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Madonna's videos, ordered from least to most cultural appropriation
Vogue (1990) : Cultural appropriation of drag queens

Vogue is a dance discipline that emerged in slums for transvestites that consisted of fights between two drag queens who marked positions without touching, because physical violence was dirty and in those clubs the only thing dirty was the toilet**. Madonna pays homage to cross-dressing culture with drag slang like “Rita Hayworth, gave good face”** or scrawny black dancers dressed as executives: one of the performative expressions of drag was to dress up as personalities that could never be in the real world as women , members of royalty or successful businessmen. The suits are too big for them because they are not made to their size, but also under the promise that one day they will be able to fill them.

Critics praised Madonna for bringing mainstream visibility to drag culture. Seen today, it's problematic because there's not a single drag queen in the video so that's not a tribute. It's a theft. The group that is at the top of the LGBT food chain (homosexual white men), however, decided that Madonna must be forgiven for everything. In this video, she introduced the world to her iconic Jean-Paul Gaultier-designed cone bra (geometry cultural appropriation?), cementing her transformation from thrift-clad youngster to fashion juggernaut as the ultimate artistic expression. . At the MTV Awards, he culturally appropriated **Marie-Antoinette** and evidently used the fan to air out his crotch.

Madonna's videos, sorted by smallest to greater cultural appropriation

Vogue is probably the most homosexual song ever recorded to the point that it seems to play on a frequency that only gay men listen to: as much as Madonna's music has been revalued among heterosexual audiences, Vogue will belong to them forever only gays. And her permeation in pop culture is such that when she died Lauren Bacall it was commemorated that she was the last person mentioned in Vogue who was alive. Even Madonna herself ** inserted a piece of this song into another single, Deeper And Deeper. Cultural appropriation of itself.**