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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.

Pride anthem did THAT!

Awful imo. Clunky lyricism, strained vocals, tinny production, bad diction... so, not a new sound at all.

I'll be coming for the Applause soon too! Telephone on my radar too~

I have very fond memories of the original Talk talk! It blasted out in a winery in Canada that summer when I was with my sister and niece in one of the most magical days in recent time for me. I associate the song with that memory every time I hear it now. It had to be a top score for me! Deserved so much better here.

Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) Til It Happens To You Hold My Hand Going to get tough very soon!

If it gets her a hit, I'd be here for it though but yes, not hugely excited by this!

Voted sombr and Zayn!

SOMEONE VOTE GONE !!!

Let us know what you think of it!

I missed yesterday's! Back on it today:

Kath has taken a step back from the site, so we welcome a new forum moderator: @Jade ! Let's continue the iconique brat hard work of Kath!

Hello Goodbye HUGE favourite of mine. Those two remixes deserved much better too, wth :(

These is a decent album, much better than Perrie's if I had to compare. It is very budget-Rihanna in places but that's not a bad thing given we are starved of Rih's music right now!

WHY WASN'T HOW BAD DO U WANT ME A SINGLE :(

Do people actually like this or is it just because it is a new Lana song? It's awful imo~ so try hard, I literally cannot

Mean Girls the weakest of the original album tracks, it's true. Oh kweensha done dirty - deserved higher!!!

HYPE FOR THE RESULTS! thanks for stepping in ⬛️

WHY WASN'T VANISH INTO YOU A SINGLE :(

I DID IT (STILL THERE)!!! SO HAPPY I DID

I will do this, just keep reminding me if I haven't by the time it is closed.

Not the most unique score but it's done

#1!!! SO HAPPY

There is a night out near me dedicated to 15 years of Born This Way. A whole night of nothing but Gaga and this entire album being played! ... I have no one to go with though because my usual are all busy :( do I brave it alone!?