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??!
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!’
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.
@@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.
"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.
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
This album is the best Madonna ever put out. This was the pinnacle of her career. The energy of this album just pours out, envelops you on it's ryhtm and next thing you know, you're dancing. It is inevitable. Brava!
The 1990's was absolutely the best decade of music for Madonna. This is absolutely one of her best songs. I cannot express how much i look up to this woman as an artist. She has inspired my stuff in so many ways.
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.
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.
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.
I love how her every song no matter what decade sounds more contamporary and fresher to this day than of the other artists, truly a visionary and raw talent in the league of her own ❤
This album helped me through my grandma’s passing when I was younger. I was also transitioning through difficulties of no longer being a little girl and finding myself. Seeing death for the first time in my life put a dark cloud over me, but the music helped open a little ray of light. Thank you, Madonna. 💕🙏
My beloved grandmother passed away in 1995, so I know how you felt. But they are together above us and looking after us and sending us their love every day. No doubt about that.
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
This video deserves to be in HD soon as possible.. this song is one of the masterpiece from that album Ray of light.. in that year Madonna was so inspired in new styles.
I am 52 year old Male and sang this song on karaoke night recently..My voice was quite cracked and a bit out of key but the crowd loved it and so did I. This song is one of the most inspirational songs ever released in my opinion...Thank you MADONNA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🦜🦜💥💥💥🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🤘🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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.
@@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
25 years. Man, this album is just beyond anything else. Even after all these years, it's just unmatchable. It mixed ethnic, world music, in a sole project. She's a mastermind of how to endure in time.
Madonna was once again leading the pack with a sound that both fitted and transcended the pop genre. Ray Of Light single topped the charts worldwide and ended up being one of the summer’s biggest songs - with remixes from Sasha and Victor Calderone.
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 truly think this is her peak. Her voice was gorgeous. The production was perfect. The songs were mesmerizing. Madonna, Pat Leonard and William Orbit.
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.
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 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 song and video are an absolute proof of the power that Madonna has over the pop art world.... definitely a masterpiece. she completely navigates her art in to a timeless visual pop renaissance.
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.
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.
This song deserve waaaay more Views. Now it's the time... 80s and 90s's children....let's rise all the views of our music that define us when we were teenagers !! !!
If I remember correctly, she actually wrote it for her daughter, Lourdes. Something about how seeing her smile made her happy, "quicker than a ray of light."
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
This is the best song Madonna ever put out IMO. Love it, it’s fun, mature, deep, and timeless, much unlike most of her other work. I was in my twenties in the 90’s. Best decade ever.
I agree! I also think this is her best song. I’m very familiar with all of her great music throughout her career and I still think this is her best track…it still sounds so fresh
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❤❤❤❤
A collaboaration between two passionate fire signs (Madonna - leader Leo) and a spiritual, visionary Sag (William Orbit) has brought Madonna to the new heights with a light coming from within. Absolute smash and one of her best (if not best overall) eras.
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!
💖 So fresh even after several decades. Each time I hear this song. Madonna is visionary. Crazy on how fast the COLORFUL, BOHEMIAN, EXCITING 90's had been passed us through... ! Sums up in one excellent song.
I took 3 meanings from this: 1. She's illustrating the effects of doing speed to get work done, as well as using it as a way to speed up the proessing of potentially negative feelings (emotional avoidance) 2. She's talking about how quickly life can pass us by and how we need to pause sometimes and slow down for mindfulness (like how the song slows at 2:47) 3. She's starting to realise the tediousness of following trends and trying to BE the next "in thing". ("She's got herself a universe" "Quicker than a ray of light then gone, for someone else will be there through the endless years".) She equates her own fame with a literal flash of light in human history. Quite humble tbh.
A good analysis. 1. The record was released around 1998 before people had connectivity and a widespread understanding of the human condition. 2. This time was a race of capitalism into an unknown situation without confirmation of stardom. 3. Ketamine was quasi legal and a pleasant respite from reality.
This song is amazing. My parents had it on the family computer back in the day, and it was so magical listening back then, and even now. This song encapsulates that turn of the millennium aesthetic perfectly. It sounds so futuristic, and like nothing can stop you. It's awesome.
Still her talent is mediocre at best she a gimmick no singing skills any of the top female vocalists from the last 40 years she's not even in the conversation..facts
we all have some degree of love for madonna but she aint the most influential nor the greatest artist. At least Dua Lipa writes all of her songs, madonna is mostly a performer
@Si9al hold this ..her biggest hits were produced by black guys Niles Rodgers..Lenny Kravitz..Babyface..and I'm almost sure Whitney Houston is the top Female. But anyway she's a gimmick..period
@@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).
