It was the first electronic onslaught on Madonna's career. The video is one of the most striking and brings the surrealist influence of the artists Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Lucien Freud, Leonor Frini, Leonora Carrington, among many others, under the watchful eye of the talented and brilliant director Mark Romanek (who had already directed the brilliant video Rain). The work is so important and significant for modern art that it is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa). He had one of the most expensive budgets for a video clip at the time, $ 5 million. This video brings countless symbologies, meanings and re-readings of surrealist works. The freakshowbusiness blog has done some time ago a thorough analysis of what is portrayed in this video and what message Madonna wanted to pass. The general idea is of death and life, birth and rebirth through art, especially the surrealist, who preaches creation through the unconscious, the work of art as the visual concretization of dreams, something that can not be expressed in words, abandoning the logic and reason. As the lyrics say. Lucien Freud is not surrealistic like the other inspirers of the video, but is grandson of Sigmund Freud, father of the psychoanalysis and master of the interpretation of the dreams. The reference to the picture, therefore, can be a hint to the viewer, stating that the clip is based on dreams, on images of the unconscious and needs to be interpreted by a bias that runs away from the obvious. The light of the moon reflecting in the water inside a well is probably inspired by these two paintings by the Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo: Born Again (Renascer, 1960) and Moon Reflection (Moon Reflection, 1957). The reference in Los Amantes de Remedios is also very clear. Another strong surrealistic inspiration of Bedtime story is the film Sayat Nova (USSR, 1968), by the Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. The work, about the poet who gives it its name, is better known in the West as The color of Pomegranates. It is a surrealistic film, which intends to speak with the language of the soul, of the dreams, of the unconscious. From him came out several images that we find in the clip of Madonna, like the foot treading a bunch of grapes on written words, or the child being covered. SYMBOLISMS White dove: In the Christian tradition, baptism is a rebirth, the central theme of this clip. When Jesus was baptized by St. John the Baptist, a white dove came down to him. For Catholics, the animal represents the Holy Spirit. Fish: For Jung, it is a symbol of a deep state of unconsciousness, when seen swimming in a dream. For Christians, it is an ancient symbol of their belief. In times of Roman persecution, Christians used the fish symbol to identify themselves as followers of Jesus in secret. This is because the initials in Greek of "Jesus Christ son of God the Savior" form the word "fish". It was a way of saying a Christian without needing words for it, just like Madonna does in this clip. Unlike many of her previous videos, Madonna shows no cross on Bedtime story; however, this is his video with the largest number of Christian symbols. (At that time, 1995, she was not yet a Kabbalah supporter, an esoteric doctrine of Jewish origin that would dominate her music videos later.) It is no coincidence that in this clip a fish appears swimming over a verse of the song that has the following translation in Portuguese: "Words are useless, especially sentences" Madonna has already revealed that the scene is inspired by the work of Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist who designs or exposes giant-sized phrases in public places. Grape: For Christians, the grape symbolizes the joy of living, the great gift of God, and the fruitfulness of the Christian faith. And from the grape, trampled by human feet in the ancient tradition, comes the wine, symbol of the blood of Jesus. Eye: As an ancient Christian symbol, the eye represents ideas, concepts and abstractions, so dear to surrealism and Bedtime story. It is also the image of the omniscience of God. Fallen Angel: For Christians, angels are links between God and man, divine messengers. And fallen angels, stripped of their wings, are those who have been banished from Paradise because they rebelled against God. Lucifer is the best known of fallen angels. Egg and Child: The egg appears at some point in Bedtime story. For Christianity, it is a symbol of the generation of life, birth and rebirth. It is the cocoon where the origin of life is, and not by chance the female sex cell has been called egg. At Easter, the egg represents the renewal of life, just like the child. Sunflower: Another symbol of Easter. It represents the search for light in Christ. Just as the sunflower seeks the Sun, Christians seek in Jesus the way, the truth, and the life. Octogram: The eight-pointed star is, in some cultures, another symbol of creation and fertility. For Christians, it symbolizes regeneration. Therefore, many fonts have an octagonal base. In a video scene, a child appears seated on an eight-pointed star. Pregnancy: Obviously, it is the life in gestation, the miracle of life, the imminence of the birth of a child and the rebirth of the mother. Peacock: In the scenes where Madonna appears pregnant in Bedtime story, there is a peacock on each side. In early Christianity, the peacock symbolizes resurrection and is related to Easter. For others, the peacock is also a symbol of eternity, due to the ancient belief that its flesh does not deteriorate after death. But in other traditions, the peacock also represents vanity, the All-Seeing Eye, and the Antichrist. Water: Present throughout the music video, water symbolizes the origin, because, as they say, all life comes from water. Bathing is a rebirth, and not by chance is water essential for baptism. Also, getting into the water can also represent a dive into the unconscious for some cultures. Here it is back to the lyrics: Rock: In some cultures, the rock represents the womb, the place where life originates. In the Bible, rock is constantly cited as a reference to God and Christ. In the Old Testament, it represents the Creator's strength, protection, refuge, and salvation of the people. In the New Testament, Christ is the cornerstone of everything, it is the rock from which flows the spirit of life. Algae: The green that sprouts through the rocks under water is life being born and imposing itself. Algae is the primary source of oxygen, essential to life. A particular Bedtime story scene brings together this and the two above symbols: seaweed, stone and water: Book: The book, when opened, symbolizes the revelation of truth, the word of God. Poppy: Symbolizes spiritual drowsiness and sleep of death. Hence, she is often portrayed in crucifixions and the deaths of saints. From his flower is extracted opium, hallucinogenic drug. And opium is made of morphine, a drug that relieves unbearable pain, but can also cause hallucinations and lead to death. Circle: Another symbol of eternity, having no beginning or end. Skeleton: Universal symbol of death. In Christianity, the