“If Madonna had fallen on the stairs, I don’t think I would have been so marked by her artistic courage”

“You told me 500 times, I think I start to know. However, »» My daughter is right. Nevertheless, I have been repeating to him. However, with obstinacy for twenty years, that Madonna has dropped a horse shortly before the shooting of the clip of Hung Up (2005), his song tribute to the disco and John Travolta. Meanwhile, The first time I told her, she was 5 years old. Furthermore, This accident can therefore take the place of educational and maternal common thread.

We do not have Not here the space to review the various styles and periods of the singer. Similarly, The reference to the Madonna may be enough to give an idea. Meanwhile, for the most profane, themes and variations which fuel its career, especially in the erotic-religious vein.

As far as I’m concerned, this fall of horse marks a break. I experienced almost total indifference for the star during the first twenty years of her career. Then there was the world according to the fall: it therefore became an icon, a brave, strong, without hindrance star. I’m not sure I really enjoy her music, but I like Madonna.

The fall of horse, therefore. Highly symbolic. The day of her 47 years. in her field in England, Madonna was walking with a horse that she had never rose. She fell, broke the collarbone, three ribs and the left hand. A month later. in her now legendary pink leotard, she turned, under the “if madonna had fallen stairs, direction of Johan met, the clip of Hung Up. The director defines it as follows: “She was like a soldier. »»

Mystical shock – "if madonna had fallen stairs,

If she had fallen on the stairs. I do not think that I would have been so marked by her artistic courage (her resilience, it would be said today). But the fall of horse is the defeated knight, the dishonored king, he is the humiliated young man (Lucien Leuwen). It’s Ivanhoé, Don Quixote and so many others. It’s Montaigne, too. Above all. in the case that occupies us, it is Paul de Tarsus, as he is represented by the painters, falling from his mount, on the way of Damascus, blinded by divine revelation.

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