Madonna 2003-2004: American Life And King Tour
Madonna released on 2003 the album album American Life, a an album with political and spiritual nature. The controversies tied to the first version of the video American Life burst that, acclimatized in the surrealistic course of paraded a fashionable ones in which the models they parade in military uniforms and in which comes shown violent scenes of wars, outbreaks and dead men, little days before the official escape it comes withdrawn in sign of respect towards the soldiers that are found in military mission in Iraq and replaced with an other version. The single second is Hollywood in which Madonna it speaks about the vanity of the happened one and critical the world of Hollywood. The single Nothing Fails, an intense one danced accompanied from a chorus exits also gospel, than but it is not illustrated from no video, while the fourth and last extract from the album is Love Profusion whose video has been turned from Luc Besson. The song also is used for the publicity of the scent Beyond Paradise di Estee Lauder. American Life turns out a discreet one happening in the world, but not in the United States, where, perhaps because of the strong one taken of position of Madonna against the president George W. Bush, arrives hardly to a million copies.
While, Madonna performs with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott in a performance a lot discussed to MTV Video Music Awards, in which the four artists they execute a medley of Like To Virgin and Hollywood. During the exhibition it kisses on the mouth the Spears and the Aguilera. The performance will become one of most memorable of the history of MTV.
Little months after Madonna collaborates newly with Britney Spears, with which Music records top the 10 hit Me against the, that it will come included in the album of the young artist In The Zones.
On 2003 public Madonna the English roses first book of a necklace of books of fiabe whose proceeds are destined in beneficence to the association Spirituality for Kids.
On November of 2003 comes published the EP Remixed & Revisited, that contains some remix features from the album American Life and an unknown one. In that same year Madonna is with Missy Elliott testimonial of the chain of GAP apparel (in the stores of the chain comes distributed an advertizing CD, Madonna & Missy).
The 24 you open them 2003 goes in wave in the United States the twentieth episode of the fifth television series Will & entitled Grace “Dolls & Dolls” in which Madonna it interprets the role of Liz, coinquilina of Karen.
On the 2004 Madonna it leave for King Tour with 56 dates in North America and Europe embedding 125 million dollars and becoming tour the more profitable in the history second Billboard magazine, thus confirming the longevity of the popolarità of Madonna, although recent the seeds-flop of American Life. The tour (than it does not land in Italy) is born from the idea conceived from Madonna and its team “rivisitare” the more important moments of the musical career of the popstar.
The backstage of the life of Madonna and her family during the tour is told in the film-documentary I'm Going to Tell You to Secret, gone in wave in Italy on SKY and MTV, but published in single DVD in 2006.
Madonna collaborates also with the Italian singer Laura Pausini, to which it yields the song Like to Flower, a piece initially composed and recorded for the album Ray of Light, but then discarded: the Pausini rewrote the text entire, and the recorded ones with the title abandons you, publishing it in its album Remains in listens to (Me abandono to you in the Spanish version of the disc).
26 December 2004, quickly after the tsunami in Asia, Madonna appears in a special of the NBC interpreting Imagine of John Lennon.
On 2 July 2005 she participates to London to the organized beneficial concert from Bob Geldof, Live 8, followed ideal of the Live Aid of 1985, with a memorable performance in which she executes three smash hit: Like to Prayer, Ray of Light and Music, succeeding alone to push more in order than 10 minuteren the public to clap the hands in sign of solidarity during along end of Music.
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