Yeah and therefore it's kinda sad that she changed Ray of Light to a different arrangement on the Celebration tour. There really was no need, as this track still feels modern today.
Late 90s and early 20s. And then the planes started dropping the buildings. Still going on in Europe. World gone crazy. Bio and trade war evolving. Economy collapsing. We badly need another 70s. Need a restart. We had enough war.
Context: in 1998 Madonna took a huge risk and adopted this techno/electronica genre, which was radically different from any previous works she’d done. The pay off was simply glorious. Queen slays
Npt just radically different to what she had done before but while swimming in a sea of Britneys and Christinas, N*SYNCS and Backstreet Boys. And at an age where most would consider done for. This era ROCKED!
@@NandoDisco Madonna's previous release in the late 1996 Evita soundtrack is Musical and her last studio album Bedtime Stories was R&B oriented only its 3rd single Bedtime Story is Electronica
"naturally beautiful" no shade but she was 40 when this song dropped, she absolutely had work done at this point of her career, even if just lip filler.
People say she peaked in the 80s, and maybe she did. For me, this was her best moment. Mesmerizingly beautiful and totally in tune with the times, courtesy of Mr Flood and her onion belt.
full disclosure, haven't heard this song in many years and listening to it today on the good headphones, spot on man this crushes... the breakdown at about 1:23 - this is top shelf
I remember hearing this EVERYWHERE in 1998. The radio, the grocery stores, the mall etc. I was 8 and I was obsessed with this song. The 90s had the best EVERYTHING! Music, TV, Film. Omg take me back! Nostalgia hurts so bad. This song could still come out in 2021 and still be a hit! I miss 80/90s Madonna.
I remember buying the CD when it came out in 1998. I was 28 years old and now I’m 54 and it has literally gone by that quickly. Faster than a ray of light.
Yep. I was 27. My daughter was 3 1/2, my son was about 6 months old. I'm now 53. My girl is now nearly 30, and my son is nearly 28. I know have two very high energy grandsons now. And the time went where??!
If you weren't alive then you will never get it. We were something back then. Would any of us have ever believed how bad it would get in such a short time.
@@XxLIVRAxX I was born in '93. I do remember things were different, maybe due to a lack of screen time wasted on smart phones or w/e. The best way I can describe it is you were more likely to in the moment, addiction to phones has turned us off. Things in my childhood felt "on" like a switch was turned on, but as people get lost in screentime and tune out of the real world, they pay less attention to each other, and everything. In a way we are on standby, we aren't fully tuned in and turned on anymore. Media was something to entertain and make art, now we are literally being force fed crazy shit all the time on screens. It affects young people, especially young girls.
@@XxLIVRAxX I also remember the internet was better in a lot of ways too, because there was so much anonymity. Blogging was HUGE I got into all kinds of trouble with online blogging, trying to fit in with the older girls. You had an icon and blog that reflected you, who you were, your writing, your style. It couldn't be traced, nowadays everything you post has your name on it, nothing is customizable anymore. Internet was something like a hobby you did in the evenings, not like how Instagram is used to share every moment of your life. It's so toxic because nowadays people will attack your page now, can find where you live or work, ruin your name, even if you try your best to present well online. It isn't fun and secret a place to be an individual anymore. I miss blogging... it made me a better writer.
The air was just different in the 90’s. The sun hit your face differently. The music, the people, the sights, the sounds-everything. I’d give anything to go back. It was the last great decade on this earth.
@@borediideath6526 trans people still existed in the 90s, but it was easier to be insulated from our issues because organizing through the internet was more difficult so we were more isolated from each other and it was harder to make ourselves heard
90’s were good because you had childhood innocence then. But if you had the same adult mind and went back it would suck ass. Hateful and bigoted people with poor technology.
Agreed. Her daughter had just been born and she was so happy and relaxed. Her music of this time reflected that. I think she had just meet Guy as well.
I’m going to say a year later, 1999, in the Beautiful Stranger video is Madonna at 40 and the most beautiful I have ever seen her. And arguably my favorite Madonna song.
Yeah but impossible to get such great music producers now. May be humans these days are unable to find hidden talents in themselves and following routine life... IT, technology, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science... That's it
@@jordanh2679 You're not wrong. I myself was two then, but I feel I should have been born at least ten years earlier. It's not because those people died. It's because those living turned to degeneracy. We didn't have all these new fake genders. There weren't many transsexuals (as they were called back then).
@@LostBeats333 funny enough Cher made autotune poplular in the same year with Believe, but well Cher can actually sing and does not purely rely on it. Madonna also used a lot of vocal effects on her most recent album Madame X but I still think it's acutally her best work in over a decade thanks to her experimenting with different sounds again and not playing it too safe.
I know I'm gonna sound like 'that dick', believe me, I totally get it, but the REASON Ray of Light was so brilliant was William Orbit. She had the talent to recognize his unique sound (from Nitzer Ebb to Jimmy Somerville) and latch on to his already, long cultivated, at the time, really-underground brand. So yay. Worked out great for both of them.
This how I truly See the World moving while I'm walking brisket through it All trying g to figure out when are people are going g to slow down And smell the flowers again 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
An absolutely iconic album. Nothing comes close to the musical creativity that both her and Orbit put out at that time. Ray Of Light is an absolute masterpiece.
It was a secret experiment: take a song written for Björk and see how much better it sells with Madonna singing it. Watch the entire clip and listen closely.
