Rain (Madonna song)
Rain | |
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Madonna | |
publication | July 17, 1993 (single) |
length | 5:24 (album version), 4:17 (edit) |
Genre (s) | Pop , trip-hop |
Author (s) | Madonna, Shep Pettibone |
Label | Maverick Records |
album | Erotica |
Rain is a pop song by Madonna . The song was released on October 11, 1992 as the fifth single and fourth in North America from their album Erotica .
history
Rain was written and produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone . The lyrics compare rain with the strengthening and cleansing effect of love, it can wash away pain. There are also - as with many other songs on Erotica - sexual meanings.
success
Rain ranked 7th in the UK , 14th in the US and 26th in Germany . The song was first used on Madonna's The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993. It was played as the fourth song at the concerts, immediately behind Vogue . A fragment of the Motown classic Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) by The Temptations was used in the bridge of the song . Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote: "On stage, the music isn't so resolutely contemporary. With a live band, directed by Jai Winding on keyboards, the music looks back to Motown (quoting" Just My Imagination "in" Rain "), girl groups and James Brown ".
Music video
Mark Romanek's music video for Rain received several awards (including the MTV Video Music Award ).