Music Video
The video, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino (who had previously directed Madonna's videos for "Open Your Heart" and "Justify My Love") features Madonna, her dancers (including the first collaboration with Jamie King, that later would become the choreographer and director for her Drowned World, Re-invention, Confessions and Sticky & Sweet concert tours), and her chihuahua, Chiquita, in black leather outfits. Madonna's look and outfit for this video is "latex and leather" to symbolize the "constrictions of our society." Her hair, which appears brown in the video was actually blonde at the time. She had leather strips painstakingly braided into her hair to blend with her dark roots. The frizzy afro she sports halfway through the video was actually a hairpiece. The costume was sent to be displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shortly after the video was filmed.
It was shot over two days, May 6 and 7, 1995 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. The video was heavily inspired by comic artist, Eric Stanton. This was stated by Madonna in a behind the scenes interview during the filming of the video in which she said, "Mondino found this book by this illustrator named Stanton who did kinda S&M drawings and stuff, but we didn't want to go with the straight S&M; we wanted to have it be more about making fun of it". As the video concludes there is a shot of Madonna sitting in a chair, looking straight into the camera as she says the line "Absolutely no regrets!" Then there is a brief shot of her standing next to the chair as she boxes into the air.
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“It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)
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