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Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video
Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it …
TL;DR
- The video "Confessions II" is a follow-up to Madonna's 2005 album "Confessions on a Dance Floor."
- It features green lights shooting from vulvas and butts, symbolizing life force and orgone energy.
- A symbolic car crash signifies a woman's desire for everything, including crashing a car and kissing the airbag.
- The video plays with ambiguous identities, particularly with Julia Garner appearing similar to Madonna in her Marilyn Monroe days.
- Celebrity cameos include Kate Moss, Odessa, Debi Mazar, and Gwendoline Christie.
- A scene depicts women disrupting men using a urinal trough with lewd gestures and physicality.
- The film concludes with the camera crew, including Madonna's daughter Lourdes, and a final command: "Cut, bitch."
- The act of eating bananas at the end is interpreted as a universal language of parenting, offering comfort to a moody daughter.