Vogue Lyrics

[Produced by Shep Pettibone and Madonna]

[Intro]
Strike a pose
Strike a pose

Vogue (Vogue, vogue)
Vogue (Vogue, vogue)


[Verse 1]
Look around, everywhere you turn is heartache
It's everywhere that you go (Look around)
You try everything you can to escape
The pain of life that you know (Life that you know)
When all else fails and you long to be
Something better than you are today
I know a place where you can get away
It's called a dance floor
And here's what it's for, so


[Chorus]
Come on, vogue (Vogue)
Let your body move to the music (Move to the music)
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue (Vogue)
Let your body go with the flow (Go with the flow)
You know you can do it
[Verse 2]
All you need is your own imagination
So use it, that's what it's for (That's what it's for)
Go inside for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door (Open up the door)
It makes no difference if you're black or white
If you're a boy or a girl
If the music's pumping, it will give you new life
You're a superstar
Yes, that's what you are, you know it

[Chorus]
Come on, vogue (Vogue, vogue)
Let your body groove to the music (Groove to the music)
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue (Vogue, vogue)
Let your body go with the flow (Go with the flow)
You know you can do it

[Bridge]
Beauty's where you find it
Not just where you bump and grind it
Soul is in the musical
That's where I feel so beautiful
Magical, life's a ball, so
Get up on the dance floor
[Chorus]
Vogue (Vogue)
Let your body move to the music (Move to the music)
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue (Vogue, vogue)
Let your body go with the flow (Go with the flow)
You know you can do it

[Refrain]
Vogue (Vogue)
Beauty's where you find it (Move to the music)
Vogue (Vogue)
Beauty's where you find it (Go with the flow)

[Verse 3]
Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine
Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers dance on air
They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katharine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you
Ladies with an attitude
Fellas that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it
Vogue
Vogue
[Outro]
Oooh, you've got to
Let your body move to the music
Oooh, you've got to just
Let your body go with the flow
Oooh, you've got to
Vogue (Vogue, vogue, vogue)

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Madonna’s 1990 smash hit “Vogue” was inspired by the dance of the same name and helped make the Queen of Pop a gay icon. Voguing was popular in New York’s underground gay club scene, but Madonna brought it mainstream. Dancers would use hand gestures and make poses emulating their favorite Hollywood stars and cover models.

In late 1989, Madonna was looking to add a b-side to her Like a Prayer single “Keep It Together.” She teamed up with producer Shep Pettibone—who had remixed a number of her songs previously—but they only had a $5,000 budget. Pettibone recalled making the song in an interview with Billboard:

She had the choruses together, and the verses together…That’s how she writes. She’s fast. It’s just like, give her an idea or a direction to go.

Madonna told Rolling Stone in 2009:

I wrote it when I was making Dick Tracy. After we shot the movie, [then-boyfriend] Warren Beatty asked me if I could write a song that would fit my character’s point of view, that she could have conjured up. She was obsessed with speakeasies and movie stars and things like that. The idea for the lyrics came through that request.

In 1990, Pettibone told EW:

We were just after a fun club record. But when the record company bigwigs heard it, they said, ‘This is a No. 1 smash record. Let’s not put it on a B-side and lose it.‘"

When “Vogue” was released, it hit #1 in 30 different countries which made it Madonna’s biggest song ever at the time. It was the best-selling​ single of 1990—having sold over two million copies in the US alone.

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What did Madonna say about "Vogue"?
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Madonna told Rolling Stone:

I wrote it when I was making Dick Tracy. After we shot the movie, Warren Beatty asked me if I could write a song that would fit my character’s point of view, that she could have conjured up. She was obsessed with speakeasies and movie stars and things like that. The idea for the lyrics came through that request. Coincidentally, I was going to Sound Factory and checking out these dancers who were all doing this new style of dancing called vogueing. And Shep Pettibone … used to DJ there. That’s how it grew together.

What else have the artists said about the song?
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Credits
Produced By
Recording Engineer
Vocals
Video Director
Assistant Recording Engineer
Mixing Engineer
Programmer
Executive Producer
Recorded At
A basement closet at West 56th Street, New York City, New York
Release Date
March 20, 1990
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