Chapter 4: Freedom 90: Musical Bondage & Breaking Free Freedom 90 (Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 Dec 1990) George Michael relaunched his career with a music video he's not even in. He burns images from his bubblegum past of Wham!: the guitar exploding, the jukebox on fire and his signature leather jacket going up in a blaze. He's burning his past and welcoming the viewer to his new identity and hoping they will accept him. Reinvention Aguilera bursts through double doors, as Naomi Campbell did in Freedom 90. Abstracted by darkness Campbell is bound by her headphones, resembling chains, representing being bound by music. Aguilera implies that the music industry changes one's persona to make them either more pure or more whore. The closet burning also referenced from Freedom 90, combined with the Sex and the Cityesque backdrop, see Chapter 5, implies that Aguilera is burning the clothes that have bound her. In the famous Freedom 90 video, George Michael burns his leather jacket, an item worn in his Wham! and early days representing the person that the record industry wanted him to be, but not the person he actually was. Side note: The Freedom 90 and Sex and the City references are linked, you must read one to fully understand the other. See Chapter 5 for Dichotomy.