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[@jlim74]

The Bedtime Story video is one of the most expensive in history costing $5M USD back then, which would be $10M USD today or $15M AUD! It's funny that you said, like a dream because that is exactly what it is. She is in a kind of dream state. All the things that you thought were weird and trippy were because the video was based on famous artworks of female surrealists painters bought to life in her dream state. Interestingly the music video was given a theatrical release - it debuted in cinemas! The music video is considered itself to be a piece of art and has been displayed and kept in the Museum of Modern Art (MONA) and other art institutions. Human Nature didn't win any awards, the groundbreaking video of this era was Bedtime Story but the commercial success of this album was Take A Bow - which went to No 1 in the US and stayed there for 7 weeks! - her 11th No 1 song!

[@bennshouts]

INCREDIBLE!!!

[@Jasonstamos457]

Bit of Human nature trivia - Thierry Mugler was supposed to make the outfits for the video but they never turned up on time so madonna and her stylist went to a S & M shop and bought them pvc outfits 😂 really great reaction video ❤

[@bennshouts]

Aww thank you! 🥰 HAHAHA, classic M and yet it still looks so high fashion! Slay

[@robertfraser9873]

​@@bennshoutsI can't compare if the Mugler outfits would have looked great but. I think that M and the dancers looked outstanding and and very sexy and sophisticated, especially considering that their original purpose 😅😅❤❤

[@NocturneSoul]

The Bedtime Story video was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a piece of art. It was the first music video ever to be acquired by a museum as a piece of art. It's in permanent display and it's part of the museum's heritage.

[@bennshouts]

Love this!!!

[@ggonzalez2676]

The song was produced by Bjork. The music video was inspired by the work of Remedios Varo, a mexican surrealist artist (It makes sense that they choose that for creating a surreal Dreamland world of Bedtime Stories...)

[@NocturneSoul]

@@ggonzalez2676 Remedios Varo is the name of the painter. Yes, the video recreates some of her paintings as well as paintings by Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. And the live performance with that floating hair is a live recreation of one of Remedios Varo's paintings too.

[@ggonzalez2676]

@@NocturneSoul thanks I changed the names lol🤣 . Her paintings are amazing.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

@@ggonzalez2676was it not written by Bjork? I should just go and look it up!

[@FindingMadonna]

What I love about this era is that after "Secret" and "Take a Bow" did so well, she was like, I'm releasing the songs that interest me the most, not the ones that will be hits. Because it would have been very easy for her to follow up TAB with "Forbidden Love" and then "Don't Stop" (which was already getting airplay in the U.S. completely unsolicited). But she clearly took a chance with "Bedtime Story" (the video is iconic but the song itself flopped and radio was still playing TAB well into the spring/summer of '95) and then she was like fuck it I'm releasing "Human Nature." Her label must have been thrilled. 🤣 Incidentally, "Human Nature" was her last song to chart on the R&B chart until "Popular" this year!

[@mattvarnish100]

Take A Bow was not that big outside of the US. A relative flop in the UK and Australia, for example, by Madonna standards. It was too saccharine. Bedtime Story was actually the bigger hit in both of those places.

[@samuelosler1994]

@@mattvarnish100 Take a Bow peaked lower In the UK than Bedtime Story but it sold way more and had higher airplay on BBC radio, I wouldn't call BS a bigger hit in the UK, BS was released when single sales were low too, TAB was released at the peak of singles sales at Christmas in the US, hence it's lower chart peak than BS but higher overall sales

[@FindingMadonna]

@@mattvarnish100 Correct but Madonna's focus was very much on the U.S. after the Erotica era. It's the biggest music market in the world and her home country, and her music in the mid 90s was obviously very much geared toward success in the U.S.

[@Anthony-pm2tb]

This was the era she started getting vocal training

[@bennshouts]

Love

[@FindingMadonna]

She had some for Dick Tracy and the Sondheim songs, which are hard to sing, but she didn't start Evita training until after the BS era. Which is ironic since I adore her vocals on this album.

[@gozzywozzy485]

All four of these videos are superb, and all for different reasons. The biggest crime of this era is that it was not as successful as it deserved to be. I would have loved to have seen more singles come to life from this album. Sanctuary would have been something to behold, and a live duet vid with Me'Shell for IRBYL would have made me geek out as well for sure!

