![]() ![]() Read: The dark teen show that pushes the edge of provocation About a clip of her waving her arms in a diamanté cowboy hat, her chest festooned with chains, a cheerful-looking boy posted, “Someone come get Nana she’s wandering again.” “Lost her mind,” one TikTok commenter wrote as Madonna, wearing a black lace fetish mask, simply stared confrontationally at the camera. What’s most striking to me about the videos is how Madonna retains the power to scandalize each generation anew-even teenagers nourished on a cultural diet of Euphoria and hard-core pornography-with her adamantly sexual self-presentation. At 65, Madonna regularly uploads videos of herself to TikTok, her face plumped into uncanny, doll-like smoothness, strutting to snippets of obscure dialogue or electronica in psychedelic outfits categorized by one commenter as “colorful granny.” At 53, she headlined a Super Bowl halftime show-part gladiatorial circus, part intergalactic ancient-Egyptian cheerleading meet-while 114 million people watched. At 47, as sinewy as an impala in a hot-pink leotard and fishnets, she moved with such controlled, physical sensuality in the video for “Hung Up” that the 20-something dancers around her seemed bland by comparison. But Madonna never signed up for dignified placating. If you age in private, the deal goes, you can reemerge triumphantly as royalty in your silver era. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]()
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