Madonna has released the video for her second single from her new album. The song is called Girl Gone Wild – and it’s for adult eyes only. The raunchy video, which features the 53-year-old singer dancing in black PVC hotpants alongside topless male dancers in mantyhose, can only be viewed on Youtube by those who confirm that they are over 18 years of age. Check it out:
Over the weekend, columnist Ros Reines spoke out about Madonna’s latest publicity shots:
“There is something quite disturbing about the latest publicity shots of 53-year-old Madonna in a classic porn star pose.
There she is, Madonna, all tousled blonde hair, finger in mouth and wearing a black, lacy cut-out bra and mid-thigh PVC boots.
…It’s just that Madonna already did the seedy suspender belt thing when she was back in her 20s and she shouldn’t be trying to recreate it now – just because she can.
As an older woman who has survived the music industry and all the artists like Lady Gaga, who have come after her, Madonna can now afford to act with a little more dignity now…
There is certainly scope for her to present as a sexy, older woman who is comfortable in her skin. But leave the trashy sex kitten to all those young girls out to make a name for themselves. Madonna doesn’t have to prove a thing. So instead of trying to recreate her twenties, Madonna should channel Helen Mirren and be all the more powerful for it.”
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What do you think of the video? Is Madonna “too old”?
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78 Comments so far
The scenes where she has about 5 guys groping her is a bit off. I have no probelem with Madonna dancing in leather undies. But I do think it’s a bit twisted to show a number of men looking as though they’re about to take turns. Didn’t some fashion ad get banned for depicting gang rape type images?. Ew. I just think she’s trying too hard now.
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What really pissed me off about Reines’ comments is that she thinks it’s okay for a younger unknown girl to portray herself as a ‘trashy sex kitten’. Good God! Feminism just went back 20 years
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Who are we kidding? That was nowhere near as graphic as the sexist crap I’m subjected to on the gym’s music video station. It was tame! I’m Madonna’s age and I’d kill for her body or her hormones! Ageists, get a life for heaven’s sake (or for your own)? p.s. I didn’t have to prove my age to view, it just launched. Advertising scam, clearly … even worse is Reines’ comments about it being okay for younger unknowns to behave like “trashy sex kittens”. Goog God, feminism just regressed 30 years
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What’s with the restriction? It’s hardly worse than everything else out there? Is it because it’s oh so very gay?
Stupid. Also, very boring song.
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I thought we were over glamorising smoking?
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Oh My God – that is one serious bit of photoshop wizardry going on. She’s been stretched, suctioned, smoothed and enhanced beyond all recognition. To be aging in reverse seems almost a violation of nature.
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Just awful. Sorry. I love Madonna but this is all just sad. The video is embarassing.
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I think Madonna does sexy a lot better than someone like, say, Rihanna. WHY must we act a certain way when we hit a certain age?
WHY can’t Madonna be herself? This is her, doing just that. If anything, it has brought back great memories for me of the 80′s when she first started out.
She can still pull it off, and good luck to her
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Well said – totally agree!
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Go Madonna!! This is what Madonna does, and she does it well.
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Talk about ageist comments! Who gives a toss if she’s 53? Why shouldn’t she be able to wear whatever the hell she likes, regardless of age? Seriously, Madonna loves breaking the rules and doing her own thing – bet she never thought she’d cause a load of controversy because she’s wearing skimpy clothes at 53 though!
If she wants to be raunchy, she can bloody well be raunchy. Anyone who thinks a woman should look a certain way at any age has just bought into yet another branch of the cultural control of women – especially their sexuality.
If anyone’s been a trailblazer in breaking down those barriers, it’s Madonna & she should be applauded for it.
I’d love to see these people say their comments to Madonna in person – I would pay good money for that!
She will never be like Helen Mirren, nor should she be.
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Maddonna is just sexual, she will be doing this stuff when she is ninety, all power to her and I dont mind the song either
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It’s a tired yet apparently still effective way of creating hype on a rubbish song.
