FIRST TIME REACTING TO Madonna - Live To Tell

[@MonkeyFace544]

She wrote this song in two days. The version released was her first demo. Her lower register, so good. Madonna’s talent is often overwhelmed by her image.

[@MegaJake1971]

She probably had this look out of necessity for the Shanghai Surprise movie, as it was around the same time. If she never made that movie, she probably wouldn't have had this look.

[@GroupieDoBTS]

She wrote only the lyrics

[@miguel-hz2fq]

@@GroupieDoBTS MADONNA WROTE AND PRODUCE THIS SONG WITH PATRICK LEONARD

[@karisuzanne4382]

I love her voice in the lower register! Rich and full.

[@atligunnar7101]

Lol, she didnt write this song. She didnt write any of her top songs. She is just an asshole.......

[@e72882]

This is my favorite song from Madonna. She wrote the song for the film "At Close Range". It is a great 80s film that is about the life a young man who is brought into his father's criminal empire and learns about the consequences of being involved in crime. It is actually based off of a true story about Pennsylvania criminal Bruce Johnston Sr. and Bruce Johnston Jr. The secret that Madonna refers to is all of the information that the son knows about his father and his decision of whether or not to tell it to the police and FBI.

[@RoverWaters]

"she wrote it" 😄 not so sure

[@e72882]

@@RoverWaters Yes, she actually wrote the lyrics for the song. The instrumental portion for the song was written for another film. However, these lyrics, were written for the film At Close Range. She also co-created the melodies and co-produced it with Patrick Leonard, the man responsible for the instrumental version.

[@bluedragon4]

@@RoverWaters She wrote the lyrics. There is a youtube video on the creation of the song if you look it up.

[@timbrandt9619]

My oldest bro knows some of the players involved in this song/movie. He's a tortured soul thanks to Nam and the CIA. You can't talk about the secret or you could be gone. 1st song I loved from Madonna.

[@HenryWaltonJones]

Incredible song,still one of my favourites

[@michaeljonesmckeiver3320]

That's my favorite Madonna's song

[@redxsage]

For me, it was _'La Isla Bonita',_ from the same album.

[@onechopbuddy3849]

Me too, and it’s aged really well

[@redxsage]

@@onechopbuddy3849 -- It seemed, honestly, like an old song or standard, revamped with modern instrumentation, even when new. Excellent song. No surprise its lingevity.

[@jenniferbaumgarden9293]

Mine too.

[@dewaynehairston6286]

My favorite too...this song made me a fan of hers back in my adolescent days😊❤️❤️

[@josephsmall4270]

I liked how she shed the image she had in those days for a plain simple look. One of her nicer songs.

[@enriquesanchez9016]

From what i've read, a lot of people were genuinely surprised by this song and look. They were so used to the Like A Virgin and Material Girl look and sound, they didn't see it coming. Her first big re-invention.

[@geminiacleo7ewe]

Simpler looks better on her.

[@MrDemimonde]

@@enriquesanchez9016 this was her first reinvention.

[@Cybrludite]

@@geminiacleo7ewe honestly, this was the hottest she's ever been in a video.

[@doriwiljt]

“At Close Range” such a good movie. And I love this song.

[@JD_Slacker]

Love both!

[@s.l.s.l.1405]

Yesss

[@fordhouse8b]

Mary Stuart Masterson looks so young here. Of course they all do.

[@dawggirl]

@@fordhouse8b She was a baby!

[@adamwarlock1]

Having Christopher Walken be father to the Penn brothers is such perfect casting, especially because it would be hard to believe Sean being scared/impressed by anyone else.

[@ownyourcrazy8734]

The song was written and recorded for the film "At Close Range" starring then husband Sean Penn (and his brother Chris Penn). It shows a true maturity and growth from her earlier work. And a massive change in image. Madonna's was a style icon. So when she changed her fans followed.

[@Kamandi1971]

not all fans when she got into that vogue shit 1990 alot of 80;s fans said im out ! her first three albums are her best

[@heyou702pc]

Also Sean Penn's mother is his grandmother in the film.

[@xanajak]

Great movie.

[@iChristyD]

This song & also “This Used to be My Playground” are 2 of my favorites and both off movie soundtracks. People forget Madonna is talented and only see her as silly or whatever, I grew up with her and was always a fan.

[@suzawilo]

Mine too. 🙏🏽 Just found this channel and commented almost the same exact thing🤔

[@tuffs4it]

Same here. I'm not a Pop music or Madonna fan, but those are 2 of my all-time favorite songs.

[@michaelmcguire9804]

One of her very best ballads!

[@sulathenewfie4277]

I have always felt Madonna’s true strength is her ballads vs her pop. I love this song and there was a time I had this on repeat.

