Happiness lies in your own hand...
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| Title: Secret Writers: Madonna and Dallas Austin Producers: Madonna and Dallas Austin Album: Bedtime Stories (1994) and GHV2 (2001) Edition date: It was the first single from Bedtime Stories, September 1994 Length of the album version: 5 ' 03'' Credits: ©1994 WB Music Corp./Webo Girl Publishing, Inc. adm. by WB Music Corp. ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc./DARP Music, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The image of Madonna was becoming tiring due to her last works: Erotica, Sex, The Girlie Show, and The Body Of Evidence. Madonna tried to take a new turn in her musical carreer with a new record. It was promotes as a more romantic project, with some R&B arrangements and a complete new sound. The first single of this new era was Secret. Some may say it was one of her best songs, some others think it was a weak single. It was really weak, at least in the charts, where it couldn't reach #1 (although it's one of Madonna's songs which has been longer in the top positions): The first contact Madonna has with this song was a former composition by Shep Pettibone, who made a quite diferent version from the final track included in Bedtime Stories, which has a R&B touch made by Dallas Austin. The song is about a love story, in which one lover has a secret to share with the other, and that makes all change. When the single was released, everybody said the rumour that Madonna was pregnant, and that was the 'secret'. In some interviews, Madonna has never told us what the secret was. Instead of that, she wanted to give the song another sense, a spiritual and religious sense: 'happines lies in your own hands', a sentence from the song, is extracted from The Book Of The Dead of The Lamas. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Reading the lyrics of the song, some rumours raised about her real secret, but she never confirmed anything. What is more, she tried to give the song a religious and spiritual meaning. Since the song was released, many said that she could have been pregnant. Madonna had some more weight at that time, and that was addes to the rumour. The truth is that no baby would come until a couple of years later. Maybe it was just a rumour or maybe she aborted (many of her biographies say that). But once again, is Madonna herself who has to speak and tell the truth, and we all know how she is. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| something's comibg over me |
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 This is not one of the best covers of her singles, we may think. The picture is taken by Patrick Demarchelier, and Practick Li was the designer. |
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| Secret didn't have a warm welcome in the charts, as it could have been expected for a first single from a new album, and a promotional campaign showing Madonna as a new woman far away from the sex scandals. In ths States just reached #3, although it reached #1 in the dance charts. In Japan it got a #2, but it only became nunber one in one country, Canada, and for several weeks. |
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| 1. Album Version / Lp Version (5:03) 2. Video Version (4:34) 3. Edit / Album Edit (4:24) 4. Instrumental (5:04) 5. Drum Mix (6:39) 6. Junior's Luscious Single Mix / Dan-o-rama Mix / Remix (4:16) 7. Junior's Luscious Club Edit (4:29) 8. Junior's Luscious Club Mix (6:17) 9. Junior's Extended Luscious Club Mix (7:57) 10. Junior's Luscious Dub / Junior's Luscious Club Dub (6:20) 11. Junior's Sound Factory Edit (4:56) 12. Junior's Sound Factory Mix (10:17) 13. Junior's Sound Factory Dub (7:57) 14. Some Bizarre Single Mix (4:12) 15. Some Bizarre Mix (9:48) 16. Alstar Single Mix (4:16) 17. Allstar Mix (5:10) 18. Acapella (4:38) 19. Junior's Vasquez Remix #1 / Siren Mix Edit (6:56) 20. Junior's Vasquez Remix #2 / Siren Mix (14:47) 21. Scandalous Vocal Mix (9:08) |
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| We could see Madonna performing Secret live in her Drowned World Tour in 2001, as a song from the Cowgirl section. It was a sligthly diferent version, more acustic, and Madonna played the guitar as some images of many religions were shown in the back.
On February 18th 1995 she sang it along with Take A Bow in the german show 'Wetten Dass', but made an horrible playback in both of them.
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This is the original title for Secret, the original version composed by Madonna and Shep Pettibone, which was finished by Dave Hall. But Madonna wanted a change from the Erotica image and sound, and didn't want to work anymore with Shep. This version is almost another song, with great differences in the sound and lyrics (it is said to be a dance track, not a R&B tune). Although Shep was co-writer of the song, he doesn't appear in the credist, and hasn't seen a penny from the single benefits. He only got a mention in the album acknowledgements: thank you for being understanding.
