Madonna Erotica

Am I alone in finding this video rather creepy and the overall tone not only sinister but pretty depraved..?

Her message to "her public" seems to be I am sophisticated but you lot aren't so I'm going to teach you about something you know very little, if anything, about. When actually we all do know about S&M and know we don't like it!

Some of the shots make her look really good. But the overall shadowiness I find quite spooky. Not "erotic" at all.

And the words of her song "erotic, erotic ~ put your hands all over my body" ~ basically a very teenage expression of sentiments clash with the rest of her purportedly sophisicated song... "I don't think you know what pain is; I don't think you've gone that way" ... etc.

I'd be intrigued to hear anybody else's critique of this vid.




I put this here rather than in my musical collection as the musical interest to this is minimal. It's with this video that Madonna's career took a nosedive in the early 1990s. She seems to be sneering at her public: if you're not into all this you're bourgeois and boring. Actually the three fingers were pointing right back because we'd all got bored of her!