skull at the foot of the cross carries the message that everyone dies but can continue to live in Christ. Well: It is the source of water, of life. It represents the womb, place of birth and rebirth. It is also a remembrance of Jesus, the source of the water of life, as he referred to himself when he asked for water from a woman standing in front of a well. A certain scene from Bedtime story suggests that Madonna is inside a well, watched by a man on the surface. Moon and star: There are also Islamic symbols in Bedtime story. The moon next to a star is the best-known symbol of Islam. But it is also a representation of the power to carry through the cosmos. Dervishes: They are members of an Islamic sect whose dance in continuous whirls culminates with a hypnotic trance, in a ritual of delivery whose objective is the ecstasy. In general, they advocate open mind and art. They wear a white shirt (which represents a shroud) with a coat over it. Taking off the coat during the ritual is born to the truth. They dance around their own axis to feel in the eye of a hurricane, the quiet place in the midst of the storm, and so they connect with God, who is within everyone. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Wow you've really done your homework here. You put professional columnists to shame with your thorough background of the pieces of art here. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I enjoyed that immensely 😊
It presents surrealist and new age scenes influenced mainly by the works of artists such as Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo and Leonora Carrington. It received praise from critics and scholars and is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. React her live version pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee T.T
This video is absolutely a masterpiece...for back in the day when it came out...it was beyond ahead of it's time by years and years! Madonna was such a trail-buster and beyond the norm in most things she did! Love it! and loved her for it!
This video is a truly masterpiece. Thare are a lot of religious elements on it. The girl is quite right about the dancing men. Well done...! It's a bridge to Ray of Light era...
honestly i'm actually just not getting the video, sorry if it comes off that way! i liked how weird it was i was just confused as to what was actually happening (but thanks to the comments its VERY clear to me now)
This video is a masterpiece, it's from 1994, and it has a lot of hidden meanings. It's about dreams and psique and inspired by many surrealistic paintings
Tyler: desperately searching for words of explanation Madonna: "words are useless... How can they explain how I feel?" All kudos here to Marissa, the first reactor I've seen who recognizes a whirling dervish when she sees one!
Occultism in Bedtime Story video by Madonna 1º At the beginning of clip, we can see 'The All Seeing Eye", the highest symbol of the Illuminattis. This eye welcomes Madonna, by displaying a 'welcome' notice as we see a Madonna going through a sort of trance and heading for a state of 'unconsciousness'. This video refers to a 'cosmic journey' or 'astral travel' which Madonna experiences, in which 'words are useless' and this journey can only be done by means of the mind. 2º Below this notice, we can see the legend "Ciconne, M.", which may mean Ciconne is masonic or "Ciconne, Madonna". 3º The blue liquid running down a crystal tube represents the 'blue blood' or 'cold blood' from the Masons, which finally makes her wake or become 'lucid'. This situation reveals that Madonna is mentally controlled by her Mason Masters, who decide when she must be lucid and when she must not. 4º Madonna is seen singing with a sunflower behind her. This represents the symbol of the Sun, which is usually cult object in Secret Societies and old pagan religions. It is well known that The Sun has been worshiped for thousand years as a pagan god by numerous old civilizations e.g. The Celts, The Egyptians etc. 5º The levitating cube, in another scene, with black and white faces of Madonna is related to the cult to Saturn and Adoration to Satan, then. 6º The animals' skulls floating on a water tank beside a naked Madonna are the highest symbols of the dark elites. This scene may describe the destruction of animals and the ecosystem, since the images suggest that the animales are dead. 7º The doves which come out from a pregnant Madonna are related to 'peace' so this scene may suggest that Madonna will give birth to a Messiah who will bring 'peace' to humanity. Besides, this situation may make fun of 'The Holy Spirit'. 8º The two mirror-headed Madonnas , seated one in front of the other, try to unveil Madonna's multiple personalities, after being exposed to an MK-ultra mental control. 9º Madonna, levitating along a corridor, displays the fact that she has been lifted to a higher level of a Dark Priestess, where she lies above the rest of the Illuminati puppets, represented by the 3 boys who look at her in admiration as she passes flying by. 10º In the minute 3:22, we can see Baphomet represented by a sort of brown glasses with the form of goat which a woman uses to cover her face. This odd glasses seems to represent Baphomet's head. 11º The woman looking up to the sky represents a 'fallen angel' since she is showed with scars on her back where evidently there were wings as well as 'goat legs' instead of human legs. 12º The foot treading on a bunch of grapes on an Arabic scripture may suggest the way wine is made but it may also mean "stepping on 'Jesus Christ's Blood'". 13º In the minute 3:33, which constitutes the masonic number by excellence, Madonna sticks out her tongue at the time when a flashing light comes out from her forehead, showing the opening of her third eye. This means that she receives secrets and gifts from 'the dark magic' as a result of her worshiping her reptilians entities. She opens her mind to the 'Dark Magic'. 14º Madonna falling to an empty space full of stars gives us the idea that 'once she signs the pact with the dark elite, there is no turning back': She has given away her soul to the Devil. 15º Madonna sleeping on a human skeleton, which is watching over her very attentively, means that now Madonna is embraced by The Death itself and that Madonna becomes a living dead: she has no longer a soul so as to become a puppet, losing her consciousness and becoming 'unconscious'. 16º In the minute 4:03, Madonna's face displays lips where normally the eyes should be and an eye where normally a mouth should be. This scene unveils the fact that The Illuminatis will control what she might sing and say as an artist. That is why she sings 'Today is the last day that I'm using words...They are gone now....Lost their meaning....Don't function anymore...." 17º At the end of this video, the 'thank you' notice gives thanks to Madonna for having signed the pact and given away her soul to the Devil. This means that Madonna will give service to 'it' until the end of her living days. 18º 'Bedtime Story' seems to be the last song that Madonna has sung before giving her soul and agreeing to be lifted to the grade of Dark Priestess.
