Rain (Madonna song)

Infobox Single
Name = Rain


Caption =
Artist = Madonna
from Album = Erotica
A-side =
B-side = "Open Your Heart" (U.K.)
"Up Down Suite" (Previously Unreleased)
"Waiting" (Remix)
Released = July 17, 1993 (U.S.)
July 25, 1993 (U.K.)
Format = 7", 12", cassette, CD
Recorded = 1992
Genre = Pop, Ballad
Length = 5:24
Label = Maverick, Sire,
Warner Bros.
Writer = Madonna
Shep Pettibone
Producer = Madonna
Shep Pettibone
Last single = "Fever"
(1993)
This single = "Rain"
(1993)
Next single = "Bye Bye Baby"
(1993)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Erotica
Type = studio
prev_track = "Words"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "Rain"
track_no = 10
next_track = "Why's It So Hard"
next_no = 11Extra tracklisting
Album = Something to Remember
Type = compilation
prev_track = "One More Chance"
prev_no = 11
this_track = "Rain"
track_no = 12
next_track = "Oh Father"
next_no = 13

"Rain" is the fifth (and final American) single from Madonna's 1992 album "Erotica".

Song information

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For the UK release, "Open Your Heart" was included as the b-side due to it being used in a Renault car commercial at the time. It was not featured in "GHV2", Madonna's second greatest hits collection, however it was featured as a track on "Something to Remember", Madonna's ballads collection.

The song was performed during the Girlie Show Tour in 1993, and was used as a video interlude remixed with The Eurythmics' Here Comes The Rain Again on her 2008 Sticky & Sweet Tour.

Music video

The video, directed by Mark Romanek, was a lush video set on a back stage which was filmed from May 16-19, 1993 at a Santa Monica Airport hangar in Santa Monica, California. Madonna introduced her next short-lived incarnation in the video; the gamine who appeared in the "Fever" video was back again, but this time her hair was dark.

The video was shot entirely on black & white film, and was later hand colored, which lends the impression that Madonna is wearing blue contact lenses, although she is not. The overall effect of the makeup and video's styling evoked Japanese sensibilities, a cultural approach she would time and time again borrow and remodel as her own. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.

*Director: Mark Romanek
*Producer: Krista Montagna
*Director of Photography: Harris Savides
*Editors: John Murray, Jim Haygood
*Production Company: Satellite Films
*Cast:
**Japanese Director: Ryuichi Sakamoto
*Props shown:
**Lockheed Lounge by Marc Newson
**Arriflex 535 camera
** NeXTstation computers

Tracklisting and formats

*USA 7" Vinyl / Cassette / CD Single
# "Rain" (Radio Remix)
# "Waiting" (Album Version)

*USA 12" Vinyl / Cassette Maxi / CD Maxi Single
# "Rain" (Radio Remix)
# "Waiting" (Remix)
# "Up Down Suite" (Previously Unreleased) ("Goodbye To Innocence" Extended Dub)
# "Rain" (Album Version)

*UK 12" Vinyl / CD Single
# "Rain" (Radio Remix)
# "Open Your Heart" (Album Version)
# "Up Down Suite" (Previously Unreleased)

*EP
# Rain (Radio Remix)
# Waiting (Remix)
# Up Down Suite
# Rain (Album Version)
# Bad Girl (Extended Mix)
# Fever (Extended 12")
# Fever (Shep's Remedy Club)
# Fever (Murk Boys Miami Dub)
# Fever (Oscar G's Dope Mix)
# Rain (Video Edit)

Versions

# "Rain" (Album Version) - 5:25
# "Rain" (Edit)
# "Rain" (Radio Remix) - 4:33
# "Rain" (Remix Edit) - 4:17
# "Rain" (Instrumental Remix)
# "Rain" (Video Version)

Charts

References

* [http://www.mad-eyes.net/disco/erotica/rain.htm Mad-eyes.net - "Rain" Single Page] - last accessed on October 24, 2005

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icD3JQ_u7bk Music Video]