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Madonna - Bedtime Story

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Album: Bedtime Stories
Released: 1995

Bedtime Story Lyrics

Today is the last day that I'm using words
They've gone out, lost their meaning
Don't function anymore

Let's, let's, let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious honey

Today is the last day that I'm using words
They've gone out, lost their meaning
Don't function anymore

Traveling, leaving logic and reason
Traveling, to the arms of unconsciousness
Traveling, leaving logic and reason
Traveling, to the arms of unconsciousness

Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious
Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious

Words are useless, especially sentences
They don't stand for anything
How could they explain how I feel

Traveling, traveling, I'm traveling
Traveling, traveling, leaving logic and reason
Traveling, traveling, I'm gonna relax
Traveling, traveling, in the arms of unconsciousness

Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious
Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious

And inside we're all still wet
Longing and yearning
How can I explain how I feel?

Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious
Let's get unconscious honey
Let's get unconscious

Traveling, traveling
Traveling, traveling
Traveling, traveling
Traveling, traveling, in the arms of unconsciousness

And all that you've ever learned
Try to forget
I'll never explain again

Writer/s: GUDMUNDSDOTTIR, BJORK/HOOPER, NELLEE/DEVRIES, MARIUS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, HAL LEONARD CORPORATION
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Bedtime Story

This video was Madonna's most expensive she had ever made. It cost $5 million, and was the most expensive video ever until Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream" in 1996. Madonna said the video ruined her hair at the time. (thanks, Kent - Latrobe, PA)

MTV did a special to promote the video called Madonna's Pajama Party. In the special, they premiered the video and Madonna read a bedtime story at a New York club.

This was written by Björk, Nelle Hooper, and Marcus DeVries. (thanks, Jessica - Saint Louis, MO)

Forever reinventing herself, Madonna wanted to show a softer side of herself with the Bedtime Stories album in contrast to the more aggressive, sexual side celebrated in 1992's Erotica. Musically, the title song is also a departure from the singer's usual Pop/R&B blend, and brings the Material Girl into the Electronic/Techno genre.

Madonna pushed for this song to be the centerpiece of her album and it received favorable reviews, but it never made it into her touring setlist.

The lavish music video was inspired by the works of female surrealist painters, Madonna explained to Aperture magazine, "like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. There’s that one shot where my hands are up in the air and stars are spinning around me. And me flying through the hallway with my hair trailing behind me, the birds flying out of my open robe – all of those images were an homage to female surrealist painters; there’s a little bit of Frida Kahlo in there, too."

Bedtime Stories was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Album, but lost to Joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo.

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: True Blue
Released: 1986

Papa Don't Preach Lyrics

Papa Don't Preach Song Chart

This song is about teenage pregnancy. Madonna takes the voice of a confused teenager who wants advice from her father at a difficult time. In a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, she said: "It just fit right in with my own personal zeitgeist of standing up to male authorities, whether it's the pope or the Catholic Church or my father and his conservative, patriarchal ways."

The line "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby," caused anti-abortion groups to praise Madonna and abortion-rights groups to criticize her. Madonna refused to take a stance on the issue.

Madonna called this "a message song that everyone is going to take the wrong way."

This was one of the most controversial Madonna songs. Many articles were written about it in the context of abortion. The media attention helped make it a hit and keep it on the charts.

A producer named Brian Elliot wrote this song for a new artist he was working with named Christina Dent, who was on the same label as Madonna. When a record company executive heard it, he convinced Elliot to give it to Madonna instead, because she was an established star.

This was one of the first Madonna songs to take on a political issue. Her previous hits, like "Holiday," "Borderline," and "Lucky Star," stayed well clear of controversy.

The video featured Danny Aiello as Madonna's father. He recorded an answer song from the father's perspective called "Papa Only Wants The Best." Aiello was mostly unknown at the time, but went on to star in Do The Right Thing and Moonstruck.

Around this time, Madonna was working out and had a more toned body that she showed off in the video by wearing a tight black outfit. It was rumored that you could see her nipples when she leaned back.

Ozzy Osbourne's daughter, Kelly, recorded this with Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas from the group Incubus for the soundtrack to The Osbournes, an MTV show about Ozzy's home life. Kelly's mom, Sharon Osbourne, asked her to do it. Her version peaked at #74, making it the first instance of a cover of a Madonna song reaching the Hot 100. Osbourne's rendition also reached #3 in the UK singles chart.

The guy who plays Madonna's boyfriend in the video is Alex McArthur, who is featured in the Desperado movies. (Thanks, Linda - Oudenaarde, Belgium)

In it's review of the album True Blue, Rolling Stone magazine referred to this song as "Madonna's Billie Jean." Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" had a similar theme, about a pregnancy complicating people's lives. Jackson has been called "The King Of Pop," while Madonna has been referred to as "The Queen of Pop."