@@Marc-zi5cq songwriting includes the lyrics and the music. Madonna is a writer and producer on the song. She changed some lyrics, and rewrote the music a little bit.
Loving your Madonna journey. And don't worry if you don't get it right away; just remember that with so much of the music of the past 40 years, all roads lead back to Madonna...
Marissa!! You totally saw it and I am glad you liked it! As others have said in the comments, the video represents 4 different artists.... in the beginning and end she is having this "experience or dream" loaded into her through the drip. Madonna's last name is the program she is accessing (Says Ciccone). I have always loved this video but didn't know for years it was based off 4 artists works. I am so glad this video is in the MOMA in New York, It truly is a work of video art.
when tyler looks into the camera at 6:52 🥰 his mind was blown 🤯 marissa bringing the insight on this one! luv ur reactions and especially tyler's smile 😆
Thanks, Marissa! Thanks, Tyler! 🛌🏼 The uncanniness of the dreamlike state is what the video conveys... nothing much deeper than subconscious imagery. #TylerCreatesContent #TCCReacts #WhirlingDervishes #BedtimeStories #Madonna
Guys, one thing you need to do everytime you watch a Madonna video; never take your eyes off on the screen otherwise you'll always be confused and miss highlights or subtleties that she usually sneaks in to make a point as she is a master of that. Every little details counts.
When this video was released got the title for most expensive video ever made with a $5 million budget. The song peaked #04 in UK but it only reached #42 in US Hot 100 (still reached #01 on US Dance Charts).
Bjork wrote this song about transcendental meditation. And the video has been explained by many commenters here. Tyler 😆 hehee, I appreciate your youthful exuberance, but I think many years from now you will watch this again and just laugh at yourself. There is a couple of bloggers out there who have dissected this video with screenshots, describing all the elements 🙏💗
Yay you did it! This is my all time favorite Madonna music video, heck, favorite video of all time. The images are based of female surrealist painters that Madonna loves, it is supposed to represent a dreamscape indeed. This was done in the mid 90's, when CGI was still not a big thing.
It's not truth that Madonna's videos don't make sense,some of them are simple or not so deep,but almost all of them make sense,has a explanation or interpretation,she's very inteligent,A genious of music videos,Just look it up about the meanings and get your own conclusions
Ok this gem of a song pays homage to surrealistic paintings by famous painters the kind of paintings that when observing they take you away , but also represents a dream state where peaceful unconsciousness exists where words are useless, have no meaning, don’t function anymore it’s just you, peace and nothing else .
Spot on. Basically, she's in a futuristic sleep inducing machine, they put her under and the screen at the beginning starts projecting her dreams and visions and the whole video is in dream world, until she wakes up at the end. And yeah, those guys are dervishes.
Don't look into the camera but keep wathing the video. Try not to miss any scene. It's important. just feel it. Not much to comprehend. It is a masterpiece.
From Wikipedia. I would loved to have seen her opening up her chest cavity! “Filming stopped for few hours when a minor earthquake shook the film studio.[49] Few complications were encountered like Madonna getting dyed in blue color from sitting in the water tank, as well as technical difficulties leading to cancellation of a storyboard showing the singer opening her chest cavity. One shot involving Madonna lying in the lap of a skeleton had to be postponed since the skeleton was too small for the singer, and had to be rebuilt from scratch. The last scene filmed was the one involving the laboratory where Madonna was shown sleeping in a futuristic dress.”
Points to Marisa on the "Dervishes" guess. It is a weird video, but if you dig into the lyrics you might get it. You pretty much got it. I love how Marisa is loving it.
This was acclaimed by music critics when it came out in 1995. It’s considered one of the most expensive music video produced ($5mil in 1994, $8.5mil in today’s money) filmed over 6days at the Universal Studios in Los Angeles using then state-of-the-art tech for its visual imagery. It’s on permanent display as surrealistic art at the MoMA in NYC. Marissa got the part right about the amazing centuries-old mystical dance of the Turkish Sufi “whirling dervish”-that requires skill and mastery to perform to overcome dizziness. Their clothing, fez-like hat, arm and head movements, diet and music-all has specific function to achieve the trance state of mind over the body.
