The only issue with Survival is that it has the content of an interlude, stretched out to a full song. If they’d added a couple more lines rather than just repeating the first verse, I’d love it more. It still sounds great, though.
This was my favorite Madonna single when it was first released. Six-year-old shrimpy was a dramatic child.
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Why hasn’t she ever opened a tour using Survival? It boggles the mind.
Bedtime Stories is also the album with the best and most diverse music videos. Not a dud in the bunch.
Finally fans can get to experience the aerosol can whooshing in Love Tried to Welcome Me
And the transition is sublime.
I just get the impression she prefers other albums of hers. I don't think she hates it, but she does pay it dust.
I'll never forget when I found a HUGE Bedtime Stories album cover poster in a thrift store for like $7. I bought it SO quick.
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I always got the impression she was cool with the album, but that not a lot of the songs would fit the vibe of whatever show she was putting on from late 90s on. She did Secret on DWT and acoustically here and there since, Human Nature is obviously a fave, I reckon she’s iffy about Take A Bow for whatever reason and I’m not sure she feels confident performing Bedtime Story. Its deluxe outing in Reinvention as an interlude felt like her acknowledging how good it is though.
It not getting a tour harmed it’s chances of ever seeing the light of day as part of an era, and you know how fast she moves on.
It not getting a tour harmed it’s chances of ever seeing the light of day as part of an era, and you know how fast she moves on.
On topic of songs Madonna dislikes from her discography, I remember hearing from an interview that she kind of gets sick of hearing Like A Virgin because it’s the song she hears around the most.
Well she only has herself to blame for that! And Nile Rogers I guess.
Random but, I’m really obsessed with her Bedtime Stories look right now.
Bedtime Stories in terms of the producers she worked with is probably the most "trend-chasing" album of her career with Hard Candy. It's proficient if a little... procedural by that point. Unapologetic sexuality, references to dead mother, all familiar territory but it lacks the dogged investigation she employed on previous albums. It's a cute little rec room of Madonna tropes given window dressing by the hottest producers of the time.
I find "Take A Bow" so... hard to reconcile as a Madonna song. It just feels so inconsequential to her legend. But I guess it never taking off in my part of the world maybe plays into that.
I find "Take A Bow" so... hard to reconcile as a Madonna song. It just feels so inconsequential to her legend. But I guess it never taking off in my part of the world maybe plays into that.
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This is probably like the fifth time I've said this, so apols if it's repetitive at this point, but what I love most about Take A Bow is how she conveys so much feeling, warmth, and melancholy with her voice and never once goes for a swooping melisma or "money note". It's all in her tone and the strength in that restraint. She held her own against the Big Voices of the time.
Take A Bow is a gorgeous pop song, but it doesn’t sound very Madonna. When you think Madonna, you think experimental pop music or dance floor bangers. She sounds gorgeous on the song, but it‘s the type of track you’d expect Mariah to nail at the time.
There is a huge difference between the two records. To me bedtime stories shows the ability of an Artist to own a trend and make it her own to the point of originality. It revers weakness into strength. Hard candy is a decent album that lacks her firm hand as a producer and author all over it.
