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The performance of Rain on The Girlie Show is truly a gem! It's just her, Niki and Donna doing their thing. It's awesome.
Can't wait to see
This track is pure pop art. It's one of her finest moments
This song is UNSPEAKABLY, SHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL.
This, too me, is the song that leads, sonically, to the next album.
Beautiful ballad. One of M's finest. No spoilers but wait till you see the video and live rendition 😍
Can't wait!
“Why’s it’s so Hard” is next, one of my favorites tracks on this album !!! Glad you liked Rain, I knew you’d be throwing up 10s!!!
If this had been the third single instead of the fourth in the US and the fifth internationally, it would would have been a bigger hit.
This song was all over radio for a decade. It’s so good. And the live Motown styled version in the Girlie Show is also imo the highlight of the show and takes the song even higher.
Can't wait to see
Can't wait til you see the live version with just Madonna, Niki and Donna on stools singing their hearts out! (After your video reactions of course!) Apparently Madonna recorded this as a tribute to Karen Carpenter, and you can hear it in her lower register vocals.
Now that u mention it I can
When you go back to listen to the two madonnas take out one earphone so you can hear one side and then rewind it and listen to the other side. It works. Lol!
This song is a essential 90s jam. Def one of Madonna’s more underrated songs and a good vibe change from the rest of the album
When you mentioned Rain as a song that drew a fan of 80s Madonna back...you were talking of my mom (who became a fan because of True Blue). She assumed this song was a song for a movie or a new album and when she saw it was on Erotica she said 'oh wow..maybe this will help get her fans back'.
Love it
This music video was ahead of its time. Compared to all the other music videos around in 1993, Rain was an absolute marvel.
Oh! And your girls Donna and Niki released their own version of this song a few years back! U must check that out. X
Rain performed live at the Girlie show with Donna and Nicki is so so good. They harmonize gorgeous together!!!❤❤
One of M’s most underrated singles overshadowed by the Erotica/Sex backlash. I actually wrote an Erotica album review in my high school paper back in the day saying the vocal harmonies were reminiscent of Wilson Phillips. Empress you were right on. One of my favorite M songs ever!
It all goes back to Motown and the girl groups M listened to as a child. She goes back to that over and over with True Blue, Cherish… even the dreaded Shoo Bee Doo. Lol
we're such a vibe! so cool you gave a review in your school paper
@@EmpressReacts a positive review of course. I even said that Bye Bye Baby sounded like it was recorded in a phone booth far away lol
@@fjvbfjvb 🤣🤣🤣
@@graphiquejack Shoo Be Doo is the bomb. People are stank!
I really hope she does Rain on this tour
I do too after hearing this
Produced by Shep. The song was released as the albums fourth single, I think. After "Bad Girl" flopped and the Madonna media backlash was in full gear. This song with its relaxed flow and tasteful accompanying video was definitely used to try and bring down the temperature. It KINDA worked, because this song peaked at #14, which was a rebound from the #36 peak "Bad Girl" saw. But in the grand scheme of things, it didn't ultimately fix things. I know the song got decent airplay in other markets, but I don't recall my local radio station ever playing it. Madonna had become such an overexposed and polarizing figure by then that it was gonna take more than this nice song to quell the hostility towards her, but it was the first step in bringing her back.
Produced by Madonna also.
Empress I knew that this one would get you, that lower register. There's nothing like a M ballad, which are slept on because of her image. The spoken word parts are two different lines each separately coming out of each speaker at the same time. I agree this song brings you back. The tour performance is🔥🔥🔥. The video is beautiful.
can't wait to see it!!
It's been so long since I've listened to this all the way through that I forgot how beautiful it is. ☔🔥☔
Cinematic, majestic, beautiful Rain. With a video and live performance that only further elevate it. A forever favourite
Rain is a classic Madonna ballad - the video alone is iconic. Just wait till you see it! This single kinda ended the Erotica era on a high note. M sort of did a sequel to this song a year later for a movie ballad, which was a hit as well. The song gives me Karen Carpenter vibes. I think this sound and Madonna's VOCALS points the way forward to future albums and I can't wait for you to hear them!
