VIDEO by Alek
Keshishian
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Barcelona Gold Something to
1992 Remember
1996
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Recorded during
the Erotica sessions with producer Shep Pettibone, "This Used To Be
My
Playground" was released in conjunction
with the hit film, A League of Their Own, which co-starred
Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Rosie
O'Donnell. In the film, Madonna played a
baseball player on a
national women's team during World War
II. True for most of Madonna's movie
roles, she played a
rather promiscuous character, appropriately
named "All the Way Mae".
"This Used To Be My
Playground" was featured at the end of
the film during the closing credits. The
ballad, simple in style
and structure, featured lyrics reminiscent of
the past which appealed very heavily to an older, more
sentimental audience and suited the theme of A
League of Their Own quite well.
The video, directed by Alek Keshishian,
featured Madonna and clips from A League of Their Own
as pages in a book, flipping consecutively
from one page to the next. Although a
unique concept,
the pacing of the clip seems to suffer, making
the video rather dull.
Although "This Used To Be My
Playground" missed the top of both the airplay and sales charts, it
earned enough chart points to snag the #1 slot
for just one week, becoming Madonna's 10th #1 single.
Madonna's next single, "Erotica",
contrasting sharply with the sheer innocence found in "This Used To
Be My Playground", would be scandalous
enough to push her sexual antics to the edge of public
tolerance, bringing with it a severe backlash
that would influence Madonna's career and the performance
of her music for years to come. In fact, she would garner only two more #1
hits in the next 12 years.
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