FIRST TIME REACTING TO Madonna - Live To Tell 

She wrote this song in two days. The version released was her first demo. Her lower register, so good. Madonna’s talent is often overwhelmed by her image.

This is my favorite song from Madonna. She wrote the song for the film "At Close Range". It is a great 80s film that is about the life a young man who is brought into his father's criminal empire and learns about the consequences of being involved in crime. It is actually based off of a true story about Pennsylvania criminal Bruce Johnston Sr. and Bruce Johnston Jr. The secret that Madonna refers to is all of the information that the son knows about his father and his decision of whether or not to tell it to the police and FBI.

That's my favorite Madonna's song

I liked how she shed the image she had in those days for a plain simple look. One of her nicer songs.

“At Close Range” such a good movie. And I love this song.

The song was written and recorded for the film "At Close Range" starring then husband Sean Penn (and his brother Chris Penn). It shows a true maturity and growth from her earlier work. And a massive change in image. Madonna's was a style icon. So when she changed her fans followed.

This song & also “This Used to be My Playground” are 2 of my favorites and both off movie soundtracks. People forget Madonna is talented and only see her as silly or whatever, I grew up with her and was always a fan.

I have always felt Madonna’s true strength is her ballads vs her pop. I love this song and there was a time I had this on repeat.

One of her very best ballads!

The movie " At Close Range " was amazing

A woman's tale about love and loss in a relationship..Sean Penn her ex husband..I always felt that this song was about them. They made 1 movie together. Great song very deep lyrics..Great reaction 👍

This takes me right back to 1986.....love this song....the critics said it would bomb because it was such a slow ballad.....it went straight to number 1....basically the first single from LIKE A PRAYER

Your hair looks so cool, I have to say, very striking.

The secret she has learnt is life is grim. Madonna was huge in the eighties other big songs from the same album: Papa Don't Preach Open Your Heart La Isla Bonita and True Blue (title track)

She is legendary! She completely changed the music industry

Madonna has one of the best ranges I've ever heard. Thank you 😘

Yessss! Finally someone doing this song! ❤️🤍✌️✨

OMG so schocked to see your beautiful face appear in my youtube feed. Great song to pick from Madonna

Madonna provided the main songs to two great 80’s movies that sadly don’t get their due... At Close Range and Vision Quest 😃

Girl Madonna and Sean Penn were the it couple. I was very young but I remember that. LOL

This is one of my fav song from Madonna, the other one is ‘Oh Father’ that one got me. love your reaction! ❤️💖❤️

Μadonna has sold more than 335 million records worldwide and is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records..............

this is one of madonnas best ever very underrated

Never really cared for Madonna's music, but I do like this one. There's some depth here.

My favourite Madge song, she’s right at the bottom of her range which lends itself to the soulful nature of the song and lyrics.

My favorite song of hers

You should see Madonna preforming this song live at The Confessions tour.

You look so beautiful 🤩 This is one of my favorite Madonna songs of all time I love how her real voice is in this Such a classic ♥️

Love your hair! So pretty. I highly recommend the movie "At Close Range." It's so good and based on a true story.

Apparently she wrote the song less than a hour after getting the melody and the lyrics are about sexual abuse. They kept her vocals from the demo tape as they were perfect for what she and the producer wanted . Beautiful track, powerful and one of her best works. I still got the single bought in 1986. I love your reactions by the way. 🙂

One of my favorite Madonna songs. Came out when I was in high school.

Such a great song one of Madonna's many faces.

The summer of 1985... This was my song

Madonna told Mojo March 2015: "It was kind of inspired by the movie and family secrets and the things that make you who you are, but you don't necessarily want to share. Mix that in with my own childhood and my own growing up and all that. My real experiences get mixed in with things that I imagine." To me ive always imagined this song being about being molested as a child and growing up with that secret. Good thing about art is you can interpret it in so many ways.

One of her best, but underrated videos, is the song Frozen. Visually it's amazing and lyrically it's quite insightful.

More Madonna reactions please 💗

Also, my favorite Modonna song. I play trumpet but also sing. I love how she hits every cord beautifully. So nice to hear!

Movie was 'At Close Range'

Im digging the 1940s hair looks beautiful on you

One of my favorite Madonna songs, her talent is incredible.

Her most beautiful song

I always figured this song was about the damage of carrying childhood trauma of some kind and never feeling able to tell anyone about it and never being able to escape it. ‘If I ran away, I’d never have the strength to go very far’.

Love this song and the movie, At Close Range.

i love madonna

This song from what I read in either one of her interviews or in one of her unauthorized biographies that the secret that she's referring to in the song is the lies that her father and stepmother told her when she was growing up while living with them.

Hello from England 😊 ❤️ Madonna

Hey, India! Long time not seeing you around here and you reacted to one of my most favorite Madonna songs of all-time. Live to Tell was born as an instrumental piece written by Patrick Leonard, one of Madonna's frequent collaborators back in the 80's and late 90's. The song was written for the movie called At Close Range, starring Sean Penn, who was Madonna's husband at the time. First, Pat Leonard thought of having a male singer perform the track but they didn't find what they were looking for. So Pat Leonard suggested that Madonna sang the song herself. She agreed. Madonna wrote the lyrics and in the demo version of this song you can hear the sound of paper meaning that Madonna was singing her song by looking at the lyrics written in her notepad. She recorded the song in just one take. In regards of the lyrics, Madonna herself has kept it pretty much mysterious about the secret she's referring to in the song. Many people have interpreted that it's about sexual abuse, for instance. In regards of the video, this was Madonna's first video which shows her which a totally new image, clean, with little jewelry and long gone were the bows, the crucifixes, the rubber bracelets, etc. It showed a more mature Madonna, image wise and sound wise. If people back then were still having doubts about Madonna as a singer and songwriter, the quality of this track proved a lot of people wrong. It hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. Oh, and Madonna herself said at some point that Live to Tell was her favorite song of her own.

