Live to Tell
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Released | March 26, 1986 | |||
Recorded | 1985 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
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"Live to Tell" is a song by American singer
Upon release, the song was acclaimed by
Background and release
In 1985, after Madonna concluded The Virgin Tour, she approached producers Patrick Leonard and Stephen Bray and asked them to write some songs with her and produce her third studio album, True Blue (1986).[1] The first songs Madonna and Leonard worked on for the album were "Love Makes The World Go Round" and "Live to Tell".[2] This last one was composed as an instrumental by Leonard for the score of Paramount's film Fire with Fire; "my managers represented the guy who was directing [the film]; it was his first film. I saw a little piece [of the film], and I had the script. I wrote a theme and I said, 'what if I could get Madonna to write the lyrics for it?'", Leonard recalled.[1] Paramount, however, rejected the track, believing it was inappropriate for the film, and that Leonard was incapable of creating a proper score;[3] afterwards, Leonard presented the instrumental to Madonna, who decided to use it for At Close Range, the new film starring her then-husband Sean Penn.[1]
Madonna wrote all the lyrics, added some melodies, and composed the
Composition
"Live to Tell" is a
Lyrically, "Live to Tell" portrays the complexity of deceit and mistrust;[15] According to authors Freya Jarman-Ivens and Santiago Fouz-Hernández, in Madonna's Drowned Worlds (2004), it is about "childhood scars", and counts with an "extreme" emotional pitch.[18] On another note, Boston.com's Scott Kearnan added that it's about "bearing the burden of some enigmatic secret and coping with a painful past", while Nick Levine from Digital Spy argued that it was about child abuse.[19][20] Dave Marsh wrote on The Heart of Rock & Soul that the archetype of songs like "Live to Tell" is The Platters' "The Great Pretender" (1965).[15] In an interview about the song, Madonna herself revealed the lyrics talk about "my relationship with my parents and the lying that went on. The song is about being strong, and questioning whether you can be that strong but ultimately surviving".[21]
Critical reception
"'Live to Tell' has held up as the definitive Madonna ballad that perfectly encapsulates who she is as a person, performer, and cultural icon. It is her best ballad, and third-ever US number one single [...] There’s a vulnerability [in 'Live to Tell'] that Madonna rarely exposes regarding her fears as a human being, living up to the career expectations she’s built for herself, and how she compares to those she admires".
—PopMatters's Enio Chola on "Live to Tell" in his list of Madonna's 15 best singles.[22]
Upon release, "Live to Tell" was acclaimed by music critics.
Writing for PopMatters, Peter Piatkowski said it was a "simultaneously cold and emotional" song, filled with "maturity and ambition", as well as a "very deliberate effort to present Madonna as a mature and serious artist".
Retrospective reviews towards "Live to Tell" have been largely positive, and it is now considered one of Madonna's best songs. For Parade, Samuel R. Murrian considered it to be the singer's "finest, most emotional ballad" that has "her strongest-ever lyrics", as well her third best song.[39] Jude Rogers, from The Guardian, named it her ninth greatest song, highlighting its lyrics and referring to it as "the best thing Madonna’s done in cinema, despite the mediocrity of the film that it’s from".[40] For Glamour's Christopher Rosa it's Madonna's sixth best; "a melodramatic shot of emotion that highlights her signature throaty vocals".[41] Andrew Unterberger for Billboard, and Chuck Arnold for Entertainment Weekly, placed it at number 18 and 17 of their rankings of Madonna's singles, respectively; the former named it "the first truly great Madonna ballad", while according to the latter, it found her "displaying greater depth and maturity than ever before".[42][43] Scott Kearnan considered "Live to Tell" Madonna's 21st best single and wrote: "With 'Crazy for You', [Madonna] proved she could nail a hit ballad: for teenage girls to slow dance to at prom. But 'Live to Tell' broadened her appeal with adult audiences".[19] Sal Cinquemani deemed it the artist's fifth best: "[Her] first and, arguably, most dramatic reinvention was scored by this spare and haunting ballad", that also includes one of her "richest" vocal performances.[44]
Chart performance
On April 12, 1986, Billboard reported that "Live to Tell" was one of the most added songs on radio stations, which gave it an "outstanding" debut on the Hot 100 at number 49.
