Madonna - Secret Reaction
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- We're reacting to Secret by Madonna from her Bedtime Stories Album. Beautiful lyrics (and a bop!).
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So excited that you have gotten to “bedtime stories” album… just a fun fact, as you know, Madonna pays homage to many of the women icons that have come before her so her looks are always inspired from the women of the past. This album is paying homage to the look of Betty Davis… I wish I could show you various images of Madonna throughout her career and the women she is paying homage to each of her looks and style… Marilyn is one everyone knows but there are many she pays homage too… in past interview, she said the reason why she does. This is to show the light that these women were nit giving credit of their brilliance and beauty in there a time, and as far as Marilyn Monroe, she is inspired by her sexuality and her ability to make people believe that she was a dumb blonde when in reality she was one of the smartest actresses of the time, but unlike Marilyn Madonna says she will not be a victim. If you have a email I can send you many of her inspirational looks side by side over the years … Madonna used in Harlem has her location for this video because she says that area of New York is overlooked by its beauty in timeless architecture and just the energy and beauty of the people that live there with darker shades of skin tones.. the culture the community and history Harlem has she wanted to showcase it…. Back then Harlem was known to be a rough neighborhood when the video was shot… Madonna wanted to show its beauty..but today it is one of NYC hottest neighborhoods to live in… it even has a H&M store…lol…
I love when she does Joan of Arc! ♥️
She looks like Carole Lombard in this era.
Thank you so much for sharing this info! ❤️❤️
Love that she chose to highlight the beauty of Harlem in this video. ❤️
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When Madonna is doing her "Hmmm", I`m literally melting
She's the queen of mmmmm's.
Obsessed with Secret back then and still am ❤❤❤ Such an amazing song with a great message! There’s an amazing b-side that didn’t make the album called Let Down Your Guard which IMO it should have as it’s a great song!! I love the Bedtime Stories era… the album is absolutely fabulous!! I’ve said it many times but I’m so happy that you really get Madonna’s work and the meaning behind the songs and videos 😊 Amazing editions to the Madonna fam!!! You ladies are faaaaaaabulous ❤
I love Let Down Your Guard
Aww, you're the sweetest - Thank you!! ❤️❤️
Sending so much love your way. ❤️
She performed it live on the Wetten Dass Show from Germany. It would be nice if you react to it since you are going to see her performing on the tour later
Pd; on that show artists don't play their songs live, but at least she's there, beautiful
I love this song. ❤❤❤ It's one of my all time favorite Madonna songs and the music video is amazing too. 🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍 Madonna looks stunning in this one. 🔥🔥🔥
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i love the album version
the outro❤
Please react to inside of me, love tried to welcome me and Forbidden love. You’ll love these songs even though were not released as singles
A beautiful, insightful reaction to a beautiful song and video. Thank you, ladies ❤❤
and congratulations on 1,000 subscribers!! Well deserved 🎉
You're very kind - Thank you so much! ❤️❤️
You two amazing ladies are my highlight of UA-cam and reaction. I anticipate all your reactions I don’t want them to end haha
Aww, thank you so much! That's very sweet of you to say. ❤️❤️
Love ❤️ this album too ... XX 💋
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"You get one shot at this." Well put.
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I’m definitely excited for this album, especially Take A Bow (if you want a live performance do the one with Babyface at the American Music Awards?) and this is a great song; great reaction, it does take us a long time to do things in life that make us happy instead of trying to please others!
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This song and video is amazing. Though the album Bedtime Stories album didn't have the extraordinary production of Erotica, I think the new jack rnb suited her like a glove. And her voice shone here, where it was a little in the background on Erotica.
It's a shame she was so desperate to get into movies during the 90s instead of focusing in music, we lost out on a few great albums she could've made in between Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light. Music was cute but sadly a turn she never recovered from. The 90s was her at her zenith, and for some reason she just never built on the amazing production and music we knew she was capable of between Justify My Love and her William Orbit collaboration.
Not to mention sounding like a robot 90% of the time for some strange reason. She needs to release the shelved Veronica Electronica album already.
Hi for the live version I suggest you the one of the Rebel Heart Tour because it's not included in the official movie since you will do all the future tours this version will not be there
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That's it!!!! Please adopt me? I don't eat much, I'm housebroken and very quiet. Please, oh, please??
😂 Aww, how could we resist? You're just too adorable. 😉❤️
@OurAnxiousReactions Yay!!!!! It'll take me a HOT minute to get there but I'm coming momma and sissy!!! Whoo hoooo, nanana, I got adopted. 😝😜😂
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First… congrats!! You have peeked 1000 subscribers!!
What a wonderful review ladies!! You always make such insightful comments!
The song is beautiful!
This is one of my favs!
