Time to change gears and go to "Ray of Light" or "Erotica". Both are completely different from other Madonna albums and also completely different from each other as well. Erotica is an album for adult listeners, with controversial lyrics about sex, romance, relationships, social issues, and the sound is early 90's trip-hop, hip-hop and deep-house oriented. Ray of Light on the other hand is an emotional journey through an espiritual awakening, with lyrics about fame, motherhood, death, religion, and spiritual life, and it's very electronic music, pure electronica, but very emotional, intimate, soulful and touching, and with a lot of ethnic sounds and feels from India and the Middle East.

I can't wait for the "ray of light" album!!!!

You're gonna love Ray of light and bedtime stories

Ray of light. Be ready. Light some candles, take a bath. It’s sonically beautiful. Takes you on a journey. Get ready!!!

When the song Music broke in 2000 there was NOTHING LIKE IT on the radio. The sounds were so fresh. Mirwais' glitchy electronics on Music and Don't Tell Me were revolutionary. In fact, with every album she released, Madonna was AHEAD of the curve and a TRENDSETTER in music for 25 YEARS! (1983-2008) until she released Hard Candy and suddenly fell behind.

The dont tell me confusion got me

So you've done: Confessions (2005), American Life (2003), Music (2000), in reverse order. It makes sense to continue backwards through her discography... Ray of Light (1998 electronica), Something to Remember (1995 ballads compilation), Bedtime Stories (1994 RnB), Erotica (1992 Deep House/Hip Hop), I'm Breathless (1990 jazzy/musical 1930s style concept album), Like a Prayer (1989 autobiographical masterpiece), True Blue (1986 pop), Like a Virgin (1984 bubblegum pop), Madonna (debut 1983 dance pop).

The Queen of Pop! No other mainstream superstar was as experimental with music like Madonna was in the late 90’s and early 00’s. She gained major cred. Music was an EPIC global worldwide smash it. It was so unique for a mainstream audience.

I've always had this theory that Madonna enjoyed the success with the "Ray of Light" album, withdrew to the distant countryside, learned to play guitar, and then returned, blending acoustic and country elements with electronic music to create "Music," an album that is quite forgotten by Madonna's fans but personally it's one of my favorites.

Music is work of GENIUS!!! And this is exactly what Madonna excels at: introducing something new, a surprise effect-every time. You have to look at her music from the perspective of the time when it was released. It was a completely new thing, with new sounds and a mix of different instruments. It involved a lot of experimenting and creating new sounds for future generations. Without Madonna, nothing would be the same today. She paved the way and opened so many doors for everyone who followed. In my opinion, this album, along with Ray of Light and American Life, are her three best albums-not only in her repertoire but also in music history as some of the very best. Please do Ray of Light next -> in my opinion unbeatable - The best of the best!!!!

This album is so good! Music and don’t tell me are instant timeless classics!

I'm not new here, and I'm LIVING for these Madonna reactions. Can't wait for Ray of Light ❤

She's a PIONEER....period ❤ Love your Madonna reactions... she's the Queen of Pop for so many reasons Love that new generations are discovering her art Congrats from Chile

girlie is back with another madonna reaction. yayyyyy

I cannot wait to see your reaction to Ray of Light and Erotica

Ray of Light should be your next pick for Madonna! And after, please do Rebel Heart! ❤️

Paradise (Not For Me) is my all time Nr.1 When I first heard that song, I immediately fell in love with it 100% 💖💖💖

Ray of Light, Music, and American Life are the ultimate trio. I view American Life as the antithesis, thematically, of Ray of Light. And Music is the “fuzzy” transition between the themes Madonna was articulating musically. Highly suggest checking out Ray of Light.

Next has to be Ray of Light

No Madonna album is similar to the other, her discography is so diverse like no one other's. American Life is electro-folk and Music is electro-acoustic.

“Ray of Light” is PEAK Madonna, the pinnacle of the modern era of her career, lyrically, musically, thematically! I CAN NOT wait to hear your thoughts on that!