Watch some Björk from that era and you will understand why it’s trippy. Voilently Happy has rather simular beats but Hyperballad is more easy to listen too. In the beginning of the 90’s most experimental electronic music came from the UK and it was such a breath of fresh air with all the grunge and R’n’B going on everywhere. Madonna has always had an eye for upcoming trends so she wanted part of this sound. On the other side she wanted to win over the US again after being shamed for her previous Erotica album. So Bedtime Stories, the album, is very R’n’B orientated but has 2 tracks that have the ‘triphop’ sound. This one and Sanctuary. I didn’t get this album when it came out since I love Madonna doing things she wants and not giving a F***. This felt like a super commercial crowd pleaser. Over the years it grew on me tho, for it’s retro 90’s sound.
i love this song, kindof a similar reaction that most has when it can out. stream of consciousness and lucid dreams. hey, how long until you guys react to SECRET from bedtime stories? 🤷🏻♂️
Holiday, Like A Virgin, Material Girl, Bedtime Story, Ray of Light, American Pie, Fever. Open Your Heart. Few. What’s the message of Lucky Star & Dress You up or Cherish videos? Some aren’t literal.
Yes, they are whirling Dirvishes. This video is an absolute masterpiece, a surreal journey into the unconscience where "words don't function anymore." Bjork co-wrote this with Madonna and Madonna made it her own in sound and visuals.
How to explain unconsciousness? The video is about the state of non-consciousness, about dreams, the name of the song is self-explanatory. The surrealist language used by various artists was brought together to illustrate all of this. Traveling, traveling in the arms of uncounsciousness... leaving logic and reason... 🎶
Much of the imagery in this video is taken directly from famous works of art. This video is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Bjork wrote this song. Speaking of Bjork, u all should react to some of Bjork songs like, Hunter, All is Full of Love, Army of Me, Big Time Sensuality, Human Behavior.
One of Madonna’s contemporaries is Kylie Minogue, who has done similar dreamlike videos: Finer Feelings, Breathe, and On A Night Like This, where you are not too sure of the narrative. Few of my Madonna favourites are Spanish Eyes, The Look Of Love, Time Stood Still and Live To Tell (album version, the video version is edited savagely.)
I can explain the strangeness of this song with one statement; It was written by Bjork! lol It's supposed to be about being unconscious and dreaming. You should check out her live version of this, it's pretty cool.
Yep, but not always the video matches exactly what the song says. Sometimes, it's the opposite. By the way, Madonna and the video producer are involved in the video story.
Hey guys I've noticed you haven't reacted to the following great Madonna songs... 1. Fever (live SNL version) ... 2. Isla Bonita....3. Bltch I'm Madonna... 4. Who's That Girl ...5. Music (video version)
Most of the scenes in this video are identical to the film "Stalker" by russian director Tarkovskij, others copyed by the film "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The talent of Madonna is...well Madonna is like a Vampire but it's not a bad thing. 😂
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This video was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The first ever music video to be acquired by a museum as a piece of art.
Never knew this bit of information. How cool. Thanks for sharing. 🙌🏾
Mark Romanek did a fantastic job!
In fact, The video remains in the museum playing as a permanently piece of art of the museum
Yes. And Björk collaborate with her in this video
@@robledoalfredo6885 Bjork collaborated in the song, not in the video. She wrote the demo.
It was the first electronic onslaught on Madonna's career. The video is one of the most striking and brings the surrealist influence of the artists Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Lucien Freud, Leonor Frini, Leonora Carrington, among many others, under the watchful eye of the talented and brilliant director Mark Romanek (who had already directed the brilliant video Rain).
The work is so important and significant for modern art that it is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa).
He had one of the most expensive budgets for a video clip at the time, $ 5 million.
This video brings countless symbologies, meanings and re-readings of surrealist works. The freakshowbusiness blog has done some time ago a thorough analysis of what is portrayed in this video and what message Madonna wanted to pass. The general idea is of death and life, birth and rebirth through art, especially the surrealist, who preaches creation through the unconscious, the work of art as the visual concretization of dreams, something that can not be expressed in words, abandoning the logic and reason. As the lyrics say.
Lucien Freud is not surrealistic like the other inspirers of the video, but is grandson of Sigmund Freud, father of the psychoanalysis and master of the interpretation of the dreams. The reference to the picture, therefore, can be a hint to the viewer, stating that the clip is based on dreams, on images of the unconscious and needs to be interpreted by a bias that runs away from the obvious.
The light of the moon reflecting in the water inside a well is probably inspired by these two paintings by the Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo: Born Again (Renascer, 1960) and Moon Reflection (Moon Reflection, 1957). The reference in Los Amantes de Remedios is also very clear.
Another strong surrealistic inspiration of Bedtime story is the film Sayat Nova (USSR, 1968), by the Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. The work, about the poet who gives it its name, is better known in the West as The color of Pomegranates. It is a surrealistic film, which intends to speak with the language of the soul, of the dreams, of the unconscious. From him came out several images that we find in the clip of Madonna, like the foot treading a bunch of grapes on written words, or the child being covered.
SYMBOLISMS
White dove: In the Christian tradition, baptism is a rebirth, the central theme of this clip. When Jesus was baptized by St. John the Baptist, a white dove came down to him. For Catholics, the animal represents the Holy Spirit.
