November 18, 20223 yr The radio remix for 'Rain' is okay but dates it a bit, I don't really think it was necessary as the song as it is feels very radio-friendly. Does anyone remember if radio did favour this version? I was hoping we'd get a HD upload of the 'Rain' music video along with the EP. :( 'Up Down Suite' is such a catchy instrumental. A shame Madonna couldn't get 'Goodbye to Innocence' to a point she was happy with, I think a finished version with some of the "up down" phrases from 'Up Down Suite' included would have been really good.
November 19, 20223 yr Up Down Suite did 173k on streams in its first 7 days, compared to 78k for Rain (video edit), 38k for Rain (radio remix) and 27k for Waiting (remix). The original Rain did 73k. Info from UKMIX.
November 22, 20223 yr Author This is a great one to have in HD with all the vibrant colours, costuming and aesthetics. While it's far from my favourite song from her, the video is so intoxicating *_*
November 27, 20223 yr Madonna's been posting on her Instagram about a Sex re-release this upcoming week alongside new photos. This is a caption next to one of the photos: I’d like to put you in a trance. …………… YSL presents SEX-Re-Release 💦 Miami Nov 29- Dec 4
November 29, 20223 yr This is a great one to have in HD with all the vibrant colours, costuming and aesthetics. While it's far from my favourite song from her, the video is so intoxicating *_* I agree, in a way it feels like a prelude to the 'Bedtime Stories' video with it's surrealist aesthetic. I prefer the remix used in the video to the one in the album, the production is similar to that of 'Thief of Hearts' and I think sets it further apart from the famous Peggy Lee version.
December 1, 20223 yr Bye Bye Baby single will be coming to digital/streaming on 2nd December! Out tonight! @1598360492535599109
August 27, 20232 yr So ahead of my Celebration tour show I’ve decided to relisten to every Madonna solo album. And todays listen of Erotica was like a whole new experience. I’ve never liked it as much as I did today! I ranked it 12th of her studio albums back in 2019 when I last did a full discography listen but it sounded so fresh and cohesive today that I think it’ll definitely be bumped up. I need to sort of delve back in and listen more as it doesn’t actually sound dated much at all for a 1992 album it’s really ahead of its time. She sounds great on it too and lyrically it’s stronger than I think I give credit for. Erotica I’m so sorry!
February 25Feb 25 Author Just finished reading the Pitchfork review. Some highlights on the album:Sex, death, and world domination would be a heady combination for any artist, and Erotica both courted and was overwhelmed by controversy. Made with unprecedented resources, Madonna’s fifth album represented one of the most high-profile and musically accomplished releases of her career. It also stands as her first outright stumble, marking the end of her unrivaled domination over pop culture. It is an uneasy record that is both interior and communal, pitched between the bedroom, the dancefloor, and the analyst’s couch. Rather than reflecting the tumult of the wider world, the album creates a contained universe where the fantasies are as compelling as the contradictions. This is a dance record that recreates a nightclub’s liberation on a corporate scale, that flaunts its sexuality while grappling with matters of life and death.Where Sex is dedicated to pure sensation, Erotica touches on more painful and conflicted feelings. A cold breeze blows through the record, and the liberated nightclub scenes within are never totally removed from the wider world without. While a number of songs double down on steaminess, there are just as many concerned with drift, transience, and the pits of being down and out in love. Dance music’s pleasure principle is still present in Shep Pettibone and Andre Betts’ production, but it often feels muted, brittle, and slightly hollowed out. In a review for Rolling Stone, Arion Berger singled out the tension between Madonna’s sultry vocals and the chilliness of the underlying tracks. “[Erotica’s] cold, remote sound systematically undoes every one of the singer’s intimate promises,” she wrote. “Her [music] teases and then denies with the grim control of a dominatrix.”I need to revisit the album after reading this, such a daring project.
