116. song of the day

13) Ray Of Light by Madonna
album: Ray Of Light

hit level: smash hit



yay my favourite song.
i shall take from top40.about.com's description of the video:
Madonna's "Ray of Light" video uses speeded up time lapse images of scenes around the world to help emphasize the energy and movement in the song. Boredom is not an issue in this cavalcade of images.




ok, the first part was not relevant, but her doing the stunts in the first part reminds me of "look, im 75, and i'm doing yoga... to save the world."
nobody dances to songs like ray of light in an indian look, with all that face paint and fake golden jewellery. i can't describe how ugly that shirt and jeans are. the hair sucks too. she looks like a maid going to a dance club. and her singing doesn't sound nice, as usual, sometimes suddenly becomes high pitched, then suddenly drops down to a lower pitch. not to mention she sang a verse, in 5:43, she sang "she's got herself a little piece of heaven, waiting for the time when earth shall be as one." when it should be "she's got herself a universe gone quickly, for the call of thunder threatens everyone."
basically all we see at the end is lots of people dancing, include a maid singing disgustingly and wearing disgustingly.

a nicer version would be:


she still sounds slightly ghostly at the start, but it gets better. oprah seems to love the song very much, as you can see from instances like 1:14, where she seems to have even memorised the lyrics. and in 1:22, the drummer seemed to be thinking "hey madge, you're doin' well."
then in 1:55, oprah was holding the microphone, it's like she's telling us "hey look everybody, i'm going sing too."
also in 4:22, she was again like " hey i'm singin', look everyone."
back to madonna, when she screamed at 4:40, it was very fun, but then hearing that devilish laugh after was even more funny. she's like saying "AAAHHHH!!! i'm going crazy! im a mad bitch! HAHAHAHAHA!" or after someone has killed another person, then he or she would be "HAHAHAHAHAHA"
at 5:31, oprah started "woah"ing, and every "woah" got louder. she must be thinking "damn... that bitch is grabbing all the attention, i must woah louder to grab their attention and shut those f***ers up."
then she seemed to gave up at 5:44, she looked at the camera, and putting her saluting-to-nazis-like hand down. she's probably thinking "ok... i lose, let the audience continue sccreaming."

Labels: song

posted by datf @ 6/11/2008 02:33:00 pm