Interesting
@@EmpressReacts - Yes, please check it out Empress, it’s also a gorgeous ballad and video for the movie “With Honors”.
I'd wait for all the dark clouds bursting in a perfect sky?
You promised me when you said goodbye
That you'd return when the storm was done
And now I'll wait for the light, I'll wait for the sun
'Til I feel your
Rain
Best part of the song, gorgeous bridge! Gives me goosebumps turned up real loud :D
Amazing. Great. Brilliant. Excellent. Beautiful.
In a interview of 2017, Shep Pettibone told that Madonna wrote that song during a rainning day after she coming in the studio. It's was one of the first songs she started to write of this album with the title-track and ''Deeper And Deeper''. Also, unlike ''Erotica'' and ''Deeper and Deeper'' who theses two songs have many changes until the final product, the bassline was already that in the demo and already have this new age influences. Unlike the others singles (or others songs also) of this album, this song was more a conventionnal topic, since it's was a love song. Madonna also told that ''Rain'' was a love song and use the word ''Rain'' has the metaphor of love to washed away the sorrow and take away the pain.. Also, many critics noted her similitudes with the work with Enya and Peter Gabriel for his sound. Because it's was a mix of RnB and New Age. Notably that this song was with ''Deeper and Deeper'' her most radio-friendly song of this album
''Rain'' was the fourth single of the album in US after ''Bad Girl'' and the fifth single worldwide after ''Fever'' (since ''Fever'' was not released in US in single). Because of the cold reaction of ''Bad Girl'', Warner wanted to released a more radio-friendly song and this song was the right single at the right moment after ''Bad Girl'' received a cold reception, notably in AC radios. After her debut in radios, her reaction in radios was already better then ''Bad Girl'' and already considered a re-bound of the charts after the cold reaction of ''Bad Girl''. This song reaching n.14 in US (a re-bound, who Bad Girl only reaching n.36), but also top 10 in seven countrys in end of 1993.
The video also was a major change of her image of the others videos of the ''Erotica'' era, who she adopted a soft image. The video won a MTV for her artistic direction of this video. This image was a lead-in to her image of ''Bedtime Stories'' era and this single really marked the end of this era for her image of this album. Also, the video used the radio version.
For the single, two versions was released, in orders to the radios make the choices to playing , the radio edit and a radio remix by Daniel Abraham. Some playing the radio remix, others playing the radio edit (who she used a more shortner intro and outro).
🌬️⛈️ Rain is another masterpiece from a woman widely treated as talentless by fools in the press then and now. This song is both very genre and yet pushes the genre to the limit. An R&B ballad with such dark harmonies and that blissfully expansive break, then the risk of the dueling Madonnas overlapping spoken word from left and right. The song does have a different genesis than the rest of Erotica, your clever ears aint lying to ya! It was originally conceived by Madonna as a centerpiece for an unfinished project with Alek Keshishian (director of Truth or Dare), when they were devising a musical based on Emily Bronte’s essential romantic epic Wuthering Heights. Rain WAS composed and recorded as part of the earliest Erotica sessions with Shep though, alongside Deeper and Deeper and Bad Girl, but yes, it has it’s own world to it too.
I definitely hear the aesthetic links to Crazy For You, as well as Live To Tell actually. Live To Tell is artistically superior (easily one of the greatest ballads by any artist ever) with it’s sparse instrumentation and spacious, haunting atmosphere, but that rich lower register is there, so vulnerable yet so powerfully defiant. I can also see a bit of Wilson Phillips’ Hold On in the harmonies, but the harmonies in Rain are stranger and darker and more risky. Madonna definitely doesn’t get enough praise for her layering of harmonies, which are far too consistently HER to be the sole influence of any one producer. Let’s not forget that she co-produces all her work. The artist I think this song feels vocally most similar to, is Karen Carpenter. Madonna obviously doesn’t have the note perfect voice Karen C had (NOBODY ever will!) but that velvety vulnerable lower register is very reminiscent on this track.