Fish: For Jung, it is a symbol of a deep state of unconsciousness, when seen swimming in a dream. For Christians, it is an ancient symbol of their belief. In times of Roman persecution, Christians used the fish symbol to identify themselves as followers of Jesus in secret. This is because the initials in Greek of "Jesus Christ son of God the Savior" form the word "fish". It was a way of saying a Christian without needing words for it, just like Madonna does in this clip. Unlike many of her previous videos, Madonna shows no cross on Bedtime story; however, this is his video with the largest number of Christian symbols. (At that time, 1995, she was not yet a Kabbalah supporter, an esoteric doctrine of Jewish origin that would dominate her music videos later.) It is no coincidence that in this clip a fish appears swimming over a verse of the song that has the following translation in Portuguese:
"Words are useless, especially sentences"
Madonna has already revealed that the scene is inspired by the work of Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist who designs or exposes giant-sized phrases in public places.
Grape: For Christians, the grape symbolizes the joy of living, the great gift of God, and the fruitfulness of the Christian faith. And from the grape, trampled by human feet in the ancient tradition, comes the wine, symbol of the blood of Jesus.
Eye: As an ancient Christian symbol, the eye represents ideas, concepts and abstractions, so dear to surrealism and Bedtime story. It is also the image of the omniscience of God.
Fallen Angel: For Christians, angels are links between God and man, divine messengers. And fallen angels, stripped of their wings, are those who have been banished from Paradise because they rebelled against God. Lucifer is the best known of fallen angels.
Egg and Child: The egg appears at some point in Bedtime story. For Christianity, it is a symbol of the generation of life, birth and rebirth. It is the cocoon where the origin of life is, and not by chance the female sex cell has been called egg. At Easter, the egg represents the renewal of life, just like the child.
Sunflower: Another symbol of Easter. It represents the search for light in Christ. Just as the sunflower seeks the Sun, Christians seek in Jesus the way, the truth, and the life.
Octogram: The eight-pointed star is, in some cultures, another symbol of creation and fertility. For Christians, it symbolizes regeneration. Therefore, many fonts have an octagonal base. In a video scene, a child appears seated on an eight-pointed star.
Pregnancy: Obviously, it is the life in gestation, the miracle of life, the imminence of the birth of a child and the rebirth of the mother.
Peacock: In the scenes where Madonna appears pregnant in Bedtime story, there is a peacock on each side. In early Christianity, the peacock symbolizes resurrection and is related to Easter. For others, the peacock is also a symbol of eternity, due to the ancient belief that its flesh does not deteriorate after death. But in other traditions, the peacock also represents vanity, the All-Seeing Eye, and the Antichrist.
Water: Present throughout the music video, water symbolizes the origin, because, as they say, all life comes from water. Bathing is a rebirth, and not by chance is water essential for baptism. Also, getting into the water can also represent a dive into the unconscious for some cultures. Here it is back to the lyrics:
Rock: In some cultures, the rock represents the womb, the place where life originates. In the Bible, rock is constantly cited as a reference to God and Christ. In the Old Testament, it represents the Creator's strength, protection, refuge, and salvation of the people. In the New Testament, Christ is the cornerstone of everything, it is the rock from which flows the spirit of life.
Algae: The green that sprouts through the rocks under water is life being born and imposing itself. Algae is the primary source of oxygen, essential to life. A particular Bedtime story scene brings together this and the two above symbols: seaweed, stone and water:
Book: The book, when opened, symbolizes the revelation of truth, the word of God.
Poppy: Symbolizes spiritual drowsiness and sleep of death. Hence, she is often portrayed in crucifixions and the deaths of saints. From his flower is extracted opium, hallucinogenic drug. And opium is made of morphine, a drug that relieves unbearable pain, but can also cause hallucinations and lead to death.
Circle: Another symbol of eternity, having no beginning or end.
Skeleton: Universal symbol of death. In Christianity, the skull at the foot of the cross carries the message that everyone dies but can continue to live in Christ.
Well: It is the source of water, of life. It represents the womb, place of birth and rebirth. It is also a remembrance of Jesus, the source of the water of life, as he referred to himself when he asked for water from a woman standing in front of a well. A certain scene from Bedtime story suggests that Madonna is inside a well, watched by a man on the surface.
Moon and star: There are also Islamic symbols in Bedtime story. The moon next to a star is the best-known symbol of Islam. But it is also a representation of the power to carry through the cosmos.
Dervishes: They are members of an Islamic sect whose dance in continuous whirls culminates with a hypnotic trance, in a ritual of delivery whose objective is the ecstasy. In general, they advocate open mind and art. They wear a white shirt (which represents a shroud) with a coat over it. Taking off the coat during the ritual is born to the truth. They dance around their own axis to feel in the eye of a hurricane, the quiet place in the midst of the storm, and so they connect with God, who is within everyone.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Wow you've really done your homework here. You put professional columnists to shame with your thorough background of the pieces of art here. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I enjoyed that immensely 😊
It presents surrealist and new age scenes influenced mainly by the works of artists such as Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo and Leonora Carrington. It received praise from critics and scholars and is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. React her live version pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee T.T
This video is absolutely a masterpiece...for back in the day when it came out...it was beyond ahead of it's time by years and years! Madonna was such a trail-buster and beyond the norm in most things she did! Love it! and loved her for it!
This video is a truly masterpiece. Thare are a lot of religious elements on it. The girl is quite right about the dancing men. Well done...!
It's a bridge to Ray of Light era...
"It's always confusion with you, isn't it." You just gotta love Marissa. 😜
honestly i'm actually just not getting the video, sorry if it comes off that way! i liked how weird it was i was just confused as to what was actually happening (but thanks to the comments its VERY clear to me now)
I love that you’re getting to experience the many musical sides to Madonna. She’s never quite what you expect her to be.