[@FindingMadonna]

Yeah "Forbidden Love" was an obvious choice for a single (she even included it on Something to Remember), but I think she really wanted to do videos for "Bedtime Story" and "Human Nature." And then they wanted to move on to STR so there wasn't much time for a fifth single.

[@bennshouts]

Totally, I wish there were more :'(

[@gopies1456]

Bedtime stories album sold more the erotica selling 8 million copies worldwide. Take a bow was no.1 for 7 weeks in the USA and secret was a top 5 hits worldwide. The album was so nominated a Grammy award. So it was not a fop of an album. Erotica was not a flop either selling 7 million albums worldwide and scoring two top 10 hits (erotica and deeper and deeper) even American life in 2003 sold 5 million albums worldwide. 95% of music artist would kill for those album sales

[@Matuteilcapo]

And they said she was over... What the f did they know?? Greater eraS are about to come. That's why she's the Queen, the one and only. In Beyonce words: "Queen Mother Madonna, I love ya", Indeed.

[@kevenpeoples]

Fun fact: "Bedtime Story" was written for Madonna by Björk! Hola Ben! ☺

[@monsieurcarpio2860]

Actually, Bjork said that she wrote it for her friend Nelle Hooper, who wanted a song for Madonna.

[@kevenpeoples]

@@monsieurcarpio2860 ok 🤓

[@bennshouts]

KEVEN

[@matthewdunne8432]

Her 90s videos , specifically this era , are just unbelievable. So ahead of their time. You just didn’t see videos like this often if at all in that time.

[@bennshouts]

Truly incredible work!

[@todddepue681]

Four stunning videos, each so perfectly evocative of the song. When she was campaigning for the role of Evita, she submitted the "Take a Bow" video, along with a handwritten letter, to the director Alan Parker. It so perfectly showcased her in circa 1940s glam mode, ideal for Eva Peron. That fabulous suit was by John Galliano. The dresses she wore performing Secret and Bedtime Story were both by Gianni Versace, for whom she had starred in a gorgeous ad campaign that year. Fun fact: that Versace campaign was shot at Mar-a-Lago, which is Donald Trump's home/resort in Florida. Obviously waaay before he was president, but still...ick. I guess she spent the night there and later reported that the sheets were not very good quality LOL.

[@softshallow7435]

Bedtime Story was/is the third most expensive video ever made! Human Nature music video is so clever, them boxes is showing being constrained in the box and we should start to think out of the box is best way to be! as that’s what Madonna was and Always has been.

[@bennshouts]

Omg just looked up the list! She's at #2, #3 & #4! Iconic, wow! And yes Human Nature is literally my favourite

[@softshallow7435]

@@bennshoutscan not wait for you to react to her Evita eta as you can see she started to have lessons as her singing is more advanced as she was starting in the musical film Evita where she won a golden globe for.

[@bennshouts]

Just when you think she slows down... she just doesn't 😂 SO keen for it!!!

[@softshallow7435]

@@bennshoutsyes. I was about 10 when she started her career. i’m 50 now, i’m lucky to be growing up and in the thick of her stardom, when all the music videos, controversies new styles her pushing the envelope doing things no one other artist dared to do before, lucky to see them first ever premiered when this was all fresh and her new music styles she came out with. was so so lucky!

[@FindingMadonna]

@@softshallow7435 Oh yeah, "You'll See" is so powerful. And I love "I Want You" too. Still so much ground to cover on the Majourney. Curious to see what he thinks of the post-Ray Of Light stuff. She takes some weird left turns.

[@teatine]

Madonna in 90’s it was fire. Take a Bow and Secret were a total success in Latin America.

[@highheartwellness]

"Handle it" - M.

[@got2bjosh]

Vogue, Justify My Love, This Used To Be My Playground, & Take A Bow were Madonna's #1 hits of the 1990s.

[@gopies1456]

Human nature didn’t win any awards. Take a bow won best video from a female at the 1995 video music awards. Bedtime stories was the 3rd most expensive music video of all time.

[@bennshouts]

Human Nature deserved so much!!!

[@ValdesCollao]

Human Nature was nominated for “Best Dance Video” in the VMA 95’s. But the winner that night was “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson. This Álbum, and specifically Human Nature (music and video) Maked me a fan of her till this day. A was 13 at that time and changed my life forever 👑. Love your video reaction! Hugs from Chile 🇨🇱

[@bennshouts]

Human Nature is INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you for the hugs and love!!

