Everybody - Where the birth of the future Queen of Pop Madonna, 1982
Release Date : 06 October 1983.
Production
- Song: Madonna
- Writing: Madonna
- Producer Mark Kamins
- Synthesizer: Butch Jones and Ed Walsh
- Guitarist: Butch Jones
- Electric and Acoustic Piano: Fred Zarr
- Tenor Saxophone: Bobby Malach
- Chorus: Gwen Guthrie, Brenda White and Chrissy Faith
- Style of music title: Pop-dance-electro-disco.
Everybody is the first single from the musical artist Madonna. He goes out in stores October 6, 1982, then it will be included on the album Madonna in 1983. Upon its release, the title moves to 3rd place in the Billboard Hot Dance / Club Play Chart.
Story of a future global success ...
Before qu'Everybody do so in single and vinyl, it is played in the nightclub in New York, Danceteria. It was still a demo co-produced between Madonna and Stephen Bray. This is the New York Dj Mark Kamis who will be hit World by remisant. At first listen the title, the public was convinced that the end of disco singer was black.
At the time Madonna is 23 years old and she wants to conquer the American music scene and the world. But before being publicly known, it forms a group (The Breakfast Club) with her boyfriend, Steve Bray. Shortly after the group's formation, they both sign a contract with the label Gotham Records.
To persevere, after leaving the group, Madonna embarked on the writing of securities Everybody and Burning Up. She recorded the first track on a cassette and urges the Dj Mark Kamis of the nightclub, The Danceteria, to play clubbers. Success and followed ...
Madonna meeting in 1982, Michael Rosenblatt who works for the record "Sire." At the time he described it thus: "Madonna is amazing. She will do anything to become a star, and this is exactly what I look for in an artist full cooperation with Madonna ... I knew I someone strong and supportive, so I planned to build his musical career with singles, rather than going out to have an album that might not work. "
In April 1982, a contract was signed between Madonna and Seymour Stein (Chairman of Sire label) sold for "Everybody" Maxi 45 rpm. April 24, 1982, Mark Kamins produced this title based on the first production of Steve Bray. On the first side A, the title takes 5 minutes and 56 seconds on the B side, the title is available in another version of 9 minutes and 23 seconds. However before this registration problem involved the views of the funding Maxi 45s. This is Madonna and Kamins who fund themselves in production and lack of money. Kamins then President a music producer for Madonna, Fred Zarr (keyboard player). But soon, Madonna and Kamins Dj do not agree on the choice of the second song to incorporate the Maxi 45s. Indeed, at the beginning was provided opposite A, the title "Is not No Big Deal", then side B. In the end, the choice is made to market "Everybody" in October 1982. It was not until the month of December of the same year, for countries such as France, the UK, Spain or Italy are the single in stores.
Everybody description title ...
Everybody starts with the sound of a synthesizer while Madonna speaks and takes a breath. On the voice of the young stars, she footprint Bubnlegum pop genre (voice doubled). We can also hear some inspirations R & B, but Sire Record explains that this is a title "soul-dance" aimed at African Americans.
The commercial and critical reception of a global hit ...
CRITIQUE:
Don Shewey in Rolling Stone: "At the beginning, Everybody does not look like much. Then you notice that one of the features that distinguishes it is that hiccup girl that the singer used again and again until that here becomes infernal. Finally, you get hooked, you start looking forward to what attracts you stupidly in his voice. "
Rikky Rooksby, in his book "The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna", says Madonna album Everybody ends flat. For this reason it is sorely lacking in inspiration, it is too repetitive and the music is artificial.
Bill Lamb of About.com: "The songs of the album have" irresistible pop hooks. "
Fouz Santiago-Hernandez, in his book "Madonna's Drowned Worlds, estimated that only define Everybody Music and artistic crescendo Madonna.
Use during interview, the future Queen of Pop evokes the first broadcast of Everybody on the radio: "I lived on the Upper West Side, at the intersection of 99th Street and Riverside Drive. Around 19heures, I listened the radio in my room, I was on WKTU and I heard Everybody. I said: "Oh my God, this is my song. It was an incredible feeling. "
HOME SALES:
Everybody reach seventh place in the ranking Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Billboard (the equivalent of 107th on the Billboard Hot 100). Finally, Madonna with the title slip to 3rd place in the Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs, still in the U.S.. Since 1982, it is estimated that the single Everybody has sold over 250,000 copies.
The story of the clip Everybody ...
Madonna on the video, "If I did not make video, I do not think that all children in the Midwest know me. He takes the place of tourism. Everybody sees everywhere. This really helped the success of my album. "
As noted above, the public initially thought the singer of the title Everybody was black. But when a video of it will be shot, everyone constatera otherwise. It saves the video clip in the Danceteria nightclub in New York. She sings and dances on the dance floor. The whole front of 300 people.Therefore, the leaders of Sire Records realize that Madonna is epic. They ask the video for Everybody it is sent to discotheques that project as animation clips.
The design of the clip was directed by Ed Steinberg for a budget of $ 1,500. This is Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone who choreographed. Madonna professionalism to bear fruit, as the clip is aired on television a few days after the release of the single in stores.
Interpretations of scenic Everybody ...
- Virgin Tour 1985
- The Girlie Show Tour, 1993
- Coachella Festival 2005, promoting the album "Confessions On A Dance Floor"
- Koko Club, London, 2005
- Sticky and Sweet Tour 2008, at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall.
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