Love Profusion

Infobox Single
Name = Love Profusion


Artist = Madonna
from Album = American Life
B-side = "Nothing Fails"
"Nobody Knows Me" (Europe & Australia)
Released = December 8, 2003 (Europe & Australia)
March 16, 2004 (North America & Europe)
Format = CD single (Worldwide)
Vinyl single (United Kingdom)
Recorded = London, England
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:36
Label = Maverick, Warner Bros.
[Writer =]
Producer = Madonna
Mirwais Ahmadzaï
[Certification =]
Last single = "Nothing Fails"
(2003)
This single = "Love Profusion"
(2003/2004)
Next single = "Imagine"
(2005)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = American Life
Type = studio
prev_track = "I'm So Stupid"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Love Profusion"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Nobody Knows Me"
next_no = 5"Love Profusion" is the fourth and final single by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her 9th studio album "American Life". It was released by Maverick Records on December 8, 2003 in the UK, Europe and Australia and in North America on March 16, 2004. The song failed to match the chart success of its predecessors from "American Life", performing moderately in most countries, but became Madonna's third consecutive single to fail to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. The song reached #3 in Canada, becoming her fifth top 10 Canadian hit from the album.

Song information

"Love Profusion" was composed and produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï. It was originally released in Australia, Italy, and the United Kingdom on December 8, 2003, but was later released in North America and in France on March 16, 2004.

The song got mixed to negative reviews, mostly because of the lyrics.

Madonna's record label, Warner Bros., decided to wait with a single release of the song in North America to combine promotion for the single with the release of the Estée Lauder perfume commercial 'Beyond Paradise' which used the song. All North American CD Maxi-singles contained a perfume tester. The song was first heard on the AOL website on April 14, 2003.

Chart performance

The single did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, making it the third single from "American Life" to fail to chart within the Top 100 in the US. The song was a dance hit though, peaking at number one on Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play chart.

In the UK, the song missed the top 10, making it only the sixth Madonna single release ever - of more than 60 - not to chart in the UK top 10, after Everybody (didn't chart, 1982), Lucky Star (No 14, 1984), Take A Bow (No 16, 1994), Oh Father (No 16, 1995) and One More Chance (No 11, 1996).

Madonna became the first artist (and so far only) to have 4 songs at the same time in Romanian Singles Chart: "Hollywood", "Nothing Fails", "Me Against the Music" and "Love Profusion".

Music video

The music video was directed by Luc Besson and shot on October 28, 2003 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. The video features three sequences: Madonna walking at night in the middle of a street of some big city with skyscrapers around her and rubbish blowing around everywhere; then suddenly the camera flips and she is strolling down the middle of a bright blue sky with fairies following her and massive flowers swaying in the distance; she then ends up crawling across a crystal clear sea, with fish swimming around her. At the end of the video she is surrounded by the fairies that appear in sequence two and disappears.

The video has an almost identical resemblance to the Estée Lauder "Beyond Paradise" fragrance television spot, for which Madonna provided the theme song, and was also directed by Besson. [] Besson later directed Madonna in the 2007 animated film "Arthur and the Invisibles".

"There are a lot of special effects," Madonna said of the clip. "I talked to things that weren't there - which is what you do when you're doing green-screen or blue-screen stuff. There's going to be a lot of fairies dancing around me. Isn't that exciting?" she added, laughing. "I always have a lot of fairies dancing around me."

The video originally world premiered in Europe on December 4, 2003 and its US premiere was on February 11, 2004 on AOL's First View.

*Director: Luc Besson
*Producer: Lynn Zekanis
*Executive Producers: David Naylor, Sam Aslanian, Missy Galanida
*Director of Photography: Michel Abramowicz
*Production Company: DNA Inc.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Love Profusion".

Australian CD single
# "Love Profusion" (Album Version)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario House Vocal Mix)
# "Nobody Knows Me" (Above & Beyond 12" Mix)

French CD single
# "Love Profusion" (Album Version)
# "Love Profusion" (Headcleanr Rock Mix)

U.K. vinyl single
# "Love Profusion" (Passengerz Club Mix)
# "Love Profusion" (Above & Beyond 12" Mix)

U.K. CD1 single W634CD1 9362 42692 2
# "Love Profusion" (Album Version)
# "Nothing Fails" (Radio Edit)
# "Love Profusion" (Passengerz Club Mix)

U.K. CD2 single W634CD2 9362 42693 2
# "Love Profusion" (Album Version)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario House Vocal Mix)
# "Nobody Knows Me" (Above & Beyond 12" Mix)

U.S. maxi CD single
# "Love Profusion" (Blow-Up Mix)
# "Love Profusion" (The Passengerz Club Profusion)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario House Vocal Extended)
# "Love Profusion" (Craig J.'s "Good Vibe" Mix)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario Big Room Vox Extended)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario Big Room Dub)
# "Nothing Fails" (Peter's Lost In Space Mix)

U.S. vinyl single
# "Love Profusion" (The Passengerz Club Profusion)
# "Love Profusion" (Blow-Up Mix)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario House Vocal Extended)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario Big Room Dub)
# "Love Profusion" (The Passengerz Dub Profusion)
# "Love Profusion" (Craig J.'s Good Vibe Mix)
# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario Big Room Vox Extended)

Other official versions

# "Love Profusion" (Ralphi Rosario Big Room Vox)
# "Love Profusion" (The Passengerz Dub Profusion) Promotional release.
# "Love Profusion" (The Passengerz Hell's Kitchen Edit) Promotional release.
# "Love Profusion" performed live by Regina Spektor at the Jewish Heritage Festival, 13th September 2005

Charts

References

*(2003/2004). "Top40-Charts.com". http://top40-charts.com/songs/full.php?sid=9009&sort=chartid on January 17, 2006. International charting information.
*(2003/2004). "Eil.com". Retrieved from http://eil.com/shop/extsearch.asp?refresh=113843 on January 17, 2006. Tracklistings and formats.
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUz8-BS_yUE