it's just a great song that hasn't been overplayed, it was (and still is) surprising but universal, simple but intense. and the video is quintessentially 90s. there is literally nothing to not like unless you get really bugged by across the board approval.
One of the best songs of all-time, and somehow perfectly speaks to the experience of being a lonely, desperate bottom loading up multiple apps on a Saturday morning, a quarter century before this became reality.
It's funny because at the time a lot of the press was shading K-Mo about how it was a 'Justify My Love'/'Erotica'/'It's a Fine Day' rip-off when it really isn't.
The spoken word verses I suppose are Madonna-esque but the quasi-operatic chorus vocals where she soars are where the song transcends into something wholly synergistic above and beyond its influences.
I don't think it will ever NOT be my favourite song of hers. That intro, the vox, the instrumental breakdown. All of it is sublime.
I was a bit older than you at the time Suedey and as far as I recall there weren't many mentions of the Madonna influence. I mean with the Let's Get To It tour she couldn't get away from them but with this literally everyone was just surprised at how different it was for her.
And I love that she gave it entirely new life on the Golden tour. It's probably one of my favourite versions of the song.
Well, for me Rhythm of Love occupies her podium of top singles, but the first 2 1994 album singles are a whole other situation. I do favour PYIMP, but Confide In Me is it's own separate category.