Popular Culture
In 1997, singer Madonna sponsored the exhibition "Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills" at the Museum of Modern Art. Sherman has been referenced by the electroclash artists Chicks on Speed in the track "Spoken by Stephanie from Marseille, Yes I Do" from the 2000 K Records album The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases. The song refers to Sherman through the lyrics, "...got more faces than Cindy Sherman." Sherman was also the topic of the song "Cindy of a Thousand Lives", from Billy Bragg's 1991 album Don't Try This at Home. Also, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies' song "Grand Mal" contains a reference to Sherman's work in the description of the narrator's love interest: "She takes Cindy Sherman pictures/And she cuts herself." She is the subject of The Shermans' song, "Cindy Sherman". Singer Róisín Murphy has said that the music video for her song You Know Me Better is inspired by Sherman, as well as to having been influenced by her visual style throughout her career.
Sherman was referenced in The Other Guys.
Sherman spoke with Ira Glass on the This American Life episode "Switcheroo" about an experience Glass had at one of her exhibits with a woman claiming to be Sherman herself.
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