This song DID receive a lot of GREAT reviews then, and has since been recognised as one of her best singles - out of a list of like 100 best singles!! HOW people cling to this completely spurious notion that she lacks talent is BEYOND ME… Compare the vast diversity of her work to the repetitive, derivative and often dull singles of Lady Gaga, who is lauded as a “real” musician because of her more reliably strong voice and ability to play multiple instruments… Like ok, so can everyone who went to Tisch School of the Arts because they grew up with a millionaire father… Ugh, apology for the rant, I’m not completely anti Gaga. I storyboarded her video for Stupid Love (which was a lot better in the boards, btw) but I get so tired of her fake struggle narrative that borrows so heavily from Madonna’s real life climb, and I also tire of people worshipping her formulaic rock songs set to euro dance beats as anything remotely unique, original or virtuosic. Ok rant over (until next time).
Side note: The music video to Rain is one of Madonna’s many many best. It perfectly captures the song, but in a way that isn’t at all obvious, exemplifying both Madonna’s irony and the general cultural irony by which the 90s were defined.
Totally agree with everything you said about Gaga😂 And yes, shoutout to the Karen Carpenteresque voooocals. 👏🏾 And so this song was supposed to be f9r a Wuthering Heights musical staring Madonna?! I forgot how layered and textured your comments are. Glad to have you back❤
@@EmpressReacts good to be back!! Can’t wait to see more Madonna journey unfold!!
I actually can’t remember if she was planning to star in the Wuthering Heights musical project, or if it was something she was writing to have a life as a property outside her career as a performer.
I know that Alek Keshishian first came to her attention as a filmmaker when he was working on music videos. He’d worked with David Fincher before, and when Fincher pulled out of the behind the scenes project that later evolved into Truth or Dare, she took a risk and hired Alek.
He’d sent her his graduate film from Harvard, which was Wuthering Heights themed, and included music by Kate Bush (of course!) and Madonna, and she was impressed (and flattered). So the Wuthering Heights project with him would’ve been an expansion on that work.
In fact, the first songs she starting to wrote of this was ''Erotica'', ''Deeper and Deeper'' and ''Rain''.
When I first heard Rain, I loved it. I have always thought the video is magnificent, and one of her best.
Brunette Madonna is always my personal favorite. She always seems sweeter and more gentle with dark hair. I think it's because she enjoys fighting against the stereotypes of blondes as submissive and dumb.
I also loved the radio version of Rain, which has a much lighter beat and insturmentation.
The single also contained the great experimental dance track, Up Down Suite, which is basically a remix of a demo for one of her greatest songs ever- Goodbye To Innocence, which was only released on the Pro-choice benefit album, Just Say Roe. I definitely think Goodbye To Innocence should be reacted to among the Erotica era, despite not being released until 1994.
My favorite song on this album, and one of my favorite songs Madonna has ever written is the last song on the album. SECRET GARDEN. People find it underwhelming, but I think it's subtle, the melody is gorgeous, and the musicianship is the best on the album.
Otherwise, Why's It So Hard is a good foray into Reggae with an important message, but while I respect it, I don't enjoy it that much. . . and In This Life, about her mentor Christopher Flynn and the AIDS Crisis, is important, but also the rare example of one of Madonna's most depressing songs. It probably would be a beautiful song if it was in a major chord, but instead the minor chord makes it very dreary, which definitely fits the lyrics. Madonna loves In This Life though.
Sad you're almost done with Erotica.
I definitely wanted to mention Goodbye To Innocence because I believe it belongs to this era, and I wanted to mention Secret Garden before you get there, so hopefully you can appreciate it a little more. 😘
I can't wait to see this video
''Goodbye to Innocence'' was originally planned for the album but was abandonned in favor of ''Fever''.
Rain is definitely 10's across my board! Love it so much! What a beautful ballad by M. I love the video, and I can't wait to see you react to the only live version she has done of it which was on the Girlie Show tour which supports this album. Her and Nikki and Donna's harmonizing in that performance is breathtaking, and shows Madonna's vocals off. I am praying she does this song on this Celebration tour this summer! Love the video for this song too. She looks stunning.