I love Madonna: her music, songwriting, producing, music videos, live performances, dancing, humanitarian activities, style, mothering and personality.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE MADONNA!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do more👍 I reallllly like your reactions 😎💙 Thank u!!!!!!!!!!😁zane

You want to know I felt when I first heard this? Back in the 80s? Well I remember Madonna from Holiday and Like a Virgin and I wasn't a particular fan until I saw the videos for Papa Don't Preach and True Blue. Suddenly she had gone from Street Madonna to Hollywood Madonna, she seemed really glamorous, unlike any other pop star of the time. As for Live To Tell, it's pure poetry, I love that song. I think it's a shame it's not better remembered because it's one of Madonna's best. I heard that before she released it various people in the music industry advised her management not to release it because it would kill her career! Over the years I've heard a few people asking "what is the big secret she talks about in this song?" But that's the whole point, it's a big secret! I'm not sure it's a negative secret though. Doesn't she sing "I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once I know the warmth she gives..."? I always thought it was a beautiful secret, but a dangerous one.

This song and Ia Isla Bonnita are my favourite Madonna songs

One of her better and more heartfelt songs. It's my favorite.

This song was everything to me in the 8th grade. I pretended I was her and would belt it out. The craziness of a child lol. Beautiful register, beautiful voice, beautiful style for her in this vid.

This is the song in which she proved to the world that she can actually sing. This song is so well written and the way she sings it couldn't have been better.

Te ves muy bella con ese peinado..me encantan tus videos y reacciones saludos desde CHILE

My favorite song by her 👍

This is her best song ever! Great vocals!

My favourite Madonna song

My all time favorite Madonna song.

This was the theme song to the movie "At Close Range" which starred her (then) husband Sean Penn... The movie was pretty good as it was based on a true story...

This and Oh Father are her greatest two songs.

This song cuts to my soul! My favorite by her by far!

1 of my fav Madonna ballads

The movie shown in this video is At Close Range with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. Penn was her husband when this was made. Good movie.

Loved this song

Great song from an incredible movie At Close Range. You should definitely check it out

More Madonna videos please !

Love this song !

This used to be my playground and Live to tell are my forever favourite Madonna ballads💖💖💖

I’ve always liked how the video shows just enough cryptic scenes from the movie to make the song connect to it, without trying to over-explain the plot. The cinematography looks so poetic. Even though I haven’t seen the movie, I have enough of a gist of it to create a little world for the characters. And yes, Madonna not revealing what her secret is makes it that much more powerful. Alicia Keys did this in two of her best songs, “Diary” (she never says what “your secret” is) and “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” (she never says what doing “the un-thinkable” would entail, but it’s presumably about eloping).

Just like a death bed confession relieves one, but leaves the lives of the others that hear it either destroyed or set free---such a gut-wrenching life decision.💔

One of her best songs. And it fit the movie {At Close Range) perfectly.

One of her best. Love it!

Such a devastating song and the crossover at the point where she sings "If I ran away ... " is so ... perfect. The movie was outstanding too. Apparently, Madonna sang this song on the first take and they did not record another version.

This is my favorite Madonna song ❤️

This is my favorite Madonna song. The movie was also very good and was taken from a true story.

She was 27 wehn she released this. Her first proper grown up single after the first two albums with a very young sound. Pretty timeless if you ask me.

Such a beautiful song and one of my favorites

This song gives me chills to this day. I was going thru some hard times when this song came out, and there was a LOT of airplay on the radio so this song has a bit of Pavlov’s Dog effect on me.

Such an underappreciated Madonna song

Ooooh more Madonna, love your reaction.

I cry to this song

so true secrets are sometimes hard to deal with but the truth will set you free

The lyrics are soooo powerful! Madonna was so in love with Sean Penn. A lot of her heart break songs stem from their relationship.

My favorite madonna song♥️

One of my favorite songs ever. From the album _'TRUE BLUE',_ which is pretty much perfect, from beginning to end.

Hi India. I love that you listen and appreciate so much music that i grew up with. I graduated high school in 1985 and everything you play is basically my youth. Since you liked this Madonna song and video I mist stress to you to watch the and listen to Oh Father by Madonna. It is absolutely amazing. You should definetly post that with your reactions to it. Stay sweet and love your smile.

Love your hair! So1940s!! 💜💜

The movie is At Close Range. It was filmed in my home town Franklin TN. My friends and I would go downtown Franklin and watch them film until the wee morning hours! Great memories!

Madonna is great! Don't care what anyone else says. She's in a League Of Her Own, literally and figuratively.

The lyrics center around the young man in the movie, "At Close Range". The movie is based on a horrifying true story of a young man that gets pulled into his ( the secret) father's life of crime. It included theft and murder.

This song is in the Records Guinness as one of the most best writing songs ever written...

I think my favorite 'official' Madonna video.....is 'Tell Me'. I think she may have also written the song. The first time I heard it, was when she played it on David Letterman's show......just her on an acoustic guitar.

Special movie and may be her best song.

Loving the wavy natural look, India ✌️🧡

I love this song so much , what I take from the words of this song is , she loves this man , and he's not honest (a man can tell a thousand lies) when she's learns this does she keep the secret , or does she tell , knowing that she knows , will she live to tell

best madonna song for me

She did one take of this song at the composers house for the soundtrack to this film. He loved it and used the melody throughout the film.

At Close Range is soooo underrated!! One of my favorite movies from 1986 & the 80s period!! Live To Tell is one of my top 5 Madonna songs

I love your natural hair!