Composition
"Nothing Really Matters" is an up-tempo dance track which contains influences of techno. According to the master issue at Discogs, the song is an electronic song, which features musical elements of house music and downtempo. According to the sheet music at Musicnotes.com, which was published by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., the song is written in the key note of F Major. Madonna's vocal range from the key note of F3 to the key note of A4. The song is moderately-paced and has a tempo of 104 beats per minute. According to the musical style set on Musicnotes, the song is influenced by adult contemporary, pop rock and teen dance. The song starts with a strange, electronic, slightly broken noise. When the intro was added to the song, Orbit was disappointed in the result as he "hated the noise." He said it sounded like the "DAT's broken." However, De Vries defended his contribution saying that it was supposed to be "like that It's quite slow for a dance tune of that nature, not a pacey tune." But overall, Madonna liked it.
Like it was mention before, the song was lyrically written about Madonna's creative process where people had dissecting and judged her. According to Madonna, the song was inspired by her daughter Lourdes Leon. According to sources, "Nothing Really Matters"; "has a mysterious, electronic introduction. Little spacey bleeps appear and then so does Madonna, singing the introduction like she was writing a letter to a loved one. The backing slowly intensifies behind her until that noise from ‘Frozen’ goes past the speakers and the song explodes into a sophisticated, expensive, very nineties dance beat. The song also talks about living selfishly.
In Lucy O'Brien's Like an Icon, Marius De Vries said the song was that had been prepared for before the production of Ray of Light was even created. He said "I had my vision of how the song should be finished, and found that off-putting. On all the collaborations I'd left a lot of space for him, but for this I wanted to put something on the table and say, "This is what I think." O'Brien described it as "vigorous 'mea culpa'."
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