{"id":117153,"date":"2024-02-22T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/in-self-directed-film-madonna-declares-shell-keep-going-for-the-next-100-years\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:01:57","slug":"in-self-directed-film-madonna-declares-shell-keep-going-for-the-next-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/in-self-directed-film-madonna-declares-shell-keep-going-for-the-next-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"In self-directed film, Madonna declares she&#8217;ll keep going for &#8220;the next 100 years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-21\/M_MadonnacloseupRicardoGomes_121423.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ricardo Gomes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not every pop star could turn a commercial into an advertisement for themselves \u2014 but <strong>Madonna<\/strong> isn&#8217;t every pop star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They call me the Queen of Pop. I know it&#8217;s a compliment, but the monarchy is in the past. I am not,&#8221; announces Madonna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3n6pd5SFyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a film she created and directed<\/a> for Itau, Brazil&#8217;s largest banking institution.<\/p>\n<p>She speaks those words while climbing up an elaborate staircase, dressed in a black minidress with an enormous train and jewelry piled sky high.\u00a0As montages of her many personas through the years flash on the screen, Madonna continues, &#8220;I have no age. I&#8217;m all ages. It&#8217;s not about who I am. It&#8217;s about how many I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Count my achievements, not the number of years I have lived on this planet,&#8221; she cautions. &#8220;I am always reinventing myself so I can keep being myself. I think the most controversial thing I&#8217;ve ever done is to stick around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Madonna continues\u00a0walking into what appears to be an elaborate palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen many stars appear and disappear, like shooting stars, but my light will never fade,&#8221; she declares. &#8220;Not everyone is coming to the future, but I am. I&#8217;ll keep going. Today, tomorrow and the next 100 years. We are made of the future.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the film ends, the word &#8220;Itau&#8221; appears on the screen. The bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3n8egTuUZS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also posted<\/a> the film, noting that it was made &#8220;in honor of the future we have been creating for 100 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Film was made to thank my Brazilian fans for their love and devotion,&#8221; she captioned the post, thanking her team and &#8220;the tireless support of Itau.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, Madonna hasn&#8217;t announced any tour dates in Brazil. The next stop on her Celebration Tour is Sacramento, California, on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Gomes Not every pop star could turn a commercial into an advertisement for themselves \u2014 but Madonna isn&#8217;t every pop star. &#8220;They call me the Queen of Pop. I know it&#8217;s a compliment, but the monarchy is in the past. I am not,&#8221; announces Madonna in a film she<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/in-self-directed-film-madonna-declares-shell-keep-going-for-the-next-100-years\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}