Recording and composition Nobody Knows Me

nobody knows me written , produced madonna , mirwais ahmadzaï. recording sessions american life started @ late 2001, put on hold madonna filmed swept away in malta , starred in west end play grabs. returned olympic recording studios in late 2002 , finished off sessions. mixing track done mark spike stent @ westlake recording studios in west hollywood, california, while tim young did mastering of song @ metropolis studios in london. ahmadzaï played guitars, , did necessary programming. 2 machines used vocal editing in songs hollywood , nobody knows me . madonna preferred antares auto-tune plug in, while ahmadzaï chose ams pitch shifter. madonna chose auto-tune because wanted nobody knows me have more dance-like feel it, although ahmadzaï against it.

nobody knows me has vocoder effects, spacey synths, bubbly bass. ign music s spencer d. described song blips, glurgs, , shuffles jetsons styled disco ebb , flow , sounds outtake music (2000). begins vocoder treated vocals on bleeping synth, on minor chord. heavy drum hits stress melody during verse. nobody knows me written in common time moderately fast tempo of 120 beats per minute. composed in key of c major madonna s voice spanning b3 c5. song follows basic sequence of c–am–d–am–a–e chord progression. lyrically, rejects tabloid culture s social disease , denouncing both tv , magazines. chorus features repeated echo shifts of nobody knows me while ponders thoughts like, s no when re misunderstood, why should care world thinks of me? . o brien described trancey track sense of childlike defiant lyrics, dismissing critics have no knowledge of jealously guarded inner self .