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Thanks for watching! This was definitely an interesting album to listen to, a lot more "seasoned" in terms of concepts and lyrics, I really enjoyed the overall experience. What do you guys think? What are your favorite songs? Do you have any fun stories or fond memories about this album? Leave a comment!
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Sisley Reacts my favorites are rain, deeper and deeper and secret garden
This album was such a grower, it's definitely her most artistic album she had done at the time...my faves are Bad Girl, Waiting, Where Life Begins, Rain and Deeper and Deeper. The videos were amazing as well, the tour was incredible. Definitely one of her best ever and one of the most controversial and most iconic albums of the 90s.
My favs song is thief of hearts, erotica, waiting, where life begins, words, why it's so hard 💖
Sisley Reacts React to Ray of Light album, OMG that album is Madonna's best ever. It's like a spiritual journey. Lyrics are so deep. It's amazing
Since you liked "Bad Girl" you really should check out the video for it. IMO one of the top 10 all time best videos ever. Directed by the great David Fincher and featuring Christopher Walken it is a mini suspense/drama movie
Timeless album. Underrated. A head of its time. Love Madonna
TOTALLY ahead of its time.
Timeless, underrated, a perfect masterpiece, madonna at her best !
Thank you for giving an honest reaction and not just pandering to your subscribers. I really appreciate that. You are definitely right that this album was a product of its time,. Not just sonically, but culturally. Before this album a woman never sang about oral sex, or AIDS or S&M with such conviction and without apology. There was a huge backlash. It was 92 and some people think she never fully recovered, commercially. The album itself was not as big of a commercial success as her previous LAP, not by millions.. the subsequent music videos and interviews didn’t help because America wasn’t ready to see a woman be so aggressive in her sexuality and stance. It was part of a larger cultural moment that was happening at the time. Woman were supposed to be meek and subservient, this album was not that. It rubbed people the wrong way. 26 years later people understand this album for what it was , a post-feminist album, that lead the way for other female pop stars ( Gaga , perry, and Beyoncé) to follow through. I think as u dive into the music videos and tour performances it will come together for u. Try not to look at the album as a collection of just songs and music, but more as a cultural wave that swept over American. Helping to break boundaries and mirror the hypocrisy that we we’re afraid to look at. Sometimes we still are. ❤️🙏🏻
Forget "without apology", artists -male or female - weren't really singing about AIDS at all. Not on the mainstream level that Madonna was, anyhow. I do think the backlash had more to do with how she saturated the theme. We had the SEX book, we had the explicit film Body Of Evidence, we had the sexually themed album.. it was just A LOT. And it definitely created a backlash. Critics are able to look back now and see the album for what it is, thankfully.
This album does grown on you and was very impactful at the time - this was Madonna really setting herself up as an artist that would challenge misogyny, homophobia and stand up for a woman’s right to have self determination over her own sexuality. Deeper and Deeper, Rain, Waiting and Secret Garden are my highlights. I think you will love the live version of Rain from the Girlie Show for the spectacular harmonies.
This album was groubdbreaking in terms of musical production and how the audience would percieve pop artists. It was a pop album but Madonna decided to be more experimental. It was a statement in terms of creative and artistic expresion. It was different from everything else that was popular by that time.
It was a serious, adult album, with deeper lyrics and dark sounds.
When this album came out it was a commercial failure, because of the sexual content and all the controversy around it, but the thing is, it wasn't a commercial album. It was pure art. And that's why it ended up being a cult album for Madonna fans. I grew up listening to this album in my childhood. It doesn't have any dance hits, it's an album to sit down and listen to with your eyes closed.
Now wait to see the videos. They will blow you away.
Miguel Nuñez I don’t think it was a commercial failure but in Terms to sales of previous albums yes.
Miguel Nuñez Deeper and Deeper is a dance hit!!
In this Life is about her friends who died of AIDs.
Your reaction during Where Life Begins was a great watch! 😂
Sex on sound, best quality track ever made by Madonna ... the details, the atmosphere, that piano ... uf!
haha!! sisley's face expressions during that song made me laugh!!
what I didn't get is why she laughed about "can you make a fire without using wood". what is that line really means?