This video is a masterpiece, it's from 1994, and it has a lot of hidden meanings. It's about dreams and psique and inspired by many surrealistic paintings
*psyche 👍
Tyler: desperately searching for words of explanation
Madonna: "words are useless... How can they explain how I feel?"
All kudos here to Marissa, the first reactor I've seen who recognizes a whirling dervish when she sees one!
It was all a crazy dream… A beautiful crazy dream. Just enjoy the beat, the lyrics and the amazing visuals.
She's so right! Those are dervishes! I had the chance to see them live in Istambul.
Occultism in Bedtime Story video by Madonna
1º At the beginning of clip, we can see 'The All Seeing Eye", the highest symbol of the Illuminattis. This eye welcomes Madonna, by displaying a 'welcome' notice as we see a Madonna going through a sort of trance and heading for a state of 'unconsciousness'. This video refers to a 'cosmic journey' or 'astral travel' which Madonna experiences, in which 'words are useless' and this journey can only be done by means of the mind.
2º Below this notice, we can see the legend "Ciconne, M.", which may mean Ciconne is masonic or "Ciconne, Madonna".
3º The blue liquid running down a crystal tube represents the 'blue blood' or 'cold blood' from the Masons, which finally makes her wake or become 'lucid'. This situation reveals that Madonna is mentally controlled by her Mason Masters, who decide when she must be lucid and when she must not.
4º Madonna is seen singing with a sunflower behind her. This represents the symbol of the Sun, which is usually cult object in Secret Societies and old pagan religions. It is well known that The Sun has been worshiped for thousand years as a pagan god by numerous old civilizations e.g. The Celts, The Egyptians etc.
5º The levitating cube, in another scene, with black and white faces of Madonna is related to the cult to Saturn and Adoration to Satan, then.
6º The animals' skulls floating on a water tank beside a naked Madonna are the highest symbols of the dark elites. This scene may describe the destruction of animals and the ecosystem, since the images suggest that the animales are dead.
7º The doves which come out from a pregnant Madonna are related to 'peace' so this scene may suggest that Madonna will give birth to a Messiah who will bring 'peace' to humanity. Besides, this situation may make fun of 'The Holy Spirit'.
8º The two mirror-headed Madonnas , seated one in front of the other, try to unveil Madonna's multiple personalities, after being exposed to an MK-ultra mental control.
9º Madonna, levitating along a corridor, displays the fact that she has been lifted to a higher level of a Dark Priestess, where she lies above the rest of the Illuminati puppets, represented by the 3 boys who look at her in admiration as she passes flying by.
10º In the minute 3:22, we can see Baphomet represented by a sort of brown glasses with the form of goat which a woman uses to cover her face. This odd glasses seems to represent Baphomet's head.
11º The woman looking up to the sky represents a 'fallen angel' since she is showed with scars on her back where evidently there were wings as well as 'goat legs' instead of human legs.
12º The foot treading on a bunch of grapes on an Arabic scripture may suggest the way wine is made but it may also mean "stepping on 'Jesus Christ's Blood'".
13º In the minute 3:33, which constitutes the masonic number by excellence, Madonna sticks out her tongue at the time when a flashing light comes out from her forehead, showing the opening of her third eye. This means that she receives secrets and gifts from 'the dark magic' as a result of her worshiping her reptilians entities. She opens her mind to the 'Dark Magic'.
14º Madonna falling to an empty space full of stars gives us the idea that 'once she signs the pact with the dark elite, there is no turning back': She has given away her soul to the Devil.
15º Madonna sleeping on a human skeleton, which is watching over her very attentively, means that now Madonna is embraced by The Death itself and that Madonna becomes a living dead: she has no longer a soul so as to become a puppet, losing her consciousness and becoming 'unconscious'.
16º In the minute 4:03, Madonna's face displays lips where normally the eyes should be and an eye where normally a mouth should be. This scene unveils the fact that The Illuminatis will control what she might sing and say as an artist. That is why she sings 'Today is the last day that I'm using words...They are gone now....Lost their meaning....Don't function anymore...."
17º At the end of this video, the 'thank you' notice gives thanks to Madonna for having signed the pact and given away her soul to the Devil. This means that Madonna will give service to 'it' until the end of her living days.
18º 'Bedtime Story' seems to be the last song that Madonna has sung before giving her soul and agreeing to be lifted to the grade of Dark Priestess.
this 90's song still fit in this era sound like new music
One of her best song . Björk has made it . Real masterpiece
björk wrote the song and madonna produced
Björk wrote lyrics. Madonna and Nellee Hooper produced the song.
@@Marc-zi5cq songwriting includes the lyrics and the music. Madonna is a writer and producer on the song. She changed some lyrics, and rewrote the music a little bit.
A true masterpiece
Loving your Madonna journey. And don't worry if you don't get it right away; just remember that with so much of the music of the past 40 years, all roads lead back to Madonna...
Amazing song and video. This is 1994 she was so ahead of the time. Still sounds avant garde today
Marissa!! You totally saw it and I am glad you liked it! As others have said in the comments, the video represents 4 different artists.... in the beginning and end she is having this "experience or dream" loaded into her through the drip. Madonna's last name is the program she is accessing (Says Ciccone). I have always loved this video but didn't know for years it was based off 4 artists works. I am so glad this video is in the MOMA in New York, It truly is a work of video art.
