Madonna started as a dancer and then decided to become a musician. Yes, she came from the NY club scene. This song is original to Madonna and is considered a classic, and some others have covered it since. Madonna is quite raw on her first album, but the entire album is fantastic.
Madonna started the lace and bangles trend. Her use of crucifixes, lace and netting with undergarments visible underneath it was a HUGE trend started by her.
@@BruceandCarla. She has an innate and original fashion sense. In her artistic career, she’s destined not only to be acclaimed as a pop music and cultural icon, but also as a fashion and style icon. She’s developed close collaborations and friendships with top fashion houses and designers like Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Gaultier, etc. She would received numerous awards for her trendsetting fashion style in the 80s, 90s and 2000’s.
She was so huge - one of the most famous musical performers of all time. Her early stuff was fun and upbeat, always great to dance to. Then came her more serious stuff with her Marilyn Monroe look as I call it. Her "Live to Tell" song is hauntingly beautiful which is probably my favorite of hers. I also like "La Isla Bonita" and "Papa Don't Preach". In the 90's was her Ray of Light album which was also really good. Great reaction!
Madonna sang holiday first it’s her song. She’s a professional dancer, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan. Madonna started the trend of lace gloves and wearing tons of rubber bangles and crucifixes. There was a range of Madonna clothes across department stores in the 80’s.
Fun fact! Madonna's vocals for her debut album was pitched higher because Warner Brothers Records wanted to appeal to an even younger audience...it worked. BTW Physical Attraction from this Madonna self title album is the more street groove urban song of the album. Many people heard her on urban radio and thought she was black. Many a fans favorite.
Hey guys! This is my first time seeing your channel. I'm a big Madonna fan. Most of your questions have been answered here in the comments already (yes, she was a professional dancer before she became a singer), but did you know that one of the background dancers in this video is Madonna's brother Christopher? Looking forward to more of your reactions.
thats her brother christopher who’s dancing and ended up directing a lot of her tours and dressed her. he is also a professionally trained modern dancer. she introduced him to modern dance
Yes Madonna came up with post disco early 80s scenes. Her crew was a fabulous one including Debi Mazar, Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat among many others. She started in dance then joined bands before she made it out on her own in 1982.
she was punk. wandering streets of ny. creating her own style. makin all the connections. dating basquiat. dancing then recording. on her way to being queen pop.
Cool reaction! Nobody seems to be aware of how Madonna started out-as a professional dancer. In 1979 she got signed to a record label by no other than Patrick Hernandez but she didn't like to go that way and left it. A few years later in 1982 Madonna managed to get signed again abd released her first single in 1982 called EVERYBODY. Please check out KEEP IT TOGETHER Live from her Blonde Ambition Tour in 1990.
Madonna was never signed to a record label, by Hernandez, she was hired to be a backup singer/Dancer, went to Paris with the promise his managers would make her a star. They didn’t and she went back to NY.
What I remember most about this song is I was 19, dancing in the club, and Holiday came on and I remember that we all thought she was black because there was no video out yet. When the video came out, we were shocked. The song was huge even in the more black gay clubs of the time. I hope you all will get to Janet’s catalog as well. Please start with her first self titled album from 1982, as many people think Control was her first album .
MADONNA FANATIC since 1983 when I was 13 years old… Fun Fact… In the late 70’s the music industry was at a stand still when sound of Disco was dying.. so the record executives with the help of icon hip hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy introduced the lower east side Punk scene… the record executives seeks out the punk bands like Blonde & others saying if they make their songs more pop radio friendly they will get a record deal. Madonna was in a punk band called THE EMMYS… her style of dress of the punk scene look.. so when she broke out on radio this look of hers was punk inspired… people went crazy and the fashion designers copied her and others punk styles and made it more main stream and mixed it with the 80’s preppy look… which made the NU WAVE sound and look. You even seen the early rappers wearing leather bondage gear taken from the punk bands… .. MADONNA started and inspired everything… anything you want to know I’m your man… there was a sampled version called The Holiday Rap… it was a guy who sampled the song and rapped on it … that was a performance video not a official music video… Madonna didn’t make a music video back in the day this was from live TV shows… MTV just started and music videos didn’t exist back then yet… they were very rare… BURNING UP was her first music video then BORDERLINE
started taking dance at age 10, had a full ride performing arts scholarship to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor for dance, left to go to NYC to become a profrssional dancer, was the first white dancer with The Alivin Aliey Dance Company, studied with Pearl Lang and attended Martha Graham's New School of Dance. is the best trained and techincally best dancers in the industry but she usually only uses modern or lyrical dance. and yes she is the original artist for holiday. the vocals of her first two albums were pitched up in her first two albums. Madonna had a life time experience when she came out, her first single came out when she was 25. her mom died when she was 5, she was homeless when she lived in NYC, raped, the struggle to get by. ..
