Definitely she was ahead of her time. That year, 1992-1993, the world gave her back, and Whitney Houston (R.I.P.) received the whole ovation. Almost 33 years later, we still talking about "Erotica Albjm", it's quality, lyrics and how well done is. Hands Down 👐
David Fincher's directing made this a masterpiece. Literally a full movie in under six minutes. One of my all-time favorite Madonna vids, along with many others.
@Devon Bishop You obviously haven't watched Madonna's, 'Oh Father' (ruclips.net/video/qvVvN0QvzTk/видео.html) also directed by David Fincher, and, arguably, the greatest music video ever directed by Fincher.
Interesting fact: Michael Massee, the actor who plays the waiter that she sleeps with. He is in the movie Se7en also directed by Fincher. He plays the manager of the sex club that the horrible contraption is used to kill the prostitute. He also was the actor who shot Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow. In I think 1994. He was not aware there was a live round in the chamber. So no charges were brought against him. I can’t imagine the guilt that he lived with. He died of cancer at the age of 64.
@@juanmanuelvektor She is. Check the recordings if you really feel that butthurt about it. I doubt her voice would crack if it would be pre recorded but everybody sees what they want only.
Without even telling a word Christopher Walken's performance is outstanding. His mute character is almost an Angel of Death but also is the ghost of Madonna's character love of her life. David Fincher made a superb work with this video, so attached to the lyrics of the song and telled in a very sophisticated visual style.
Was he the angel of death or her guardian angel!? He cried when he lost her and wasn't following her and she got into trouble and she died. Fascinating the interpretations we can get from the video. So underrated!
This was back then when music videos were mini movies and made sense, with a whole story behind it and an artistic expression at it's peak... Love the song, the voice, the video, the story, the art... I just love everything about it! 🤩
At first I thought it was a motion picture she had starred in! But I kept watching and then just realized they don't make music vids like that anymore.lol
Madonna has several music videos that are mini-movies, that tell a story: Bad Girl, Papa Don't Preach, Like a Prayer, Oh Father, God Control, What It Feels Like For A Girl
@@Camille_Anderson She shows there once again that she's a complete artist: incredible voice, unmatched look, skin-level sensitivity, story-telling clip. She's the best!
It's a whole narrative unfolding in a few minutes. You rarely see any videos nowadays with a cinematic quality like this. Madonna and David Fincher absolutely elevated the video medium.
When I was 15 years old I bought the album "Erotica" with my savings. And the first times I listened to it, I didn't really understand the meaning of some songs. Already as an adult I realize that Madonna always told us about topics that were forbidden and that today there is a lot of information about them. "Bad Girl" tells of a woman involved in a toxic relationship who seeks to distract herself from her reality through debauchery and self-destructive behavior. There is no doubt that Madonna has always been ahead of time.
That's interesting I always read it as I had no relationship so I was self destructive this was such an important album for me growing up as a young gay man I think it's one of her best albums
I always interpreted as someone who was guilty of hooking up knowing that they were in a relationship or had someone else. I also can see the video/song has someone who is depressed and distracts themself with hookups. Unfortunately it ends bad for her in both interpretations
The video shows no evidence she has “A” man, that she was in a toxic relationship. This is a cautionary tale. This is about a woman who is single, self-centered, and sexually promiscuous. A workaholic whose lifestyle makes her miserable (hence why she drinks so much). All these things were said about Madonna at the time: she was a man eater, she slept with every man, she was a workaholic, she would end up tragically (just like Louise Ciccone in the video). She gave the world a version of what the press insinuated about her and how they looked for her to end tragically.