Rock critic Dave Marsh gave this song a glowing review: "that ultimate rarity - a message song that opens with Beatles-esque cellos that you can dance to." (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England, for above 2)

Madonna - Like A Prayer

Madonna - Like A Prayer Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Like A Prayer
Released: 1989

Like A Prayer Lyrics

Like A Prayer Song Chart

This was the first song by a major artist to be used in a commercial before being released to stores or radio stations. With the cola wars heating up, Pepsi signed Madonna to a $5 million endorsement deal, which included a two-minute commercial that would debut this song. The spot, overseen by Pepsi's ad agency BBDO, was called "Make A Wish ," and showed Madonna watching an 8-year-old version of herself and doing some jubilant street dancing.

The commercial was promoted in a 30-second spot that aired during the Grammy Awards on February 22, 1989 (yes, a commercial for a commercial). Then on March 2, it aired on prime time television worldwide, including in America where it was seen on The Cosby Show. The Pepsi people claimed that 250 million viewers saw the ad, and that they were clearly the choice of the younger generation, as their partnerships with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and now Madonna, demonstrated. The commercial was clever and innocent, and the song was also a winner, clearly destined for #1 with such an auspicious debut.

The song was released the next day and instantly added to radio playlists around the world. It was also added on MTV, but instead of creating a video that was an extension of the commercial, Madonna hijacked it. Instead of an 8-year-old girl at a birthday party, we see Madonna witness a brutal crime and take refuge in a church. She shares an interracial kiss, gets stigmata on her hands, and dances in front of burning crosses. Predictably, religious groups were outraged, with the American Family Association and The Vatican condemning it. Pepsi, facing a boycott, dropped Madonna and never again aired the commercial.

Madonna and MTV were the big winners here. Those who thought she came off as a recalcitrant priss tended to be older, conservative folks who were far outside of her target audience, and the kind of authority figures her fanbase (the same ones Pepsi was going after) despised. In defying her corporate suitor, Madonna showed that her art was more important than their money. Pepsi got the song for a day, but MTV (always a Madonna stronghold), got the rest of the run and benefited from the controversy as viewers tuned in to see what the fuss was about.

Pepsi had two more commercials planned and was going to sponsor her Blonde Ambition tour, but they dropped all association with Madonna, who got to keep the $5 million.

Madonna wrote this with Patrick Leonard, who she teamed with for many of her hits in the late '80s. Madonna explained to Rolling Stone why her relationship with Leonard has proved to be so successful: "We're both from the Midwest, and deep down at our core, we're both geeks. He's melancholic, and he is a classically trained musician with an incredible sense of melody. We just hit it off from the start. We always come up with something interesting. We usually don't write frivolous songs, although we've done that, too. There's something magical about our writing."

The Andrae Crouch gospel choir sang on this, but they refused to appear in the video.

Worldwide, this is Madonna's most popular song. In the US, it debuted at #38 the week of March 18, 1989 and jumped to #1 five weeks later, making it the fastest trip to the top since Michael Jackson's "Bad " in 1987.

The song also became a chart-topper in several other countries.

This won the Viewer's Choice Award at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

The video was shot in California and directed by Mary Lambert, who had worked on videos for "Borderline," "Like A Virgin" and "Material Girl." The commercial was shot in Arizona and directed by Joe Pytka, who had previously worked with Pepsi on a Michael Jackson commercial.

Madonna had recently divorced actor Sean Penn when this was released. The cover of the single was drawn by her brother, Christopher, and contained the letters "MLVC", with a "P" falling away. They represented Madonna's initials, "Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone," with the "Penn" falling away.

The album was released in March 1989. It was eagerly anticipated by Madonna's fans, since her last album, the remix collection U Can Dance, came out in November 1987.

Madonna's original idea for the video was to have her and the black saint-figure shot in the back.

In 1990, this was remixed by Shep Pettibone and included on Madonna's first greatest hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. At the time, dance remixes were usually just extended versions of a song, but Pettibone put in a completely revamped backing track, something that became popular in years to come, especially among Hip-Hop artists.

The actor in the video who played the black saint is Leon Robinson, who played Derice Bannock, the main character in the movie Cool Runnings. (thanks, Brandon - Peoria, IL)

This appears on the soundtrack of the 1999 Drew Barrymore movie Never Been Kissed.

Madonna and Pat Leonard originally envisioned this song with a Latin flair, complete with bongos and Latin percussion, but quickly scrapped the idea in favor of religious elements like a church organ and choir.

In an interview with Billboard magazine, Leonard remembers the first, somewhat off-the-cuff rehearsal with Andrae Crouch: "He gets the choir together and they sort of wing it. He knows what he's going to tell them... but I know he's making it up as he goes along. He's listened to it in his car and he's thought about what he's going to do. It's very inspired."

