Justify My Loveby Madonna

This song was written by Lenny Kravitz and Ingrid Chavez. Madonna provided additional lyrics. The song sampled Public Enemy's "Security of the First World." -- MTV banned the video for Madonna's "Justify My Love," The singer responded by releasing the video on VHS, which sold over a million copies. 'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

1990 - MTV banned the video for Madonna's "Justify My Love," The singer responded by releasing the video on VHS, which sold over a million copies. 'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

1990 - MTV banned the video for Madonna's "Justify My Love," The singer responded by releasing the video on VHS, which sold over a million copies. 'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

1990 - MTV banned the video for Madonna's "Justify My Love," The singer responded by releasing the video on VHS, which sold over a million copies. 'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

'In retrospect, the whole media shitstorm surrounding that “Justify My Love” video stands as a perfect little relic of how beautifully Madonna could manipulate the world when she was at her peak.' Read the story of this song and its controversial (for the time) video: tinyurl.com

The Immaculate Collection is the first greatest hits album by Madonna, released in, 1990. It contains fifteen of her hit singles recorded throughout the 1980s, as well as two brand new tracks, "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me". - www.madonna.com --- Celebrating the music of 1990 & 50 years of KEXP! - www.kexp.org

Did you know that Madonna worked with Lenny Kravitz on this song? “Justify My Love” was one of two new songs added onto the end of The Immaculate Collection, the greatest-hits album that Madonna released near the end of 1990. She was only four proper albums deep in her career at that time, but this "greatest hits" compilation was very well-received. -- Read the story of this song and its controversial video: www.stereogum.com

Did you know that Madonna worked with Lenny Kravitz on this song? “Justify My Love” was one of two new songs added onto the end of The Immaculate Collection, the greatest-hits album that Madonna released near the end of 1990. She was only four proper albums deep in her career at that time, but this "greatest hits" compilation was very well-received. -- Read the story of this song and its controversial video: www.stereogum.com

Ingrid Chavez, a singer who had worked with Prince, sued for royalties, claiming she wrote the song with Kravitz. According to Chavez, Kravitz came up with the title, but the rest of the lyric - minus one line Madonna changed - came from her. "Lenny recorded a synth line and then he asked me if I had something I wanted to say," she told Vibe. "I had a letter on me (my letters are like poems) and so I got on the mic and basically read the letter. One take and the rest is history."