Flip The Switch Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 One of her best songs off American Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5iVe Elements Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Glad others get the song. This is one of her most underrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictmachine Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This song was playing over the sound system in the record store when the doors opened at 9:59am the morning American Life was released and I instantly knew i was about to experience something incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick00 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This particular topic reminded me that I once heard M & F (not the club remix) played in a local NY dance club. This took place sometime after the album was officially released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotorCityMax Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This song didn't have any impact on me until the footage from "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret" when her dad and stepmom see her perform it live with the jumbotron image of Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Pure pop perfection, nothing weird about it, very catchy tune. Wasted single material, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandris Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 The album bersion is not as good as the one were she performed in MTV unplugged but honestly its one of her more out of the box songs... especially the meaning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pud Whacker Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I'm sometimes divided about Mother and Father. I like it when Madonna does weird things and I like the song. But sometimes i feel that it had much more potential and could easily have been a hit, if they had worked it properly into another direction. Mother and Father has a good production, but lacks a bit of energy at first. Her voice doesnt' help there. I love the fact that she uses that eerie/creepy little girl voice there, a voice that shows the hysteria of a girl which world is falling apart. But if the lyrics had been different, more about accepting reality and looking for someone that she can care for... At the end of the song, when she sings "find somebody to loveeeee", you can hear that 80s Madonna in Ciconne/Bray songs. That direction could have been so great. 2003 was the year when the 80s were everywhere, Madonna even did that Into the Groove vs. Hollywood mashup. What do you think? A single? 😝 Cause Oh Father did so well on the charts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Cause Oh Father did so well on the charts? Mattress ...Pud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Not for single But her vocals in the live perf are one of the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micco Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 The song is so heartfelt. It has the feeling of devastation and hope at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 A single? 😝 Cause Oh Father did so well on the charts? Well every single from American Life flopped WAY harder than Oh Father. Food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karbatal Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 I like the lyrics of the rap too. Maybe because English is not my mother language i can't feel if some lines are dorky or not. I especially like the part I made a vow that i would never love another person ever turn my heart into a cage a victim of a kind of rage. Because i think many of us have done that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 She doesn't want to repeat previous events Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWBGSU Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I LOVE this song and don't find it weird at all! It was one of my favorites when the album came out. The part everyone is referring to about "my father had to go to work..." she is saying " I USED TO think he was a jerk" is obviously talking about the past at that time when it happened, and how as a child she didn't know his heart was broken (she was a child and hadn't experienced love yet to understand). It is nothing negative against her father but rather against herself because she wasn't able to understand how devastating it was on her father to lose his wife and is expressing in a way she feels bad about that. RIT version was amazing! And in I'm Going To Tell You A Secret, seeing her family there watching is just awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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