![]() The single release featured a previously unreleased track, "Up Down Suite", which is a 12-minute dub version of "Goodbye to Innocence", an omitted track recorded during the Erotica sessions. The song served as the album's fourth single in the United States and Canada since the previous single, " Fever", was not commercially released there. "Rain" was released as the fifth single from Erotica on July 19, 1993, in the United Kingdom and on August 5, 1993, in the United States. Another musician involved was Tony Shimkin, who provided the drum programming. Dennis Mitchell and Robin Hancock, while the mixing was engineered by Goh Hotoda. The recording process was engineered by P. Pettibone also sequenced, programmed, and played keyboards for the song. She had initially written the song for a musical adaptation of the 1939 film, Wuthering Heights to be directed by Alek Keshishian. "Rain" was written and produced together by Madonna and Pettibone. According to Pettibone, these songs were essentially Madonna's stories and the things she wanted to say. "Rain" was one of the first songs developed for the album, alongside " Deeper and Deeper", " Erotica", and "Thief of Hearts", during the writing session in October and November 1991. Madonna has only performed the song during The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993, while a remixed version of the song was used as a video interlude during her 2008–09 Sticky & Sweet Tour.Īfter the completion of filming A League of Their Own, Madonna began working on her fifth studio album Erotica with Shep Pettibone. The music video was praised by many critics for its innovation and cinematography. The accompanying music video, shot by director Mark Romanek, features Madonna singing the song against various backdrops on a set. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, while becoming a top-10 hit in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. "Rain" received positive response from music critics, who noted it as an exceptional ballad amongst the overtly sexual content on Erotica. Like the other songs on Erotica, sexual contact is also a possible interpretation of the song. Lyrically the song likens rain to the empowering effect of love, and as with water's ability to clean and wash away pain. "Rain" features a more "friendly" composition than the other singles released from the album. The song was written and produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone. It was later included on her ballad compilation album Something to Remember (1995). The song was released on July 19, 1993, by Maverick Records as the album's fifth single internationally and the fourth single in North America. " Rain" is a song by American singer Madonna from her fifth studio album Erotica (1992).
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