Guy Madison haha I dunno if I can reply to it here but the song is about foreplay and fornication, with “where life begins” being the female private part. And what’s not to laugh about “wood” it’s also another term for a boner.
I haven't read all the comments, so I may be repeating others, but its interesting to see someone react to Erotica who was born after it was released. Erotica was intentionally very unpolished. You mentioned how it felt darker and grittier, that was on purpose. This is sometimes referred to as Madonna's AIDS album. It was recorded around the time she lost two close friends to the disease. Her dance instructor and also Keith Haring, a good friend and artist. She wanted the album to almost have an underproduced sound. You mention that "generic 90's rhythm, and you have to realize that at the time Madonna released this, that sound was just coming to mainstream. So it didn't sound generic at all, but very fresh. The edgy beats sounded totally unique on the radio.
Deeper and Deeper is my favorite track from the album, and Waiting is one of my all-time favorite Madonna songs in her entire catalog. This album is very close to the hearts of her gay fans, because of the subject matter. Madonna was a gay icon before this album was released, but this was the point that really cemented that relationship. I have to admit, I was a bit sad at your initial reaction to the tracks.
Jesse Andrew ☝🏼THIS!
Amen!
Thank you for sharing this. Comments like these really make me appreciate her art and the messages behind her music even more. I admire Madonna's cultural impact, especially when it comes to women's sexuality and the LGBT+ community. Even though I may have not enjoyed the sound as much, the concept of this album and the lyrics in the songs resonate with me and I appreciate them ❤
It’s called 90’s house music. Fever, the second track is a cover of a popular 1960’s song
I think Peggy Lees version was recorded in '57 or '58. Elvis covered it in the 60s. Well, and everyone else. LOL Its like one of the most covered songs out there I think?
I absolutely loved your reaction of Rain!! Epic!!
As said below, even though this album was an experimental, feminist and serious one you should put it in the context of its era, so then you will enjoy how brave and controversial this whole album was.
I’m waiting for your video’s reactions, you’ll love them. And performances? Ufff the opening of The Girlie Show Tour is stunning: Erotica/Fever performance gives the album atmosphere a whole new level!
I remember kicking, screaming and begging for my parents to buy me this album when I was 10!! Funny looking back... I had no idea what I was singing along to!! 😂😳
The accompanying videos and The Girlie Show tour will make you grow more fond of the album and appreciate her even more as an artist! My fave Madonna album by far!
A bit of trivia for you... “Did You Do It?” Was actually a practical joke the producers played on Madonna after she went back to the studio expecting to listen to the finished “Waiting” track... they thought she would lose it, but she loved it and decided to add it as a bonus track 😊As always, I love your Madonna reviews!!
Your reaction to Rain was amazing...my favourite Madonna album...you will love the Bad Girl and Rain videos!
True, to best videos from the album. Fever being a close third. Love that her body was completely covered in silver paint, she looked like a Goddess.
Every time I listen to this album in it's entirety, "Rain" hits you like a hurricane. It's unexpected and an brilliant reprieve from the production of the rest of the album. I love "Erotica" but it's definitely one of those grower albums that is not as accessible as her other work. It requires more attention and thought. I also do think some of the production does sound similar, but it probably is one of Madonna's most coherent albums and the message and image behind "Erotica" probably makes this her most important work. Also, I think we should have warned you that this was definitely a 90s, underground, urban House album filtered through Madonna's mainstream pop sensibility. I don't think you were expecting that so you weren't prepared for some 90s house music. I think house music is something one has to grow into like progressive rock or some other more experimental music genres. This isn't an album for bops.
SDoesNotKnow I also think house music is one of those things where you would’ve had to come up listening to it in order to understand it and enjoy it. I grew up on 90s underground club music thanks to my Dad, and Madonna’s music always had that edge to it.
Yaaaaas finally i love this álbum 💖💖
One other point I have to make, in all your Madonna critiques, the track length comes up. You should know that the 3-4 minute dance tracks is a relatively new thing in the last 20 years or so. Throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, dance pop was expected to be 4-6 minutes in length. That is why you had what was known as the "radio edit". Each of Madonna's singles had a radio version that clocked in at around 3:30 on average. If you were to listen to Immaculate Collection you would see that each track is between 3-4 minutes.
