On this Day: June 04, 1999 Beautiful Stranger charting
"Beautiful Stranger" charting - "Beautiful Stranger" enters the Billboard singles chart.
Credits
Written by Madonna and William Orbit
Produced by Madonna and William Orbit
Rumour has it that Madonna's then-boyfriend Andy Bird was the inspiration
behind the song.
Single
Madonna
contributed the song Beautiful Stranger to the soundtrack of Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Released in the summer of 1999,
the single charted at #1 in Canada, Finland and Italy, #2 in the
UK (kept from the top spot by S Club 7's 'Bring It All Back'), #5
in Japan and Australia and only #19 in the US because of the lack
of a commercial release. Beautiful Stranger earned Madonna and William
Orbit a Grammy in the 'Best Song Written For A Motion Picture' category.
Video
In
the Brett Ratner-directed video we see Austin Powers on the road
as he gets the assignment to catch a spy. A spy that's "a
master of disguise". And quite sexy too, when we see her
on stage on high heels, jumping around and turning the dancing
crowd mad. Horny Austin soon has fantasies about him and Mo in
the car. A sexy video that immediately gets you on your feet.
It won the well-deserved Best Video From A Movie Award at the
1999 MTV VMA.
Tour
'Shall
we shag now or shall we shag later?' Austin asks and Maddy shouts
'And you can fuck off too!'. That way she bursts into Beautiful
Stranger on the Drowned World
tour. Jumping around on stage in her Scottish kilt, she drives
the crowd wild. Later on, she and partners-in-crime Niki and Donna
pull a 'cameraman' on stage and make the shy boy blush!
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