@Boy Gorgeous What decade were you born? If you have a look through the catalogue of Madonna videos you will find she has outstanding musicians 'play their instruments'. Not real music? Then that can be said for 95 percent of the trash on radio since the year 2000.
I was 17 in 98. I'm with you all the way Funny thing is, everyone I've known in my life, whether they were 18 or 48 in 98, wants to go back to the 90's. Something damn special in that decade
@@dickmarx1298 There's different reasons for it. First off, at that time, the internet was still in diapers and people were a lot more face to face. Technology was just starting to take off. Things are completely different now. The millennium changed everything for us.
Have never been a fan of hers but I think she did have a lot of songs that were better than she was given credit for. This is definitely one of her best.
@@mirola73 Contrary to what you said about Madonna not being able to hold a note back in the days, Madonna's live performance of "Sooner of Later" at the Oscar in 1991 was considered one of her best performances vocally. Even in her early days before her Evita vocal training, she was able to emote vocally at best early on. Also, what you said have proven that she's been singing live in all her concerts, unlike most pop stars these days.
No one can get it out of my head that this will always be Madonna's best song of all time. Probably the song that most conveys the vibe of the late 90s with this TB-303 synthesizer running wild in the song and giving it a danceable vibe (very typical of electronic music from that time), but at the same time pleasant. This song represents very well the time when society was still discovering globalization in such a raw way, driven by the emergence of new technology called the internet that was spreading and making people's lives and the world around them very accelerated. Today, in 2023, we see many of the evils that the Internet can bring to society, but at that time I still believe that people still knew how to use the Internet in a good way, so much so that there was a boom in global economic growth in the early 2000s (even with September 11th...) This song literally represents very well the new world that society was entering, which was the 21st century. An increasingly connected and digital world, which if you don't pay attention will see your life go by so quickly without you noticing (Especially for those who lives in a large urban center) I'm saddened by the decline in Madonna's musical level since the 2010s until today. Celebration was his last really good single. But if through her present Madonna has not immortalized herself, through her past she has already achieved that.
@@lawrenceomond7341He just interpret the message of the music and video of what relevantly happens in the society nowadays. So sad people tend to ignore the message of such beautiful musics.
i agree with what you said, but i also think its normal that she has changed because shes a human and thats what people do when they go thru different periods of their lives her new music is actually very decent and not bad at all, it is a different and new madonna. We as fans have to appreciate her for all the things she has done and the huge impact shes made in this world and pushed change for the better when no one else did. Shes a strong brave,powerful and iconic woman and thats why we love her.
I'm 51 years old. I've been a Madonna fan forever. When this album came out, we didn't have cable TV at home, so I remember perfectly when, on the evening news, they announced that they were going to present Madonna's new video. I waited until the end of the news to see it, and I was in shock. Instantly caught by that ray of light, I marveled at her ability to jump into the "new era" in such a way.
The album that made me realize how iconic this woman was in music. I thought she was done in the 90's then she dropped this gem. I had to give her the respect she deserved.
Whenever this plays I get goosebumps. There's something about it. Perhaps this was her peak? It's the perfect adult contemporary song! So transcendental, and yet so quotidian.
I think she peaked with Confessions, Hung Up. At 47 she was cut like granite, smoking fucking hot, moving those curves like no one’s business and knocking the young up starts dead. It was a big F you to an industry that wanted the young hot next big thing. It was her saying ‘hey I’m still here, motherfuckers, and I’m not going anywhere!’
Dear Madonna: in 2000 I was working my first full time job, changing my first child's diapers, finishing the basement on my first house, and volunteering for the local EMS on nights and weekends. I saw this video on TV and immediately bought the album. That album became a refuge for my sanity the next 2-3 years. Thank you!
Don't give her credit for something YOU did. Madonna isn't a messiah. She didn't give you money or the strength for your house or baby. You worked for that. You earned it. Her album might've been the soundtrack of your life at that time, but you deserve the credit. Not her.
Pssst, Madge never gave AF about you, your basement, your nappies or your kid. But if it kept you from self harm and drug abuse( seems likely) than Mazel Tov.
Who can forget this song? It was plastered all over the final two years of the 90’s. Reintroduced during the Windows XP launch. What a time to be alive.
Because they were at the peak of their careers, including Madonna, and they still needed to prove themselves to be relevant. It was not the time to rest under the laurels.
Yeah, yah, well done William Orbit and other great talents making those tracks and selling their soul and not to be mentioned, so idiot people can think "this is Madonna". In 2020s this would have been titled as William Orbit feat. Madonna, and the producer could get a fair share. Thank god the world has changed.
Madonna is now 65 years old. She is the most successful female artist of all time. After four decades, she is still inspiring so many of us. No one has had such an impact on society as she did. There will never be someone like her again. Happy birthday, Madonna. You truly are the ray of light❤❤❤❤
Ray Of Light single topped the charts worldwide and ended up being one of the summer’s biggest songs. In the UK when Frozen was released knocked Celine Dion’s epic My Heart Will Go On from No. 1
@@matthew-emerson-cadmer-7409 no, that's true. Sure, without social media, you couldn't see a lot of what people thought... and that was peace of mind. Gen Z have so much stress and depression, and they don't even realize that they create most of it themselves. I wish they would stop worrying about what everyone else is doing or saying so much.
I am glad you are discovering this now. I was a teen when she started...there really is a reason she lasted from the end of the Boomers to 4 gens later! Pure genius in her way to reinvent herself and capture everyone along the way!