In the year of 1992 we find Madonna at her most artistically and lyrically potent during the Erotica era. I will never forgive the media and the American public for destroying this masterpiece and shaming her for her artistic vision and sexuality. This album and era would still be ahead of It's time If It were released today. If there Is ever any doubt that Madonna Is the greatest woman music artist of all time, just listen to Like a Prayer (1989), I'm Breathless (1990), Erotica (1992), Ray of Light (1998), and Confessions On a Dancefloor (2005), and do a deep dive Into those eras, as well as the mythos and Iconography that surround them. No other woman comes close to her full breadth of artistry. Her most formidable contemporaries, Prince and Michael Jackson (both of whom I worship), ran out of creative steam and artistic relevancy after the 80s, whereas Madonna was just getting started. Putting aside her public persona and all of her shenanigans, she Is truly a treasure. Madonna Is a poet, creative visionary, a brilliant vocalist, masterful songwriter, artistic genius, the last of the originals and the most pioneering female entertainer and auteur of all time. Flowers at your feet, Madame X.
I will include all of her eras... I wasn't that much into Erotica as the songs didn't resonated with me but after listening to the album in more detail I have learned to appreciate it and I play it non-stop almost everyday. I think Madame X was ahead of 2019 and is highly underrated, someone has to be very cultured to understand the intricacies and the detailed sounds of that record. To me one of her best
Erotica maybe didn’t have big commercial success, especially for Madonna’s standards, but it’s definitely one of her best albums. This particular song is amazing, one of my fave🙏
That's because all of the stupid controversy behind it. The media and religious right went so nutso over her Sex book that a really excellent album suffered. Some of her best work was on that album.
It's one of if not her very best album. If you're a young grown up person living in a big city, i dare you to put this on at night and not love and vibe to it. Some of it is chill, some is groove, some is deeply personal. It's the perfect late night album imo and everyone i played it to, loved it. Some of her best videos as well
Still sold around 7 million albums until now and that's pretty good but Madonna was used to release studio albums that would be TOP 100 best selling albums ever worldwide and that didn't happen with this one (But along with all her albums from the 90's is still TOP 2000 best selling albums worldwide from 1950's to 2020's)
This video is basically my life between 1998 and 2003. The thrill was in getting attention, never in the sex. Always felt like shit the next morning as I walked home in the dark. And it never occurred to me that it was depression driving me to "act this way" A really powerful message here.
My life from 2010-2016. It took a tragedy and financial hardship to finally snap out of the Jekyll/Hyde lifestyle I lived as a result of depression and trying to find love and companionship in the wrong places and with the wrong people.
Mexxconnection yeah I remember when the book came out and the controversy I was still buying the cds at this time loved everyone of them and she's still the queen to this day
@@juniornutshell no... it already got rated nowadays... when it got launched everyone wrinkled their nose at her .. and only those who had the balls to come out gay could hear the music and break free.
Madonna's catalog of music is absolute staggering. She is a truly magnificent recording artist. The quality and volume of her songs goes far beyond what i ever even realised.
I don't wanna feel blur. Jump at 6th Smoked too many cigarettes 🚬 today I'm not happy I kn9w I don't deserve you ❤❤🎉🎉 But I love you just the same And I don't 😅clown Clown 🤡 laugh 😃 😀 😄 😁 Sad 😔 😟
For those who don't understand, the character of Christopher Walken is a spirit that accompanies her and that she sees and knows that he accompanies her, despite this, she continues with her promiscuous life until she finds her tormentor ... finally they meet in spirit.
@@Gwenny0612 Angel of death/Grim reaper really. He didn't protect her... he allowed her to live and essentially led her to death, rescuing her from a deeply unhappy and immoral life.
I just wish she had more cinematic video clips in her catalog. 84% of the reason why I love this single is the video - my top 3 besides Take a Bow and Rain. It's a masterpiece!
Same here and ray of light too had great singles with videos. Erotic was the first single I owned. I just turned 34 and it's been 30 years. 😲 I'm feeling old.
@@helgafever768 *i´d lOve to see David Fincher in conversation with William Friedkin ..X - David is known for doing 2!300 takes (my Goodness me) for a scene --whereas Billy says he usually goes for one take only?!!*
Even now, 29 years after it's release, this video still makes me cry. Christopher Walken and Madonna express so much emotion in such a short space. I wonder why this never get made into a full length movie? It would have been a blockbuster!
