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Ray of Light (Music)
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Ray of Light is the seventh studio album recorded by American pop musician Madonna. It was released through Maverick Records on February 22, 1998."Frozen" was banned in Belgium from 2005 until 2014 because it was supposedly Plagiarism from a song by Salvatore Acquaviva, but this sentence was eventually overturned.Spawned hits such as "Ray of Light" and "Frozen". It was also the first record where she referenced Kabbala mysticism. It is notably only her third non-soundtrack album up until American Life that didn't contain a #1 US hit single — "Frozen" stalled at #2 behind K-Ci and Jojo's "All My Life". In the UK, in contrast, "Frozen" became Madonna's first #1 single since 1990's "Vogue", kickstarting a run of five straight Top 10s from the album and a renewed streak of chart-topping success into the new millennium. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Madonna in close-up. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: The album was considered to be a huge departure from her earlier output, with tracks that incorporate more electronic music influences from techno, trip hop, drum and bass, ambient, rock and classical music. | |
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Title Track | |
| Ray of Light (Music) / int_23b0d78 | comment |
Title Track: "Ray of Light" | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Kroatian actor Goran Višnjić, best known as Luka in ER has a cameo in the music video of "The Power Of Goodbye". | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: "To Have And Not To Hold" is a variant of the phrase used in the wedding vow from The Book of Common Prayer. | |
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Undercrank | |
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Undercrank: "Ray of Light", features mostly sped-up film of everyday life. | |
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Power Floats | |
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Power Floats: Madonna levitates in the music video of "Frozen". | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "Shanti/Ashtangi" has lines in Sanskrit. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: Madonna, hair twirling in the wind. | |
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Fish People | |
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Fish People: "Mer Girl". See Unscaled Merfolk. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
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Stock Sound Effects: Telephone sounds in "Mer Girl". | |
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Harmless Freezing | |
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Harmless Freezing: "Frozen", though not as harmless as one would think. It deals with a lover not open to other people. | |
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Death Song | |
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Death Song: "Mer Girl". It's an extremely creepy track with sinister minimal instrumentation and equally sinister lyrics. It was said that there was an eerie silence after Madonna recorded the vocals for the song. | |
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Super-Speed | |
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Super Speed: How life revolves around Madonna in the video for "Ray Of Light", until it eventually slows down when she's on the dance floor. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Madonna, William Orbit, Patrick Leonard, and Marius de Vries. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Mer Girl". Played with during "Drowned World/Substitute for Love" and "Shanti/Ashtangi", as only the second half of the former's title and the first half of the latter's title show up. | |
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Unscaled Merfolk | |
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Unscaled Merfolk: "Mer Girl", about a mermaid girl. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: "Skin", "Nothing Really Matters". | |
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Came Back Strong | |
| Ray of Light (Music) / int_703b3699 | comment |
Came Back Strong: Many lyrics refer to rebirth and reincarnation. Interestingly enough the entire album was also a rebirth for Madonna's career. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
| Ray of Light (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: "Ray of Light" was orignally over ten minutes long; a version running 7:33 was leaked but this version remains unreleased. The producers cut it short in order for the song to fit the album. Additionally, "Skin" and "Frozen" each exceed 6 minutes. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes The Song: "Sky Fits Heaven" and "Little Star" reference her then newborn daughter Lourdes. "Mer Girl" is about her mother's death. | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
| Ray of Light (Music) / int_88472ef3 | comment |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Substitute For Love", in which the protagonist looks for a deeper meaning: "Now I find I've changed my mind/ This is my religion". "Has To Be" (a song that appears as a B-side to the "Ray Of Light" single and on the Japanese release of the album) deals with similar themes. | |
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The Great Flood | |
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The Great Flood: "Drowned World", "Swim", "Mer Girl". | |
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Flipping the Table | |
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Flipping the Table: Madonna and a boyfriend play a chess in the music video of "The Power Of Goodbye" and she flips the table with the chess board over near the end. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: Madonna's high pitched scream in "Ray Of Light". | |
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Camera Abuse | |
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Camera Abuse: Madonna breaks the camera with her head in the video for "Ray Of Light" near the end. | |
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Healing Spring | |
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Healing Spring: Water as a healing matter to make people reborn is a strong theme throughout the album. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Candy Perfume Girl", "Mer Girl". | |
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Failures on Ice | |
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Failures on Ice: "Frozen", about a lover she's disappointed in, but nevertheless wants to "melt his heart". | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: Kabbala is referenced a few times in her lyrics. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The music video of "Ray Of Light" was inspired by the fast forward editing of Koyaanisqatsi. "Shanti/Ashtangi" has lyrical references lifted from the Shankaracharya, taken from the Yoga Taravali. "Sky Fits Heaven" has lyrical references to the poem What Fits? by Max Blagg. The music video of "Nothing Really Matters" was inspired by the novel Memoirs of a Geisha. "The Power Of Goodbye" contains a sample of "I Want to Become" by Love Kills. "Mer Girl" contains an interpolation and elements from "Space" performed by Gábor Szabó. "Drowned World" was inspired by J. G. Ballard's novel The Drowned World. It contains a sample of "Why I Follow The Tigers" by the San Sebastian Strings. The music video features Madonna running from paparazzi, in a controversial reference to the death of Princess Diana. Family Guy: Peter Griffin parodies the music video of "Ray Of Light" in the episode "New Kidney In Town", after drinking some Red Bull. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Swim", "Skin", "Frozen". | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Skin". | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Candy Perfume Girl". | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "Mer Girl", "The Power Of Good-Bye". | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: "Frozen", "Nothing Really Matters". | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
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But Now I Must Go: "The Power Of Good-Bye" with its first line: | |
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Shapeshifting | |
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Shapeshifting: Madonna shapeshifts into black dogs and ravens in the music video for "Frozen", directed by Chris Cunningham. | |
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