Madonna had the vision for this song's controversial video long before Pepsi released its cutesy dancing-in-the-streets version. She told Interview magazine: "Originally, when I recorded the song, I would play it over and over again, trying to get a visual sense of what sort of story or fantasy it evoked in me. I kept imagining this story about a girl who was madly in love with a black man, set in the South, with this forbidden interracial love affair. And the guy she's in love with sings in a choir. So she's obsessed with him and goes to church all the time. And then it turned into a bigger story, which was about racism and bigotry... Then Mary Lambert got involved as the director, and she came up with a story that incorporated more of the religious symbolism I originally wrote into the song."

Madonna credits ex-husband Sean Penn for helping her address personal issues and bring more of herself to her music: "He was extremely influential in encouraging me to reveal that side of myself," she told Interview magazine in 1989.

By 2016, any lingering hostility between Madonna and Pepsi was forgotten as her song "Express Yourself" featured in a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl . In the spot, Janelle Monáe dances through different scenes representing music through the generations and how Pepsi was a part of it.

Madonna - Lucky Star

Madonna - Lucky Star Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Madonna
Released: 1983

Lucky Star Lyrics

Lucky Star Song Chart

Written by Madonna, this was her first single from her debut album. It went nowhere, but was successfully re-released six months later after "Holiday" became a hit.

The success the second time around was largely because of the video, which MTV put in hot rotation. It was commissioned by Jeff Ayeroff, who was an executive at Madonna's label, Warner Bros. Ayeroff said in the book I Want My MTV: "I made 'Lucky Star' for $14,000 with a friend who was a pot grower from Bolinas, California (Arthur Pierson). We'd released 'Everybody,' 'Burning Up,' 'Holiday' and 'Borderline' as singles. And Madonna didn't want to release 'Lucky Star.' Around the same time, she was getting sued and needed money. I said, 'Let me release 'Lucky Star,' and I guarantee you'll sell enough records to pay that off.' 'Lucky Star' broke the first album wide open."

This entered the charts as Madonna began work on her first movie, Desperately Seeking Susan. She went on to star in many others, including Dick Tracy, A League Of Their Own, Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence, Dangerous Game, Swept Away, and Evita.

Guy Ritchie, Madonna's husband, used this in his 2001 movie, Snatch. It is featured in a scene where a tough-guy is roughing someone up while this plays on the radio.

The lyrics were based on a nursery rhyme: "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight..."

The video introduced Madonna's "Thrift Store" look. Sporting lots of big, colorful accessories, fans who became known as "Madonna-Wannabes" started dressing like her. This look became an icon of '80s culture.

The song was covered in the "Old Dog New Tricks" episode of Glee. Starring actor Chris Colfer, who penned the episode, explained to Billboard magazine: "When we do 'Lucky Star,' it's because Kurt has joined an assisted living home's production of Peter Pan. In the story, he convinces them to update the production. He convinces them to use modern music to tell the story. So when he's singing 'Lucky Star' he's singing about Neverland."

"The only thought I had was I wanted the music to fit. I didn't want anything to seem arbitrary. I wanted it to be there for a reason."

This song was featured in the 1988 drama Running On Empty in a scene where Danny (River Phoenix) is in music class and in the 1995 drama Safe, starring Julianne Moore and Xander Berkeley.

The song is referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994) when Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) tells Butch (Bruce Willis): "I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did 'Lucky Star.'"

Madonna told Song Talk that she wrote this song on a synthesizer.

Martin Burgoyne, a close friend of Madonna's who lived with the singer before she was famous, designed the cover sleeve for the US release of this song (as well as "Burning Up"). After his death from AIDS at the age of 23, Madonna wrote the 1992 song "In This Life" as a tribute to him and many others she knew who died of the disease.

Madonna - Like A Virgin

Madonna - Like A Virgin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Like A Virgin
Released: 1984

Like A Virgin Lyrics

I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn't know how lost I was
Until I found you

I was beat
Incomplete
I'd been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new

Hoo, Like A Virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
'Cause only love can last

You're so fine
And you're mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold

Like a virgin, hey
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
With your heartbeat
Next to mine

Whoa
Whoa, ah
Whoa

You're so fine
And you're mine
I'll be yours
'Till the end of time
'Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I've nothing to hide

Like a virgin, hey
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
With your heartbeat
Next to mine

Like a virgin, ooh ooh
Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold me,
And your heart beats,
And you love me

Oh oh, ooh whoa
Oh oh oh whoa
Whoa oh ho, ho

Ooh baby
Yeah
Can't you hear my heart beat
For the very first time?

Writer/s: STEINBERG, BILLY / KELLY, TOM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Like A Virgin Song Chart

The songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg wrote this. Other songs they have written include "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles, "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston, "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper, and "Alone" by Heart. All were #1 hits in the US featuring female vocalists. Steinberg considers this their most famous song.