I don't understand why anyone would want a dance/bop/pop track to be short. Its intended to get up and make you groove. If you listen to Donna Summer albums from the 70s, New Order or Pet Shop Boys albums from the 80s, or Black Box, Deee-Lite, Chemical Brothers, etc albums from the 90s, you'll see that its very standard to have tracks this length. Ive never even thought of them as long until I noticed how often you referenced you thought they were long.
Videos and Singles:
Erotica
Fever
Bad Girl
Deeper and Deeper
Rain
Plenty of Live performances too....
We need to include I'll Remember from this era, too. Soundtrack song to the film With Honors, and an official music video was shot and released in 1993. Gorgeous Madonna ballad, produced by William Orbit, who would later produce Ray Of Light, her next masterpiece.
I'll Remember was produced by Madonna along with Patrick Leonard. William Orbit did a remix for it though.
You must must must watch the Girlie Show performance of FEVER & the video to Rain!!!
I love your reaction to Rain, it is one of her best ballads.
She needs to see the video, it''s just gorgeous!
Yes, one of her best ballads. Can't believe its not on GHV2 or Celebration. It was a top 20 hit in the US, and one of her fans favorite ballads. Breaks my heart.
Marcus Reindl Sisley will react to it!😘💋 she’s going through the Queen’s works chronologically, the album then the accompanying videos.
Jesse Andrew I doubt that she had any control of that decision, especially Celebration. She was already on the way out of Warner Music at the time.
Also respect to you for being a genuine honest reactor, Erotica is a fave by loads of Madonna fans, me included, but it's cool for you to be honest and say you only liked certain songs on first listen or liked albums like Like A Prayer or True Blue better.
You might get back to this one after you know her whole back catalogue or seen all the videos to this era and it might grow on you, because even for me it was a grower, not super instant and i thought it was samey in the beginning as well, then i started to really love it, the lyrics, its cohesiveness etc. or you might not and have other of her albums that you get back to and that's totally fine :) great channel
You have to watch Rain the video and the live performance of it in the Girlie Show.
Also, watch Deeper and Deeper video, then the live performances in the Girlie Show (which leads to Why It's so Hard and In This Life, and you will understand these songs even more).
one of my favorite albums of her!!! cant wait to see ur react to her videos "Erotica" and "Rain" her best
Erotica was one of my fav videos when it came out, but I don't feel its aged as well as others. I feel the same way about Deeper and Deeper. Its still a fun video that gives hommage to Andy Warhol, and its still my fav song on the album, but in comparison others the video is a bit of a snore. BAD GIRL, RAIN, FEVER, these are the highlight videos from this album.
Now 90s Madonna is a truly interesting magical beast.... As you know on the journey thus far her first three albums were very much for the HITS and big anthems, messages in catchy hooks, captivating visuals and big moments.... Like a Prayer was her first ALBUM album in that it had concept, visuals, creativity, cativating artistry and a timelessness.... which continued into I'm Breathless... here with Erotica it is very interesting to see your initial reactions to it in that the main focus is on the beats/rhythms/productions..... and the first album to really focus on it....the messages, the sounds, the styles... as each song really is personal and raw....hopefully videos and performances from the era shall hit it bigger for you.... it is a transgressive era for Madonna leading into her very best era of music IMO ;-) ... also to point out DITA was the alter ego she recorded as in this album hence the storng concepts.
"Rain" is a beautiful song and the video is AMAZING!!! ❤❤
I love your reaction to Words. The best song from 90's Madonna!
I love your reaction to Rain. You're going to die when you watch the music video, its equally gorgeous. You should know before watching that it was shot in black & white and colorized. So the colors are intense. Which... the whole thing is predominately blue, including Madonna's eyes. Its gorgeous.
Deeper and Deeper is my favorite! Not my favorite Madonna album compared to many other from her discography, but it's still one good album!
