Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette "Marie Antoinette" for their prog rock band Curved Air. Wayne Shorter wrote a jazz tune of the same name; it was recorded by Freddie Hubbard. Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay wrote a musical play called "Marie Antoinette" about the parallel lives of Antoinette and a fictional Margrid Arnaud. The play was written in English but premiered in Tokyo. The portrait of Marie Antoinette entitled "Marie Antoinette à la Rose" features as the front cover of the US alternative rock group Hole's 2010 album "Nobody's Daughter". The Charlie Sexton song "Impressed" references Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Madonna dressed as Marie
Marie Antoinette helped orchestrate the Franco-Austrian alliance and Marie Antoinette's marriage, and in exiling his sister, the duchesse de Gramont, one of Marie Antoinette's ladies-in-waiting. Marie Antoinette was persuaded by her husband's aunts to refuse to acknowledge du Barry, which some saw as a political blunder that jeopardised Austria's interests at the French court. Marie Antoinette's mother and the Austrian ambassador to France, comte de Mercy-Argenteau, who sent the Empress secret reports on Marie Antoinette's behavior, pressured Marie Antoinette to speak to Madame du Barry, which she grudgingly agreed to do on New Year's Day 1772. She merely commented to her, "There