Now is the turn of ray of light 🤭🤭🤭 I love your reactions gurl!!!! ❤❤

At this point you gotta just go down the line in reverse release order bc every record is SO different 😭

Hi Beth! Not sure if anyone has mentioned yet,but the opening line from ‘What it Feels Like for a Girl’ is actually from a movie. Do a search for ‘Cement Garden’ and the scene with that quote should pop up. Or add ‘Girls can wear jeans’ to narrow it down if needed. By the way, loving your Madonna reactions.Your ‘American Life’ reaction is the best one on KZfaq by far!!! ‘Music’, whilst having some great moments always felt a little disjointed to me. I can see what the album was intended to be in a cohesive sense,but it just didn’t quite pull it off. Keep up the good work! With love from the UK 🇬🇧

Gone is my favorite from this album. She has some great album closers. Totally understand what you’re saying. Personally speaking, American Life is excellent. This album is good but not one I go back to. Ray of Life is top tier. You will be in a trance with some songs. Sky Fits Heaven is that song for me on that album. Her humming on that album alone deserved a Grammy. That album is so good. The lyrics are 👌🏼👌🏼very thoughtful/ meaningful. We all are so excited for you to get to it! Great reaction!!

Beth, you’re so lovely and funny. I love your reactions!!

Runaway Lover and Amazing were produced by William Orbit, he produced her previous album Ray of Light. The song Music was a huge global worldwide #1 song and #1 dance song. Don't tell me was also a hit. The type of music you are describing as acoustic plus production effects is typically referred to as folk electronica.

10 year old me discovered Don’t Tell Me while watching music videos at 4am in a run down motel in Arizona. 20ish years later I finally gave this album a listen and now it’s in my top 3 from Madonna. ❤ Love watching these from you! 🫶🏽

Yes, definitely you are one of the best (if not the only one) that reacts to songs paying attention to the music and not looking for "hits". It's so good watching your energy to each song and the way you feel them. Congratulations again. And I wasn't even concerned about if you liked the same songs as me or if you would say that you hated the album at all, the experience of watching you and listening to your impressions is all that matters. Great job!

Holy moly you really need to listen to Ray of Light! Madonna at her best. Erotica can be polarizing but she really pushed a lot of limits with it and it’s a masterpiece

Love your reactions to Madonna's albums! There's so much more to come! I'm waitiiiing!

*Ray of Light* was met with universal acclaim upon its release and is often considered Madonna's magnum opus album. and it is! The *Something to Remember* ballads compilation album is completely different from the three albums you've already listened to.

I really enjoy these madonna videos. Please do Rebel Heart next

Being a huge madonna fan I love your reactions!!!!

Nobody's perfect and Paradise are my favorites ❤

I remember an interview where she talked about wanting to use sounds normally associated with cold techno music but in a more emotional, thoughtful way. And yes, everything is intentional with madonna as she is famous for paying attention to every single detail in her music, her performances, videos.

Thank you again for reacting to Madonna! As written before she's my favorite artist and you're one of my favorite reactors, so this is a perfect match. Lenghty comment ahead. You mentioned Mirwais a lot in this video however he isn't the only person that produced the album. After the Ray of Light sessions, Madonna reunited with William Orbit, who produced most of it as well as some soundtrack songs with her afterwards, to do Music with her. However she felt that the stuff made with him was more of the same so she either kept the more dance-y tracks (Runaway Lover and Amazing), reworked them (Gone was reworked by Mark Stent who also reworked X-Static Process on American Life, and Mysore Style was reworked into Cyber-Raga, a japanese bonus track), or scrapped them (Arioso, La Petite Jeune Fille, Like an Angel Passing Through My Room, Liquid Love, Run; all very good tracks that leaked but Madonna doesn't like to repeat herself). She then met Mirwais who worked on the other tracks: Music, Impressive Instant, I Deserve It, Nobody's Perfect, Don't Tell Me, and Paradise. Hollywood and Intervention from American Life were intially written during the Music sessions as well. She also met Guy Sigsworth who did What It Feels Like for a Girl. If you disliked the vocoder in Nobody's Perfect, you might dislike Madame X, her last album, which was produced in part by Mirwais. It's full of that vocoder effect, although the lyrics are more similar in style to American Life, more serious and political in its content, dealing with world issues. But you seemed to like the three William Orbit tracks in this reaction, which means that you might like Ray of Light, my favorite album, which is more "spiritual heavy". I hope that you will check her videos as well, which are an integral part of her artistic work. Seeing you watching the Britney videos for the first time was really great, and if you liked her videos, you will definitely like Madonna's videography. The American Life era has some of her best videos.

Another great reaction! Looking forward to next one you do.😊

I NEED YOUR RAY OF LIGHT REACTION NOWWWW

What It Feels Like For A Girl is possibly one of the most underrated Madonna songs. Such a brillant little gem with impeccable production and perfect lyrics.

