This I think was one of my earliest experiences with HOUSE MUSIC. Almost immediately after EY, there was an explosion of house and techno songs and remixes in '89-'90. Madonna was easily the first superstar to put her stamp on it.
@@AceM-Reacts I think she was the first major pop star in giving importance to the remix versions of her songs. Later, you'll realize that she's going to choose many of her remixes to perform them live, that's been a constant throughout her career, it's amazing how she's supported the DJs giving them the credit they deserve. Someday, they also will recognized her as they should. Pd; If you remember, she used many remixes in the Who's that girl Tour, the one I love is the one for Into the groove.
Told ya! 😃 so you can imagine back then at this point in her career she was coming across as an extremely strong woman who was writing her own story and script. Gathering admirers and fans exponentially every time she released another bold song interpretation through videos
Definitely strong. Madonna's presence in this video comes off as very powerful and direct. She tends to come off as strong, but she seems even more dominant here.
This is one of her most sophisticated music videos ever. David Fincher did an amazing job. They are going to team again, the result will always be brilliant! Btw you should check the only live performance, without taking into account the tour of course, of this song at the VMAs, it's mesmerizing! Nice reaction dude. Happy 2024!
💯 Sophisticated is the perfect word to describe the direction of the video. Very cosmopolitican. Definitely gonna check out the VMA performance y'all are talking about. Thanks for watching and commenting and happy new year to you too!
I had a feeling you'd like this version. Her performance at the Blonde Ambition tour was amazing. This was the height of her career and where her artistry really blossoms imo. This is my favorite Madonna album so I'm looking forward to more reactions!
The movie Metropolis is decades ahead of itself. Live performance in Blonde Ambition Tour is a show stopper. Great Reaction. Dobermans are my favorite Dog!!
I'm kinda curious about the movie now. If I can find it online, I might check it out. Looking forward to the tour. Thanks for watching! Doberman's are the best! They'll ruin you for other dogs.
It’s always fun to watch reactors do a comparison to the album version of the song with the music vid version. Everyone is always pleasantly surprised at how much better, sonically, this version is as well as the fantastic production quality of the video itself. I think most would agree that this should have been the version on the album. Great reaction and analysis! Thanks for posting! ✌🏻👍🏻✌🏻
Yeah, this version impressed me much more. I haven't listened to the album version since the reaction, but I relistened to this version after. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I agree please watch the MTV Awards performance of this song. Since Pepsi canceled sponsoring the Like a Prayer Tour, Madonna would instead opt to act in Dick Tracy at this time, whilst newly divorced, she dated the films director and star Warren Beatty. The studio/Disney would instead sponsor her tour the following year. So no tour in 89, just a spectacular VMA Performance for Express Yourself. Madonna and her team knew once Shep remixed the song Express Yourself after Stephen's original that she would use this version going forward. Like a Prayer and Express Yourself are the 2 boldest, strongest most empowered Madonna album moves I have ever scene, she was peak of her powers here creatively. Plus the album itself is arguable one of her best
Oh snap! Okay so we're seeing a newly divorced woman! It's making sense now why she's being bolder in these videos than before. Definitely gonna check out the VMA performance. Don't think I';ve seen an award show performance from her since Like a Virgin.
Both this video and the one for "Like a Prayer" were heavily played on MTV during the late spring and early summer months of 1989. By that time, Madonna's frequently changing looks had already become her trademark, so we were used to seeing her look different from the last time we saw her. Nonetheless, it was still somewhat surreal for viewers to tune in to MTV's Top 20 video countdown and see the curly long-haired brunette Madonna dancing in front of those burning crosses in the "Like a Prayer" video, and then a few positions up or down the chart witness her as the uber posh and gleaming blond bobbed temptress in the "Express Yourself" video. You're in a great era, Ace. 1989-1991 was a very exciting time in Madonna's chronology.
The video imagery and narrative is inspired by Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis.' I've always liked this version of this song! Her performance of this song in her Blond Ambition tour is iconic! Madonna's videos and concert will get more risque!
Def one of her all time greatest videos. Especially right on the heels of Like a Prayer...a double whammy! Directed by David Fincher, at the time this was the most expensive music video ever made and remains in the top 3 priciest videos of all time. Money well spent, imo.