Lower register
Harmonizing
Madonna talking
I knew these had all your favorite items. This is my favorite but Deeper is too….
This song was non stop in the radio and tv that it is weird that it only peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100😢one of my all time favorites in the 90s the longer the song the better we the maxi single generation with the 10to15 minutes songs
Rain is a fan favorite and was the final single in most markets, fifth single or fourth i believe. Beautiful video to come. You can always count on Madonna to deliver a great pop ballad/ mid tempo. Very melodic, most classic Madonna sounding track on the album, i agree.
I think if they wanted to avoid backlash and make sure the album sold alot, they could have released Rain as the first single, Deeper and Deeper as the second and then either go with Bad Girl or Erotica as the later ones. I love all four of them. I just think alot of the backlash had nothing to do with the music, it was just the Erotica video and Sex book. Rain did do well as the fourth/ fifth single considering the backlash peaked at #14 in the US and #7 in the UK and did well around the world. She got nominated for a couple of VMAS for the stunning video and got some airplay for this one.
They shortened the single version a little bit but did not change much.
Nice performance harmonizing with Donna and Nicki for the Girlie Show Tour coming up soon.
Ooo I can't wait to see
I just checked, and surprisingly, all the tracks were produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone, who you normally like. There is another producer on 4 tracks co-produced by Andre Betts.
I think this is my favorite of the Shep ballads he did with Madonna. Maybe because it's the least "traditional." He was able to play with some cool sounds.
FIRE! Just wait until you see the LIVE version of Madonna w/ Niki & Donna (‘93 Girlie Show)💙
Empress, you are so right about this song being a comeback of sorts for Madonna. This was the very last single she released from Erotica and it really did save her career for sure, in the short term and the long term. Rain not only made the top 20 on the charts but the video was very popular and got lots of airplay over the Summer of '93. I also remember it being on the radio a lot. She was able to ride the success of this song as she went on tour that Summer, this being her most recent hit at the time. I think it reminded people that Madonna really was talented as a musician, not just all about taking her clothes off like the media would have had us believe, and the general public could more easily empathize with the sincerity in her vocals on this song than they could with someone playing the part of a sex diva. I liked this song at the time not only because it was beautiful (and as a teenager I really wanted to experience the kind of feelings Madonna was describing in the lyrics!) but because I loved how it showed Madonna's talent for not just playing the same one-dimensional character all the time like a lot of pop singers did (and do). She's a sexy diva with a sex book AND she's a regular girl with normal feelings who can pull off a beautiful, wholesome ballad and still make the top 20. Brilliant! Who else could do that?
Wow, great commentary
I love this song!! I feel this song with more depth, now that I'm older.
Gorgeous song! And one of her best music videos! Thank you Empress!
Classic pop ballad...crisp and clean and almost gives jam & Lewis vibes. That spoken word section brings it onto erotica territory. Nice video too and a flawless live performance.
Can't wait to see
Amazing and classic Madonna ballad. Niki & Donna released Rain as an acoustic single back in 2016 I think for charity. My favorite is the three of them singing Rain in the Girlie Show Tour.
Secret Garden is my favorite piece of this album though 😘
**MADONNA "RAIN" / 'EROTICA' TRIVIA TIME!!!** ..let the 'Rain' come down...
(8:28)
...I'm afraid to even leave trivia, for that the 'Madonnaholics' will COME for me! ...ha-HAA!! ...THIS Song, is when Madonna FINALLY entered the "90's"; The Video was ASTOUNDING, and helped new Madge fans correlate w/ the Old(er) Ones...this is where "Dita" becomes born again, & her cold, detached views / ways of S-X, gets 'washed away'.....
- ...the 4th single from the LP (in the USA), it hit a respectable #14 Pop; by then, Madonna realized chart positions didn't matter anymore. and good tunes, DID...The CD Single was one her BEST selling CD-5's, EVER...going Gold, which was RARE, for a single, then, in Fall, 1993....