[@bravesoul5743]

True

[@dougschmidt5132]

had talent , now shes a total freak show . sad

[@genevamckenzie9608]

Agree! I love all her music but she reigns with her ballads!❤❤

[@dawnrobbins5877]

Madonna is great! Don't care what anyone else says. She's in a League Of Her Own, literally and figuratively.

[@mpourmpoulithra2011]

i love madonna

[@carlollison3273]

The movie " At Close Range " was amazing

[@leahsweany4726]

It's based on a true story, i remember it playing out ont the news and remember footage of the son coming to court wearing a bulletproof vest.

[@flawed.81]

Yes it is,love this song to,an I'm not a Madonna person lol

[@jaranowska]

Your hair looks so cool, I have to say, very striking.

[@tickedoffnow]

I cry to this song

[@mpourmpoulithras11]

Μadonna has sold more than 335 million records worldwide and is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records..............

[@stellahall8321]

Madonna has one of the best ranges I've ever heard. Thank you 😘

[@toniannalimena3580]

A woman's tale about love and loss in a relationship..Sean Penn her ex husband..I always felt that this song was about them. They made 1 movie together. Great song very deep lyrics..Great reaction 👍

[@Gordonroyce]

My favorite song of hers

[@Kamandi1971]

this is one of madonnas best ever very underrated

[@pjsin9472]

She is legendary! She completely changed the music industry

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Yessss! Finally someone doing this song! ❤️🤍✌️✨

[@bradgochujangparham3391]

This takes me right back to 1986.....love this song....the critics said it would bomb because it was such a slow ballad.....it went straight to number 1....basically the first single from LIKE A PRAYER

[@redxsage]

Oh? I.thought it was from _'TRUE BLUE,"_ my personal favorite album from *MADONNA.*

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

It's from 'True Blue'

[@bradgochujangparham3391]

@@normandavidtidiman9918 yeah....after I hit enter I slapped myself :)

[@annabinksy1694]

OMG so schocked to see your beautiful face appear in my youtube feed. Great song to pick from Madonna

[@indiegirl9882]

The secret she has learnt is life is grim. Madonna was huge in the eighties other big songs from the same album: Papa Don't Preach Open Your Heart La Isla Bonita and True Blue (title track)

[@dorothydunn3285]

Duh, life do be sucking sometimes. BUT, come on now. You have got to take the bad with the good doll. Though it do suck.

[@SunShine-qk4rb]

Loved this song

[@heyhay5149]

No India. This isn't Madonna's real emotional ballad. Her most emotional ballad she ever recorded is called........ This Used To Be My Playground.......... that song will break you down if you lost someone and think about them while listening to it.

[@openyourchakras918]

More Madonna reactions please 💗

[@lara314]

Love your hair! So pretty. I highly recommend the movie "At Close Range." It's so good and based on a true story.

[@tialori5815]

I agree. It would be a good movie to review, India.

[@joeleos3253]

It's a good movie

[@geminiacleo7ewe]

I LOVE "At Close Range"! Not fast paced but very well acted!(now I gotta put it on!)

[@Mick1975e]

Love your hair too India! Looks so pretty like that..Agreed re the movie... Madonna was at her best here

[@lindarenee2198]

Christopher Walken's character scared the hell out of me in this movie. Pure evil bastard.

[@Thats.So.Trish57]

Such a great song one of Madonna's many faces.

[@princepugh7683]

My favourite Madge song, she’s right at the bottom of her range which lends itself to the soulful nature of the song and lyrics.

[@kevinrene8065]

Never really cared for Madonna's music, but I do like this one. There's some depth here.

[@tinkler4]

This is one of my fav song from Madonna, the other one is ‘Oh Father’ that one got me. love your reaction! ❤️💖❤️

[@iguillo]

One of my favorite Madonna songs. Came out when I was in high school.

[@marinamartinez6886]

Highly recommend you watch the movie At Close Range. Madonna was married to Sean Penn at the time and cowrote this theme song. When this movie is on TV I have to watch, based on a true story. 👍

[@Erikalynn1977]

You look so beautiful 🤩 This is one of my favorite Madonna songs of all time I love how her real voice is in this Such a classic ♥️

[@timpeltier2901]

My favorite song by her 👍

[@stevealdrup9359]

Movie was 'At Close Range'

[@IBLRG]

Hello from England 😊 ❤️ Madonna

[@brainsareus]

Her most beautiful song

[@NM-apache]

Also, my favorite Modonna song. I play trumpet but also sing. I love how she hits every cord beautifully. So nice to hear!

[@JD_Slacker]

Love this song and the movie, At Close Range.

[@gxl5892]

One of my favorite Madonna songs, her talent is incredible.

