Why Madonna's Metaphors Are NEXT LEVEL! 

The live version from The Girlie Show tour is a must. I’ve seen it a thousand times, and it never gets old. It’s just splendid!

I love your enthusiastic Madonna critiques. Please do more and you need to watch her live performances and concerts too. Thank you.

This was on her Erotica album so the "sex" controversy overshadowed how great this song and video was then, I became a crazy fan of hers from the beginning, 1983, and could hear her voice becoming what it is today, she is the Queen of all, and I'm there for her unconditional no matter what, her music had an impact on my life in such a way, its really unexplainable, there are so many times I hear you both talking and I want to jump in and guide you in the right direction, I love that you both are getting what she is all about, just sometimes you take the long way to get to where you need to be, you should Google the song before you watch so you're aware of the interpretations of it all.. I ❤ @MADONNA !!!

Rain represents love and how it washes away pain. It was written by Madonna and Shep

I loved this song since it was released. So much that it was frustrating for me that it only made #14 in the Top 40. One of Madonna's greatest in my opinion. Anyway I have like 75 favorite Madonna songs ha! Her catalogue is amazing!

Yes guys, this is one of the most beautiful Madonna's videos- In fact, it won best Art direction and best Cinematography at the MTV video music awards...also #70 in the 100 greatest videos of All the time. Love this song👏👏👏

Love this song, especially live with her two background singers(kind of spiritual)

Thank you for this reaction!! One of my all time favorite Madonna songs. And the video is absolutely beautiful. She is absolutely beautiful!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Gorgeous song from Erotica. And another very stylish video...from the 90s minimalist Japanese fashion to the iconic Mark Newsom aluminum "Lockheed" chaise lounge. The live Girlie Show version is amazing.

Love the serene and calm reactions of Marissa, her smile and eyes say so much of what she could think about the song

Some people interpret the "rain" metaphor in a dirty way because it was on her Erotica album, but I don't see/hear that in the song or video. It's just a love song. Water is a symbol of purification and she uses it a lot in her music (especially the Ray of Light album). Also, she has said she was thinking about the novel Wuthering Heights and the symbolism of the storm in the book when she wrote the lyrics. I highly recommend you do SECRET next or soon!

Love your reactions and I decided to follow you. Well, welcome to Madonna's world. A world of full of professionalism, love and art.

Tyler, you’re loving this and it shows in your face 🖤

Very much a love song, she said in an interview at the time that it was inspired by Wuthering Heights and the love story between Cathy & Heathcliff

I love your Madonna reactions ! If you like tell stories songs, you need to check Madonna Take a Bow and then the sequel video You’ll See ! ❤️❤️❤️

the first thing that you should know, when the music start, it's each beat sound like a rain drops and came the storm and suddenly the sun appear. The one that you didn't not clear about what she whisper, LEFT and RIGHT side are different word. what you hear both word has been mix up

Can we just appreciate the absolutely stunning visuals, not only for story telling but her look is just gorgeous.

This was on every mall store’s playlist for a long time back in the day. It was usually sandwiched between George Michael’s “Father Figure” and Debbi Gibson’s “Shake Your Love.”

YES, your channel will be a very successful reaction channel for sure. The chemistry is nice, you both are young and beautiful, Tyler is very charismatic and Marissa is so beautiful. I guess this new place is right for the longer video reactions in the future. Please keep reacting..much love.

Beautiful song, gorgeous video. She looks amazing in this one.

For me is the most beautiful video I've ever seen. Fortunatelly I was lucky to enjoy it in 1993 and then I saw the Girlie Show Live...! Rain is a masterpiece, music and video...! Greetings from Buenos Aires....!

One of her most beautiful songs and videos and of course under appreciated at the time

A very good reaction from you two, I particularly love the acknowledgement of her gorgeous low notes. And the sun thing, THAT'S AWESOME AS WELL!! The construction of the song has many surprising elements and your reaction reflects that fact. Thank you so much. Next, please do "Don't Tell Me", "Open Your Heart", "Ray of Light" 💥

You guys are rocking it with the queen and only queen MADONNA! She is amazing!! Her music is untouchable!! ❤️ She is art!! Keep on surprising me with more Madonna music videos! Enjoy the ride, oh what a fantastic and inspirational ride it is!!! 💕

“Erotica” is one of my favorite albums & extremely underrated, hope you guys react to the album 💿

Madonna music just makes me happy

You have to listen to the live version from the Girlie Show Tour - you will be absolutely blown away!