@@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.
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"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
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!
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 😁
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.
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.
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
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.
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
This was such a glorious reinvention. A quarter of a century on, this song and album still sounds as fresh and relevant as ever.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Ray of Light and the whole album are amazing. It all hangs together so well.
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...
Definitely her best album
For younger generation
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! 😭
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
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 😊
She was finally able to use her vocals the right way.... she sounds fantastic!!
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
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
Best song ever! The Goddess.
This album is the best Madonna ever put out. This was the pinnacle of her career. The energy of this album just pours out, envelops you on it's ryhtm and next thing you know, you're dancing. It is inevitable. Brava!
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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
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: ruclips.net/video/v77J75wBL2Y/видео.html I cannot watch. im scared to look LOL
The 1990's was absolutely the best decade of music for Madonna. This is absolutely one of her best songs.
I cannot express how much i look up to this woman as an artist. She has inspired my stuff in so many ways.
la mejor época de toda la música en general
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?
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
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
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. 💯💞💞
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.
I love how her every song no matter what decade sounds more contamporary and fresher to this day than of the other artists, truly a visionary and raw talent in the league of her own ❤
This album helped me through my grandma’s passing when I was younger. I was also transitioning through difficulties of no longer being a little girl and finding myself. Seeing death for the first time in my life put a dark cloud over me, but the music helped open a little ray of light. Thank you, Madonna. 💕🙏
My wife of 18 years had passed away the year before, and damn if this album didn’t save my sanity…
My beloved grandmother passed away in 1995, so I know how you felt. But they are together above us and looking after us and sending us their love every day.
No doubt about that.
Be stong.please. a friend 😕✌
For me, this is the best song she ever did. It fires on all cylinders.
All four?
@@janipt It would be eight if she took ecstasy recording it.
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
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 video deserves to be in HD soon as possible.. this song is one of the masterpiece from that album Ray of light.. in that year Madonna was so inspired in new styles.
I am 52 year old Male and sang this song on karaoke night recently..My voice was quite cracked and a bit out of key but the crowd loved it and so did I. This song is one of the most inspirational songs ever released in my opinion...Thank you MADONNA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🦜🦜💥💥💥🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🤘🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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.
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.
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
This is Madonna's best song. No debate
Seriously 😆
Agree!
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.
True. It IS her best song and the only one, I like.
Yes....sure.
25 years.
Man, this album is just beyond anything else. Even after all these years, it's just unmatchable. It mixed ethnic, world music, in a sole project. She's a mastermind of how to endure in time.
It’s like a ray of light that it’s 25 years 😯
Madonna was once again leading the pack with a sound that both fitted and transcended the pop genre.
Ray Of Light single topped the charts worldwide and ended up being one of the summer’s biggest songs - with remixes from Sasha and Victor Calderone.
Absolutely brilliant
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.
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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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
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.
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..
One of Madonna's best songs and albums in my opinion! Still listening to it till this day :)!
and definitely her best look. she was the most beautiful milf around this.
@@xaositectz : Yup. Never found her 'sexy' til (3:00) then I was like, "Woah!.." ;-)
This is my fave album of hers. This was peak Madonna to me
You bet, dude!
I truly think this is her peak.
Her voice was gorgeous.
The production was perfect.
The songs were mesmerizing.
Madonna, Pat Leonard and William Orbit.
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 song was my happy place at the age of 15 and is now at the age of 38. Love you Madonna! 🌞🔥💜💪
Same here. This is during my high school days. I really enjoyed this so much. Im also 38 now. Funny how times slipped so fast.
37 here.
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.
Ray of Light, Vogue, Deeper and Deeper and Thief of Hearts are among the best dance singles from the 90s. Madonna rules!
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!
One of my favorite songs of all time
JAIME
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.
I’m 13 years old all over again. Take me back to the 90’s!!!
Me too I think this was a her best song,
@@thedoo777no way man, listen to her song “Frozen”!
This song and video are an absolute proof of the power that Madonna has over the pop art world.... definitely a masterpiece. she completely navigates her art in to a timeless visual pop renaissance.
Thanks
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!!
The moment when the song slows down and the sunset's in the background...goosebumps every time. For over 20 years.
exactly
Clearly, Madonna's best album - AWESOME!!!
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
This song deserve waaaay more Views. Now it's the time... 80s and 90s's children....let's rise all the views of our music that define us when we were teenagers !! !!
