Check out more Madonna please..... so many deep messages. Don't sleep on Madonna. all hail the queen.

Madonna is legendary it came out in 2003 an anti war song, shes going against the anerican people and war propaganda

Definitely people living under a rock when it comes to Madonna’s artistry.

The message in video is still relevant today

MADONNA has never backed down on telling it like it is. The media destroyed her accusing her of being anti American. The radio wouldnt play this song, so she was forced to put out a cleaner less graphic version. She is the ultimate human rights advocate and the world has a problem with people having a steong opinion.

Madonna pulled the original director's cut last minute for fear of retaliation and being perceived as unpatriotic as America was bracing for War, and because the Dixie Chicks were cancelled just prior. So she originally aired this video with a tame version of her singing only behind flags and pretty much all the imagery removed. She was 44 at the time. Past 40, and American radio shadow banned her regardless, her career never reached the popularity of her younger years since. She has never been one to back down from offending and sharing her point of view but this was the first time in her career she blinked. If you ever want to see another bold, music video by her, and one that was a global hit also, I suggest you check out her 1989 "Like a Prayer" music video.

Legend. A true fighter

Those little kids at the end always get me emotional. Love Madonna! Her anti-war stance got her banned from U.S. radio, so you might not have heard much about her there. But she's still going strong, and we're loving her in the rest of the world! Peace! ✌

I'm the first runway model with the train, and grenade necklace. What an amazing gig for the queen M, except it was shelved 20 years. 😮 i remember feeling like i was in a dream. A couple of the extras told me this was going to launch my career..well turns out i havent had anything to sing about until now anyway. Listen to my KZfaq ep playlist "Chasing Your Ghost" by Samuel Güler. I wrote and recorded these 6 songs the past few months. Please comment on your favorite song. And subscribe. ❤😊

I liked ur Madonna comment! This came out in 2003, from her American Life album.. You need to do more Madonna reactions! And you’ll see why she’s the Queen of Pop! The only Queen! The most imitated never duplicated! Start from the beginning of her career in 1982! With her 1983 album “Madonna”

Great reaction! If you want to explore more of Madonna's more political/social commentary music videos I'd recommend the "Like a Prayer" official video from 1989 which is a commentary on racism (mostly) and a more recent video on gun violence would be her 2019 song "God Control". Thanks for this reaction and take care.

Madonna told the whole truth with this video, and it got her cancelled

Queen of Pop

HOLLYWOOD is a beautiful pop/dance Madonna video and incredible to react In the album, 1st comes AMERICAN LIFE you guys reacted, then HOLLYWOOD She criticizes HOLLYWOOD...it would be awesome to see you guys reacting to it 🎉

One thing to remember is that Madonna had just gotten involved in what was going on in Malawi around this time (she would go on to launch her Malawain charity a few years later.) People in the press were of course saying that she didn't really care and was using the situation there for press, which is a really disgusting thing to say about a human being who is speaking out about her own privilege and desperately trying to use that privilege to make life better for others. The "American Life" album was a response to those accusations in many ways, as well as the rejection of materialism and the fallacy of American life being perfect and something to aspire to. The song "Mother and Father" is, in my humblest of opinions, one of her masterpieces. Most people understand that Madonna chased fame and fortune primarily after her losing her mother to cancer when she was a child. That song is all about realizing that you can't go through your life trying to find substitutes for grief, trauma and pain. There's no music video for it but you should definitely check it out.

This was so fun seeing the two of them put meaning to this song so far removed from the release date. This was right aftre 911 and during the War on Terror.

I think she meant to comment on how US fights wars in other countries and haven’t had one their own territory. These wars are fought ‘for the greater good’ , which is just a perspective on which side you’re fighting. It’s only natural that Americans will see these wars as justified, by some glorified, even more so because many soldiers don’t return. I think Madonna is showing how she views this abstract idea of war, that she thinks Americans have, by making it a fashion show. On the other side she shows the aweful reality of what this ‘American Dream’ does to the people in those countries

Great reaction to a legendary artist. Please react to more madonna! She has amazing songs !

