First Reaction to Ray Of Light Live (Oprah 1998) By Madonna 

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The Evita training changed the game for Madonna vocally. Increased her range, improved her control and gave her the confidence to pull off live performances like this.

This Ray of light performance is the definition of perfection. The song is a 10, her vocals are a 10, her movements are a 10, her confidence is a 1000. She knocked it out the stadium with this one

I was there. 5th row, stage right. Mind blowing. She performed it twice.

What I always think about this performance is how the audience, the band and Madonna became one. Madonna has a very strong magnetism and stage presence and here we can see that. It's like everyone there is in a spaceship traveling through the galaxies… Whenever I want to recharge my energies I watch this performance!!! Thanks for the react.

There’s a lot of debate on Madonna’s best live vocals on a television performance and this one always takes the cake for me, even over her Oscar performance of “Sooner Or Later”. She’s performed Ray Of Light a few times in concert since but she always sings it in a lower key. This was the top of her vocal career

You know Oprah doesn't allow Lip Syncing! So yes Madonna can actually sing. This was a great live performance.

Probably one of her very BEST live performances of that song. She, and the entire studio audience were feeling the energy of it. I still have it recorded first run on VHS. Pure nostalgia to me.

Should've been a #1 single. One of her best vocal live performances

There’s nothing to dislike about this performance - it’s AMAZING!! One of her best, if not the best live vocal performance by Madonna. To my knowledge she’s never really attempted the album version in this key after this performance. The other live versions of this song are still great, but this one is an A++++++

fun fact so this was her second take which Oprah had never before allowed as Madonna was so nervous. Madonna came out to the audience and said my manager said i need to do that one more time. Are you guys okay with it? the crowd cheered.

Madonna just killed it. Period.

A remarkable and epic moment of her carrier. Amazing vocals of a True Goddess!

That's what gets my back up when people say she can't sing! She's amazing and will always be the best female artist of all time

Knowing how she is afraid about this small performances, live shows, awards... She is always very nervous 'cause is not a enviroment where she have total control, this performance is just AMAZING! You can even seen how she was nervous at the first but I think Oprah and the audience helped a lot, she is very conected with the public energy. Man... I just love her, wish I could come to a live performance...

25 years later and this performance still gives me chills. Truly is no surprise to me why she is still the best selling female musical recording artist in history.

This was her best performance of this song by a long shot! It was spot on. Her future performances were in a lower key and not as good. This was epic! 👐🏼

One of her best live vocal performances! She killed it.

MADONNA IS THE FUCKING QUEEN OF MUSIC !!!

I love this live version more than the album version!!! The performance is all stripped down. No set. No backup dancers. Just Madonna and her hair. Yes her hair was like another performer, lol! She's so beautiful. Man, this performance should have won an award or something!! Brava Madonna!!!!

I’m a huge Madonna fan and for me her live tours our everything . 2001 was her next tour “World Drowned Tour” in that tour she performs ray of light tracks and Music Album tracks. Hope you cover the tours soon. Her tours are iconic! You see why she’s who she is .

I'm glad to say that, as an 18-year-old girl I lived this era brilliantly.

THIS. This right here has been my favorite live performance of hers, since the moment this aired. I’ve seen her live at each tour from 1990 to 2015, and this tops them all for me. Such an incredible vocal performance from her, never fails to give me goosebumps….especially that last “she’s got herself a univerrrrrrrse” ❤️❤️❤️

Fuck that was amazing performance. Her vocal was on fire 🔥

That was incredible! She was on fire there. Her voice was powerful and you could tell it was also years after her vocal training for Evita. It was fresh and the training was evident in this performance.

Tears of proudness watching you react to this legendary performance.

This vocal performance came on the back of her singing lessons for Evita. This was the first time in her career that she had worked with a vocal coach. She worked with Joan Lader who is Patti Lu Pones vocal coach.

This was probably one of her best live performances of her career. Amazing 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Powerful vocals.

