Madonna: What It Feels Like for a Girl [DVD]

Well, part of the Madonna legacy is her ability to combine her music with stellar and breathtaking videos. No exception to this latest controversy... The reason why this video is banned is not fathomable. We have seen much more violence and sex on MTV, so cut the crap. The video is like a little Guy Ritchie crime craper. Who says a car thief can't be a woman? Who says a woman can't squirt water onto policemen's face? Madonna says you can...and if you look beyond the so-called violence in the video, you'll find the subtle message of the very superior original. The heart-thumping club remix that this DVD is cut to just serves to hype up the action. It is a splendid work of visual, just one complain: there's only one video track here. Why not add another remix video or even have a version cut to the original song...I always thought the origianl version would turn out a great video too....

This is Madonnaas wild as she isshe still does what she wantsjust as it states about the DVD

* rapid-fire editing* great on a dvd to watch each cut in slow-mo* multiple clever visual puns* visuals carry the burden of conveying song's message with ease* new remix allows viewer to pay more attention to visuals* nice acting by madonna* the violence in this short is meant as a visual symbol of 'what it feels like for a girl' (in this world)* it's a metaphor for a manifesto of feminine independence and ownership of feelings and power* resist the urge to lable it as simply violent and nothing else

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!

Few would argue that Madonna is a pioneering force in the world of the music video. Countless times in her spectacular career she has re-defined the video format. Like she herself has said before, each video is like a little movie, vignettes that have truly defined Madonna as artist. Even her most successful film role to date (Evita) was nothing more than an extended music video. So, along comes "What It Feels Like For A Girl" the video. Not since 1990's "Justify My Love" has Madonna recieved such controversy over a video. Then, it seemed outrageous that MTV would ban such a high profile video from an artist that helped create and define the channel. MTV took a similar but less controversial stance with 1992's "Erotica" video, showing the clip only after midnight with a spoken warning/introduction. Now in the age of Eminem and Columbine MTV's ban of this kind-of-violent clip seems less a precaution and more a promotion. Madonna has said that this is an angry song with an angry video to match. Most reviews of the album cited "WIFLFAG" as a standout track, calling it Madonna's heart-felt advice to the likes of Britney and Christina. The anger seemes to have gone unnoticed. The video, set to a dance remix of the original song, depicts Madonna as a girl on a rampage. It's an over the top revenge fantasy with the material mom in full diva mode. While the clip, like most Madonna videos, deals with role reversals and a shifting concept of sexual identity, her tongue seems less planted in her cheek. Gone is the irony of "Express Yourself" and "Music". Gone is the bitter-sweet romanticism of "Bad Girl" and "Take A Bow". While the video is quite cinematic in its imagery (it was, afterall, directed by her film maker hubby Guy Ritchie) it lacks the poetry and elegance of her best work (see "Bad Girl" and "Oh Father"). Though poetry and elegance may not have been the goal for either Mr. or Mrs. Madonna, the video still falls a little flat despite its grittiness and Wile E. Coyote violence. Edited with a frantic pace, the clip seems panicked to squeeze in as many... ...scenes as possible. Visually at odds with the inherent sweetness of the song (perhaps that's why a remix sans lyrics was used), the video achieves a kind of "You-Go-Girl" punch but lacks the lasting charm of some of her earlier works. But does all this really matter? Of course not. Since entering our public consciousness in the early eighties, few of us have been able to look away. I, for one, welcome her shenanigans and watch with complete fascination. Madonna conitnues to challenge us after all these years and that alone is amazing. This video (along with "Music" her latest #1 single and disc, and the long-awaited "Drowned World Tour" this summer) is Madonna merely tapping the shoulder of the public to say "I'm still here" forcing us to realize she never left.Oh, and by the way, she looks great!The DVD contains two bonus audio tracks including the remix used in the video and is available only on this DVD.

I needed this for my collection. Glad I bought this copy, it's great. Good condition, well packaged came as described.

this fantastic madonna song is brilliantly showcased with this dvd. the video is thoughtful, enjoyable and original and the dvd includes a remix of the song.

Madonnas mtv banned music dvd ,directed by guy richie is a must for madonna collectors contains dvd plus dvd remix of the single its madonna being confrontational and at her best

had not seen this vid in ages

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