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Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl [2001]
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4.5 out of 5 stars 8 customer reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Actors: Madonna
  • Directors: Guy Ritchie
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Warner Music Vision
  • VHS Release Date: 30 April 2001
  • Run Time: 5 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005CBTO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,029 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The outrage surrounding the violent content in Madonna's video for What It Feels Like for a Girl is a bit of a controversy itself. Look at any episode of any cop show filmed during the last 25 years and you'll effortlessly find more car crashes and human assault containing far less artful context than director Guy Ritchie (Madonna's husband) injects here. Madonna plays something of a femme fatale Robin Hood who removes a blank-faced elderly woman from a nursing home and, with the old lady sitting shotgun, races around town in a yellow vintage Camaro wreaking havoc on unsuspecting males. She crashes into a car containing leering young men, stun-guns a fat-cat fellow at an ATM, gives his cash to a waitress at a drive-in, and steals another hotrod after she's banged up her own. While enjoying a milkshake with her octogenarian partner-in-crime, she pulls out a pistol and aims it at the heads of two stupefied-looking policemen (but she doesn't spray them with bullets--the weapon is a squirt gun). The Thelma and Louise-themed video hints that the entire scenario is imagined by the old woman, who fantasises vengeance for a lifetime of indignities suffered. Satisfying, yes. Outrageous, hardly. --Beth Massa, Amazon.com

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Madonna features in the film accompanying a dance remix version of the title track. She plays a woman who has been abused and goes to seek revenge, committing various crimes in the process.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One fab Madonna Music Video!, 2 Jan 2002
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This review is from: What It Feels Like for a Girl [DVD] (DVD)
An excellent DVD single, with added extra tracks! It's one my of favourite Madonna music videos mainly due to the quirky nature of the video. Guy and Madonna have been able to express their personalities in the video. I love the little touches like the name of the old peoples home, which always makes me smile!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Why was this banned?, 12 Feb 2004
By Andrew Parodi (Gervais, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What It Feels Like for a Girl [DVD] (DVD)
This is far from being Madonna's best video, and far from being her most controversial. I have no idea why this video was banned from Mtv. It is no more violent or controversial than what you will see on the evening news. Something tells me that it is the 'theme' that did not sit well with the suits at Mtv - two women driving around town and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting males while the words "do you know what it feels like for a girl" echo in the background. So, it really is an issue of gender (that she targeted the male gender), not controversy that got this banned.

Still, I do not like violence and am not a fan of it. I generally do not watch the evening news for that reason, and I steer clear of most action shows and movies because I don't like violence. So, this video was not easy for me to watch, especially from a woman who once said that where she drew the line in her art was in violence and degrading others. Madonna is an artist, of course, and has the right to express herself as she wishes - and I understand the point she is making here. But just as Madonna has the right of expression, so do I, and I just don't like violence or its depiction. I'm glad she hung up the boxing gloves after this video.

Note: the song on this video is a remix that sounds NOTHING like the album version. The entire verse is gone from this song, all you hear is the manic schizophrenic dance track in the back and then the ominously whispered "do you know what it feels like for a girl?" juxtaposed over footage of Madonna crashing her car into males. Though I don't like violence, it is an interesting video because it's a Madonna we've never seen before (except perhaps for that short scenario after "Causing a Commotion" in the Blond Ambition tour, where she mock-beats up Nicki and Donna). This is sort of a kamikaze Madonna, and the little old lady she champions is cute as hell.

Andrew Parodi

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A "MUST" for every Madonna fan!, 22 Aug 2001
This review is from: What It Feels Like for a Girl [DVD] (DVD)
A strange video........but very enjoyable! If you weren't lucky enough to see the music video on TV, then this is a must, and if like me you did....you too will want to have it in your collection. Maybe I'm biased because I love everything that Madonna does.

Step right up....see madonna Stun the public! See her giving white knuckle rides to old people! Watch in horror as she drives dangerously around the city!

Not to be missed!

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