MADONNA - PARADISE (NOT FOR ME) (Deep cut / album track 002 - First listen)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2022
- Madonna reaction 002
Track: Paradise (Not For Me)
Album: Music (2000)
First time listening to this track from the 2000 album Music. I am hoping to get into more of her album tracks / deep cuts. please suggest some in the comments! 
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One great thing about Madonna, she loves playing with sounds and is very open and daring with them. Sometimes they don't work and many times you end up with gems like this song. Like you, many people don't think of Madonna releasing something like this but she does, especially after Ray of Light. It's obvious she's less worried about radio play and more focused on releasing sounds that are not commonly released, which I appreciate tremendously.
One of my all time favourite, this song produces something in me I cannot explain.
The live version of this from Madonna’s Confessions Tour is superb. Definitely worth checking out.
If I could suggest a track from the American Life album, I’d give ‘X-Static Process’ a go.
A work of art. This song is sublime.
My favorite a track from Madonna Music that represent my heart soul and mind .
Pure art this song.......QUEEN
Great reaction. “Easy Ride” from American Life is my next reco 😊
Many of the best Madonna songs were never singles…
Like “Messiah” or “Joan of Arc” from Rebel Heart album, “Isaac” from the Confessions album, “Til death do us part” from the Like a Prayer album, “Inside of me”, “Live tried to welcome me” or “Survival” from Bedtime Stories, “Waiting”, “Words” or “Secret Garden” from Erotica, “Easy Ride” from American Life, “I’m Addicted” from MDNA…
You need to do more unknown songs from the Ray of Light album. Try "Sky Fits Heaven", "To have and not to hold" or "Skin".
I love all 3 of those! Amazing song.
I will be doing a lot more from that album, thank you!
I suggest a reaction to every song on Ray of Light
And the power of good bye!
Yes Miguel.... SKY FITS HEAVEN..... 24 years on, and it is still my NO: 1 Favourite Madonna song EVER!!!!
Excellent reaction! The vocoder, probably most famously associated with Bowie and Eno is a staple of Mirwais's production. Used predominantly on her Music album, he was the main producer and again on the American Life album and resurfaced in 2020 when he produced her Madame X album. Most complained that album overused autotune, but it actually was vocoder - and i do agree that it was over used at times on that album but again, Marwais always incorporates it in his production. The sweeping in orchestral instruments had to be Madonna's contribution to the production - not sure if that is a fact but that is not an element of Marwais's typical production. Madonna is known for having a heavy hand in production and the sweeping orchestra had been an added element in most of her previous albums after Like A Prayer. Marwais is French and not sure if that's the reason French lyrics are included but whatever reason, it was a perfect addition. I agree, a reaction to a song has more merit when listened to without visuals but I encourage you to watch the video, done exclusively for the Drown World tour. It adds an intriguing narrative to the song and then watch the postlude concert video of Mer Girl for closure of the Paradise video. Btw - Mer Girl Is my request for a deep dive. 2 other requests - Arioso and You'll Stay
So glad to hear this reaction - and, the song! Please keep up the deep dive reactions, there’s some really great non-singles. Please circle back and sprinkle in some of my suggestions from the swim reaction😉
I’ve been following Madonna since first hearing (and seeing) Borderline. She’s probably the musician I’ve been aligned with the longest.
While she should be credited for all of the ways she’s empowered women in music, as well as their artistic autonomy, I think she may get overlooked a bit for the risks that she takes with her music, as well as the influence it has played on the generation of musicians after her.
I still believe people think of her as the material girl, instead of the highly talented and successful artist that she matured into.
Thanks again, for your reactions, they’re a welcome part of my daily wind down - I’m always genuinely excited to see them pop up on my RUclips homepage!
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That's great to hear and I really appreciate it. Wow, Borderline - what a great one. I spent my teenage years mainly listening to guitar music and avoiding pop music, but even so I still loved some Madonna singles. Now, I'm enjoying going deeper and hearing her when she's not trying to make a pop single. I will check out one of your suggestions next!
