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Madonna - Fever

Music Video | 1993
ArtistMadonna
SongFever
AlbumErotica
DirectorStéphane Sednaoui
GenrePop
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

Madonna appears as a series of stylized, goddess-like figures in a feverish visual collage. Red-haired, gold-clad and silver-painted versions of the singer emerge against vivid color fields, geometric patterns and rapidly shifting backgrounds. A male dancer, his body painted gold, adds another surreal presence to the performance. The video favors suggestion over narrative, using sharp edits, dizzying zooms and high-contrast imagery to turn the song's sensual mood into a deliberately artificial, club-oriented fantasy.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was filmed in Miami over two days in April 1993.
  • Madonna's central visual concept was connected to Joan of Arc: an incandescent, provocative saint who was meant to appear powerful and potentially dangerous.
  • The production used blue-screen techniques, reportedly for the first time in one of Madonna's music videos.
  • Much of the clip's intense appearance was created in post-production through extreme color treatment, rapid zooms and layered imagery.
  • The video uses the "Edit One" remix of "Fever" rather than the standard album recording.
  • "Fever" was released as a proper single outside the United States, where it reached No. 6 in the United Kingdom and No. 7 in Japan.
  • The clip was later included on Madonna's 1999 compilation release, "The Video Collection 93:99."

Lyrics

You give me
You give me fever

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear
Listen to me baby, hear every word I say
No one can love you the way I do
'Cause they don't know how to love you my way

[Chorus:]

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© Madonna - Fever. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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