Gramma is getting UP THERE in age, huh? Actually, this anniversary makes ME feel old. No betraying my age, but I will confess that I was dancing around to the sleazy club beats of Erotica on a…this hurts to type…Sony Discman. Look, you knew I wasn’t some wet-behind-the-taint twink co-writing this blog.
Yesterday marked the day Madonna’s one-two punch (her hyped-to-hell Sex book and it’s companion album – Erotica) hit us in the face (and wallets) 20 years ago. It was probably the apex of Material Yenta’s shock-til’-you-drop with controversy career assault. She really hasn’t hit those screaming heights of attention-whoring since those halcyon weeks in 1992. It seemed like a daily occurence when she was shoving her pussy in all of our faces, dallying with Vanilla Ice in her mylar-wrapped (think of the children!) coffee table book’s over-sized pages, and embarking on “The Girlie Show” tour as “Dita.” She was your mistress that night.
Remember when MTV would only play the “Erotica” video very early in the morning or very late at night? Weird. Cuz’ it’s over on YouTube just as plain as day and the only really controversial aspect of it now is watching Ms. Isabella Rosellini frolicking with Madge in the surf. Because it makes you wonder just how much her Ingrid Bergman’s daughter’s ass got paid to go slummin’!
Madge has TRIED to stay somewhat shocking (go here for deets on all the kinda sad antics she’s pulled on her current tour), but the thing is – there isn’t really much for a almost Nana-aged superstar to bowl us over with nowadays. My advice? Leave that rebellion to the kids coming up behind you, and perhaps focus on the music a little more? I’m a giant Madge fan, but I can barely name more than two songs off MDNA. Oh, how I long for the days of “Deeper and Deeper” and the title track and that one song she had on Erotica about how eating pussy doesn’t make you fat.
Follow the break for pics from Sex and a look back at the “Erotica” video. Skinhead lesbians tying Madge up! Interracial writhing with Naomi Campbell and Big Daddy Kane! TOE SUCKING! That was some kinky shit back in the day.
– J. Harvey
With the exception of “Ray of Light”, Madonna never really got back her stride after “Erotica”. Deeper and Deeper, Rain, and one of my absolute favorites Thief of Hearts were part of her Shep Pettibone era greatest. MDNA wasn’t too bad, but she released the weakest songs from that album. I’m Addicted was so great as was Gang Bang and I Don’t Give a F, yet none were ever released. She still makes $5 million dollars per concert (!!!) in sales, so she really doesn’t seem to need hits anymore. She has ventured into the territory of other artists (Rolling Stones, U2, Bruce Springstreen) who will release new material more for their fans and touring material and less as Top 40 material.
With the exception of “Ray of Light”, Madonna never really got back her stride after “Erotica”. Deeper and Deeper, Rain, and one of my absolute favorites Thief of Hearts were part of her Shep Pettibone era greatest. MDNA wasn’t too bad, but she released the weakest songs from that album. I’m Addicted was so great as was Gang Bang and I Don’t Give a F, yet none were ever released. She still makes $5 million dollars per concert (!!!) in sales, so she really doesn’t seem to need hits anymore. She has ventured into the territory of other artists (Rolling Stones, U2, Bruce Springstreen) who will release new material more for their fans and touring material and less as Top 40 material.
rrromance?
rrromance?
rrromance?
rrromance?
will she ever go away.
will she ever go away.
will she ever go away.
I certainly hope she doesn’t do any more nude PR shots, the poor dear is really past her prime and there is just so much one can do with an air brush.
I certainly hope she doesn’t do any more nude PR shots, the poor dear is really past her prime and there is just so much one can do with an air brush.
I certainly hope she doesn’t do any more nude PR shots, the poor dear is really past her prime and there is just so much one can do with an air brush.
I guess my take, all the ‘young ones’ trying to bowl anyone over by rehashing antics that were played pretty perfectly neigh on 20 years ago…should also be looking for new material and also might consider focusing more on the music and less on their alleged career probelling ‘image’.
