I Found Madonna's WEIRDEST Music Video...
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- Welcome back to my reactions! Today, we're reacting to Nothing Really Matters by Madonna. Hope you enjoy!
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*ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM IN THIS VIDEO:* Here is what Madonna explained years and years ago during an interview.
The song is about becoming a mature person that realizes that living a Self Centered life leads to sadness, and that giving your self, your time and your love to others is what brings true happiness. She used a Japanese theme because she felt inspired by the novel *MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA* and because in the Japanese culture there 3 prominent colors with a specific meaning that were perfect to represent 3 important messages in the song.
1) *BLACK* : Elegance, used by rich people, high society
2) *RED* : Happiness, passion, love, used for celebrations
3) *WHITE* : Death, used for mourning
The woman in the *BLACK* kimono represents the Self Centered person who has others take care of HER needs. The plastic bag of water the woman is carrying, represents those material possessions rich people tend to cling to in their pursuit of happiness, without realizing they are actually of very little value. (as valuable as a plastic bag)
The woman in *RED* , represents the person that has come to realize that being detached from the material world is the way to true happiness. She has managed to get rid off of the "plastic bag", so she is now free and able to give to others.
The people in *WHITE* represent modern society. People who are not rich or powerful, (like most of us) but that because of their greed, live in a constant state of mourning and sadness.
In Madonna's case, the event that made her realize she was living a Self Centered kind of life, was giving birth to her first child (Lourdes), and being confronted with the responsibility of raising her with good values. This is what I remember from that interview. It may not be 100% accurate but I hope it helps you understand the song and the video a little better.
Your/her interpretation is spot on. There are other things I recognize as a film grad in there that I thought I might mention.
The wooden box she's in vs the raised platform she's standing on. You're right, the woman in black (look up "Human Design 3rd Line personality" for the 3 white stripes) is the materialistic one on a raised platform. The celebrity. The lady in red is the future happiness one. And the wooden box looks like the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. All the apes gather around the Monolith and it upgrades their consciousness (in the Kubrick film). Madonna is doing the same to "us" regular people. The people in white gather around the box (in which she is dancing those jerky movements) and the get Enlightened. And we see them dancing their own moves (whereas in the beginning, they're all walking in a straight line...like everyone on social media these days 😉).
There's so much more but someone else can add extra stuff. Like the reverse filming (which was also used in Hung Up because: same director).
My God, between the two of you there's not much left to say! Interestingly, though "Nothing Really Matters" is arguably one of Madonna's more obscure videos, its influence is greater than most would estimate: A few years ago, _RuPaul's Drag Race_ did an episode where the mainstage challenge they called _Night of 1000 Madonnas_ wherein the contestants were asked to bring a Madonna-inspired costume and walk it down the runway. It was quite the surprise when more than half of the queens walked out in kimonos in reference to "Nothing Really Matters."
It is, to date, the only artist-specific challenge the show deemed it necessary to attempt a second time the following season.
Queen of reinvention. No one like her, no one will ever be like her ever again.
The dancers are doing Butoh dance! Butoh is an artistic manifestation that was born after the war and constantly seeks to reflect on Japanese culture after the nuclear disaster. Visually it's recognized for the use of erratic and grotesque movements, in many cases repetitive. Butoh themes are usually topics about identity, anxiety, chaos, criticism of postwar society, the construction of gender and sexual orientation. butoh is a danced lament, a writhing in the human condition. One of the visual references of its creators was the half-dead bodies that crawled through the rubble after the detonation of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb
You should check out Bedtime Story. You cannot go wrong with the Queen of Re-invention. I always found this video fascinating. Someone else described it as “abstract”. And that is Madonna’s intention; to get people to think.
He thinks this video is the weirdest one lol. Yeah, can't wait to see a reaction to Bedtime Story.
Madonna said that she wanted Bedtime story to feel like you were watching a dream, where things that dont make sense are happening and you ask "why is grass growing from my shoe" (that was her example)
Bedtime story!!!
That was my first thought, too. "They clearly haven't seen 'Bedtime Story.'"
"Nothing Fails" is another one that especially Marissa will really love.
Also try "Love Profusion" and (one of her biggest hits) "Take a Bow".
These camera's movements are so AMAZING!
