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| Used Price: $23.00 |
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| Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The outrage surrounding the violent content in Madonna's video for "What It Feels Like for a Girl" is a bit of a controversy itself. Look at any episode of any cop show filmed during the last 25 years and you'll easily find more car crashes and human assault, containing far less artful context, than director Guy Ritchie (Madonna's husband) injects here. Madonna plays something of a femme fatale Robin Hood, who removes a blank-faced elderly woman from a nursing home and, with the old lady sitting shotgun, races around town in a yellow vintage Camaro wreaking havoc on unsuspecting males. She crashes into a car containing leering young men, stun-guns a fat-cat fellow at an ATM, gives his cash to a waitress at a drive-in, and steals another hot rod after she's banged up her own. While enjoying a milkshake with her octogenarian partner-in- crime, she pulls out a pistol and aims it at the heads of two stupefied-looking policemen (but she doesn't spray them with bullets--the weapon is a squirt gun). The Thelma & Louise-themed video hints that the entire scenario is imagined by the old woman, who fantasizes vengeance for a lifetime of indignities suffered. Satisfying, yes. Outrageous, hardly. --Beth Massa
What It Feels Like For A Girl Reviews:
Not M's worst, not her best 
2007-03-30 - I really was confused watching the video, mainly because the original version should have been used instead of the Above & Beyond 12" Club Mix (although, the song on its own is amazing) because the lyrics and imagery would fit. Otherwise, superb directing by Guy Ritchie.
Oh, and to all the mega-conservatives: big deal. This video is not saying "women should drive into a pole", but just stating the issue of female suppression. Obviously, if the original of the song would have been used it would've made more sense.
This Is A Great Video Madonna Shows Us Again Female Power! 
2007-03-01 - What It Feels Like For A Girl is from Madonna's Music CD. It is the 3rd single of off her album. It was directed by her husband Guy Ritchie. It was banned on MTV and VH1 due to violence. I really don't understand why I have seen worse videos depicting violence. This is her 3rd banned video. The video starts off with Madonna putting her clothes in a suitcase and then getting into her yellow sports car and going to an old convelescant home to pick up her grandmother. Day turns to night and she is driving around town with her grandmother. A group of guys in a car are checking her out, she winks at them and then she turns around and hits them with full force. She then sees a guy at a ATM machine and uses a stun gun to stun him to steal his money. The way she walks to the machine and puts the stun gun up high up in her arm and getting ready to stun this guy is just great! How she stuns the guy is actually not shown. You just see the guy lieing there passed out. She shoves the money in a waitresses' pocket to help her out. She innocently sips something to drink and drives by 2 cops who are looking at her and points a gun at them and it turns out to be a water pistol which she aims at them and squirts water onto both of their faces. They go after her. She then sees guys playing hockey on the streets and tries to run them over. The music stops for a second and we hear a great sound before she sees another guy in a red car getting gas. She ends up stealing the car and they drive around again during this there are flashbacks of Madonna getting ready before getting into her yellow car in the beginning. She goes through all of her drivers licenses which actually shows her in many different pictures throughout her career. She puts on a suit to protect her from being physically hurt in a car accident and you see her grandmother watching a show that shows cops in cars on TV chasing after the bad guys. Those are the 3 flashbacks. At the end of the video she commits suicide with her grandmother as her car hits a wall and gets completely banged up. The music from this video is not the original version that is found on the Music album it is the Above And Beyond Mix found on her WIFLFAG remix CD. The DVD shows good messages. It shows us how woman are sterotyped in life for not being as smart enough and strong enough emotionally as men. It also shows us Madonna's female power when she gets back at all the men, which I truely loved. The video as it shows really tells us what it really feels like for a girl in our society these days. I highly recommend this video it's very good and really not that violent! Keep up the good work Madonna, your fan since 83!
30 Bucks For A Video???? 
2007-02-06 - OK, I've seen it and the mixes. Whoopee. Video of rude vulgar chick taking old woman from home and running off a cliff. There, you've seen it. I cannot believe this is so expensive for ONE SONG! The older she gets the less anyone respects her, for making millions in such a cheap ripoff way. Oh, and the DVD froze up once.
what the hell 
2007-02-01 - What the hell was she trying to do in the music video. I know she wanted it banned so there will be more of a demand leading to profits but the video is stupid. Even in back in 2001, she had daughther Lourdes and in the video she's doing ultra violent stuff and being all suicidal and gangsta. Give me a break. What a f***kin poser. I have all Madonna songs and remixes but i'm really getting tired of fake wanna be posers like her.
Telling of American Society
2004-06-01 - Not surprising that a video about crashing down female stereotypes and breaking out of society's mold was banned on MTV. I think it makes Madonna's point that much more clear: Stop the double standards and mistreatment of women.
The video is great. Watch it. Think about the videos YOU see on MTV- Jay-Z being shot for 30 seconds, men crashing cars and objectifying women: and you decide what needs editing in our society.
