Get Together (песня Мадонны)

2006 single by Madonna

"Get Together" is a song by American singer Madonna from her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). The song was written and produced by both Madonna and Stuart Price, with additional writing by Anders Bagge and Peer Åström. It was released in the United States as the third single from the album on May 30, 2006, by Warner Bros. Records. The decision was spurred by the fact that the song was the third most downloaded song from the album, following its previous singles. The song was also released to coincide with the start of Madonna's Confessions Tour. It is a disco influenced electropop, trance and techno song which lyrically talks about the possibility of finding love on the dancefloor. Upon release, "Get Together" received generally positive reviews by music critics, with some appreciating its production, while others were underwhelmed. The song reached the top 10 in countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy, while topping the charts in Hungary and Spain. However, in the US, the song failed to match the same success as it did not enter the official Billboard Hot 100 chart, only peaking at six on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart due to low radio airplay. Two music videos were created for the song, featuring Madonna's performance of the song at London's Koko Club, but they were animated to make it different visually. The videos showed Madonna singing the song amongst graphical visuals portraying volcanoes erupting and a cityscape. The singer performed the song during a promotional tour for Confessions on a Dance Floor and on her 2006 Confessions Tour, where she was accompanied by two dancers wearing horse reins around their heads. In 2007, "Get Together" was nominated in the category of Best Dance/Electronic Recording at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

Initially, "Jump" was set to be released as the third single from Confessions on a Dance Floor, following "Hung Up" and "Sorry"; however, it was decided that "Get Together" would be released instead, spurred by the fact that it was the third bestselling digital single from the record. The song's digital sales stood at 20,000 at that time, whereas digital sales for "Jump" were around 9,000. Additionally, "Get Together" was also chosen as the third single to coincide with the start of Madonna's 2006 Confessions Tour. Several remixes of the song, done by DJs such as Tiefschwarz, Danny Howells, and James Holden, were included on versions of the single around the world, released by Warner Bros. Records on May 30, 2006, in the United States and on July 24 in the United Kingdom. The photo alternatively can also be found on the inlay cover of the I'm Going to Tell You a Secret live album (2006). Upon release, "Get Together" was met with generally positive responses from music critics. Keith Caulfield from Billboard complimented the song's "enlightment" theme, while calling it a "hypnotic space age thumper" in a separate review for the single. David Browne from Entertainment Weekly said that it was fluid in nature and called Madonna a "restless soul aching to connect" in the song. Peter S. Scholtes from City Pages shared a similar sentiment, writing those lyrics will "carve its slow burn mark on your mind's dance floor whether 'Get Together' gets you out there or not, and no matter how clichéd those phrases read in print". Stephen M. Deusner of Pitchfork wrote: "On 'Get Together', as Price's synths ebb and flow moodily, Madonna asks the eternal question, 'Do you believe in love at first sight? ', over a tripping vocal melody." From The Times, Mike Pattenden called it "ebullient", while The Guardians Alexis Petridis labeled the song's chorus "triumphant". Shawhan also complimented the song by describing it as a "weird and wonderful number". Stephen Sears from Idolator described the song as "mammoth", as well as calling it a "meta pop moment". Joan Morgan of The Village Voice wrote that the momentum of the album "builds rapidly with a seamless transition into the wicked alchemy of 'Get Together', where Madge and Price offer up an irresistible manipulation of rather sweet vocals laced over thumping percussion, seductive synthesizers, and a few subtle soul claps thrown in for good measure". According to Iain Moffat from Playlouder, "Get Together" is "preposterously anthemic, charging away recklessly with all sort of beat buzzes going on before entering a skippy 'Blinded by the Lights' like patch and waiting a good four minutes before letting the 303 loose in its entirety". Connor Morris of Cokemachineglow website wrote that it was "the only track worth noting that Price didn't have his hands in, turns throbbing kicks and fizzling synths into what's easily the massive (albeit early) high point of the twelve songs that comprise Confessions". According to the staff of Herald Sun, on paper, Madonna's collaboration with Bagge and Peer "seem[ed] dodgy", as she was "slumming it with people who write hits for all the C list popstars Madge herself inspired"; however, he found the song "amazing", noting a "huge housey club explosion mixing strings ans swampy beats", and concluding that it had to be a single. Offering a more negative review, Camille Paglia, writing for Salon, thought that "Madonna is generating many interesting melodic ideas that stay in the mind, as on 'Get Together' or 'Forbidden Love,' but they haven't really been thought through or lived with, and they are often suffocated or undermined by Price's tacky, penny arcade embellishments". According to Matt Cappiello of the Daily Nexus, the first 30 seconds of "Get Together" sound like "a Real McCoy B side, or the unreleased demon spawn of La Bouche", with Madonna "ask[ing] her market demographic, 'Do you believe we can change the future?' This is a possibility. But we need to forget about the past first. And we definitely need to forget about those disco synthesizers in the background." For Mark Coppens from Het Nieuwsblad, the track resembles "heavy trance, but doesn't quite make it because Madonna strolls a bit too flat through the song". In 2007, the song was nominated in the category of Best Dance Recording at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Justin Timberlake's 2006 single "SexyBack".

