| The only major single from Something
to Remember, You'll See
broke the record (at the time) for Madonna's
highest debut on the Hot 100, bowing at #8.
However, the track only managed to move up to #6
the next week. By contrast, lead singles from
every other Madonna album (except
"Madonna" and the Evita
project) made it to the top 3. However, by
peaking at #6, Madonna accomplished the
interesting feat of having peaked at every
position in the top ten. However, it did serve as
a welcome break from Madonna's last two singles,
the underperforming Bedtime Story and Human
Nature. The song also had a rather incredible
trajectory, peaking at #6 in its second week,
dipping below the top ten and falling as low as
#12, before climbing back into the top ten for
two more weeks and reaching #8. Had the
maxi-single release come that week instead of the
week after, the song may have even been able to
reach a new peak. Certainly an interesting side
bar for You'll See. The song was promoted as a
sort of sequel to Take A Bow,
the video featuring the same bullfighter from the
Take A Bow video, as well as scenes lifted
directly from the TAB video. Some fans later
wanted a third part to the Take A Bow - You'll
See storyline by making the video for The
Power of Good-Bye yet another take on
the Madonna-bullfighter relationship, but
(thankfully) Madonna and WB
never considered that idea. Personally, I think
the idea of the sequel was rather uninspired and
probably was motivated more by commercial
potential than artistic reasons (after all,
wouldn't you want to be consistently reminding
the public of what is arguably Madonna's biggest
hit?). The video, while pretty, doesn't seem to
really say much.
The song, written by David Foster,
better known for his work with artists like Celine
Dion, was one of three new tracks for
the Something to Remember project. Its slight
Spanish flavor (and later its Spanish version,
"Verás," which Madonna sang in
reportedly near-perfect Spanish pronunciation,
was promoted in Latin markets) served as a
prelude to Evita. It also helped propel Something
to Remember just over the double platinum line
(recently re-certified as triple platinum),
meaning that despite originating only one top 40
single, that album sold more copies than Erotica,
which had four top 40 singles. STR did have the
benefit of being a compilation album, however,
and unlike Erotica, was perfect for the adult
contemporary crowd.
TRIVIA: You'll See is
Madonna's most successful single on Hot Adult
Contemporary radio since Take A Bow, peaking at
#5 and spending 28 weeks on the chart, landing as
the 14th biggest AC hit of 1996.
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