In our interview with Billy Steinberg he told the story of this song: "My father was a farmer. He was a grape grower in the Coachella Valley and our vineyards were in a little town called Thermal, California. I had a rock band called Billy Thermal and we were signed to Planet Records, Richard Perry's label. That band had just split up, so I was working out in the vineyards with my dad.

I remember writing the lyrics to 'Like a Virgin' while driving in a red pickup truck that I owned around our dusty desert vineyards. I had been involved in a very emotionally difficult relationship that had finally ended and I had met somebody new. I remember writing that lyric about feeling shiny and new - I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through - I made it through this very difficult time.

I took that lyric to Tom, he knew what I had gone through. He read those first lyrics and he sat down at the piano and tried to write a sensitive ballad to them. He'd come up with a few interesting things, but every time we got to the chorus lyric where it said, 'Like a virgin,' it just hit a brick wall - how can you write a tender ballad called 'Like a Virgin'? It just sounded ridiculous. Whereas it was him prodding me with 'True Colors' to finish the lyric, with 'Like a Virgin' I was the one prodding him, saying, 'No, no, no, let's not put this one aside because this is a very special lyric.'

I didn't want to let it fall by the wayside. At that time Tom and I were writing rock songs. Tom had this voice that was not unlike Lou Gramm (from Foreigner). Tom had that kind of voice - very high, very powerful range. Out of nothing more than utter frustration, Tom started to play the bass line to 'Like a Virgin' and sing the lyric falsetto to this bass line he was playing. I said, 'That's it!' He stopped and went, 'What?' and I said, 'That's it, that's the song.' He couldn't imagine because he had this style of singing that was usually based on that male rock thing. I think he was trying to imagine doing a falsetto, almost Motown inspired vocal and I said, 'Yeah, that's it.'

He went along with it and agreed that that's how the song was working. We did a demo where Tom sang the song falsetto and I added a few background vocal parts. Tom didn't like me to sing because he never liked my singing. He sort of indulged me and I added a few little parts that ended up being used on the Madonna record."

Some Christian listeners felt Madonna was mocking their faith with this song. "Madonna" (Italian for "My Lady") is another name for the Virgin Mary, so when a singer calling herself Madonna recorded a song called "Like A Virgin," it raised some eyebrows.

Madonna didn't write the song (which has nothing to do with the Virgin Mary), and her stage moniker is simply part of her birth name (Madonna Louise Ciccone), but she often wore a cross and questioned her Catholic upbringing, later converting to Kabbalah.

She never shied away from the controversy, and later courted it by dancing in front of burning crosses in the video for "Like A Prayer" and by naming her 1990 greatest hits album The Immaculate Collection.

The song's writers, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, were a recording duo called I-Ten when they wrote this song. They released one album, Taking a Cold Look, which came out in 1983. Steinberg told us how he and Kelly got together: "When we were writing songs like 'Like a Virgin' and 'True Colors,' Tom lived in Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley and he made a living primarily as a background singer, he was a session singer. He had been in a rock band called Fool's Gold. There were a couple of guys in LA - Richard Page, who later formed the group Mr. Mister, and Bill Champlin from The Sons of Champlin. Tom, Bill and Richard were sort of the guys that producers called when they needed background vocals. We met at a party at producer Keith Olsen's house. Keith Olsen had already proved to be a successful matchmaker. If I'm not mistaken, he introduced Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to Fleetwood Mac. He produced the first Fleetwood Mac record that included Stevie and Lindsey. It was August of 1981 that we met at a party at Keith Olsen's house."

Nile Rodgers produced this and recorded it using real musicians instead of relying on synthesized tracks that were characteristic of Madonna's first album. Rodgers had several hits in the '70s with his disco group Chic, and used many of the same musicians on this album. Rodgers has also worked with Peter Gabriel, Al Jarreau, David Bowie, and Sister Sledge.

Madonna's vocal performance was remarkably true to the original demo, which Tom Kelly sang on in a falsetto. Billy Steinberg told us: "Our demo, if you were to hear it, you'd notice it's influenced by a sort of Smokey Robinson style of singing. A song that would come to mind would be 'I Can't Help Myself' by the Four Tops. When Madonna recorded it, even as our demo faded out, on the fade you could hear Tom saying, 'When your heart beats, and you hold me, and you love me...' That was the last thing you heard as our demo faded. Madonna must have listened to it very, very carefully because her record ends with the exact same little ad-libs that our demo did.

That rarely happens that someone studies your demo so carefully that they use all that stuff. We were sort of flattered how carefully she followed our demo on that. I remember once reading a comment that Nile Rodgers made, I was amused when he said that he took this sort of unimpressive demo and made this great record because in fact, they just copied our demo. The main difference was it was Madonna singing instead of Tom and there was a great drummer on the record, Tony Thompson. I've seen Nile Rodgers being interviewed about 'Like a Virgin' on several occasions and I always think he takes too much credit because everything was in our demo."

