Material Girl - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

Cantopop singer Sally Yeh covered the song in Cantonese under the title "Two Hundred Degrees (200度)". The children's show Sesame Street did a loose parody of the song in 1989 with completely different lyrics called "Cereal Girl". The "music video" was about a monster girl who loves cereal after tasting a bowl of it. The Chipettes performed a cover version on the 1980s Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon. In 1998 the song was sampled for the number-two dance hit "If You Buy This Record (Your Life Will Be Better)" by The Tamperer featuring Maya. Industrial band KMFDM covered the song for the 1999 Virgin Voices: A Tribute To Madonna: Vol 1 tribute album. The same year, Britney Spears performed the song in her ...Baby One More Time Tour, calling Madonna and Janet Jackson as her biggest inspirations. Deathgrind band Exhumed covered the song as part of a limited edition bonus CD for their 2004 album Platters of Splatter. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered the song in lounge music style on his 2004 album I'd Like a Virgin.

Pop singer Hilary Duff and her sister, Haylie, recorded a cover of the song for the beginning of the film Material Girls (2006), in which both actresses starred. Their cover was to be produced by Timbaland, and was originally to have been produced by Lil Jon, with the released version being produced by the Dead Executives. According to Haylie, the song was to be released as a single but there was no time to shoot a music video. Icelandic singer Hafdís Huld performed the song at The Secret Garden Festival and The Big Chill in the summer of 2007. On her sold out May 16, 2009, concert at the National Auditorium of Mexico City, Mexican Latin Pop singer, Yuridia performed a cover version of "Material Girl". An avant-garde/folk rock cover of the song by Mountain Party was included on the 2007 Madonna tribute compilation Through the Wilderness. The song Marteria Girl by the German rapper Marteria samples the song in its chorus.

The song was part of the "Sparkling Diamonds" medley in the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!. In the 2004 movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the song was used for the scene where Bridget gets out of a Thai jail. The 2006 Nintendo DS rhythm-action game Elite Beat Agents contains a cover version of the song for one of the game's levels. The level follows two celebutantes trapped on a deserted island. It also appears in the video game Karaoke Revolution Party and in Nintendo's Wii Music, a 2008 music video game for the Wii. In 2010, Elton John performed a cover version of "Material Girl" at the Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert.