I Don't Search I Find
{{Short description|2020 single by Madonna}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = I Don't Search I Find
| cover = Madonna - I Don't Search I Find remixes.png
| alt = Image divided into four squares; each square depicts a woman with white hair. The upper right and lower left are red colored and show the woman wearing sunglasses. The image has a white and red border around it. The words MADONNA and I DON'T SEARCH I FIND (REMIXES) are written in the middle.
| border = yes
| caption = Remixes EP cover
| type = single
| artist = Madonna
| album = Madame X
| released = {{Start date|2020|05|22}}
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 4:08
| label = Interscope
| writer = *Madonna
| producer = *Madonna
- Mirwais
| prev_title = I Rise
| prev_year = 2019
| next_title = Levitating (The Blessed Madonna Remix)
| next_year = 2020
| misc = {{External music video|header=Licensed audio|1={{YouTube|FbW8-Up0RZo|"I Don’t Search I Find"}}}}
}}
"I Don't Search I Find" is a song by American singer Madonna from her fourteenth studio album, Madame X (2019). The track was written and produced by Madonna, alongside Mirwais Ahmadzaï. It was released to Italian contemporary hit radio by Interscope Records as the fourth single from the album on May 22, 2020. Two EPs containing several remixes had previously been released to accompany the song. It is an EDM and house influenced track that takes inspiration from Madonna's previous works, including "Vogue" (1990), Erotica (1992) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).
"I Don't Search I Find" received generally positive feedback from music critics, who praised its sound and deemed the track one of the best songs from Madame X. It gave Madonna her 50th chart-topping single on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, making her the first act in history to score at least 50 number one songs on a single Billboard chart. On the UK singles sales chart, the track reached number 66. The singer performed it on her 2019–2020 Madame X Tour, and at a New York gay pride party in June 2021.
Background and composition
In 2017, Madonna relocated to Lisbon when seeking a top football academy for her son David Banda, who wanted to become a professional association football player.{{cite magazine |last1=Smirke |first1=Richard |title=Madonna talks giving 'zero you-know-whats' on new 'Madame X' album at London 'Medellin' video premiere |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8508668/madonna-medellin-video-premiere-london-inside-interview-madame-x |magazine=Billboard|access-date=11 May 2020 |date=April 24, 2019}} While living in the city, she began meeting artists; painters and musicians, who would invite her to "living room sessions". In the sessions, they would bring food and sit around the table, and musicians would start playing instruments, singing Fado and samba music. On April 15, 2019, Madonna revealed her upcoming fourteenth studio album's title Madame X. For the album, she worked with longtime collaborator Mirwais, who had previously contributed to her albums Music (2000), American Life (2003) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005), as well as Mike Dean, who served as a producer on Rebel Heart (2015), and Diplo.{{cite web |last1=Polk |first1=Milan |title=Everything we know about Madonna's new album Madame X |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/everything-we-know-about-madonnas-new-album-madame-x.html |work=Vulture |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=April 22, 2019}}
"I Don't Search I Find" was written by Madonna and Mirwais, who also handled production.{{cite AV media notes|others=Madonna|title=Madame X|year=2019|type=Liner notes|publisher=Interscope Records|id=B0030140-42}} The track takes its title after a quote by Pablo Picasso, and has been described as a disco and EDM song with a "chunky '90s house percussion" and "rumbling" bassline; the track draws influence from Madonna's previous works, such as "Vogue" (1990), Erotica (1992) and Confessions on a Dance Floor. Throughout the song, Madonna repeats the hook "finally, enough love" and, with a "wide-eyed and awestruck" tone, she repeats the phrase "I found you, I found a new view".{{cite web |last1=Harvilla |first1=Rob |title=Immaterial Girl: What's Madonna without hits—or controversy? |date=June 18, 2019 |url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/6/18/18683177/madonna-madame-x-review-new-album |publisher=The Ringer |access-date=19 June 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Michael |first1=Michael Love |title=Madonna's 'Madame X' creates new possibilities for the future |url=https://www.papermag.com/madonna-madame-x-2638904579.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5 |work=Paper |access-date=19 June 2020 |date=June 21, 2019}} Also included is a finger snapping sample, taken from "Vogue".{{cite web |last1=Megarry |first1=Daniel |title=We ranked every song on Madonna's new album Madame X |url=https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/123810/we-ranked-every-song-on-madonnas-new-album-madame-x/ |work=Gay Times |access-date=22 May 2020 |date=June 25, 2019}} According to Paper, with the line "Platinum gold, inside your soul", Madonna was "affirming the beauty in others". Paul Nolan, from Hot Press, considered "I Don't Search I Find" the "manifesto for Madame X".{{cite web|last=Nolan|first=Paul|title=Album Review: Madonna, Madame X|url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/album-review-madonna-madame-x-22781060|work=Hot Press|access-date=May 29, 2020|date=June 9, 2019}}
