Music Video
The music video, directed by Alek Keshishian, was filmed in June 1992 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California and Malibu Beach and world premiered on MTV on June 30, 1992, 1 day before the release of A League of Their Own. The video was commercially released in 2004 as a bonus feature on the 2-disc special edition DVD of the film. It shows a young man viewing a photo album, as Madonna sings in different settings from within the various pictures inside the album. Scenes from A League of Their Own also appear on the album during the song's instrumental break. As the video ends, the viewer having reached the end of the album, then scrolls backwards through the previous photo album pages.
- Director: Alek Keshishian
- Producer: unknown
- Director of Photography: unknown
- Editor: Jim Haygood
- Production Company: Propaganda Films
The video has been compared to Boy George's video for his 1987 single, "To Be Reborn", released less than five years before "This Used to Be My Playground", in which the singer also appears on pages of a photo album, performing his song. Similarities have been noticed on numerous internet blogs, some claiming that Madonna had copied George's idea. Boy George himself stated in his autobiography that he was "furious" after watching Madonna's video and renamed it "This Used to Be My Video".
British electronic musician Andi Fraggs has used the same concept for the backdrop video of "Life Follows You" in 2012.
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