Wow! what a flashback - in college, my roommate and I were leaving our dorm room, as we were turning off MTV (which replaced radio) Borderline came on - we stopped and watched from start to end standing in front of the tv. And afterwards - 'who is that girl?' I think when she spray painted the car was the hook as a specific thing in the video but in general, it was her - the fashion, the bratty behavior, the hair and the sex appeal that oozed out of our 19 year old's tv screen. Later when we returned, MTV was instantly, as always back then, turned on and we needed to see that video again.
Everybody reacts to songs such as material girl, Vogue, ray of light, papa don't preach and many other famous songs pretending they're listening for the first time. Quite intelligent of you to take a song which isn't as known as the others.
I guess it would be great that you could react to "to have and not to hold" which is a masterpiece full of different influences including latin/brazilian music.
You got a new follower from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hugs 🫂
I love this song
I forgot how amazing this song was. I’m crying 😢
That string mesmerize me 😍 😍 😍
Paradise (not for me) is just one of the best M songs n one of the best songs of all times... unfortunately the critic and all the snobs conaisseurs of music always look to Madonna with an high prejudice... ray of light, music and (my favourite) American life are just so progressives they're conceptual albums when the conceptual albums didn't exist... long live to the queen!! She is an always will be the best of all times... PERIOD!!!
You really understand and feel music!
IMPRESSIVE INSTANT should be the next song.
Why?
It's an absurdity of sounds that shouldn't make any sense but they do. It's the kind of song that makes you wonder why wasn't this a single with a crazy intergalactic video.
I'm excited to hear that one!
Queen of pop 🔥
Yes please the Confessions Tour love version. Different arrangement but just as deep.
A masterpiece 👏👏👏👏
More Madonna please! 👌👌👌
Loving your M non-single reactions! She's got some gems that didn't make the radio, great to see some appreciation!
I second East Ride. And will add Secret Garden and Oh Father (which was a single but not as critically acclaimed as it should have been) GORGEOUS vocals and instrumentation!
+1 for Oh Father. One of the greatest songs of all time. Decades later and it stilll just keeps getting better and better with each listen. Sia does a great cover of it too
Into your eyes, my face remains.
"what it feels like for a girl" (album version) and "Gone" are another gems from this album! Keep on doing a great job, you got me subscribed because of your Madonna reactions!
Its so refreshing to see someone appreciate synths as well as synth vocals...! It's called vocoder, not autotune!
"Has to Be" studio version, please! You'll love it!
That is an amazing song that even fans forget about it!
YES!! This track….was JUST about to suggest this when I saw you already did. Phenomenal track, so haunting, so beautiful.
My favourite Madonna song ..the production is exquisite
To me this song always made me cry. It’s so beautiful, but it has that sad, resigned feel to it. Like she’s given up and there’s no hope for whatever dream she had. It gives me chills every time (even watching you react just now). Great reaction❤ Love that you did this song.
I was not expecting so much sadness in these Madonna songs, but it's there in quite a few of them!
Do "FUTURE LOVERS" from Confessions & also "SKY FITS HEAVEN" from Ray Of Light! After 24 years from the date of its release, SKY FITS HEAVEN is by far my most favourite & treasured Madonna song of ALL songs from Madonna's discography. So under-rated. And FUTURE LOVERS, OMG!!! They are both E P I C!!!!!
YESSSSSS
M put his heart into it, the violins are extraordinary. Your eyes speak first👍
Please, make more Madonna videos
Thanks for your reaction. The production on this track, Paradise Not for Me is absolutely phenomenal. If memory serves me correctly, Mirwas originally wrote this song and Madonna asked to cover it and he agreed. This is one of my favorite tracks off her Music album and I've always found this song to have a haunting feeling. I remembered Madonna herself had explained in an interview that this track is about suicide 😲! I would suggest doing another video reaction to this same song, but search for DWT Paradise Not For Me live version (specifically if you land on a fan's video from the audience) now that performance is pure artistic explosion!