- ...The Single had a KNOCKOUT selection of tracks: the LP Version, the 'single remix', a remix of "Waiting" (w/ Everlast of House Of Pain), & a 'bonus' 13+ minute Dub track called, "Up Down Suite" which got a LOT of Dance Club play....
- ...this tune helped get Madge her AC audience back too, because, afterwards, she did the Soundtrack tune "I'll Remember", and hit it BIG, with the 1994 Ballad, "Take A Bow"....A very, VERY important career-shifting tune, for her....
Interesting- a lot of "future talk" that I will have to see?
@@EmpressReacts ...but of COURSE, Darling Empress....LOTS of stuff from the next 2 eras... ; )
@@EmpressReacts And also, the Up Down Suite was the remix of the first version of ''Goodbye to Innocence'' (a song written during the sessions of this album and originally planned for the album, but replaced by the ''Fever'' cover) who she later released in the compilation ''Just Say Roe''.
Very interesting and insightful reaction, as always.
I've said before, I never like to predict or get too hyped for which songs Empress is gonna like. But when you start smiling and snapping with the first verse, I know we got you!
Bear with me because I have a lot to say! I'm glad you liked this - it seems like you're responding best to the ballads and midtempos, which is interesting. I think this is a sweet song so it stands out among the others, but I do think sound-wise it fits pretty well. I agree that the drums are fire - pretty sure they were intended to sound like thunderclaps. After "Bad Girl" flopped they released a "Radio Remix" of "Rain" which did pretty well but I think it's inferior to the album version and I'm sure you'll agree when you hear it. It's funny you mentioned Wilson Phillips, because I've always thought the same thing and the Radio Remix also made the song sound more like them. It's also the harmonies, which were all done by Madonna herself. Donna and Niki did the harmonies on tour - total Wilson Phillips vibes. 😆 Oh and the video is beautiful. 😍
But i think Warner also released the album version in radio, but in a shortner version (that it's used in the video). Warner wanted to make the radios choice to playing the album version in radio edit or the radio remix. Some radios playing the short album version, others playing the radio remix. But the i love the album version, so pure and with his new age sound.
@Empress You got the postpartum lovey hormones. I love it. ❤️
@@WCD199317 Yeah, makes sense. But I think the remix got the most play, probably because it was called "Radio Remix." At least in the NY/NJ area, that's the one they played.
This album is more than sex and sass. It’s about intimacy and love in all its forms.
Fire bop , 10 across the board definitely 🔥
You’re spot on. From memory this track was a return to high rotation radio airplay for her. I recall Deeper and Deeper getting some air play but Rain was by far the most commercial song in the album and I had friends who were not Madonna fans who really loved this track.
One of her best!
Love, love, love this song! I always end up with a case of the feels when I hear it! Glad you loved it! That sweet Madonna magic shines through on this track. I always thought of it as a rare glimpse of her innocence.
10 s 💯
I knew you’d like this track.
I love it and can’t wait for you to see it live!
I think it lightens up the album. God she’s so good at ballads ❤️
I think the spoken-word in the middle connects it to the rest of the album well.
This song is fire! I love it! 🔥🔥🔥
I am feeling you on the one Empress! I remember being thrown off by this song when I first listened to the album and thinking it didn't fit but it ultimately became one of my favorite songs from the album. The video is stunning so can't wait for your reaction! 😃
Exactly!!
This song and Bad Girl are my two favorites on Erotica.
This is one of my all time favorite Madonna songs.
Crazy For You
Take A Bow
Rain
What It Feels Like For A Girl
This Used To Be My Playground
Papa Don’t Preach
Get Into The Groove
Borderline
Cherish
Madonna really didn’t have any bad songs between 1983-2005
Keep digging you’ll see.
Mariah and Madonna pretty much ruled the 90’s.
Interesting!
Well… Janet, Whitney, and Celine also!
Don't forget about "You'll See," the sequel to Take a Bow which I thought was simply remarkable!
