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Madonna joins war protest
By James Langton, Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 10.02.03
Madonna: Rejecting her Material Girl image once and for all
Madonna is the latest celebrity to join the protests against plans to attack Iraq.
The singer is believed to have turned the music video accompanying her latest single into an anti-war protest that includes terrified Iraqi children and actors with missing limbs and covered in fake blood.
Her song, American Life, is released this week. According to an insider the track "examines not only war, greed and ego... Madonna rejects her Material Girl image once and for all and warns of life in a material world".
The video is said to show the singer dressed in combat fatigues tossing hand grenades interspersed with shots of fashion models and soldiers along with the victims of war, including bloodied babies.
"She's taking it all the way this time," a source told the Drudge Report, the internet website.
The singer joins a growing number of celebrities voicing their opposition to attacking Iraq, including her ex-husband Sean Penn, who visited Baghdad in January, Martin Sheen, Kim Basinger and Matt Damon.
Last week the singer complained about a story in Heat magazine that she was pregnant with her third child.
The magazine claimed she had moved back to Los Angeles for good with husband Guy Ritchie after becoming disenchanted with England. Her publicist Barbara Charonne said the report was untrue. "We wanted to set the record straight that Madonna loves England."
