Reacting to Madonna's Bedtime Stories Music Videos!
Added 2025-04-05 00:00:04 +0000 UTCOne word: UNIQUE! These were so bizarre & fun. Let me know your thoughts!
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Madonna’s Bedtime Story video is packed with layered references — from surrealist painters like Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Fini, and Lucian Freud, to mystical and spiritual figures. It echoes Christian iconography (stigmata, ascension), Sufi whirling dervishes, Hindu symbolism (like goddess Kali), and esoteric symbols such as Metatron’s Cube. The imagery includes allusions to myth (Hypnos and poppies), Freudian psychology, and alchemical transformation. Artistic nods range from Fini’s L’Amitié and The Ends of the Earth to Carrington’s The Giantess and Varo’s Nacer de Nuevo. There's also a strong visual echo of Joel-Peter Witkin’s Woman Once a Bird and Fabrizio Clerici’s architectural surrealism. Cinematically, it draws from Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates and Tarkovsky’s Stalker. A deeply symbolic, multidimensional piece that blurs the line between pop video and high art.
Leandro Ferraz
2025-05-09 14:06:42 +0000 UTCI would also recommend "Bedtime Story (Live from the 1995 Brit Awards)" - because it is such a unique version - only performed once.
Fox
2025-04-29 10:03:07 +0000 UTC
