Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Industry adverts prompting retailers to order Erotica, Sex and other merchandise. Stateside, Warner Bros. revisited the 1991 "jewel bikini" photo shoot multiple times during this era presumably to portray a more appealingly glamorous Madonna complete with eyebrows: "Assume the price and position." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 How can I embed my daily motion videos here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 That's Tony Ward's foot. Ah, I knew I saw someone else mentioned. Was it his foot on the banned UK picture disc as well? Cause it was billed as Naomi's. Must just be the filtering they used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Stateside, Warner Bros. revisited the 1991 "jewel bikini" photo shoot multiple times during this era presumably to portray a more appealingly glamorous Madonna complete with eyebrows: "Assume the price and position." That pic was ominpresent at the time. Cardboard cut out displays of it were used for the album/and or book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Not4Pussies Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 10/20 is when we officially celebrate this magnus era? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 What a fabulous era! And I absolutely adore that Vanity Fair spread, one of my all time favorites. This era spawned so Manley great things, god I ducking love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR! Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 This thread is amazing! So many things I am seeing for the first time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 http://youtu.be/JlB-_Ta101M 10/20 is when we officially celebrate this magnus era? Indeed... the album was released in the US on Tuesday, October 20, 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopherm Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 (edited) It's time to break out the gold tooth. Edited October 1, 2012 by christopherm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Papi Si. Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Can any1 upload scans of the Vogue interv? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fukujima Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 wasn't that foot Naomi's one???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Lecter Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 *dies* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPowered Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Seriously...another SEX/Erotica appreciation/celebration thread? It's time to give American Life some love... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonski43 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 That pic was ominpresent at the time. Cardboard cut out displays of it were used for the album/and or book. It was also the poster in the UK 12". Didn't she also writhe around on an elephant in it for one of the Japanese adverts? As for toe sucking, I thought it was Naomi's and not seen any pics that imply it's Tony's??? I do think some of the spreads used in magazines would have improved the book. I love the pic of her lying on the sofa with the pink mules. Beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 It was also the poster in the UK 12". Didn't she also writhe around on an elephant in it for one of the Japanese adverts? As for toe sucking, I thought it was Naomi's and not seen any pics that imply it's Tony's??? I do think some of the spreads used in magazines would have improved the book. I love the pic of her lying on the sofa with the pink mules. Beautiful. One of my favorites as well! For those who don't know, the album cover and Sex book wrapper are a tight close-up of this set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 More gorgeousness from the same shoot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 One of the most iconic images from Madonna's entire 30 years in the business. I love that this is immortalized at the end of the "Erotica" video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Not4Pussies Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 More gorgeousness from the same shoot: look at those boobies. nom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 From the Vogue magazine shoot:This shoot was later featured in the middle of the "Deeper And Deeper" music video and on select international "I'll Remember" single sleeves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 10/20 is when we officially celebrate this magnus era? Yes! And I'll be at American Airlines Center in Dallas for the MDNA show on that night! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic_system Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 How funny. Madonna was in Milan the first week of october with Dolce&Gabbana 20 years ago, and today Gaga arrived for a dinner with Donatella Versace (Gaga's show in Milan is tomorrow). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Barthes Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 The making of Sex by Fabien Baron : http://www.dailymoti...1992_shortfilms There's an alternate video for "Erotica" that was only shown once in France. You can see her nipples popping out of her Dita Dominatrix costume and in various alternate images from the making of the sex book. There's also no black bars on her boobs and pussy when she's hitchiking in the end. I can't find it on Youtube. EDIT : here it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCD Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 That pic was ominpresent at the time. Cardboard cut out displays of it were used for the album/and or book. I know, this image was everywhere back then! My friends and I weren't old enough to get the Sex book when it came out but hell if that stopped us. We had a friend a couple years older score a copy. I still remember us all, looking through it at a 24 hour diner, completely wired on coffee, gasping as we turned every page. Lolol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR! Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I wonder what Lola thinks about this era...!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 Can any1 upload scans of the Vogue interv? Just dug my copy out and scanned the text. It's not perfect, but hopefully you can read it okay. (it's a bitch strategically holding a 20 year old fashion bible just-so on a scanner. I kept waiting for it to disintegrate.) Click image to enlarge: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cindystime Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 You guys are forgetting about the major backlash this caused. It was so hard to be a fan during this time. Still, looking back, I'm glad she did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 As the end of the Vogue article states, Madonna faxed David Handelman the lyrics to "Goodbye To Innocence" which would actually not make the final master of the album. The song is called "Goodbye To Innocence" (!?), and the lyric sheet misspells anonymity as "anononimity," (Granted, it's not a word one would expect her to use frequently.) It's key verse "My life is not a game that I play to entertain you / And if you can do it better / Then you're welcome to my fame / I'm not gonna waste my time correcting myths and rumors / You believe what you want to believe / And I'll pray to keep my sense of humor."The last line seems to completely contradict the utter humorlessness of the rest. But then, that's Madonna. In 1993, the song was resurrected and remixed by original producer Shep Pettibone. A 12 minute long dub version featuring a few heavily filtered vocals first appeared on the "Rain" maxi single labeled as "Up Down Suite". The vocal version wouldn't surface until 1994 on the Sire Records compilation Just Say Roe. Madonna apparently took Mr. Handelman's words in the Vogue article to heart because, while "anoniminity" stayed, the line "And I'll pray to keep my sense of humor" did not: http://youtu.be/EmvPHmnvHG4 (verse at 1:07) Interestingly, the scarce "Fever (Back To The Dub 1)" which appears only on the UK promo double 12" set (catalog # SAM 1131) featured almost exclusively vocals from "Goodbye To Innocence". Though this is a remix by the Murk Boys, the vocals are filtered as they appear on "Up Down Suite"... but this remix actually includes the missing line! (Someone must have sent out the wrong vocal reels.) FEVER [back To The Dub 1]: Listen to a clip here More on the connection between "Goodbye To Innocence" and "Fever" to come... (in The Erotica Diaries) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Papi Si. Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Mattress, you are an amazing person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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