I just love how her eyes are so expressive in this video ..she is the greatest of all time of giving sexy eyes and glances. She looks absolutely beautiful in this video.
This is the last time she looked young, few months later she made lot of excercise and got emaciated, was a shame, she never recovered since Girlie Show
Scary how good this song and video are. I remember when People magazine named Erotica the worst album of the year. To all the haters who thought this masterpiece and her Sex book would end her career, here we are 28 years later...who had the last laugh?
Erotica is criminally underrated. It is lyrically probably her deepest, considering it's a concept album. The Sex book took the focus away, which she probably hadn't counted on. Rolling Stone gave it a good review at least.
Bad Girl. One of Madonna's bleakest and darkest songs with no light in sight. Rarely does she write songs where there's no positive messages. BADGIRL is deep sadness and agonizing pain that slowly drips into all facets of one's life. Absolutely loved the celebration performance with Mercy James.
I was early 20s when this came out, too... the erotica album will always be one of my favorites. The explicit songs made me feel very free to express my sexuality.. to find myself.
Deeper and deeper, Secret. Her output at this time was excellent. She may get knocked for her personal life, but her talent is undeniable..this song and video is dark and haunting. She's produced some magnificent tracks.
This video is not a video, is real masterpiece, a real work of art, as well as the song...!!! Madonna in the 90s...!!! Erotica era was just awesome. Thank you God for allow me to live in the 90s...!!!
"Erotica" is one of Madonna's best albums. It's one of those records that I listen to from start to finish without skipping tracks. Album unfairly underestimated !!
This is probably the best music video ever made..... goes perfectly with the song, its a mini movie... its haunting, gives you chills when they bring the body out of the apartment at the end of the video. Very powerful..
@@linus98765 never given that a thought... I think that would be very intriguing. Madonna has gone through so many different styles, now in her more mature years maybe it a collaboration that could work...
Very morbid but the scene when she and Christopher Walken (Death) are sitting in the tree is my favorite. There’s just something so… mysterious and intriguing and fascinating about the afterlife
Arriving in Lisbon right now. I’m crying I’m about to see our queen tonight, after 14 years. I’m crying to have learned that she’s included Bad Girl, my favorite song. OMG, I’m thrilled!!! I love you, queen!!! ❤ 💫👑
3:36 When she puts on her make-up and sings to the mirror.... It always gets me. I am amazed by her acting in this music video. It should have won awards (Correct me if it did.)
This video is so magnificent. Probably the best video Fincher has ever done. Combine with this amazing song this is a masterpiece that deserved HD a long time ago. Every detail in the video is well thought out, so telling, it sends chills down my spine still. Walken is giving the oscar worthy performance, without telling a single word. Good old times, 90's when such cinematic marbles have been made, you can't see anything even close nowadays. I can only imagine the budget for this one. Even though everyone at that time was giving her a hard time, she just pushed this record and released marble after marble. After 30 years #Erotica30 we can finally appreciate the ground-breaking art she was doing at that time. Thanks, Madonna, Warners, David.....
well said! she received a torrent of abuse from the press, but her beauty, talent & artistry is phenomenal. This is song is heartbreakingly beautiful. The production is incredible, not overdone and this video was cinematic quality. She is forever an icon & im so grateful to be alive in her 40yr reign!!! magnificent!! 💯👋🌟👑👑👑
Brings back memories. I was living in NYC in 1992. This was Madonna in her slickest video and at the peak of her beauty. Song is a bit overlong but still has soul.
This is definitely one of her best cinematic videos. How a woman's promiscuous ways caught up with her. Watching this video as many times that I've done makes me tear up. It's like a PSA to all women that if you're not careful. There will b dire consequences.
