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Both favs of mine....Live to Tell gives me chills listening to it!Listening to.......LOL<OBJECT width=640 height=385><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBNvCE-loI?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBNvCE-loI?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBNvCE-loI?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></OBJECT>

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Possibly, since it was a #1 Adult Contemporary hit, and it wasn't a love song or a song about breaking up. The show is essentially about childhood scars and mistrust.

The production also isn't typical for most of the ballads that were popular in the late 80's and early 90's.

Also, probably because Madonna was so well known for her dance music roots and is mostly a force in dance-pop music that is surprised many that she could release a ballad as dark as that (though, her first ballad release Crazy For You, was also a #1 hit). She actually has some great ballads that don't quite get the attention as her dance-pop stuff, though she really hasn't released a traditional ballad in years, since The Power of Goodbye in 1998. What It Feel Like For a Girl was a ballad, but a dance remix was the version pushed to radio and in the video edit. I guess you could count Nothing Fails too, though that didn't generate much attention.

Madonna's longtime collaborator Patrick Leonard actually wrote the music to the song a while before Madonna heard it and wrote lyrics with Leonard for it.

Here's Patrick Leonard playing the song on piano:

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Most of the time when I think of Madonna it's of her ballads. Something about her voice is very melancholy and suits the pain. You Must Love Me, Oh Father, Take a Bow, Like a Prayer (even if that goes into a more upbeat mode), Frozen, The Power of Goodbye.

I guess Live to Tell was groundbreaking in some ways because the song is stark compared to how overproduced most music was at that time. Often times songs of that era had singers almost fighting with the arrangement, whereas the arrangement on LtT is so haunting from the start and suits her perfectly.

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That song works well in the context of the movie and as a song in its own right.

Everyone in A League of Their Own tried so hard -- I guess that's one of the reasons it worked and was very popular, even though most movies of that time would never get off the ground (and it's hard to imagine today's female "stars" being in that movie -- you can't see Jennifer Aniston doing much besides showing off her hair).

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I've noticed a lot of Madonna's ballads aren't even about love or breaking up with someone. Live To Tell, Oh Father, This Used To Be My Playground, and What It Feels Like For A Girl are all about different personal issues.

The David Fincher directed video for Oh Father is one of her greatest moments. That song is so underrated amongst her singles catalog, and was a very daring and un-commercial single choice, and happened to be the single that broke her record string of top 10 hits. I'm glad she released it though.

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