They weren't used to the dark atmospheric trip hop, hip hop and pop music that she brought to the mainstream...along with the darkly sexual imagery. Now we look around in the wake of what she did and see fifty shades of grey, pop stars letting their freak flags fly... And everyone taking pages out of her playbook 🤘🏽😎. She helped usher in a lot of interesting things and she did it way better than her copycats.
Erotica is her most chill vibey album her sex book definitely kinda shocked everyone but her nudes were out before and the book isn’t that R rated it’s literally erotica not pornography 😂
Madonna regined as the Queen Of Pop from 1983-2024 and she is now 65 doing her Celebration World Tour and everyone loved and wanted to be Madonna and she was huge and she was even bigger in 1990s and 2000. Madonna was the only artist who worked hard and made a name for herself. I saw her in Concert in 1990 The Blond Ambition World Tour and it was amazing she put on quite a show and causing a stir. Everyone wanted to be Madonna and Madonna was just as big then. She looked good in the 80s 90s 2000 and now its 2024 and Her Like A Virgin Album is 40 yrs old now. **** She is 65 and she still has it.
Well , it was meant to provoke and cause controversy as Madonna has always done, with the book, the pics the videos etc but it didnt need it cause EWrotica is one of ther top 3 albums musically. Pitty it was less succesful than other of her albums that were less worth it.
EROTICA is not her 10th album.....not even her 9th....but her 6th. If you don't count Who's that girl soundtrack album plus You can dance compillation and greatest hits: The inmaculate collection.
I loved this era, it was amazing, the sex book is beautiful however people just see it as vulgar, it totally isn't...there just prudes...her creativity is on another level
Madonna sometimes lies about her own past: in this show (1998) she says she never thought she would become famous and in interviews from 2000 onwards she claims she knew she would be super famous one day...
One of the few artists of the 80s who did not disappear into the sunset when the date flipped over to Jan 1st 1990. She was just as big in the 1990s and beyond. THis lady really knew how to reinvent herself to appeal the youth of the times even when she grew older. She was a very controversial person throughout her life, but by all accounts everyone who met her liked her. She had a really nice friendly personality.
30 yrs ago, Madonna’s Sex book hit No. 1 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. And remained there at No. 1 for 7 weeks. In just 3 days, the book sold + 1.5M copies WW.
saying the 90-94 period is not among her top eras creatively is... like what? Erotica the album is a masterpiece and very important in the history of music - but hey, not enough straight white guys even remember it exists (not enough brown/black men either), so it doesn't count, apparently.
the problem with this video is that it doesn't do enough to call out the puritanical, conservative BS that even moderates were displaying at the time wrt to sex and gay people and woman - so pointing to controversy and not calling it out better is a real problem. Do better in the future, please.
"They say today's obsession could become yesterday's news." lol, I hope whoever said that felt very ashamed of themselves and their powers of prediction!
The news media has always been so shady! Even back then, madonna was a no talent,, Madonna could not sing, and Madonna could not go much further in the business…… They said it all and none of it was true.
30 years after EROTICA and this era is considered Madonna ARTISTIC PEAK by both the ART WORLD and by the ARTISTS (not just musicians but all kind of artists). Her "SEX" book is also considered an work of art (and ended up selling over 1.5 milion copies in US and 5 million copies worldwide before going out of print 1 year after release after the 4th edition). "Erotica" did not flop (its sales were already over 6 million copies 1 year after release) but compared Madonna previous studio album "Like a Prayer" that sold over 14 millions worldwide during the first year it had less than half the sales (so it was not the huge smash expected from Madonna). "Erotica" sales are now way over 7 million copies and certainly isn't Madonna best selling album or one of the best selling albums of all time (she already have 11 albums that sold over 10 million copies each by now) but it certainly isn't a flop that's for sure!. The "Erotica" album sales were certainly hurt by the hanger against Madonna expressing herself and her sexuality in both her "Sex" book and "Body of Evidence" movie (especially in US but in other countries did hurt a bit as well too). "Erotica" was certified 2xPlatinum in US (for sales over 2 million) 3 months after release in January 1993. In UK it was certified 2xPlatinum for sales over 600k in June 1993. The album is still undercertificed in most world countries as Warner Music decided not to recertified it ever since. As 2022 is Madonna 40 year carreer anniversary (and "Erotica" album 30 year anniversary) it will probably gain some re-certifications in some countries. I remember reading an article on the left page of a magazine in summer 1993 about Madonna latest album "Erotica" being a big flop as it "only" sold 5 million copies worldwide during the first 6 months after release and another article on right page of the magazine saying another artist album was an huge success as it had sold over 2 million copies worldwide during the first year 😅 Talk about double standards!😁😄🤣
The most proper and professional artist in the interview ever. Her answers always sound smart. Her behaviour during almost all interviews is always appropriate and intellectual. There are a few moments of flaws. But most of it... Professional!
Any criticism directed Madonna's way around 1992-94 is about people back then not liking her showcasing gays in a sexy light and/or her showing women owning their sexuality. Its because of Madonna that today's women in music are so sexualized and she had to breakdown barriers like she was doing in 1992. Society let Nirvana talk about suicide in 1992 with the Nevermind album but somehow she's "too far"? Please, a lot of Madonna critics hate powerful women and/or gays!
This era was really the first explicit sexual content I was made aware of. The sex book, erotica, Body of Evidence. All very eye opening and sexy to say the least. But growing up and society I think becoming more tense in general, a lot of this stuff almost seems tame