First time i saw this video, i was sure it was art, a really masterpiece. One thing about the 2 versions of the song: the trumpets solo at the álbum version match with the scene of the musicians in a cage. But, the remix version was soooo good that became the first time it happens since in the story of the music videos. Am i right?
Intersting! I didn't even think about the trumpet players in the video. They probably would've synced up with the sounds of the original version. But I'm glad they went with this version of the song instead! 🤣
Not a Nod, but basically she was saying. She can do it just as good and she did. even better as MTV crowned her and not MJ Mtv artist of the decade. Jacko was so threatened he tried to defame MTV and demanded they rename the MTV award after him and they shouldn't have. to name an award after a PEDOPHILE is NOT OK
- the most expensive video ever made at the time, it cost 5 million dollars (something like 12 million today), it was groundbreaking for it's production value and cinematic approach - Metropolis the movie is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart". So Madonna plays a revolutionary female character here - Madonna called MJ to ask if she could incorporate some of his moves into that choreography and he approved. But the main point here is how outrageous it was for a woman to grab her crotch at the time... It's a tease of what's to come in subsequent works about challenging gender norms (note that she's also in a masculine suit, and it's when she embodies that masculine side that she starts to win her game) - this time around, she got in trouble with two different and opposing groups: the conservatives for the sexually charged scenes, suggesting sadomasochism and the feminists who got very angry with the glorification of the image of a glamorous woman in a submissive role, chained in bed and also crawling under a table (the milk schene was the most controversial). Madonna would later declare in a famous TV interview at Nightline: "There wasn't a man that put that chain on me, I did it myself, I was chained to my desires, I crawled under my own table, there wasn't a man standing there making me do it. I do everything by my own volition, I'm in charge" Great reaction as always, can't wait for the rest of the album!
@Victoria-Lesly uhm hello. Well, I never said this was the fir6time Madonna dressed as a man, but I think the purposes were different to why she's "dressed like a man" as you said in WTGT, to why she's done in the sequence of this video, it's different semiotics, to me at least (but I'm not getting into that). Crotch-grabbing as a dance move is obviously an MJ signature that started with Bad, I never thought I'd have defend that.
@Victoria-Leslyand seriously, do you really think you know every information that's been out about Madonna in 40 years to be so sure of accusing me of lying? Do you have any idea of how many interviews she's given in I don't know how many languages before internet that just got lost in the way? If it's a lie, then it was Madonna lying to the interviwer OR the magazine putting words on Madonna's mouth, but I know what I read. It's you that don't know that you don't own all the information about it. You can believe what you want, but I know what know 🤷♂️ Hilarious 😂
@Victoria-Lesly lol again, I never said he was the first one to do that or any other move, I said that it was his SIGNATURE move and that it was created for the Bad video choreography, that was shot in late 1986. Oh and btw, Smooth Criminal was shot between February and April 1987, and The Who's That Girl Tour opened in July. Tell me again how MJ got the idea for the video from White Heat performance. But go awf with your amazing music history knowledge! I really don't claim that, I just know what I know and one of the reasons I'm here is all the new things I constantly learn about her even after so many years. Now, I'm sorry but I'm not interested in going on with this conversation, I'm here to have fun and light moments with a subject a like. And that's it. This is supposed to be a nice EXCHANGE of information, not a place for attacking others for no reason. There really is no need for rudeness around here, this is not XTiwitter and whenever I'm here is just to chill. Also, you can always create your own comment to state your convictions. Other than that, I hope you have a nice day ✌️
Wow. Thanks for the context. Her explanation of the chains and whatnot makes sense. She definitely comes across as being in control of herself in the video. Even with the laborious men, she seemed to be domineering one.
If you weren't there in 1989, 1990.. I'm truly sorry. The best time to be a Madonna fan, though the Erotica years are my favorite. Everything female pop stars are doing now, Madonna did before them. The video mix version is completely different than the album... which makes total sense for the video. EY should have gone to #1, but is arguably her BEST #2 chart topper. Simply Red and Martika stopped it from going to #1. Madonna is the Queen of Pop. As insufferable as she is now, she's still the Queen. Probably the best video in her entire career, besides Vogue or Like A Prayer, etc. The kids today think Taylor Swift is huge but haven't a clue of the Madonna madness during that time.