[@Cliftonbrown1984]

I cannot tell you how entertaining it has been as a life long Madonna fan to watch you slowly notice all the reasons why we were making comments all these years about about Lady gaga not being quite...original. Especially since it was ultimately what kept you from Madonna in the first place. Cant wait to see your reaction to JOANNE...i mean MUSIC 😏😂😉

[@bennshouts]

Omg HAHAHAHAHAHA the shadeeeeee 😂 So good haha, I love it haha! ANNDDDD I didn't mention which artist I meant 😛 But yes, you are correct haha.

[@MissAngie25]

Ooopp🤭

[@prismaze]

"Take A Bow" is Madonna's favorite music video she's ever done (mine too lol) ❤

[@felixmeow660]

The dress she wore in the Brit awards performance is by Versace..it's right after her first photo campaign with Gianni Versace

[@felixmeow660]

She has done 3 Versace campaigns..1995, 2005 and 2015..she's still good friends with Donatella.. Donatella said when Gianni was killed Madonna would call her regularly and they'd talk for hours

[@felixmeow660]

She sent the director of Evita the Take a Bow video and a 10 page letter for the reasons she felt she was the best person for the part

[@robertfraser9873]

Yeah I remember her saying that as soon as she knew Alan Parker (RIP) had signed on as director she put pen to paper. It's so funny because she had said in the letter that she would focus 100% on the movie and stop doing everything else. She then got pregnant during filming so he said she obviously hadn't stopped doing everything! Hahaha 😂😂❤❤

[@felixmeow660]

@@robertfraser9873 but she also didn't tour for Bedtime Stories..I know she had wanted to but when she found out about Evita she put all her energy to that

[@scottsaunders5087]

Videos for bedtime stories and human nature are amazing full of weirdness and ATTITUDE! Love it

[@walterhigo7658]

SEE ?? In your previous Madonna reaction I wrote that you were becoming such a true fan, that you were inadvertently describing one of the videos in Bedtime Stories without seeing it. Now you know I was referring to SECRET. Go back to that reaction and you'll see you nailed it!!!!

[@FindingMadonna]

When he said he was nervous for her live vocals on TAB, I knew he was officially converted. Not that he obviously wasn't before. But now he knows what we all felt like post-Erotica for many years. Haha.

[@bennshouts]

HAHAHAH YES! I thought of your comment as soon as I realised 😂

[@marisgoldenhour6212]

This was a great Madonna era (among so many other great Madonna eras). Around this time she was campaigning for her part in the movie version of Evita. She had dental work as well to either get or play the part and changed it back after the release. Babyface produced "Take A Bow" (the man singing with her at the AMAs), but I can't remember if he had a hand on other tracks of that album. The "Bedtime Stories" video had a Bjork vibe, who also was a part of the writing team of that track. Love this trip down memory lane. Keep forgetting there are now generations of fans who didn't live through all the many stages of Madonna as they were happening. Quite a trip. 😊💙🖤✨

[@andresleiton4948]

I love your Madonna videos

[@carlospradomarin7321]

one of the dancers from the live performance on a podcast said that Madonna told them, ok let's go buy clothes for the show tonight, I think it was in Italy. and the three of them left alone without security and went to the center of the city to buy clothes for the show like three friends. obviously no one imagined that Madonna was there 😂

[@bennshouts]

hahahah love it!!!

[@hutnerbaekUBS]

LOVE!!! 😍😍😍 Great reaction, as always. You're awesome.

[@bennshouts]

Hehe thank you!

[@jeremygreig5809]

I think this Era is Madonna at her sexiest. Yeah, it's not as explicit or in your face as erotica, which is amazing, don't get me wrong. I see erotica as leather and Bedtime Stories as lace. Madonna and Babyface and Dallas Austin made a great team.

[@bennshouts]

100%

[@stevenalexander403]

G'day it's Steven here again Thankyou for taking me down memory lane There's a story behind every music video but I'm not gonna bore y'all with it. All hail the Queen of Pop!

[@bennshouts]

Haha thanks Steven!

[@walterhigo7658]

A LITTLE TRIVIA: The 'Human Nature' video was directed by JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO, who also directed 'Open your Heart' and 'Justify my Love'. Later on, on you journey, you'll come across two more videos directed by him.

