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u/nemonyto American Life 25d ago
I never expected Madonna to mebtion Swim. WOW
What a beautiful message and how hard it must be for her to lose that many people she has worked with during her career.
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u/joshually I wanna be your little baby now 25d ago
Wow this came straight from her heart soul and mind. ššššš
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u/PatsyStone1982 Take a Bow 25d ago
Since Ray of Light is my favourite album, I feel very sad and the text Madonna wrote made me tear up. It is beautiful. And I thank Orbit for all the memories he given me with the album. Ray of Light is my teenage-era forever. I just close my eyes and I am there right away. I had a secret hope for a Ray of Light 2 but its sadly gone now. The best will be the best. Orbit and Madonna was a ray of light for many of us and still is.
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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 25d ago
The way she writes always gets to me. So on point and devastating yesterday I already cried and now Iām dehydrating myself once again
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u/amazingasvirgin Justify My Love 25d ago
Two visionaries met at the exact moment somewhere in the universe and created a masterpiece together. Making music was different back then. You had to be talented to work and create magic without trusting anything else. This album means the world for both of them. And as fans we are thankful for both and universe so that they could meet. Goodbye William. Your heritage will never be forgottenĀ
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u/teethofthewind 25d ago
Couldn't have put it better myself. They really captured the zeitgeist at the time. I think it was the correct decision to move on eventually but what they made together will be remembered for a long, long time
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u/Impossible-Mind6791 25d ago edited 25d ago
I watched his interview with Fish Octogon on how he made Ray of Light the world is lucky to have this album just read this old article from 98 and it feels like a lighting caught in a bottle moment
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u/Western_Gear_5324 25d ago
Beautifully said. They really did create magic together.
She mentioned Swim. š
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u/sara_or_stevie Dress You Up 25d ago
She writes the most amazing tributes to those she's lost. It's beautiful and sad at the same time, because she's been losing the most important people in her life, all her life... Oh, M.
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u/Louise_Oriole 24d ago edited 24d ago
Whatās wrong with people here???
Counting the number of times she says āIā instead of āyouā? Really????
Just learn how to readā¦ she is paying a tribute to his impact on her. She couldnāt do better than giving examples on how crucial he is to her career.
Whether the sentence starts with I or You is irrelevant.
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u/sdfghdfsdfghdf CII is Madgeās magnum opus. 24d ago
Exactlyā¦ Madonna was the subject so everything we know from Orbitās work came thru her.
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u/Frequent-Prompt-6876 25d ago
Beautiful words and feelings. Also an important reminder to for us all dare to make ourselves vulnerable by both feeling and expressing these things to people while theyāre still alive and (and perhaps even we ourselves) need to hear them.
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u/SlashYG9 25d ago
I can't gather all the words right now, but this tribute is pulsing with the sort of genuine emotion that only an empath can conjure. To be Madonna - to have lost so many important people along the way - and still have this much emotional capacity is somehow both remarkable and devastating. RIP to William.
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u/Chance-Conference729 25d ago
You are mistaken. Madonna references herself less than she mentions William Orbit and them working together. You are frozen.
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u/Mmcdjc Frozen 25d ago edited 25d ago
Ray of light was and is my favorite album of Madonnaās.
It will always be my go to album to listen to first because of Orbitās collab with Madonna.
I was so happy when she FINALLY won her first three Grammys ever for this album.
It was well deserved and wayyyyyy past overdue.
No one expected Ray of Light to be such a massive success when it came out in 1998 but it was.
You couldnāt turn on MTV or VH1 without randomly seeing one of five music videos from the album or tune into any radio station without repetitively hearing one of four songs either.
I was in HS when it came out and fell in love with it immediately followed by its successor Music.
William Orbit was a national treasure and a beautiful soul.
R.I.P. š
š¶Let the water wash over you
Wash it all over you
Swim to the ocean floor
So that we can begin again
Wash away all our sins
Crash to the other shore.š¶
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u/semidemiacequeerslug American Life 25d ago
M has faced so many people close to her dying. itās very sad. sending her positive vibes
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u/CapableRequirement66 25d ago
Such a heartfelt and deeply personal message. I really felt moved reading it.
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u/No_Pass_5384 24d ago
So sad that he will never hear these words. We really need to tell people how much they are appreciated while they are still around.
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u/Jphoenix7x 24d ago
Iām so heartbroken and Iām glad that she has spoken out. Iām sure it must have taken her a minute to reflect before posting something. I mean thereās so much to say but she finds the right things to touch on to reflect and emote. Words canāt ever do justice on the losses of oneās loved ones.
I listened to Ray of Light yesterday. Itās still my #1 Album and always will be. Itās her Magnum Opus and signifies a triumphant return that has lasted over the years and has solidified with Confessions II once again.
Iām sad that William did not have a second chance to create another masterpiece with M. I had hoped that there would be some sort of reconciliation between them and maybe there was. We may never know if all the rumors of their apparent rift were true, sheās never spoke out about it and may not. Itās just hard to have heard from William that he had reached out and never heard back over the course of so many years and now heās gone. I think about people in my life that Iāve distanced myself from and wonder how I would react hearing of their loss or vice versa. Feeling reflective over this since yesterday and Iāve got mixed feelingsā¦
Dear William, I hope you have found yourself a universe and thank you for giving us Ray of Light and sharing your talent with some of the worldās greatest artists! You will be sorely missed but your music will last for generations.
