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Madonna’s Sultry ‘La Isla Bonita’ Video Hits One Billion YouTube Views


Madonna's Sultry 1987 video for 'La Isla Bonita' has hit one billion views on YouTube, marking her first visual to reach that milestone.

and TV director Mary Lambert, known for her work on music videos for Janet Jackson (“Control”), Sting (“We’ll Be Together”), the Eurythmics (“Would I Lie to You?”) and a number of other notable Madonna clips (“Material Girl,” “Like a Virgin” and “Borderline”). The story finds the singer playing two characters, a devoted young Catholic woman pining for a handsome street musician and a sultry flamenco dancer. “Last night I dreamt of San Pedro/ Just like I’d never gone, I knew the song/ A young girl with eyes like the desert/ It all seems like yesterday, not far away,” she sings over images of a beautiful sunset and the chaste woman staring longingly through a window at the guitarist as a single tear drips down her face.

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