[@idkidkidklol683]

hell yessssss, bedtime story video is one of my faves

[@bennshouts]

yassssss

[@WCD199317]

Fun fact: Justin Timberlake told the ''Take a Bow'' was one of his favorites all time music videos. When he shot the ''Sexyback'' video, he asked to the same director of ''Take a Bow'', Michael Haussman to directed his video because he loved how the ''Take a Bow'' video was looking and Michael reused the TV for the ''Sexyback'' video, depist the video was more futurist.

[@FernStone]

omg YESSS !! so excited to watch , you already know I'm going to edit my comment once I watched it lol Edit: OKAY so watched all the music vid reactions and aaaaahhhhhhhh so exciting. All those videos I saw before the age of 5 lol !! ON REPEAT! Secret was one of my sisters favs, and of course I love it too. the video has such a vibe to it, love it. For me and my sister Take A Bow was HARD skip (fast forward on a vhs more like) but honestly I always appreciated it more than I let on. Still not my fav though. When I was a kid , Bedtime Stories was my absolute fav, it was so mystical and as a child with a huge imagination it really did feel like a dream. BUT THEN YOU HAVE HUMAN NATURE! which is still one of my fav madonna songs ever... but the video .... I knew from the moment I saw it I also was going to fancy girls hahahahah I wanted to be her too though.... I know I was so young seeing that video, I watched it so many times growing up.... but tbh it didn't affect me in a bad way, I saw a cool, powerful, assertive woman and I still get chills when I watch the video. Even cooler seeing you vibe with it !!!!!

[@bennshouts]

HAHA I love that you were vibing hard to these at 5 years old! Truly iconic from the very beginning :P

[@larryproctor8234]

My favorite album by her. Love it.

[@wagnercorrea_]

I loooooove this era!! Masterpiece!

[@rafaelsenhorini7254]

Acid Betty make this look in Drag race❤

[@bennshouts]

OMG YES!!!!

[@rafaelsenhorini7254]

@@bennshouts ❤️

[@zanyzander]

Wow I've never seen that AMA Take a Bow. Not a big fan of the song but I definitely love the live version. So much more passion.

[@bennshouts]

Right?!

[@ourwalkstogether]

Human Nature is still to this day one of my favorite music videos period. I do love Bedtime Story but its never held a very strong place in my heart. At the time it came out it was absolutely obvious that it was a Björk song (as a massive Björk stan who i was majorly into at the same time) and was performed a bit too Björk-like for my tastes. I would have preferred a more Madonna take on it whatever that would have sounded like. But at the same time I'm not mad at it.

[@andrewb62]

You should react to her other albums Music and Confessions On A Dance Floor because those are pretty fun albums especially Confessions On A Dance Floor

[@bennshouts]

I will be x

[@MichaelCorbeiljr]

There's a part two of the Song Take A Bow, it's called You'll See from the Something To Remember Album a year later 1995

[@ExplainAndSummarize]

As a fan now and back then, I can mention that it has always a hit or miss when it comes to Madonna's vocals in her live performances. There is, for instance, one really horrible The Power of Goobye performance from the European VMAs 1998 or something or the 1998 VMAs with Lenny Kravitz...In many interviews she said that she found TV performances awkward because she has trouble playing just one song because everything felt like a rehearsal. She has a great deal of AMAZING vocal performances too, of course (Drowned World 1998 in some Swedish show??, or Ghosttown 2015 in some French show - which ist breathtaking). Because of some unsatisfatory performances like the 2015 Living for Love BRITs performance, we (and by we I mean "I") have become hyper focussed in her f***** it up, which is terrible. As a real fan of the ARTIST I see her journey as the ART and appreciate the whole package and don't let my own journey of her ART being distracted by Sky News/ Murdoch and hate channels on the internet that really don't know her destroy my experience I have with her ART. THAT's what's it's all about (for me at least). 😄🤭🤗

[@HipsterBlood]

Many videos in the 90s featured people of all different races. The “Secret” video was shot in Harlem and for the reason alone you see a rich mixture of people.

[@Hugo-fs9sf]

Take A Bow the bit with the TV is her being in love with a celebrity, the bullfighter, basically being in love with someone you can never have.

[@acnyc4601]

She's the F-ing Best. That Oscar performance was a middle finger to all her critics.,

[@bennshouts]

YASSSSSS

[@richardwalker9038]

You need to watch the bedtime story performance separate. It’s brilliant and she used the superb Junior Vazquez remix

[@monsieurcarpio2860]

OMFG that remix!!!! Fuckin´luv it.