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Lol
Shall I just list every song worth its salt ?
Live To Tell
I’ll Remember
Music
Love Profusion
You’ll See
La Isla Bonita
Open Your Heart
Erotica
Secret
Human Nature
Lucky Star
Hung Up
Like A Prayer
Burning Up
Angel
Material Girl
Like A Virgin
Dress You Up
True Blue
Express Yourself
Oh Father
Bad Girl
Deeper and Deeper
Survival
Forbidden Love
One More Chance
I Want You
Ray Of Light
Frozen
The Power Of Goodbye
Vogue
Die Another Day
Justify My Love
4 Minutes
Don’t Tell Me
I like how people always have to comment telling me that I “missed a song”
I thought this was supposed to be my list ?
Opinions are not empirical, people.
❤️
Oh dear -I just liked that song! Relax 😉
The live performance of this with Donna and Niki on The Girlie Show tour is one of my favorite live Madonna performances ever. To me, it foreshadows Madonna-Evita era vocals.
Glad you loved it! Both the video and live performance are gorgeous. This is prolly the last 10’s across the board you’ll give from this album, though. we shall see. 😂 The video edit does trim it down just a bit.
Interesting
Nah… there are still some good tracks left. The house tracks are mostly over though. The second part of the album is a bit more varied sonically with different musical influences. This won’t be the first song E thinks doesn’t fit on the album. Lol
@@graphiquejack Agreed. In part. But I think one track hits harder if you were of an age in the 90s and both hit harder live. So I'll be interested to see...
Yes!!! I knew you’d throw 10s up 💅
Wait till you hear the wonderful live performance!
Sweet, I hope you love this song
Yes Rain finally! 🌧 my fav Madonna song , well one of my favs lol
I own the 2 double DVD set of all Madonnas music videos
You need to see the video of rain
I love this song...the whole album....beautiful video too
I knew you’d like it. This song has all the recipe ingredients of an Empress Fire Bop even though it was not hugely commercially successful. It’s got Madonna lower register ✅, insane harmonies ✅, Madonna talking (in 2 separate overlapping voice tracks - one in each ear) ✅, and the Madonna ad libs at the end ✅. 🔥 The gorgeous video and then the LIVE performance with Donna & Nikki will only elevate it from here.
can't believe this wasn't a hit!!
@@EmpressReacts It was the 5th single. So that had a lot to do with it. The order was Erotica (Peaked at #3), Deeper and Deeper (#7), Bad Girl (#36), Fever (DNC) and then Rain (Peaked at #14).
@@EmpressReacts It kinda was #14 for a final singe in the US was decent. Also it did better in Europe, 7in the UK for example. Had she released it pre Erotica it would have been #1 im sure but it was rather popular in the 90s and got some airplay and MTV loved the video. She said in an interview, it was the only Erotica video, they really played(although Bad Girl is the true masterpiece video, maybe it was too thought provoking and sophisticated for them lol)
I hope you react to the video, it is absolutely stunning, such a beautiful ballad.
Yep I am
THIS KINDA SOUND LIKE HER SONG I REMEMBER
PS She performs it mixed With “It’s Just My Imagination” Genius!!
Please no spoilers 😅
@@tizianotorcasio6046 exactly. Why some people think that’s helpful, I’ll never understand
Nikki and Donna have an excellent acoustic version of this released only a few years ago.
I prefer the radio remix and I think you will too. It has a fuller sound and is more R&B-leaning.
Fun fact. This was one of the first if not thee first song recorded for the album. When she presented the demos to the label it was labeled “The Rain Tapes”. Hope you listen to those demos you can really hear the progression of the songs on the album and also songs that shoulda been on the album.
Shep told that the first songs she starting to write was ''Erotica'', ''Deeper and Deeper'' and ''Rain''.
@@WCD199317 back when erotica was you thrill me 🙌🏽
she did the whole album with shep pettibone and andre betts who co-produced where life begins, waiting and secret garden. i never felt that sonically rain didnt belong on the album. the production seems pretty cohesive throughout the whole record. interesting....