Wow, I've just watched a few seconds of a couple of performances - looks intense!
It was the Reinvention Tour interlude video that brought the song to another world.
Mirwais wrote the instrumental and asked Madonna to write lyrics for it, for inclusion on his own album ("Production"). They shared a 60/40 publishing split for this particular track (as opposed to their usual 50/50 split), as the melody of the small sections that were sung basically mirrored the instrumental (so Madonna felt that her own contribution wasn't as significant as Mirwais's). It's definitely not a cover - Madonna wouldn't have received a 40% writing credit for a cover. It's a brilliant collaboration and was a fantastic start to a creative partnership that has lasted two decades (so far).
Avant Guard Madonna tracks are fantastic! Swing back around to Mer Girl from Ray of Light or Easy Ride from American Life. Hell… do a Madonna deep dive. I’ll come along for the ride.
Amazing reaction my friend!!....In 2017, the music world was shocked by the bursting onto the scene of a 22-year-old singer named Dimash Kudaibergen, who performed on the famous Chinese competition show for professional singers called “The Singer”... It was just It was necessary for this young man to make his first appearance, making a cover of one of the most difficult songs in the world, a famous French composition called "S.O.S. D'un Terrien En Détresse", to be considered from that moment on as the best singer in the entire planet....No one in the musical field had ever seen a human being, being able to reach vocal ranges above 7 octaves and several semitones, that is, all 88 keys of a digital piano, which reaches a little more than 7 octaves and as if that weren't enough, sing the more than 12 languages...Since then all kinds of experts (Vocal coach, analysts, singing teachers, youtubers, reactors, etc.) have dedicated themselves to reviewing their presentations to try to understand how someone can sing this way...The incredible thing is that that presentation in China was in 2017 and 5 years have passed since then, but what Dimash has done in these 5 years is to further improve his wide vocal range, which is currently practically above of the 8 octaves... The Covid pandemic stopped his concerts worldwide, all with tickets sold in just seconds, via the internet, but at the same time it ended up catapulting him to the top of popularity worldwide...Anyway, since I think you are one of those reactors who have not yet met this impressive singer, here is the link of that presentation in China in 2017, with the song S.O.S. and I would like you to mention my name as the person who recommended him to you...You have to be prepared because you ar going to receive an avalanche of views, comments and new subscribers....I leave you one more recent video than the others, so it does not have the same number of views as the previous ones, which have millions of views, but it is a more complete video, with an intro, subtitles in several languages and with the improved quality of audio and sound....ruclips.net/video/bDX3FhmyNac/видео.html
Madonna has a video for this song on her RUclips channel. It's from her Drowned World tour. Also, watch her videos for the songs "Rain" and "I'll Remember".
Check out Future Lovers. Both album version and the incredible live performance from The Confessions tour!
Reacting to the audio version of this song and its technical aspect is fine..but Madonna elevated it to a stunning artistic vision and messaging with her music video. The mv gave it a haunting, mystical visual impact beyond the audio version. In the mv she infused the song with elements of Zen Buddhism with its concept of the eternal cycle of life/death/rebirth (a common belief in Buddhism). Appreciate you covering Madonna’s artistry.
AMAZING!!!!!
Loved it loved it loved it
Thx
Zane
Kraftwerk was an inspiration for this album an specially for Music song. Thanks for doing my suggestion. I also recommend you again Sky Fits Heaven. Another suggestions: Secret and Bedtime Story from her Bedtime Stories album. Thank u again, happy you liked it.