The title and lyrics were very racy for a pop song, which made it more difficult to find someone to record it. Madonna had released only one album and was known as a dance singer, so her record company didn't mind having her record a song that would generate some controversy. It became a huge hit and created a new image for Madonna that set her apart from other singers. The media has been fascinated with her ever since.

Madonna performed this for the first time on September 18, 1984 at the first MTV Video Music awards. Wearing a wedding dress and a belt buckle that said "Boy Toy," she sang a sultry version, ending with a simulated orgasm. The show was live, and Madonna later said she was convinced she missed a note while performing this on the show, but if she did, no one seemed to care.

When she performed the song, it hadn't been released yet (the single came out November 6, the album November 12), so this performance was the first airing of the song. Her rendition became one of the seminal moments in the history of MTV, but the audience was clearly befuddled and had a very tepid reaction (MTV made the mistake of putting humorless executives and other VIPs in the good seats). The songwriters were also concerned. Billy Steinberg told us: "She recorded the song and it was set to be the first single off her next album, but her first album kept yielding these hits: 'Borderline,' 'Holiday,' 'Lucky Star' - so they kept pushing back the release of 'Like a Virgin.' But then, when she was asked to sing at the MTV video awards, she chose to sing 'Like a Virgin' even though the song hadn't been released yet. She went on TV and sang this song with this provocative title that no one had ever heard before and she rolled around the stage. Tom and I were watching it on television and we thought, oh, we're doomed now. This is an embarrassment. This is never going to succeed."

This was Madonna's first #1 hit in the US. It stayed there for six weeks.

This was a topic of discussion in the Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs. The character Mr. Pink starts the debate by saying, "'Like a Virgin' is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big d--k. The whole song is a metaphor for big d--ks." Mr. Blue responds, "No it's not. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable."

In 2003, MTV wanted to open the 20th Video Music Awards by recreating a classic moment from the first show. To start the show, Britney Spears came out of a wedding cake singing this. She was followed out of the cake by Christina Aguilera and then Madonna, who was a surprise performer. Madonna sang a song called "Hollywood," and kissed both Spears and Aguilera on the lips before joining Missy Elliott for a short version of her song "Work It."

The video was directed by Mary Lambert, who did many of Madonna's early clips, starting with "Borderline." They wanted to do something outrageous, so they shot it in Venice (budgets for videos had ballooned by then). Lambert explained in the book I Want My MTV: "Madonna dug it, because she has the whole thing with the Catholic Church and her Italian heritage. It turned into a huge party. Madonna stayed at the Hotel Cipriani. The rest of us stayed at a sleazebag hotel on Lido, a little island just outside Venice."

Young directors often got the brilliant idea to bring wild animals into the shoot around this time (see "Maneater" by Hall & Oates), and Lambert brought in a lion. The idea was that Madonna's love interest - wearing a lion mask a per the locals during the Carnival of Venice - would turn into the beast. Simon Fields, who was a producer on the shoot, recalls: "The lion started to get crazy around Madonna. No one else. And then we found out that you can't have a lion around a woman when she's on her period."

On December 12, 2007, 130 employees of Virgin Airlines sang this to travelers at Heathrow airport in London to raise money for the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. The singers were all dressed like their boss, Richard Branson.

In a concert held in Rome in September during her "Sticky & Sweet" world tour Madonna dedicated this song to Pope Benedict XVI. Madonna told the 60,000 fans: "I dedicate this song to the pope, because I'm a child of God. All of you are also children of God." The "Queen of

Madonna - Devil Pray

Madonna - Devil Pray Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rebel Heart
Released: 2014

Devil Pray Lyrics

Take my sins and wash them away
Teach me how to pray
I've been stranded here in the dark
Take these walls away

I've been swimming in the ocean
Till I'm almost drowned
Give me something I can believe in
Teach me how to pray

And we can do drugs and we can smoke weed and we can drink whiskey
Yeah we can get high and we can get stoned
And we can sniff glue and we can do E and we can drop acid
Forever be lost with no way home

Yeah we can run and we can hide
But we won't find the answers
If you go down then you'll get help along the way
But if you wanna save your soul
Then we should travel all together
And make the Devil Pray

Ooo, save my soul, ooo, save my soul
Ooo, save my soul
Devil's here to fool ya

Ooo, save my soul, ooo, save my soul
Ooo, save my soul
Devil's here to fool ya

Ooo, save my, ooo, save my
Ooo, save my
Devil's here to fool ya

Ooo, save my, ooo, save my
Ooo, save my
Devil's here to fool ya

Mother Mary can't you help me
'Cause I've gone astray
All the angels that were around me
Have all flown away
The ground beneath my feet's getting warmer
Lucifer is near
Holding on, but I'm getting weaker
Watch me disappear

And we can do drugs and we can smoke weed and we can drink whiskey
Yeah we can get high and we can get stoned
And we can sniff glue and we can do E and we can drop acid
Forever be lost with no way home

