturday Night Live. (To be fair, that Wayne’s World Truth Or Dare parody from 1991 was weirdly…
Today, people have flocked to the streets all around the country (and the world) to stand for women’s rights and to protest Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and every other sexist, racist, xenophobic creep who thinks they’ve just woken up in a world under their control. The Women’s March On Washington was the day’s main…
We love it when bands don’t take the “holiday” part of Holiday Undercover too literally; while it’s nice to have some traditional songs—see last week’s Shonen Knife entry—it’s also nice to play with the idea a little bit. That’s exactly what the British band Wild Beasts did, bringing us this intense duo version of…
Mindy Kaling, Tonya Harding, Madonna, and Lax Mandis—not to be confused with Max Landis—all make appearances in one way or another on this year’s Black List, the annual collection of Hollywood film executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays. However, Kaling’s contribution, an untitled script about women in late-night…
Last week, it was announced that Taylor Swift will be getting her very own 24-hour cable channel to offset the noise of the failing media. How will Taylor Swift NOW! churn up enough Taylor Swift content to fill a 24-hour cycle? Well, in a bind, they could always just cut to a livestream of Swift swimming Scrooge…
December is almost here, forcing people back into their homes via inclement weather and Seasonal Affective Disroder-induced ennui. Luckily, the online streaming services are working to pick up the slack and keep people entertained. Or possibly just incite them into blood-on-the-snow violence, in the case of Showtime,…
The beauty of democracy is that it offers citizens a choice, or at least the illusion of one. For example, for the average Joe Chipotle—come on, no one uses lunch pails anymore—the time and expense involved in booking a plane ticket and flying out to meet a woman they don’t know in order to cash in on promises of oral…
Last night, noted stand-up comic Madonna opened for her pal Amy Schumer, who was performing at New York’s Madison Square Garden. And while Schumer was openly “apologetic” to fans of Donald Trump—who recently walked out on a show she performed in Tampa—Madonna put her political cards on and/or under the table,…
