I Want You (Madonna recording)
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| "I Want You" | ||
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| Single by Madonna | ||
| from the album Something to Remember | ||
| Released | October, 1995 | |
| Format | Radio airplay | |
| Recorded | 1995 | |
| Genre | Pop/R&B | |
| Length | 5:24 | |
| Label | Maverick/Warner Bros. Records | |
| Writer(s) | Leon Ware T-Boy Ross |
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| Producer(s) | Nellee Hooper Massive Attack |
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| Madonna singles chronology | ||
| Human Nature (1995) |
I Want You (1995) |
You'll See (1995) |
"I Want You" is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1995 compilation Something to Remember.
[edit] Song information
This cover version of the song by Marvin Gaye (main article: "I Want You") is also available on Inner City Blues: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye. The music was performed by British Trip-Hop outfit Massive Attack, and the track appears on the bonus disc of their 2006 greatest hits collection Collected.
The original plans for "I Want You" included a full-scale release - Junior Vasquez and Warren Rigg even did some remixes of the track - but numerous problems prevented this. The Inner City Blues compilation - a tribute to Marvin Gaye which also featured Bono and Boyz II Men - bombed on the charts. Since Inner City Blues and Something to Remember (which featured the original version of "I Want You" plus an orchestral version) were released on different record labels, more problems arose about the possibility of releasing a single. A video was promoted to VH1 and MTV, but only received brief exposure on VH1 and never appeared on the MTV monitor. Radio stations did not add the song, as "I Want You" never appeared on any Billboard charts other than the VH1 monitor (11). Apparently, the cold reaction to the song was the final nail in the coffin for a single release, and Warner Bros. put its focus on "You'll See", which debuted on the airplay chart just two weeks after "I Want You" first appeared on VH1.
The video was not included on the Madonna Video Collection 93:99. Junior Vasquez did several mixes of the track, while rare promos featured nearly a dozen slightly altered versions of the original song. The video is also the only case in Madonna's history where an un-promoted song was given the full video treatment (beside "Veras", "GHV2 Megamix" and extra videos produced for the tours).
The video for "I Want You" was directed by Earle Sebastian, and the photographs that were taken at the recording of the clip were used in Madonna's official 1997 Calendar.
