| When the Evita
project was still in the pipe-line, fans had
visions of a massively promoted soundtrack with
four or five major singles. After the
under-achieving You Must Love Me,
Warner Bros. seemed to have
different plans. Releasing Don't Cry For
Me Argentina only reluctantly once they
realized that they could make a few bucks, WB
(and by some reports, Madonna as well) did not
want to release anything else from Evita. While Another
Suitcase In Another Hall was released in
some other countries, it was a relatively
insignificant hit. Buenos Aires
was released solely via promo remixes shipped out
to clubs. The result was Madonna's most
successful promo-only release on the dance charts
(Love Don't Live Here Anymore,
her other promo-only release, barely made the top
20 the year before). No video was released and no
singles were released commercially (thus my
quickly made fake cover at the top of the page). Personally,
I believe Buenos Aires would've made a better
single than You Must Love Me, but I think WB made
the right decision not to promote another single
from Evita. Anyway, the Buenos Aires remixes are
probably some of Madonna's least-inspired.
TRIVIA: The song Buenos Aires
appears early in Evita, and Madonna's character
Eva is supposed to still be a teenager -- a bit
of stretch for a woman who was approaching forty
at the time.
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