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I don’t understand why it’s a big upset over raunch….. There’s plenty of over music clips out there with half dressed women which are worse. I wouldn’t like my kids to watch either of them but seriously why ban madonna and not some of the other stuff?
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You know… I love Madge but if I pressed the mute button and you didn’t tell me who it was, I swear 90% of this clip doesn’t even look like her. I absolutely love it that she is in her 50′s and she’s a sexy, sensual woman, I just wish she were more genuine in her appearance. She’s a few years younger than my Mum but she looks like she’s 27 in this clip due to lighting and severe editing.
I know (because as uncomfortable as it is… my Mum tells me way too much information) that my parents have a great sex life, which I do truly think is great. I’m happy they love each other that much to still do that. But if I were my Mum I would probably watch this and feel inadequate.
Recently Mum has talked about botox and facelifts because she sees other women in their 50′s in the media and they don’t look like her. She never wanted to go the surgery route but there are very few women who represent HER. And its sad. My Mum is gorgeous. Everyone who I introduce her to tells me afterward how beautiful, well dressed and poised she is, and she honestly has an amazing figure… but she has no idea how beautiful she is because there are people her age (like Madonna with all the photoshopping) making her feel like she looks like she’s 80.
Actually Mia I’m going to show her the videos of your gorgeous Mum. I know she’s not gyrating up a wall but she’s way more beautiful than Madonna. Women like your Mum are women I’d like to see more of. Beautiful, intelligent, inspirational. Please. And if you can find any sexy images of women 50+ please post them. Pre-photoshop. Do they exist? Women over 50 have sex lives!!
Maybe can you do a Mamamia calendar of awesome unphotoshopped women of different ages?! I dare say Mum and I would volunteer to go sans clothes for it- stretch marks, saggy breastfeeding boobs, laugh lines and all. Neither of us have had anything done. Its time for a revolution.
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Welocome back Madonna! Is this not Madonna doing what she does best? Whilst the Minogues definately have their place, Madonna had ‘the gays’ long before anyone else. I think Ros Reines got it wrong ‘Madonna should channel Helen Mirren’…can you imagine! I also feel Helen doesn’t play by the rules of a woman of her age. Bring on the tour i say!
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Like the video, but the song really only serves to show just how limited Madonna is these days. Back when she had some vocal training for Evita she was a decent singer, but right now the only major pop singer with less range is Britney Spears, and even she was better than this before she had her meltdown.
I wonder what Madonna’s going to do when she’s 75? She’s basically been regressing the past decade, to the point where her vocal range is the worst it’s ever been. She can’t keep trying to compete with the latest batch of 20-something pop stars forever, but if she spends another decade releasing the kind of songs Rihanna, Katy etc. reject, I’m not sure anyone’s going to be interested in the more pared back, vocal focused show she’s going to have to do one day.
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Pfffft. Shameless grab for the gay market. Refer Ms Minogue a decade ago. Can only hope that Mads is looking for a slot at the next Mardi Gras.
I sincerely hope the sisters protest against their objectification…. and the shoes. Truly terrible.
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*yawn* really Madge haven’t we seen all this before?
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Song: average, clip: what is adults only about that? Anyone remember her Justify my love film clip? That was much more raunchy. She may be fit and look great (black and white is kind like that) but it is all a bit of a yawn to me
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When I see this I thank my Mum for being who she is and not air humping the ground.
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Hahah!Very true!
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Ah yes, motherhood. It’s when many of us reluctantly give up air humping .. in public at least
(Children can be such killjoys!)
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Nobody does it better than Madonna. Age irrelevant. MDNA her latest is incredible. The highest selling tour by an individual artist and 300 million records later and counting. She is extraordinary, still.
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God she is foul. I feel sorry for her kids. I’m sure my mum at 53 could look just as brilliant after that much surgery, personal training and personal make up artists that work tirelessly on her face for hours with a makeup gun set to clown.
Maybe she should put as much effort in to parenting as she does trying to look 20… “Girls just wanna have fun” what a laugh, she’s not a girl, she’s a middle-aged woman… She’s silly.
