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  • Madonna:Material Girl
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  • 1984 singles
  • 1984 songs
  • Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles
  • Madonna (entertainer) songs
  • Song recordings produced by Nile Rodgers
  • Hilary Duff songs
  • Haylie Duff songs
  • Song recordings produced by the Dead Executives
  • Music videos directed by Mary Lambert
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  • %22Material Girl%22 is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on November 30, 1984, by Sire Records, as the second single from her second album Like a Virgin. It also appears slightly remixed on the 1990 greatest hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection, and in its original form on the 2009 greatest hits compilation, Celebration. The song was written by Peter Brown and Robert Rans, while Nile Rodgers produced the track. Madonna explained that the concept of the song was indicative of her life at that time. She felt that %22Material Girl%22 was provocative in its content and was attracted to it.%22Material Girl%22 consists of synth arrangements with a robotic voice repeating the hook. The lyrics identify with materialism, with Madonna asking for a rich and affluent life, rather than romance and relationships. Contemporary critics have frequently identified %22Material Girl%22 along with %22Like a Virgin%22 as the songs that established Madonna as an icon. %22Material Girl%22 was a commercial success, reaching the top-five in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Japan and United Kingdom. It reached the number two position on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming her third top-five single there.The music video was a mimicry of Marilyn Monroe's performance of the song %22Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend%22 from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The mimicked scenes are interspersed with scenes of a Hollywood director trying to win the heart of an actress, played by Madonna herself. Discovering that, contrary to her song, the young woman was not impressed by money and expensive gifts, he pretended to be penniless and succeeded in taking her out on a date. She has performed the song in five of her world tours, most of them being mimicry of the song and the video.%22Material Girl%22 has been covered by a number of artists, including Britney Spears, The Chipettes and Hilary and Haylie Duff. It has appeared in films like Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Madonna has often remarked that she regrets recording %22Material Girl%22 as its title became a nickname for her in the mainstream media. The song has been labeled an empowering influence for women, and was the subject of debates.
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  • 2009 Celebration remaster
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  • Nile Rodgers
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  • Silver
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  • April—May 1984
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  • Madonna:Material Girl
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