![]() The production choices suggest not a celebration of the physical but a critique of commercial representations of sex - whether Paul Verhoeven’s, Bruce Weber’s or Madonna’s - that by definition should not be mistaken for the real thing. Moving claustrophobically within the schematic confines of dominance and submission, Erotica plays out its fantasies with astringent aloofness, unhumid and uninviting. She may have intended to rattle America with hot talk about oral gratification and role switching, but sensuality is the last thing on the album’s mind. Erotica is a post-AIDS album about romance - it doesn’t so much evoke sex as provide a fetishistic abstraction of it. Chilly, deliberate, relentlessly posturing. It took Madonna ten years, but she finally made the record everyone has accused her of making all along. On November 26 1992, Rolling Stone magazine published their review of Madonna’s Erotica album, written by Arion Berger: The mixes don’t stray too far from the original’s winning recipe, but, with nearly 45 minutes worth of dance beats, one can hardly say this single doesn’t satisfy. The fifth and sixth versions are dub mixes, while the seventh is little more than a few extra minutes of bonus dub beats, which, in the long run, wind up being somewhat indistinguishable from one another. The fourth mix is a basically the extended album version, which, in the breakdown, substitutes piano for the Spanish guitars. This single begins with an edit of the album mix, followed by two stripped-down house mixes (featuring a sample from Vogue where “Greta Garbo, Greta Garbo” is repeated throughout the song). The single includes seven versions, which are all club mixes of a song that was a club hit to begin with. The song, in its regular album form, is a dance epic. Jose Promis (AllMusic) had this to say about the single:ĭeeper and Deeper was the second single released from Madonna’s Erotica album. Deeper & Deeper was Madonna’s 14th number-one hit on the chart. ![]() 1985 was going to be her year.On January 30 1993, Madonna’s Deeper & Deeper hit number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club chart in the USA. ![]() By Christmas 1984, Madonna was enjoying her first stateside chart-topper, with Madonna-mania just around the corner. America – and then the rest of the world – started to take serious notice. But a frothy, irreverent live performance of this about-to-be-released track at the first MTV Video Awards, in September 1984, is the stuff of legend. It had been 24 months since the release of her first single, the club hit Everybody, and the subsequent breakthrough of singles like Lucky Star had built her profile nicely. With a self-produced biopic seemingly in the works, it simply must include these 20 Madonna songs.įorever earning its place among the Madonna’s best songs, this Nile Rogers-produced slab of 80s dance-pop shot Madonna’s career into the stratosphere. Name any other artist that would – or could – release singles as diverse as the whimsical Dear Jessie, the anthemic Vogue, the swing pastiche of Hanky Panky and then the steamy Justify My Love in just a 12-month stretch? While her vice-like grip on radio-play and the international sales charts might have faltered in recent years, she appears finally to be taking stock and letting her legacy do some of the shouting. The mistress of reinvention is an accomplished balladeer, an indisputable dance legend – she’s enjoyed no less than 50 Billboard Dance Club No.1s to date – and the ultimate genre chameleon, always with one eye on what’s happening next and how it might serve her.Īt her peak, the pace was giddy. Sifting through more than 80 singles, 14 studio albums, countless soundtracks and compilations, selecting the best Madonna songs isn’t for the faint-hearted.
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