Always love Marissa in these Madomma reactions! Her classes were for this moment🤭💚
For me, this is one of the best videos of Madonna's career!
It's fantastic!
I loooove your reaction to this song and seeing you so confused!!!
Madonna does it again
Bedtime Story = Lucid dream
The music video was a homage to surrealist female painters...
The most artistic and important music video ever made by any artist. On permanent collection at Museum Of Modern Art in NYC.
This is why she is the queen of music videos ❤
when tyler looks into the camera at 6:52 🥰 his mind was blown 🤯 marissa bringing the insight on this one! luv ur reactions and especially tyler's smile 😆
Thanks, Marissa! Thanks, Tyler! 🛌🏼 The uncanniness of the dreamlike state is what the video conveys... nothing much deeper than subconscious imagery. #TylerCreatesContent #TCCReacts #WhirlingDervishes #BedtimeStories #Madonna
One of the most impressive and artistic madonna's vídeo,A trully masterpiece
Guys, one thing you need to do everytime you watch a Madonna video; never take your eyes off on the screen otherwise you'll always be confused and miss highlights or subtleties that she usually sneaks in to make a point as she is a master of that. Every little details counts.
Masterpiece 💜
Love your reaction ♥️
Madonna is so talented, creative...
Try to watch the performance of this song at 1995 Brits Awards. It's incredible.
Bed Time Stories era! Human Nature from this album is a must!
Take a Bow, Ghosttown, Live to Tell are some great ballads by Madonna that you should check out!
really love your madonna reactions, thank youuuu and already waiting for next one, watch her live too!
It's Björk who wrote him this song :))) and yes! his universe is psychedelic...
When this video was released got the title for most expensive video ever made with a $5 million budget.
The song peaked #04 in UK but it only reached #42 in US Hot 100 (still reached #01 on US Dance Charts).
Bjork wrote this song about transcendental meditation. And the video has been explained by many commenters here. Tyler 😆 hehee, I appreciate your youthful exuberance, but I think many years from now you will watch this again and just laugh at yourself. There is a couple of bloggers out there who have dissected this video with screenshots, describing all the elements 🙏💗
Yay you did it! This is my all time favorite Madonna music video, heck, favorite video of all time. The images are based of female surrealist painters that Madonna loves, it is supposed to represent a dreamscape indeed. This was done in the mid 90's, when CGI was still not a big thing.
It's not truth that Madonna's videos don't make sense,some of them are simple or not so deep,but almost all of them make sense,has a explanation or interpretation,she's very inteligent,A genious of music videos,Just look it up about the meanings and get your own conclusions
Ok this gem of a song pays homage to surrealistic paintings by famous painters the kind of paintings that when observing they take you away , but also represents a dream state where peaceful unconsciousness exists where words are useless, have no meaning, don’t function anymore it’s just you, peace and nothing else .
MASTERPIECE
Please react to Madonna “ghost town” 🙏
This video was acquired by the museum of modern art of New York
Song written by Björk. Who you should definitely be reacting to!
She performed live this song at the brit awards in 1995,it was awesome, you guys must to react
Spot on. Basically, she's in a futuristic sleep inducing machine, they put her under and the screen at the beginning starts projecting her dreams and visions and the whole video is in dream world, until she wakes up at the end. And yeah, those guys are dervishes.
Don't look into the camera but keep wathing the video. Try not to miss any scene. It's important. just feel it. Not much to comprehend. It is a masterpiece.
I really love how you stare at the camera please keep doing it jejejeje
From Wikipedia. I would loved to have seen her opening up her chest cavity!
“Filming stopped for few hours when a minor earthquake shook the film studio.[49] Few complications were encountered like Madonna getting dyed in blue color from sitting in the water tank, as well as technical difficulties leading to cancellation of a storyboard showing the singer opening her chest cavity. One shot involving Madonna lying in the lap of a skeleton had to be postponed since the skeleton was too small for the singer, and had to be rebuilt from scratch. The last scene filmed was the one involving the laboratory where Madonna was shown sleeping in a futuristic dress.”
Madonna collaborated with Bjork. Its a visual representation of a vivid dream.
Points to Marisa on the "Dervishes" guess. It is a weird video, but if you dig into the lyrics you might get it. You pretty much got it. I love how Marisa is loving it.
This was acclaimed by music critics when it came out in 1995. It’s considered one of the most expensive music video produced ($5mil in 1994, $8.5mil in today’s money) filmed over 6days at the Universal Studios in Los Angeles using then state-of-the-art tech for its visual imagery. It’s on permanent display as surrealistic art at the MoMA in NYC. Marissa got the part right about the amazing centuries-old mystical dance of the Turkish Sufi “whirling dervish”-that requires skill and mastery to perform to overcome dizziness. Their clothing, fez-like hat, arm and head movements, diet and music-all has specific function to achieve the trance state of mind over the body.
Watch some Björk from that era and you will understand why it’s trippy. Voilently Happy has rather simular beats but Hyperballad is more easy to listen too. In the beginning of the 90’s most experimental electronic music came from the UK and it was such a breath of fresh air with all the grunge and R’n’B going on everywhere. Madonna has always had an eye for upcoming trends so she wanted part of this sound. On the other side she wanted to win over the US again after being shamed for her previous Erotica album. So Bedtime Stories, the album, is very R’n’B orientated but has 2 tracks that have the ‘triphop’ sound. This one and Sanctuary. I didn’t get this album when it came out since I love Madonna doing things she wants and not giving a F***. This felt like a super commercial crowd pleaser. Over the years it grew on me tho, for it’s retro 90’s sound.
please check out “human nature” from bedtime stories. 🔥
can’t wait for your reaction!