Deeper and Deeper is highly underappreciated. It kills me it didn't make the cut for Celebration. I've always wanted the David Morales mix that was featured on MTV's Party To GO series to show up on a compilation. I love that mix because its so clean and polished.
Also there is so much to check out from this era...the Bad Girl video is my fave from her ever, it's like a mini movie...Rain video is gorgeous, she's never looked better, the Bad Girl live performance from SNL is one of her best vocals ever...i love how this album is so dark, gritty...she certainly wasn't going for a pure pop teen market here and challenged herself and her fans.
Rain was a single ! Yay 🤗. It’s a beautiful song
You know what else is beautiful? You!
This is my fave Madonna album! I think you should react to Bad Girl & Fever SNL performances there some of her best vocal performances ever! As well as Bye Bye Baby MTV Vma 1993 performance. I think you would really LOVE Kylie Minogue's music you should react to her entire discography! You would love her 80s albums there very upbeat and a lot of fun!
Loved this reaction and I totally embrace your feelings on it. Yes, this is one of my favorite Madonna albums now, but it did take a while, like a couple of years to really make me love it. Yes, it was the 90s production that put me off a bit. It's also a very long sit-thru album. However It's my 2nd favorite album and it's beautiful in different ways. I was expecting you to not love it at first listen, I doubt any of us did. It's a hard album to swallow.
You must get used to this album. I used to dislike it back in the 90's but now Erotica is my 2nd favorite Madonna album (behind only True Blue). Bad Girl is such an underrated masterpiece
One of her best albums💙💙💙💙
This album is a grower. Took me years to fully appreciate it. It helps to put it into context of Madonna’s discography since 1992. It also helps to like 90s era house music lol. My favorite songs are “waiting” and “secret garden”
Your reaction to Rain is everything! 🌧 ♥️
This is such a great album Sisley. definitely it needs more than one listen to appreciate it. It’s my fave Madonna reaction you have done so far.
The video for Rain is still one of my favorite videos of hers ever. It was beautifully done especially for the early 90s.
When I first started to get into madonna I skipped Erotica because how generic the production was but then I really listened and fell in LOVE and now it son my to 3 fav madonna albums. My favorite song is rain 🌧
My favorite Madonna Album. Hands down. PS your reactions throughout Rain gave me LOLs.
I beg you to react to at least one performance from The Girlie Show.
She should just watch the whole show It is a masterpiece of art.
I thought the same ... I’d live her to watch the tour , she really brought power to the stage.
Placing bets that your favorite videos will be BAD GIRL, RAIN, and FEVER. They are artistic, visually stunning videos. Erotica is sexy, her look is iconic, but it gets a bit tired after a while. It didnt age as well as the Justify My Love video, which is true art. Deeper and Deeper is my FAVORITE track on the album, and the video is an hommage to Studio 54 and Andy Warhol, and for that alone its fun. Madonna's wig is also fun. But compared to the first three videos I mentioned, its not quite as memorable.
Rain is a masterpiece!!!! Both song and the video! So ahead of it’s time! You reaction was very cool :)
You are so astute to all facets of popular music and culture and you have a great ear! BTW In This Life is a very serious song about the AIDS epidemic, which, at the time, was killing her friends. I was 22 when this came out and In This Life meant SO much to me (still does).
Donna De Lory and Niki Haris are back vocals
Definitely one of my favorite, if not favorite, album of Madonna’s. It is timeless, I feel it could be played today and be a hit. Unfortunately, again, this album was destroyed by critics because of her Sex book. Then of course years later critics praised how great it was. Same with American Life and the time it was released, again an amazing album.
Extremely underrated album when it was released, caught into the furore of the SEX book, when people tried (thank God, to no result!) to end her career. With Erotica she managed the absolute transition from Pop megastar to an Icon. Now, it is considered one of her greatest albums ever along with Like A Prayer, Confessions On A Dance Floor and Ray of Light. And of course, it contains Deeper & Deeper, perhaps Madonna’s greatest (dance) track ever💯
What makes Erotica my favourite Madonna album is how bold it is. Such a contrast to her discography up to that point!
I absolutely admire how the lyrics cover more than one aspect of sex (including the joy of sexual freedom and, remarkably, the sadness of death by AIDS); and how she sharply cut the 1980s pop sound and embraced this cold house music groove.
