Madonna followed up one artistic masterpiece with yet another, as "Express Yourself" still stands today as one of her most poweful messages and most remarkable videos. The song unfortunately had to settle for a peak of #2, but that doesn't dilute the impact "Express Yourself" had. The single marks Madonna's first work with two men that would become vital to future projects: video director David Fincher and producer/remixer Shep Pettibone.

Pettibone remixed the track into a house-dance track that (in my opinion) greatly improved on the middle-of-the-road instrumentation found on the album version. This cutting edge sound was tailor-made for Fincher's video, a remarkable take on the silent-era classic film "Metropolis," where man and machine work in tandem amongst exorbitant cityscapes. The old-meets-new feel of the video was heightened by its technicolor brightness and crisp art direction and cinematography. Much like Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" in 1984, "Express Yourself" took the world of music videos to a new stylistic height. At the time, it was the most expensive video ever made (roughly $1 million), although Madonna would break that record again in 1995 with the $2 million "Bedtime Story."