Release and promotion
On December 6, 2019, an extended play (EP) featuring three remixes of the song created by Honey Dijon was released for digital download and streaming through Interscope Records. An additional EP that includes remixes by Chris Cox, Endor, DJLW, DJ Kue, and Offer Nissim, was released on May 2, 2020, by the aforementioned label.{{cite web |last1=Wass |first1=Mike |title=Madonna releases 'I Don't Search I Find' Remix EP |url=https://www.idolator.com/7910094/madonna-releases-i-dont-search-i-find-remix-ep?chrome=1 |publisher=Idolator |access-date=19 June 2020 |date=May 2, 2020}} In Italy, Universal Music Group released "I Don't Search I Find" as the fourth single from Madame X on May 22, 2020.{{cite web|last=Forastiero|first=Eleonora|url=https://www.earone.it/news/madonna_i_don_t_search_i_find_radio_date_22_05_2020_42225102/|title=Madonna – I Don't Search I Find (Radio Date: 22-05-2020)|date=May 20, 2020|access-date=May 21, 2020|publisher=EarOne|language=it}} Commercially, in the United States, "I Don't Search I Find" became Madonna's 67th entry on Billboard{{'}}s Dance Club Songs chart, where it debuted at number 54.{{cite magazine |title=Dance Club Songs: The week of December 11, 2019 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/dance-club-play-songs/2019-12-14 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=30 June 2020}}{{subscription required}} It eventually reached the summit, making Madonna the first act in history to score at least 50 number one songs on a single Billboard chart, as well as across five decades.{{cite magazine |last1=Murray |first1=Gordon |title=Madonna achieves milestone 50th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs Chart with 'I Don't Search I Find' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8551014/madonna-milestone-50th-no-1-dance-club-songs-chart |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 10, 2020 |date=February 13, 2020}} Madonna expressed her gratitude in a statement to Billboard; "dance is my first love [...] so every time one of my songs is celebrated in the clubs and recognized on the charts it feels like home".{{cite magazine |last1=Caulfield |first1=Keith |title=Find out what Madonna thinks of her historic 50th Dance Club Songs No. 1: Exclusive |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8551054/madonna-talks-historic-50th-dance-club-songs-number-1 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=30 June 2020 |date=February 14, 2020}} That same week, the song peaked at number 30 on the US Dance/Electronic Songs chart. In the United Kingdom, "I Don't Search I Find" entered the Singles Sales chart at number 66 on May 8, 2020. It reached the fifth position on the Greece Digital Song Sales chart, and peaked at number 73 in Slovakia.
"I Don't Search I Find" was featured on Madonna's 2019–2020 Madame X Tour.{{cite web |last1=Roffman |first1=Michael |title=Live review: Madonna challenges fans as Madame X at the Chicago Theatre (10/16) |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/10/live-review-madonna-madame-x-chicago/ |work=Consequence of Sound |access-date=May 19, 2020 |date=October 17, 2019}} It was included on the show's second act and featured the singer performing "in secret agent mode". She was flanked by lookalike dancers dressed as "noir detectives", wearing blonde wigs and trench coats, who eventually subdue her and interrogate her.{{cite web |last1=Stern |first1=Bradley |title=Madonna X-periments with 'The Madame X Tour |url=https://www.papermag.com/madonna-madame-x-tour-2640455216.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5 |work=Paper |access-date=May 19, 2020 |date=September 20, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |author-link1=Jon Pareles |title=Madonna is still taking chances |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts/music/madame-x-madonna.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 19, 2020 |date=September 18, 2019}} The performance was praised by the Miami New Times{{'}} Celia Almeida, who expressed that Madonna "embodied her femme fatale Madame X persona in an interrogation scene that recalled Michael Jackson's noir music video for 'Smooth Criminal'".