HA! That video will wreck them! LOL
@@postems it’ll be a good wreck then 😝
Secret first though. Human Nature as the final single, after Secret and Take A Bow )
Amazing vídeo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There's a saying that Two heads are better than one. We'll when it comes to Tyler, Thank God Marisa has Enough Brains for the two of you. 😴💤
i love this song, kindof a similar reaction that most has when it can out. stream of consciousness and lucid dreams.
hey, how long until you guys react to SECRET from bedtime stories? 🤷🏻♂️
I’m so glad she knew about the whirling dervish’s. You’re forgiven for your reaction to Thank you for the music. 😆
This song is one of the very few times Madonna didn't write the song. It wasn't a big hit. Bjork wrote it. All Madonna's videos have a message.
Holiday, Like A Virgin, Material Girl, Bedtime Story, Ray of Light, American Pie, Fever. Open Your Heart. Few. What’s the message of Lucky Star & Dress You up or Cherish videos? Some aren’t literal.
Yes, they are whirling Dirvishes. This video is an absolute masterpiece, a surreal journey into the unconscience where "words don't function anymore." Bjork co-wrote this with Madonna and Madonna made it her own in sound and visuals.
Human nature from that same album is a must see and listen, the message is so relevant till this day on.
Madonna was so ahead of her time. Frozen, Ray of Light, Hung Up, Crave, Give It To Me, Girl Gone Wild, Deeper and Deeper- so many bangers.
Masterpiece it’s actually a permanent installation at MOMA
Whirling dervish, you are absolutely correct add this song was written by Björk.
How to explain unconsciousness?
The video is about the state of non-consciousness, about dreams, the name of the song is self-explanatory.
The surrealist language used by various artists was brought together to illustrate all of this.
Traveling, traveling in the arms of uncounsciousness... leaving logic and reason... 🎶
Amazing collaboration with Bjork who wrote this song.
Much of the imagery in this video is taken directly from famous works of art. This video is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
It’s a dream: “Bedtime Story”
Marisa you are my goddess
Bjork wrote this song. Speaking of Bjork, u all should react to some of Bjork songs like, Hunter, All is Full of Love, Army of Me, Big Time Sensuality, Human Behavior.
Madonna writes all her own music with some collaborations, but the lyrics are all hers.
Yes, it is a DREAM. Trippy and weird just like most dreams are.
(Living logic and reason, to the arms of unconsciousness)
One of Madonna’s contemporaries is Kylie Minogue, who has done similar dreamlike videos: Finer Feelings, Breathe, and On A Night Like This, where you are not too sure of the narrative. Few of my Madonna favourites are Spanish Eyes, The Look Of Love, Time Stood Still and Live To Tell (album version, the video version is edited savagely.)
Kylie Minogue is a hack.
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This was one the most expensive videos ever made millions forget the video the song is slamming
Please react to Madonna's Take a Bow 😍
I hope you don't get scared but this is what this clip is about.
Madonna taught Gaga how to be weird!
Do “Fever”?
Madonna of course did it in a more tasteful way, through art, rather than going to a red carpet event looking like a houseplant.
. . . nor a bleeding hunk of meat . . .
Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo 🎨
Oh and BTW you should do the live version of this song it’s way cool 😎
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I can explain the strangeness of this song with one statement; It was written by Bjork! lol
It's supposed to be about being unconscious and dreaming. You should check out her live version of this, it's pretty cool.
Yep, but not always the video matches exactly what the song says. Sometimes, it's the opposite. By the way, Madonna and the video producer are involved in the video story.
Bjork said she wrote words and thoughts she always wished Madonna could say
PLEASE REACT TO "GIRL GONE WILD"
Tyler all flustered incase he offended someone’s religion. 😆
React to “Fever” The music video has beautiful visuals and her vocals are pretty sensual
You must react to Die Another Day its a great track and the video is so awesome
Fun fact: icelandic singer bjork wrote this song
*Please react to LA ISLA BONITA and GHOSTTOWN and MUSIC cos these 3 songs are so catchy and the videos are so artistic and brilliant*
This clip is not just about surrealism and feminist artists.
Hey guys I've noticed you haven't reacted to the following great Madonna songs... 1. Fever (live SNL version) ... 2. Isla Bonita....3. Bltch I'm Madonna... 4. Who's That Girl ...5. Music (video version)
This is one of the 3 most expensive videos of all time,above 5 million dollars cost
Don t try to find explanation of everything!!! Art don’t need to explain most of time . It s just a personnel feeling .
La Isla Bonita
She'll never explain again *shrug and lol*
Bedtime Story from the album Bedtime Stories...
Please react to the live version of this at The Brits Awards 1995.
Spot on re soofism , mystical arm of Islam
Most of the scenes in this video are identical to the film "Stalker" by russian director Tarkovskij, others copyed by the film "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The talent of Madonna is...well Madonna is like a Vampire but it's not a bad thing. 😂
song written by bjork , the girl reviewer gives me hope that not all americans r so clueless and basic lol
God Control next….please!!!