I'm Breathless
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Released | May 22, 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1989–1990 | |||
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I'm Breathless is an album
Musically, I'm Breathless consists predominantly of jazz, swing and pop songs. The tracks reflected Madonna's showgirl personality and were influenced by her relationship with Beatty. The singer wanted to create music that would fit the style and production of the film, set in the days of the Untouchables law enforcement, and sang the songs accordingly. In some areas she pitched her vocals and belted the notes when necessary. She smoked cigarettes in order to portray the vocals of her character Breathless. Beatty and singer Mandy Patinkin were featured as duet partners on three of the songs.
In support of both I'm Breathless and her previous album,
Music critics applauded the Sondheim numbers, along with Madonna's vocals and versatility. However, some deemed the non-film songs to be of little value. "Sooner or Later", one of the Sondheim tracks, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. I'm Breathless was commercially successful, peaking at number one on the European Top 100 Albums, as well as the national charts of Australia, Germany, and Japan—in the latter it became the country's best-selling foreign album of the year. It also reached number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). I'm Breathless has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.
Background and development
In 1990, Madonna was part of the film
Beatty had realized several positive aspects of hiring Madonna as an actress for the film. She would be inclined to develop a soundtrack for Dick Tracy and the film studio would see this as a promotional opportunity before the release of their product, since Madonna was popular as a recording artist. This would also benefit
Madonna was in a relationship with Beatty at that time, and her whole acting, recording and singing stemmed from impressing him with the album, which was important to her.
Recording and composition
I'm Breathless is a
O'Brien said that the songs on I'm Breathless had a "coquettish" and "pandering nature", and was the polar opposite to Madonna's previous release, Like a Prayer, which had an introspective composition.
The following track on the album, "I'm Going Bananas", is a Carmen Miranda-ish song done in a Spanish accent.[19] A salsa rhythm is predominant, with Madonna squeezing her vocal cords while singing, backed by percussion and brass.[28] In the fifth track, "Crybaby", Madonna mimics the vocals of Betty Boop.[17] The melody is heard over the interlining synth strings, horns and trumpets, and a bass. Rooksby explained that Madonna sang about a guy who is "too sensitive and soft", and the chorus employs a chromatic chord sequence.[28] The next track "Something to Remember" deals with her failed marriage to Penn and was the source of inspiration for naming her 1995 compilation album. Musically, it has melancholy chords and rambling melody, which according to Taraborrelli made it the most compelling song by Madonna.[17][19]
Mark Coleman from Rolling Stone described "Back in Business" as a "nagging headache". It contains a "slow-verse-fast-chorus" sequence.[25] According to Rooksby, "the chorus bursts into life, with Madonna clearly relishing the lyrics about good guys finishing last... the coldness of her delivery is apt for the topic." Her vocals are accompanied by muted trumpet sounds and a saxophone solo.[28] "More" is the second Sondheim number where Madonna recites the materialistic-themed lyrics with irony, over a bouncy two-beat with tap-dancing during an instrumental break.[25][29] The track consists of syncopated chord structure, tempo changes and lyrical rhymes. The arrangement switches between slow and fast tempo, requiring proper enunciation by Madonna. The final Sondheim song, "What Can You Lose", is the duet with Patinkin.[30] It is a torch song where Patinkin supplies the male voice while Madonna sings during the second verse with strings and harmonics.[25][30]
Madonna sings a two-part duet with Beatty titled "Now I'm Following You". With beats atop a riff, Madonna reveals that "Dick" is an "interesting name".[25][29] The first part has strings, brass and muted horns, with a tap-dancing sequence during the intermediate piano solo and blues effect. At the last chord, the sound of the record getting stuck is heard, and a needle is drawn across the vinyl, leading into the much faster part two.[30] The word "Dick" is continuously repeated in the main melody structure until the song ends with the sound of a record being snatched off a music player.[31] Bill Meyers, who played piano during the recording, recalled that the song required only one take from Beatty.[32] "Vogue" closes out the album and is musically different from the rest of the tracks. It is a dance number consisting of a "throbbing beat" and lyrically has a theme of escapism.[25] The song talks about Vogueing, a dance form which reproduced poses from high-fashion modelling. The song also has a rap section, where Madonna names various "golden era" Hollywood celebrities, including Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich.[33]
Promotion
Madonna first performed "Vogue" during her Blond Ambition tour (April–August 1990), followed by the September 6 performance at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, clad in 18th-century-inspired fashions. Madonna's performance recreated the royal court of Marie Antoinette, dripping with sexual innuendo; at one point the singer flipped open her large skirt, allowing one of the dancers to crawl inside.[34] Her dancer Carlton Wilborn explained that "[such] level of production had never been done on MTV. The costumes, the fans, the drama... MTV just had no idea, we just came out and rocked." O'Brien described the performance as a "moment of inspired brilliance", while Taraborrelli noted it as a "classic, camp show that elevated the standards of future performances on that program".[18][35] It was later ranked by Billboard as the sixth best performance in the history of the award show.[36]