Yeah we can run and we can hide
But we won't find the answers
If you go down then you'll get help along the way
But if you wanna save your soul
Then we should travel all together
And make the devil pray

Ooo ooo sing hallelujah
Ooo save my soul
Ooo ooo the devil's here to fool ya
Until my story is told

I said ooo ooo sing hallelujah
Ooo save my soul
Ooo ooo the devil's here to fool ya
Until my story is told

I said
Ooo, sing hallelujah, ooo
Until my story's told

Writer/s: POURNOURI, ASH / NATCHE, DACOURY / BERGLING, TIM / CICCONE, MADONNA / KOTECHA, SAVAN / YACOUB, RAMI / FALK, CARL / TUCKER, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., CYPMP
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Devil Pray Song Chart

This song finds Madonna pleading for a sign from God over an acoustic guitar. There are also a number of references to illegal substances. The singer explained to David Blaine during a chat for Interview Magazine, that the track was inspired by people's misguided use of drugs to connect with a higher being. "It's about how people take drugs to connect to God or to a higher level of consciousness," Madonna said. "I keep saying, 'Plugging into the matrix'. If you get high, you can do that, which is why a lot of people drop acid or do drugs, because they want to get closer to God."

"But there's going to be a short circuit, and that's the illusion of drugs, because they give you the illusion of getting closer to God, but ultimately they kill you. They destroy you," she continued. "I mean, I tried everything once, but as soon as I was high, I spent my time drinking tons of water to get it out of my system. As soon as I was high, I was obsessed with flushing it out of me. I was like, 'OK, I'm done now.'"

The song also has a message of seeking spirituality via togetherness. Madonna explained to Rolling Stone: "The way we're going to change the world, or the way we're going to ultimately feel joy, is through unity. I'm certainly not encouraging religious behavior; when I say people are thinking in a religious way, I think they're thinking about rules and dogma and laws that separate. When I say spirituality, I mean a consciousness that has an understanding that we are all in this together, that we are all one. We have to find a way to feel joy and to bring joy to the world together. That ultimately is with consciousness, not drugs."

Madonna - Ghosttown

Madonna - Ghosttown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rebel Heart
Released: 2014

Ghosttown Lyrics

Maybe it was all too much
Too much for a man to take
Everything's bound to break
Sooner or later, sooner or later

You're all that I can trust
Facing the darkest days
Everyone ran away
But we're gonna stay here, we're gonna stay here

Ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
I know you're scared tonight
Ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
I'll never leave your side

When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a Ghosttown

When the world gets cold
I'll be your cover
Let's just hold
Onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

Tell me how we got this far
Every man for himself
Everything's gone to hell
We gotta stay strong, we're gonna hold on

This world has turned to dust
All we've got left is love
Might as well start with us
Singing a new song, something to build on

Ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
I know you're scared tonight
Ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
I'll never leave your side

When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

When the world gets cold
I'll be your cover
Let's just hold
Onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

I know we're alright
'Cause we'll never be alone
In this mad mad, in this mad mad world
Even with no light
We're gonna shine like gold
In this mad mad, in this mad mad world

When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

When the world gets cold
I'll be your cover
Let's just hold
Onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown

Writer/s: BOGART, EVAN KIDD / DOUGLAS, SEAN / MADONNA, . / EVIGAN, JASON GREGORY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, Walt Disney Music Company
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Ghosttown Song Chart

Madonna wrote this power ballad with Sean Douglas and Jason Evigan, who worked together on Demi Lovato's "Heart Attack" and Jason DeRulo's "Talk Dirty." The other co-writer was Evan Bogart, whose credits include Beyonce's "Halo" and Rihanna's "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)."

Madonna told Billboard magazine the story of the song. "We all get into a room together. They start playing their chords and then we just start thinking about… When I write with people, we always try to come up with a theme. What do we want to write about? So this one is about the city after Armageddon. The burnt out city, the crumbling buildings, the smoke that's still lingering after the fire. You know what I mean? There's only a few people left. How do we pick up the pieces and go on from here? Kind of dramatic. (Laughs.) But not entirely impossible at this stage of the game."

The song is about seeing hope amidst the destruction: "At the end of the day, if we run out of oil and we don't have electricity and we don't have all the modern conveniences, and we have no phones and computers, all we're going to have is each other, is humans," Madonna explained to Rolling Stone. "And that song's about recognizing that."

The track was written in three days after Madonna personally requested some studio time with the three songwriters. "She liked 'Talk Dirty,' actually, and so they put me and Jason Evigan and Evan Bogart in with her and we had this great session," Sean Douglas told Billboard magazine. "I was incredibly nervous for obvious reasons, but she showed up, was super personable and was ready to work. I basically checked it off my life bucket list."

