This video contains some of Madonna's best videos since the release of her Immaculate Collection album. It includes all the singles from the classic Ray of Light album, plus the excellent Beautiful Stranger. Madonna's videos are always innovative and interesting to watch, and the songs ain't bad too!
The first track is Bad Girl, and the video stars Madonna and Christopher Walken is some murder/spy type tale that I haven't quite grasped. Next is Madonna's cover of Fever, with Madonna sporting red hair and body paint. Not a great song, though. Rain is a really good video, very stylish and it hasn't really dated although it is now 8 years old.
Secret is another good black and white video and a good song. Take a Bow's theme is bullfighting, and it is a strong track that got to No.1 in America although it didn't even make the Top 10 in the UK. Bedtime Story is written by Bjork and the video is very Bjork-like too, full of three-eyed people wearing funny hats!
Human Nature feature Madonna and a lot of leather clad dancers - "I have no regrets" she asserts at the end. Love Don't Live Here Anymore is a very basic video, simply Madonna singing the song in a room with no editing at all.
The next five videos are from the Ray of Light album - Frozen, Ray of Light, Drowned World/Substitue For Love, The Power of Goodbye and Nothing Really Matters. Of these the best are the speeded-up effects on Ray of Light, the eastern influences on the excellent Nothing Really Matters, and the use of Angus Deayton's house in Drowned World.
The final video is the best of the lot, Beautiful Stranger, with Madonna unsubtly seducing Austin Powers. Overall the songs and videos tend to get better as you go through the collection, and it is interesting to see the many different images that one woman can have. Well worth buying.
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Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
In the Bad Girl video Christopher Walken is a guardian angel or possibly devil watching over her, cos at the end when she dies she is sat with him smoking a cigar (well that's my interpretation anyway !) Laura
melsey 05.04.2001 11:48
good op!Maddy seems to always be so fresh with her music and her different styles which shows her to be one of the best artists around.Have you guessed i'm a fan.
KarenUK 26.03.2001 19:22
Being a Madonna fan, this was especially interesting, thanks :-)
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