" Bedtime Story " is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1994 album Bedtime Stories . The song was released as a single in April 1995. "Bedtime Story" was the third single off the album.
Song information
"Bedtime Story" was written by Icelandic singer Björk and co-produced by Nellee Hooper. The lyrics to "Bedtime Story" are Björk's own criticism of Madonna's aesthetic. Though Björk wrote the song for Madonna, the final version featured signicantly different lyrics, changing Björk's original meaning. Björk would go on to use some of her unused lyrics for the B-side "Sweet Intuition", which was released later in 1995.
Issued as the third single from the Bedtime Stories album, the song received full remix treatment. Alongside the single edit of the song, a number of dance remixes were commissioned, including two by Junior Vasquez The song was a top five success in markets such as the UK and Australia, as well as being a U.S. #1 dance club hit, but on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the song peaked at number forty-two, becoming the first Madonna single since 1983's "Burning Up" not to reach the top-forty. Her previous low was "Bad Girl", which peaked at #36 in 1993.
The single was performed live at the 1995 BRIT Awards in London. It was Madonna's first performance at the Brit Awards. It coincided with the newly remixed single release in the UK which peaked at number-four. Though the song was not included in her Drowned World Tour, however, Madonna re-worked the Orbital remix for her Re-Invention Tour, using it as an interlude, with a new video directed by Dago Gonzalez. In this video Madonna appears with long, straight blonde hair, with white stallions running through deserts intertwined with footage of the singer.
A distorted vocal sample from Bedtime Story was added by Nellee Hooper for the remix of 1996 Garbage single, #1 Crush, at the beginning of the song.
Music video
Directed by acclaimed director Mark Romanek (who also directed the video for "Rain" and would later direct the infamous "Scream" music video for Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson), the video was considered to be one of Madonna's most artistic videos. It was shot at Universal Studios in Universal City, California from December 5-10 1994.
Madonna said in an 1999 interview with Aperture magazine interesting insight into the video: "My Bedtime Story video was completely inspired by all the female surrealist painters 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 are an homage to female surrealist painters; there's a little bit of Frida Kahlo in there, too." MadonnaOnline.ch interviews
The video premiered as an MTV special entitled "Madonna's Bedtime Story Pajama Party", in which Madonna read a bedtime story, the David Kirk children's book "Miss Spider's Tea Party", inside NYC's Webster Hall to a select audience of invitees (all dressed in bedtime and clubkid wares). The video was, at the time, the most expensive video ever made, costing $5 million . As recently as 2005, the video has been screened in contemporary art galleries (including the Museum of Modern Art, where it is stored in the permanent collection along with another video directed by Romanek for the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer").
The video was later acquired for the New York Museum of Modern Art's film and video collection.
- Director: Mark Romanek
- Producer: Cean Chaffin
- Director of Photography: Harris Savides
- Editor: Robert Duffy
- Production Company: Satellite Films
Bedtime Story (Re-Invented)
A re-edited version of the "Bedtime Story" (Orbital Mix), originally available on the single release, was used as a video interlude during Madonna's Re-Invention World Tour 2004. The video was shot in April 2004 at Culver Studios in Culver City, California and contained various images of Madonna using a white costume (very similar to the costume she used in her "Sorry" video) singing in front of a mirror and lying down on a big scanner. A beautiful white horse can be seen with her during the video riding on a white desert and running through white sheets. This video has never been commercially released but now can be watched full at PJ Lopez official website: http://www.pjlopez.com
- Director: Dago Gonzalez
- Producer: Audrey Verduin
- Director of Photography: PJ Lopez
- Editor: Dago Gonzalez
- Production Company: Veneno, Inc.
Track listings and formats
- European Cassette Single / European CD Single
- "Bedtime Story" (Album Edit) 4:08
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Single Mix) 4:53
- European CD Single/UK CD Single 2
- "Bedtime Story" (Album Edit) 4:08
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Wet Dream Mix) 8:35
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Dreamy Drum Dub) 9:34
- "Bedtime Story" (Orbital Mix) 7:43
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Sound Factory Mix) 9:18
- UK CD Single Storybook (Limited Edition)
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Single Mix) 4:53
- "Secret" (Allstar Mix) 5:11
- "Secret" (Some Bizarre Mix) 9:48
- "Secret" (Some Bizarre Single Mix) 4:17
- UK 12" Single (Limited Edition) / European 12" Single
"Side 1"
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Sound Factory Mix) 9:18
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Sound Factory Dub) 8:19
"Side 2"
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Wet Dream Mix) 8:35
- "Bedtime Story" (Orbital Mix) 7:44
- US CD Single / US Cassette Single / US 7" Single
- "Bedtime Story" (Album Version) 4:53
- "Survival" (Album Version) 3:33
- US CD Maxi Single
- "Bedtime Story" (Album Edit) 4:08
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Wet Dream Mix) 8:35
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Dreamy Drum Dub) 9:34
- "Survival" (Album Version) 3:33
- "Bedtime Story" (Orbital Mix) 7:44
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Sound Factory Mix) 9:18
- "Bedtime Story" (Junior's Single Mix) 4:53
- "Bedtime Story (Chapter II)" : US 12" Promo Only Single
"Side 1"
- "Bedtime Story" (Lush Vocal Mix) 4:44
- "Bedtime Story" (Luscious Dub) 7:38
"Side 2"
- "Bedtime Story" (Percapella Mix) 6:30
- "Bedtime Story" (Unconscious In The Jungle Mix) 6:29
"Bedtime Story - Chapter II" "Catalogue Number: PRO-A-7600" "Produced by Nellee Hooper and Madonna" "Additional Production and Remix by Mark Picchiotti and Teri Bristol" "Keyboards by Craig Snider" "Engineered and Mixed by Mark and Teri at HUTCH Studio, Chicago"
Official versions
- Album Version - 4:53
- Radio/GHV2 Edit - 4:07
- Junior's Wet Dream Mix - 8:33
- Junior's Wet Dream Single Mix/Junior's Single Mix - 4:53
- Junior's Wet Dream Dub - 7:25
- Junior's Dreamy Drum Dub - 9:32
- Junior's Sound Factory Mix - 9:32
- Junior's Sound Factory Dub - 8:15
- Orbital Mix - 7:41
- Orbital Edit - 4:52
- Lush Vocal Mix - 6:48
- Lush Vocal Radio Edit - 4:43
- Unconscious In The Jungle Mix - 6:30
- Luscious Dub - 7:40
- Percapella - 6:30
Charts
References
- ^ "Madonna's GHV2 Booklet.
- ^ "Björk - Wow & Flutter" by Mark Pytlik, 2003, Aurum Press, ISBN 1-85410-960-X pg 83.
- ^ a b c d Hit Parade (1995). "Madonna — Bedtime Story (European Charts)". hitparade.ch . http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Madonna&titel=Bedtime+Story&cat=s . Retrieved 2008-07-16 .
- ^ Hit parade Italia accessed March 4, 2009
- ^ a b Allmusic (1995). "Billboard Charts". allmusic.com . http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jvfyxqe5ldae~T51 . Retrieved 2008-07-16 .
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