 The song's chord progression follows a sequence of Bm–A–Bm–D–A in the verses and changes to D–Bm–G–A–D in the chorus.Author Santiago Fouz-Hernández commented in his book "Madonna's Drowned Worlds" that to him the song felt like a trepiditation of Madonna's thoughts about what might be termed "girlhood" and on a broadscale, on "feminity".Christopher P. Andersen, author of "Madonna