A hot club hit from Halloween pasts. Seductive, funky, sexy and naughty. Madonna brings all to a boil like a witch’s cauldron.
The song is not for the faint at heart. This is the 4-minute mix of this awesome track. There is an 11-minute cut of this. Once we find it, we’ll put it up for our readers.
Kisses from PARIS!!!
ABOUT:
“Erotica” is a song by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It is the title track from her fifth studio album Erotica (1992), and was released as the album’s lead single on September 29, 1992 by Maverick Records. It was later included on her greatest hits albums GHV2 (2001) and Celebration (2009). The song was written by Madonna, Shep Pettibone and Anthony Shimkin, while production was handled by the singer and Pettibone. Musically, “Erotica” contains spoken word vocals, and is an ode to S&M, with Madonna using a pseudonym called “Dita”. She invites her lover to be passive while making love to her and leads him to explore boundaries between pain and pleasure. The vocals of Luther Vandross are sampled from the song ‘The Best Things In Life Are Free’. You can hear a little of Janet in the background as well if you listen closely in the clearer Bass Hit Dub. The song debuted at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the highest debuts on the chart history at the time, eventually peaking at number three. Additionally, it became a success on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, reaching the top position. “Erotica” also found commercial success internationally, peaking in the Top 10 in several countries including Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In Italy and Greece it peaked at number one. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by fashion photographer Fabien Baron, and features Madonna dressed as a masked dominatrix interspersed with footage of the making of the singer’s Sex book, with cameos by celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Big Daddy Kane. The video was highly controversial, being aired by MTV only three times, all after the 10pm watershed, before being completely banned. Madonna performed “Erotica” on three of her concert tours, the first being on The Girlie Show World Tour (1993), the Confessions Tour (2006) and most recently on The MDNA Tour (2012). The song has also been covered and parodied by several artists. In 1992, Madonna founded her own multi-media entertainment company, Maverick, consisting of a record company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), and associated music publishing, television broadcasting, book publishing and merchandising divisions. The first two projects from the venture were her fifth studio album, Erotica, and a coffee table book of photographs featuring Madonna, entitled Sex. For the album, Madonna primarily collaborated with producer Shep Pettibone. Pettibone first began working with Madonna during the 1980s, providing remixes for several of her singles. Alongside Pettibone, Madonna enlisted help from producer André Betts, who previously co-produced “Justify My Love” for The Immaculate Collection. Madonna said that she was interested to work with Pettibone and Betts due to their ability to remain plugged into the dance underground, “They come from opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of their music style and approach to music, but they’re both connected to the street and they’re still young and hungry”. According to Pettibone in an article “Erotica Diaries” published on Madonna’s Icon magazine, he produced a tape with four songs, for Madonna to listen to, before he traveled to Chicago, where she was filming A League of Their Own. She listened to the songs and liked all of them. After filming was complete, Madonna met Pettibone in New York City to start working together in November 1991. Their schedule was sporadic in the beginning. They were in the studio for a week and then she would work with Steven Meisel on Sex, for two weeks. Occasionally, Madonna also would meet André Betts. The first batch of songs Madonna and Pettibone worked on were “Erotica”, “Deeper and Deeper”, “Rain” and “Thief of Hearts”; she would write the lyrics as Pettibone worked on the music. Pettibone recalled that the singer preferred to be in control of the writing process because “her songs are her stories. They’re the things she wants to say”. “Erotica” received generally positive reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic highlighted the song as an album standout, calling it “some of Madonna’s best and most accomplished music”. Rolling Stone’s Arion Berger wrote: “‘Erotica’ […] promise[s] a smorgasbord of sexual experimentation, like the one portrayed in the video for ‘Justify My Love’. But the sensibility of ‘Erotica’ is miles removed from the warm come-ons of ‘Justify’, which got its heat from privacy and romance […] The Madonna of ‘Erotica’ is in no way interested in your dreams; she’s after compliance”; he called the song “‘Vogue’ with a dirty mouth, where all the real actions on the dance floor.”