Madonna Weighs In On Iraq Invasion

Madonna recently chatted with Launch.com about her thoughts on the invasion of Iraq and how she addressed it in the now shelved ‘American Life’ video. “Well, I think the war that’s going on in Iraq right now is affecting everything,” she said. “I think everyone is glued to their television, nobody knows what’s going on, everybody’s scared. I don’t think that people are as concerned as they usually are consumed as they are being entertained or distracted, you know what I mean? And that’s kind of what the video is about, ’cause it starts out with the ultimate distraction, a fashion show, catwalk, beautiful people, perfect male, female six-foot Amazon Uber people…As a society we’ve become obsessed with obtaining that image or aspiring to it. But I needed that as juxtaposition to what’s really happening in the world.” Read more.