This Used to Be My Playground

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Yes, “This Used To Be My Playground” is a ballad. It has a slow, mournful melody and emotional lyrics. The song is meant to be a reflection of the past and the pain of losing something that was once so important. 4. Was “This Used To Be My Playground” a hit when it was released?

Top 100 Singles Jahrescharts 1992" (in German). Offizielle Top Singles. Archived from the original on May 9, 2015 . Retrieved February 29, 2016. Fox, David J. (December 30, 1992). " 'Men' Reaches Out for a Few Good Globes". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 . Retrieved February 19, 2016. a b Trust, Gary (August 3, 2015). "This Week in Billboard Chart History: In 1992, Madonna Sported the No. 1 'This Used to Be My Playground". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015 . Retrieved September 18, 2015. A League of Their Own: Blu Ray Video". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 . Retrieved February 29, 2016.The Irish Charts – Search Results – This Used to Be My Playground". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved March 29, 2015. Madonna 'This Used to Be My Playground' Sheet Music". Musicnotes.com. July 8, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved February 27, 2016. The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1992 . TOP 50 POP SINGLES". Cash Box. December 28, 1992. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012 . Retrieved April 10, 2021. Topp 20 Single Sommer 1992" (in Norwegian). VG-lista. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012 . Retrieved May 17, 2021. Joey from Okanogan, WaMadonna did an amazing job of making this and all of her other ballads sound highly dramatic. Her vocals are what makes her ballads dramatic.

Playground” has none of the dreamy sweep of older Madonna ballads like “ Crazy For You” and “ Live To Tell.” Instead, it sounds cheap and chintzy. The strings are maudlin. The piano is canned. The central hook is strong enough that they maybe could’ve turned it into a club ballad like “Rain,” but that wasn’t the assignment. Instead, “Playground” sounds like Madonna in an adult-contempo stupor. a b This Used to Be My Playground (CD single liner notes). Madonna. Sire. Warner Bros. 1992. 9362-40510-0. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Top RPM Singles: Issue 2006" (PDF). RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 21, 2016 . Retrieved February 28, 2016. Vinsældalisti Íslands". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). July 31, 1992. p.42 . Retrieved July 12, 2023.Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.9, no.34. August 22, 1992. p.22. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2020 . Retrieved March 21, 2018. Light and airy, with only the faintest whiff of pathos or self-importance, A League of Their Own offers a refreshingly buoyant vision of America’s favorite pastime. Unburdened by the grandiose mythologizing of movies like The Natural and Field of Dreams, the film regards baseball with a breezy, wide-eyed innocence that captures the uniquely languid joy of the sport. Morris, Chris (June 27, 1992). "Artists for Warner Olympics album, Coke tie-in detected". Billboard. Vol.104, no.26. p.3. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved February 27, 2016. Quiroga Lavié, Humberto. "Secretos y Misterios de Hombres y Mujeres"[Secrets and Mysteries of men and women] (essay) (in Spanish) . Retrieved November 15, 2015. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)

This Used To Be My Playground” is exactly the wrong song for a singer like Madonna. In its glassy texture, “Playground” sounds like something that a grand ‘90s balladeer might sing, but Madonna is not a grand ’90s balladeer. She doesn’t have the pipes of a Whitney Houston or a Celine Dion, and she doesn’t have that kind of hammy squaresville delivery, either. She can’t make the song dramatic, and she doesn’t really try. Instead, she tries to give the song a poised, understated reading, but there’s no spirit in her delivery, no personality. She also over-enunciates a bit — a possible early warning of the fake British accent that she’d start using in the years ahead. (For my money, the exaggerated New York accent that she uses in A League Of Their Own is way more charming.) Caulfield, Keith (August 16, 2015). "Madonna's 40 Biggest Billboard Hits". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017 . Retrieved February 18, 2016.Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.9, no.33. August 15, 1992. p.18. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 14, 2020 . Retrieved November 23, 2019. a b "American single certifications – Madonna – This Used to Be My Playground". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved March 29, 2015.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Madonna definitely thought of herself as a movie star. She looked like a movie star. She dated movie stars, and her first husband was a movie star. For a hot minute in the late ’80s, Madonna had enough juice to get a movie greenlit. But Madonna never truly became a movie star herself. Her acting career never quite became anything other than a part-time hobby.Adult Contemporary Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. September 19, 1992. p.24. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 24, 2021 . Retrieved October 24, 2021. a b "Hits of the World: EUrochart Hot 100" (PDF). Billboard. Vol.104, no.34. August 22, 1992. p.48. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 8, 2022 . Retrieved February 18, 2016.