Love your reaction! you need to watch the video of "What It Feels Like for a Girl" it's a remix and the video is really intense lol. Also this album has two bonus tracks "American Pie" (worldwide bonus track except north america) and "Cyber-Raga" (japan bonus track). Also the latin american edition of the album has the spanish version of "What It Feels..." with the title "Lo Que Siente la Mujer". The album before "Music" is "Ray of Light" and it's absolutely a fan favorite along "Confessions" :)

When I hear this album again … I’m reminded of bands like Air and Daft Punk and the MASSIVE influence France was having on the electronic music scene in the late 90s And early 00s

madonna co-produces every album. she's involved in every beat, synth, and of course lyrics and melodies.

That one is a grower! Believe me, Beth. The production is outstanding listening in the earphones

I love your Madonna reactions!! ❤❤

Actually "Runaway Lover" and "Amazing" were produced by William Orbit, the producer of the Ray of Light album - I said this 'cause of the "touché, Mirwaïs" part. - I say this with love & respect because I have been a Madonna fan since 1998 (when I was 14, now i'm 39) & i'm definitely a Madonna geek 😅 - I LOVE YOUR REACTIONS. Can't wait for you to cover her entire discography & videos & live shows!

I love this album! What a great reaction ❤

Can't wait for your next Madonna experience

15:40 hahahaha I love it 🤣🤣 so genuine!

Love your reviews, you go girl ❤

I just spent the night watching your three Madonna reactions and all I can think is, damn, and you haven’t even listened to the Ray of Light, Bedtime Stories, Like a Prayer, and Erotica albums yet. You’re in for such a treat. I die of envy any time someone listens to Madonna albums for the first time. I WISH I could listen to Madonna albums for the first time again. Her music is so euphoric and intoxicating. I like that you keep using words like “abduction” and “trance” during these videos but it’s just the absolute truth. SUBSCRIBED.

When you jumped during the beginning of AMAZING made me jumped! 😂😂

bedtime stories is so good, you should definitely give that a listen!

I just discovered you and I love the reaction. I feel like impressive instant was so ahead of its time. Love it. Don't know if you've done any music video reactions yet, if not please do it! 🤩

Ah I love this album, and I definitely loved your reaction to it! I would be really excited to see your reaction to Erotica and Ray of Light! Awesome

I hope Madonna can come up with a universally loved album again. Her works after Confessions divided fans....

The thing I love about Madonna so much is that every single album is like in its own whole universe!! Her earlier albums are very much pop but even bedtime stories is such an experimental album pretty early in her career. She is always keeping us on our toes!!!! But favorite album is ray of light!!! Even though before that, I could not decide between true blue, like a Virgin and bedtime stories!!! There are a few songs from each album that I cannot choose between. And the immaculate collection is perfect to just put on after you have listened to all the other albums, of course!

First of all, amazing reaction! I like how sincere your opinions are. Anyway, I feel like Mirwais' production is very easy to get an "overdosis" from, especially when you listen to two albums in a row, it can sound too repetitive or too intense as his style is based on autotune, heavy mixing and bizarre combinations. These features are very unique for sure, but for us regular, distant from electronic listeners, it can be too much if we are not in the mood. With that being said, if you plan to move on with her discography chronologically, you will definitely be surprised with what she's got in store, as Ray of Light is not only one of her best albums, but also one of the best records ever made according to multiple critics, reviews and listeners. There you will find very personal lyrics, transcending sounds and her best vocals in any of her studio albums due to her intense lessons for the Evita movie (1996), a musical that required her to extend her reach and technique. I hope you continue to have fun while listening to Madonna, her discography combined with her videos, attitudes and uniqueness can surely prove how no one can beat her in the pop game, she really is the queen. Thank you and love from Brazil :)

Thank you for your video🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

You're a great reactor, so engaged with the song itself and very honest about your experience with the song, with a bit of light comedy sprinkled in. It's refreshing when everyone is doing reactions these days, I'm glad I've found a music reactor that's this good! As most people have mentioned, Ray of Light is probably a must, even if you never react to another Madonna album. It's her most accomplished work. despite being a little long, it features some of the best music of her career. Frozen in particular is an out and out masterpiece.

I luv this álbum!