This is such a great song/video about the danger of addiction. I remember times I lived like this as a way to cope with trauma and the lyrics are spot on, I definitely wasn't happy.
Absolute masterpiece. The song the video. By far her no.1 for me and that's coming from someone who has mostly LOVED each and every song of her unending art.
Definitely one of the best visual works on the official Madonna's videography . The dark aesthetic made , is considered the best level of a soundtrack . The video has mini spoilers that offer the viewer a trailer of intimidation and absolute thriller . BAD GIRL is a classic .
This video caused me to smoke like crazy after watching it. Gawd I loved her so much in the late 80s and 90s. I was so obsessed with her that each time there was anything news about her on tv or the newspaper, my heart would jump! She was like a drug I couldn't get enough of.
One of the best music videos ever made. Madonna rarely tells about the context or premises of her ideas, she is always the best, always better than the rest, this masterpiece is so timeless.
Erotica, was one of my favourite Madonna's album, it such a shame that when it came out, people did not understand what it was all about, constantly underrated and criticised. Thank you Madonna for having pushing the boundaries and allowed us to understand and discover other ways of relationships and different manners to love and being loved... 1992/93, New York City, the Best years, no iPhones or iPads around, just staring at people in a cafe while smoking a cigarette. Missing these years...
RUclips is great to have. I miss having a stereo to listen to music in my SF apartment. Social media is great for closed groups, and meeting people threw these groups, but carrying around a smart phones, I hate. I miss having an SJP phone and answering machine, to come home to. During global shutdown 2020, I would leave my phone at home to go to the bodega. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I feel like there is no privacy with a camera connected to a smart phone. Oh, yes Erotica is a fave next to New Order 1987. With RUclips, you don't have to pull out CD after CD. And with laptops you can organize your collection in an app. And coffee, SF is a cafe town, but I tend to frequent Starbucks drive thru instead. "Starbucks, LiteBrite, first star I see tonight" "StarBurst, luckystar, lipstick cherry is my fave starburst all right"
Her artistry is timeless and she sang about things that women just like men go thru. This video is an homage to Looking for Mr. Goodbar starring Diane Keaton. I was blown away on how dark and tragic and ultimately sad the movie was just like this video. A woman struggling with loving herself. Like all of us at some point .
This right here is not just my favorite Madonna video, it is my favorite music video period. It's just brilliant. The song is just as amazing. Must be the most underrated song in Madonna's incredible catalogue. What an artist. There will never be another quite like her.
She's a talented music artist and she expresses her emotions and feelings through singing way better. That's why in Evita she was brilliant, it was like a long music video. Either way I loved her in "A League of Their Own" and "Desperately Seeking Susan". People always give Madonna such a hard time for her acting roles in movies but they don't understand that it's almost impossible for her to make people forget that she's Madonna, the greatest Pop Star of all time and the least private person in music. With the right role she can be very good.
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This is one of my favourites. Infact the whole Erotica album is truly a masterpiece. No one has ever done what this woman has done.
Sooo big true! Unbeliavable woman⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙏🏻
Definitely she was ahead of her time. That year, 1992-1993, the world gave her back, and Whitney Houston (R.I.P.) received the whole ovation.
Almost 33 years later, we still talking about "Erotica Albjm", it's quality, lyrics and how well done is. Hands Down 👐
yes loved the whole album
This album WAS MY 90S
@chrisblevins5143 same here
So happy that she finally included this gem on a world tour, I think this is one of her best songs 🙏🏼
i agree
100% agree
GREAT song! Agree!!❤
One of her best! So happy it's finally appreciated. ❤
guauu en esa época ardia 🔥
This was the BEST video she’s ever done. All the symbolism and she looked gorgeous. This video has always been my favorite.
I totally agree.
Her acting was sublime.
David Fincher's directing made this a masterpiece. Literally a full movie in under six minutes. One of my all-time favorite Madonna vids, along with many others.
korean musician rock band "N.E.X.T" plagiarize her music ruclips.net/video/PR0Rug5QVic/видео.html .
