Traveling, traveling / In the arms of unconsciousness, Madonna cooed on the Bjrk-assistedsingle Bedtime Story , released in 1995. Overexposed and castigated after the ruckus surrounding Erotica and the carnal coffee-table book Sex , shed forged a reverie about disconnecting from reality. Today is the last day that Im using words / Theyve gone out, lost their meaning.
But by 1998, Madonna had awoken again. On Sky Fits Heaven , the seventh track from the enlightened electro-rock masterpiece Ray of Light, she repeated a familiar phrase except here it ended on an upbeat: Traveling, traveling / Watching the signs as I go. This time, pop musics doyenne of reinvention was anything but unconscious.
Her footpath from the Bedtime Story era to Ray of Light, which turns 20 on Feb. 22, places Madonna at the nexus of celebrity culture circa 1997 (when she spent five months writing and recording the album) and early 1998 (when she released and promoted the album, which went on to win three Grammys and six MTV Video Music Awards). Nearing 40 and competing with a fresh generation of A&R-packaged teenyboppers, Madonna had risked aging out of mainstream stardom, one of the many sectors of society that isnt kind to mature women. Instead, the ambient fizzes and mystical flurries on Ray of Light formed a cutting-edge benediction that rehabilitated Madonnas image a coup few legacy acts could hope for today. She was a new mother, animated by Kabbalah and Ashtanga yoga, but uninterested in maternity leave.
Madonnas late 90s eminence can be further distilled through one morsel about the creation of Ray of Light, her seventh studio disc: On July 15, 1997, the day she recorded the gritty meditation Swim, Donatella Versace called Madonna to report that her brother Gianni had been shot outside his Miami mansion.
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