The video is so creepy and complex!
This song grows on you in time.
Love your facial reactions!!!
After this, “Bedtime Story” must be next 😁 another video of pure visual art!
That album is to me one of the best produced albums of that decade! Every song is great
There is always a method to her madness. LOVE this era of her career
This beautiful and introspective piece came out of her 1998 blockbuster Ray Of Light (ROL) album. The album and this music video was influenced by the birth of her daughter, Lourdes, in 1996 and her spiritual journey into Eastern mysticism in seek of answers and wisdom to guide her. It features elements of Japanese Zen Buddhism, Butoh choreography with its bizarre expressions, and roped flame dancing-that requires high skill to avoid the inherent danger in losing control-a metaphor for her threading at the cutting edge of her iconic career. There is on TH-cam an epic 14-minute remix version of Nothing Really Matters (Vikram Cybercut) done by Talvin Singh with a hypnotic, trance beat of electronic Indian/Hindu tabla drums. Singh collaborated with Madonna in Cyberraga from her 2000 Music album that incorporated ancient Vedic Sanskrit mantras/chants used in Ashtanga Yoga that Madonna was practicing at that time.
Finally, a sequel to this Nothing Really Matters music video, is her haunting 2000-Paradise Not For Me-that reflects similar elements of Japanese culture.
If you think this is Madonna's weirdest video take a look at Bedtime Story without any context xd
I thought the same thing when I read the title. Honey, I once made the mistake of watching "Bedtime Story" years ago while on hallucinogenics. Even knowing it shot-for-shot by that point, its final image before she wakes (you know the one) lost absolutely none of its WTF factor.😂
She was in a very spiritual mood in Ray of Light, also becoming a mother and that shift of consciousness.
This is about her “alleged” change with motherhood, where she says she put aside her ego and thinks that all around her and how everything changed with spirituality studies (Kaballah). The symbolism of the elements of nature (earth, water, fire and air) are also present. Inspired by the book Memoirs of a Geisha. This music video inspired the look of the Silent Hill game.
The video came out 23+ years ago. Discussions of cultural appropriation weren't happening in the mainstream yet. Madonna had recently read the book "Memoirs of a Geisha" and found inspiration in the aesthetic of geishas. Geishas had very prescribed ways of behaving that could feel like being trapped in a box. I interpret that as the wood hallway/box Madonna is in. She's wanting to be outside the box as a geisha/entertainer, but outside the box is a level of madness and desire from hungry ghosts trying to keep her from escaping.
I am from Asia. I know many people from Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc and I am not lying, none of the many people from my and those countries mind artists borrowing from our / their cultures. It's just the regressive left that's creating an issue when there is none . Beware of the real oppressors . Definitely not the artists who borrow from different cultures. Care about real people who are trying to and have been able to reverse social progress. Look up "regressive left"
“Cultural appropriation” 🙄 The Japanese laugh at this SJW American-centric bs. 😂
Cultural appropriation is the way the world works. Everything is cultural appropriation, that's actually how cultures evolve. I don't know when was it that people came up with that, but in that moment the human race had to reach the highest peak in the scale of stupidity 😂
Well they were being had, just not as they are now. Many African Americans from the New York gay club circuit feel she stole Vogue from them and cheapened it. I can understand the feeliings they had of taking something that was a subculture to them, something special and unique and they felt like she took it and gave it to the straights as her invention. Although UI dont feel that was what she intended or did. Her bringing that culture to the attention of the masses was such a bold and amazing gesture for the gay movement. She was the first star at that level to give such a spotlight and support publicly behind the gay rights movement which during regan and bush was something people were blaming the gays for AIDS and very few were caring to do anything about addressing the pandemic. Dr Fauci actually was the one who actually stood against the the right wing administration and helped fight AIDS. Madonna had several friends that passed during that time and its annoying when gays try to act like she did little to help.
Im so over the whole cultural appropriation debate. We've been appropating our cultures since the beginning of humanity.
Her first time on Grammy music awards show,she performed this song. Love this song/ album.
I don’t know why, but I LOVE that you guys do an after show!!! Love your Madonna reactions!