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Get a life ! You’re foul and stupid. A performer doesn’t just die when they get old.
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“get a life” lol. What makes you assume I don’t have one? What a dumb statement.
I never said she has to stop performing when she gets older, but perhaps be a little more appropriate would be good. She’s a grown adult with a lot of life-experience, she should stop trying to win the race against a bunch of kids exposing their hoohoos for shock value.
Sooo serious. You call me foul and stupid and then add that I’m mean. Oh, the irony.
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And you’re mean.
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How would you know how she is as a parent. You’re kidding right. What has that got to do with what she wears in a photoshoot. What she has achieved will never be matched.
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Well, considering today theres photos circulating of her 14 yr old daughter smoking with a group of boys looking all hip… just a little bit…
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Yeah… but a lot of teenagers experiment with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs no matter what their parents do, no matter how doting they are. We can’t judge her as a parent until you see her parenting. I don’t see any photos of her trashed outside a nightclub, we can’t assume she’s not there for her kids.
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….yet.
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Awesome. Like only Madonna can. She’s definitely still got it. So, so hot. Just a shame she’s smoking in the clip.
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Same old same old. She is always looking for the shock value. None here.
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I don’t really care for the sex kitten thing, but my main concern is the use of cigarettes and guns as props. Are these things really meant to be sexy? Surely we are past cigarettes being “cool”.
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I think she looks great – who cares how old she is. I also don’t think she’s trying to compete with Lady Gaga-she is just doing her Madonna thing! The video is stunning to watch.
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She’s still got it. I wish I looked that good and could move like that at 43 let alone 53.
I’m at work, so I cant watch the video, but from the comments below it doesnt sound like it is any more controversial than anything we have seen before from her.
I dont usually like mutton dressed as lamb but Madge is in a realm of her own. If you can really pull it off I reckon go for it, but I think she is probably the only person in the world who can.
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Seems to be trying to appeal to the gay market – her main fan base now. She looks great (although perhaps a bit too much face ‘work’). As a 40-something woman, i think it’s wonderful to see a woman in her 50s as a sex symbol and not invisible and sexless. Especially in an industry dominated by teenagers.
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I love that the guys are wearing mantyhose and stillettos.
Welcome to my world, fellas
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Meh, Madonna trying to keep up with Gaga maybe??????
She’s only doing what she does best and that’s look and act trashy. Song is very average….
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Ros Reines is so awful. Perhaps she can tell us at exactly what age a woman should cover herself up so as not to startle the horses.
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And, didn’t Ros Reines get her breasts augmented when she was in her fifties? So, what’s her point?
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I think shes amazing ,the songs not the her best but to have a body like that you have to work so hard and she must be so fit. I find her inspiring and at 43 if only i looked half as good. Need to get those yoga dvds out!
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I notice that in the photos, her face doesn’t appear to have aged (mine has), but in some shots her arms look terribly thin, muscular and veiny. I don’t think it’s a great look. I too feel she hasn’t really changed a lot over the years.
The clips a bit meh and I don’t like the song. I’ve never really been a Madonna fan, but some of her songs have been good. This isn’t one of them.
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Gosh, she really is feeling threatened by Gaga, isn’t she. One would have expected her creatively to find a more inventive direction for her new stuff. Still, I guess it will sell like hotcakes, so what do I know…
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The song is dreadfull, poor Madge she is no vocalist. As for the look? Trashy. I know she is Madonna, though I really feel a sense of desperation in her attempt to remain relevant and youthfull!! Madonna is Madonna. Just ease up on the desperation.
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Threatened by GaGa? If you looked back at anything Madonna and Lady GaGa has done you would find that Madonna has done it all before…each of them has their place but let’s not make it a competition, that’s an easy response.
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Yeah, but it’s obviously getting harder and harder – eventually she can’t out-kitten the kittens….
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oh, at least she said sorry right from the start…
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Hmm, didn’t Cyndi Lauper do “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” about a million years ago? Was more musical and authentic too.
I agree with previous commenters, the song is as boring as bat guano and the video does not much for me either.