{{cite web |last1=Almeida |first1=Celia |title=Madonna kicked off her Fillmore residency with a phone ban and no air conditioning |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/review-madonna-madame-x-tour-at-the-fillmore-miami-beach-11347257 |website=Miami New Times |access-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217174153/https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/review-madonna-madame-x-tour-at-the-fillmore-miami-beach-11347257 |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |date=December 15, 2019}} The performance was included on the live album Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience. On June 24, 2021, the singer made a surprise appearance at a pride party at the Boom Boom Room of The Standard hotel in New York and performed the song; she wore a see-through mesh top, leather shorts, a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier corset, a blue wig and long pink fingerless gloves.{{cite web |last1=Frey |first1=Kaitlyn |title=Madonna goes braless in a see-through mesh top during surprise pride performance |url=https://people.com/style/madonna-wears-sheer-mesh-shirt-pride-party-performance/ |website=People |access-date=August 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626153148/https://people.com/style/madonna-wears-sheer-mesh-shirt-pride-party-performance/ |archive-date=June 26, 2021 |date=June 25, 2021}} "I Don't Search I Find" was used as an interlude on Madonna's Celebration tour (2023–2024).{{cite web |last1=Setoodeh |first1=Ramin |title=Madonna's 'Celebration' show is very late but worth the wait at U.S. tour launch: Concert review |url=https://variety.com/2023/music/reviews/madonna-celebration-tour-new-york-brooklyn-concert-review-1235838085/ |website=Variety |access-date=January 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214162726/https://variety.com/2023/music/reviews/madonna-celebration-tour-new-york-brooklyn-concert-review-1235838085/ |archive-date=December 14, 2023 |date=December 14, 2023}}
Critical reception
Upon release, the song was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Slant Magazine{{'}}s Sal Cinquemani called it "smoldering" and compared the song to "Vogue" and "Erotica" (1992), concluding that it "isn't a song so much as a mood. It's downstairs music, the distant bassline rumbling beneath your feet as you slip into a bathroom stall for a quick bump or fuck."{{cite web |last1=Cinquemani |first1=Sal |title=Review: Madonna's Madame X Is a fearless, eccentric musical memoir |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review-madonna-madame-x-is-a-fearless-eccentric-musical-memoir/ |website=Slant Magazine |access-date=25 May 2020 |date=June 12, 2019}} From NME, El Hunt also compared the song to "Vogue" and deemed it an album standout.{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=El |title=Madonna – 'Madame X' review |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/madonna-madame-x-review-2505126 |work=NME |access-date=25 May 2020 |date=June 5, 2019}} Jeremy Halliger, writing for Variety, said the song was "pure '90s disco bliss, the album's only non-stop party."{{cite web |last1=Halliger |first1=Jeremy |title=Album Review: Madonna's 'Madame X' |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/madonna-madame-x-album-review-1203242374/ |work=Variety |access-date=25 May 2020 |date=June 13, 2019}} Mark Savage from the BBC felt it "updates the deep house grooves of the Erotica era."{{cite web |last1=Savage |first1=Mark |title=Madonna cringes at her British accent as tour resumes following injury |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51297537 |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 May 2020 |date=January 30, 2020}} Ben Beaumont-Thomas from The Guardian praised its house-influenced sound and compared the song to "Deeper and Deeper" (1992).{{cite web |last1=Beaumont-Thomas |first1=Ben |title=Madonna: Madame X review – her most bizarre album ever |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/04/madonna-madame-x-review-her-most-bizarre-album-ever |work=The Guardian |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 4, 2019}} Jaime Tabberer, from Gay Star News, opined that "once it gets going, disco stomper 'I Don’t Search I Find' is a class of its own", and described it as "a Confessions number that criminally ended up on the cutting room floor."{{cite web |last1=Tabberer |first1=Jamie |title=Madonna, Madame X track-by-track review: 'Intriguing Gaga-esque weirdness' |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/madonna-madame-x-track-by-track-review-intriguing-gaga-esque-weirdness/ |work=Gay Star News |access-date=13 June 2019 |date=June 13, 2019 |archive-date=July 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730064712/https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/madonna-madame-x-track-by-track-review-intriguing-gaga-esque-weirdness/ |url-status=dead }} Gay Times{{'}} Daniel Megarry deemed the second best track on Madame X; "if 'Justify My Love', 'Rescue Me' and the best bits of Confessions On A Dance Floor had a lovechild, it'd be this [...] Absolute heaven." Idolator's Mike Wass wrote that "the fact that something as insane as 'I Don’t Search I Find' even exists is a miracle to begin with."