Thank you for American Life, my favourite Madonna video

She also adopted four kids from Malawi in Africa after this. She wasn’t happy with the activities and messages being sent in American in the 80s. She also lived in London for a while with her previous husband.

Thank you ❤

Carla doesnt play around. To the point. Love it.

40 años de carrera, mucho para ver y escuchar...

I love this reaction. Madonna always expressed how are videos , and videos are like canvas for the audience to interpret. Everything Madonna does its artistic .

American Life is, for me, Madonna's best album in terms of its bold mix of instrumentals and lyrics. Mixing Folk (melancholic) with an EDM that was not fully used in 2002/2003 and that encouraged other artists to mix. I believe that Kesha or Lady Gaga and even Britney's Blackout have influences on Madonna's album. It is pure philosophy and poetry. Madonna uses Dialectic and Materialism in the lyrics and rhythms, mixing dualities such as light and shadow, exposing the contradictions and trying to deal with them. It's an album that sounds much more intimate, transparent and confessional than any previous or subsequent one. Madonna won me over at that time because if there's one thing I love, it's EDM and Philosophy/Critical Science. She did something that no one would have imagined would be done: an American criticizing the dominant ideology of his own country and system. Hollywood is not as explicit as the song of the same name, but it is surprising precisely because it leaves the mystery in the air regarding the reality behind the scenes. Nothing Fails is an ode to what love means (respect, gratitude, bonding, security, etc.). Mother and Father outlines sad lyrics about her life in childhood and adolescence through ballad synthesizers. Die Another Day is a thinking consciousness that seeks to survive after every awakening Madonna launches several phrases that reference authors and themes from philosophy and science. Bold phrases. Madonna embodies the proletarianized worker who tries to subsist in the system. No artist of Madonna's level and position would dare to leave her comfort zone, take such a risk on society (and that part of it already hates her) and produce another album so outside of the Matrix. And she paid the price like she paid with Erotica. This album deserved a Grammy and deserves to be recognized among the best of the best for its courage and consistency in quality and concept. In pop, for me, it's an academic manual on how to be honestly great in techniques. But it's that thing, it requires talent and love for what you do. Unfortunately, few people have the sensitivity, perception, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, experience and wisdom to be able to taste and feel all the complexity and depth of this album. It is necessary to understand the political and social context from 2001 to 2003 to further understand the album and recognize Madonna's greatness.

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J'adore cet chanson American Life fait partie ma chanson favoris de Madonna album du même nom sortie 2003 .)

Nothing has changed

We are more. Than just the American dream.It's whats she is saying

Did you cover MIA “Born Free”? Similar concept, a lot more daring. glad to see Madonna covered.

HOLY WATER 💦 MADONNA LIVE @ REBEL HEART TOUR. LEGENDARY

She’s talking about wars and shallow people not about trans people but you only catch the boy girl thing transphobic for sure but Madonna is so open minded and free spirit we love her forever ❤

Queen Of Pop, Goddess of Reinvention.

I remember when this came out. People were pissed. Hated that she pulled it last minute but the damage was already done. America was at war and they were not happy with her stance. This is also a commentary on how the consumerist economy of the US (drinking a soy latte/I get a double shotte) is what also drives instability in other countries. You also didn't watch the REAL version where a look alike of George W. Bush grabs the grenade and it's actually a lighter that he uses to light a cigar and shares it with Saddam Hussien look alike. Madonna has never shied away from speaking her truth and she's punished for it. I wish more artists were like this today but they're all 'safe' and worried about getting cancelled. I loved Carla's reaction at the end. 'Oh, my God!' is right!

Like a prayer and so many more video's where Madonna had strong and important messages. Madonna is all about expressing herself and being controversial, because no one did it like that, even in the '80's!

