Madonna’s Revolution of Love Has Begun

The world has met Madonna’s latest controversy: Her #secretprojectrevolution with photographer Steven Klein has finally been unveiled.

The much-anticipated project/event turned out to be an ambitiously premiered 17-minute film that is – if memory serves, from an interview the Queen of Pop did for VICE that I saw at the crack of dawn today – a commentary on the prisons (i.e., boxes?) people like to put other people in and the shackles from which, in this case, she felt she had to break out in order to make her art and have it be true to herself, not to mention be of service and effect change in this world.

Madonna and her frequent collaborator Klein evidently shot the film in Argentina at the end of her massively successful 2012 “MDNA Tour,” in response to a the series of...situations she encountered on the road – ranging from the conflict in the Middle East (M kicked off her tour in Israel) to a lawsuit she was hit with in Russia in her response to her so-called promotion of LGBT rights (like equality is a bad thing?) and, I think, her candid views on the Pussy Riot persecution to the unrest she perceived in Colombia – and to a cancelled shoot for her proposed Truth or Dare line of lingerie. Her backers, she told VICE, found the designs to be too risqué, so they censored them/her pulled the plug on the project.

What is an M to do when she feels she has something to say (a so-called Revolution of Love to kick off), not to mention some nice, provocative, unused wardrobe with which to do something, as well as a crew, and a troupe of willing dancers?

The literal and metaphor-rich answer is here. Check it:



If #secretprojectrevolution makes you wanna join the revolution, then the time is right now: Go and visit ARTFORFREEDOM.com to start your own.

M will be watching.

P.S.: Check out the beautiful performance of Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars” Madonna put on for the film’s New York City premiere last night.