For an upbeat, gorgeous , humorous Madonna-watch Beautiful Stranger
In order to understand the grandness of her global popularity, lyric writing, emotional performing, watch the video for Miles Away (not the official video, but LIVE from the Sticky and Sweet Tour DVD. Love her vocals and interaction with Argentina. (The music video is dubbed over with album studio recording).
Love ya! Peace!
this just gave me motivation to actually get it out this time :)
Love this video, because it's so abstract and the song is just magical
you absolutely have to see the video of Oh Father...
Indeed. It's one of her finest.
I remember seeing an interview with Madonna around this time, and the interviewer asked her what she was currently reading and what book would she recommend. The book she recommended was ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’, by Arthur Golden…so you can see where she got her inspiration from. I took her recommendation and read it myself. It was excellent!! The film version was terrible though! Another geisha/Japan inspired moment from Madonna is the video backdrop to ‘Paradise (Not for Me)’ from her Drowned World Tour. Madonna has posted it to her TH-cam channel. The song is gorgeous,as are the visuals.
Paradise not for me is one of my favorite ballads. Love the way she preformed it on the confession tour.
@@AppleCinnamon1 I totally agree!!
One of my favorite songs of hers. The songs words are powerful and this track has some great beats to dance to. Her originality and art form are in another level. Remember, if you don’t see or hear her music in consequential mode through the years, you probably won’t get her as much. Her growth and pushing her artistic and creative ways probably won’t make sense to you either. Thnx for your continued exploration of the Queen 👑✨💜👑✨💜👑
It was written by Madonna and her frequent collaborator Patrick Leonard. it was inspired by her relationship with her daughter Lourdes, who was then just two years old.
Madonna is trying to explain how her daughter Lourdes doesn’t know about her being famous. She hasn’t got a clue. And it's completely unconditional love, which Madonna had never known because she grew up without a mother (who died of breast cancer when Madonna was 6). Madonna did have her father, but that the love that you get from a mother is quite different. It's had a huge impact on her, as I suppose it has on everyone who has children. Madonna is expressing that when you have children you have to step outside of yourself. You can't sit around feeling sorry for yourself, or feeling like you’re a victim in any way, shape or form. You really look at life from a totally different perspective.
Madonna portrays the character Hatsumomo from the book Memoires of a Geisha, and dresses like a geisha. This was part of a new look for Madonna, as she used a Japanese theme for her 2001 Drowned World tour and for her performance at Grammy Awards in 1999. Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes.
The whole idea of a geisha is a straight metaphor for being an entertainer because, on one hand you're privileged to be a geisha, but on the other hand you're a prisoner and that's how Madonna feels.
I remember the Grammy Awards performance - Also in the beginning where you think she is holding a baby it ends up being an empty blue plastic bag - Freaky video
If you think this is weird, you should try Bedtime Story.
What a amazing video and song! Madonna is the Queen! So I guess deeper and deeper is next right?
At 4:56 of your video, you can see a big wooden box in the back. If you see Madonna's scenes with the red kimono, she's supposedly trapped in that box. A good review of the video said that Madonna is supposedly an artist trapped in that box, she does whatever she likes, dances weirdly, laughs, express every single feeling, she's free. While outside of the box people are going crazy.
Amazing Amazing lyrics, vocals and melody. This song is about making it through the chaos/ reality of life. It is about rebirth. It is about finding happiness in the happiness of others. This avant-garde video is far ahead of its time. That infectious beat takes one to another planet and back.
"I realize
That nobody wins
Something is ending
And something begins
Nothing really matters
Love is all we need
Everything I give you
All comes back to me
Nothing really matters
Love is all we need
Everything I give you
All comes back to me
Nothing takes the past away
Like the future
Nothing makes the darkness go
Like the light
You're shelter from the storm
Give me comfort in your arms
Nothing really matters
Love is all we need
Everything I give you (Everything I give you)
All comes back to me"
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Madonna has always been a bookworm.. probably due to being an insomniac so many of her videos are based on literature or European cinema. This was inspired by memoirs of a geisha
you guys are so adorable vining out to these old songs. I love Madonna
Loved your expressions watching this, it is a really different video compared to the rest of the albums songs. Bedtime story is a good one to check out 🙏🏻
Great choice, I like how you praised the unpredictable production of the song and the choreography!
Please do "Oh Father", "Rain" and "Don't Tell Me"!