I was 12/13 when she came out with this and remember thinking this video is so ahead of it's time. It looked so much more polished and the production value was so much better than what most other bands/pop acts were producing at the time. Same as with the her live shows. Her world tours always broke attendance records even well into the 2000's. She never performs a song the same way in any tour, always completely reimagined. Madonna, Janet, Michael Jackson were for a good while the artists that just continually raised the bar and expectations from pop acts. Today there are celebrities but really no icons that were as big as them at the height of their success.

At first I thought the guy was really enjoying Madonna but after seeing other artists reactions I see he reacts the same way to everything lol.

Fantastic video and song! I highly recommend the live performace of this song in the Girly Show; it takes this song to the next level.

Yes, I prefer Bad Girl and The Power of Goodbye to this song but Rain is a masterpiece too. Can't wait to see your reactions to "Take a Bow" and its sequel video "You'll See"

You two are adorable. I love watching your reactions to Madonna’s music. This song is beautiful. It still gives me goosebumps.

She's a master of disguise

Your reaction is priceless. Especially when you both just watch with your mouth slightly open and just quietly. Appreciating Madonna. I'm going through all your Madonna reactions. You guys are great 👍

G'day it's Steven from Down Under again All hail the Queen of Pop!

You guys should definitely react to 1"I'll remember" and 2" Take a bow" and 3 "You'll see" cause they are a 2 parters 😍😍

Madonna always brings new sounds and music; voice, style... The Girlie Show ( concert from the Erotica album ), was inspired by girlie magazines and musicals from the 40' and 50', bringing back the 70' and much more influences from music and cinema.

Another amazing ballad. Madonna always set the bar high. Most of todays artists can do what they do because Madonna paved the way. She’s legendary 👏🏻👏🏻

she looks gorgeousssssssss❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This song really makes me feel like floating

Love, love love this song, its video and its use of metaphor. It is a double entendre.. Both about love, and the spiritual purification of it using Rain as a cleansing revitalising, release of tension and expression but it also directly alluding that to sex and specifically the physical release and expression of that. It is a very clever song.. It is incredible live. I was in the crowd when it started and the feeling was palpable.. The build up and then the break. With the three part harmony.. You could feel a charge light up the entire stadium. Wait to you see her live work.. Creative and musical genius.. And her lyricism is often overlooked. Beautiful visuals here too. This is one of my favourite songs ever.. I love all its allusions, poetry and the spoken word part in headphones is incredible... React to the live performance or maybe later in the journey see the entire show.. There's always a story and themes, Acts if you like.. Love this journey..

Madonna and director Mark Romanek created a beautiful, elegant, ethereal masterpiece of a music video here. Near the end of this 1993 mv, Madonna in a white gown appeared to float against a darkening sky with flashes of lightning evoking a surrealistic imagery. Two years later in 1995, they would collaborate again to produce the mv for Bedtime Story-an artistic exploration of the subconscious mind with surrealistic, dream-like imagery that would end up in permanent display at the Met Museum in NYC. Madonna by this time is acclaimed to have elevated the music video into a cinematic art form, and she has become a master of the craft. Just amazing!

Not hard to figure out this song is about love, and how rain washes away sorrow. Video is visually stunning.

I feel you men!!! Love this song and LOVE the transition!!!

Love watching your reactions, especially to Madonna. Would love to see you react to Lana Del Rey. Summertime sadness

This video was shot in black and white then painted to give it the vibrant colors you see. PLEASE PLEASE do Betime Story! You will not regret it.

What’s need to impress you guys is her evolution and her ability to look and sound different in every song/clip She was and still is so original and unique.

When you interpret the song as one from the Erotica album, it's quite obvious when she says "your loves coming down like rain" interpret that as you will. But the song is so lovely, I especially love the violin at the chorus.

30 years later (2023) this video still stands on its own... I just realized that the japanese man that is supposed to be the director's video inside the narrative is actually Ryuichi Sakamoto, a master musician that we lost this year. Absolutely fantastic!

Her release after this was I'll Remember which was little piece of synth heaven. Nice change of location than the car, Added to Marissa's little coy glances to the camera when Tyler is chatting away. You are a good partnership on camera.

I’ve always loved the double spoken poetry ❤️

It is a beautiful song and music video. It won for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards.

Madonna - Take a bow Is a must for you to see

Love your reaction! This was music video master Mark Romanek’s first out of two videos he did for Madonna. If you have time, you should check out his videography as he has some one of the best music videos ever. Most Gen Zers probably saw his work with Taylor Swift (“Shake it Off”). The second video he did for Madonna was for 1994’s “Bedtime Story”, which, with Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer” (which Romanek also directed), is on display at the Museum of Modern Art. Madonna originally intended to have a more period Wuthering Heights theme to the video but Romanek thought that was too on the nose and instead convinced her to do a video contrasting the song which brings up images of nature and rain with technology. He emphasized a washed out effect and brought out the colors from it here which makes this video look quite modern even though it was filmed in 1992. He also wanted to contrast Madonna in a “foreign” setting but placing her in Japan. The Japanese “actor” who plays the director is famed musical composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. His track “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” is probablu his most known to Americans.

