Your Favorite Madonna Video Era!

[Voguerista 13,013]

Every era of videos in Madonna's career has been so awesome, but, which era sets it on another level for you of magnificence?

I love them all, but, Madonna's videos in the Ray Of Light era seem to be my ultimate favorite. The dark and crow like feel of "Frozen",  the blue and green watery colors in Power of Goodbye, the European escape feel of Drowned World/Substitute for Love, the quirky and Oriental creativity in Nothing Really Matters, and the summer, sexy feel of "Ray of Light" say it all for me. 

 

[PlayPause 2,865]

"Your" not "you're"

[pawn_shop_blues 723]

same here. Ray of light mv's are the best in terms of creativity imo.

[musicinferno 3,917]

I'm also gonna vote for ROL 

[EgoRod 5,955]

I love the blond era Madonna from late 80s: Express Yourself, Oh Father. Early 90s: Vogue, Justify my Love, Erotica

[Voguerista 13,013]

27 minutes ago, PlayPause said:

"Your" not "you're"

Thanks. Do you have an answer for the question? 

[PlayPause 2,865]

22 minutes ago, Voguerista said:

Thanks. Do you have an answer for the question? 

Before the 2000s, eras didn't exist in a marketing sense, so asking the question for someone like Madonna with a 40 yo career is a bit of a stretch.

"Video era" is another take on the concept that quite works with Madonna because her art is so visual. But marketing and video creation in the 80s were miles away from "eras". Those music videos were basically promo material.

The final single release can happen 2 or 3 years after the song was recorded so the whole "era" thing will be lost with promoting the tour, or another visual style will be trendy that nobody would think of when the album was made. It's very artificial to label videos in eras.

She kind of started to change things with Like a Prayer, at the same time when Prince and Michael Jackson also had bigger ambitions for their videos.

So no, I can't say that I can point a specific period in Madonna's videography that would feel like a comprehensive era that I like as a whole.

I like her work with Fincher, Mondino and Keshishian.

Collaboration is art. Era is marketing. Pick your side.

[musicman 2,048]

really great period artistic video but i love other area

[Drownedboy 1,862]

ROL for me. But bedtime stories is amazing too, or even Music.

[Robertthenurse 3,311]

I’m gonna say Erotica era. We literally got served that era. 

[wtg1987 10,618]

Tough one - I don’t really love the BS album but I think it has probably the best set of music videos - each one is totally different and unique - not an easy feat when you consider how diff each song was - I would have chosen erotica but deeper and erotica videos are a bit depressing 

[Chrato74 130]

Like a Prayer era. The videos of Like a Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherish & Oh Father are sublime.

[Adonna 20,488]

Great Question!!!

For me, it's about the True Blue era.  There have been some superior videos from her afterwards, but there is just something special about the True Blue era that I love the most. She was still growing and I really became a huge fan during this era...

[stefo 7,589]

I think I'll go with EROTICA, the videos are among her best (maybe the best era in terms of quality is Bedtime Stories), but I love the attitude and feeling of the whole Erotica project. Second favourite is Ray of Light for me too 

[Curtains 13,894]

I would have went with American Life if it wasn't for the Love Profusion video.

Overall I think the Ray of Light era has my favorite set of videos, as I don't dislike any. The Erotica era has some of my absolute favorite videos, but I'm not really fond of the Deeper and Deeper video.

[MDNA22 1,268]

So hard  - would have to say Bedtime Stories each of the videos were amazing for the 4 singles 

[DonaYEme70 310]

Bedtime Stories

[MikeyK 957]

The albums Like A Prayer, Erotica, Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light all had brilliant videos imo. My personal favorite would be Erotica.

[stefo 7,589]

10 minutes ago, MikeyK said:

The albums Like A Prayer, Erotica, Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light all had brilliant videos imo. My personal favorite would be Erotica.

Agree 

[Blue Skies 1,614]

Like Madonna's image my position on this can very well be different even a month from now.  But I'm feeling the Lucky Star, Borderline, Like A Virgin era videos at the moment.  The rawness of it all.  

[androiduser 2,779]

Like a Prayer/Vogue era

[gst6662000 395]

5 hours ago, musicman said:

really great period artistic video but i love other area

it took me decades to finally watched erotica...... early 2000s..... and this era i became a full convert...... having the SEX book as a minor.... having the girlie show book and watched the girlie show in high school ... what a phenomenon....... this is when i started backtracking and discovering every release..... pre internet! going tru magazine stalls and 2nd hand book stores ..... learning about albums singles eps minialbums ...... learned so so so much... and again....PRE INTERNET... THEN NAPSTER came then the early message boards and madonna fan sites..... i owe them so so much and made me a stronger more dedicated madonna fan... and ahem LOCAL CABLE SHOWING MTV also helped

[Honey Little 4,484]

Like a Prayer 

[migsou 1,109]

if we're choosing by album it's "bedtime stories" for sure!!!

[rlittler81 1,631]

Erotica closely followed by Bedtime Stories (better quality videos) I think the 90's were the best era for music videos for any artist, so much time and money was put into the from the late 80's onwards.