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Madonna’s Wreck of a New Video: 3 Weeks of Post Production, Micro Management (Watch Here)

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Madonna’s video of “Bitch I’m Madonna” was a production disaster, I’m told. UPDATE It’s finally been released to YouTube after only being on JayZ’s pay per view system Tidal.

The video is filled with cameos by contemporary stars like Beyonce and Jay Z, and is basically a mess. I’m told that Madge either kicked out director Jonas Akerlund or he just left because of the chaos. “Madonna wants what she wants,” says a source.

Once the video was shot it required three weeks of post production. “Everybody was retouched over and over,” another source says.

Madonna micro managed the project, too, coming into the city from her various country locales to nitpick over nonsensical things.

“It’s her worst song ever,” adds one critic. Well, the reality is, she did it well on the Tonight show, but the momentum from that is long gone. Too bad, too, because as one participant says, “She had to pay for it herself.”

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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