@@pierpaolonathancorrieri2290 incorrect. madonna comes in on the cowbell at the drop around the 1:41 mark on this clip… there is no tambourine on the studio version of “holiday” this is common knowledge that’s easy to fact-check online or by simply reading the album’s liner notes….that said, I have included the liner notes from madonna’s self-titled debut album below as well…, LINER NOTES Artist: M A D O N N A Album: MADONNA Label: Warner Bros. Code: 9 238672 Year: 1983 Produced by Reggie Lucas for Kalisa Inc. Engineered by Jim Dougherty Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, N.Y.C. *Produced by John "Jellybean" Benitez for Jellybean Productions Inc. *Arranged by Curtis Hudson and Co-Arranged by Fred Zarr *Recording Engineer: Michael Hutchinson *Mixing Engineer: Jay Mark **Produced by Mark Kamins and Engineered by Butch Jones "Lucky Star," "Burning Up," "Physical Attraction" Remixed by John "Jellybean" Benitez Remix Engineer: Jay Mark CDD Pre-Mastering by WCI Record Group Band-members, Musicians and Performers Madonna - vocals, background vocals, cowbell Tina B. - background vocals Christine Faith - background vocals Dean Gant - synthesizer, piano, electric piano Gwen Guthrie - background vocals Curtis Hudson - guitar Raymond Hudson - bass Anthony Jackson - electric bass Bashiri Johnson - percussion Reggie Lucas - guitar Bob Malach - tenor saxophone Paul Pesco - guitar Ira Siegel - guitar Ed Walsh - synthesizer Brenda White - background vocals Norma Jean Wright - background vocals Gwen Guthrie - background vocals Chrissy Faith - background vocals "Holiday" Musicians: Drums, Moog Bass, OB-X Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Acoustic Piano: Fred Zarr Guitars: Curtis Hudson Bass: Raymond Hudson Percussion: Bashiri Johnson Cowbelle: Madonna Background Vocals: Madonna, Tina B. Norma Jean Wright, "Lucky Star," "Burning Up" Guitar: Paul Pesco Art Director: Carin Goldberg Photography: Gary Heery Special thanks to: Jazzy Mark Kamins, Bobby Shaw, Michael Rosenblatt, Rob Prinz, Andre Perry, Liz Rosenberg, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Rica, Bags, David, My Darling Martin, Maripol Raymond and Curtis Hudson appear courtesy of Prism Records Gwen Guthrie appears courtesy of Island Records, Inc., THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO MY FATHER Management: Weisner DeMann Entertainment All songs written by Madonna (C) 1982 Bleu Disque Music Co., Inc./Webo Cirl ASCAP. All rights for the world on behalf of Bleu Disque Music administered by WB Music Corp except "Borderline" and "Physical Attraction" written by Reggie Lucas (C) 1983 Likasa Music BMI and "Holiday" written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens. (C) 1983 House of Fun Music/Pure Energy Pub. Co. Inc. BMI. All rights reserved. Used by permission. SOURCE: albumlinernotes.com/Madonna__1983_.html
@@heyoletsgo9 I need to check on my leaflet...but all in all... Well cowbell is not all percussions...you said percussions ...it's very misleading ....plus the post you responded to was mentioning drums, to which you replied she was on the percussions..VERY MISLEADING. Also you are telling me there are no tambourines in Holiday ...really???
@@pierpaolonathancorrieri2290according to the oxford dictionary a cowbell is a percussion instrument and therefore madonna,in fact played percussion on “holiday” I never claimed she was the only instrumentalist on the track…
Madonna wrote, co/wrote, or originally recorded all of her songs from her first 2 albums and film soundtracks in the mid-80s including Holiday, Into The Groove, Dress You Up, Crazy For You, Like A Virgin, Material Girl, others.
MADONNA STARTED THAT LOOK…. Madonna was from the Punk scene in NYC and her style of dress was influenced from the punk rock scene … when she went radio she kept her style and it was so unusual fashion designers grabbed the look and started to make it mainstream and mix punk with preppy style which created the NU WAVE look of the 80’s… it was all Madonna and Cyndi Lauper was following the trend of the Nu Wave look… Madonna was pure punk from beginning…
Madonna didnt write Holiday but the writers could not sell it (no takers) or get radio play. When Madonna sang the song, it became a big hit! You should see her perform this song!
OMG! This is such an iconic song and it's always FUN when she does it live :) You should see Holiday performed on Blond Ambition Tour and also on The Girlie Show tour. Two very different takes on the song, but so much fun :) And from Drowned World tour :) I think she's played that song on every tour!?!
Madonna trained as a professional dancer with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey...not many professional dancers can say that. Look up those names to understand the level of standard of Madonna's dance training ....
she was hangin out at underground gay clubs in harlem. which is where she found voguing. and ended up hiring her dancers (2 of some of rhe best voguers around - jose and luis ) for her blond ambition tour. yall need to watch some of her live performances. thats where she truly shines. shes a smart girl. alwayd finding the best collaberators. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vuNo28VDlss.htmlsi=sjT_gJZClQqo8OCN
Holiday was a Madonna original song and she introduced her way of dressing to the masses which is why the used to call all the yong girls that dressed that way; the Madonna wannabes
There’s only one person to ever sing “Holiday” and that is Madonna.And you both are wrong, she was trained as a professional dancer, had a scholarship and went to NY to pursue dance troupes, then decided to become a musician.
It's fun to watch you listening to an ultra classic song like this for the first time and discussing, but it would be so much better if you had someone prep you an information sheet about the song/artist that you'd look at after watching the video. Don't drag me, but it's a little frustrating/annoying for you to keep saying "I don't know...but" and just spitballing random ideas of what you think. Asking a little work of your viewers in the comments is fine and fun (but sometimes incorrect) but It would be so much more fun for viewers if after the watctching Bruce or Carla would whip out the sheet and say "Oh, this was Madonna's first big hit, she sang it in underground clubs in NY and slipped it to a DJ to play at Danceteria and was one of the songs that got her a cotract.. Now it's considered a classic and has been remade by ____/ That's actually her brother Christopher dancing behind her" and react to these facts as you spill them. Anyway, keep up the good work becaucse it's a fun show. Peace