In the United Kingdom, the single debuted at number 10 on the
Music video
The music video for "Live to Tell" was directed by James Foley and used as a publicity campaign for At Close Range; it alternates shots of Madonna singing alone in a darkened room with scenes from the movie that, according to Jeremy G. Butler in Television: critical methods and applications (2002), indicate the conflict Sean Penn's character goes through and feels.[71] After having starred in the film Shanghai Surprise, Madonna decided to tone down her appearance, inspired by actresses such as Grace Kelly and Brigitte Bardot, and held this look for the music video.[72][73] Her make-up was "heavy but very tasteful"; her hair "elegant", shoulder-length, wavy and golden blond; her clothes consisted of a simple, "demure" 1930s-style floral dress.[74][30] It was her first music video to not feature dance routine, but a "tinge of real-world storytelling", showing her as a narrator.[75][71]
Jeffrey F. Keuss, author of Your Neighbor's Hymnal: What Popular Music Teaches Us about Faith, Hope, and Love (2011), wrote that "there is something in that loneliness [from the video] that makes it feel like the most authentic thing [Madonna] has ever done", comparing the shots of her singing alone to Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, and the cover artwork for Sinéad O'Connor's second studio album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990).[76] Butler added that, through her singing, Madonna appears to speak to Penn's character, addressing his problems directly like the chorus of a classical tragedy.[71] Peter Piatkowski gave a positive review of the clip, describing it as "gorgeous and stylish", feeling it "matched the song’s intense moodiness".[30] Tom Breihan said it was the only video in which the singer "gives as much screen time to a mustachioed Christopher Walken as it does to [herself]", and that it displayed one of her "many image reinventions".[37] It was considered Madonna's 17th best music video by Samuel R. Murrian, and can be found on the 2009 video compilation Celebration: The Video Collection.[77][14]
Live performances and controversy
Madonna has performed "Live to Tell" on four of her concert tours: Who's That Girl (1987), Blond Ambition (1990), Confessions (2006), and Celebration (2023—2024). On the first one, she sang the song standing motionless in a single spotlight, dressed in a black ensemble with tassels, golden tips and ribbing, designed by Marlene Stewart.[78][79] For the Los Angeles Times, Robert Hilburn noted that the artist sang "with a delicate, embracing feeling that few of even her biggest fans would have imagined possible five years ago".[78] Two different performances can be found on the videos Who's That Girl: Live in Japan, filmed in Tokyo on June, and Ciao Italia: Live from Italy, filmed in Turin on September.[80][81]
For the Blond Ambition World Tour, it was performed in a
On the Confessions Tour, Madonna sang "Live to Tell" hanging from a mirrored cross, simulating a
"There is a segment in my show where three of my dancers 'confess' or share harrowing experiences from their childhood that they ultimately overcame. My 'confession' follows and takes place on a Crucifix that I ultimately come down from. This is not a mocking of the church. It is no different than a person wearing a Cross or 'Taking Up the Cross' as it says in the Bible. My performance is neither anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous. Rather, it is my plea to the audience to encourage mankind to help one another and to see the world as a unified whole. I believe in my heart that if Jesus were alive today he would be doing the same thing.
My specific intent is to bring attention to the millions of children in Africa who are dying every day, and are living without care, without medicine and without hope. I am asking people to open their hearts and minds to get involved in whatever way they can. The song ends with a quote from the Bible's Book of Matthew: 'For I was hungry and you gave me food. I was naked and you gave me clothing. I was sick and you took care of me and God replied, 'Whatever you did for the least of my brothers... you did it to me.'
Please do not pass judgment without seeing my show".[94]
Despite the controversy, critical reception towards the number ranged from lukewarm to negative; Leslie Gray Streeter, from
In The Celebration Tour, Madonna sang the song from a floating box as images of people who died of HIV/AIDS appeared on the backdrop screens, these included Keith Haring, Herb Ritts, and Freddie Mercury.[99][100] The performance began with a dancer collapsing before the singer, who proceeds to cover him "tenderly" with a trenchcoat.[99] The number was named one of the best moments of the concert by Billboard's Joe Lynch.[100]
Covers
In 1992, American guitarist
Track listing and formats
- US / Canada / Germany / UK 7" single[112]
- "Live to Tell" (7" Edit) – 4:37
- "Live to Tell" (Instrumental) – 5:49
- US / Canada / Germany / UK 12" Maxi-Single[113]
- "Live to Tell" (LP Version) – 5:49
- "Live to Tell" (7" Edit) – 4:37
- "Live to Tell" (Instrumental) – 5:49
- Germany / UK Reissue CD Maxi-Single (1995)[114]
- "Live to Tell" (LP Version) – 5:49
- "Live to Tell" (7" Edit) – 4:37
- "Live to Tell" (Instrumental) – 5:49
Credits and personnel
- Madonna – lyrics, producer, vocals
- Bruce Gaitsch – guitar
- Patrick Leonard – drum programming, keyboard, producer
- Jonathan Moffett – drums
- Michael Verdick – audio mixing, engineer
- Herb Ritts – photography
- Jeri McManus – design
Credits adapted from the album and 12" single liner notes.[115][113]
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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Brazil | — | 60,000[140] |
Japan | — | 23,850[141] |
France ( SNEP)[68]
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Silver | 250,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[59] | Silver | 331,000[142] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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