I can't wait for you to get to the videos, they're some of the most stunning she's ever made.
Watch her performance of this song from the Girlie Show.
Empress ❤️! You will love this song because you will sing along to it! Similar style to 'popular at the time' En Vogue. This song is all about the Vocals ❤️ it will grab you even more when you react to the video with her new sexy looks. The Deeper and Deeper video is 🔥 fire too! This 'Erotica' album was a new sound for Madonna but became a ' sleeper hit' and one of my favorite M albums. Great Reaction, Mama! 😉
This song is my favorite song on the album because like you said, for me it's the popiest song on the album. In addition to Wilson Phillips, I think this song was inspired or influenced by Karen Carpenter's vocals and melodies and harmonies.
I would say another song that has hard drumming is Open Your Heart. But this song Rain has drum machine beats.But it's great drum programming.
The other songs that I like on this album are Fever, Deeper And Deeper, Where Life Begins, Bad Girl, Wailing (depending on my mood for both of these songs), Words and Secret Garden.
The girlie show version will blow your mind.
Can't wait to hear
I have to admit that although I’ve grown to love Erotica as a whole now, the first time I listened to it from beginning to end, it kind of felt tedious until “Rain” came on and brought such depth and life into the album. It was like a much-needed warm and sandy oasis in a desert of cold, house coolness. “Rain” is in my top five Madonna tracks and the video is a stunning study of cinematography. And…her live performance of it in The Girlie Show is the emotional highlight and brought so much soul to the concert. Funny that Erotica is such a cool, hip album where Madonna didn’t feel the need to show off her vocals on the more dance heavy tracks but the tour that came out of it had what is arguably Madonna’s most raw and powerful singing.
Interesting! I can't wait to hear
Empress....I know you're going to give it a 10! Beautiful song! I could hear you singing it!! Time for you to become a singer! Do a CD!!!!
Thanks
I love your singing voice too Empress
Wow thanks
Yes, love when you sing!
Ok when you do “why’s it so hard” I hope you love it
Empress, you have to check out the video! A masterpiece.
Told ya mama 🔥 wait until you hear it in the girlie show
Yep u did💯
Fantastic video! This song should have been a huge hit! Oh yeah the girlie show performance was a masterpiece with nikki and donna!Donna! This is the beginning of her vocals being top notch!
yeah it kinda do give Wilson Philips hold on
right!
🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽
Amazing song, Amazing Video, And the BEST her live versión with Nikki and Donna 😍
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I was pretty sure you'd like this one, although it is a development of the late 80s pop sound to something a but more 90s. The single version simplifies the spoken word section of the song, which may or may not be an improvement depending on your point of view. Wait until you to see the concert version though, it is 100% better when it comes to vocals!
Yep I can hear that 80s sound
The single version (which is the version she played on tour) was produced by Daniel Abraham.
The album version (which you just heard) was produced by her and Shep Pettibone.
You definitely want to check out the single version. It's called "Radio Remix."
Wilson Philips you meant with "Hold On" :-)
Yep!
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And i buying her greatest hits ''Something to Remember'' in 2009. Who she included many ballads of her career (except few of them like ''Bad Girl'' or ''Promise to Try'' who it's not included of this greatest hits). I listen the last year a lot ''Rain'' and love how this song sound so poweful and this new age ambiance was so pure and magic. I wasn't enough love the album to buying the ''Erotica'' album, but this song was one of my favorites ballads. So much RnB and timeless.
This album was very underground House, dance and hip-hop, but not for ''Bad Girl'', ''Rain'' and ''In This Life'' (all three remains a mid-tempo ballads and all produced by Shep Pettibone). I'm waiting your reaction for ''In This Life''. If you remember your reaction of the Omnibus documentary reaction, i talk about a little this song, you view his teacher ballet Christopher Flynn and ''In This Life'' was a memory of him and a another Madonna friend. It's was a moment who she didn't was ''DITA'' and who you enter in a very personal territory, because ''In This Life'' was very personal for her. If you Listen ''Jesus to a Child'' by George Michael and ''In This Life'', you hear in the lyrics a lot similitudes of the themes, the sadness, the autobiographical lyrics and the melancholic vibe of theses songs.
oh cool
The Rain single also has a remix of Waiting with a rap from Everlast from the group House of Pain, who unfortunately died a while back
Interesting...will listen
@@EmpressReactsit’s a must! It’s one of my favorites! Damn I didn’t know Everlast died!