In the US, "Get Together" failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100; however, it was able to reach number six on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, which acts as an extension of the former chart. The song also reached a peak of number 84 on the Pop 100 chart. Its low chart performance in the region was attributed to limited radio airplay, as according to Billboards Michael Paoletta, "Get Together" had been "all but ignored by pop stations". It was reported that for the week ending July 15, 2006, the single had a radio audience of fewer than 1 million listeners in the US, based on market size and station share. A petition titled "End the Madonna U. S. Radio Boycott" was signed by about 3,300 fans at petitiononline. com, and was addressed to Clear Channel Communications CEO Mark P. Mays; additionally, fans posted messages supporting Madonna on websites such as Entertainment Weekly and VH1, as well as conspiracy theories about why she was not played on radio. while the other one was directed by Eugene Riecansky, a rework for the US market into more of a performance animation targeted at clubs. Both videos used Madonna's live performance at the Koko Club in London during her promotional tour for the album. It starts showing the world evolving from its genesis with images of volcanoes erupting, dinosaurs, and tidal waves flashing by, until Madonna appears singing the song while standing on a hill accompanied by her two backup dancers. This fluid motion continues up to the intermediate verse when Madonna is shown crawling under the waves and spirals. As the song moves towards the bridge again, the scene changes from the mountains to a cityscape. The singer and her dancers are shown dancing and singing the song on a skyscraper. The video ends with Madonna standing on the building and the camera autofocusing out of the panel. In 2009, the version of the video directed by Riecansky was included on Madonna's compilation, Celebration: The Video Collection.

As part of a promotional tour for Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna performed "Get Together" on television shows such as Parkinson, Star Academy, and the Children in Need 2005 telethon. Other performances of the song came during concerts at Koko and G A Y nightclubs in London, respectively on November 15 and 18, and Studio Coast in Tokyo, Japan on December 7. On April 30, 2006, she also performed "Get Together" as part of her six song set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The song was also part of the setlist of the 2006 Confessions Tour. Madonna wore a skin tight, full body black leotard. She performed the song as a red, geometric patterned kaleidoscope shot by Steven Klein appeared on the screens. Madonna was accompanied by two male backup dancers, who posed as if they were horses. For Rick Massimo of The Providence Journal, the singer punctuated the first songs on the show, including "Get Together", with "dancing that looked, and felt, more like we were watching her work out". Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine commented that "a great song like 'Get Together' is splendidly sung" on the concert, saying "whoever tweaks the levels on her mic is a genius"; however, he felt its "celebratory, keep it together message is compromised by the contradictory feelings of bondage (oppression) conveyed by having two backup dancers equipped with reins around their heads". For his part, Corey Moss from MTV News considered the performance "offered more of the same". The August 15–16, 2006 performances of "Get Together" at London's Wembley Arena were recorded and included in Madonna's sixth live album, The Confessions Tour (2007).

+Release dates and formats for "Get Together" Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref. (Reference(s)) United States May 30, 2006 Digital EP Warner Bros. June 6, 2006 Twelve inch single, 12 inch vinyl, Maxi single, maxi CD Germany June 9, 2006 CD single, CD, maxi CD Warner Music United Kingdom July 24, 2006