It’s three decades since Madonna: Truth or Dare (or In Bed With Madonna, to use its international title) hit screens with a raucous bang, outperforming expectations with a $29m gross that landed it the record, held for 11 years, of the highest-earning documentary of all time. Yet Truth or Dare was, and remains, wholly riveting, as a study in community as well as a solo portrait. Is it the “real” Madonna performing fellatio on a water bottle, or sprawling dramatically on her mother’s grave, or is this another version of herself she’s devised for Keshishian’s camera? Madonna’s whole deal in the Blonde Ambition era was that it didn’t much matter: the real Madonna was the constructed one, and vice versa. Still, Eilish and her peers have many eras, and makeovers, ahead of her: perhaps generation Z’s Truth or Dare still awaits us.

Source: The Guardian May 10, 2021 07:07 UTC