[@leandroferraz3776]

90's Madonna: the best albums, singles and videos!

[@felixmeow660]

MTV had a special about the making of Take A Bow called no bull

[@bennshouts]

Haha, love that

[@lucamiki1]

ABSOLUTLY NO REGRETS

[@bennshouts]

HAHA YES!!

[@ericacarreiro9299]

Great era!!!! ♥️ React next to the Friend World Tour (dvd) Full show please!

[@David-le3yr]

Peak video era for Madonna..all so different from each other too.. exquisite ❤

[@bennshouts]

Literally!

[@David-le3yr]

​@@bennshoutsthe MTV special 'no bull, the making of take a bow' is definitely worth a watch.. it's very very funny

[@Princess7ives]

BtS - the best era!!!

[@lucamiki1]

Evita is coming ( there are a couple of extra before 😊)

[@bennshouts]

Keeeeeen!!!

[@kristianberg4264]

A couple of things of note: first, Madonna was not plumping her lips, she did that once during the time of justify my love, this was also, her first Versace phase as you can see by the outfits in the live performances , minus take a bow, which was Asian inspired. Lastly, whoever is telling you what to watch, did you dirty & an injustice to not mentioning, that you really needed to watch the “You’ll See” video right after Take A Bow ( though not on the same album, it came from the Ballads compilation album “Something To Remember/1995)as it is a literal part.2 to Take A Bow & is as stunning if not more so. That’s my only complaint, which was not your fault and I loved your reaction to this gorgeous era.

[@FindingMadonna]

I'm not convinced she wasn't doing some subtle lip fillers or had a very tasteful facelift by 1995. Nothing wrong with it and, if so, I think it was done really well because it's hard to tell. But something about her face did tighten/change between 1993 and 1995.

[@kristianberg4264]

@@FindingMadonna -Well as someone who has followed her for 40yrs, I can say there were no lip fillers here or a facelift, she was only in her 30yrs for gods sake.

[@FindingMadonna]

@@kristianberg4264 As someone who has followed her for nearly as long, I disagree. ALL of these artists and celebs in the 80s and 90s were getting procedures done. She likely had a brow lift in the early 90s and a facelift by 1995. If you think she woke up one day in 2008 and decided to get her first facelift (and a big, noticeable one at that), I don't know what to tell you. 🤷

[@bennshouts]

We might still get that though!

[@kristianberg4264]

@@bennshouts - OH Good, it is such a beautiful sister video to Take A Bow, I would love to see & hear your thoughts on it.

[@jasongoodacre]

Why did I guess you were an Aussie by just looking at the moustache and haircut combo? What a result! 😅

[@bennshouts]

Hahaha, you mean I'm not original? 😂

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

One of my favorite songs and music videos in the 90’s even as a goth skater punk metalhead outcast, I’m not ashamed to admit that this video was spank bank material because I was healthy with my sexuality

[@mesquelle]

❤

[@gemini7101]

Madonna Rain.. is your next song

[@lasernikixcex]

Is Music the next Madonna album reaction?

[@Nicolas-yl1me]

Rebel Heart By Madonna Next >>>>

[@britsluver]

Did you love it more □ xx

[@bennshouts]

Yasss!

[@dvus1977]

BJORK - UTOPIA ALBUM REACTION PLEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSEEEEEEEE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@skinvald]

Tus risas y burlas en ciertas partes me recuerdan a la gente que se ríe en partes serias en la peliculas en el cine. Demuestra un poco tu falta de conocimiento respecto a las distintas expresiones artísticas. Se ha vuelto desagradablemente recurrente en tus reacciones.

[@bennshouts]

Don’t watch then lol

[@pbohearn]

What is up with cutting through the videos that’s disgusting and degrading! I can’t watch it!

[@bennshouts]

'disgusting' and 'degrading', honestly mate, GET A GRIP! It's to get avoid KZbin's copyright, etc. Clearly you know NOTHING about the internet. I'm glad you can't watch, you are exactly the type of person I do NOT want on my videos. Absolutely NO regrets!!!

[@robertfraser9873]

Get a grip mate. Benn's channel is great and he has to avoid copyright problems.

[@sonofmargit]

She gets a lot of hate, but her body of work is simply amazing. I was in my late teens when she emerged, and as a gay man I will forever be grateful for all she did to spread awareness and love. As a live performer she is even better, a true genius. Watch her concerts in chronological order and marvel at her progression.