At the 1991 Academy Awards, Madonna appeared with singer Michael Jackson as her date and performed "Sooner or Later".[37] According to journalist Liz Smith, Madonna had promised to perform at the award show if either "Sooner or Later" or "More" was nominated in the Best Original Song category.[38] She wore a long, tight, white dress designed by Bob Mackie and covered in sequins and pearls.[37] On her neck she wore $20 million worth of jewelry from Harry Winston. Taraborrelli recalled that Madonna had appropriated every move and mannerisms of Marilyn Monroe for the performance, making it a tribute to the actress.[39] When she appeared onstage, there was technical difficulty resulting in the microphone not rising from below the stage, and a stage-hand passing it to her.[40] Billboard ranked it as the seventh "most awesome" Oscar performance of all time, saying that "Madonna gave a performance that took us back to the glamorous days of old Hollywood."[41]
Tour
I'm Breathless, alongside Madonna's previous album, Like a Prayer, was majorly promoted in Madonna's third concert tour, the
The performance of the I'm Breathless songs began with "Sooner or Later" sung atop a grand piano, followed by "Hanky Panky", with Madonna standing in front of a microphone. She was dressed in a striped vaudeville-style
Singles
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The music video for "Vogue", directed by David Fincher, showed Madonna paying homage to various golden era Hollywood actresses. Shot in black-and-white, the video takes stylistic inspiration from the 1920s and 30s; in it, Madonna and her dancers can be seen voguing different choreographed scenes.[54] Critics noted the way in which Madonna used her postmodern influence to expose an underground subcultural movement to the masses and for making the sex and gender roles ambiguous in its portrayal of people.[55][56] The video has been ranked as one of the greatest of all times in different critic lists and polls,[57] and won three awards at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, out of a total of nine nominations.[58][59][60]
The album's second single, "Hanky Panky", was released on June 30, 1990. Critical response for the song was positive, with The New York Times calling it "a calculated bid for outrage".[29] It enjoyed commercial success, reaching the top ten in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.[61][62] In the United States, it peaked at number ten in the week of July 28, 1990.[63] "Now I'm Following You", the two-part duet with Warren Beatty, was intended to be the third single, but was ultimately canceled. Several remixes were commissioned and promos and test pressings were issued.[64]
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music | [73] |
J. Randy Taraborrelli gave I'm Breathless a favorable review in his book
Ray Boren from
According to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, "after all the nuances Madonna has brought to the role of the bad girl, it's strange that she would settle now for such a restricted, unexamined version of respectability" and "for the first time, Madonna has let the deal dictate the music".[29] Tan Gim Ean from New Straits Times noted that Madonna played against her strengths on the songs of the album. He described her vocals as "competent", but felt that the songs required "more range and agility than Madonna has at her disposal."[78] Dave Tianen from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described the album as a "mixed bag of period pieces, some of them too cute for their own good", adding that "I'm Breathless never becomes more than the sum of its mannerisms".[79] AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine claimed that the songs are just "cutesy novelty numbers", and listing "Vogue" as a standout track.[65] Rooksby panned the album, saying that it "failed to transcend the sterile, preserved-in-amber quality of pastiche".[26] Mark Cooper from Q magazine lamented, in its June 1990 review, "It's something of a disappointment because the lady herself stays so firmly committed to a character who's less original than the persona she evolved during the '80s."[68] Nonetheless, in the same magazine's December 1994 issue, Madonna declared: "I would have to say the favorite record that I've made is the soundtrack to Dick Tracy. I love every one of those songs... My judgment is never based on the world's reaction."[80] Music Week staff called a "mediocre soundtrack album".[1]
While reviewing the album on its 30th anniversary, Mike Wass from
Commercial performance
I'm Breathless debuted at number 44 on the Billboard 200 during the week of June 9, 1990, peaking at number 2 two weeks later.[83][84] In total, the album remained on the chart for twenty-five weeks.[84] I'm Breathless was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipment of over two million copies throughout the country.[85] On June 2, 1990, I'm Breathless entered the Canadian RPM Albums Chart at number 39, eventually peaking at number three.[86][87] During the week of November 10, 1990, the album spent its last week on the chart, exiting at number 99, after spending 24 weeks on the album's chart.[88] To date, the album has been certified double-platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for shipment of 200,000 copies.[89]
In Australia, the album debuted at number one on the
The album also experienced success in European markets. In Germany, I'm Breathless topped the
Impact