Don't tell me is so good, I'm emotionally connected to it

Madonna, our Queen! You will love Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light albums ❤❤❤

You bring it on point @19:06: "trust the process" 😜

What I love about Madonna is her ability to go with her gut and to no doubt it for one second. This was the album to make after Ray Of Light , in ROL (not to spoil it for you) she is spiritual and self reflective, in Music she has let go of the things that are holding her back and now we move on to funkier sounds, more experimental, this album feels like a trip through sounds with fun, personal lyrics and it culminates with Gone, one of her best album closers, giving us the passage to American Life

Haha ❤ love your reactions to her albums..I can't wait for Ray of Light..oh my days xx love your take on everything..and your own production makes for very engaging viewing ...but oh my god I can't wait for Ray of Light ... What it feels like for a girl is incredible and gone ..both lyrically and melodically stand out tracks... And there's something about nobody's perfect that floats my boat too xx

'What It Feels Like For A Girl' was produced by Guy Sigsworth. He worked with Imogen Heap on their Frou Frou project. They only have one album, Details. The first track, 'Let Go', on that album was HUGE when it was released. It was the theme song to the movie Garden State. You should watch the videos for this album as well. The remixes are insane.

Music is her best album! I love it ❤

You should see the videos for this era. There’s videos for music, don’t tell me, what it feels like for a girl (it’s a dance remix for the video that was banned for being too violent), and also a tour backdrop video for paradise not for me

The music album sold 11 million albums worldwide. Music the single was a huge success and a Madonna classic reaching no.1 in 23 countries including no.1 in the USA, UK and Australia. Don’t tell me was a top 10 hit world wide reaching no.4 in the USA 🇺🇸

5:36 i think it means more like a confession. loving the video ❤

So iconicc

Masterpiece omg take me back to 2grad omg 🤩I remember having it on a hitclip

I really loved you reaction on Don't Tell Me. When a CD or cassette was wrong they made that broken sound, Mirwais and Madonna wanted to give that effect. And the first part of What it Feels like for a Girl is from a movie

I LOVE this album

I am obsessed with “What it Feels Like” it really applies to being in any underclass!!

Waiting for the Erotica album!!! And waiting for you make a reaction for the Christina Aguilera albuns!

I think you’ll enjoy the Confession Tour throughout but the portion of the show with Drowned World, Paradise (Not for Me) etc is exceptional.

Try driving at night blaring Paradise Not For Me! It’s such a good song

do ray of light next! maybe go backwards from now on, and after debut you can listen to her last four

Definitely react to Rebel Heart album one of my favorite albums of hers!

You don’t even know how long I’ve waited for that😭

Please react to Ray of Light, it is a true spiritual journey with such deep lyrics and psychedelic sounds that you are going to love

Brilliant reaction. I need to see you react to Ray of Light. What If Feels Like For A Girl…. Will always be one of my favourites. Cuts hard and speaks loudly.

I loved “Music” (the song) and “Don’t Tell Me” as a teenager.

what it feels like for a girl. literally my favorite madonna's song, the spanish version. when i listened to it as a little boy, it changed me lol, and the video is forever embedded in my mind

this is one of her best, Like a prayer, her eponymous, true blue, ray of light are her best works, the rest are single composed albums

Erotica is beautifully written and jazzy. Also, my favorite.

Mon premier album de MAdonna

Please listen to Bedtime Stories

I’ve been a Madonna fan for almost 20 years already and although I do like Music, it’s not my favorite at all and I see it as a midpoint between Ray of Light and American Life, it is experimental but not in a cohesive and interesting way like American Life, it gives me a feeling of “hmmm let’s try this” and it works but not really… so I see it kinda like a ‘sonic draft’ for what American Life would be, so I totally get your perspective and I agree with a lot of your opinions. I didn’t expect you to like it (based on the many many videos of you I’ve watched already 🥰). “Paradise” is one of my favorite songs from Madonna though, it’s a grower, very reflective, ‘meditational’ lol and interesting. Please react to Ray Of Light, it’s a masterpiece. 🥹🩵

Cant wait for the album Erotica, its a masterpiece , also Bedtime stories, Ray of light , Like a prayer albums

Madonna did a beautiful live version of Paradise (Not for Me) in one of her tours (reinvention?) that showed just how beautiful the harmonies are in that song… and Gone is just so gorgeous, a little sad, but raw and real. So underrated. I think with further listens, when you know what to expect, you’ll get used to the production of some of the more chaotic songs, like Impressive Instant, which are such bops. I absolutely love that one too. The only really clunker on her is I Deserve It. Guy Richie even f’ed up her music. Lol

