In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun!
As today is Mother’s Day, we present internationally famous mom, Madonna, singing “Ray of Light.” The video starts with a rising sun, which continues to make cameo appearances throughout the flick including, I maintain, being reincarnated as a disco ball!
Meanwhile, the opening lines ask this question:
Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun?
More on the video from Wikipedia, the mother ship of universal knowledge:
The music video for “Ray of Light” starts with the rising of the sun, until it progresses into a Koyaanisqatsi-esque section, featuring time-lapse images of daily life, from people riding a subway, ordering food, bowling, and children in a classroom to sped-up city-scapes and freeways at night. As the video goes on, night starts to fall, and high-speed images of Madonna dancing in a discothèque progress, until she is seen falling asleep on the dance floor.
According to Madonna the track is a mystical look at the universe and how small we are.
The video was critically acclaimed, receiving the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, as well as winning five awards at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Enjoy your week!