The apocalyptic music video starts off with Madonna holed up in a bunker amid nuclear destruction. After she leaves her compound to explore the bombed-out world, she runs into Empire actor Terrance Howard. Ironically, when Madonna's Rebel Heart was released in March 2015, it was blocked from #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart by the soundtrack to the first season of Empire.

Jonas Škerlund directed the clip. He's worked with Madonna on the videos for several of her previous singles including the ones for like "Ray Of Light" "American Life" and "Music."

This was Madonna's 45th #1 on the Dance Club Songs chart. The song's ascent to the peak position meant that the Queen of Pop overtook George Strait's 44 chart-toppers on Country Songs to tally the most #1s of any artist on a single Billboard chart.

Madonna - Bitch I'm Madonna

Madonna - Bitch I'm Madonna Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rebel Heart
Released: 2014

Bitch I'm Madonna Lyrics

Oohohohoh
Oohohohoh
(You're gonna love this)
Oohohohoh
(You can't touch this)
Oohohohoh
('Cause I'm a bad bitch)

We hit the elevator right up to the rooftop
The bass is pumping
Make me wanna screw the top off
Yeah, we'll be drinking, and nobody's gonna stop us
And we'll be kissing anybody that's around us

I just wanna have fun tonight
(Blow up this shit tonight)
Pull me out of the flashing light
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
Let me blow up this house tonight
(Gonna blow up!)

We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch I'm Madonna (Bitch I'm Madonna) (Bitch I'm Madonna)

We're jumping in the pool and swimming with our clothes on
I brought a pee-wee to my show and got my freak on
The neighbors pissed and says he's gonna call the Five-O
If that's your weapon we are gon' give a good show

I just wanna go hard tonight
Pull me out of the flashing light
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
Let me blow up this house tonight
(Gon blow up)

We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch I'm Madonna (Bitch I'm Madonna) (Bitch I'm Madonna)

Who do you think you are?
You can't miss this, this lucky star
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
Who do you think you are

Pulled up with my nose up
And that rose up in that thanga
I'm froze up, but my stove up
'Cause he eatin' like this his dinner
I run shit, I don't fall back
'Cause I'm on track, I'm a sprinter
I'm bossed up, I got em all struck
It's not a toss up, I'm the winner
Beep beep, bitch move
'Fore I bang bang with that Uz
That's Miu Miu on my shoes
Ain't got a thing left for me to prove
It's that bottle service all night
It's that poppin' urban just right
It's that go hard or go home zone
Bitch, I'm Madonna, these hoes know

We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch I'm Madonna

Ohh ohh ohh ohh
(We do it like this)
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
(You're gonna love this)
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
(You can't touch this)
Ohh ohh ohh ohh
('Cause I'm a bad bitch)

Who do you think you are?
('Cause I'm a bad bitch)

Who do you think you are?
('Cause I'm a bad bitch)

Who do you think you are?
('Cause I'm a bad bitch)

Who do you think you are?

Go hard or go home zone, bitch
I'm Madonna, these hoes know

Writer/s: MCDONALD, MAUREEN / MINAJ, NICKI / PENTZ, THOMAS / RECHTSHAID, ARIEL / MADONNA / LONG, SAMUEL / GAD, TOBIAS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This spunky girl-power track finds Madonna collaborating with Nicki Minaj and thumbing her nose at naysayers. The Queens rapper previously had two features on Madonna's MDNA set: "Give Me All Your Luvin'" and "I Don't Give A."

Madonna told Rolling Stone that it's an equal partnership when she collaborates with Nicki Minaj. "Whenever we work together she always sits with me and listens to the song, and says 'tell me what this song is about to you,'" she explained. "She's very methodical in her thinking. We talk about it, she writes down words that I say describing what the song's about and the sentiment that I'd like her to get out there, and then she goes away and she works on it. She writes it, she comes back. She does a version of it, we talk about it. It's a back and forth until she gets it right. It's a total collaboration."

Rebel Heart finds Madonna using the b-word a lot (one of the other tracks is titled "Unapologetic Bitch"). Asked by Billboard magazine about her use of the offensive slang pejorative, Madonna replied: "The word 'bitch' means a lot of different things. Everything is about context. When I first moved to England and heard the word 'c--t,' I was horrified. People were calling each other c--ts! And then I realized that, in that culture, it was different - they slapped each other on the back and said, 'Who's the c--t, right, you're my best mate!'"

"The word 'f--k' doesn't just mean sexual intercourse," she continued. "I mean, 'You're a stupid f--k,' 'Are you going to f--k with me?' 'F--k off!' (Laughs.) Sex has nothing to do with any of those expressions, and the same goes for 'bitch.' If I say to you, 'I'm a badass bitch,' I'm owning myself, I'm saying, 'I'm strong, I'm tough, and don't mess with me.' If I say, 'Why are you being such a bitch to me?,' well, that means something else."