I remember running home from work to catch this live and I was just blown away. I rewatched it over and over. This was her emergence after Evita back to her own pop style and people questioned whether she could still attain the highs of her pop career. She totally answered with Ray of Light and this amazing performance. Awesome reaction 👏👏

Now that girl can sing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

full of power and energy with this madonna performence ia amazing !!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

if u watched the whole interview she performed the song called Little Star in acoustic version I hope u watched it during the oprah interview

This live performance of RAY OF LIGHT is the best. She is so happy...so confident...just like a RAY OF LIGHT hit her. ... Love this one 👍🏻✌🏻🌹❤️

This was her best live vocal for Ray of Light..

Omg I haven’t seen your channel in 1 year and I was searching for a reaction of this performance and ur channel came up missed u bro

Wow, indeed! That's the energy (and more!) you get from her concerts. I remember seeing that performance and was so impressed and also fascinated to see her evolution as an artist and human being. It was very touching, in fact. Still, I didn't become a bona fide fan until the Drowned World tour where she featured the albums Ray of Light and Music. That tour was awesome! Thanks for the reaction. Hope you give the album ROL another chance. : ) Have you reacted to EVITA yet?

That was effing seriously awesome.......go on miss madonna

Her best live vocal performance ever. It's astounding. It was a little downhill from here as the MTV VMA's weren't good, nor The Power of Goodbye. She recovered with DWT 2001 but never the same (like this).

As a long time Madonna fan, I taped this and watched when I got home from work. I about lost my mind when I saw this and watched it over and over again. I jumped all over the living room. That amazing performance, that incredible audience, Oprah hyping it…one of my proudest Madonna moments ever. Other than when I got a fist bump during Madame X tour.

Madonna number one ❤

don't forget to react to beautiful stranger and time stood still before MUSIC

My absolute favourite TV performance of Madonna. Interesting fact this is the earliest time if sat she has ever sung at 9am

this was one of the only performances of Ray of Light in the original key

that audience got absolutely TURNT

Just waiting for MUSIC (2000), AMERICAN LIFE (2003) and CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR (2005) album's review.

Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about Confessions On a Dancefloor.

Madonna is just a pure 💎

Madonna number one

This is the only time she sang it THIS GOOD !

Amazing live performance, defenetly one of her best

this is so f*cking good! the energy was insane!

I loved when she performed on an award show and did this song with Lenny Kravitz on guitar!!!! Was 1998 at the MTV Video Music Awards

One of the best live performances ever by Madonna. Excellent performance.

Madonna had an album called Something to Remember which she released as a collection of previously released ballads and one new song which I didn’t see you cover. The name of the song is “You’ll See”. An underrated song and video in my opinion. There was also the You Can Dance album which had remixes of all of previously released works plus one new number called Spotlight. That is more of a nostalgic song for me. But it would have been nice to see you cover those songs too. You should check out her Drown World Tour in which she does cover the the majority of the Ray of Light album.

Ray of Light, my favorite 😍😍😍

I didn’t see this live but I saw it soon after and then often cuz I loved It way much !!!!!!!! Even Oprah was dropping her “miss manners” and throwing on down , yelling and screaming lol! I really enjoyed it myself and consider this one of the best performances of ray of light the song!!! The version in the confession tour is a little more exciting, also live , but has dancers and Madonna plays a guitar …..still sings with this power and and excitement---Plus, there are 30-40,000 people there ,,,with equal effect!! REALLY GOOD I LOVE MADONNA because she isn’t something you can get bored with, and she has never let me down!!!! You’re FaB Taylor, don’t think it’s not noticed!! Lotsa love to you my man👍💙🌷 And lots of thanks, Zane😎🌸

bruh this one is one hell of a good performance

THE WAY SHE MOVED HERE AND HER HAIR OMGGGG Singing such a difficult song live for the first time and KILLING IT LIKE THIS? She´s from another world?

She is amazing.

Thanks for the awesome reaction! I love that you have stuff on here that’s not just exclusive to Patreon… if anyone wants to see his other Madonna reactions, the $5/month is way worth the money!!! And it’s fun that Taylor started at the beginning of Madonna’s discography and for us to re-watch her growth as well!

She negotiated three different resonance areas in this song: her chest / her mask / her head. Head voice to the mix in her mask to her mix-belt. It’s not an easy song to sing at all. There may have been a bit of pitch correction but it’s only noticeable when her voice sounds robotic - which is in maybe 3 places for very short moments. But otherwise it’s real, and the echo/reverb is a really nice enhancement

absolutely queen

This is my first time watching this video. ASTOUNDING! Pinnacle! It is her top five live performances.