I was around in 1990, but had a bottle in my mouth! lol A shame this didn't get to #1 but funny enough both Simply Red and Martika are on my list of songs to react to so I might go ahead and push them forward to see how they stack up against this. I'm very aware of Taylor Swift, but don't get her general appeal. I even reacted to one of her videos early on and don't think I was that taken by the song. Whatever. I guess I'm not the demographic.
@AceM-Reacts thank you for making me feel old jk. Your age group didn't witness Madonna's power but it's never too late. You should introduce yourself to Erotica, my fave album. or I'm Breathless, which featured Vogue. In the early 80s there were many female artists. But it really came down to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. Those were the two. By 1988,89..., it was just Madonna, and probably Janet or Paula.
Ace is M fans are anxiously awaiting the next M song on the journey Love song a debut with prince , it’s a decisive song with some fans loving it , and others feeling perplexed by it. Either way you see it Ace, I’m excited to hear your thoughts and hope the video has been recorded and is down the pike and ready to be shared very very soon. Peace
Hi AceM! "Express Yourself" is my #1 favorite music video of all time, and also to me the greatest music video ever made by any artist. I would like to give a suggestion: Perhaps for the songs "Dear Jessie" and "Oh Father" (track 7 & 8 on Like a Prayer), you should react to these two in ONE video. Listen to both songs in one sitting, before you give your reviews. This is because the ending of "Dear Jessie" is EXQUISITELY SEGUED into the beginning of "Dear Father". It's the same for "Sanctuary" and "Bedtime Story" (track 9 & 10 on Bedtime Stories).
This I think was one of my earliest experiences with HOUSE MUSIC. Almost immediately after EY, there was an explosion of house and techno songs and remixes in '89-'90. Madonna was easily the first superstar to put her stamp on it.
QUEEN OF POP ALWAYS DOING IT FIRST
One of the most iconic versions of all time. Also one of the first artists to remix her song for the single release.
Interesting! Madonna seems like she was in on the remix trend from the start.
@@AceM-Reacts I think she was the first major pop star in giving importance to the remix versions of her songs. Later, you'll realize that she's going to choose many of her remixes to perform them live, that's been a constant throughout her career, it's amazing how she's supported the DJs giving them the credit they deserve. Someday, they also will recognized her as they should.
Pd; If you remember, she used many remixes in the Who's that girl Tour, the one I love is the one for Into the groove.
@@Matuteilcapoyou mean producers not djs...
🐈 is power was the message here & yea this version is far superior to the album version. A CLASSIC
Hmmm. Interesting! LOL Now it makes sense why such an overstated emphasis was placed on the cat.
Told ya! 😃 so you can imagine back then at this point in her career she was coming across as an extremely strong woman who was writing her own story and script. Gathering admirers and fans exponentially every time she released another bold song interpretation through videos
Definitely strong. Madonna's presence in this video comes off as very powerful and direct. She tends to come off as strong, but she seems even more dominant here.
This is one of her most sophisticated music videos ever. David Fincher did an amazing job. They are going to team again, the result will always be brilliant! Btw you should check the only live performance, without taking into account the tour of course, of this song at the VMAs, it's mesmerizing! Nice reaction dude. Happy 2024!
💯 Sophisticated is the perfect word to describe the direction of the video. Very cosmopolitican. Definitely gonna check out the VMA performance y'all are talking about. Thanks for watching and commenting and happy new year to you too!
I had a feeling you'd like this version. Her performance at the Blonde Ambition tour was amazing. This was the height of her career and where her artistry really blossoms imo. This is my favorite Madonna album so I'm looking forward to more reactions!
I'm looking forward to delving deeper into it and seeing that performance!
The movie Metropolis is decades ahead of itself. Live performance in Blonde Ambition Tour is a show stopper. Great Reaction. Dobermans are my favorite Dog!!
I'm kinda curious about the movie now. If I can find it online, I might check it out. Looking forward to the tour. Thanks for watching! Doberman's are the best! They'll ruin you for other dogs.
It’s always fun to watch reactors do a comparison to the album version of the song with the music vid version. Everyone is always pleasantly surprised at how much better, sonically, this version is as well as the fantastic production quality of the video itself. I think most would agree that this should have been the version on the album.
Great reaction and analysis! Thanks for posting!
✌🏻👍🏻✌🏻
Yeah, this version impressed me much more. I haven't listened to the album version since the reaction, but I relistened to this version after. Thank you for watching and commenting.
The original video had the album version.
