(In US, "Fever" is unreleased as a single and only appears on B-side of "Bad Girl" CD maxi-single).
In 1992, Madonna recorded a cover version of "Fever" for her fifth studio album Erotica. She was in the studio putting down tracks for the album and had just recorded a song called "Goodbye to Innocence".She was going through the final stages of production on it when she suddenly started singing the lyrics to "Fever" over the top of it. Madonna liked the way it sounded so much that she recorded it. "Goodbye to Innocence" was never released on a Madonna album, although it did appear on Just Say Roe, a charity record, and a dub mix of it titled "Up Down Suite" was a bonus track to the "Rain" maxi-single. In September 2008, a remix of "Fever" (known as the Dance Floor Mix) was used in television promos for the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.
The music video for "Fever", directed by Stéphane Sednaoui, was shot on April 10–11, 1993 at Greenwich Studios in Miami, Florida,[18] and received its world premiere on May 11, 1993, on MTV. It has since been made commercially available on the DVD collection, The Video Collection 93:99.
The music video alternately features Madonna with a red wig and silver
bodypaint in a variety of costumes dancing in front of funky, kaleidoscopic
backgrounds. It showcases her posing like ancient goddesses. She is
enveloped in a flame-like atmosphere and eventually burns up. We also
see her sticking her tongue out.In a list containing five of Madonna's best music videos, blogger Eduardo Dias from O Grito!
magazine pointed out that the "Pop song often speaks of lost, found and
refound loves. Madonna spoke of love in zillion different ways. The
fever that love causes is in each image of this video. Saturated images,
nuanced, and handled, all sorts of effects were used in this game of
contrasts that is called Fever'. Beware of prolonged exposure to the
video or the reader will stop at the nearest emergency. Use your
sunscreen."
In 1992, Madonna recorded a cover version of "Fever" for her fifth studio album Erotica. She was in the studio putting down tracks for the album and had just recorded a song called "Goodbye to Innocence".She was going through the final stages of production on it when she suddenly started singing the lyrics to "Fever" over the top of it. Madonna liked the way it sounded so much that she recorded it. "Goodbye to Innocence" was never released on a Madonna album, although it did appear on Just Say Roe, a charity record, and a dub mix of it titled "Up Down Suite" was a bonus track to the "Rain" maxi-single. In September 2008, a remix of "Fever" (known as the Dance Floor Mix) was used in television promos for the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.
Critical reception
The New York Times editor Stephen Holden wrote that "The album's softer moments include a silky hip-hop arrangement of "Fever." The Baltimore Sun's J. D. Considine praised the song as "sassy, house-style remake of "Fever"—that the album really heats up, providing a sound that is body-conscious in the best sense of the term." Alfred Soto of Stylus Magazine wrote that this song has its unique, idiosyncratic "Joni-Mitchell-Blue" energy. Billboard called the song a "house-inflected rendition." David Browne of Entertainment Weekly called Madonna's voice souless: "You and Shep sure do a bang-up job — pun intended — transforming Fever, that old Peggy Lee hit, into a techno drone, but listen to the parched sound emitted from your throat on such tracks."Chart performance
In the United States, "Fever" was never officially released as a single, but it did become a dance hit, becoming Madonna's 15th song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at its peak of number six on the UK Singles Chart on the issue dated April 3, 1993.[It also peaked at number one in Finland and within the top 10 in Ireland and Japan. It peaked at number 12 in Italy, number 17 in New Zealand, number 31 in France and number 51 in Australia.Music video
music video for "Fever".
Live performances
To start the promotion for Erotica, Madonna performed "Fever" and "Bad Girl" on Saturday Night Live in January 1993. During the 1000th The Arsenio Hall Show, Madonna performed the original version of "Fever" accompanied by a band, wearing a black classic dress and smoking a cigarette.Madonna also performed "Fever" on the 1993 Girlie Show World Tour as the second song from the setlist. After "Erotica", the singer partially strips and proceeds to straddle and dances suggestively with two half-naked male dancers At the end of the song, Madonna and the two backup dancers descend into a literal ring of fire.Track listing and formats
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