Moving through the 90’s, the R&B sound is prevalent. And it works for her!
Wait until you get to Human Nature, her brilliant clap back for all criticism surrounding her Erotica era. The video is also one of my favs.
Looking forward to the next post!!
Have a lovely day! ♥️
Aww, thank you - You're incredibly sweet! ❤️❤️
Have a wonderful evening! ❤️
There are some great tracks that didn’t get released as singles “inside of me” & “sanctuary” especially worth a listen
Yes those, and Love Tried to Welcome Me
Live version - Drowned World Tour, Madonna is on guitar which I always love to see 🙂
So she only performed it live once, during her Drowned World Tour. Worth checking out. It's simple but beautiful. One of her best songs ever.
She also performed it on select rebel heart tour dates
I loved the secret version from drowned world. Donna and Nicki transformed it to greatness. She did at the forum during Rebel heart and it was excellent
My all time favorite Madonna record
What a strange era Bedtime Stories has been.
I remember that after Erotica few really cared what Madonna did, at least in Italy we remained the most loyal fans. And she made this melancholy record and her image had something nostalgic and classic: platinum hair, a retro way of dressing. This lady has style. I think no artist would have survived Erotica. Madonna moved on, as always...Here we are Ladies, what a great ballad and your smart reactions.
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️
And yes, we're all very grateful that she wasn't deterred from her art by the backlash from Erotica. ❤️
It’s very important to point out for this album, radio stations didn’t do much airplay on human nature and bedtime story , I know my local stations played don’t stop as an alternative single. This an album I honestly think you’d love to react to every single
Her R&B era 🩵 Her vocals were so soft and velvety on this album. The best Secret performance is definitely the one from Drowned World Tour (2001)
Erotica - Bedtime Story - is her best Era
Until I learned to love myself
I was never ever lovin' anybody else…
Thank u, ladies!!! It’s a secret for many people!!!❤❤
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Perfect lyrics!
So glad you liked Secret. This was a very big hit in the fall of 1994 and set the tone for her Bedtime Stories album. Onece again a change of direction, or more likely another side of her that she so beautifully showcases with this song and video. The beats are insane, like you said. Thank you again for a fun and great reaction.
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️
We love discovering the many sides of Madonna. 😉❤️
Secret was a great first single but the second one did even better. Bedtime Stories is probably my fave Madonna album ever. I love it so much. Erotica and Ray Of Light are close behind. Fantastic singles, videos, albums tracks.
Btw congrats on 1k subscribers, you so deserve it and i'm sure thousands others will follow because this channel and your personalities are just great and so likeable.
Aww, you're too kind - Thank you so much (and thank you for being here on this journey with us)! ❤️❤️
We're really looking forward to the rest of this album. ❤️
Stunning in every way...from her finest album...pop/r&b perfection
One of my favorite Madonna tracks. Quite underrated although it hit top 3
Please, you need to have a stereo headset to be able to feel the quality of the music from now on
Yes, we probably need an upgrade. 😉❤️
Many years ago, i read this song was written about a Madonna friend who was gay and shared that with her and others. This is Madonna's homage to that person and event.
No, its not.
@@Thiago-dd2vg That was what i read. My bad, then. Thank you for your reply.
She said Secret was about a trans woman. Deeper and Deeper was about a gay man coming out.
Thank you lovely ladies for your reaction wonderful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Madonna secret song is great her voice sounds awesome 👍👍👍👍👍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I love ❤ this from Madonna the video 📹 is amazing just like all of her videos are amazing and the beat and the lyrics are dope 👌❤ and she shot this video in Harlem New York 😀😀💛💛
This album is everything
Yet another top 5 hit for her in the USA after I'll remember ( that was also top 5). She is such a chameleon in terms of her sound and image! Great reaction ladies thank you!
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️
Yes - Definitely a chameleon!
The visuals on this one are spectacular!
You really need to react to “Sorry” remix interlude from the Confessions tour….the visuals and that message is Amazing!
Also “nobody knows me” interlude from the MDMA tour!
make a reaction of the videos: " Take a bow!, "Human nature " and "Bedtime story"
They're coming soon. 😉❤️
she wanted to show that dismal places like Harlem can have nice sides too in this number-the videos of this album are the best of the best, collaboration with Bjork and Baby face was fruitful, the album title song is shown in a New York museum on a screen-timeless, romantic, futuristic , inspired by surreal painters all these show that Madonna is an art expert, places her videos on a meaningful base-they are all here…who would have thought that she was this well-read and educated herself in history of art? now we know it…thanks ladies
Agree with you. The references and influences she draws into her music and artistry are so deep and thought-provoking. Her legacy work from her vast discography and videography are like art painting masterpieces done in mosaic of gleaming gems full of symbolism, meaning and messaging that resonates through time. From many sources, including from her interviews, she is a voracious reader/student of literature on history, the arts, spirituality, socio-political issues. She is not only a patron of the arts but also a creator of art. She has graciously acknowledged and appreciated many of her muses from earlier artists but she has also mentored, collaborated with and influenced many other artists and those who followed in her footsteps. She has a lot of wisdom and compassion that she shares through her artistry and advocacy.
