Don't go for second best, baby. Put your ILM ARTIST POLL #31: MADONNA to the test.

'oh father' video is pretty straight forward citizen kane vamp at points.

bummer that "Smack My Bitch Up Part 2: Now Bitch Smacks You Up" did so well

all i remember from the deeper & deeper video is debi mazar peeling a banana

I was looking at her videography and trying to figure out how James Foley directed a few videos, then realized he did "At Close Range" during the Penn era...

(Oh, and he directed "Who's That Girl?" And from there on to Glengarry, etc.)

01. "OPEN YOUR HEART" [8 votes, 50 points]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snsTmi9N9Gs

yessssssss

love you ilm

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lor3edMcyw1qfgkudo5_250.gif

YAAAAAY

http://media.mtvne.com/manual/intl/warner/2009/USWBV0500441_640x480_01.jpg

:-(

awesome, awesome video

always suspected the boy character in "Open Your Heart" is just realizing his sexuality.

that's what makes the kiss so sisterly.

"daddy how come you don't have any pictures of black men on the wall?"

Full albums results:

Madonna	24	188
Erotica	20	148
Like a Prayer	19	120
True Blue	18	100
Bedtime Stories	17	86
Ray of Light	12	56
Confessions on a Dance Floor	13	54
Like a Virgin	9	50
You Can Dance	5	28
The Immaculate Collection	3	22
Music	3	16
American Life	3	16
I'm Breathless	3	12
Something to Remember	1	4

i had madonna-lap-erotica-coadf-bedtimestories

Full videos results:

Open Your Heart	8	50
What It Feels Like For a Girl	7	46
Express Yourself	5	46
Justify My Love	7	42
Material Girl	6	34
Like a Prayer	4	34
Vogue	6	30
Borderline	4	28
Like a Virgin	4	28
Bad Girl	3	26
Lucky Star	3	20
Oh Father	3	18
Papa Don't Preach	5	14
Rain	3	14
Hung Up	2	14
Cherish	2	14
Frozen	2	10
Ray of Light	1	10
Burning Up	1	10
Human Nature	1	10
Take a Bow	2	8
Don't Tell Me	2	4
Deeper and Deeper	1	4
Dress You Up	1	4
Everybody	1	4
Secret	1	4
This Used to Be My Playground	1	4
Bedtime Story	1	4
Crazy For You	1	2
Nothing Really Matters	1	2
American Life	1	2

"human nature" and "bedtime story" deserved way better

i had borderline-openyrheart-justify-vogue-papadon'tpreach

I didn't vote for videos--I should have--but completely agree with the top two. "Beautiful Stranger" is so much fun, while "Like a Prayer" is so bombastic.

lol at this used to be my playground tying bedtime story

Beautiful Stranger was a joke post, y'know.

I'm in and out--missed that! I endorse the joke.

I'm gonna tackle the remix votes tonight and see what I can make of them. If there's any cohesion, results will be posted tomorrow.

I'm glad I didn't vote in the videos now - I only know a few and would've most likely picked Justify My Love, which would thusly have won, somewhat unfairly.

I don't think my votes for the videos were counted. I gave Bedtime Story a 10 and Human Nature 8 points.

oof. It's entirely possible I missed a ballot with videos, as I went through and tabulated those at about 2am.

!!!!

controversy

scandal

BANNED

INCEPTED

Why did we ever let you take over this poll? Oh, right.

great. just like Bush v Gore all over again. Way to go Florida. I mean Fever

Hanging chads all up in my vicinity.

LeRooLeRoo, I'm really sorry about that. I dunno what happened. I remember looking at it, because your email was so organized and it's the last one I received (so it's on top of the pile). I must have just brainfarted on your top two videos.

she loves those underball votes.

That's ok, they wouldn't have made the Top 10 anyway.
But with my votes, "Bad Girl" would've been #8 and "Vogue" #5 if I'm counting right ;-)

this changes everything. EVERYTHING

Nothing really matters. Love is all we need.

I like Alfred's reading of the "Open Your Heart" video, but that still doesn't explain why two gay sailors are watching the peep show.

OK, so I went through both threads and re-read everything and, yeah, I overreacted. Apologies. The majority of the posts that skeeved me out on first go-through were people reminiscing about being horny teenagers, so I guess that's why they came across that way. That being said, the vitriol directed my way over the past 24 hours suggests that some of you haven't progressed much since that time.

It still does sadden me that we can't discuss a female musician without having to talk about her looks.

Anyway, I am glad her first album topped the album poll because, duh, it should.

Bruce & Stones polls spent some thread time on appearance iirc

http://www.papermag.com/uploaded_images/Mick%20Ian%20Stewart%20Untitled%20Savannah,%20Ga%2065.jpg

NEVER FORGET

ILM is host to equal-opportunity gawkers.

That being said, the vitriol directed my way over the past 24 hours

imo these were all jokes (admittedly, at your expense) about the absurdity of us behaving in such a way.

Morrissey was indeed the Stones' best keyboardist.

xxp

I will happily gawk at 1960s Jagger or 1980s Springsteen if it helps level the field.

Kent, if you're going to imperiously, passive/aggressively accuse us of being perverted oafs then we have the right to prove it in the most childish manner possible

now I'm wondering was it one long imperious phase, or several with breaks