Bre CK amazing comment lol
I agree
Me and my mom used to love dancing to this song when I was young. Hearing it always brings out the little kid in me again ☺️💕
If I remember correctly, she actually wrote it for her daughter, Lourdes. Something about how seeing her smile made her happy, "quicker than a ray of light."
The 80s and 90s without Madonna is simply unthinkable. She is Legendary. ❤
Coincido contigo madona a marcado la música brillante y extraordinaria,me pregunto q dirá ahora de la música aberrante q existe
Remastered version so beautiful! Feels like i'm watching it "for the very first time"!
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
I remember when this album came out I bought it on CD. She is a very creative songwriter & performer.
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
👍♥️🐐🔥🎸
This is the best song Madonna ever put out IMO. Love it, it’s fun, mature, deep, and timeless, much unlike most of her other work. I was in my twenties in the 90’s. Best decade ever.
And it’s a cover. ruclips.net/video/eQ5OtnBdcWw/видео.html
Love the song. But the 70s were head and shoulders the best - ahead of the 60s then the 80s.......
I agree! I also think this is her best song. I’m very familiar with all of her great music throughout her career and I still think this is her best track…it still sounds so fresh
Her best is Express Yourself. Set dancefloors alight
I was in my teens
Video is real ❤ her voice is awesome ...and the song lyrics are beautiful ❤
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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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
A collaboaration between two passionate fire signs (Madonna - leader Leo) and a spiritual, visionary Sag (William Orbit) has brought Madonna to the new heights with a light coming from within. Absolute smash and one of her best (if not best overall) eras.
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.
I love this song so much. It deserves 1 billion views.
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
Iconic musical art from Sweden (Jonas Åkerlund) .. 🇸🇪 Madonna = Iconic!❤️
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!!!
this still remains one of her best tracks ever.
💖 So fresh even after several decades. Each time I hear this song. Madonna is visionary. Crazy on how fast the COLORFUL, BOHEMIAN, EXCITING 90's had been passed us through... ! Sums up in one excellent song.
What happened to you? You keep discrediting yourself with this trap music you put out. This, this is you before plastic became who you are now.
True! It's timeless
one of my favourite videos ever. i love it so much
I took 3 meanings from this:
1. She's illustrating the effects of doing speed to get work done, as well as using it as a way to speed up the proessing of potentially negative feelings (emotional avoidance)
2. She's talking about how quickly life can pass us by and how we need to pause sometimes and slow down for mindfulness (like how the song slows at 2:47)
3. She's starting to realise the tediousness of following trends and trying to BE the next "in thing". ("She's got herself a universe" "Quicker than a ray of light then gone, for someone else will be there through the endless years".) She equates her own fame with a literal flash of light in human history. Quite humble tbh.
A good analysis.
1. The record was released around 1998 before people had connectivity and a widespread understanding of the human condition.
2. This time was a race of capitalism into an unknown situation without confirmation of stardom.
3. Ketamine was quasi legal and a pleasant respite from reality.
@@nicor6862 Um comentário melhor que o outro.... adoro vir aqui para ler!!
@Nico R Um comentário melhor que o outro.... adoro vir aqui para ler!!
No dude. This was simply Madonna's spiritual awakening.
You did your homework. Excellent observations.
In 2019 - this album stands out as a 90's masterpiece. 20 years later it's even more relevant today. That's why it's a masterpiece.
The Queen of many generations!!!!!
This song is amazing. My parents had it on the family computer back in the day, and it was so magical listening back then, and even now. This song encapsulates that turn of the millennium aesthetic perfectly. It sounds so futuristic, and like nothing can stop you. It's awesome.
She already conqueer the World, she is the female artist with the biggest album and single sales of all time!
Still her talent is mediocre at best she a gimmick no singing skills any of the top female vocalists from the last 40 years she's not even in the conversation..facts
we all have some degree of love for madonna but she aint the most influential nor the greatest artist. At least Dua Lipa writes all of her songs, madonna is mostly a performer
@@babauranai agreed
@Si9al hold this ..her biggest hits were produced by black guys Niles Rodgers..Lenny Kravitz..Babyface..and I'm almost sure Whitney Houston is the top Female. But anyway she's a gimmick..period
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).
Wow!!! No matter what anyone thinks about her music or looks. Love her/hate her or can give a damn about her! She will always be an icon!!❤
This song is a masterpiece!!!! ♥
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!
"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.
One of her best. Love this. Got the album. I was 38 when this was a hit. Am 64 soon...