I'm breathless

I'm breathless
Madonna soundtrack
Publication (s)	May 21, 1990
Label (s)	Sire / Warner Brothers Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Swing / dance
Title (number)	12
running time	44m: 42s
occupation	Madonna Patrick Leonard Bill Bottrell Kevin Gilbert Shep Pettibone
production	Madonna Patrick Leonard Bill Bottrell Kevin Gilbert Shep Pettibone
Studio (s)	At the Recording, Tarzana, CA
chronology Like a Prayer (1989) I'm breathless The Immaculate Collection (1990)
Single releases March 20, 1990 Vogue June 30, 1990 Hanky ​​Panky

I'm Breathless - Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy is Madonna's second soundtrack, released in 1990 . It is their seventh album release.

background

A year after Madonna's latest album Like a Prayer , she surprised fans and critics with the soundtrack to the successful comic book adaptation Dick Tracy , in which it alongside Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , the nightclub singer Breathless (German Heiserchen played) Mahoney. In addition to the original soundtrack, the score by Danny Elfman , two pop soundtracks were released - including Madonna's I'm Breathless , which actually only contains four songs from the film. Sooner or Later , More , What Can You Lose? and Now I'm Following You , in a duet with Warren Beatty.

The remaining six songs present themselves in the blues and swing of the 1930s, completely in the style of the film. Ballads and uptempo tracks form a concept album that was not expected from Madonna. Stephen Sondheim wrote for the film a. a. the ballad Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) , which received the Oscar for best original song the following year . Madonna herself presented the song live at this event.

The album concludes with Vogue , a dance / house song that only found its way onto the album from a commercial point of view - and at extremely short notice: The planned B-side for the single Keep It Together surprisingly turned out to be one of Madonna's greatest hits developed. To Vogue the director shot David Fincher an atmospheric black and white music video, which is still one of the best known of her career. It was founded in 1990 a. a. awarded the MTV Video Music Award. The song itself, a homage to voguing (a fashionable dance from the gay clubs in the late 1980s) has also won several awards (including the Juno Award and American Music Award).

The second single from the album Hanky ​​Panky , a swing number, was also able to position itself successfully in the charts in the slipstream of its predecessor . The third single release Now I'm Following You was discarded after Madonna fell out with her duet partner Warren Beatty, which made a promotion of the song largely impossible.

Although the album began as a real risk venture outside of the mainstream , it became a huge success with the help of the hit film Dick Tracy, the hit single Vogue and the sold out Blond Ambition World Tour with 5.4 million albums sold.

Track list

1. He's a man
2. Sooner or Later
3. Hanky ​​Panky
4. I'm going bananas
5. Cry baby
6. Something to Remember
7. Back in business
8. More
9. What Can You Lose?
10. Now I'm Following You (Part I)
11. Now I'm Following You (Part II)
12. Vogue

Charts

album

year	title	Chart placements					annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	I'm Breathless (Soundtrack)	1	3	2	5	2	First published: May 22, 1990 Sales worldwide: 5.4 million.

Singles

year	title	Chart placements					Sales	annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	Vogue "I'm Breathless" (Soundtrack)	4th	7th	2	1	1	5.9 million	First published March 20, 1990 Video: David Fincher
1990	Hanky ​​Panky "I'm Breathless" (Soundtrack)	21st	20th	15th	2	10	1.2 million	First published June 30, 1990 Video: Live performance