I agree please watch the MTV Awards performance of this song. Since Pepsi canceled sponsoring the Like a Prayer Tour, Madonna would instead opt to act in Dick Tracy at this time, whilst newly divorced, she dated the films director and star Warren Beatty. The studio/Disney would instead sponsor her tour the following year. So no tour in 89, just a spectacular VMA Performance for Express Yourself.
Madonna and her team knew once Shep remixed the song Express Yourself after Stephen's original that she would use this version going forward.
Like a Prayer and Express Yourself are the 2 boldest, strongest most empowered Madonna album moves I have ever scene, she was peak of her powers here creatively. Plus the album itself is arguable one of her best
Oh snap! Okay so we're seeing a newly divorced woman! It's making sense now why she's being bolder in these videos than before. Definitely gonna check out the VMA performance. Don't think I';ve seen an award show performance from her since Like a Virgin.
Both this video and the one for "Like a Prayer" were heavily played on MTV during the late spring and early summer months of 1989. By that time, Madonna's frequently changing looks had already become her trademark, so we were used to seeing her look different from the last time we saw her. Nonetheless, it was still somewhat surreal for viewers to tune in to MTV's Top 20 video countdown and see the curly long-haired brunette Madonna dancing in front of those burning crosses in the "Like a Prayer" video, and then a few positions up or down the chart witness her as the uber posh and gleaming blond bobbed temptress in the "Express Yourself" video.
You're in a great era, Ace. 1989-1991 was a very exciting time in Madonna's chronology.
I'll bet. The vibe she gives off in both videos is very different, but still all her. Looking forward to going deeper into this era!
Interesting analysis! Personally, I like both versions equally.
That's cool!
The video imagery and narrative is inspired by Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis.' I've always liked this version of this song! Her performance of this song in her Blond Ambition tour is iconic! Madonna's videos and concert will get more risque!
Certainly looking forward to seeing the next concert tour!
Def one of her all time greatest videos. Especially right on the heels of Like a Prayer...a double whammy!
Directed by David Fincher, at the time this was the most expensive music video ever made and remains in the top 3 priciest videos of all time.
Money well spent, imo.
💯 Definitely got a return on the investment!
First time i saw this video, i was sure it was art, a really masterpiece. One thing about the 2 versions of the song: the trumpets solo at the álbum version match with the scene of the musicians in a cage. But, the remix version was soooo good that became the first time it happens since in the story of the music videos. Am i right?
Intersting! I didn't even think about the trumpet players in the video. They probably would've synced up with the sounds of the original version. But I'm glad they went with this version of the song instead! 🤣
She was definitely giving MJ a nod here.
Yep! White socks and all. lol
Mj ? Let’s not
Not a Nod, but basically she was saying. She can do it just as good and she did. even better as MTV crowned her and not MJ Mtv artist of the decade. Jacko was so threatened he tried to defame MTV and demanded they rename the MTV award after him and they shouldn't have. to name an award after a PEDOPHILE is NOT OK
- the most expensive video ever made at the time, it cost 5 million dollars (something like 12 million today), it was groundbreaking for it's production value and cinematic approach
- Metropolis the movie is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart". So Madonna plays a revolutionary female character here
- Madonna called MJ to ask if she could incorporate some of his moves into that choreography and he approved. But the main point here is how outrageous it was for a woman to grab her crotch at the time... It's a tease of what's to come in subsequent works about challenging gender norms (note that she's also in a masculine suit, and it's when she embodies that masculine side that she starts to win her game)
- this time around, she got in trouble with two different and opposing groups: the conservatives for the sexually charged scenes, suggesting sadomasochism and the feminists who got very angry with the glorification of the image of a glamorous woman in a submissive role, chained in bed and also crawling under a table (the milk schene was the most controversial). Madonna would later declare in a famous TV interview at Nightline:
"There wasn't a man that put that chain on me, I did it myself, I was chained to my desires, I crawled under my own table, there wasn't a man standing there making me do it. I do everything by my own volition, I'm in charge"
Great reaction as always, can't wait for the rest of the album!
@Victoria-Lesly uhm hello. Well, I never said this was the fir6time Madonna dressed as a man, but I think the purposes were different to why she's "dressed like a man" as you said in WTGT, to why she's done in the sequence of this video, it's different semiotics, to me at least (but I'm not getting into that). Crotch-grabbing as a dance move is obviously an MJ signature that started with Bad, I never thought I'd have defend that.