In The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media (2020), editors explained that the trend of releasing albums with the concept "Music From and Inspired By" began "in large part due to the success of Prince's
Contemporary and retrospective assessments specifically praised the results despite her musical reinvention, seen as departure from her "main mass-market albums", according to O'Brien.[109][81][23] Blistein described "it was a decisively dizzying left turn for an artist who'd already built a solid career out of them".[82] In at least one interview, she herself calls I'm Breathless her "best" and "favorite" of her albums because it was "different".[110][111] The album "became a surprise runaway success worldwide", wrote Sharon Davis in 80s Chart-Toppers (2012), while Macmillan Educational's publication International Year Book: Covering the Year 1990 referred the results were "surprisingly well, considering that its musical roots were in the 1940s".[112] In Madonna: The Biography (1991), Robert Matthew-Walker notes the record contained the most songs on a Madonna's album up to that point, also arguing it shows the "immense outpouring of her talent".[113] Others discussed how Madonna would introduce Stephen Sondheim to a newer audience in her generation, including Elizabeth Wurtzel from New York and Rolling Stone's Mark Coleman.[19][25] In 2021, The Atlantic editor Sophie Gilbert, explicitly states she was introduced to Sondheim's material thanks to Madonna.[114] Albert Montagut from El País called a "novelty" the fact Warren Beatty recorded a song for an album for the first time in his career.[115]
Rankings
I'm Breathless was included in a number of critics' lists. The album appeared at number five in the 1990
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "He's a Man" |
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| 4:42 |
2. | "Sooner or Later" | Stephen Sondheim |
| 3:18 |
3. | "Hanky Panky" |
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| 3:57 |
4. | "I'm Going Bananas" |
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| 1:41 |
5. | "Cry Baby" |
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| 4:04 |
6. | "Something to Remember" |
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| 5:03 |
7. | "Back in Business" |
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| 5:10 |
8. | "More" | Sondheim |
| 4:56 |
9. | "What Can You Lose" (with Mandy Patinkin) | Sondheim |
| 2:08 |
10. | "Now I'm Following You" (Part I) (with Warren Beatty) |
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| 1:35 |
11. | "Now I'm Following You" (Part II) (with Warren Beatty) |
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| 3:18 |
12. | "Vogue" |
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| 4:50 |
Notes
- Track list per the end booklet of the I'm Breathless album.[124]
- "Sooner or Later" is officially titled "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" in the film credits and Academy Awards.[16][125]
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's booklet.[124]
- Madonna – vocals, songwriter, producer
- Warren Beatty – vocals
- Patrick Leonard – keyboards, producer
- Shep Pettibone – producer
- Niki Haris – backing vocals
- N'Dea Davenport – backing vocals
- Donna De Lory – backing vocals
- Rev. Dave Boruff – saxophone
- Bill Bottrell – producer, mixing engineer
- Ned Claflin – songwriter
- Mahlon Clark – clarinet
- Jeff Clayton – saxophone
- Luis Conte – percussion
- Bob Cooper – baritone saxophone
- Kevin Gilbert – producer
- John Guerin – drums
- bass
- Charles Loper – trombone
- Bob Magnusson – bass
- Jennie Douglas McRae – backing vocals
- percussion
- Abe Most – clarinet, alto saxophone
- Mandy Patinkin – vocals
- Tim Pierce – guitar
- Jeff Porcaro – drums
- Guy Pratt – bass
- Bill Schneider – piano
- Bill Meyers – piano
- Tony Terran – trumpet
- Carlos Vega – drums
- Randy Waldman – piano
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[49] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Austria (IFPI Austria)[151] | Gold | 25,000* |
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[153] | Gold | 182,000[152] |
Canada (Music Canada)[89] | 2× Platinum | 200,000^ |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[154] | Gold | 37,039[154] |
France ( SNEP)[97]
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2× Gold | 200,000* |
Germany (BVMI)[155] | Gold | 250,000^ |
Israel | — | 12,000[156] |
Italy | — | 300,000[157] |
Japan (RIAJ)[158] | Platinum | 329,382[93] |
Malaysia | — | 16,700[159] |
Netherlands (NVPI)[99] | Gold | 50,000^ |
Singapore | — | 60,000[2] |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[104] | 2× Platinum | 200,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[101] | Gold | 25,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[103] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[85] | 2× Platinum | 3,000,000[160] |
Summaries | ||
Worldwide | — | 7,000,000[82] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
See also
- List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1990s
- List of European number-one hits of 1990
- List of number-one hits of 1990 (Germany)
- List of number-one albums of 1990 (Portugal)
Notes
- ^ Defined as a soundtrack album by multiple sources and record charts.[1][2][3]
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Here's a chart of the Top 10 best-selling albums released locally so far this year
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Meno brillante il risultato di "I'm Breathless", uscito l'anno scorso: il disco legato all'esperienza cinematografica di "Dick Tracy" oggi in Italia e attestato attorno alle 300 mila copie.
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External links
- I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy at Discogs (list of releases)
- I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy playlist on YouTube