FIRST TIME HEARING---MADONNA--AMERICAN LIFE---REACTION 

The point is that a lot of people were more upset about this video, which isn't real, then they were about the real war that was based on lies.

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Didn't think about that before but damn it adds another layer for sure. I think that's what happening now.

Well I'm from Spain and I was living in the US during the reinvention tour and I'm not agree, in fact all my American friends including military people were very impact in the good way with this song and video, all said that she had a great balls for did it

She never released the originally planned version of the music video for your exact reasons. This was the official version released: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LYduJw5LyFM.html

@@oscardelgado1075 but they are talking about the mass, the main market. And her public in a tour are usually only fans. And now, she has another challenge (sadly) an America ageist.

@@billiejoearmstrong3741 my friends are not fans

From a fan perspective, yes she was on the right side but sadly the way she expressed that out wasnt exactly artistic. Both the song and the music video were quite cringy tbh. The general public ignored the rest of her American Life studio album which is tbh a masterpiece.

I agree

You know this song is from 2003, right?

There's another version where at the end it's a George Bush look alike is sitting next to Saddam Hussein and they use the granade to light up their cigars and then it explores

Very hard to top Madonna .

i dont think that she done it all, I think it was her producer. It's not envy, because i'm Madonna fan and I think she's the greatest, But i think its not her credit, at least not alone. The producers and composers are almost always forgotten and shadowed by artist's light. Sorry for bad english, I'm still learning.

American Life is my favourite record of hers. Last year when Chiptunes4Autism was compiling their charity record I submitted 2 songs and this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pXgd2eiwFGg.html was heavily influenced by themes I resonated with in American Life. It's called Analyze This and the whole brief was that we had to use video game sounds for the songs. I wanted my vocal to sound like I was talking over a megaphone in a kind of dystopian progressive chiptune landscape. Obviously I'll never come close to Mirwais but, I love how he works. The second song I submitted was called Game Over and that also made in onto the record. That one is heavy chiptunes sound. I just love the coldness of electronic sounds in American Life juxtaposed with the warm fuzzy guitars especially in songs like Hollywood and I'm So Stupid and Mother And Father. I also love that syncopated beat structure that keeps you constantly engaged. I also love especially how rough the songs sound. Like they were made by some rebel chick in a garage somewhere. In Hollywood when the birds come in you can hear they're looped. Theyre not perfectly faded in. Its so artificial, but that's the point, because Hollywood is artificial. Just the way Madonna and Mirwais use the music as a reflection of theme discussed in the lyrics is high art. Thats I went for in the Game Over song. It sounds lik a Nintendo gameboy and its about overcoming bullying (I'm autistic). In the vocal I was inspired by Nobody Knows Me and I even did that weird garbled baby-voice thing 😂😂😂. I mean who comes up with that? Mirwais is a genius! And Madonna for being brave enough to leave it in. And I mean, the Synth on American Life (the song) literally sounds like a radio scrambler they use in the military and to take that and build a whole song around it is brilliance. I could go on and on about how rich American Life is as a concept record!

And have a version where George Bush and Saddam Hussein impersonators smokes together as best friends

Lights his cigar with it. I’ve got the official promo video that features that ending.

She did release it in Australia.

A couple of things happened. The video was shot before the unlawful US invasion of Iraq. Madonna has always maintained that the video is an anti war video, not pro or against one side or the other. Her official reason why she pulled the video was hence because the war has already started and she doesn't want to cause undue emotional distress on fallen American soldier. Also, there were death threats against her and her children.

Seriously does!!!

this socialist-like self conversion didn't work. she tried to add a new aspect to her story telling. it didn't work