[@yacquelinnemunoz2013]

Te ves muy bella con ese peinado..me encantan tus videos y reacciones saludos desde CHILE

[@soniarena5250]

Girl Madonna and Sean Penn were the it couple. I was very young but I remember that. LOL

[@jackparr857]

Love your new hair India!

[@nobbycheeseman2915]

This and Oh Father are her greatest two songs.

[@elza32358]

One of her better and more heartfelt songs. It's my favorite.

[@hahatoldyouso]

My favourite Madonna song

[@zanealberto7741]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE MADONNA!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do more👍 I reallllly like your reactions 😎💙 Thank u!!!!!!!!!!😁zane

[@peradetlic3789]

You should see Madonna preforming this song live at The Confessions tour.

[@lorenzocrespin6730]

Was great saw concert.

[@dalee72]

And from the Who's That Girl Tour and Blond Ambition Tour.

[@Bustygirl-dz1wi]

I went to the confessions tour I had front row seats this was amazing live

[@tialori5815]

One of her best, but underrated videos, is the song Frozen. Visually it's amazing and lyrically it's quite insightful.

[@Vertigotheatre1]

Ooooh more Madonna, love your reaction.

[@kingcassius2586]

This is the song in which she proved to the world that she can actually sing. This song is so well written and the way she sings it couldn't have been better.

[@suzidunn7743]

1 of my fav Madonna ballads

[@jeremyadams1521]

Madonna provided the main songs to two great 80’s movies that sadly don’t get their due... At Close Range and Vision Quest 😃

[@JD_Slacker]

Both are fantastic!

[@freddiedash1653]

Vision quest was great 👍🏻

[@charleenneal]

@@freddiedash1653 My favorite soundtrack of all time.

[@freddiedash1653]

@@charleenneal I agree. I was still in jr high school then and listened to lunatic fringe over and over then. Great times.

[@charleenneal]

@@freddiedash1653 I grew up around Spokane (where VQ was filmed). It was a pretty special thing to see all the local landmarks filmed.

[@tbone5112]

Love this song !

[@jamesmincks7526]

My all time favorite Madonna song.

[@AbsoluteMdot]

Such a beautiful song and one of my favorites

[@MrBoombast64]

One of her best. Love it!

[@rebelheartcr8599]

Hey, India! Long time not seeing you around here and you reacted to one of my most favorite Madonna songs of all-time. Live to Tell was born as an instrumental piece written by Patrick Leonard, one of Madonna's frequent collaborators back in the 80's and late 90's. The song was written for the movie called At Close Range, starring Sean Penn, who was Madonna's husband at the time. First, Pat Leonard thought of having a male singer perform the track but they didn't find what they were looking for. So Pat Leonard suggested that Madonna sang the song herself. She agreed. Madonna wrote the lyrics and in the demo version of this song you can hear the sound of paper meaning that Madonna was singing her song by looking at the lyrics written in her notepad. She recorded the song in just one take. In regards of the lyrics, Madonna herself has kept it pretty much mysterious about the secret she's referring to in the song. Many people have interpreted that it's about sexual abuse, for instance. In regards of the video, this was Madonna's first video which shows her which a totally new image, clean, with little jewelry and long gone were the bows, the crucifixes, the rubber bracelets, etc. It showed a more mature Madonna, image wise and sound wise. If people back then were still having doubts about Madonna as a singer and songwriter, the quality of this track proved a lot of people wrong. It hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. Oh, and Madonna herself said at some point that Live to Tell was her favorite song of her own.

[@BRIDINC1972]

This song and Ia Isla Bonnita are my favourite Madonna songs

[@michaelmiranda3688]

More Madonna videos please !

[@poeslanding]

This is her best song ever! Great vocals!

[@KajiXD]

Love the hair! Great reaction, as always!

[@marilynk30]

This song cuts to my soul! My favorite by her by far!

[@dalee72]

I love Madonna: her music, songwriting, producing, music videos, live performances, dancing, humanitarian activities, style, mothering and personality.

[@jimtors]

Madonna told Mojo March 2015: "It was kind of inspired by the movie and family secrets and the things that make you who you are, but you don't necessarily want to share. Mix that in with my own childhood and my own growing up and all that. My real experiences get mixed in with things that I imagine." To me ive always imagined this song being about being molested as a child and growing up with that secret. Good thing about art is you can interpret it in so many ways.

[@Esther_In_SoCal]

The summer of 1985... This was my song

[@dalee72]

It was released in 86.

[@dalee72]

This song from what I read in either one of her interviews or in one of her unauthorized biographies that the secret that she's referring to in the song is the lies that her father and stepmother told her when she was growing up while living with them.

[@timothysullivan2952]

Hi India. I love that you listen and appreciate so much music that i grew up with. I graduated high school in 1985 and everything you play is basically my youth. Since you liked this Madonna song and video I mist stress to you to watch the and listen to Oh Father by Madonna. It is absolutely amazing. You should definetly post that with your reactions to it. Stay sweet and love your smile.