The video was actually shot in black and white and then painted frame by frame to highlight the colors.

I think you must see Madonna live to see why she is the Queen of Pop

Such a great song and video

Thank you for another Madonna reaction, did you get the secret message of this song 😉 💗 💫

Love ur Madonna reactions and u guys .

Tyler your excitment reaction to Rain gave me thrills

Of course it's a love song! Love like rain.

Thanks, Marissa! Thanks, Tyer! 🌧 #TylerCreatesContent #Rain #Madonna

Rain is one of my faves of Madonna's ballads. U should react to Madonna's "Take A Bow"

Love love love this song

Thank you for all these Madonna reactions and PLEASE keep them coming.

This song was actually my first introduction to madonna as a kid. I remember I was watching TV and this video was on, And I instantly thought WOWW who is that?? And been a Huuuge fan ever since. It is unfortunate that her "persona" puts the music in the back seat 😕 But still, bloody love her ❤️

Loving your Madonna reactions. You have to listen to her song Rescue Me. It has no official video that I'm aware of but I'm really keen to see your take on it.

You missed the end of this music video, the last photo of her is a piece of art...

Everyone is inspired by Madonna ❤️

I LOVED this reaction! I loved and agreed with Tyler in a huge wayyy 👍💙😄😄😄 Love u guys Aftershow!!!!!! 👍👍💙💙😘😘zane

I luv this video! 👑👑👑

This video and song was released in August 1993. When it came out it really wasn't too popular. Sort of swallowed up by grunge.

I love it when I can tell Marisa didnt hate it but didnt love it. Marisa is my goddess. I love her sooooo much

Did you know that the video was actually filmed in black and white then digitally coloured in? Not bad for 1993

I wish that would be so amazing

I can clearly see you are having an eargazm! I had it too when I bought EROTICA back in 1992 (the album this song is from)

It’s also based on Wuthering Heights, the lyrics are excellent against the novel. She’s playing Catherine Earnshaw, expressing her love for Heathcliff.

Someone may have mentioned this but she is a huge fan of ABBA. this is my favorite song by Madonna.

A can say that this blue eyes already melted may soul

The video is nice, but I wish you’ve reacted to the full album version, it builds and builds at the end. Better than this edited version.

Amazing! 😍

In the context of the 'Erotica' album, rain as also another, more sexual connotation. 'Your love is coming down like rain, I feel it on my fingertips'... (Pun intended) With headphones on, the spoken part is amazingly beautiful, going from left to right and you hear what she says.

PLEASE take a bow, ill remember, crazy for you , live to tell, secret, 4 minutes, living for love, crave.

One of my favorite videos ever!

The song Rain was a tribute to Karen Carpenter. This is one of Madonna's best.

I never comment but u r the cutest thing

Awesome song and reaction, ‘Secret’ next.

PLEASE watch the Rain live performance from The Girlie Show. Its really amazing!

I always like to give a shout-out to the MV director, Romanek, who has an incredible eye. I'm curious what you'll say when visiting "Bedtime Story".

The girlie show - fever & Everybody

This song is dedicated to her mother

Madonna was kissing on girls and had gay representation in her video's way before Little NasX. I don't get why a lot of people fall all over themselves about the stuff he does or the stuff Cardi and Megan does. I look at their stuff and roll my eyes and think to myself how boring. It's already been done and I've seen it a hundred times from Madonna. And, yes, it was shocking back then because it was a dif time and had never been done before. She had more class though. Have you guys watched the Justify My Love video? That came out before this video

Great song. You need to react to her live

Please react to Madonna's Take a Bow 😍

Madonna voice is incredible and she change very easily. This song is from EROTICA, with titles like WHY ITS SO HARD 😁 So, RAIN... although feels like a love song and can be one of the interpretations...some may say its about sex 😎 (you know..."watersports" 💦💦💦💦) Madonna is genius 😘

watch her live performances please

Check out "Justify My Love" "Gambler"

😍😍😍😍

You clearly haven't seen Madonna "Justify My Love" video... That explicitly shows gay people just being gay, (God I just hated saying that statement as it was shouldn't have to say that but anyways) She shows all that and more in that video It was banned right MTV It couldn't be shown until after 9:00 p.m. because of the content and this was the early '90s so you got to imagine that was remarkable for back then

*you basically got it... it's a love song. and one of her best ballads! the LIVE version from The Girlie Show will **_BLOW. YOUR. MIND._*