Cherish - Madonna

Cherish - Original Demo:

Madonna - Cherish Blond Ambition Tour (HD)

75% of DL voters believe this is an excellent and/or a classic song.

I'm not a Madonna fan, but I've always like this song.

[quote]75% of DL voters believe this is an excellent and/or a classic song.

No, actually when you say "Cherish" to a DLer, this is the only song they know.

(And sorry, Madonna's "Cherish" can't compare...)

[quote]The video was conceptualized by Ritts, who wanted to portray mermen in their natural habitat, but Madonna baulked at the idea since she wanted to be portrayed as herself, but keep the mermen also. Four male performers were signed for this, one of them being Tony Ward who would become Madonna's boyfriend later, with the other three being water polo players from nearby Pepperdine University

You gotta admit that mermen were hot.

Weirdly, their names would actually take work to find as most articles simply refer to them as waterpolo players from Pepperdine.

Wasn't Tony Ward one of the mermen r6?

Cherish (6:41 Minute Extended Version):

Stop talking about this unevolved hollow demon of a human. Look at her now! She’s a fucking monstrosity of boundless narcissism and sociopathy and worst of all… she’s dumb.

You’re silly, r5.

R9, isn't it better to bump these threads from the better days? Let's focus on the positive.

This song always reminds me of My Own Private Idaho.

I bought the single but Cherish isn't really one of her better efforts. Almost sounds like a throwaway song.

Give me faith, give me joy my boy, I will always cherish you!

I like a lot of Madonna songs from the 80s and 90s, but this one of them that I didn't care for. And the Like A Prayer album is probably my favorite album of hers overall.

[quote] Almost sounds like a throwaway song.

It hit #2 in both Sales and Airplay in October 1989. People forget how big this album was in 1989.

Top 5 October 7, 1989:

1. Janet - Miss You Much

2. Madonna - Cherish

3. Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You

4. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time

5. Warrant - Heaven

The complete Billboard Magazine of October 7, 1989 (large PDF file):

[quote]Wasn't Tony Ward one of the mermen [R6]?

Yes, Tony Ward is the only one whose name is ever mentioned. You'd think that someone somewhere would identify the others.

I suppose you could cross reference the Pepperdine waterpolo team and see which ones appear to resemble the ones in the video, but c'mon.

Didn’t Herb Ritz shoot this video, IIRC?

One of my favorite Madonna songs.

Tony Ward disproves BDF = Big Dick

Tony's big nose and tiny cock made Belinda Carlisle weak.

Romeo and Dooley-Ett they never felt this way I bet

They were the "it" couple for a hawt minute..

When I was a gayling, the mermen were the hottest thing I could imagine. Evidently the suits worked super well - the guys could swim faster than they anticipated while wearing them, which led to one of the models winding up nearly a mile off shore during a "test drive".

Tony Ward was odd-looking but somehow classically so - he resembled a Roman bust of the pre-Augustinian age, where a prominent aquiline nose was symbolic of resolute character. And what a magnificent body.

After they split Ward became a sorta semi-porn star

Madge taught him a lot.

I loved the lil Merboy.

^ So did I.

The silvery tones and spare design of the video heralded the end of the garishness that 80s style had degenerated into—soon followed by Herb Ritts's video for Janet Jackson's "Love Will Never Do" and Bruce Weber's magazine supplement for Calvin Klein jeans (with Marcus Schenkenberg among others). New style accompanied, inevitably, by a new homoeroticism.

R16, I fucked Jani Lane

The song was trite pop but the video of the merman was art.

This is the only Merman we consider art.

We preferred the Henry Rollins cover.

R20 Pic, Tony Ward was a beautiful young man with a very sexy body, his dick is fine in that photo, I'd still have so much fun with it, and the rest of him...

The video freaked me out. She looked like Ellen!