Madonna

Madonna
In Madonna’s music video, Like a Prayer, she deals with racy topics that were being confronted in the 80’s. It is strange now to look back to what previously was considered controversial compared with today’s standards. I think that if she was going to remake this music video and try to deal with current topics of debate some of the material would be changed in order to still be considered controversial.
I think that some of our ideas about race have changed in the last couple of decades; however it is still a hot topic. By no means do I think that racism does not exist in the world today, because it does. But I think that she would have to push the envelope a little bit further in order to get the same reaction she did back in the 80’s.
I think she would have to make it a gay relationship between two people of different races, or maybe make it a threesome.
The media that we are accustomed to now has much more violence and nudity in it. So I think there would have to be more violence and nudity in the scene where the girl is getting stab and raped. This is because I think that people now days are harder to impress in the genre of rape and nudity, and in order to be truly shocking you have to try to do something that people have not seen done yet.
The whole religious iconography that was used in the music video might have seemed sacrilegious at the time, but times are changing. If Madonna portrayed herself as a Muslim, I think that would shock viewers today. Non-supporters of Obama, are doing that very thing to him in his political campaign. It seems to bee working pretty well, or at least enough for every one to talk about it.
Madonna has been performing, in my life for as long as I can remember. She has proven her ability to entertain millions and provoke responses from people with her controversial actions. I think that her bank account should be proof enough.