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This was the first single from the album Music, released in August 2000. It shot to the top of the charts in no-time. It became #1 in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and many other countries. It's Madonna's twelfth #1 in the US, establishing her once again as the best selling female artist ever. Eventually it went platinum, selling over a million copies (her fourth platinum single in the US).
The release of the single and the album was pushed back because of Madonna's pregnancy (with Rocco). However, on May 27th 2000 an illegal copy of the song leaked onto the Internet. In a few days it spread all over the web through forums and Napster. Madonna's spokesperson Liz Rosenberg reacted with the comment that the material was "work in progress which was stolen". After the release of the single, it would become clear that it was in fact the finished version that leaked onto the web, but only the first three and a half minutes of it.
This single gave the fans a good impression of Madonna's new style. With collaborator Mirwais she experimented with electronica-beats and vocoders. Funny detail, the male-sounding voice in the beginning of the song is in fact Madonna's voice heavily transformed.
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Video

The video was shot in LA by Swedish director Jonas Akerlund. It features Madonna in a fur coat, with cowboy hat and golden medal, together with friends Niki Haris and Debi Mazar. The girls are escorted in a golden limousine, driven by British comic Ali G. He takes them to a club, where the girls enjoy a female strip act. However inconsequent with other music videos, MTV censored out parts of this strip act. In the middle of the song there's an animated part with Madonna as some kind of superwoman, flying through the sky, trashing her old song titles and DJ-ing at a party. Reason for the inclusion of this animation (and the reason why Madonna's seen sitting most of the time) was probably to hide her pregnancy.
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Tour

After a stunning 90 minutes show, ending with a steaming Holiday, Madonna gave the audience Music as encore. She, Niki and Donna danced from corner to corner, then the whole dancing crew gave a magnificent dance show, resembling the Grammies 2001 performance. 'Here we go!' Mo shouted as they all started doing deep-knee bends (16 in a row!), while the crowd danced under a rain of golden snippets. Maddy knows how to end a show in style!

Holiday and Music were such a perfect ending of the Drowned World Tour that Madonna decided to place them again together at the end of the setlist for the Re-Invention Tour. This time Music came first, with Madonna in her Scottish kilt climbing on top of a cubicle staircase, which hosted Stuart Price as the DJ in the middle. Price re-invented the song into a cool remix. Naturally there was a groovy dance routine with all of the dancers.

Madonna opened the last segment of the Confessions Tour with mixing The Trammps' 'Disco Inferno' with her own Music, turning it into the hedonistic Music Inferno. After a montage of old videos and an intro with rollerskating dancers, Madonna appears on stage in a classy white suit, channeling the legendary Tony Manero character, played by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. She dances her way to the end of the catwalk and does the famous disco guns choreography while the rollerskaters do amazing tricks. A vocoder plays the chorus of Where's The Party and the whole audience gets boogie'ing to the infectious beat. Definitely a highlight of the show for many fans!