Hello how are you all doing. Hope you all are doing well? This Madonna video was made in 2003 20 years ago 😊

Madonna Forever❤

8:53 , yes, a lot of Madonna's work have to be taken in the context of the time, otherwise a lot of meaning will be lost as a lot of people still have the perspective that she shock and outrage people to get attention.

Madonna has a song called God Control from her 2019 album Madame X and the music video has the same director as American Life. The video has an important message about gun control and was very controversial too.

Notice how the audience is laughing the entire time but once the grenade is thrown at them, they gasp. They're entertained by it but once it's thrown at them is when they're horrified. Someone in another video mentioned this and it added a whole other layer.

5:32 I thought that was supposed to be Sophia Loren too 🔍💯 Love this video, the song, & of course Madonna herself!

check out her song Frozen the vid

This was in 2003 and she was protesting George W Bush’s war in Iraq (after the start of the Afghanistan war). The ending of the video showed a GW Bush lookalike sitting near the runway, pick up the grenade who flipped it open to reveal a lighter and he lit up a cigar with it in a celebratory demeanor. It turned out her criticism of those wars maybe ill-timed but the results of those wars in the over 20 years since: trillions of US taxpayers money spent, thousands of US/NATO military, civilians killed/wounded, destruction, suffering-Shia Muslims took over power in Iraq which is now leaning towards Shia Iran; the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan-the whole region remains unstable.

Madonna has always been social commentary. She has been punished for it in the media. She never says sorry. ❤️

It is from 2003.

This is fun! Can u do Danger Danger: High Voltage by electric six, please? It's excellent!

Actually in the original video the granade at the end falls l on the lap of president Bush look alike.

God Control please

I think there were 4 versions of this video. The one you watched. One with a George W Bush look-a-like kissing Saddam Hussein look-a-like at the end. One with the grenade turning into a lighter and George W Bush lighting a cigar with it. And the tame one of Madonna in front of flags the whole way through.

Please react to You can't deny it by Lisa stansfield, music video request plz ❤❤

I love Madonna and I love EEUU. ❤️

YES I LOVED THIS SONG IN HIGHSCHOOL SHE HAS ALWYS BEEN AN IDOL OF MINE

The video wasn’t made to bring attention to herself rather the way she was feeling and continues to feel, ever wondered why president Bush and Trump supporters dislike her so much, she’s very anti war and more about peaceful resolution. You should also react to Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, Vogue, Justify My Love, Erotica, Human Nature, Nothing Really Matters, Music, Don’t Tell Me, Bedtime Story, Bitch I’m Madonna, God Control, there’s so many great videos, some with great messages. Maybe choose something more vocal based, Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Frozen, I Want You, Sooner or Later Live.

So relevant to what's going on in Palestine now...

Yes, this is Madonna shows us how we get involved in this “system dope” called politics-war-economy etc… the system keeps us watching this kind of horrors, but telling us this is “good for us”…

American Life is an anti-war video against the Iraq war. She's always been political in her career and has been very controversial for it.

This was when Bush was in office and we were in Iraq

Pakistan?

In short: war is not a fashion statement. Not something to treat like a show. Real people are dying, real kids are being killed.

Y’all skipped over the best part of the video..

Iraq war what's going on during that time

It really makes sense to react to a music video and cut out half of the song/music video. *Irony off* 🙄 Dislike for stealing my time. 👎🏻

It's pro-american because we believe in freedom of speech.And she believes in the funnything it's very problematic

American Life is one of the main manifestos in the history of pop music, and YOU are just now learning about it?! 😲Apparently, you don’t know anything except Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.....)) You don't even know that because of this song and this video, Madonna was banned in the USA. This is such a “democratic” country you have)

Out of all of madonna great songs they pick her worst

Awful. Her worst album besides MX. The only really good track on AL is Easy Ride..a great song. Everything else is bad. Nobody Knows Me is okay... but this should never be a starting point for anyone looking to get into Madonna and explore her legacy. American Life, the song, is a mess. That being said, she still looks like herself here. Now, though....lolol 🤦‍♂️