Ray Of Light was without question a career defining album for Madonna However her superstar status was already secure with a legacy of pop classics second to none.
@@Johnnywhamo Your comment made me re-read mediacenter man's one and you're right. I took it as if he was invalidating Gina's comment and being derogatory with Madonna. Anyway, I have this mix ups mainly due to english is not my first language. I think that Gina meant that Ray of Light was a "Redefining" album in Madonna's career, right? Greetings from Mexico and sorry for my English.
@@JesusVazquez-jz2qm ....hey no problem Jesus, I figured perhaps that was the case. Your English is a lot better than my Spanish...which is non existent. Cheers from Canada :)
Makes me remember the late 90’s and the anticipation of the 2000’s like it was yesterday! Opportunity everywhere with the popularity of the internet taking off and everyone was eager for it. Such a great song. Madonna has had some cracking tunes in 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.
@@Sovereign01 Cher? Not even close. Cher has been around a long time, but not on the same level as Madonna. Brittney Spears and Mariah Carry are above Cher when it comes to pop, I think.
@@Sovereign01 Yeah! I agree, I’m not a fan of Britney, She is overrated. She has a big fan base though, but to be honest I don’t know shit about pop . I don’t even know what I’m doing here? Lol
Guys... this was written and produced by William Orbit. Without him and other (half-shadow) producers Madonna and other pop stars could achieve nothing in the 1990. They did not understand electronic music and how to adapt it.
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Girl Feels Good FKA ♥
That’s why I’m here!
I’m now 50 and this song was released when I was 28, life is quicker than a ray of light. Sad and happy.
in 28 thankyou for this comment ! cherish the day tomorrow doeesnt exist !! Its as if im already 80 years old life is short . life it up !!!
old bastard:)
I feel this comment. I was 13... 1998 was a good year.
I’m like 28 years into your age so I’m wondering how does it feel?
Beautiful song! God bless you
The level of production on her late 90s/early 2000s songs was 20 years ahead of the curve.
Yup.
Law the Islam
Yeah and therefore it's kinda sad that she changed Ray of Light to a different arrangement on the Celebration tour. There really was no need, as this track still feels modern today.
Tienes toda la razón, este video es más moderno que los actuales
@@احلامالابراهيم-ز8ل Gay.
I’m feeling nostalgic as fuck. Thank you Madge for creating this gem as I continue my sobriety.
Good for you!!! I’m proud of you! You’re so strong! Keep going, each day at a time, never ever look back! Future is always looking forward!!! ❤
This song captured the vibes, the speed, the essence of the 90s... and it feels still fresh
yes the manager can accumulate in the other sense of the word so combustible
I'm praying for my girl Madonna she seems like she's feeling kinda rough just need to do that meditation and yoga everyday girl love u
I'd like to see every member of humanity live their lives as fast as madonna's Ray Of Light music video for the rest of their lives.
Late 90s and early 20s. And then the planes started dropping the buildings. Still going on in Europe. World gone crazy. Bio and trade war evolving. Economy collapsing. We badly need another 70s. Need a restart. We had enough war.
Too bad Madonna has become a typical hollyweird eccentric freaks.
Context: in 1998 Madonna took a huge risk and adopted this techno/electronica genre, which was radically different from any previous works she’d done.
The pay off was simply glorious. Queen slays
She's very intelligent. A musical genius. A true artist who always re-invents herself.
Npt just radically different to what she had done before but while swimming in a sea of Britneys and Christinas, N*SYNCS and Backstreet Boys. And at an age where most would consider done for. This era ROCKED!
All thanks to the Red Bulls she drank.
@@NandoDisco Madonna's previous release in the late 1996 Evita soundtrack is Musical and her last studio album Bedtime Stories was R&B oriented only its 3rd single Bedtime Story is Electronica
@@NandoDisco modonna and I are the same age, she's the best.
This song captures the late 1990s so well. The nostalgia wears heavy on me. Everyone was so optimistic.
That beautiful time before we knew the future was right around the corner.
Reality now sets in. Really sucks! I long for the old days
I know technology was supposed to set us free but now it's looking more and more like fascism
9/11 kind of killed the optimistic vibe
Yes 😁
2025 y sigue siendo mi mejor opcion para escuchar en la mañana al despertar. La vida es hoy ❤ rápida como un rayito de luz
"Ray Of Light" is definitely an immeasurable masterpiece, beautiful year 1998!!! Thanks A lot...
Timeless..
Well said that 😂
Why didn't madonna date the guy from savage garden?
Amazing!
@@derekstaroba because that guy is gay
We didn't know, but that's was the transition between the 90's and the 00's
This and Scatman's World.
U2 video for Desire is from 1988 , and it did similar effects like this before Madonna and Scatman.
Sad the '00's didn't keep the pace
Late 90s early 00s
Music Muhammad
This is THE BEST album she gave us!
Mother fed us so well
true
Yeah it's better with a Redbull
Mmm...I think it's the Immaculate...🤷♂️
It's been downhill since! 😭
Such a great song, defining an era - one which changed so much after 9/11...
I was looking to see if anyone had any comments related to 9/11, because I thought exactly the same thing as you when I heard this song...
When the 90s was a decade of hope, optimism and prosperity. Oh how we have fallen. The 90s was suppose to be the beginning of greater things.
Not really, we were just all young, healthy and full of hopes. In 25 years people who are now teenagers, gonna say the same thing about 2024.