Oprah knew the words. 😂. I love it. Madonna had gotten vocal lessons for the first time ever a few years prior for Evita She found a lower register she never really used to much. Madonna's vocal prowess in just a matter of months still is and was astounding. It's very apparent in Ray of Light her 1st studio album after Evita.

Love love love this song, and this is one of the best Madonna performances if not the best ❤❤🎉

The song itself puts everyone on their feet. It's the song. Madonna was superb, but the song is simply a very exciting song.

Watch her performance of Little Star, also on that Oprah show. It changed my view of the entire song and her vocals.

when someone says 'madonna can't sing', what theyre really saying is they just dont like her and undrmining her vocals and her talent is the best they can come up with. they know what theyre saying is rubbish cos when pressed to give reasons why they say that they can't. she has a wonderful ability to express so much emotion, she's incredibly versatile having sung more genres than anyone else. she's an especially strong balladier. much stronger technical singers arent nearly as captivating or entertaining

Amo a Madonna! Adoro su musica!

One of the best live vocal performance. You should react to Sooner or later Oscar 91 or You must love me Oscar 97

I remember watching this after school!

This song was actually produced by William Orbit AND Madonna. Madonna always has a huge say in how the production goes, and her hand is in every process from writing the lyrics to writing the melodies and the production phase. So nothing went into the song unless she herself liked how it sounded.

Not often a performance on a talk show becomes so uplifting and powerful...she killed it vocally 🔥 I must say though after evita I feel her voice extended in range but somehow lost some of its character and soulfulness....Still all her live performances fascinate me.

RAY OF LIGHT on Oprahi is the vry 1st time ever bef ths single & music vid was released

Love that you’re such a Madonna fan, now. If you want to see how really amazing her vocal chops are watch her performance of Sooner or Later at the ‘91 Academy Awards.

I love this interview ❤

She did an excellent job! Wow

First off, I need to say that I f*cking love ur channel and commentary is always so on point! One thing I would like to add to ur review is how confident she acted and sounded as the performance progressed. You could tell she was so nervous at the beginning. She just had a child took major vocal lessons for Evita and that this was definitely her first time to showcase that training in a small and intimate and live performance. She was and still is always ridiculed for her vocal abilities and she was probably scared AF to perform it live. Half way through this performance you can see she's more relaxed and confident, which then opens up her vocals. When she was hitting those long, strong and high notes, it almost seemed effortless, if not, f*cking just fun for her. I've always thought this performance was amazing! Looking forward to seeing more of ur episodes.

Anyone who was foolish enough to say Madonna “ could not sing “ “ not a very good voice “ . This is evidence along with all of her world tours that she has an amazing live voice and sings her ass off. Queen of pop - Called the female Elvis for a reason.

When you check out The Confessions Tour it's interesting to see how her live performances of this song has evolved.

Love this reaction! This is my favourite performance of this song.

Amazing reaction 🔥

Great reaction!

I love how amazing this was for how simple and non-gimmicky it was. No crazy stages, no insane routines. Just pure energy!

the first song I heard from her as a baby

I'm in the live rn

Ray of light ❤❤❤❤

Love that performance! Love that Madonna! It looks like she was having a real good time 🫰🏼

wow the soccer moms and dads were loving it!

Would love to see you react to You'll See, which imo is one of her best ballads with sublime vocals. The video is gorgeous as well as the sequel to Take A Bow.

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You should react to Sooner or Later by Madonna Oscar's performance... One of the best vocals and performance by the Queen...

For the next to her discography, I would like to see you reaction to the Music album. Music is quirky terms of production but there are still elements of Ray of Light. Yee-yee on the music train I guess.

my favorite performance of this song from her

Ayyy my fav song got reacted

MY GOD!! what a performane in the TV Cathedral of Our Lady of Oprah . DANG!!!

Not to mention that she singing and dancing at the same time. And that’s really hard to keep vocal control.

'’the energy is real!’’ 🥰

Seeing all the old ladies losing their sht is so funny. 😭 Definitely the best performance of this song. Also that shot of Oprah losing was used a lot as gif at my MSN times. 🤣