Advantages: Sexy, soulful - a new direction Disadvantages: Bad image - poor marketing
...It has long been my view that Madonna is probably least sexy when that is exactly what she is trying to be. The Erotica era produced some relatively good club music, but in terms of Madonna’s reputation, I think it made her look and sound tacky in a way that she has never recovered from. Following that relatively unsuccessful album release, Madonna’s career was starting to experience a decline – at least by the standards of the material girl up until that point. Then in 1994, Madonna released a new album, which introduced us to a new Madonna. Enlisting the help of producers Babyface and Nellee Hooper, BedtimeStories was quite a change from the shameless pop of Erotica, and remains one of the most understated Madonna albums ever released.
The release of BedtimeStories was greeted with a lukewarm reception from...
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...I enjoyed "Sex" with Madonna (how many girls can say that?) and "Erotica", but it was nice to have a more tender approach on these alternative "BedtimeStories". Madonna has delivered perhaps her warmest album with deep, gently pulsating grooves. I think the best songs are the ones that stretch this new warmth - the slow seductiveness of "Secret", "BedtimeStory" (co-written bizarrely enough with Bjork), "Inside of Me", "Sanctuary" and "Take a Bow". Almost the opposite of the near-clinic attitude on "Erotica", the production of BedtimeStories suggests that she wants us to see another side of her, and she does that very successfully....
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