Bad Girl

Madonna has performed the song live only once, during an appearance on Saturday Night Live in January The photograph Madonna ripped was of Joey Buttafuoco. Lyrically, the song is about a woman that is experiencing extreme sadness due to a failed relationship. According to the book The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary , the song highlights the main theme explored throughout the Erotica album, which is "the pain and torment of the heart and the perils of romance. The maxi-single for "Bad Girl" doesn't include any remixes of the song, only an edit and an extended mix - both of which are almost identical to the original album version.

Promis of AllMusic stated that the single could have been better, adding that although the remixes of "Fever" are "good, sweaty, stripped down, bare-bones deep house versions of the song," the single as a whole could have benefited from including the video remix.

Rolling Stone magazine called the song a "riveting" ballad which describes "the mind of a girl who'd rather mess herself up than end a relationship she's too neurotic to handle, [and] the characters remain faceless. It's as if Madonna recognizes the discomfort we feel when sensing the human character of a woman whose function is purely sexual. A sex symbol herself, she coolly removes the threat of her own personality. Considine of The Baltimore Sun gave the song a positive review, writing that it "shows the other side of the stereotypical good-time girl.

Promis of AllMusic stated that the lukewarm commercial reception of the song is not a reflection on its "artistic achievement," speculating that when it was released, the public may have been just growing tired of Madonna's "bad girl" image.

The single remained on the chart for 11 weeks. The song fared better in the other countries. It remained on the chart for a total of seven weeks. After directors Ellen von Unwerth and Tim Burton both rejected offers to direct the music video, it was eventually directed by David Fincher , who worked with Madonna on her videos for " Express Yourself ", " Oh Father " and " Vogue. Besides Walken, the video also features appearances by actors Mark Margolis , Tomas Arana , Rob Campbell , James Rebhorn , and an uncredited cameo appearance from Matt Dillon , who plays a crime scene detective.

The video clip was the first time that Madonna was shown wearing penciled-on eyebrows, after shaving them prior to the filming of the video for her previous single " Deeper and Deeper ". Madonna said her idea for the video was influenced by the American film Looking for Mr.

Goodbar — a film in which the main female character lives a rather self-destructive life and is stabbed to death by a one-night stand. The music video for "Bad Girl" features Madonna playing the character "Louise Oriole" Madonna's middle name is Louise and Oriole is a street she once lived on , a high-powered and successful but ultimately lonely and depressed Manhattan female executive who is a chain smoking alcoholic with a penchant for one-night stands with many different men from affluent yuppies to shady low-lifes.

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Through her days, Louise gets distracted by cigarettes, cocktails, and random hook-ups, as lamented in the song's lyrics. Christopher Walken plays her guardian angel, who watches over her self-destructive activities. She is clearly upset after reading the note and she crumples it and throws it to the ground. Another scene shows her passed out on an easy chair after drinking an entire bottle of wine in one sitting. The next scene shows her guardian angel reading the note which simply reads "thank you whoever you are.

Aesthetics and Cultural Context , points out that there are several examples of "iconic imagery" throughout the music video which helps the viewer predict the final outcome of Madonna's character.

When Scott Kearnan of Boston. Madonna has only performed the song live once, during an appearance on Saturday Night Live in January At the end of the performance, she yelled "Fight the real enemy! According to the Deseret News , after O'Connor's Pope-incident originally occurred, Madonna stated that she believed that O'Connor's irreverence had gone too far. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maverick Sire Warner Bros.

Look closer, though, and the message behind 'Bad Girl' fits quite nicely with the rest of the [Erotica] album. And that kind of pain she doesn't need. Archived from the original on May 18, Retrieved July 4, Retrieved March 21, This is on a whole other level of awfulness. I'd be embarrassed to have been in this movie. Certainly embarrassed if i was the director!

I mean who gave this guy a camera and said " Go shoot this movie" lol omg wow. I can't "unwatch" this. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. But when Amy discovers Chloe's secret Share this Rating Title: Bad Girl 5.

Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Amy Anderson Samara Weaving Michelle Anderson Rebecca Massey Detective Daniels Sam Hutchin First Neighbour Liam Graham Second Neighbour Chris Buckley