Analysis

In both of the music video Hung up and True blue, Madonna portrays the act of star as performer. Madonna clarified that the video was a tribute to John Travolta and to dance in general. Her dance moves for the video, which were inspired by Travolta's movies like Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978) and Perfect (1985) took three hours to shoot. She wears a pink leotard while dancing in the ballet studio in Hung Up video is actually inspired by John Travolta.  This shows that she does not imprint her persona in the video but she performs to entertain.  Furthermore, her choreographer Jamie King says that this music video is not just about music but the bodily expression. Hence, a lot of moves were applied in her video such as whole spectrum, be it crumping, breakdancing, jazz and disco.

While in the True Blue, Madonna play a role of a bubbly girl instead of being herself the sexy girl she use to be. With the partial casual wear, she did proper dance moves that does not consistent with her previous music videos because this music video can be say less sexy than before. Thus, this shows her being a performer that able to perform different roles into her character in music videos. As mentioned, in this video, she plays a role of a blonde hair girl where new look  produced because we seldom see her in this diverse mode.