@Victoria-Leslyand seriously, do you really think you know every information that's been out about Madonna in 40 years to be so sure of accusing me of lying? Do you have any idea of how many interviews she's given in I don't know how many languages before internet that just got lost in the way? If it's a lie, then it was Madonna lying to the interviwer OR the magazine putting words on Madonna's mouth, but I know what I read. It's you that don't know that you don't own all the information about it. You can believe what you want, but I know what know 🤷♂️
Hilarious 😂
@Victoria-Lesly lol again, I never said he was the first one to do that or any other move, I said that it was his SIGNATURE move and that it was created for the Bad video choreography, that was shot in late 1986. Oh and btw, Smooth Criminal was shot between February and April 1987, and The Who's That Girl Tour opened in July. Tell me again how MJ got the idea for the video from White Heat performance. But go awf with your amazing music history knowledge! I really don't claim that, I just know what I know and one of the reasons I'm here is all the new things I constantly learn about her even after so many years.
Now, I'm sorry but I'm not interested in going on with this conversation, I'm here to have fun and light moments with a subject a like. And that's it. This is supposed to be a nice EXCHANGE of information, not a place for attacking others for no reason. There really is no need for rudeness around here, this is not XTiwitter and whenever I'm here is just to chill. Also, you can always create your own comment to state your convictions. Other than that, I hope you have a nice day ✌️
Wow. Thanks for the context. Her explanation of the chains and whatnot makes sense. She definitely comes across as being in control of herself in the video. Even with the laborious men, she seemed to be domineering one.
If you weren't there in 1989, 1990.. I'm truly sorry. The best time to be a Madonna fan, though the Erotica years are my favorite.
Everything female pop stars are doing now, Madonna did before them. The video mix version is completely different than the album... which makes total sense for the video. EY should have gone to #1, but is arguably her BEST #2 chart topper. Simply Red and Martika stopped it from going to #1.
Madonna is the Queen of Pop. As insufferable as she is now, she's still the Queen. Probably the best video in her entire career, besides Vogue or Like A Prayer, etc.
The kids today think Taylor Swift is huge but haven't a clue of the Madonna madness during that time.
I was around in 1990, but had a bottle in my mouth! lol A shame this didn't get to #1 but funny enough both Simply Red and Martika are on my list of songs to react to so I might go ahead and push them forward to see how they stack up against this. I'm very aware of Taylor Swift, but don't get her general appeal. I even reacted to one of her videos early on and don't think I was that taken by the song. Whatever. I guess I'm not the demographic.
@AceM-Reacts thank you for making me feel old jk. Your age group didn't witness Madonna's power but it's never too late.
You should introduce yourself to Erotica, my fave album. or I'm Breathless, which featured Vogue.
In the early 80s there were many female artists. But it really came down to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. Those were the two. By 1988,89..., it was just Madonna, and probably Janet or Paula.
Madonna is known for her sensual/ sexual exploration and expressions! Compared to others, this is Rated G!
Ace is M fans are anxiously awaiting the next M song on the journey Love song a debut with prince , it’s a decisive song with some fans loving it , and others feeling perplexed by it. Either way you see it Ace, I’m excited to hear your thoughts and hope the video has been recorded and is down the pike and ready to be shared very very soon. Peace
Hey there! The reaction to Love Song will be up this week! It’s uploaded and in queue. I’m just waiting for the copyright claim to resolve.
Shep Pettibone surpassing the original
Its house, Not House Hugh Laurie, she brought it out 1989.
Club music in the 80:s.
Deep base and double drums. And mean trance coords tbh.
10y ahead.
She took the $ she got from Pepsi and put it into the music video of Express Yourself.
What’s the doggy’s name ??
I have two, but the one seen in this video, her name is Chyna. 🙂
Hi AceM! "Express Yourself" is my #1 favorite music video of all time, and also to me the greatest music video ever made by any artist.
I would like to give a suggestion: Perhaps for the songs "Dear Jessie" and "Oh Father" (track 7 & 8 on Like a Prayer), you should react to these two in ONE video. Listen to both songs in one sitting, before you give your reviews.
This is because the ending of "Dear Jessie" is EXQUISITELY SEGUED into the beginning of "Dear Father".
It's the same for "Sanctuary" and "Bedtime Story" (track 9 & 10 on Bedtime Stories).