AJayII reacting to Bedtime Stories by Madonna (Re-upload)

[@JB-pl1iu]

Bedtime Stories is a chill slice of heaven.

[@mdpxcsv]

this is honestly such a perfect way to describe the album

[@fajarzakri4936]

This has always been one of my most favorite Madonna albums tbh... just a compact, no non-sense listen, solid songwriting, production (there truly is something about the mid 90s R&B groove) and some of her most soulful vocal performances ever (Love Tried To Welcome Me is just stellar stuff) - this was actually her first ALBUM to be nominated for a Grammy. I always thought of Bedtime Stories as the end of an era tbh... her last proper studio album before motherhood, before the Evita vocal training (it might have allowed her to refine her techniques, but it also scrubbed off a lot of the raw, unbridled, throaty edges that her pre-trained voice possessed), just an icon reflecting on her life. It's heartfelt stuff. Plus the quasi title track was the closest thing to a Madonna/Björk collaboration, and it's truly stood the test of time. And the seamless segue from Sanctuary to Bedtime Story!!! Truly a genius move.

[@amistilljohn]

I agree with everything you said

[@amandalepre]

this is my fav madonna album, its perfect start to finish

[@ladylina3529]

It makes me rub so hard

[@chayo4537]

Damn right 😂❤🍻 i love the whole immaculate collection / erotica / bedtime stories era. 1991-1994 ** I love the records top to bottom which leads to my other genuine y2k! Favorite Ray of light 1998 finishing the 90s- the end of a beautiful, interesting era

[@kitanakahn101]

Erotica + Bedtime Stories + Ray of Light = All Time Favourite

[@graphiquejack]

A trifecta of perfect and near perfect albums. The creative peak

[@peachica]

She literally owned the 90s pop era

[@davidvyse]

the holy trinity

[@nAnCyCarLs]

My favorite albums! ❤

[@chayo4537]

Fact! Just like björk has vespertine (2001) homogenic (1997) post (1995)

[@jeremympage5016]

The song "inside of me" was decades to her mother who died of cancer at the age 30, when Madonna was 5 years old

[@kierra05]

I always thought it was about her Mother, good to know it actually is. The lyrics can be confused with a lover Madonna once had

[@bananaman3981]

MADONNA - Bedtime Stories, 1994 Timestamps: 1. Survival - 1:03 (RIP lost footage of the reaction) 2. Secret - 2:51 3. I'd Rather Be Your Lover - 5:29 4. Don't Stop - 8:00 5. Inside of Me - 8:53 6. Human Nature - 9:59 7. Forbidden Love - 12:48 8. Love Tried To Welcome Me - 14:13 9. Sanctuary - 16:53 10. Bedtime Story - 18:34 11. Take A Bow - 19:33 Final Thoughts - 22:27 My Top 3 songs in this album: 1. Love Tried To Welcome Me 2. Take A Bow 3. Forbidden Love :)

[@ethypoo]

mine: 1. bedtime story 2. human nature 3. take a bow

[@ceebas12]

mine is 1. Bedtime Story 2. Sanctuary 3. Inside of Me

[@Adrian-ve5tv]

For me: 1. Take A Bow 2. Secret 3. Survival

[@chris-mm8zl]

Love tried to welcome me Forbidden Love Take a bow

[@bryanmarch9101]

same sis

[@luistorres513]

It may not be everyone's favorite but I really love this album so much. It's so sensual and her vocals are really calming and beautiful

[@crisivankun397]

So true

[@Marc-zi5cq]

IT's my favorite, can listen from start to finish and love it all. If you like R&B, this album is your bish!

[@dezsokrisztianjeri1052]

I dont know why she deleted these fun videos, but im glad you upload them🙏🏻 That’s my favourite album by Madonna ❤️

[@ethypoo]

i actually think ajayii took them down herself because i remember it said it was removed by the uploader, and i feel she did that to remove videos that had low views, cuz her least viewed video on her channel currently was over 160k views and many of her madonna reactions were only 70k-90k views so she took those down. the remaining madonna reactions on her channel have over 200k channels

[@arturocas90]

@@ethypoo Sad :-( But thanks for the upload. These are fun reactions!

[@akiawayne]

BT was such a slow burner. I remember I was disappointed when I first heard it. But after all these years, I kept going back to that album. Fave track, Bedtime Story.

