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Human Nature (Madonna song) |
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| Single by Madonna from the album Bedtime Stories |
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| B-side | "Sanctuary" "La Isla Bonita" (Japan) |
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| Released | June 6, 1995 (U.S.) August 20, 1995 (U.K./Europe) |
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| Format | CD | ||||||||||
| Recorded | 1994 | ||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, R&B | ||||||||||
| Length | 4:51 | ||||||||||
| Label | Maverick, Warner Bros. | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Madonna Dave Hall S. McKenzie K. McKenzie M. Deering |
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| Producer | Madonna Dave Hall |
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"Human Nature" is the fourth and final single by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her sixth studio album Bedtime Stories, released on June 6, 1995 by Maverick Records.
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Madonna's record label wanted to release a more radio-friendly pop track for the fourth single off the album, "Don't Stop", but Madonna wanted to release "Human Nature" instead and ended up getting her wish.citation neededThe song samples "What You Need" as performed by hip-hop group Main Source.
While "Human Nature" became Madonna's second consecutive single not to enter the top 40 in the U.S.(peaking at number forty-six), it still was a smash on the dance and club charts.
It also entered the top ten on several charts around the world including the UK, Canada, and Japan. In the UK the single entered the chart and peaked at #8. The UK single cover was a shot of Madonna from the video, clad in leather and sitting on a chair. The cover shot for the U.S. version is from a photo shoot by Bettina Rheims for the December 1994 issue of Details Magazine.
Madonna has performed "Human Nature" twice on tour, first by slow-riding a mechanical bull on her 2001 Drowned World Tour adding some vocoder voice effects, and in her Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008 with an electric guitar, also adding vocoder voice effects on the background harmonies, with a video backdrop of Britney Spears trapped in an elevator. It also adds the infamous line "It's Britney Bitch" in the end of the song. Spears made a guest appearance co-performing the song with Madonna on November 6 2008 during her concert date in Los Angeles. 1
The video, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino (who had previously directed Madonna's videos for "Open Your Heart" & "Justify My Love") featured Madonna, her dancers (including the first collaboration with Jamie King, that later would become her choreographer for Drowned World Tour, Re-Invention Tour and Confessions Tour), and her chihuahua, Chiquita, in black leather outfits. It was shot on May 6–7, 1995 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. The video was heavily inspired by comic artist, Eric Stanton. This was stated by Madonna in a behind the scenes interview during the filming of the video in which she said, "Mondino found this book by this illustrator named Stanton" "who did kinda S&M drawings and stuff but we didn't want to go with the straight S&M; we wanted to have it be more about making fun of it".2
Remixes of Human Nature include mixes by Howie Tee and Danny Tenaglia.
| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart3 | 17 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 9 |
| Finnish Singles Chart3 | 11 |
| German Singles Chart4 | 50 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 21 |
| Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles Chart | 511 |
| Japanese Oricon International Singles Chart | 101 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart3 | 37 |
| Swiss Singles Chart3 | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 1005 | 46 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay6 | 58 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales7 | 35 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play5 | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs5 | 57 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 16 |
| UK Singles Chart8 | 8 (80,685) |
1 Released as "La Isla Bonita"/"Human Nature"
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