Madonna is making ready to embark on the U.S. leg of her Celebration Tour after wrapping up in Europe earlier this month. The Queen of Pop is performing a few of her largest hits from the final 4 a long time, and followers have been gobbling it up.
The entire thing just lately received us fascinated about certainly one of Madge’s largest hits of the final 20 years and, specifically, the music’s accompanying music video, which appeared to attract inspiration from an sudden pop artist. And, no, we’re not speaking about ABBA.
Let’s dive in…
In November 2004, Geri Halliwell (a.okay.a. Ginger Spice) launched “Trip It” because the lead single off her her third solo album Ardour. Although the music didn’t make a lot of an influence within the U.S., it peaked at #4 within the U.Okay. and reached #3 on the Spanish and Scottish charts.
The disco-infused dance monitor is full of campy sexual innuendos, as Halliwell compares her lover to a DJ spinning information and croons about how a lot she needs to “experience” him, er… the beat?
“You’re a DJ, I’m a music/Take me out and switch me on/Let your self go, I’ll be ridin’ it/Chicas bumpin’ to the beat/From the facet and beneath/Yeah, my physique’s the place this celebration’s at/I’ll be ridin’ it.”
To advertise the one, Halliwell launched an equally campy music video directed by Luca Tommassini. In a single half, she attire up like a police lady and spanks a shirtless male mannequin with a truncheon earlier than flashing her bra. In one other, she twirls round in a pink nightie and exhibits off her matching pink underpants. And in one other, she spins round on an enormous document in a slinky gown. All of that is completed below a halo of flashing pink and purple disco lights.
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So, how precisely does Madonna issue into all this?
Effectively, lower than a yr later, in September 2005, the Queen of Pop launched “Hung Up” because the lead single off her tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Flooring. Virtually instantly, the music grew to become a world success, peaking at #1 in 41 international locations and incomes a spot within the Guinness Guide of World Data.
To advertise the one, Madonna additionally launched a music video, directed by Johan Renck, which was surprisingly much like Halliwell’s “Trip It” music video when it comes to power, imagery, and colour pallette, though it’s wasn’t a precise copy.
As a substitute of carrying a pink nightie and underpants, for example, Madonna dones a pink leotard and leggings. And as an alternative of driving an enormous document, she grinds in opposition to a boombox. She even makes use of comparable choreography, most notably the arm rolls.
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Now, all this might simply a coincidence. Or not. Artists borrow from each other on a regular basis, and there are many early Madonna references within the “Trip It” video as properly. Imitation, they are saying, is the sincerest type of flattery.
Eight years earlier, Madonna expressed her fondness for the Spice Women, telling Elle journal in 1998, “They’re simply operating round having enjoyable, carrying horny garments. I like them. I used to be a Spice Woman once I began out.”
Whether or not or not the Materials Woman drew her inspiration from the Spice Woman’s video, we’ll by no means know, however we extremely doubt Halliwell minded. She’s been a longtime fan of the Queen of Pop and even named her daughter Bluebell Madonna, telling Hi there journal in 2006, “Nobody else has that title, aside from the Virgin Madonna and the singer, whom I like.”
The U.S. leg of Madonna’s Celebration Tour kicks off in New York on December 13.