@Devon Bishop
You obviously haven't watched Madonna's, 'Oh Father' (ruclips.net/video/qvVvN0QvzTk/видео.html) also directed by David Fincher, and, arguably, the greatest music video ever directed by Fincher.
madonna a beautiful woman with a remarkable legacy
Anyone else think this is one of the most underrated Madonna songs?
Yes! It is one of my favourite songs, and videos!
The most!
Yes!!
like Sarah with something, Dani California right?
drew Berrymoore, ok, but Maverick Records in 2004 in L.A.?
Interesting fact:
Michael Massee, the actor who plays the waiter that she sleeps with. He is in the movie Se7en also directed by Fincher. He plays the manager of the sex club that the horrible contraption is used to kill the prostitute.
He also was the actor who shot Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow. In I think 1994. He was not aware there was a live round in the chamber. So no charges were brought against him. I can’t imagine the guilt that he lived with. He died of cancer at the age of 64.
Thanks for it, I didn't know about it.
Didn't know that ..
Yes I've always felt horrible for him. I imagine it made his cancer worse. May he rip
This was video is 33 years old and the video is still stylish and chic
@@jenb4062 she makes Whitney look sad!
She's finally given this song the recognition it deserves by singing it live on Celebration Tour! True fan favorite
Singing "live" ..ha
@@juanmanuelvektor She is. Check the recordings if you really feel that butthurt about it. I doubt her voice would crack if it would be pre recorded but everybody sees what they want only.
Both a fan and critic favourite! ❤️
It’s such a dark song. It highlights her songwriting. It’s the crown jewel of the erotica album.
Rain and Secret Garden are gems.
Masterpiece 🔥🐐🎸♥️👍
Waiting is also another great song
I wouldn't call it "dark" but it's moody. It's a vulnerable song. It's deep and thoughtful
Without even telling a word Christopher Walken's performance is outstanding. His mute character is almost an Angel of Death but also is the ghost of Madonna's character love of her life. David Fincher made a superb work with this video, so attached to the lyrics of the song and telled in a very sophisticated visual style.
That was in Deeper and Deeper
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN!!!
Was he the angel of death or her guardian angel!? He cried when he lost her and wasn't following her and she got into trouble and she died. Fascinating the interpretations we can get from the video. So underrated!
I had no idea this was directed by David Fincher, whom I love. You learn something new every day! Thanks 😁
@@villamedj3533 bud, have you even watched the Who Is It video? Second, take it down about 20%.
This was back then when music videos were mini movies and made sense, with a whole story behind it and an artistic expression at it's peak... Love the song, the voice, the video, the story, the art... I just love everything about it! 🤩
At first I thought it was a motion picture she had starred in! But I kept watching and then just realized they don't make music vids like that anymore.lol
Me too!!! Well described!!
Madonna has several music videos that are mini-movies, that tell a story: Bad Girl, Papa Don't Preach, Like a Prayer, Oh Father, God Control, What It Feels Like For A Girl
Это точно 👍
It's called: Music Video Directd by David Fincher
Masterwork by David Fincher, Walken and Madonna👌
Or Madonna, Fincher and Walken?
her finest music videoclip, in my opinion.
heavily informed by Looking for Mr Goodbar - and that is a good thing.
Madonna wrote so many beautiful songs and this is one of her best. She looks unbelievably gorgeous and this is, imho, truly her best look since Vogue.
@@adamlarsson3828 no matter what inspires Madonna, she's the best!!!
@@Camille_Anderson She shows there once again that she's a complete artist: incredible voice, unmatched look, skin-level sensitivity, story-telling clip. She's the best!
Desperation of loneliness and seeking for love. How many people suffer from that in this modern world?
Me.
I think this is a kind of false exit to deal with depression.
That is very sad :/
Me
Dear friend, I couldn´t agree more!!! You stole from my mind what I was going to write here!!
