I’ve said it a thousand times. Madonna is a serious artist. They want to minimize her to an 80’s pop hitmaker with an average voice.

Yes girl, you hit the nail on the head that us Madonna fans have been trying to tell the ignorant masses for years. She truly is an artist that goes deep and draws inspiration from other artists. So much of her work has other meanings etc. Everyone got so caught up in the whole Material Girl nonsense and Sex controversy that they couldn’t see past it, and still can’t to this day.

I can't wait for you to get to the interview that Madonna has with Kurt Loder at the VMAs😅

Shes the ultimate artist...intellectual and creative. Look forward to the album review. Hair is 🔥 btw.

I have watch this clip but only when she is reading the story. Never knew she did an interview.

I had the same reaction when i watched this back in the 90’s!!! I was 19/20 years old and that damn crowd pissed me off so bad!!!😂🤦🏽‍♂️

Agree that artists today are not this deep and intellectual. Madonna is a very educated, cultured woman and it shows in her liveshows, lyrics and videos as well. Always a joy to watch her interviews, we love a smart woman.

Madonna doing her best primary school teacher by trying to read a story with meaning to a high and wasted partycrowd. They love her but they are disrespectful. She has alot more patience than i do hahaha.

12:17 TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN!!! You´re 100% right Empress!! This is why, back in the day, true fans would get annoyed when her critics would dismiss her as "just another bimbo", when nothing could be further from the truth.

Empress you look so beautiful. You always do but here the shirt, the hair, the earrings, you look look incredible. It's a great look.

Love that album...

Her reading the children’s book foreshadows her future as an author of children’s books 😂

hello, look this interview and very interesting Madonna - Bedtime Stories Promotion - Ray Martin Presents Interview, 1995

LOVE your hair!!!!😍😍😍

I love the Bedtime Stories era and i also love it got kind of extended by the Something To Remember era in late 1995. I am sad we didn't get a Bedtime Stories tour, as that would have been amazing, as i love that album so much and she looked amazing. It was not until 2001 until she went on a world tour again but at least we get loads of performances in between and some amazing albums and even a huge movie for her including soundtrack.

This era is DEFINITELY Versace, you should have gotten her Versace cover for Vanit Fair magazine... also, even in this video clip, she looks So much like Jean Harlow and other actresses of Harlow's time

Madonnnaaaaaaa

Madonna and MTV was like the perfect marriage like it worked most of the time. Except there were some moments that were just cringey . Like the time she opened the MTV awards with a live version of “Ray of Light” and this one where she tried to read a bedtime story to a bunch rowdy kids. And Empress, I am loving the new hair!!! 🎉🎉❤

love the hair❤

Whew. That haircut. 🔥 Bob!

Love your hair 😍

Love You girl!💗💕💜💙😝

YESSS

Cringe? CRINGE WASNT CRINGE IN THE 90S IT WAS THEE BEST MOST AMAZING TIME TO BE ALIVE AND LIVE FABULOUS

You look fantastic 😊

First of all your hair looks beautiful! I saw this on MTV and I was very disappointed because the crowd ruined the whole experience. I am sure Madonna went was pissed off. Finally, I that you react to her interview with Kurt Loder at the VMAS. I won’t say more about because I don’t want to spoil it

Empress I agree, I could not keep up with the story myself. Fashion was🔥🔥🔥this era.💯🔐🔑🗝️IN.

Yea, crowd was so rude and extra! I remember trying to watch this and absolutely cringing. Great way to describe it. A bit like the letterman interview only different. Love the hair! ❤

Hi Empress - Hair looks good! Madonna reading the childrens' book is probably the most cringe moment of her career lol! Normally MTV would replay live shows like this like 10 times after it aired, but for this one they only showed the rerun like 2 or 3 times over the next week or so. I think they wanted to spare Madonna the embarrassment 😁. The one part I wish you had watched was at the very end when she came out and danced with the crowd, as promised. Pretty sure she wore another different outfit for that part.

In this period there will also be a moment of tension for Madonna because she will be persecuted by a Stolker who believes himself to be her husband and will enter her house 2 times and threaten to slit her throat if they were not together. The story has been told in many crime shows

What a bunch of losers in the crowd. Granted most of them were probably wasted, but still, soooo annoying and disrespectful. Love the new haircut! 🔥👍🏻🔥 Thanks for posting Empress!

✨📖✨ The music industry in general, and pop in particular, has changed so much in terms of how people become famous, and how much their appeal is about their own innate qualities beside talent. The qualities of intelligence, grit, determination and worldliness in order to get there and stay there have been replaced by stars who function more as willing employees of the record companies than as self-propelling artists who use the record companies to help their own message reach the world. I hope the strangle hold the record companies have over music, composed formulaically by whole rooms of writers to hit the algorithmic demands of an impatient social media culture, and more artists emerge who bring real uniqueness to the table. RAYE is a great example of a new artist who has her own things to say in her own work. There are others of course, but overall contemporary pop music is extremely ho-hum and shallow. I love how Madonna INSISTS on reading her dorky children’s book to everyone, defying their rowdy expectations and just being that great little bossy-boots she’s always been. I can feel her blood boiling as she fumes, and the moment turns out a mess instead of the communing with simple wisdom she’d hoped for, yet she perseveres. That’s CHARACTER. Doing something as incredibly cool as the Bedtime Story video, and deciding she was going to share this sweet story with her fans. No surprise that it’s a fable about not judging a powerful, intimidating female character on what you’ve heard about her… Madonna has always gotten a lot of flack, but the general public sunk to epic new lows in their vitriol following her Erotica era… I also love that this moment resulted in one of my favourite Madonna gifs 😂 Her sitting on the bed in her satin pajamas giving casual sass with those finger snaps. 💥 🫰 Another reflection on the music industry… Mariah holds the record for most number 1 hits in the USA, but Madonna absolutely TORCHES that record if you include worldwide number 1s. Mariah’s run of number 1s is also a reflection of her marriage to Tommy Mottola, head of Sony Music, throughout the 90s and into the 2000s even after they separated. Her singles would routinely be discounted to 49 cents, and displayed at the record store counter to encourage impulse purchases that caused a steep spike in sales. Often songs that were languishing would suddenly clime the charts because of this point of sale discount strategy. I like Mariah, I think she’s very talented, but her US number 1s record is partially the result of market manipulation. The literal receipts aren’t difficult to find online. We’d all love a big Madonna documentary… or docuseries… but I’m completely on board with her co-writing and directing a biopic of her own life. I want ART from Madonna. We can find endless documentary and interview content, but her own vision of her life, expressed through cinematic art… THAT will be interesting. I’m not saying it will be entirely successful creatively or commercially, but it MIGHT be… and even her putting her heart and soul into directing it, being the excellent director she has already proven herself to be, will be worth the experience. To end on a fun note… BONUS for us, getting to see you react to the Faye Trailer in real time!

The hair is PHine🎉. This was a bust. You can’t control all these high queens in a club, excited to be with her and then expect them to behave and be quiet. 😂 She was smart to leverage dancing with them after tho. Yes the fashion jn this era was fire.

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That crowd was soo cringe! Love the new hair Empress! Is Evita next? After Bedtime Stories is a blur to me.

If she does the movie I hope she focus on her childhood and ends until she get her first record deal. I think she is going to go all the way to blonde ambition which I hope she does not. We know almost everything after she gor famous.

This was a mess but also kind of a life imitates art moment; she’s telling a story about someone who can’t get anyone to pay attention to her because no one understands her. And then its happening right there as she speaks