Madonna can do whatever she wants with her body though – I don’t see why there’s some age demarcation where you have to stop being “sexy” and leave it to the young ones. On that level, I think good on her. The sad part is that it’s just soooo ‘mainstream’ and she’s done it all before, so something original would be a bigger selling point for me.
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Madonna has not evolved, still performing the same clips she did when she was a young girl, provactive, sensual alluring,. Only problem as a 53 year old woman she cannot pull it any longer . It looks ridiculous and desperate and sad on her behalf. She will struggle, klcking and screaming into her twilight years instead of enjoying them
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I am actually sick and tired of people going on about Madonna’s age and her latest releases. She’s an artist. She is expressing herself the way she wants. Get over it.
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It’s irrelevant if she’s 53 or 23 (although if we’re to object about photoshopping in mags then the “photoshopping” of Madonna in this clip is certainly noteworthy..I’m guessing in another 10-15 years Madonna could do the same clip and not look any different), but the need to have writhing naked bodies in a clip to sell a song is ridiculous. She could be singing Baa baa black sheep and those that are into the visuals would still rave about it.
Total crap IMO.
Oh and I wonder what her kids think?
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She has got a great bod, id probly wanna show it off too if i was her. but the song and the dancing etc etc, sounds very same same.
i do love the men in mantyhose and heels though!!
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great for gay men – boring for everyone else. I feel sorry for her daughter
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My biggest reaction…why so much smoking? Everything else…seen it before.
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Smoking is (now) a taboo.
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There’s plenty about this video to groan about, mostly that it relies so heavily on cliched ‘hot-buttons’ to create a shock response (guns, cigarettes, the religious bit at the start), rather than displaying any creative innovation. But to criticise it because of the AGE of the artist? That’s obviously the biggest and most controversial ‘hot button’ of all and so, despite the banality of the video itself, Madonna’s still able to shock people with her subversion (only this time, it’s the mere fact of her age that’s subversive). Good for her and, frankly, I don’t want anybody to tell me what I can and can’t do because of my age any more than I accept being told how to behave because of my gender!
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It reminded me also of Madonna in her ‘sex’ book years. Just because she is 53 or whatever it doesn’t mean she should tone down her image. She’s been doing this since the beginning of her career why should she stop now.
I am very surprised Mama Mia didn’t put the annoying PS stamp or comment on how photoshopped she looks.
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Yes I think its fantastic to be sexy in your 50′s but this is not Madonna in her 50′s… its Madonna with a crapload of special lighting and editing to make her look like she’s in her 20′s, making most women who are actually in their 50′s feel like crap. I’m also surprised there was no PS stamp here… its an incredibly bad offender!
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Where’s that ‘like’ button?
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Yeah she’s amazing for her age and she can act as provocatively as she wants. I just found the song a bit boring and her voice sounded so auto tuned. I like her videos when they have a bit more of a story to them not just writhing around.
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Wonder if this will spark a trend of straight boys kissing and grinding in clubs for attention like the whole bi thing did for girls a decade ago. That would be a no I am guessing.
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It reminded me of her old vid clips, not of Gaga or what’s her face Rihanna. I would call that mild considering the crotch grinding you see on most hip hop clips. The adult only viewing thing was probably just because of the cigarette and the bum.
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Yes Madonna. We know you are very flexable. But really! Writhe writhe pout pout. Ho hum! Creatively as dull as dish water.
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Trying to fix my spelling mistake. How do I save the edit in Comment Editor?
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Am I the only one who didn’t find it in the least bit raunchy? I watched it all the way through waiting for something to happen, and all I got was a few blokes in tights and someone’s bare butt. MM, you got me all excited about nothing!
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I like her. Why should she cover up any more than a 20 year old? Who dictates what is appropriate at a certain age?
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I have no problem with it, what I do have a problem with is the misrepresentation of her age… the editing involved means she looks half her age. If you’re going to be a sexy 50 something woman, then make a stand for it and not try to look like you’re 25. Just sayin’
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