More details about one of the songs in the MDNA tour setlist come from an article from the Lewiston Sentinel about Madonna asking permission to use an image of the tragic story of the late Brandon Bitner and other victims of bullying in her show.

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A song by a popular music icon describes a “social disease.” Such a disease exists in this area, according to family members of one beloved young man.

Madonna’s song “Nobody Knows Me” will be performed during her upcoming summer tour with a back drop of images behind the mega star as she belts the lyrics. Among those images are photographs of teens who committed suicide as a result of the emotional impact of bullying.

Mount Pleasant Mills teen Brandon Bitner‘s face will appear on the screen. His black hair cascading over one eye as he clutches his violin, his Gothic-style cross hanging over the instrument. The vision of the then-14-year-old staring directly at the camera will be in the minds of millions across the world as they then see his name and date of death on the same screen.

Bitner’s letter to his mother had one specific request. He wanted his family and friends to let the community and the world know that bullying needs to stop. Since his death, Simpson and many others including Bitner’s cousin Katie Goodling, have been actively doing what they can to spread the word.

The word spread so well that a freelance videographer in Sweden who happens to work with Madonna saw Brandon’s story and wanted to keep the message going in a dramatic form.

Ronnit Hasson, the representative from the production company, shared intentions of the video with Bitner’s cousin Katie Goodling in an email stating “(the song) is a critique to social pressures to be and act a certain way. A sequence of the video draws reference to known cases of teenage suicide as a result of bullying and a general non-acceptance in society. The outline for this sequence is to show seven portraits for two to three seconds each, displaying a RIP sign along with their names and we would like to include Brandon as one of them, if we have their blessing.”

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