MADONNA reaction: DROWNED WORLD / SUBSTITUTE FOR LOVE
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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I am posting one full length Madonna album or concert reaction / review per month + three Madonna single song reactions on Patreon. All picks will be chosen via polls and I will go where you lead me!
Currently posted:
THE VIRGIN TOUR
LIKE A VIRGIN (full album reaction)
MADONNA 1983 debut album reaction
BEDTIME STORIES (full album)
CONFESSIONS TOUR PT 1 + 2
CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR (full album)
EROTICA (full album)
Plus: Has To Be, Love Tried To Welcome Me, Falling Free, Impressive Instant, Intervention, Sanctuary / Bedtime Story, Vogue (MTV VMAs), Bad Girl (David Fincher music video), Bedtime Story BRITS 95, Bedtime Story Official Video, Express Yourself (MTV VMAs), Rain, I'll Remember and many more!
"Traveled 'round the world
Looking for a home
I found myself in crowded rooms
Feeling so alone"
That's the line. The one that follows about lovers basking in her spotlight is a natural companion.
I think she included the car scene to emulate Princess Diana who passed away a year before. I also loved how the faces of the people in the lounge were distorted and made them almost frightening. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite Madonna videos and songs
This is my favorite song by Madonna. Words cannot describe how much I like this song.
Great reaction as always
I’m with you there, well almost as it is my second favorite after LAP.
It is Mine as well
Her most underrated song and video. Haunting, beautiful, sad and amazing. So good.
Yes it’s quite underrated.
Madonna is such a goddess. That part with the maid with the disposable camera always gets me. What an appropriate interpretation of this song. This seemed like a warning of sorts to the celebrities of today.
Yes indeed a beautiful video one of her very best
The darker side of fame. I love when she shows her vulnerable side. The scene at the party with the distorted faces I think is brilliant. I often feel that way in large gatherings so I can imagine her level of fame intensifies the disconnect from strangers.
Agree, actually vulnerable Madonna is my favorite Madonna.
Fun fact, this song is track #1 on the Ray of Light album, and Swim is track #2.
Best 10 minutes of any pop albums. Pure bliss.
most of Madonna's ballads involve deep and personal thoughts, this woman moves me in so many ways, one of my favorite songs with nothing fails...although I love so many of them, so emotional, a song and a beautiful music video that deserves a lot more views really. this song always gives me chills just like time stood steel, this use to be my playground, little girl, you'll see, joan of arc, inside out , looking for mercy, promise to try and so many others. the lyrics of every song are so deep.
thank you for your reactions about Madonna, very touching!
Thanks! There are a few on your list that I haven't heard yet!
@@bridgethegapreactions there are so many things to discover, thank you, you express your feelings so well.
She’s great at ballads great lyrics.
This song gives me chills after all these years. The memory of buying the album, put it in my discman and this songs starts will never be erased ♥️
Hard to say which Madonna song is my favorite, impossible actually, there are quite several. This one maybe? 😎✌🏽
You know a video is a work of art when you’ve seen it hundreds of times and you still get overwhelmed with goosebumps!🙌🏽😭
This song was the opening number on The Drowned World Tour. As of today, this is the only ballad to start a show. She's front and center with a mic and did no choreography. She sounded great too.
I can't wait to see that one!
My second favorite tour from hers.
Awesome, deep, insightful reaction to this mv. This is one of my all-time top 10 fave Madonna songs. Powerful message about the superficiality of stardom and celebrity culture-and how she found refuge and genuine love in motherhood-her “new religion”…Really appreciate your reactions to Madonna’s artistry.
My absolute favorite number one song of all time, as a loyal fan from the very beginning, and knowing her as well as a top fan can, this song speaks to me as the real Madonna, it makes me feel every emotion she intended and I love her for it, she impacted my life in so many ways, she is the Queen, but yet, she is a human being at the same time.. I LOVE YOU @MADONNA.. 👑
Well said! This song has everything
Her life and Princess Diana was similar in the Paparazzi situation, hence the beginning scene getting chased on the road into a tunnel. This is truly a song about FAME, I wonder where I’ve heard this idea in Modern Pop. LOL
The music of my life. Im so emotional in these times., Thanks for this.
Next time I make a Madonna Top Ten, this one might really be in there
I remember hearing this one for the first time while playing the album (after hearing the amazing singles) and being blown away yet again. I can't get enough of this project. Glad you enjoyed it!
It's absolutely one of the very best that I've heard from Ray Of Light!
I'm lucky enough to have only discovered this song this year...I really liked Ray of light when it came out but never heard this song....But now it's my favorite it's soooo beautiful. William Orbit &Co's production on this is really incredible.
Great opener to the album.
"Drowned World/Substitute for Love" was released as the album's *third single* , worldwide, except in the United States.
The child in the video isn't Lourdes though, it's a 'Substitute for Lola'!
The song includes a sample from the song "Why I Follow the Tigers" by the San Sebastian Strings, a group created by both Kerr and McKuen. The vocal sample was of a man uttering the words _"you see"_ , later confirmed by him to be actor Jesse Pearson.
And of course we couldn't forget that... *nobody hums like Madonna* !
Love those hums.
Isn’t Je suis?