The song was produced by Diplo, one of seven tracks they wrote and recorded together for Rebel Heart. Diplo told Mojo magazine: "I hadn't really listened to her recent albums but I knew her classic material. We wrote a lot of things - like seven or eight songs together. She said, 'Give me something crazy,' and that's when we made Bitch I'm Madonna."

The song's music video was directed by Madonna's longtime collaborator Jonas Akerlund and styled by his wife B. Škerlund. The epic clip was filmed on the top floors of the Standard Hotel in Manhattan and finds Madonna dancing her way from room to room.

The Queen of Pop opened her Rolodex to surround herself with famous names for the clip. She passes by other party goers, which includes such familiar faces as producer Diplo, designer Alexander Wang, singer Rita Ora and comedian Chris Rock. There are also a number of pre-recorded clips featuring Kanye West, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj while Madonna's sons, Rocco and David Banda, are also seen dancing.

Jonas Škerlund, who also shot Madonna's "Ghosttown" video told Entertainment Weekly filming the clip was a totally unique experience. "Madonna called me about 'Ghosttown,'" he recalled. "We hadn't worked for a while because of different circumstances so when I heard all the songs [on Rebel Heart], I was very excited about 'Ghosttown.' I connected to it creatively. And, yeah, we enjoyed working together. I was supposed to start something else right after and that got pushed and she asked me to do 'Bitch I'm Madonna.' I saw it being so completely different from 'Ghosttown,' something a little bit less serious, just fun and crazy."

Škerlund detailed how he managed his crew, which was comprised of 100 people. "It was fun! That's the only way to do it really," he said. "But it was technical. Everybody needed to be on their place and do their job. Everyone had cues and everyone was ready. And when we left the shoot, we thought, 'If the video feels half as good as we feel, then it's a homerun.'"

The song was Madonna's first Hot 100 hit since "Give Me All Your Luvin'" peaked at #10 in 2012. However, there was one previous composition prior to the Queen of Pop's cut with "Madonna" in its title that charted. An outfit called The Beatles (you may have heard of them) peaked at #4 with "Lady Madonna" in 1968. In addition Robbie Williams had a Top 20 hit in the UK with the Per Shop Boys-featuring "She's Madonna" in 2006.

This features production work from the British electronic musician Sophie, who has worked closely with artists from the London PC Music label. "I think Madonna's manager was like, 'Who is this person?' and I was like, 'Trust me, this is very cool to have him be part of this song,'" Diplo recalled to Time. "PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop. It's something the kids are generating because everything is so clean as far dance music [is concerned]."

Madonna - Iconic

Madonna - Iconic Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rebel Heart
Released: 2015

Iconic Lyrics

Yeah

If you try to fuck it up again
Destiny will choose you in the end
If you don't make the choice
And you don't use your voice
Someone else will speak for you instead
What you want is just within your reach
But you gotta practice what you preach
If you use sweat and tears
And overcome your fears
Never let the fire inside you leave

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic

Tell me I'm no good and I'll be great
Say I have to fight and I can't wait
Standing in the wings
A butterfly that stings
I will rise above cause it's my fate

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic

Born to be a superstar
That's exactly what you are
Born to be a superstar
That's exactly what you are

Alright
Firefly chain, wanna catch you
Wanna put you in a net for their light glow
Yellow brick high way, paparazzi pile-up on the high road
They just turned the sun into an idol
They just wanna see how high the sky go
Just to find how it feel to fall bad
Madonna said I remind her of Michael
Steady blowing up my head, blowing up my head
Put it on your wall
Put me in the school book, put me in the laws
Put me in a descant in the Synagogue
Firefly gold, wanna catch ya
Wanna catch you when your lights go dim
Wanna turn you to a letter in their logo
Wanna stick you in a jar with a pen
You're a icon

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic, ironic

Writer/s: GAD, TOBIAS / NATCHE, DACOURY / MCDONALD, MAUREEN / BENNETT, CHANCELOR / TUCKER, MICHAEL / GRIFFIN, LARRY / MADONNA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., CYPMP
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Iconic Song Chart

Mike Tyson (yes, that Mike Tyson!) introduces this song with a boastful spoken word segment. Speaking to Rolling Stone about his contribution, Tyson revealed his curious inspiration. "When I did it, I think about being some guy like [Benito] Mussolini and they're really arrogant, but you try to come from a positive perspective and be uplifting," he said. "You watch Mussolini on television — even though we don't understand what he's saying — he is so mesmerizing. I look at myself in that way."

"I know people may say, 'This guy's a fascist' and all this stuff, but man, you can take positivity from watching him," Tyson added. "No wonder why Hitler was attracted to him. This guy's a hypnotic figure. There's so much pride behind what he's saying. I'm not even Italian and I feel the pride he's projecting. He had that street swag; he was doing this stuff with his hands and moving his head before it was even hip-hop."

The song also features a guest spot from Chance the Rapper, who spits rhymes about pursuing your dreams and not being boxed in.