In my book, she is the Da Vinci, Botticelli, Beethoven, Puccini, and James Baldwin of post modern pop music.
Thank you! ❤️❤️
We love the many layers of everything Madonna creates - Can't wait to hear the rest of the songs (and see the videos) from this album.
The ultimate true QUEEN OF POP, always new look always new sound always delivering quality, i would suggest the live version of secret from the Drowned World Tour 2001 (it features some religious backdrop which get me so emotional)
This is About the law of the attraction. The book 📕. The secret
The secret S: Harlem as a beautiful place, happiness and perhaps the child of her boyfriend in the video 😉 the video was directed by a woman, Melodie Mc Danields 🧏🏻♂️
And there's another alternative video for this one - I think it's known as the Dan-O-Rama mix but it has the Junior Vasquez club mix edit on it.
Thank youZ my exact thought was to recommend this.
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HAPPY FRIDAY SWEETHEARTS ❤😃
Happy Friday to you too - Sending much love! ❤️❤️
This video always make me chuckle at that old guy playing guitar as he is trying not to look down always up to the ceiling as Madonna’s cleavage is in his view.
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Bedtime Stories was an album that had very little promotion on tv shows. Secret, for instance, was only performed on German TV and it wouldn’t be until 2001 that Madonna would add it to her concert. But this is the moment when she starts releasing remix videos! So if you search for Madonna Dan-O-Rama you’re going to find remixes for many of her singles until 2001, including Secret 😊
Can't wait to check out some of these remixes! ❤️❤️
Some think this is about her coming to terms with her attraction to women because she was dating ingrid at the time and said thank you to her in the cd booklet credits
yeah I also think it has something to do with that because if I remember correctly the first time she publicly said she was attracted to women was exactly during Bedtime Stories promo in an MTV interview or something.
I read recently that this was actually a very important video! at the time of its release, race relations between the black and white communities weren't good because of the Rodney King riot as well as the OJ Simpson trial. she used this video to showcase the beauty of black communities and black culture to a white mainstream audience
Thank you so much for sharing that and providing this important context for the video! ❤️❤️
Madonna’s advocacy for Black, other minorities (Latino/Hispanic, gay, women, etc.) rights and cultural recognition started way early in her career like in her music videos of: 1989 Like A Prayer, 1986 La Isla Bonita, 1989 Express Yourself, 1990 Vogue-and on throughout her career she’s tackling socio-political issues on race, gender, religion, war, prejudice, gun control, more. Her activism and advocacy is as fierce today as in the past.
I suggest you listen to the opening track from Bedtime Stories Survival with the voices of Nicki and Donna, Isis of Me dedicated to her mother, and Love Tired to Welcome Me that I always listened to in my sad moments
Thats so true i totally agree with you well said 👏 😊
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I first heard this song when I rang a 0055 number out of smash hits magazine just before it came out and I just loved it. Such a great song
First one.
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Heavy makeup madonna in this era is everything to me❤
Once you enter bedtime story era you must do her brit award 95 bedtime stories mesmerising
Erotica / Bedtime stories is my favorite Madonna era,.
Love this song...so slightly biased but I love it!
Hello Brenda and Emily! Love you guys and this Madonna journey! Secret is such a smooth grooving song and I love the video. The whole Bedtime Stories album is great and the videos from this era are some of her finest. Enjoy!
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Sending much love your way!
Hello Emily & Brenda. I absolutely love your "Madonna Journey" reactions, and i've been watching since the very beginning when you guys started, and I just wanted to say that I've seriously have really looked forward to each and every single video that you guys have uploaded. I literally go on youtube every single day just desperately hoping i'll see a new video from you guys. It's the biggest highlight of my day on those specific days!!!!!
Question: You guys have said that you both plan on going to Madonna's Celebration Tour (that shes currently on right now), but I am wondering if that's still currently your plan.... And if so...... Which location for the Tour you plan on going to? I myself live practically right between two of those locations which are "San Francisco" & "Sacramento" in California. Even though both distances are pretty much the same for me, I have chosen to go to the Tour in Sacramento on February 23'rd however because my little Sister actually lives in Sacramento and wanted to go with me since she hasn't gotten to go to any of Madonna's past Tours before! ^_^
Aww, you're so incredibly sweet. Thank you!! ❤️❤️ We're very grateful to have wonderful people like you on this journey with us.❤️
We're still going to Celebration in April (in Atlanta). Can't wait!
