If you skip ahead five minutes, Madonna’s performance takes a dark turn as she sings her song “ Future.” The dancers are all wearing gas masks as she says things like “the storm isn’t in the air, it’s inside of us,” and “not everyone is coming to the future.” Since Madonna's time in the media spotlight, we are several cultural cycles removed from the idea that traditional religious imagery points directly and unambiguously to the divine"

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