Johnny! I love Madonna for her non-signals. Great seeing your reactions. Must listens:
X-Static Process
I Fucked Up
Miles Away
Easy Ride
I Deserve It
Promise to Try
I have always loved Swim, personally I believe “Why’s It So Hard” from Erotica & the non-album track on the EP of Rebel Heart “Borrowed Time” are both epic in their messages 💗 💫
Hope you get to them, personally “Erotica”, “American Life” and “Rebel Heart” are some of the most underrated albums of Madonna’s 💎 and with “Rebel Heart” you have to listen to the deluxe release and the EP with non-album tracks to get the whole experience of its brilliance.
would really love for you to react to her tour performances, that's where she really shines as an artist
I'm so glad you picked this album version of this incredible song.
It is absolutely beautiful and to me represents the albumtitle MUSIC. A perfect blend of electronic combined with orchestral: a beautiful combination.
Thank you so much and I could see how moved you got when the strings pull up. To me that feels like enlightment within the song
Thanks for checking it out! Amazing production, beautiful song - one I've returned to a lot since this reaction
Do Madonna’s cover of “Like An Angel Passing Through My Room”.
Oh btw “Gone” from the album “Music” as well as “I Deserve It” deserve a listen to as well as my previously mentioned “Impressive Instant”
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Great reaction to one of her lesser known songs. I would love for you to listen to Has To Be which was the B side to the Ray of Light single - it didn't actually make the album, but it's lush.
For some reason the production reminds me of early 00s Eurasian music, specifically from East and Southern Europe + West Asia. Especially the phaser vocoder vocal sound and the chill electronic triphop beats with non-classical string arrangements. Maybe because it's produced by Mirwaïs?
Very interesting question you posed. In an interview during Ray Of Light album, she stated that most people don't think that electronic music is emotional so she wanted to make it (the ROL album) intimate and emotional as it could be. You captured that sentiment with this song but added that it also has a contrasting feeling of being removed. Brilliant observation and comment. I guess it was Madonna's intention of making the song this way.
The section that sounded like Kraftwerk is the best part of the song for me.
Kraftwerk's Computer Love is the song that Coldplay sampled for their song Talk.
Thank you. For a genius artist like Madonna, i feel like there's depth and meaning to everything, and things might not always be as they seem!
Such a soothing voice. * yours
I think you will enjoy Easy Ride and Nothing Fails from the American Life album. Mawais produced these too.
Easy Ride seems like a popular choice for sure, I'll definitely do it
Please do "Waiting" from her Erotica album!
The tour version is fanasstic!
Yes, you picked it correctly. Mirwais and Madonna were both influenced by Kraftwerk around the time of the Music album.
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Thanks! Feel free to throw out some requests - Madonna, or anything else really!
@@bridgethegapreactions Since you’re taking suggestions, I’d say try these tracks by Madonna- they’re all aces:
Secret Garden
Sanctuary
Bedtime Story
Drowned World
Get Together
Oh father next
The tour versions shows off her vocals.. she sings rather than spoken word
Yeah, I'm excited to watch one of those shows eventually
You definitely need to check out “Impressive Instant” off the Music album
Try "love tried to welcome me" is 🔥🔥🔥
hello please react madonna love don't live here anymore from like a virgin album
Ooh an early one, I'll get to it, thanks!
Definitely agree react to the single first but I really think you should also react to the Drowned World version after. Maybe once you've caught up on the tracks you missed from albums you could react to the demos that never made the albums. There's few on RUclips but I'd be happy to point some out to you if you are interested.
I'd be very interested! Feel free to give me a couple of suggestions now and I'll try to throw them into the mix
Please react tot Madonna Easy Ride
6:12 Gets 'em everytime 😁
8:45 😂😂😂 no way! I totally predicted that!
10:06 No. In some of the promotional videos for this song there is reference to soo-ee-side/depression so you're right in saying it's meant to be dispassionate. It's the binary partner to the very moving Mer Girl.
Please react to Issac
Amazing song!
its a sin to not have watched the video lol
This song is about Fame.