1 of my ABSOLUTE FAV video by her…….you guys done deeper & deeper yet? ❤️👏 oliver
I keep telling them to react to that one. Lol
Esto es Arte puro Madonna 👑 es un genio🌟🌟
She was obsessed with the book "Memoirs Of A Geisha".. that inspired this video- and a chunk of her Drowned World Tour..
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I recall when this music video was released around 1998, her music provokes thought and discussion and it certainly was a unique video, I enjoy the music and her beautiful vocals.
"Nothing takes the past away like the future "
"Nothing makes the darkness go like the light"
"Your shelter from the storm, gives me comfort in your arms"
All hail the Queen of Pop!
Madonna is amazing!. This song is ALL!... Music and video are PERFECT here, and Madonna so beautiful!...
The song is pure fire! Such a gem!
When Madonna released this song it coincided with her being on the cover of the Harpers Bazaar Magazine issue. She was dressed as a Japanese Gaesha and had a few photos taken as well.
Queen 👸🏼 !!!! Love your reactions!
This was madonna showing Butoh to the pop world. BUTOH is a type of performance art that started in japan in the 1950s. Its still very underground today because its a niche art form .
Where there is repitition there is alway texture running throughout the song. The corresponding concert tour for this album and the next, Ray of Light and Music, is the Drowned World tour, an awesome and perhaps her most artistic tour, imv!
i like that she is actually really paying attention to the video everytime. which in those cases is important. it gives you the ceratain vibe to the song. i understand that he needs to put it all together here and there and feeling the vibe and the sound and evereything but i wish that he would be more concentrating on the video sometimes. but all in all you guys do great reactions together. a tip from me, try kylie minogue with: on a night like this, breathe, confide in me, slow, chocolate... just a few. and of course the video
1:13 The bass is otherworldly 🔥🎧
Rain is an early ‘90’s hit that features Madonna making a Japanese music video within the music video.
So when ur done with Madonna's videos ,shelf really react to her LIVE PERFORMANCES ..NEXT LEVEL ...
You has to wonder who is Madonna, I follow her since 1990 and still know who is she ... the art in the video is based in the book Memoirs of a Geisha and directed by Johan Renck 👍🏻😉
Masterpiece 💜
Masterpiece! More Madonna!
Madonna weirdest music video is 'Bedtime Story'...though this on par...u should def check that out too
This lyrics are amazing. Song...10/10...❤️🌷👏🏻😍
Vídeo ..you get to like as long as you make new interpretations
Now I want you to watch Frozen, from the Drowned World Tour to continue with the Japanese theme
Guys this was the last video from Ray of Light era, 1999. Art, art, art ❤
it was inspired by a book called memoirs of a geisha. shes playing a character from the book
Timeless & Iconic video / song
This is a masterpiece
Ok guys. Nice reaction. To complete the Ray Of Light era you should react to Ray Of Light Music vídeo itself. It is so good... And than Bed times stories... The music video is AMAZING
This song is one of her best. She just open her 2023 tour with that song. Please react to that...
I love that you love your synths.
Madonna every time different Queen of Pop
inspired by novel "Memoirs of Geisha", and that choreography she did was based on Madonna's choice when she was asked in an interview "who did your choreography", she replied "i want to do mine, i don't want anybody tell me how to dance", and i believe she wanted to be a dancer if she didn't became a singer when she was asked in the 80s about her next carrier if she didn't become a dancer.
The most liberating, empowering, uplifting, harmonious, beautiful song I have ever heard. It is both spiritual and sensual as well, depending on your mood.
Love your reactions. The next Madonna songs that are great:
Music
Hollywood
Sorry
Beautiful Stranger
You should listen to the whole Ray of Light album by Madonna if you love synths so much. It will blow you away.
At some point, M was rather interested in playing the part of Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha, hence the inspiration. It's an awesome video and a great song with very different layers
This video is a piece of art.
Wow. It's wonderful to see there are still many more out there that see a video like this and take it upon themselves to offer a thesis-worthy examination of its every aspect. I must admit, my first thought when reading the title was, like many others here, "'Madonna's WEIRDEST Video?' They clearly haven't seen 'Bedtime Story.'"
