People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song ever recorded by an artist more than once is a remake as well.
People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song ever recorded by an artist more than once is a remake as well.