It's a dark and mature album that wasn't crafted particularly to please radio stations, and it was everything but a safe move for her as a popstar.
Thanks for the reaction; I hope that you can get to enjoy the album more as you get more familiar with its themes when you check at the singles and live performances of this era.
Sisley Erotica album is 26 years old today.
This album was majority dance-pop, but she varied many styles of this album:
House: ''Fever'', ''Deeper and Deeper'' (a House/dance/Latino), ''Words''
Hip-Hop: ''Bye Bye Baby'', ''Waiting'' (with influenced rap and jazz) ''Why's it so Hard''
Rap: ''Erotica'' (Funk, dance, rap, RnB), ''Thief of Hearts'' (Hip-hop/Rap)
Pop: ''Rain'', ''In this Life''
RnB: ''Where's Life Begins'' (RnB with influenced jazz), ''Bad Girl'' (RnB Ballad)
Jazz: ''Secret Garden'' (Jazz principally, but with influenced dance/house/Rap)
I love that your honest like when you are getting bored and aren’t afraid to say it and then of course like true Madonna she always gets you in the end
Love you, love you! You are too precious. A huge Madonna fan since the 80’s like to see younger people appreciate her catalogue! I can watch your videos for hours!
The singles of the album worldwide was ''Erotica'', ''Deeper and Deeper'', ''Bad Girl'' and ''Rain. ''Fever'' was release in Europe in single and the song was a radio single only in US. And ''Bye Bye Baby'' was released only in Australia when she was on tour on the ''Girlie Show''. ''Erotica'' created a blacklash at the time of the release of the single (it was the first single of the album) and the music video created a huge controversy because of his highly sexual charged. THe video played only three times in MTV during the night before it's was banned. It's was the second video of Madonna to banned on this channel after Justify My Love. Depist that, the song peaked in top 10 in 10 countrys at the time of the release.
Your reaction to Rain
This ALBUM is like tasting wine for the first time. You don't really enjoy it (or get it) until you've tried it a couple of times.
You are so articulate and intelligent, keep doing what you are doing, you will be famous
Madonna was/is the original bad bitch. I love her so much!!! She started it all after Marilyn Monroe. She’s so strong, special and diverse. She was before her time. She taught me that it is okay to be Pansexual, free and myself. I love her!!!
Rain is one of Madonna’s greatest songs!!!
You're a pretty knowledgable and engaging person to watch react to all these Madonna albums I grew up with. Thanks.
Yes this album is good from beginning to end and it’s cathartic.You have great taste in music btw there is a song by Madonna from just say roe the track is called goodbye to innocence
Watching you have a spiritual moment when rain hit was a true joy. 🤗
Your reaction to Rain was AMAZING.
Your reaction to Rain is everything. :)
Was amazing to see you hear and react to Rain for the first time ❤️
When you react to the Rain video, react to I'll Remember too, they have the same theme.
I love your reaction to Rain! It's my favourite track on the album too! Are you going to react to Madonna's videos too?
@25:05 the 13th Track that is titled 'Did You Do It?' is a mixed version of 'Waiting' (which is the 7th track) in Wikipedia features Mark Goodman and Dave Murph
Love your kind and fresh way of reviewing music! Sometimes it's so revealing it makes me listen some songs again.
WAITING is my all time favourite. Thanks for the Video dear
When you'll be reacting to Erotica's music video, could you react to the original uncut version? This will help you understand more the impact the era had on Madonna's career: ua-cam.com/video/y7Sk0r9O9h0/v-deo.html
As for the album, it took me time to like it, but it is now one of my favorites. It is a really unique one, and I think that Madonna was really bold to release such a record at a time where no female artists spoke about sex or AIDS!
There are 6 music videos from this era being:
-Erotica
-Deeper and Deeper
-Bad Girl (one of my all-time favorites)
-Fever
-Rain (this one is gorgeous)
-I'll Remember (a song from the With Honors soundtrack).
Then the next album is Bedtime Stories, which is completely different and is in my opinion even better (it used to be my favorite for quite some time).