[@curtissl.mccraymccray832]

I love your natural hair!

[@marcytwinkle8287]

so true secrets are sometimes hard to deal with but the truth will set you free

[@dinholondres]

Apparently she wrote the song less than a hour after getting the melody and the lyrics are about sexual abuse. They kept her vocals from the demo tape as they were perfect for what she and the producer wanted . Beautiful track, powerful and one of her best works. I still got the single bought in 1986. I love your reactions by the way. 🙂

[@dawggirl]

This song was everything to me in the 8th grade. I pretended I was her and would belt it out. The craziness of a child lol. Beautiful register, beautiful voice, beautiful style for her in this vid.

[@shelleymason901]

Your a very sweet person ❤️ and I love the song so much from Madonna it's one if not my favorite songs of hers and I loved the movie

[@lindehughes1773]

I have always loved this ❤ one

[@suzawilo]

This used to be my playground and Live to tell are my forever favourite Madonna ballads💖💖💖

[@shannonhondo260]

Such an underappreciated Madonna song

[@ramelmil8552]

My favorite madonna song♥️

[@redxsage]

One of my favorite songs ever. From the album _'TRUE BLUE',_ which is pretty much perfect, from beginning to end.

[@caribeandude1]

One of my favorite Madonna songs of all time. So beautiful, deep and haunting.

[@tahraludwig950]

Love to see you discover this! Also... I like the natural hair... Wish i had it... I have straight lifeless hair... I have to spend hours to have it flatten out by 10am! 😂😂😂

[@laurieruby1]

The movie is At Close Range. It was filmed in my home town Franklin TN. My friends and I would go downtown Franklin and watch them film until the wee morning hours! Great memories!

[@sweett8351]

This is my favorite Madonna song ❤️

[@angelagreene1968]

I love your hair. Have a blessed night. 😊😊😊

[@bobflickinger1615]

Love your reaction ❣️

[@cyrus2728]

best madonna song for me

[@jillplatte6370]

One of her best songs. And it fit the movie {At Close Range) perfectly.

[@ZadenZane]

You want to know I felt when I first heard this? Back in the 80s? Well I remember Madonna from Holiday and Like a Virgin and I wasn't a particular fan until I saw the videos for Papa Don't Preach and True Blue. Suddenly she had gone from Street Madonna to Hollywood Madonna, she seemed really glamorous, unlike any other pop star of the time. As for Live To Tell, it's pure poetry, I love that song. I think it's a shame it's not better remembered because it's one of Madonna's best. I heard that before she released it various people in the music industry advised her management not to release it because it would kill her career! Over the years I've heard a few people asking "what is the big secret she talks about in this song?" But that's the whole point, it's a big secret! I'm not sure it's a negative secret though. Doesn't she sing "I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once I know the warmth she gives..."? I always thought it was a beautiful secret, but a dangerous one.

[@deborahscalise3215]

This is my favorite Madonna song. The movie was also very good and was taken from a true story.

[@sean4339]

Hi beautiful you look stunning❤💚💜💙 thank you for reaction to Madonna live to tell amazing song but yet sad when you have a secret .

[@cortneyperfume_madness480]

Love your hair! So1940s!! 💜💜

[@sweetscent2622]

Love this song....

[@jonevan580]

I always figured this song was about the damage of carrying childhood trauma of some kind and never feeling able to tell anyone about it and never being able to escape it. ‘If I ran away, I’d never have the strength to go very far’.

[@edwardmeradith2419]

Yes - for some reason I thought it was personal, related to an abusive relationship, perhaps a family member (father?)

[@belindamecimorestiers3394]

I love this song so much , what I take from the words of this song is , she loves this man , and he's not honest (a man can tell a thousand lies) when she's learns this does she keep the secret , or does she tell , knowing that she knows , will she live to tell

[@mannymontgomery9807]

Great song from an incredible movie At Close Range. You should definitely check it out

[@ppzav]

abd damn....you look great. I LOVE the hair!!!

[@ibelieveicansoar]

I’ve always liked how the video shows just enough cryptic scenes from the movie to make the song connect to it, without trying to over-explain the plot. The cinematography looks so poetic. Even though I haven’t seen the movie, I have enough of a gist of it to create a little world for the characters. And yes, Madonna not revealing what her secret is makes it that much more powerful. Alicia Keys did this in two of her best songs, “Diary” (she never says what “your secret” is) and “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” (she never says what doing “the un-thinkable” would entail, but it’s presumably about eloping).

[@joeyd8618]

One of Madonna's best songs

[@PiazzaGurl]

The lyrics are soooo powerful! Madonna was so in love with Sean Penn. A lot of her heart break songs stem from their relationship.