Everlast is not dead baby! 53 but not dead!
@@taintedlife2618 I heard he died a while ago because he had a heart problem..i haven't heard anything about him in years so I figured he was dead..
I have a theory. A couple of years after this, Madonna had a song on the With Honors movie soundtrack and this could have been one of the original options for that. The song on the soundtrack, I'll Remember, is melodically and contextually similar.
She has the same look in the video too. I’ll Remember is in my top 3 Madonna songs, so good
“I’ll Remember” was more radio-friendly than “Rain”
Rain introduced me to the 90s version of Madonna
Great song and reaction!!! I haven't seen the "Rain" video in a long time but I remember really liking it!!!
Hi dear Empress, at last it came your great reaction to my fave song of the album. I'm really happy that you liked It, but I was pretty sure you would have loved It. I've loved It since the very first time I've heard It, and I've always been listening to It. Fireeeeee!!!! Now I'm curious to see your reaction to the next song, because I like It more than other songs of this album. But probably Rain will be your last ten. Thanks for another of your great reactions. A great hug to you and the little princess bye 🤗🤗🤗
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My prediction was 100% accurate. I had a strong feeling that Erotica is a very challenging album to listen to and I believed Empress will pretty much only like Rain and Bad Girl which were the standouts.
The Rain single was so refreshing because after listening to track after track in 1992-1993 from the Erotica album, it was very mixed and confusing. Same thing Empress was not committing to 10’s or 🔥 BOPS either… until Bad Girl and mostly Rain unexpectedly delivered good reactions. In a way, Rain saved the album and that’s the only reason why I still have it 30 years later, I skip all tracks and go straight to Bad Girl and Rain which I leave on repeat 🔂 😂
Next we’re excited for the Rain Music Video reaction coming soon.
Rain felt like a precursor to another Madonna major epic hit in 1994…. No spoilers…. The theme song from the movie With Honors which starred Brendan Fraser (who got a career comeback in that new movie The Whale award season).
I’m excited to see that reaction. Madonna’s producer Patrick Leonard always do magic collaborations together. They did Live To Tell, La Isla Bonita, Who’s That Girl, Open Your Heart, Like A Prayer, Cherish, Frozen….. so this movie theme song for With Honors that Madonna did will be very interesting to watch Empress reaction to it 😁
We get another movie theme song soon as ☺️
Erotica is a fan favourite but I think to many newer fans, it feels dated. The diehards from back in the day have rediscovered and reclaimed Erotica as one of our, if not, our number one, favourite albums but maybe newer fans feel it’s too stuck in the 90s. I think for those of us around in the 90s, Erotica felt groundbreaking both sonically and for what she was doing visually, esp. the Sex book which is wild. I think it still shocks people to this day that someone on Ms level would be so bold and provocative. This era is iconique but I’d be sad if much of the music gets forgotten.
She threw 5 10s up, she loved Waiting, Erotica and Where Life Begins too, not just Bad Girl and Rain. Rightfully so
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Love that you love this track as I do and so glad you didn't sleep on it - whew 😉 I particularly loved the Harmony work that Nicki, Donna and Madonna blended so masterfully. I think that All 4 videos she did for this album are brilliant and so very, very different, artistically and stylistically! I look forward to your reactions to the videos, as well!
I can't wait
There are five videos 😘😉
@@taintedlife2618 you're right - I forgot about the Fever video!
I'm late but I didn't like this song at first, but now I love it
Glad u enjoyed it, it’s definitely a departure on the album.
This is one of the singles for this album
3 girls , Wilson Phillips