I'll Remember...2001

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I'll Remember...2001

Madonna Tribe: Fact of the Day

The Paradise Not For Me video shot as a backdrop for Drowned Tour is considered by many one of her best video works.
Here are some tidbits, the video director Dago González shared with us at MadonnaTribe.
The song is about suicide so we show Madonna getting ready to enter the " other side". It is a performance video so the story is really told by the lyrics and Madonna's intention as she delivers each line.
 Arianne Phillips worked on the wardrobe. We were going to use the kimono from the "Nothing Really Matters" video, but Arianne found this elder Japanese woman here in Los Angeles and she had this fantastic wedding kimonos that were from centuries ago, so we presented them to Madonna an she absolutely loved the one we ended up using on the video.
 Madonna was walking on these Japanese shoes which are wooden and they're very difficult to walk on. She started walking on them and she was doing a kind of shake and I told her "in the next shot I want you to walk exactly this way." In post production we ramped it so it had more of a robotic feel. It worked great and it ended up being incorporated onto the stage choreography.
 While we were editing for the tour, she kept telling me to hold back on the cuts (I did not get it at the time, I felt it could become too slow) but once I went back and looked at the footage I realized how right she was- There are takes were you don't have to do a single cut because there is so much emotion and subtext behind every line that she delivers.
 I was never really happy with the last scene of the video where the spirit is supposed to escape her. We tried different versions at that time and nothing was really working, so we ended up with the one that worked the best, but I re-did it this time so what in the original video happens to be like rays of light coming out, out of her mouth comes out this black ink, and is very cool.

 

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I'll Remember...2001

The Funny Song (Oh Dear Daddy)

Madonna performed a live version of this song as part of her 2001 Drowned World Tour set list, calling it her "brand new song". Madonna recorded a studio version in preparation for the tour, along with the rest of the set list. Whilst most of the other studio recorded set-list songs have been made available online, the studio version of this song remains unleaked. The track is also listed in the Warner/Chappell Music database with Madonna again credited as sole composer. 

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HARD ROCK CAFE

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Here are some pictures of the car that Madonna used in her Grammy performance of 'Music' in 2001.  My buddy/coworker went to Punta Cana for our work conference and they stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel (yes, the same hotel from the reality show 'The Real Housewives of NJ').  He knows I am a big Madonna fan and took these pics for me, so I thought I would share with you. 

I think this car is awesome!  There are so many details that you would have missed from the performance on tv.  

I'll Remember...2001

Drowned World Tour

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I'll Remember...2001

 Let Me In

Mario Testino, London