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Bedtime Story (Madonna song)
"Bedtime Story" is a song by American singer Madonna from her sixth studio album ''Bedtime Stories'' (1994). It was released as the third single from the album on February 13, 1995, by Maverick Records, and also appears on Madonna's compilation album ''GHV2'' (2001). "Bedtime Story" was written by Björk, Nellee Hooper and Marius De Vries, and was the first time the former wrote a song for Madonna's album. She re-wrote a demo of the song to the current version, which was then produced by Madonna and Nellee Hooper. A mid-tempo electronic song with acid, house, ambient and techno influences, "Bedtime Story" has an underlying skeletal synth melody influenced by minimal trance music. The track was a departure from Madonna's pop-R&B-based repertoire in favor of unconventional and electronic music. Lyrically it talks about the joys of the unconscious world.
"Bedtime Story" received favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the song's hypnotic and electronic style, and deemed it an underrated song which could have had great potential. The song was a moderate international success, reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom, Italy and Australia, but missing the top 40 in United States. However, the song peaked at number one on the Hot Dance Club Songs. The music video for "Bedtime Story" was directed by Mark Romanek and is listed as one of the most expensive music videos of all time at a cost of $5 million ($ million in dollars). It features surrealistic and new age imagery, with influences from artists such as Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo and Leonora Carrington. The video received critical acclaim from critics and was stored in a collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
"Bedtime Story" was performed at the 1995 BRIT Awards in London with Madonna wearing white Versace dress and long hair extensions, becoming one of the 30 best moments of the awards show history. A remixed version of the track was also used as a video interlude on her Re-Invention World Tour in 2004, with a new video directed by Dago Gonzalez. "Bedtime Story" has left a legacy, with several critics, writers and scholars claiming that the song foreshadowed the singer's move towards electronic music in her future work. It was also written that it was part of the singer's influence in popularizing Sufism and the Mevlevi tradition in mainstream Western culture. Nevertheless, it has been described as one of her most unfulfilled potentially successful singles.
==Background==
According to Lucy O'Brien in her book ''Madonna: Like an Icon'', Madonna wanted to "make an impact" on the soul musical scene, and started working with prominent producers from the R&B market. Aside from this, however, Madonna also wanted to explore the British club musical scene, where genres such as dub had been growing in popularity.〔 In such a way, she decided to work with several European producers and composers within the electronic scene, including Nellee Hooper, who pleased Madonna due to his "very European sensibility".〔 Inviting Hooper over to Los Angeles,〔 sessions started taking place in the Chappell Studios of Encino, California. "Bedtime Story" was written by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, Marius De Vries and Nellee Hooper, and co-produced by Nellee Hooper and Madonna. According to Mark Pytlik in his book ''Björk: wow and flutter'', it was offered a chance to write a track for Madonna's upcoming album, ''Bedtime Stories'', to Björk. After she accepted the offer, she wrote a song initially named "Let's Get Unconscious".〔 Once the song demo had been finished, De Vries and Hooper rearranged the track and the final version was called "Bedtime Story".〔 The song was eventually released as the third single from the album. Björk's original demo was later re-worked and released as "Sweet Intuition" which appeared as a B-Side on her "Army of Me" single and remixed on the "It's Oh So Quiet" single.
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