[@akimvszan]

It happened often to me with various M albums , not impressed at first but then really appreciated

[@Alan-bn7gk]

What is BT?

[@rutgernewman828]

@@Alan-bn7gk bedtime stories

[@sito7186]

Sanctuary is my favourite track

[@kitanakahn101]

@@rutgernewman828 not BS?

[@JUSAGUYNKY]

I’m so glad she enjoyed LTTWM!!

[@richardwalker9038]

My fave record on the album! I wonder if they wanted to release it as a single. I know the record company wanted inside of me

[@EJX220]

I always forget how smooth this album is. I always prefer the bold and experimental "Erotica", but "Bedtime Stories" is also such a great album. Has to be in my top five, along with "Ray of Light", "American Life", "Confessions", and of course, "Erotica".

[@thisisme9898]

Bedtime Stories is my number 1 favorite Madonna album! I think it's very underrated and sure, it's a little more toned down, but I still love it and I used to listen to the album on a portable CD player when I was about to graduate highschool before I got a mp3 player. It's a comfort album for me.

[@joelparkinson3562]

this is a ZERO (0) skips album !!

[@varadero5337]

Best album...you will never know good music if it hits you in the ass

[@luistorres513]

@@varadero5337 That's what they implied. That the music is good so the album has no skips..

[@thisisnt_brndn]

Agreed

[@chayo4537]

Period.

[@leonardodossantosbuzatto6896]

I love this album!

[@maui6262]

Mazzzzzonna!!!

[@pauscleanliving839]

🤣🤣🤣

[@edpitts2110]

I can't believe I'm so emotionally invested in the opinion and approval of someone who's literally never heard songs like Secret before.

[@varadero5337]

Bedtime Story ..probably her best album ever...Bedtime story was wrote for Madonna by BJORK ...Icelandic, Scandinavian Vibe.

[@ethypoo]

well, it wasn’t intended for madonna specifically but madonna got it so it’s a masterpiece

[@xx73140]

@@ethypoo The other producer was friends with bjork and he asked her to write the song as a favor, that's what she said

[@ethypoo]

@@xx73140 that would be nellee hooper who produced debut by bjork

[@damienbarber7088]

Almost 40 years so many songs. oh my Gosh where do you start. 14 Albums plus Soundtracks! Its been a blast listening to her Evolution.

[@mmxmmxm]

8:55 lmaoo she thought "inside of me" would be x rated😂

[@robertcastanon1497]

“hold up let me put 🎶 a goddamn maaark 🎶 to iiittt … ooohhh” 15:51

[@rafaelaugustolopes1479]

Love Tried To Welcome Me is truly a gift.

[@frankdoalburquerque2588]

YOU ARE EVERYTHING ‼️ can you upload all the ones which were deleted, please?!!?

[@boris3872]

Sure

[@staycurious644]

@@boris3872 Thank you 🙏🏼

[@gestionhumana8743]

This is my favourite album of hers.

[@bentoth6377]

Best album of all time 🙌

[@Kylie-gz8vn]

Her best album ever PERIOD

[@kyndralee229]

One of my favorite albums by Madonna

[@zyonelzin4865]

U r TRULLY a funny person Thank u 🙏 for the laughter in these times,,, u sound good singing “ Forbidden Love ❤️ “ Awesomeness

[@Gert-c2b]

The sequence from Forbidden Love to Take a Bow IMO is one of her biggest accomplishments. It’s eclectic but it works.

[@ethypoo]

ranking the album tracks: 11. don’t stop - 7/10 (silly lyrics) 10. i’d rather be your lover - 8/10 (this track has a great groove and a great bass line as well) 9. inside of me - 8/10 (am i the only person that thinks this song would have totally smashed as a single) 8. survival - 8/10 (ok so those first 3 songs i really like, but i really appreciate each and every song from here on) 7. love tried to welcome me - 8/10 (i think this is one of madonna’s most melancholy songs but it’s also pretty gorgeous) 6. forbidden love - 8/10 (it took me years to eventually really like this song) 5. sanctuary - 8/10 (same as with the erotica album there really aren’t any tracks on bedtime stories that i don’t like) 4. human nature - 9/10 (i don’t think there are any madonna fans that hate human nature) 3. take a bow - 9/10 (ok if you lived in the usa, take a bow was completely overplayed and everyone got sick of it but you can’t deny what a beautiful song it is) 2. bedtime story - 9/10 (bedtime story might be my #1 favorite madonna music video of all-time) 1. secret - 9/10 (secret was another song that was unlike any other madonna song that had come before it)

[@amandalepre]

fav track on this is Sanctuary. This album is near perfection start to finish

[@jeremyreynolds4669]

haha. you made my day. I agree though.. M does need to bring back her 'mmm mmm'. Your laughing is contageous. :P

[@aliclei1]

Absolutely love this album ❤️

[@ericacarreiro9299]

I love that album. Is my favourite album of Madonna!!!! It was the First cd that I bought from her.

