“Dear Jesse” transitions into “Oh Father” I interpreted it as a child dreaming of a lush fantasy land in Dear Jesse before waking up to the real life nightmares of abuse in Oh Father. It’s a brilliant vision for the album
You are actually on the right track about a lot of this. It is about relationships: to her parents, God, her younger self, her husband, friends, and family. It's autobiographical. Dear Jessie is not about having kids, it is about the innocence of childhood, echoed in Madonna's early life before it crashed in with the death of her mother, which is why Dear Jessie runs into Oh Father, and you can actually hear the moment where the innocence of childhood is ripped apart by death in the transition (which you mistook for the weird opening - it's still the end of Dear Jessie - it bleeds). Cherish is the start of side 2, reminiscing about the innocence of love, and then followed by innocence of childhood. First side was finding love in God, then empowerment in relationships, then that turning sour with Love Song and Till Death, and going back to her pain and original trauma wound in Promise to Try.
The guitar riffs on like a prayer at the beginning are done by Prince. Prince’s guitar is also on keep it together and act of contrition. Of course is on love song.
Madonna often samples her own work. Love Song has been used twice. You picked "time goes by so slowly" from Hung Up. Also "This is not a love song" is from the opening of "Bye, Bye Baby" on Erotica album.
Spanish Eyes is about her friend/s who died during the AIDS crisis but quite veiled. How the hell did you pick this!! No reactors EVER DO. Mad respect! In the Catholic church, you can light a candle to pray for people, and Madonna saying it for a dead gay person was CONTROVERSIAL and absolutely scandalous. On her Erotica album 3 years later she has an overtly gay Aids crisis song, "In This Life", and also "Why's it so Hard".
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“Dear Jesse” transitions into “Oh Father” I interpreted it as a child dreaming of a lush fantasy land in Dear Jesse before waking up to the real life nightmares of abuse in Oh Father. It’s a brilliant vision for the album
You are actually on the right track about a lot of this. It is about relationships: to her parents, God, her younger self, her husband, friends, and family. It's autobiographical. Dear Jessie is not about having kids, it is about the innocence of childhood, echoed in Madonna's early life before it crashed in with the death of her mother, which is why Dear Jessie runs into Oh Father, and you can actually hear the moment where the innocence of childhood is ripped apart by death in the transition (which you mistook for the weird opening - it's still the end of Dear Jessie - it bleeds). Cherish is the start of side 2, reminiscing about the innocence of love, and then followed by innocence of childhood. First side was finding love in God, then empowerment in relationships, then that turning sour with Love Song and Till Death, and going back to her pain and original trauma wound in Promise to Try.
The guitar riffs on like a prayer at the beginning are done by Prince. Prince’s guitar is also on keep it together and act of contrition. Of course is on love song.
Madonna often samples her own work. Love Song has been used twice. You picked "time goes by so slowly" from Hung Up. Also "This is not a love song" is from the opening of "Bye, Bye Baby" on Erotica album.
@@zanyzander we love a reflective queen!
Oh Father: "I can't tell if this is about God or her dad". Yes. Lol. Plus her husband. All the patriarchy.
Spanish Eyes is about her friend/s who died during the AIDS crisis but quite veiled. How the hell did you pick this!! No reactors EVER DO. Mad respect! In the Catholic church, you can light a candle to pray for people, and Madonna saying it for a dead gay person was CONTROVERSIAL and absolutely scandalous. On her Erotica album 3 years later she has an overtly gay Aids crisis song, "In This Life", and also "Why's it so Hard".
@@zanyzander I reacted to erotica before so I was familiar with her aids activism! Glad it started in the 80s
She also put a pamphlet about AIDS and promoting safe sex in the CD for the Like A Prayer album
Dear Jessie was a misfit for me. I was so wrong.
This will be interesting...