By Courtney E. Smith
So Madonna, Jonas Åkerlund and Terrance Howard walk onto the set of a music video. It’s not the opening line of a great joke, but a very real thing that now exists called “Ghosttown.”
It seems the trio are here to give us a glimpse one year into the future, where newscasters will have a noticeable lisp and nuclear bombs will have detonated in New York, Paris, London and L.A. Madonna, of course, had the foresight to hole herself away in a bunker with more than enough make up and hair extensions to persevere. And in the dystopian future according to Madonna you will need a golf club to use as a cane, a top hat and clothes by Chrome Hearts, Greg Lauren, A.F. Vandevost and Valerj Pobega.
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Eventually she leaves her compound to explore the bombed-out topside, where she runs into Terrance Howard. Honestly, he’s looking pretty clean considering the entire world is now rusted out and covered in whatever the intense dust storms that followed the bomb blasts brought in. Their meet cute happens when Madge makes enough noise swinging her club around to frighten him and he spots her through the periscope on his shotgun. After the two come face to face, they dance a waltz with that extra Dancing with the Stars flourish.