So exciting that you get to go next month - Have a wonderful time!!! And hope your sister knows how lucky she is! ❤️
Secret is such a chill banger!
Congrats on reaching 1K! 🎉 as usual, great reaction to this wonderful song and video. Can’t wait for your reaction to the video to Bedtime Stories, one of my favs! Some fun facts: at the time of its making it was the most expensive music video, and it is the only music video ever acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) here in NY for its film and video collection.
Aww, thank you so much! ❤️❤️
And Bedtime Story sounds incredible - Can't wait to see it! ❤️
I really love you both for doing this Madonna journey! I can’t wait to watch your Confessions on the dance floor tour and MDNA tour reactions!!!
And we love that you're here with us! ❤️❤️
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Great reaction as always
I love this era so much. Secret is a great mid tempo song and a good choice for her first release from Bedtime Stories.
Love the black and white video and she looks amazing.
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We're very excited to react to this era!
This is my favourite. The first time I paid attention to Madonna when it came out when I was 13. Really great song. And she was hot in the video!
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This song is awesome, i love the special taste of the guitar and the R&b beat. Although the video is wonderful, still don't know what's the secret hehe The memory i have of this video when i first saw it, was that i thought the stare of Madonna to the camera was so powerful that impressed me much. Your reactions are wonderful as always 🤩🤩🤩
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Another great song! Lots of people have an opinion about Madonna and a lot of those opinions are not positive. But then again, there are those of us with excellent taste and appreciation for her and her music! The creativity and vulnerability she infuses into her songs is undeniable. Because no matter what subject she's singing about, she's honest and real!
Excellent reactions 😊
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Although this 90s era of Madonna started with her exploration of sexuality, eroticism in her music and artistry, it would also inspire her to write some of her most beautiful and enigmatic ballads like Secret, and the beginning of her introspective, personal spiritual journey searching for answers that she reached and expressed in her 1998 Ray Of Light album/era.
Secret is layered with meanings and influence. Her cover photo for Secret’s single release and edgy look in the black and white video paid homage to one of her early film heroines-Jean Harlow-(died prematurely in 1937 age 26) who in her short 9 years in films became known as the “Blonde Bombshell” and “Platinum Blonde” a leading sex symbol of the early 30s for her portrayal of seductive “bad girl” characters, was “one of the defining” actresses of pre-Code (censorship)era in Hollywood cinema when filmmakers explored, then considered “risqué”, portrayals of strong female characters, “implied sexual innuendo”, romantic, sexual, mixed-race relationships, gender-bending roles, mild profanity, promiscuity, etc. Harlow’s first film which made her known was in 1930-Hell’s Angels-directed by tycoon Howard Hughes. She was also a liberal Democrat who campaigned, raised funds and supported actively the candidacy of Franklin D Roosevelt for president, and Upton Sinclair for CA governor. Harlow’s life and artistry resonated with Madonna.
Madonna’s choice to shoot the video in Harlem, NYC with its diverse, working-class culture was familiar to her late 70s NYC neighborhood in East Village (9 miles apart). Harlem also reminded her of her childhood growing up in Pontiac, a northwest suburb of Detroit, MI.
Although she didn’t directly revealed her “baby’s secret” in the lyrics, the video ended with her going up to her lover’s apt room where she met his young child. Perhaps, this portrayed her own longing for motherhood at this time (she was age 36 in 1994) which she’d attain later in 1996. The lyrics also raised a lot of interpretation and analysis of what the “secret” that “found a way to touch” her “soul” that she’ll “never, ever, gonna let it go..”….she realized that..”something’s coming over me..”. I think this was hinting to her personal, spiritual re-awakening on the secret of true happiness. In her live performance of Secret during the 2001 Drowned World Tour, the big screen stage backdrop played a montage of various people of different faiths undergoing religious, mystical rituals.
Finally, you may want to view (perhaps on your own, if you decide not to do a video reaction) of her 1995 performance of Secret (and Take A Bow) in the popular German tv show Wetten Das. Although she lip-synched this number as reportedly the preference for their guest artists by the show producers, her stunning, beautiful look with long blonde hair was worth viewing. Loving your reaction and Madonna journey.
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And thank you for sharing that fascinating information (especially Jean Harlow's background). As always, it's so helpful to our understanding of Madonna's inspirations and motivations as we take this journey through her work. ❤️
I’m so happy you guys at this stage of the M journey - this record is actually my favourite records of all time. Her look , genre change , soft image absolutely inspired me throughout my art career & life .
Also congratulations 🥂 for the 1000 you guys are rock !
Aww, thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
We're very excited for this stage in the journey too. ❤️