Madonna 1992-1993: The Phase Sex

1992 constitute the more controversial phase of the career of Madonna. According to that which it appears like very calculated multimediale strategy, they exit, in the space of some months, the photographic book Sex, the Erotica album and the Body film of evidence - Body of the crime directed from Uli Edel.

The photos of Sex, operate of Steven Meisel, mean to represent the sexual fantasies of the singer, many of which of nature sadomaso and homosexual. Between the appearances, they figure Naomi Campbell, Isabella Rossellini and rapper the Vanilla Ice. The book contains also of the witnesses in the same spirit of the images and a CD with the piece Erotic, a special version of the single Erotica. The book has an enormous echo to international level and soon is exhausted. Today outside it prints, has become an object from collectors.

In the October of 1992 it exits the Erotica album, fifth realized in study from the singer, co-produced from Madonna, Shep Pettibone and André Betts. First the single one extracted from the album is Erotica, that it introduces a pushed and audacious text enough in which Madonna is introduced like Mistress Sadomaso that resolves to do to teach the limbs of the erotico pleasure. They follow single the Deeper and Deeper, Bad Girl, Fever (cover in style POP/dance of celebre the piece jazz of Peggy Lee published like single only for the European market), Rain and Bye Bye Baby. The album come double certifyd platinum disc in the United States and sell beyond 5 million copies: it number remarkable for any other artist, but very to of under of the sales of the album precedence of the singer, a lot that numerous criti to us by now considers the career of Madonna in decline. Erotica is first the album produced from the “Maverick Records”, the founded record label from Madonna with to Freddy DeMann you open in it them of the same year, and that it will boast in own stable names of I enunciate like Alanis Morissette, the Prodigy and the DJ Paul Oakenfold.


Flop of the Body film of evidence - the Body of crime (1993) seems to confirm the bad voices. The film, that it tells of the relation between an accused gallerista of homicide and its defender, comes defined a plagio of the most fortunate Basic accused Instinct and of being excessive explicit in the scenes of sex (often sadomaso) between the protagonists. The film made to earn to Madonna a Razzie Award for worse the interpretation of the year. In an interview, Madonna defends its interpretation declaring of thus to have recited well the part of the “bad one” who the critics us have confused with its personage.

While it composes the Just piece to Dream for its historical corista, DeLory Woman, than the public one in its album homonymous from solista.

In 1993 it recites in the comedy of Woody Allen Shadows and fog, to the flank of My Farrow and John Malkovich and in the autumn of the same year leaves the Girlie Show, the world-wide third party tour of the singer, than in 38 stages it touches Europe, United States, Japan and for the first time Israel, Turkey, America Latina and Australia.

Still an other test from actress, this time dramatic, in the film (flask to botteghini) the Eyes of snake, directed from the director Abel Ferrara, with Harvey Keitel and Russian James.

And still some record collaboration: it yields to the young artist Nick Scotti the piece Get Over (originally composed like third unknown one of The Immaculate Collection), that it comes published in its album of homonymous debut; moreover it records the piece Queen's English with its dancers Jose Guiterez and Luis Camacho (own those which the reggiseni wore to cone in the performace of Like to Virgin in the Blond Ambition Tour).

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