Madonna has pushed boundries her whole career… now she’s challenging us on what it means to age and what “age appropriate” is… fuck that shit… I don’t care if every 20 year old, Gaga-loving Little Monster wants Madonna to “go away”… the fact is they are as scared of her pushing boundries as much now as people were 20 years ago… rebels, provacteurs and trend-setters are always feared and hated… she’s been tarred and feathers 50 times, but she’s still here and she’s still making us face our shit. LOVE HER for that.
You are right… Erotica is now on YouTube and no one cares… that’s because she has made talking about and expressing your sexuality socially acceptable. She also was one of our strongest and vocal gay allies at a time when we were at our most hated and vulnerable, due to post-Stonewall backlash and AIDS. LOVE her for that, too.
FYI, J. Harvey… if you are a fan like you claim, you’d know that she is not a grandma… none of her children have children. Please keep your sexist, ageist bullshit out of future posts… thanks!
Madonna has pushed boundries her whole career… now she’s challenging us on what it means to age and what “age appropriate” is… fuck that shit… I don’t care if every 20 year old, Gaga-loving Little Monster wants Madonna to “go away”… the fact is they are as scared of her pushing boundries as much now as people were 20 years ago… rebels, provacteurs and trend-setters are always feared and hated… she’s been tarred and feathers 50 times, but she’s still here and she’s still making us face our shit. LOVE HER for that.
You are right… Erotica is now on YouTube and no one cares… that’s because she has made talking about and expressing your sexuality socially acceptable. She also was one of our strongest and vocal gay allies at a time when we were at our most hated and vulnerable, due to post-Stonewall backlash and AIDS. LOVE her for that, too.
FYI, J. Harvey… if you are a fan like you claim, you’d know that she is not a grandma… none of her children have children. Please keep your sexist, ageist bullshit out of future posts… thanks!
Madonna has pushed boundries her whole career… now she’s challenging us on what it means to age and what “age appropriate” is… fuck that shit… I don’t care if every 20 year old, Gaga-loving Little Monster wants Madonna to “go away”… the fact is they are as scared of her pushing boundries as much now as people were 20 years ago… rebels, provacteurs and trend-setters are always feared and hated… she’s been tarred and feathers 50 times, but she’s still here and she’s still making us face our shit. LOVE HER for that.
You are right… Erotica is now on YouTube and no one cares… that’s because she has made talking about and expressing your sexuality socially acceptable. She also was one of our strongest and vocal gay allies at a time when we were at our most hated and vulnerable, due to post-Stonewall backlash and AIDS. LOVE her for that, too.
FYI, J. Harvey… if you are a fan like you claim, you’d know that she is not a grandma… none of her children have children. Please keep your sexist, ageist bullshit out of future posts… thanks!
it’s so boring … she’s “OLD” … “past her prime” … she’s had these follow her career and she’s still shone … go Madonna!
“Erotica” was such an underrated album. “Thief of Hearts” was such an awesome song (“stop bitch, now sit your ass down”)! And the song about pussy not making you fat was “Where Life Begins”. And you think you’re old, I had this album on cassette tape! I’m so excited she will be here in concert in 10 days!
A couple of pics in Sex also had the late great Gorgeous gay porn hunk Joey Stefano <3
I still like Madonna, but she used to present things as a whole production. Music, look, act/controversy. Imho after Ray of Light it got reversed to act/controversy, look, music. & as a result her music suffered. I did like Music, but I went from liking every song on her albums, to liking half, to a few. She needs to concentrate on the music, not the guest artists or producers to be "current", not try to capture the latest music fad, just make Her music.
Thank you. I have been properly cowed.
Thank you. I have been properly cowed.
Thanks, sweetums 🙂 kisses!!
Im in the Jack McFarland viewpoint of her…. I want to go back to a happier time when Rosie O’Donnell was funny and Madonna was relevant. It’s not that I don’t think she was a groundbreaker, I just don’t like her as a person. She is rude and dismissive of her fans and just uses the gay community like an accessory to try and keep herself relevant. Go away already.
Im in the Jack McFarland viewpoint of her…. I want to go back to a happier time when Rosie O’Donnell was funny and Madonna was relevant. It’s not that I don’t think she was a groundbreaker, I just don’t like her as a person. She is rude and dismissive of her fans and just uses the gay community like an accessory to try and keep herself relevant. Go away already.
Erotica is a very underrated album. There is some good stuff on there.