Who said that about the 90s? that it was about hope etc
@@kennydolby1379Heavens no, I don't think there's a youngster in the world that thinks the 2020's is a hopeful time 😂
The 90s were okay, but only by 2020s standards. Other than that they pretty much sucked.
@@kennydolby1379 And they'll be right because 2024 is much better than whatever will be happening then.
Peak Madonna.
I dont think she ever sounded better than this and she was naturally beautiful at the time.
This was 26 years ago. Of course she was still naturally beautiful back then. She just needs to take out the butt implants and she's good to go..
I agree…this was the one and only album from her I liked. I was OBSESSED
"naturally beautiful" no shade but she was 40 when this song dropped, she absolutely had work done at this point of her career, even if just lip filler.
agreed. this whole album was damn good too. more modern works, not so much.
She makes me so hot 🔥 i believe she can heal
This maybe Madonna's best song
Fr, the song, the video, the vibes
Maybe
.. Definitely. Maybe😅😅😅😅😅
Up there!
@@dominicportelli7468 Beautiful Stranger is imo even better but love this as well.
@@amorgladiador8856Take a Bow is her best 😊
Una de mis favoritas de la reina del pop , siento que esta canción es terapia la amo , te da mucha energía positiva
People say she peaked in the 80s, and maybe she did. For me, this was her best moment. Mesmerizingly beautiful and totally in tune with the times, courtesy of Mr Flood and her onion belt.
Her peak was definitely the 90s - early 2000s
I think she will just carry on being brilliant and sexy and...❤
This is a cover of a much better song
@@petebagwell6666 both versions are lovely imo
90s early 2000s was my favorite time of Madonna
The production on this is fucking legendary.
wllian orbit :)
and the videoclip, jonas akerlund
full disclosure, haven't heard this song in many years and listening to it today on the good headphones, spot on man this crushes... the breakdown at about 1:23 - this is top shelf
Using the word legendary is legendary
Shes so talented.
I remember hearing this EVERYWHERE in 1998. The radio, the grocery stores, the mall etc. I was 8 and I was obsessed with this song. The 90s had the best EVERYTHING! Music, TV, Film. Omg take me back! Nostalgia hurts so bad. This song could still come out in 2021 and still be a hit! I miss 80/90s Madonna.
9 or 10 at the time: what a trip this was when I first saw/heard it.
Actually, Torn by Natalie Imbruglia was played more often than this song in 1998
@@joshall1998 I'm pretty sure they were played about the same amount. Same with Celine Dion's "My Heart Will go on", and Cher's "Believe".
fucking same ....8 years old totally obssessed by this ong
@@joshall1998 true, but who remembers Imbruglia on '21? Not many...
The "quicker than a ray of light she's flying" part at the end of this song and "Who's That Girl" (the intro part) were audibles on Yahoo! Messenger.
she looked the most natural during this era.
Because she was young Da
Cannot believe she has chosen to look her way.
She was 40 here. Today she was 65. 🤦🏻♀️
@@juanignaciorivera6915she was 40
She did till 2023, for that is when she had facial plastic surgery and changed to try to look younger than her oldest daughter. It failed in 2024.
I remember buying the CD when it came out in 1998. I was 28 years old and now I’m 54 and it has literally gone by that quickly. Faster than a ray of light.
Are you the same guy that commented being currently 50 and 28 when this came out over 3 years ago?
Yes. Perception of time changes
Madonna is seriously making me angry 😠
Yep. I was 27. My daughter was 3 1/2, my son was about 6 months old. I'm now 53. My girl is now nearly 30, and my son is nearly 28. I know have two very high energy grandsons now. And the time went where??!
I was a teenager. In my 40s now. Sometimes I put this song on and bounce around like I'm a teen again.
Peter griffin drinking Red Bull brought me back to this classic hit. I’m 48 remember when this song come out it blew up like crazy.
I'm doing my own version on tiktok 😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
@@nickromeo2882 te te todan
same just watched Peter dancing lol
I am 51 and still dance like mad to this song. Ray of light for sure!!!
One thing I always loved about madonna was she was always had a different personality each song she was in
Absolute nostalgia. This song actually feels like home
I totally agree with you there home is where the heart is right here. July 2021 ❤🙏❤😎👍😎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Anna Friel, has just got home, Anna Friel
fun fact: this song was used for Windows XP promo ads
@@codezero7981 i never knew that you learn something knew everuday thanks 😎😎👍👍😎😎🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hindu philosophy
For those of you asking, yes. The 90’s were this fast
Oh...the XTC days...😂😂
Lol I can see what you mean. Time flies.
So true.
The 70s were MUCH faster - and fun.
@@Discodancez sounds like the narration to the start of a movie
This video represents not only peak Madonna, but peak NYC as well. Great times
If you weren't alive then you will never get it. We were something back then. Would any of us have ever believed how bad it would get in such a short time.
@@jermiahduddleston4695 Its not the first time I have read that...I wonder what really changed and what triggered it
@@XxLIVRAxXEl capitalismo insostenible d siempre + el ruido tecnológik!¡!! ... 🧟
@@XxLIVRAxX I was born in '93. I do remember things were different, maybe due to a lack of screen time wasted on smart phones or w/e. The best way I can describe it is you were more likely to in the moment, addiction to phones has turned us off. Things in my childhood felt "on" like a switch was turned on, but as people get lost in screentime and tune out of the real world, they pay less attention to each other, and everything. In a way we are on standby, we aren't fully tuned in and turned on anymore. Media was something to entertain and make art, now we are literally being force fed crazy shit all the time on screens. It affects young people, especially young girls.