[@eusexva]

Since Bjork wrote the album titled song, I realized AJay should do Bjork

[@felixmeow660]

I don't know if she could handle Bjork

[@Fierra2000]

I think the reason I disliked Erotica and Bedtime Stories the first listen back in 2020 was because of how slow or boring the songs started out and even progressed. Maybe I was so into her upbeat 80s sound that I couldn’t appreciate her 90s work (minus Ray Of Light). But as a couple years went by I’m slowly liking certain songs from both albums now. So I agree with Ajay about the tracks being slow burners. (The reason I’m mentioning Erotica is cause I don’t wanna repeat a comment under that video). Fav Tracks: Rain Erotica Where Life Begins Bye Bye Baby Thief Of Hearts Deeper and Deeper - Love Tried To Welcome Me Secret Human Nature Take A Bow Survival Don’t Stop

[@PascalRascal]

Take A Bow is my favourite Madonna song hands down

[@mysticizzm]

14:44 MAZONNA 💀💀💀

[@carolineneisha]

💯 this whole reaction is priceless 😂🏆

[@aronkolk8877]

I'd bet she'd go CRAZY for the TuPac version of "I'd Rather Be Your Lover"!!

[@openyourchakras918]

Damn AJay come back to us fans who love you 💕

[@christinadevis8849]

i love this reaction so much

[@wasabi.2839]

I didn't knew I'd Rather Be Your Lover have *TUPAC* as a featured artist.

[@carolineneisha]

Originally…record company forced her to remove him because of the legal issues, so Meshell’s version is the one most know (I only discovered this recently too!)

[@soaribb32]

I like how Bedtime Stories is sort of like Erotica's older sister.

[@sito7186]

Mature Sister

[@tyo1973]

Love Ajay’s reaction always, but anyway, you are sooooooo right about auto tune... Please everyone tell her to stop using auto tune. I stopped listening to her because of it.

[@Diego-ix7hk]

19:52 MAZZONNA!!!

[@wagnercorrea_]

Masterpiece!

[@Theredeyedjedi]

This is her best album

[@carolineneisha]

7:47 That’s Meshell Ndegeocello (worth a listen in general). Originally it was actually Tupac (who she also used to date), but the record company forced Madonna to replace him because of the legal issues. But because it was so late in the game, she wasn’t consistently credited

[@sharjjahnaziz4122]

I dont this the KZbin commentator was even born when this song dropped. I can remember. I was in 5th grade.

[@angel_x.o]

Thanks for upload it

[@spleefy]

Why were all these videos taken down from her KZbin page?

[@SophieSDPC]

Eu amo esse álbum ❤️

[@marcosvieira7519]

Did she ever finished all the albuns??? Because i remember that after Like a Virgin i didnt see the first album...or maybe i just missed...😊

[@MusicHorrorFanatic]

She sadly never reacted to the first album. 😕

[@SophieSDPC]

Human nature e incrível 🤩

[@zyonelzin4865]

Take a bow 8 weeks at number 1 Secret filmed in Harlem Bed times written by Bork

[@JulioGomezNYC]

Cowritten... Nellee Hooper wrote most of it.

[@CHSMorrisseau]

Secret was written by Madonna and Dallas Austin. Bedtime Story was written by Nellee Hooper and Bjork, FYI.

[@tashaz3]

She was dating 2Pac around this time and definitely has always been inspired by R&B/hip hop ❤❤❤

[@richardwalker9038]

Best Madonna album …. Fight me

[@chayo4537]

Erotica 😂

[@chayo4537]

But these two albums go together.

