"Nobody Knows Me" | |
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Promotional single by Madonna | |
from the album American Life | |
A-side | "Nothing Fails" |
Released | October 15, 2003 |
Recorded | 2002 |
Studio | Olympic Recording Studios |
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Length | 4:39 |
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"Nobody Knows Me" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. The song was written and produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï for her ninth studio album American Life (2003). It was released as a promotional single in the United States on October 15, 2003, with a remixed version appearing on the remix compilation Remixed & Revisited (2003). "Nobody Knows Me" carries on the main theme of American Life, with its usage of negative tones on the songs. It is a dance and electronic song, with vocoder effects, spacey synths and a bubbly bass, and lyrically, Madonna rejects tabloid culture's "social disease", denouncing both TV and magazines.
The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics, with many of whom calling it as a highlight from American Life. Four remixes were released in club stations around the United States, with one of them peaking at number four on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song, along with "Nothing Fails", topped the US Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and also charted on the ARIA Club Tracks in Australia. Madonna did a performance of the song alone on stage on her Re-Invention World Tour in 2004. It was also used as a video interlude on the MDNA Tour in 2012, showing Madonna's face morphed with a number of famous figures. French right-wing Marine Le Pen sued Madonna for superimposing a swastika and Adolf Hitler's face with hers.