@@XxLIVRAxX I also remember the internet was better in a lot of ways too, because there was so much anonymity. Blogging was HUGE I got into all kinds of trouble with online blogging, trying to fit in with the older girls. You had an icon and blog that reflected you, who you were, your writing, your style. It couldn't be traced, nowadays everything you post has your name on it, nothing is customizable anymore. Internet was something like a hobby you did in the evenings, not like how Instagram is used to share every moment of your life. It's so toxic because nowadays people will attack your page now, can find where you live or work, ruin your name, even if you try your best to present well online. It isn't fun and secret a place to be an individual anymore. I miss blogging... it made me a better writer.
classically beautiful
My favorite Madonna song. I miss the 1990's.
where ??? was just a blurr
Also I miss that decade.
I was an awful job, but the music was awesome.
This, and Hung Up.
Born in 91 i miss those times, stuck between 2 generations sucks, i was bk home by street lights on but am tech savvy
I want come back at these days when MTV was full of quality music
Then you'll need to jump backwards another decade.
Fook yeah💃💃💃🤗
I think islam will dominated mtv and usa
Me too
@@arikzainal1870 what do u mean
Iconic song. Whose watching with me in Feb ‘21? Long live the Queen.
Awesome Video For Post COVID-19!! 😃😄😃😄😍🥰😍🥰🤗🤗
never stopped loving her and will never stop!
the family guy version is 1000% better
@@Paul-qy2cu loving both
Yes! Feb 20th. I just rewatched the Rupaul Madonna Rusical and then came straight here
Back when we admired Madonna for aging gracefully. She was so beautiful and this album was SO powerful. One of her best!
The air was just different in the 90’s. The sun hit your face differently. The music, the people, the sights, the sounds-everything. I’d give anything to go back. It was the last great decade on this earth.
I’d believe it. At least then there was no Corona virus or crazy people enforcing pronoun neutrality on already child friendly media.
You might be right!
@@borediideath6526 trans people still existed in the 90s, but it was easier to be insulated from our issues because organizing through the internet was more difficult so we were more isolated from each other and it was harder to make ourselves heard
90’s were good because you had childhood innocence then. But if you had the same adult mind and went back it would suck ass. Hateful and bigoted people with poor technology.
@@borediideath6526 you just had to shoehorn in your transphobia huh?
The 90's wasn't a decade, it was an emotion.
Wait until they NEED this song in 2100.
For me, the Madonna of 98 is the most beautiful Madonna ever!
I adore her
Madonna is so beautiful in this video 😍
Agreed. Her daughter had just been born and she was so happy and relaxed. Her music of this time reflected that. I think she had just meet Guy as well.
I’m going to say a year later, 1999, in the Beautiful Stranger video is Madonna at 40 and the most beautiful I have ever seen her. And arguably my favorite Madonna song.
Yes,at the end of 90s she was really beautiful
Exactamente
Dzięki bardzo kochana ❤️❤️♥️❤️
This song is a masterpiece! It could be released today and it would still be fresh.
This was a re-released. Kinda. This is just madonnas more modern version of the original.
@@1javixD red bull brought me here
Love this sound very hypnotic and good feeling she is soooooo smart
Yeah but impossible to get such great music producers now. May be humans these days are unable to find hidden talents in themselves and following routine life... IT, technology, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science... That's it
It was actually a cover from the late 60s
I was in Dallas for the Celebration tour and this song was played. What a vibe and energy Madonna has she is definitely like a ray of light ⚡️🪩🪭
Stream Madonna for the Celebration Tour hangover!
Best hit for the passing of humanity in the new millenium..perfect
Cool words! What happend!? Didn't realise how good times were. X Well we did, then it all went a bit Pete Tong.. 😆 Loving the the New #MADAMEX ❤️
Well said !
Today everything is quick and fast
Like in video
Then 9/11 happened.
@@jordanh2679 You're not wrong. I myself was two then, but I feel I should have been born at least ten years earlier.
It's not because those people died. It's because those living turned to degeneracy. We didn't have all these new fake genders. There weren't many transsexuals (as they were called back then).
This looks more like the future than what we have now
I am shocked that it sounds refreshing today. Love it.
When you make history, things get better and better.
all old music does compared to the cesspool of auto-tune garbage we have to wade through to find anything worth listening to.
It couldn’t because everything sounds shit today , it belongs back in 1998 when music was great , anytime before 10 15 years ago was refreshing. Idiot
@@LostBeats333 funny enough Cher made autotune poplular in the same year with Believe, but well Cher can actually sing and does not purely rely on it.
Madonna also used a lot of vocal effects on her most recent album Madame X but I still think it's acutally her best work in over a decade thanks to her experimenting with different sounds again and not playing it too safe.
Music was out in 2000 and its full of autotune. still a great album
The late 90's was a good time to be young.
Yessssssssss
I want to re-make this aesthetic!
Yeah.. It sure does...
Or 39
I'm 53 and still dancing with this song
This is one of her best songs.
Oh yeah.
Watch #MadameX vids.
Don't forget to check Medellin, Crave, God Control, Dark Ballet and Batuka out.
Very underrated if you ask me.
This album and Confessions are her most finest work.
Yes....sure.
Sasha mixing this is probably why.
I LOVE HER 🌹🇨🇼
Her vocals were INSANE in this song. I was and still am blown away . Her range was bomb !
almost beyond words !!!