Me😢
It's a whole narrative unfolding in a few minutes. You rarely see any videos nowadays with a cinematic quality like this. Madonna and David Fincher absolutely elevated the video medium.
Is it directed by Fincher?
*past tense, sorry..or sg like that:)
@@peternyizsnyanszky7210 yup
www.imdb.com/name/nm0000399/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
@@peternyizsnyanszky7210 Yes, also directed Vogue, Express Yourself and Oh Father.
@@conatcha thank you
When I was 15 years old I bought the album "Erotica" with my savings. And the first times I listened to it, I didn't really understand the meaning of some songs.
Already as an adult I realize that Madonna always told us about topics that were forbidden and that today there is a lot of information about them.
"Bad Girl" tells of a woman involved in a toxic relationship who seeks to distract herself from her reality through debauchery and self-destructive behavior.
There is no doubt that Madonna has always been ahead of time.
That's interesting I always read it as I had no relationship so I was self destructive this was such an important album for me growing up as a young gay man I think it's one of her best albums
I always interpreted as someone who was guilty of hooking up knowing that they were in a relationship or had someone else. I also can see the video/song has someone who is depressed and distracts themself with hookups. Unfortunately it ends bad for her in both interpretations
@@justjarod7440 in a relationship or had someone else interesting
Well spent money
The video shows no evidence she has “A” man, that she was in a toxic relationship.
This is a cautionary tale. This is about a woman who is single, self-centered, and sexually promiscuous. A workaholic whose lifestyle makes her miserable (hence why she drinks so much).
All these things were said about Madonna at the time: she was a man eater, she slept with every man, she was a workaholic, she would end up tragically (just like Louise Ciccone in the video).
She gave the world a version of what the press insinuated about her and how they looked for her to end tragically.
This is why she is a super star!
So glad this became part of the Celebration Tour. One of my all time favorites
Madonna fans must stream Erotica now!
👍🎸🐐🔥♥️
@NostalgicVideo🔥🐐🎸👍♥️
In the year of 1992 we find Madonna at her most artistically and lyrically potent during the Erotica era. I will never forgive the media and the American public for destroying this masterpiece and shaming her for her artistic vision and sexuality. This album and era would still be ahead of It's time If It were released today. If there Is ever any doubt that Madonna Is the greatest woman music artist of all time, just listen to Like a Prayer (1989), I'm Breathless (1990), Erotica (1992), Ray of Light (1998), and Confessions On a Dancefloor (2005), and do a deep dive Into those eras, as well as the mythos and Iconography that surround them. No other woman comes close to her full breadth of artistry. Her most formidable contemporaries, Prince and Michael Jackson (both of whom I worship), ran out of creative steam and artistic relevancy after the 80s, whereas Madonna was just getting started. Putting aside her public persona and all of her shenanigans, she Is truly a treasure. Madonna Is a poet, creative visionary, a brilliant vocalist, masterful songwriter, artistic genius, the last of the originals and the most pioneering female entertainer and auteur of all time. Flowers at your feet, Madame X.
I love this!
I will include all of her eras... I wasn't that much into Erotica as the songs didn't resonated with me but after listening to the album in more detail I have learned to appreciate it and I play it non-stop almost everyday. I think Madame X was ahead of 2019 and is highly underrated, someone has to be very cultured to understand the intricacies and the detailed sounds of that record. To me one of her best
👍♥️🎸🔥🐐
AMEN TO THAT!
🙏🙏🙏❤️
Madonna in Rio brought me here 😍 so glad she chose to perfom one of her most overlooked singles and one her best videos 💖
All the slow jams were golden that night
Me too! Maravilhosa essa música
yes!! the video is amazing and the song
I was there crying
Ohhh I wish I was there! I’m brazilian but I live far from Rio
Erotica maybe didn’t have big commercial success, especially for Madonna’s standards, but it’s definitely one of her best albums. This particular song is amazing, one of my fave🙏
That's why we need #JusticeForErotica
That's because all of the stupid controversy behind it. The media and religious right went so nutso over her Sex book that a really excellent album suffered. Some of her best work was on that album.
