The Making of Madonna | B*tch, I’m Madonna | 67
Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Younger singers like Britney and Christina are taking over the pop charts. But Madonna refuses to be replaced or put out to pasture. She still knows how to stir up controversy to get the spotlight right where she wants it: on her.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.7 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | Oh, blimey, looks like there's going to be some swearing today. |
| 0:11.2 | You're bloody right. So piss off if you don't like it. It's August 28th, 2003 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. |
| 0:30.0 | It's the opening number at the MTV Video Music Awards. |
| 0:35.0 | Two little girls appear in white dresses with matching hair bows and lace gloves. |
| 0:40.0 | They walk around the stage with small white baskets throwing flower petals at the crowd. |
| 0:46.0 | The curtain goes up and there in the center is a 17 foot tall wedding cake and standing on top is a veiled bride |
| 0:55.2 | wearing a white lace Bustier and a tattered white tool skirt |
| 0:59.5 | with a belt that reads boy toy. |
| 1:01.9 | Okay, Ben here, done that. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, it's different this time, trust me. |
| 1:08.0 | As the bride starts to sing, |
| 1:10.0 | like a virgin, she lifts her veil, and it's Brittany Spears. |
| 1:15.3 | It's Brittany, bitch. |
| 1:16.9 | Brittany's recreating Madonna's iconic performance from 1984, the same one that thrust her into super-spheres. iconic to the stage and not lose a shoe. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, lesson learned. |
| 1:34.1 | Totally. |
| 1:35.1 | And when Brittany makes her way to the bottom of the cake, |
| 1:38.3 | she's joined by another veiled bride |
| 1:40.8 | in exactly the same get-up. And when her veil is raised it's Christina Aguilera. |
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