Justify My Love

" Justify My Love" is first the individual resulting one from compilation " The Immaculate Collection " left in 1990 and produces mainly by the singer Lenny Kravitz, the song became the ninth individual one of the singer to be classified n°1 in the United States.

Information on the title

" Justify My Love" was written by Lenny Kravitz, Ingrid Chavez and Madonna, Kravitz had written the song for Madonna on the basis of poem written by Chavez, protected from Prince, he had added the title and the refrain and Madonna had contributed to it only for some lines but Chavez who had not been credited for the song continued Kravitz in justice in 1992 and following an arrangement by amicable agreement in Médiation she obtains the rights to have Co-writing the song.

The producer/Chanteur Kravitz used an extract of the instrumental introduction of " Security off the First World" by Public Enemy and used it as bases title, the single kind of the song comes owing to the fact that the voice of Madonna is spoken and almost murmured, this style was a prelude to the album Erotica which will come then, where the words are very often spoken rather than sung (" Garden" secrecy; , " Bye Bye Baby" , " Erotica " or " Waiting") .

The sound elements are rather simple, an air of battery repeats in loop as well as a sequence of four measurements all along the song, the mixture of the music and the voice of Madonna creates a hypnotic atmosphere. One can also say that the title is a point pivot of the career of the singer passing of the her disco music to the electro style and techno of the Nineties, for the remixe it will be of aillor the first collaboration with William Orbit which will produce the album Ray off Light at the end of the century.

Kravitz is not only producer and lyric writer, it also takes part in the choruses, it is of aillor from the exit of the individual one that the press had launched the rumor according to which they would have had an love affair, rumor contradicted by Lenny Kravitz.

Video clip

Although the individual one was classified N°1, Justify My Love is much more famous for its very discussed video clip, directed by the French photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

Video entirely turned in black and white, watch of people of very contrasted sexual orientations. Madonna enters a corridor which resembles on a floor of famous the Hôtel Ritz of Paris. Taken of a pseudo-faintness, it benefits from the occasion to reveal its linen room with an unknown (played by his/her boyfriend, the actor Tony Ward). Follows of the scenes relating to the Sado-masochisme, the Homosexualité and the Voyeurisme. It is after livehaving obviously lived of new sexual experiments, that the young woman leaves the building while running, of an air amused to finish on a black dissolve letting appear the message " Poor is the man whose pleasures depends one off the permission another" (hear: the pleasure of the man depends on others).

Directing: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Producing: Philippe Dupuis-Mendel
Director of the Photography: Pascal Lebegue
producing Company: Gangsters (coproduction with Propaganda Films)

The polemic

The video was the first audio-visual work has to be banished chain MTV, it is the chain ABC which diffuses it video entirely about midnight during the Nightlife emission where Madonna also defends her positions and explains her point of view on the clip saying that it had been made with an educational aim. In all the case, the prohibition of diffusion was an aubaine for the singer, the title which cannot be diffused at one hour for great listening, Warner and Madonna decides to produce a video cassette with a warning, beating the records of sales of VHS, during an interview given to Forrest Sawyer which required of him what she thought of the profit that she made on this censure, she will answer " He well, I have chance. "

the video was also banished rotations on MuchMusic in Canada, so that the controversy the chain has to produce a new series entitled " brought; Too Much 4 Much" , where are played the vidéos accompanied by a forum and a newsgroup on their artistic and cultural context. With semi-2002, it video is diffused on MTV2, in a special program showing the most discussed vidéos which were diffused on MTV, classification showed itself late in the night, classified number two front " Smack My Bitch Up" of The Prodigy.

Versions

Q-Sound Edict 4:32
Q-Sound Mix 4:56
Orbit Edict 4:32
Orbit 12" Mix 7:17
Hip Hop Mix 6:33
The Beast Within Mix 6:13

The Beast Within

The Beast Within is a remix song " Justify My Love" , in fact, the remixe uses only the refrain and certain words of the song, the verses are sentences taken of the Apocalypse of the Bible, the song drew initially the attention of the media in 1991 when the " Simon Wiesenthal Center" showed the song to contain words Antisémites, Madonna with of course contradicted the charges, explicant that the song speaks about love and not about hatred.

Very appreciated song of the fans, it was only available on certain vinyl and individual Cd of Justify My Love and this with a small pocket of pale color blue, they is two years after, at the time of Girlie show which the song is re-used first once with a more powerful music, being used as interlude. In 2004, it is Stuart Price which works over again the song but sobrement in order to illustrate a video of Steven Klein which will make the opening of the Re-Invention Tower.

The song also contains a sample of a Christian song whose translation of the title sigifierait " Today, He is held to has cross" interpreted by the Lebanese singer " Fairuz (فيروز) " , same the sample used for the song " Erotica " who will be the subject of aillor of a legal proceeding by the artist.

Classifications

Recoveries

the rappor Ma$e samplé the song for its album " Double Up" , for the title " Stay Out off My Way" in 1999.
the title was taken again for the original soundtrack of the film Fast & Furious interpreted by Vita and Ashanti in 2001.
the song of the rappor Jay-Z " Justify My Thug" is also a resumption of the song.
the Canadian group of electronic music Frontline Assembly with taken again the song for the album homage: Virgin Voices vol. 1 .

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