Justify My Love [Single][Explicit Lyrics][Import]

Madonna (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Explicit Lyrics, Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B0000071SK
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #217,315 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Justify My Love [William Orbit Remix]

2. Justify My Love [Orbit 12" Mix]

3. Express Yourself [Shep's 'Spressin' Himself Re-Remix]

4. Express Yourself (1990) [Mix]

5. Justify My Love [The Beast Within Mix]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This 1990 hit was produced and co-written by Lenny Kravitz. Includes a William Orbit remix plus "Express Yourself" from the 1989 LP "Like A Prayer".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only Madonna Can Turn Kinky Sex Into A Work Of Art!, June 17, 2003

By	Busy Body (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

In April of 1990, Madonna celebrated an international smash hit No.1 single with Vogue, which was followed up by the saucy Hanky Panky and a colossal, sell-out tour in the form of the 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour. Madonna was riding high, and she wasn't going to give up. In November of the same year, Madonna released her first Greatest Hits collection, titled The Immaculate Collection. The album was huge. This wasn't just your average Best Of collection. The album may have only peaked at No.2 in the US, but it shifted more than 10 million copies and became Madonna's biggest selling record ever. The album also stormed to No.1 in the UK for a staggering 9 weeks - the longest running No.1 album of the 1990's. In the UK, the album has sold near to 4 million copies - a phenomenal achievement for a female artist. So in December 1990, Madonna released the single Justify My Love. She launched a shocking sexual attack on the world. It was the most daring event of her career, and everyone loved it. The song was another massive US No.1 for Madonna, and peaked at No.2 in the UK where it spent 10 weeks on the chart.

Justify My Love opens with the swirly beat of a drum that sounds deeply sensual and very erotic. The beat is incredibly hard and racy, giving the song a very sexual feel. Madonna moans and groans a few times, before starting the first verse with, "I wanna kiss you in Paris. I wanna hold your hand in Rome. I wanna run naked in a rainstorm. Make love in a train, cross-country. You put this in me. So now what, so now what?" The first chorus then begins with the lyrics of, "Wanting... needing... waiting... for you to justify my love. Hoping...praying...for you to justify my love." After this, there is a slight instrumental in which the beat seems to slow down and sizzle from the heat, and Madonna says "OK..." before the second verse begins. I can't type the lyrics, because some are probably too explicit to be published. The song was co-written by Lenny Kravitz, and he adds backing vocals when Madonna's singing. There's another section to the song after the second chorus where the song really gets going, and Madonna sings, "What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Talk to me - tell me your dreams. Am I in them? Tell me your fears. Are you scared? Tell me your stories. I'm not afraid of who you are. We can fly! Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend, on the permission of another." Madonna then seems to get all more sweaty and worked up before repeating the classic chorus a few more times as the song dies down.

The video to Justify My Love is somewhat legendary. The video was filmed in black and white in a Paris hotel, as Madonna enters the corridor. She has a bag with her, but drops it and starts ruffling her Marilyn Monroe-style hair. We see a dark stranger at the end of the corridor approach her. He walks up to her and starts kissing her before she leads him into a bedroom before making soft-core love to him. The video also features images of homosexual love, fetishes and religious figures. As expected, the video was rated 18+ and instantly slammed by MTV, who deemed it far too explicit to show on daytime television. The video was released on VHS around the world and sold millions - Madonna proving yet again she knows easy ways to make major cash. The video caused moral outrage in America, but it was just Madonna's way of making them face their own fears and misunderstandings. For this, I respect Madonna totally. The woman is never afraid to push boundaries on what is deemed acceptable by the world. She's such a strong and independent woman, with a business mind to rival almost anyone else in the world.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Praying...for you...to JUSTIFY MY LOVE., February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This maxi single has to be one of the greatest of her career...for several reasons: 1. The q-sound remix: brings out the heavy breathing, and adds a new sexuality to the song, very bass heavy and deep. 2. Willaim Orbit's 12": I love Orbit's remixes of Madonna, and especially their callaboritve effort of RAY OF LIGHT, but this mix is beyond great, adding a touch of sleaze inspired electronica, and great trance rhythm, this mix is album worthy. 3. Hip Hop Mix: A decent mix, very hiphop, as the title suggests, although maybe it would have sounded better if they threw Nicki and Donna in, but that's ok, the best part of this mix is the end when she tells her lover what he can do to her.... 4. The Express Yourself Mix:ok, i guess, but the Immaculate Collection version is superior to all. 5. JML, The beast within mix: this is the most incredible alternate version of a madonna song EVER! It's madonna backed by a middle eastern chant and trance mix, as she reads aloud from Revelation, form the bible, trully breathtaking....reminiscient of ACT OF CONTRITION.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Naked In The Rainstorm..., May 10, 2004

By	Kyle Araujo (RSA) - See all my reviews

I don't think there is any other song that can be compared to this one, in sexual terms. It's extremely sexy, with sensual beats. While the song has a sexual, haunting feeling about it and very mysterious. Her voice sounds steamy, while she heavily breathes ''I wanna kiss you in Paris, I wanna hold your hand in Rome, I wanna run naked in a rainstorm, Make love in a train, cross-country, You put this in me, So now what, So now what?''. She moans continuously, carrying out the tunes whisperingly, and heavily breathing over darkly intense and sensual beats!-- it's done in such a successful manner. EXCELLENT SONG!

The lyrics are brilliant, Lenny Kravitz is one hell of a talented man to write a song like this!. Oh how I yearn for the day when Madonna does a full-studio album inspired by Lenny Kravitz's lyrics.

And as for the video, it is one of the best videos of all time!, it's very mysterious, sexual and menacing (especially) because it was filmed in black and white. It was also banned from MTV and several other stations, It's definitely not a video for children, it's very controversial and sexually wikiddddd!!!!!!!!.

You ought to buy this!.