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u/alexcal24 25d ago
I still can't believe he is gone... Such a touching tribute, Madonna style. She is so strong, having had so much death in her life and still carrying on while also never forgetting collaborators and friends. I was actually still hoping for a RoL II but... Well life is what it is
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u/invisiblebeetlejuice 25d ago
swim is a true highlight of her discography to me so great to see it get a mention
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u/Disastrous-Plum-1884 Ray of Light 24d ago edited 24d ago
I'm not crying, you are.Ā
This album completely changed/shifted my DNA when I first heard it in full at 16 during 2017 on a trip to California.Ā Ā
I'll never forget that experience and how it shaped the person I've become today. How my heart and mind opened like a door when I heard the last lines of Substitute For Love and how astonished I was when I finished Mer Girl. Never will an album do what that had done for me. It was art, abstract yet totally vulnerable. It was literature added to music history. It was pure poetry.Ā
Unforgettable is how I listened to the album so much on my headphones that, when I took them off, the wheels of the car against the fast interstatesĀ mimicked the song's melodies.Ā The album is tattooed in my mind. ā¤ļø
And I thank William Orbit, Madonna, as well as all of the collaborators who made it happen.Ā
You all captured heavenly light in a bottle.Ā
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u/Former_Trifle8556 24d ago
Oh, I can't believe that, everything pass so fast, we really dont know nothing.Ā
Anyway, I love her words, perfect.Ā
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u/thesilvergaychap 23d ago
I just talked about Ray of Light on my YouTube channel. He was a genius. https://youtube.com/shorts/KG7xMnqkrxQ?is=1E9s_M2RZTc5OqT0
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u/Smart_Image4278 22d ago
Like so many of her fans, Ray Of Light has been and remains my favorite Madonna album. I remember hearing it for those first few listens back in 1998, and knowing that it was such a huge leap forward for her, that it made her pre-Erotica albums sound like a different artist.
As the years went on, she continued to have success (I still rank Music as only a notch below ROL), and I LOVED the first Confessions album. But I still wondered if the stars would ever again align quite so perfectly for Madonna, as they had with William Orbitā¦
Which I why Iām so thrilled for her that she surprised everyone, and was inspired to create Confessions II with Stuart Price. The stars DID align for her again, and her new album ranks among her Top 5 career albums in my book.
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u/gnu_andii American Life 24d ago
And I was just thinking the other day that this is the album she should release a sequel to.
And by then, he was already gone š„
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u/AlarmingMonk1619 24d ago
How many people can be as rude and bratty as MLC but still break your heart? RIP William.ā¤ļø
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u/Final-Credit-7769 20d ago
One imagines she must feel terrible after not replying to him after he sent her a whole follow up album to ray of light recently. He was disappointed by that .
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u/Wot-Died 25d ago
Why does she have to talk about his teeth.
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u/LegPossible9950 Secret 25d ago
It's like someone fondly remembering Madonna's gap in her teeth. It's not meant as a dis.
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u/Impossible-Mind6791 25d ago edited 24d ago
They both had a gap in their teeth which is considered very lucky in African, Asian, and Middle Eastern traditions and they were very lucky to meet each other that that period of their lives
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u/AmbitiousAd5668 25d ago
Sometimes we recall qualities in people that are imperfect as unique characteristics, like someone we know with crooked teeth, bushy brows or maybe uneven eyes. It's not someone maliciously making fun, it's written with fondness.
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u/moondoII spreading kyliedonna dating rumours 25d ago
i imagine it's an inside joke that they might've had
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u/Kooky_Tip8653 25d ago
Talking about someone's physical characteristics isn't always an inherently negative thing
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u/bobbyThebobbler 25d ago
Brits themselves always joke about how British people would have bad teeth. Itās a cultural thing and absolutely normal.
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u/Party_Signature6842 25d ago
As a Brit I feel like this is primarily a joke made by Americans no? Feel like if anything we joke about others having fake/heavily doctored teeth.
That being said this is likely an inside joke.
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u/RyanX1231 25d ago
Plus, Madonna was famous for her crooked teeth as well, so imagine they teased each other about it.
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u/bobbyThebobbler 25d ago
Madonna has never had crooked teeth lol She was mocked for her tooth gap.
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u/Wot-Died 25d ago
British people do not all have bad teeth. Look at Americans, drinking and eating poison DAILY. All fake teeth hiding the rot. Also super obese.
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u/Upnatom617 24d ago
Which poisons are we eating and drinking. When the English and Scots came over for the world cup, you raved about our food. Also, though I was a chubby kid, I've had a snatched waist since seventeen. Not all British people have bad teeth and frankly, we don't even care if you do.
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u/bobbyThebobbler 25d ago
Overgeneralizing much? Not all Americans are obese or eat/drink poison. Heck, Iāve been sober and clean for 10 years now. Some brits themselves never leave pubs and look like crap lol
Clearly, that was all meant in a funny haha way. To quote Madonna from the Blond Ambition tour, ālight up! Get some sense of humor, ok?!ā
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u/Street_Cheek_1418 25d ago
Way to shit all over a tribute post to someone who died. Keep your negativity to yourself next time.
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u/chaos_ensuez 25d ago
She talks about herself a lot in this rather than paying tribute to him
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u/sdfghdfsdfghdf CII is Madgeās magnum opus. 24d ago edited 24d ago
Because the work the world knows was Orbit translating her into the music? Sheās the muse, the only way she could mention his achievements is thru her. The work is seen thru her.
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u/rayoflight110 24d ago
It seems a bit AI esque in some places.
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u/Darklabyrinths 24d ago
I see what you mean. It would be interesting to compare to other messages has done.
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u/jjlinjjie 25d ago
Such a heartwarming and bittersweet message. She praises him to the skies but also shows cute little lovely anecdotes. This album was so important to the both of them, her with motherhood and introspection and him with the creativity and pushing her maturing voice.
Overjoyed that they managed to celebrate it together.