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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Bros UK
Salesrank: 242194
Released: July 27, 1999 |
| Our Price: $49.99 |
| Used Price: $44.96 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Who's That Girl Track Listing:
1. Who's That Girl [Extended Version]
2. White Heat [LP Version]
Editorial Review:
The Only Place You Will Find the Extended Version of the Title Track from the Motion Picture Soundtrack of the Same Name. Coupled with "White Heat", also from the Soundtrack.
Who's That Girl Reviews:
Bad mastering 
2007-10-10 - The songs from "Who's That Girl" are far from my favorite Madonna songs, but I love Madonna and bought this simply to add to my Madonna collection. This CD has the extended version of "Who's That Girl" on it, but whoeve mastered this CD did a horrible job. The extended mix is barely audible. You're better off hitting eBay or your local vinyl dealer to find a used copy of the 12" single. The sound quality is much better on the record than the CD. Who'da thunk?
Who's that mixing this?
2004-11-10 - This was a single I bought to get a different mix of the classic MADONNA hit WHO'S THAT GIRL on CD. And it's not that good. The song is slowed down and the sound is low and too bass-y....probably the lamest Madonna remix I've ever heard...But White Heat, the B side from True Blue sounds just as good as it does on the TRUE BLUE cd and is louder than the Who's that Girl track.Packaging is a slim-line jewel case and features the original 45 picture sleeve from back in the day....Only buy this for collecting purposes only--if you want a copy of this song--just buy the Who's that Girl Soundtrack.
Blessing and Curse
2004-03-21 - First and foremost, I agree with the other reviewers. The sound quality is pretty bad. I personally do not find it unbearable per se, but a vinyl copy of this may have clearer and more crisp sound. This is an 80's mix, so true to 80's style, use your graphic equalizer on this one and crank up the 10k! That may help.
That being said, I think this mix is pretty good. This is more of a remix than just an extended version, as the sleeve suggests. The tempo feels a little bit slower, although I don't think it actually is. What makes this mix so good is that the song's freestyle elements are brought out. To non-dance music fans, then, I can see where this mix sounds cheesy-ish, but if you like the 80's Miami/NYC freestyle sound (think Expose, TKA, Company B, Stevie B, etc.), you might enjoy this quite a bit. I was pleasantly surprised.
In my opinion, 1987 is when Madonna's mixes started to get good. Her early mixes seem to be just glossed over with extra synths and tinny-sounding drum overdubs (Burning Up, e.g. deserved a much better mix). This easily beats out the extended versions of Like A Virgin, Dress You Up, and Angel (which is a pretty bad mix, but worth buying for the B-side, the ORIGINAL, untouched, beautiful version of Into the Groove- but any true Madonna fan will tell you that). The poor sound quality of this release just makes it a double-edged sword. A better alternative, if you can find it, is the out-of-print import single that has this remix, along with the Silver Screen Mix of "Causing a Commotion," the original previously-lauded "Into the Groove," AND far superior sound quality. It's harder to find, but well worth the price.
the worst sound-quality CD I've ever purchased 
2003-09-14 - ..and it gets worse further into the song. it sounds like a really worn-out cassette, which is really inexcusable for a CD. The remix isn't much to scream about anyway, it's very generic. Definitely one of Madonna's weaker remixes from the 1980's.
Just Who Is That Girl? 
2003-05-05 - After three albums, a string of worldwide No.1 hits and record sales inexcess of 50 million, Madonna decided to take a break and turn her attention to acting for a short while. She starred in Who's That Girl, which was a flop film but the soundtrack to the film was a smash. The Original Soundtrack to the film sold inexcess of 8 million copies worldwide and produced a massive UK and US No.1 called, surprisingly, Who's That Girl. The song became Madonna's fifth UK No.1 single and spent 10 weeks on the UK chart in July 1987.
Who's That Girl opens with the tapping of hands on drums which sounds a lot like the first few seconds of La Isla Bonita. In fact, you could mistake it for just that, but then Madonna's usual 80's synthesiser beat kicks in and the song is underway. The backing singers gracefully sing "Who's that girl?" twice before Madonna begins her first verse,"When you see her, say a prayer and kiss your heart goodbye. She's trouble, in a word get closer to the fire." Madonna's vocal style is particularly interesting in this first verse; she's never sung like this before and sounds rather innocent. The first chorus then kicks in with the often misunderstood lyrics of, "Quien es esa nina, who's that girl. Senorita, mas fina, who's that girl." The second verse and second chorus then breeze along smoothly before a short interlude of, "Light up my life, so blind I can't see. Light up my life, no one can help me now." A short instrumental then kicks in that really adds to the fun factor that the song possesses. The chorus is then repeated a few times before the repetition of the interlude and instrumental, before dying down as Madonna's vocals become softer and the backing singers take over.
The video to Who's That Girl is good, but not one of Madonna's best. It begins in a circle of what look like a stone statue temple thing! A man, a young boy and a younger girl start looking at Madonna as she enters this temple in a horrifying grey suit in perhaps the most covered-up image she's ever displayed. The video also features clips of Madonna in the film of the same name and a little cartoon picture of her crossing a street and stopping traffic and dancing with her friends. That sounds very corny, and it is - but it was the 1980's at the time, and everything was corny. While not Madonna's best song, Who's That Girl is a fairly decent pop hit that deserved to be a transatlantic chart topper.