[@ethypoo]

ajayii’s possible ranking of the madonna albums she’s viewed BASED on ratios: 13. hard candy 12. mdna 11. american life 10. madame x 9. confessions on a dance floor 8. like a prayer 7. erotica 6. music 5. ray of light 4. bedtime stories 3. true blue 2. like a virgin 1. rebel heart ajayii’s possible ranking of the madonna albums she’s viewed based on her reaction 13. mdna 12. hard candy 11. american life 10. madame x 9. music 8. bedtime stories 7. erotica 6. true blue 5. like a virgin 4. confessions on a dance floor 3. like a prayer 2. rebel heart 1. ray of light

[@lazarcirkovic9621]

Why do you think COAD would be so low? I think it’s in her top 3 for sure

[@ethypoo]

@@lazarcirkovic9621 i agree, but i did this list based on her ratio of songs with marks to songs with no marks, which is why i said possible. however seeing her reaction she’d probably have confessions at #3 or #2

[@CHSMorrisseau]

Mirwais Ahmadzai was the producer she worked with when she started to use auto-tune in the 2000 album "Music", as well as on "Madame X". They used it for the effect on her vocals, NOT to enhance or let her reach notes artificially. Once you understand that, it's more palatable on the senses, or at least for me.

[@theequeenb_]

19:52 MAZONNAAAA

[@GarionOrb]

So sad she never finished.

[@mtn.banana.banana]

Still waiting for Madonna album reaction and ranking.. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@TheFabiaosantos]

I miss ajayii

[@varadero5337]

Bed Time Stories ..It is written by BJORK

[@keiferbellajaro9917]

Did she delete these off her page? And why?

[@enzozzne]

I think most of her deleted videos were deleted because of copyright

[@ethypoo]

i actually think ajayii took them down herself because i remember it said it was removed by the uploader, and i feel she did that to remove videos that had low views, cuz her least viewed video on her channel currently was over 160k views and many of her madonna reactions were only 70k-90k views so she took those down. the remaining madonna reactions on her channel have over 200k channels

[@a.j.patron9214]

@@ethypoo BULLSHIT!! Those videios all have over 200k. GTFOH

[@ethypoo]

@@a.j.patron9214 wdym by those videos

[@brunosalada7790]

why did she delete the madonna videos

[@mr.mealldaylong8013]

Ayjaii... do you plan on getting back into MADONNA'S DISCOGRAPHY LOVE...she's got songs from HER GREATEST HITS ALBUMS...SOUNDTRACK SONGS...COLLABORATIONS... ME ❤YOU LONG TIME 😊

[@okmotobabi]

album title kinda 💀🤣🤣

[@varadero5337]

Where you High for this ?

[@MIMIForever7]

How did this bish not care for Inside of Me?! I knew coming into this that she wouldn’t care for that song. Sometimes I can’t watch her reviews cause I swear she has the worst taste in music lmfao.

[@ferre77]

Exactly that track is a banger

[@davidmadden447]

Such a shame she never reacted to into the groove ,whos that girl , Vogue, hanky panky , justify my love , rescue me ,this used to be my playground,you,ll see the list goes on then she woukd know why Madonna is Madonna

[@AmerieFanbase]

This, music and true blue

[@MindETMuch]

Watcha mean TLC ? This was way before

[@varadero5337]

This song was written by BJORK

[@Ermac407]

Badtime story Best track in album to me

[@PureSparkles22]

23:23 favorites

[@epiphany6189]

what happened to survival? :(

[@Theredeyedjedi]

You ate it

[@Red_Rebel]

I don’t really get Ajayy, how can she spend hours filming, editing, putting passions, and reacting, and literally making videos and end up deleting it later.

[@luistorres513]

Most of it is because of copyright and I think also some of the Madonna reactions weren’t getting a lot of views so she deleted

[@Red_Rebel]

@@luistorres513 it’s still doesn’t add up. All her videos have copyright since it’s literally music reactions. It had decent amount of views, some of her videos had been retrimmed, so if she was concerned with views, it would have been more by now.

[@michaelmurcadha1212]

Darling please do the videos:)

[@aronkolk8877]

Seems like she hates ALLLLLL of my favorite tracks!!

[@SokinaAktar-g8v]

Lee Matthew Jones David Thomas Ruth

[@joshualafferty4567]

This album would have been perfect without “sanctuary & bedtime story”

[@oscarcerdas6170]

What?

[@Somoenefromalgeria]

Oh we got some bad taste here ....