It Is Not true
I think it was a result of just having filmed Evita. She'd done intense vocal training for that role. It clearly paid off with this record. 💜
@@triphophoney2981 is there a live version I can find where she does that high note at the end? I’m scared to look lol
@@ComeOnGe you can watch in her Ray of light VMA performance here: ua-cam.com/video/v77J75wBL2Y/v-deo.html I cannot watch. im scared to look LOL
Ray Of Light was Madonna's best album. By a mile.
Jack Shields easily...
I agree.
Agreed.
I agree but love her entire catalogue
I know I'm gonna sound like 'that dick', believe me, I totally get it, but the REASON Ray of Light was so brilliant was William Orbit. She had the talent to recognize his unique sound (from Nitzer Ebb to Jimmy Somerville) and latch on to his already, long cultivated, at the time, really-underground brand. So yay. Worked out great for both of them.
Probably the best song that Madonna has ever made
Vogue ❤
Not probably. Definitely
Like a Prayer
Not when La Isla Bonita exists
Frozen. Take a bow. Hang up 😅there's a lot!
This how I truly See the World moving while I'm walking brisket through it All trying g to figure out when are people are going g to slow down And smell the flowers again 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
this still remains one of her best tracks ever.
"There comes a time in an artist's career-reer-reer-reer..."
Team Crystal!
🤣🤣🤣
Lol came here after Crystal
Hippie drippie trippie soooongs
BOOOTAY
An absolutely iconic album. Nothing comes close to the musical creativity that both her and Orbit put out at that time. Ray Of Light is an absolute masterpiece.
Her best!
It was a secret experiment: take a song written for Björk and see how much better it sells with Madonna singing it. Watch the entire clip and listen closely.
Agreed!
Almost everything she does becomes EPIC.
@Boy Gorgeous What decade were you born? If you have a look through the catalogue of Madonna videos you will find she has outstanding musicians 'play their instruments'. Not real music? Then that can be said for 95 percent of the trash on radio since the year 2000.
One of the best and underrated tunes Madonna did….
My favorite….
It's not underrated idiot
The late 90's were incredible. I was 18 in 1998, and there's nothing I wouldn't do to relive that time of my life.
@task force whisky It looks that way.
GREAT TIMES
I was 17 in 98. I'm with you all the way
Funny thing is, everyone I've known in my life, whether they were 18 or 48 in 98, wants to go back to the 90's. Something damn special in that decade
But you wouldn't have the money you have now, the degree, the wi-fi and worsg yet, your I-phone 13 🤯😲
@@dickmarx1298 There's different reasons for it. First off, at that time, the internet was still in diapers and people were a lot more face to face. Technology was just starting to take off. Things are completely different now. The millennium changed everything for us.
Have never been a fan of hers but I think she did have a lot of songs that were better than she was given credit for. This is definitely one of her best.
Thanks
Yes, every once in a blue 🔵 moon she hits one out of the park 🏞️
Well many would give her credit. She’s basically a legend in pop music.
Not originally her song though…
Agreed!
This is Madonna's best song. No debate
Seriously 😆
Agree!
Siempre escucho esta canción. Me empila rápidamente.
"Ray of Light" is considered one of the hardest songs to sing and had one of the longest notes, and Madonna sure belted it like a pro 🥰
She was coming fresh off all that Evita vocal training so her voice was amazing on the whole Ray of Light album.
5th Dimension's, California Soul. McCoo sustains a note for 17seconds.
@@gregoryhagen8801 Madonna held that same note for 17 seconds too during the Live Earth concert in London.
Not to burst your bubble, the concert she did in the 80s in my country was SHOCKING, she could hardly hold a note.
@@mirola73 Contrary to what you said about Madonna not being able to hold a note back in the days, Madonna's live performance of "Sooner of Later" at the Oscar in 1991 was considered one of her best performances vocally. Even in her early days before her Evita vocal training, she was able to emote vocally at best early on. Also, what you said have proven that she's been singing live in all her concerts, unlike most pop stars these days.
Life was freaking GREAT in the late '90s!
Best of times
Life is still great.
Life's always going to be great, baby. Don't look back.
@@guesswhosbackg6616 Life is good anyways.
@@manuelenrique9220 Uy qué pelotudo y falso positivo jajaja. Mirá que no soy negativa, pero cada idiotez leo.
She really did everything in Music... and never failed
You see her face lately?
@@skinny4 yes 🥺
@@skinny4he said in music not life
I've still never heard do an acid dinner skiffle song
I hate getting old she was so hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ray Of Light
No one can get it out of my head that this will always be Madonna's best song of all time. Probably the song that most conveys the vibe of the late 90s with this TB-303 synthesizer running wild in the song and giving it a danceable vibe (very typical of electronic music from that time), but at the same time pleasant. This song represents very well the time when society was still discovering globalization in such a raw way, driven by the emergence of new technology called the internet that was spreading and making people's lives and the world around them very accelerated.
Today, in 2023, we see many of the evils that the Internet can bring to society, but at that time I still believe that people still knew how to use the Internet in a good way, so much so that there was a boom in global economic growth in the early 2000s (even with September 11th...)
This song literally represents very well the new world that society was entering, which was the 21st century. An increasingly connected and digital world, which if you don't pay attention will see your life go by so quickly without you noticing (Especially for those who lives in a large urban center)
I'm saddened by the decline in Madonna's musical level since the 2010s until today. Celebration was his last really good single. But if through her present Madonna has not immortalized herself, through her past she has already achieved that.
