| information | Title: Paradise (Not For Me)
Writers: Madonna & Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Producers: Madonna & Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Album: Music (2000) and Production (2000)
Length of the album version: 6' 33''
Credits: ©2000, 1000 Lights Music Ltd./Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. BMI/WB Music Corp./Webo Girl Publishing Inc. adm. by WB Music Corp. Ascap. | | coments | In april 2000 we could hear the new Madonna sound to come. Paradise is a Madonna colaboration with Mirwais (Mirwais Ahmadzaï, who was going to be the main producer of the Music album), in his first solo album. A few months later, Paradise was number 9 track in the new Madonna album, with a little longer version.
Everybody was wondering about the sound of the new Madonna colaborator, someone who was a completely stranger. Madonna surprised us again, because Paradise was completely diferent from Ray of Light. She keeps on using electonic sound, but taking them to the limits (sometimes too much, some will say).
This song is about dealing with fame (again): sometimes she's at the top.....sometimes she's really low. Fame is Paradise for many people, but not for Madonna. She sings in french a few lines, which was a Mirwais' idea, as he translated part of the lyrics Madonna wrote. This is not the first time Madonna sings in french (remember the first lines of Love Song, with Prince). | | videoclip | 
| It was filmed during the rehearsals of the Drowned World Tour 2001, in May 2001, in the Culver City Studios, and directed by Dago González.
It has only be seen in this tour, used as an interlude between the Punk and the Geisha sections. Some other scenes recorded were used for the Mer Girl performance of the same show. This video was never commercially released, and probably won't never be. The best chance to do it was including it as a special feature in the Drowned World Tour DVD, because is in that DVD where we can see full screen images of the video.
Madonna is a modern Geisha again (remember Nothing Really Matters?). Maybe another try to get the Hatsumono character in the forthcoming film Memories from a Geisha, adaptation of the same title book. The video has plenty of Madonna's shoots, and some typical Japanese fights. At the end, she walks into the light...
This is one of the most beautiful, sweet, and simple of all the Madonna videos. It's a shame we can't enjoy it 100%. |
| | lyric | | Paradise (Not For Me) | I can't remember
When I was young
I can't explain
If it was wrong
My life goes on
But not the same
Into your eyes
My face remains I've been so high
I've been so down
Up to the skies
Down to the ground I was so blind
I could not see
Your paradise
Is not for me Autour de moi
Je ne vois pas
Qui sont des anges
Surement pas moi
Encore une fois
Je suis cassée
Encore une fois
Je n'y crois pas
I've been so high | I've been so down
Up to the skies
Down to the ground There is a light above my head
Into your eyes
My face remains I've been so high
I've been so down
Up to the skies
Down to the ground I can't remember
When I was young
Into your eyes
My face remains
Into your eyes
My face remains I've been so high
I've been so down
Up to the skies
Down to the ground I've been so high
I've been so down
Up to the skies
Down to the ground |
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| | collector items | | | Production is Mirwais' album, and has a slightly shorter edit than the Music version. It's easy to find, it was edited on April 18th, 2000. | | | Promo CD-Rom edition. Contains a 4:30 edit version. |
This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things. | | official versions | 1. Album Version (6:33)
2. Production Album Version (6:29)
3. Edit (4.30) | | live | | Paradise has never been performed live, although was in the Drowned World Tour 2001 as an interlude between the Punk and the Geisha sections (giving her time to change her costumes).
Four dancers (almost naked) hang from the ceiling, and the Paradise video can be seen in every screen of the stage. 
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