"Erotica" is the fifth studio album by Madonna which was released on [October 20, 1992] Happy Anniversary!!

It was in this period - on October 20th, 1992 - that Madonna released her Erotica album. After the concept album I'm Breathless Madonna wanted to make a

real dance album, so she teamed up with producer Shep Pettibone, whom she

collaborated with for Vogue and Rescue Me, and who was a real expert in dance music.

Later Andre -Dre- Betts joined the team and added a hip hop sound to the album.

The result was a catchy album with 14 tracks with R&B, house/trance, dance and hip hop

influences.

Album

It's beyond any doubt that controversy in Madonna's career peaked in the early nineties.

Controversy had been around from the very beginning: rolling on the floor in the

Like A Virgin wedding dress, promoting materialism in Material Girl (or that's what the

critics thought), the peep show in Open Your Heart, the pointy Gaultier corsets from the

Who's That Girl Tour and Blond Ambition Tour, singing about teenage pregnancy in Papa

Don't Preach, kissing a black priest in Like A Prayer and chaining herself to the bed in

Express Yourself. But in the nineties the controversy became more sexual and more explicit.

Justify My Love was the starting point of a raw sex period, where Madonna talked openly

about all kinds of sex and sexuality. The 'Sex' book and the movies In Bed With Madonna

and Body Of Evidence showed a Madonna pushing the boundaries further than ever, maybe

even too far.

The album was promoted by no less than six singles: Erotica, Deeper And

Deeper, Bad Girl and Rain were released worldwide; Fever and Bye Bye Baby got a

limited release. Unfortunately many people thought Madonna had gone too far this time.

Despite a great album and great videos, the album and singles weren't that successful. The

title track was the first ever lead-off single from a Madonna album that failed to get to #1

since the first album; the other singles failed to get to the top 5 in the

charts. Only the club scene showed some appreciation: Erotica, Deeper And Deeper and

Fever were all #1 in the Hot Dance / Club Play chart.

In the US there were two different versions of the Erotica album: the 'clean' version, which

doesn't include Did You Do It? and the original version, including the rap song, while

carrying a parental advisary sticker on the cover.

In the album charts, the album got to #1 (France, Australia), #2 (US, UK), #3

(Canada), and #5 (Germany). In the US it was certified double Platinum in January

1993 for shipments of 2 million copies. To date it only sold about 5 million copies

worldwide.

Singles

Erotica - October 1992 (US & Eur.)

Deeper And Deeper - November 1992 (US & Eur.)

Bad Girl - February 1993 (US & Eur.)

Fever - March 1993 (Eur.)

Rain - July 1993 (US & Eur.)

Bye Bye Baby - November 1993 (Japan, Australia, Germany)

Outtakes & Demo tracks

Dear Father, Erotic, Goodbye To Innocence, Shame, Up Down Suite

You Are The One, You Thrill Me

Madonna Nipple During Istanbul Concert

#Madonna Flashes Titty on #MNDAtour!!! Photos, Gifs and Full Video of Human Nature and Like a Virgin : Always the burlesque girl.

Madonna Started Filming The "Bedtime Story" Video on December 5 1994.

The inspiration behind the video. Hello everyone! This month’s music video to be analyzed is the for “Bedtime Story”, While this video is tricky for its various sources of inspiration, it’s one of her best, if not the best, and an underrated one by most fans. I am sure that, after reading all of this, you’ll find yourself more in love with the true artist Madonna really is. Madonna called upon “Rain” director Mark Romanek to do the music video for “Bedtime Story” after she saw what he had done with Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”. As she always does, she listened to the song over and over again, trying to think of a concept for a video. The theme she held on to for this one was dreams, it’s meaning, concepts, imagery and works based on it. She’s a huge fan of surrealistic art, in which lots of paintings deal about dreaming, or allude to something unfathomable in real life. She held to that and brought that concept to Romanek, that really liked the idea and wanted to add ...

Rolling Stone - June 13, 1991 - Flesh and Fantasy - Big Time Girl Talk with Carrie Fisher

Madonna and I had met many times over the years, but we had never actually had a conversation. It took this interview to bring us together – she as icon, I as inquisitor of icon [after all, I have already distinguished myself as friend of icon, relative of icon and ex-wife of icon]. I had never done an interview before, and I don’t know that I will again. For me, this has all the makings of a waterloo. The first of the two sessions for this interview took place in the restaurant of the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Madonna wore gold lame; I probably wore black. The last session took place in the offices of her manager, Freddy DeMann. Madonna wore a negligee; I probably wore black. I was late for that first meeting because a friend who had AIDS and who was staying with me had suddenly developed a fever. I called Madonna to say I was on my way. “You’re late,” she informed me. I explained about my friend. “Well, okay, that’s a good excuse,” she said. By the time of our fina...

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