It’s a sin not to react to the uncensored version of erotica. A SIN ! Lol
such a brilliant album & the tour - OMG!
Deeper and deeper, and Rain are my favourites off the album. Those are my go to songs when i listen to the album. Erotica, fever, bye bye baby, bad girl, thief of hearts, and why’s it so hard i like as well.
I agree with You on the 90's pop music thing. Ballads were more compelling than uptempos imo.
I can't wait to see you react to her music video for Rain...You're going to LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!
The video version of Fever is superior tbh
This album made me a fan for life and I was barely like 10 at the time. And you're right: Erotica album is very monotone/consistent house jazzy/house rhythm. It's very much a thematic album with specific beats, but that's part of its charm I believe. She knew what she wanted to say with it and went with it, lyrics and sound. Respect
Also, it is very very difficult for younger audience to fully appreciate what she was doing with this album and that "challenge the system" bit used to mean something completely different and this was her LGBTQ rights album, the group who had no rights and no mainstream presence in society at that time. We're forever in her debt for everything she has done.
great review!
Lolol I remember when I first stumbled upon Rain in High School I had it on repeat for months lol then I discovered she did a video and girlll it's on of my top ten madonna songs now
i knew your wig's gonna be in another dimension with Rain
You are a sweetheart!!
gurrrl you totally get madonnas humor and wit.
I love this album. Took me a while to get warmed up to when I first heard it in 1992 because it was so different sounding from what i was used to from her. It has become one of my favourites.
@madonnna please support that girl!
What a ear
You recognize material for a single e you didn't know
Yes deeper&deeper was one of a single out from erotica
you should react to the 2006 version of erotica
It's called "you thrill me" It was actually developed from the original demo of erotica and arranged for the confessions tour, so It's a COADF era song.
Also, I agreee with the production issues in this album, It's kind of boring. The only track where the generic Pettibone beat worked is Deeper and deeper, which is actually my favourite song of all time
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love your reactions
My favorites from this album are:
Erotica
Deeper and Deeper
Bad Girl
Rain
Yeeaaaas! Cool. React to 'bad gal' music video by Madonna)
Christopher Walken!!!
Can’t wait for you to react to Madonna’s next album Bedtime Stories. I think you’ll like it more. It’s a gem. One of my favorites from her :)
Sisley I watched your Erotica reaction again. I love it so so much.
I suggest giving 2-3 more listens as I think it will really grow on you.
my favorite album is confesión on dance 😍
I love your energy, you so get it !
I keep meaning to say, if you love 80's Madonna with all the synths etc.. You should check out the 80's UK pop group Five Star, from their first album "Luxury of Life" up to "Between the Lines" Classic 80's!!!
It'd be fun to see you react to Kylie. Unlike this album, most of her stuff is fun and light. Way more up your alley.
I very highly recommend finding "Deeper and Deeper (David's Radio Edit)" on UA-cam and listening to it. You don't necessarily have to create a reaction video to it. But I really want you to hear it. I know Deeper and Deeper was one of your favorite tracks from the album, and this mix is probably more up your lane. First of all, its an edit, so its a good two minutes shorter. Second, it was mixed by the fantastic DJ David Morales, so you don't have that stripped down grindy darkness that permeates the album. It has a far more polished and crisp sound. A little fun fact: The David Morales version would go on to be the version used on her Girlie Show Tour, and also make an appearance on the compilation series MTV Party To Go. The actual radio edit has never been commercially available on its own outside of the MTV compilation. The single had the 12" mix, called Davids Klub Mix, which actually clocked in longer than the album version.
Anyhow, please search MADONNA DEEPER AND DEEPER DAVID MORALES EDIT. And enjoy!!! Its everything!!
Definitely check out the live version of “Why’s It So Hard” from The Girlie Show. It solves the problem of the production dominating the vocal. Plus, she sounds ten times better in the live version.
Sounds to soft to be a bad girl haha your funny and cute i was at high school when this came out
The Rain video is absolutely a work of art.
i was 5 back then and the only songs i've ever heard from the entire album were bye bye baby and bad girl...
I think the background vocals are Donna Delory and Nikki Harris.