A very interesting reaction as always! I'm always curious to how people will take "Music". It's very much a product of the 'New Millennium!!' era, and its soundscape is very...well. Interesting, is probably the best way to put it. I loved how often the Madonna spaceship abducted you at random throughout lolol So "Music" and how some songs caught you off-guard, like "Gone" or "Nobody's Perfect", is a result of Madonna having a foot in two doors. She'd just made her (arguably) all-time masterpiece "Ray of Light" with British producer William Orbit and had done some work with him, but was also searching for that 'new sound', which introduced her to Mirwais. There are times on "Music" that you're hearing a bit of both producers, with somewhat mixed results. I've seen some reviewers mention that "Music" serves as a 'bookend' to "Ray of Light" and I've always disagreed; I feel like it's a bridge between "Ray of Light" and "American Life", honestly. Speaking of reviews, there were also some "American Life" reviews that say that it sounds on some songs like Madonna would have 'preferred to be left alone in the studio with her guitar', and I personally felt that way more about "Music" than I ever did about AL. "I Deserve It", "Nobody's Perfect", and "Gone" all should have been completely acoustic, IMHO, but I do love them all in different ways. My best friend loves this album overall more than I do, but it does have a special place in my heart amongst her discography (especially "Gone"). I loved how tripped out you were by the insanity that was "Impressive Instant". A really funny story there is that Madonna deeply wanted it to be the fourth single from the album, but her label at the time, Warner, felt that "Amazing" was a much stronger, far more radio-friendly song and pushed for that instead. Rather than compromise, Madonna scrapped the idea of a fourth single at all and left it at "Music", "Don't Tell Me", and "What It Feels Like for a Girl". This is one of few times I thought her label was right! I adore "Amazing". But if you're ever really in the mood to get tranced out, there's an epic eight minute version of "Impressive Instant" out there remixed by Peter Rauhauffer that is pretty intense. "What It Feels Like for a Girl" was born from Madonna having been the mother of a girl for two years when she wrote the song, thinking of the things she'd had to 'learn' on her own journey that she didn't ever want to have to teach her daughter Lourdes but was afraid the world would try to teach her anyway. It's a much angrier song than it sounds on the surface, but Madonna's best songs have many layers. The music video features only a very beat-heavy club remix and Madonna playing the character of the enraged female who goes on a massive crime spree with a granny she frees from the Ol Kuntz Nursing Home and it is exactly as bonkers as it sounds. Gwen Stefani was inspired by the music video heavily in No Doubt's "Just a Girl" vid. One more funny fact, just because your reaction to the start of "Don't Tell Me" was hilarious -- imagine first hearing this on tape or CD! Back in the day apparently the first pressings of this album came with a note assuring people that their CD was not defective because so many people assumed that the track was skipping for no reason without figuring out it was a purposeful production effect! But I do hope you continue your Madonna journey at some point with "Ray of Light". It is not just one of her very best, it is featured on just about every "Greatest Albums of All Time" list. You will be very entranced, I think. The lyrical content is astonishing and it features some of her absolute best vocals as she'd just filmed the movie version of the musical "Evita" and was still fresh off her Broadway vocal coach lessons lol. It's a very meaningful album for a lot of reasons. (The opening track "Drowned World / Substitute for Love" is one of my favorite songs ever, not just of hers in particular). Thanks again for an awesome video and sorry again for a comment as long as the one I think I left you on your "American Life" reaction, yikes

Runaway Lover is actually Madonna and William Orbit. She and Orbit also produced Amazing. Mirwais is prounounced like Meer-wez. Music is one of my top 3 favorite albums.. very rich with melodies, synths and definitely a head of its time. What It Feels like for a Girl's spoken word comes from Charlotte Gainsbourg's character from the film The Cement Garden.

I’m sooo glad you loved What It Feels Like For A Girl

MUSIC is her best album. The song "Music" is one of her greatest hit!!! You know that song, i guess!!!!!. Please, it was a SUPER HIT

Amazing reminds me of Beautiful Stranger and it makes me wish that was the on the album like the way she put die another day on American life

Woohoo another great reaction Beth!!! Love it!! Thanks so much!! Oh and btw - I’ve always likened Madame X (her most recent) to American life part 2. Same producer is back and a lot more writing and singing about social and political issues like she did on American life. I love it but others (fans and critics) hated it.

My favorites Madonna albums are True Blue Like a prayer Erotica Ray of light American life Confessions And Madame X ❤