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Madonna's Changing Image

Madonna is a pop icon who is known to reinvent herself from time to time, changing her style, changing her look, and changing her image. Image is in fact very important to Madonna. She started as the Material Girl, mirroring the attitude in her popular song. She reinvented herself as a nastier version of that girl, one who wore underwear on stage and projected sexuality. She also tried to be the dutiful wife and an actress at the same time when she was married to Sean Penn. She became even more overtly sexual after that and alternated between a raunchy stage performance and an attempt to portray a more sophisticated woman in film. In fact, one of the problems Madonna has is that she cannot settle on one image and keep it. This may please many of her fans, but it confuses others and has probably hurt her film career. She is not a bad actress but is also not a great actress, and in such a case creating and projecting one image is maybe the best approach.

One of the ways Madonna has tried to reinvent herself is by self-promotion around different ideas and different attitudes. In 1992, madonna traveled to different parts of the country to pose for pictures in 1992 for her book, Sex, in which she appeared nude as a hitchhiker in nothing but a pair of spiky black heels. Madonna is also the CEO of something called Boy Toy Inc., something observers believe would not be possible if she did not swing wildly between outrageous cheapness and crazy excess (Levitt, Wagner, and Meyers 64).

Madonna also served as producer and subject of a film in 1991 called Truth or Dare, and here, again, she was using shock as a way of making herself different from other singers. The subject of the documentary is a tour by rock signer Madonna, a tour called "Blonde Ambition." The film presents portions of this tour in the form of stage performances along with backstage documentary footage, interviews, and on-the-road activities and events of the to...

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