Madonna or I should say her team at Warner sure knew how to knit up a video even thought they borrowed and stole heavily from other artists but to put together such an artful video takes a lot of talent. And most her videos for the most part are pieces of art.
She wrote this song for her first child who she gave birth to in 1996 you probably seen her daughter walking up to her in the end of the music video for drowned world/ Substitute for love.
love this song and video
Fun fact: This video inspired the movements of some of the monsters in "Silent hill 2" game
i like the bassline in this song
Madonna performing in the early 80s Dick Clark's American Bandstand was asked what else do you want to do in your career she said "I wanna rule the world".👍
Nowa Tyler & Merrisa it has to do with making it top the top of her career then looking back saying it's not all ab money & fame she adopted several kids ect ect.
R e f l e c t i o n.
Madonna is a live icon ! amazing ! The Queen
Work of Art
one of my all time favs :)
My apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere (I posted this on another comment here as well), but I'll share an infamous story from _RuPaul's Drag Race:_
Though "Nothing Really Matters" is arguably one of Madonna's more obscure videos, its influence is greater than most would estimate: A few years ago, _RuPaul's Drag Race_ did an episode where the mainstage challenge they called _Night of 1000 Madonnas_ wherein the contestants were asked to bring a Madonna-inspired costume and walk it down the runway. It was quite the surprise when more than half of the queens walked out in kimonos in reference to "Nothing Really Matters."
It is, to date, the only artist-specific challenge the show deemed it necessary to attempt a second time the following season.
Her live Grammy performance in 1999 is one of the most artistically interesting I've ever seen on the Grammys.
My top two favorite Madonna songs are Vogue and Hung Up
The song for her daughter lourdes, the bag she was carrying at the beginning reprrsent a baby, the video was inspired by memoir of a geisha
Check out her video Bedtime Story from her ,that's way beyond weird.
Oh I wouldn't say this is the weirdest haha.
the remixes are awesome qq❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ love this song
Creo ningun fans alrededor del mundo se imagino que fuera a dar la apertura de su última gira a mi parecer esta cancion , verdaderamente nuestra Reina, quiso darle honor a una cancion que no fue tan valorada como otros mega éxitos bien por ella la amoooo , esperando con ansias abril 2024 viajar a sus conciertos en CdMx
Amazing music and amazing vídeo 😍👑👏🏻
Please, please, please react to Madonna's RAIN video. It is absolutely beautiful!! Ty
That totally is not the most bizarre. You should check out the Directors Cut of Ameircan Life which was her comment on the war in Iraq that we were about to start.
Justify My Love became the first Video single because it became to adult that MTV refused to air it. Erotica trys but is not as racy.
The video For What It Feels Like for a Girl is AMAZING. The video for Bitch Im Madonna is impressive for the amount of people in it and how it is huge long sections of filming with no cuts and the timing for everything is crazy. Bedtime stories was the most expensive mustic video for when it was made, which cost 5 million and at the time was the cutting edge tech.
I agree that Nothing Really Matters is not the best song from Ray Of Light.
Nothing Really Matters now she gave birth to her Daughter lourdes❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
loving your reactions! please check out secret from the bedtime stories album.
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There is a lot of symbolism in the video but the Japanese theme has nothing to do with the song. I think she was reading Memoirs of a Geisha at the time.
Bedtime stories is far more interesting, can't wait for your reaction.
That look on your faces! Like what did we just watch? lol Not her greatest composition, but definitely an interesting video.
Silent Hill 2 the video game was influenced by this music video for the imagery that Madonna used.
RED is LOVE
Madonna was interested in Japanese culture before most modern artists did.
Of course.
Because Madonna reinvents herself and is always ahead of the trend while honoring previous trends.
Do American life ( uncensored version ) it is amazing
Please react to Ghosttown!!!!! Something newer and amazing
Thanks, Marissa! Thanks, Tyler! 👹 #TylerCreatesContent #TCCReacts #NothingReallyMatters #Madonna
If you think this is Madonna's weirdest video, try with " Bedtime Story"! I mean, I love it, and the video is in the MOMA from New York because is a piece of art! but, not easy to understand....
You need to do some songs from her American Life album..............like 'Hollywood' or 'Nobody Knows Me.' However, there are still lots of others from albums you guys have already done!
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