Spotlight Justice

[Honey Little 4,484]

I love this song! Show your love for it here!

[Boombox90 4,394]

It would be amazing if she threw out a line or two during her upcoming tour.

Fantastic track!

[Honey Little 4,484]

3 hours ago, BuggedOut said:

It would be amazing if she threw out a line or two during her upcoming tour.

Fantastic track!

Or full or extended performance!

[xavier 5,227]

Love it, always thought of it as the lil brother/sister to Holiday.

[lucasciccone 4,289]

I loooove Spotlight,i t always brings such a good feeling. One of my 80's favs from her!

[Aiwa08 18,474]

I love it!!!! In Spain was released as a promo single, so the radio stations played it over and over and over... 

Thanks to this single I bought my first Madonna item: You can dance cassette (my mother bought a year before the True Blue cassette). 

[SweetMadonna 1,841]

It's fantastic song. I love it. 

[Alfalfa_HampusFL 1,140]

Love it... use it as the intro song for my program on our little local radio station every week ;-)

[Honey Little 4,484]

This is a really interesting story behind Spotlight:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrcZcqxOJDi/?igshid=Mzc1MmZhNjY=

[androiduser 2,900]

On 4/25/2023 at 9:31 AM, Honey Little said:

This is a really interesting story behind Spotlight:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrcZcqxOJDi/?igshid=Mzc1MmZhNjY=

On April 25 1988, Spotlight was released as a single by Warner-Pioneer. Issued exclusively in Japan, it was the only commercial single release from the remix album You Can Dance.

The song was written by Curtis Hudson, Madonna and Stephen Bray and was produced by Stephen Bray. Madonna wasn’t given a co-producer’s credit on the track – odd considering it was a leftover from the True Blue album sessions, for which she co-produced every song. The track was remixed by John “Jellybean” Benitez for its inclusion on You Can Dance.

In a 2012 interview with blogcritics.com writer Justin Kantor, Curtis Hudson recalled the circumstances surrounding the creation and release of Spotlight:

“During the time right after Holiday, when we’d go to her place and write, I presented Spotlight. I gave her a complete song, Spotlight. I had actually written it in case Warner Bros. asked her for another Holiday. She said she loved it and felt spiritual about it. But she didn’t use it or contact me again about it. It sort of popped up out of nowhere when she was getting ready to do You Can Dance. Her lawyer contacted our manager and said we needed to talk. We went over and met with him. She and Stephen Bray had already done the song; but I hadn’t even heard the version they had done.They took the demo I had given her and worked it into a different song. They gave me credit since I had the original song copyrighted. I would’ve collaborated and made changes. But I was told, ‘Well, she’s too busy. She’s overseas doing a movie.’ I was okay with it, though, because they gave me credit. But the original song had a certain magic, and the changes took that essence away. The original Spotlight was another Holiday—the rhythm, the basic groove. I think they were trying to get away from that sound. Sometimes artists don’t want their sound to be identified with specific writers.”

[Boombox90 4,394]

^Is that to make us know that Madonna doesn’t write all of her songs, which nobody thought to begin with?

Is that you, Jim Lotion?

[Honey Little 4,484]

16 minutes ago, BuggedOut said:

^Is that to make us know that Madonna doesn’t write all of her songs, which nobody thought to begin with?

Is that you, Jim Lotion?

She did co-write Spotlight. The article is pointing out that it is odd that she doesn’t have a co-producing credit.

[Honey Little 4,484]

live on the tour please!

[Alpha 1,959]

Tbh this song really grew on me. I think once I got older I started appreciated the Mitsubishi aesthetic...pure City Pop!

[chrisjc 28]

It was not included on the WTG tour which suggests she was not planning a single release.

[Honey Little 4,484]

4 hours ago, chrisjc said:

It was not included on the WTG tour which suggests she was not planning a single release.

I wonder if was rehearsed on any of the tours.

[Alpha 1,959]

2 hours ago, Honey Little said:

I wonder if was rehearsed on any of the tours.

Tbh i don't think she even remembers it exists