You could have said that it's a good tune in way less words! No offence!
@@lawrenceomond7341but he wanted to say more than just that
@@lawrenceomond7341He just interpret the message of the music and video of what relevantly happens in the society nowadays. So sad people tend to ignore the message of such beautiful musics.
💯% agree thanks.....
i agree with what you said, but i also think its normal that she has changed because shes a human and thats what people do when they go thru different periods of their lives
her new music is actually very decent and not bad at all, it is a different and new madonna. We as fans have to appreciate her for all the things she has done and the huge impact shes made in this world and pushed change for the better when no one else did. Shes a strong brave,powerful and iconic woman and thats why we love her.
I'm 51 years old. I've been a Madonna fan forever. When this album came out, we didn't have cable TV at home, so I remember perfectly when, on the evening news, they announced that they were going to present Madonna's new video. I waited until the end of the news to see it, and I was in shock. Instantly caught by that ray of light, I marveled at her ability to jump into the "new era" in such a way.
I'm 51 also dude 🤘🏴☠️
I'm 41
I’m 18
@@kerem1155 I was just born! no topping that.
@@dennisk207 I do not understand what you mean
She was 1000 years ahead of this industry her music will survive forever.
The album that made me realize how iconic this woman was in music. I thought she was done in the 90's then she dropped this gem. I had to give her the respect she deserved.
This was some of her best work
This was the last mdna album i enjoyed listening to, her next ones were not my thing, now it's 2019 and yes, i am curious about Madame X.
I'm not happy with MadameX. Now with that reggaeton shit? Mmhhh, byebye Mdna.
Its not her song.its a cover but its a brillant version
This was bad!!
This is it. The 90's in one song.
i think the late 90s and opening 00s in my opinion haha
Nailed it in one, it's a rave tune man
Truly
@@immanuelak2643 yesss
Yes!
Whenever this plays I get goosebumps. There's something about it. Perhaps this was her peak? It's the perfect adult contemporary song! So transcendental, and yet so quotidian.
I think she peaked with Confessions, Hung Up. At 47 she was cut like granite, smoking fucking hot, moving those curves like no one’s business and knocking the young up starts dead. It was a big F you to an industry that wanted the young hot next big thing. It was her saying ‘hey I’m still here, motherfuckers, and I’m not going anywhere!’
Yess❤❤❤
Pinch punch 👊 first of month. Happy may day 😆😆😇😇❤
If I was as articulate as you I would have said the same. Point well made.
Just listen to True Blue. What an album!
me too
One of the best albums ever made.
@@agaagama5392 yes, agreed 😎🙏🏻
My mother was obsessed with Madonna and played this all the time. Madonna.
🙄🙄
she most definitely is a trend follower
@@boob2307 I meant it as a bit of a joke, but she was undeniably one of the biggest stars of the 90s
My son had the same life 😂
Then she is a Badonna..
Definitely her best album
For younger generation
Dear Madonna: in 2000 I was working my first full time job, changing my first child's diapers, finishing the basement on my first house, and volunteering for the local EMS on nights and weekends. I saw this video on TV and immediately bought the album. That album became a refuge for my sanity the next 2-3 years. Thank you!
Don't give her credit for something YOU did. Madonna isn't a messiah. She didn't give you money or the strength for your house or baby. You worked for that. You earned it. Her album might've been the soundtrack of your life at that time, but you deserve the credit. Not her.
Pssst, Madge never gave AF about you, your basement, your nappies or your kid. But if it kept you from self harm and drug abuse( seems likely) than Mazel Tov.
No...love. pleäse
Amazing songs in the 80s, amazing songs in the 90s, amazing songs in 2000/10 and still amazing songs today. I hope she never stops
HUGE British 90s Influence in this album, stands head and shoulders above the rest of her catalogue
This and Beautiful Stranger
It's that William Orbit flair
As a life long fan True Blue will always come first. 💯💞💞
One of the best songs ever! You’ll be the queen of pop forever.
Too right
Who was she singing about " She's got herself a universe"?
@@thewindow4125 Herself.
Who can forget this song? It was plastered all over the final two years of the 90’s. Reintroduced during the Windows XP launch. What a time to be alive.
the best
The 90s were the best of times for many, including Madonna. Jesus what happened.
The menopause
Because they were at the peak of their careers, including Madonna, and they still needed to prove themselves to be relevant. It was not the time to rest under the laurels.
Feminism
9/11
Talentless hacks like CardiB and Taylor Swift happened. Listeners got dumber and dumber and now we have the mediocre pablum the industry feeds us.
Her best album, it's a masterpiece! The whole era was sublime 👑❤️💋
Yeah, yah, well done William Orbit and other great talents making those tracks and selling their soul and not to be mentioned, so idiot people can think "this is Madonna". In 2020s this would have been titled as William Orbit feat. Madonna, and the producer could get a fair share. Thank god the world has changed.
Madonna is now 65 years old. She is the most successful female artist of all time. After four decades, she is still inspiring so many of us. No one has had such an impact on society as she did. There will never be someone like her again.
Happy birthday, Madonna. You truly are the ray of light❤❤❤❤
I agree. Looking back on it.-she took everything to new heights. Extremely impressed the past year by her.
Happy Birthday. You are AMAZING
Cher is better and more successful than madonna
@@swolfe9668mm I have doubts about that. The present artists all of them have songs who took "inspiration" in Madonna's body of work
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to those millions , who still await enlightenment , a you find the space to be truly free
Madonna was everywhere in 1998 receiving accolades for her fantastic Ray Of Light album. Great memories of a simpler and happier time in our world.