In her review of Madame X, Alexandra Pollard from The Independent described the track as "a cross between Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good', a Nineties house track, and an orchestral Bond song."{{cite web |last1=Pollard |first1=Alexandra |title=Madonna review, Madame X: An intriguing, often brilliant, occasionally awful album |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/madonna-review-madame-x-release-date-tracklist-tour-maluma-a8953221.html |work=The Independent |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 14, 2019}} Nicolas Hautman from Us Weekly deemed it "one of the fiercest '90s dance songs she has made" since the 1990s decade.{{cite web |last1=Hautman |first1=Nicolas |title=Madonna's new album 'Madame X' is 'wonderfully weird': Review |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/madonna-madame-x-review-album-is-wonderfully-weird/ |work=Us Weekly |access-date=22 May 2020 |date=June 14, 2019}} Louise Bruton from The Irish Times stated of Madonna's performance that "she reminds us that she always gets what she wants."{{cite news |last1=Bruton |first1=Louise |title=Madonna: Madame X review – Big, ballsy and more than a bit bizarre |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/madonna-madame-x-review-big-ballsy-and-more-than-a-bit-bizarre-1.3920630 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 10, 2019}} Robbie Barnett from the Washington Blade wrote: "if Music and American Life had a baby with Confessions on a Dance Floor as its stepmother, it would be the mid-tempo treasure 'I Don't Search I Find'", comparing it to Madonna's 1991 single "Rescue Me".{{cite web |last1=Barnett |first1=Robbie |title='X' marks the spot for daring new Madonna album |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/06/17/madame-x-review/ |website=Washington Blade |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 17, 2019}} On a more critical note, The Hollywood Reporter{{'}}s Jonny Coleman said that "even though it's a clear rip-off of 'Vogue', it's the closest thing [on the album] you can actually imagine human beings dancing to."{{cite web |last1=Coleman |first1=Johnny |title=Critic's Notebook: Madonna's cringe-worthy 'Madame X' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/madonna-madame-x-album-review-1218535 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 14, 2019}} More negative was Pitchfork{{'}}s Rich Juzwiak, who dismissed the song as a "loosely structured workout that sounds like it was ripped from The Rain Tapes."{{cite web |last1=Juzwiak |first1=Rich |title=Madonna – Madame X |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/madonna-madame-x/ |work=Pitchfork |access-date=11 May 2020 |date=June 18, 2019}}
Track listings
Honey Dijon remixes EPCitations regarding the release of the Honey Dijon remixes of "I Don't Search I Find":
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/i-dont-search-i-find-honey-dijon-remix-single/1489244750|publisher=Apple Music (AU)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-dont-search-i-find-honey-dijon-remix-single/1489244750|publisher=Apple Music (CA)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-dont-search-i-find-honey-dijon-remix-single/1489244750|publisher=Apple Music (GB)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/nz/album/i-dont-search-i-find-honey-dijon-remix-single/1489244750|publisher=Apple Music (NZ)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-search-i-find-honey-dijon-remix-single/1489244750|publisher=Apple Music (US)|access-date=December 6, 2019}}
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Honey Dijon remix) – 6:58
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Honey Dijon Clubmix) – 6:07
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Honey Dijon Radiomix) – 5:22
Remixes EPCitations regarding the release of the remixes EP of "I Don't Search I Find":
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Remixes) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/i-dont-search-i-find-remixes-ep/1510596018|publisher=Apple Music (AU)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Remixes) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-dont-search-i-find-remixes-ep/1510596018|publisher=Apple Music (CA)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Remixes) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-dont-search-i-find-remixes-ep/1510596018|publisher=Apple Music (GB)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Remixes) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/nz/album/i-dont-search-i-find-remixes-ep/1510596018|publisher=Apple Music (NZ)|access-date=June 19, 2020}}
- {{cite web|title=I Don't Search I Find (Remixes) by Madonna on Apple Music|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-search-i-find-remixes-ep/1510596018|publisher=Apple Music (US)|access-date=May 2, 2020}}
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Endor remix) – 5:29
- "I Don't Search I Find" (DJLW remix) – 4:29
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Kue remix) – 6:25
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Chris Cox remix) – 6:53
- "I Don't Search I Find" (Offer Nissim remix) – 6:38
Credits and personnel
Charts
Release history
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Release dates and formats for "I Don't Search I Find" ! scope="col"| Region ! scope="col"| Date ! scope="col"| Format(s) ! scope="col"| Version ! scope="col"| Label ! scope="col"| {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
| scope="row" rowspan="2"| Various
| December 6, 2019 | rowspan="2"| {{hlist|Digital download|streaming}} | Honey Dijon remixes | rowspan="2"| Interscope |
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| May 1, 2020
| Remixes |
| scope="row"| Italy
| May 22, 2020 | Original |
See also
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