Madge is perfect for slows, her voice is so matching
love love love this song. Has a great build in its momentum
Yeah, that aspect of it kind of crept up on me until I realised how intense the music was getting. Masterful stuff
I absolutely love your channel! Your MADONNA reaction videos are the BEST!! Looking forward to the next one. 😊
Such beautiful song and video..magic.perfect
We want fame so badly that we don't realize what we have to sacrifice for it. When in reality all that matters is love. Money and Fame will make you happy for a bit, but it won't make you whole.Great reaction.
Thanks Johnny!!!
👍💙👊Zane
I love this song Bt & Sasha did a remix to this and it was very stellar you should check that out.
A lot of people said that the video was influenced by Lady Di death, but I think it just shows her own struggles with fame and fortune. It’s a beautiful song and the video is stunning.
I always cry in the end.😢😢😢
Check the live versión of drowned world tour
Even as one of her most direct videos, this got a lot of flak as a lot of critics compared the opening car scene to Princess Diane (she had passed about 6 months earlier). Unfortunately, M will always be criticized on some level for her work. Also, the girl at the end wasn’t her daughter. Lourdes wasn’t quite that old yet.
Haha, oh lord - that's a reach. It's not like it was a crash or anything resembling the diana thing. She will have got that flak from the same media that made Diana's life miserable too. Scum.
@@bridgethegapreactions always thought that was a deliberate critique of the paparazzi chase that lead to Diana’s death. Even if not too close to what happened to her. Just distant enough to remind people of what behaviors lead to her demise😢
Edit: I guess I assumed what many did but her publicist said that wasn’t deliberate.
@@taintedlife2618 It wasn't deliberate and she'd actually been chased through that same tunnel. Also, she was one of the few celebs to NOT come out and blame the press for Diana's death, at the time, maybe because it was too real. If anyone knows what it was like living under that kind of pressure and being photographed and filmed every day of your life, it was Madonna.
Timeless! Even in 2023
I miss this girl. 🥰
Love this song and video. Little Star is one of my favorites too. Very sweet song and beautifully sung.
✌🏻😉✌🏻
Warner should've released this as the first single as a teaser so to speak way ahead of the appetizer that is Frozen and then the main course which is the title track upon the album's official release.
Nobody expected her to come up with this new sound. By doing so, the singles would've performed much higher on the charts than it did. Three no. 1s possibly. Another example of missed of many missed opportunities by the record label.
Thanks Jonny! I’ve been looking forward to you reacting to this since I discovered your channel - it’s my favourite Madonna song. The writing, her vocals & Orbit’s production are all top notch and combine to produce something beautiful & delicate yet so powerful. I think you’re right in that it’s one of Madonna’s most direct songs - maybe that’s why I find it so easy to connect with the emotion of the song.
The video is great too: the irony of the “so happy” lyric accompanied by the unsmiling visual, just as the music transforms gives me chills every time.
An incredible piece of music and a wonderful opener to a fantastic album. I know you’ve heard most of the parts now but it would be great to have you do a full RoL reaction to get a sense of the full experience of that album.
Beautiful reaction. One of my favourite songs by her, magic !
Amazing reaction and commentary. You truly get her, unlike so many that do not.
Subscribed looking forward to your next reaction.
This song is stunning, I was obsessed with it for a long time, my favorite track from the ray of light album, must to react the live performance from the drowned world tour 2001, it was the opening song of the show
I love it this song 🎵
Please watch the “Drowned World” Tour performance of this song. It was an opening number for that tour…it’s awesome!
It’s great but even better is the stripped version of the Confessions your.
This video came out not long after the death of Princess Diana. Some thought it was in poor taste, but it depicts the negative side of being famous.
I so appreciate your reaction videos, your thoughtful insights, mature analysis, and heartfelt expressions. Always looking forward to your content. Thank you sir.
Thank you so much, I'm really pleased that people get something out of my silly videos!
Excellent points and reaction. Love this song.
Not only does make you consider choices made by the star but also our own regardless of how different and individual they are- poignantly insightful 🙏❤️
React to Bad Girl, stunning video!
Great reaction, yes as you mention pretty literal video. I believe Frozen was released first, video and single, and this came later which I didn’t quite understand. My favorite song on the album. I have been going down a rabbit hole of unreleased songs and alternate versions from the Ray of Light era that have been posted liberally on UA-cam. Who knew? A few really good songs that ended up on the cutting room floor: Gone, gone, gone, Be Careful, Like a Flower.
It went Frozen, Ray of Light, Drowned World (Substitute for Love), Nothing Really Matters.
Well, unfortunately, they no longer chase her like this; there is very little about her that people have an interest in these days. The world today trades on the brand of celebrity that she had a large hand in creating. I can't help but feel she has been very defensive the past decade; the previous 30 she spent on offence. Everyone changes, I guess ❤
❤ That's lovely! So instead of focusing on how terrific this song and its video is, what about being DISMISSIVE...now if a has-been like Mariah Carey ever sits next to me (hopefully it won't ever happen because I don't like to share a space with awful people), I definitely would not even say "hi" to her.
You should react to Britney Spears’ Everytime music video. It has a very similar vibe.
А я бы этот трек посвятил Леди Ди!
My second favorite song from her, what a gorgeous song. A perfect way to lick off the Ray Of Light album.