Ray Of Light single topped the charts worldwide and ended up being one of the summer’s biggest songs.
In the UK when Frozen was released knocked Celine Dion’s epic My Heart Will Go On from No. 1
People were much happier.
@@psychedelicfright85 Not only that, people were less mean back then.
Wait, is that correct or wrong?
@@matthew-emerson-cadmer-7409 no, that's true. Sure, without social media, you couldn't see a lot of what people thought... and that was peace of mind. Gen Z have so much stress and depression, and they don't even realize that they create most of it themselves. I wish they would stop worrying about what everyone else is doing or saying so much.
The album was a flop
Shes was in her 40s when this song and video were released, she projected a genuine and natural beautiness.
May be one of the best female artist ever.
That's why she's the QUEEN of pop
aand she's still hot
Definitely
She had just had a baby as well.
@@jco1788 Lourdes Leon?
One of my favorite songs of all time
JAIME
Peter griffin voice : '' and i feel, like i just wanna....''
i'm gen z and recently discovered ray of light album by the queen madonna and may i say its a MASTERPIECE
OMGGG SAME 😭
GLAD YOU FINALLY SAW THE ray of LIGHT
It’s my most favorite album of all time. I’m 35 now and I’ve loved it since I was 12 years old.
I am glad you are discovering this now. I was a teen when she started...there really is a reason she lasted from the end of the Boomers to 4 gens later! Pure genius in her way to reinvent herself and capture everyone along the way!
yeah Z0ZZ
I'm obsessed with this song!!!!!!
The whole zeitgeist of the Millennium is compressed into this music video.
Well said
Motown
Shut yo smart ass up Nigga
Exactly....Modern living in a nutshell.....One of the best videos ever...
Okay boomer
She must of had a spiritual experience.
Ray Of Light was without question a career defining album for Madonna
However her superstar status was already secure with a legacy of pop classics second to none.
Career defining? What was she doing a decade earlier? Working at Hooters?
@@mediacenterman8583 A decade earlier she was about to release her Like a Prayer album.
@@JesusVazquez-jz2qm.....that's exactly what he's saying, he saying she was defining her career long before Ray Of Light.
@@Johnnywhamo Your comment made me re-read mediacenter man's one and you're right. I took it as if he was invalidating Gina's comment and being derogatory with Madonna. Anyway, I have this mix ups mainly due to english is not my first language. I think that Gina meant that Ray of Light was a "Redefining" album in Madonna's career, right? Greetings from Mexico and sorry for my English.
@@JesusVazquez-jz2qm ....hey no problem Jesus, I figured perhaps that was the case. Your English is a lot better than my Spanish...which is non existent. Cheers from Canada :)
Definitely one of the best music videos ever produced. It's so mesmerizing.
It's somehow nostalgic even though I didn't grow up with this song
@@Vitorio582 omg agree
The Queen of many generations!!!!!
Makes me remember the late 90’s and the anticipation of the 2000’s like it was yesterday! Opportunity everywhere with the popularity of the internet taking off and everyone was eager for it. Such a great song. Madonna has had some cracking tunes in 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.
I don’t believe Madonna has a bad song. Everything she touches is gold.
Also love how everything feels fresh
Each songs represent each decade
Unlike other artists that is more of the same
Except “Bitch I’m Madonna”
Thus stay number about Month great song and dance
yes the manager can accumulate in the other sense of the word so combustible
People like to make fun of her now but who has a bigger collection of catchy songs than her? She's truly the queen of pop!
This song always gets me CHARGED UP!
she just charges up my battery's to get dancing plus it was in the windows xp ad windows xp by far the best operating system and she is the queen
Like in a electric chair?
Electric chair?
This was such a glorious reinvention. A quarter of a century on, this song and album still sounds as fresh and relevant as ever.
Nothing, I mean nothing was more exciting, fabulous, but was too fast than the 90's..give all I have to go back, Ray of light fast..❤️
This song is a masterpiece!!!! ♥
She killed it, I mean her whole career 30+ years bringing out hits.
There can only be one Queen of Pop, and Madonna is definitely it.
*Cher has entered the conversation* Hold my beer... 😁
@@Sovereign01
Cher?
Not even close.
Cher has been around a long time, but not on the same level as Madonna.
Brittney Spears and Mariah Carry are above Cher when it comes to pop, I think.
@@SirSSau Mariah Carey, maybe. Britney Spears is overrated though, IMO.
@@Sovereign01
Yeah! I agree, I’m not a fan of Britney, She is overrated.
She has a big fan base though, but to be honest I don’t know shit about pop .
I don’t even know what I’m doing here? Lol
@@Sovereign01 ... Period 1983 1986 1989 1990 1994 1996 1998 2000 2005 2006. Eras Hits.
This song still sounds so fresh in 2020
Because Real Art is immortal!
The world hasn't caught up to this sound yet. If you haven't listened to it with headphones lately, I implore you to do it. You won't be let down.
It does - it is one of her best songs. Timeless!
Military on county.
Super applicable today
Finally in HD, her best song ever!!!
This song is timeless, full of energy and powerful ❤ Madonna nailed it ❤
Agree girl
Mulher visionária é tudo!
And brill
Guys... this was written and produced by William Orbit. Without him and other (half-shadow) producers Madonna and other pop stars could achieve nothing in the 1990. They did not understand electronic music and how to adapt it.