It's one of if not her very best album. If you're a young grown up person living in a big city, i dare you to put this on at night and not love and vibe to it. Some of it is chill, some is groove, some is deeply personal. It's the perfect late night album imo and everyone i played it to, loved it. Some of her best videos as well
@@Marc-zi5cq nicely put, man
Still sold around 7 million albums until now and that's pretty good but Madonna was used to release studio albums that would be TOP 100 best selling albums ever worldwide and that didn't happen with this one (But along with all her albums from the 90's is still TOP 2000 best selling albums worldwide from 1950's to 2020's)
Best video ever! What an artist! Thank you Madonna.
goosebumps
Don't thank Madonna for the video. Thank David Fincher 😀
Very melodic song and intense video
Loving it in 2020 please be careful this virus is terrible
It’s so cinematic. When I first saw this as a kid, I thought it was clips from an actual movie
There will only be one Madonna . No matter how old she gets her legacy will live on forever.
The erotica SEX era.timeless.
Only One
It’s sad that she gets harassed by trolls on a daily basis. She deserves better.
Okay who’s belting out “not happy this waaaayyy!”
now she is 61...
Amazing! One of my favorite songs by her ! Christopher Walken… also amazing!
This video is basically my life between 1998 and 2003. The thrill was in getting attention, never in the sex. Always felt like shit the next morning as I walked home in the dark. And it never occurred to me that it was depression driving me to "act this way" A really powerful message here.
My life between 2010-2013
@@jncgordon My life 1988-1993 so I was living it when the video came out.
@@commentoria does not seem like that long ago
My life from 2010-2016. It took a tragedy and financial hardship to finally snap out of the Jekyll/Hyde lifestyle I lived as a result of depression and trying to find love and companionship in the wrong places and with the wrong people.
My life too between the ages of 15 and 26. Always the thrill of attention and you are so right about the depression driving us to act that way.
Chris Walken's peerless performance utilizing nothing more than physical acting to get this off...BRILLIANT!
There are actually several famous men in this video. I think if you look it up, you can find their names.
Erotica is her best album. Pop that cd in and let it play. Especially on the highway!! Madonna forever
Masterpiece.
I'm always shocked this song wasn't a bigger hit. And that video was genius.
Ardenwolfe definitely a lot of her songs from this time are underated and not as well known but so good
tallpall1976 it was due to the huge controversy of erotica and sex... most of people said she was over...... 2018.... Madonna is still madonna!
Mexxconnection yeah I remember when the book came out and the controversy I was still buying the cds at this time loved everyone of them and she's still the queen to this day
Mexxconnection what? madonna is nothing today...time did not make her smarter at all.
Odious Bliss she Sustained top ten hits into her fifties ...fool
This album (Erotica) is absolutely awesome and underrated.
Not so underrated… 7'000'000 Worldwide sales isn't bad at all. Don't you think? ;))
@@fullimmerzion compared to her other albums,this one was slated unmercifully.But to me its her best
I like it too and I also think Erotica's one of her bests.
Underrated how? It flooded the airwaves at the time
@@juniornutshell no... it already got rated nowadays... when it got launched everyone wrinkled their nose at her .. and only those who had the balls to come out gay could hear the music and break free.
Madonna's catalog of music is absolute staggering. She is a truly magnificent recording artist. The quality and volume of her songs goes far beyond what i ever even realised.
👍
100%
I don't wanna feel blur.
Jump at 6th
Smoked too many cigarettes 🚬 today
I'm not happy
I kn9w I don't deserve you
❤❤🎉🎉
But I love you just the same
And I don't 😅clown
Clown 🤡 laugh 😃 😀 😄 😁
Sad 😔 😟
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For those who don't understand, the character of Christopher Walken is a spirit that accompanies her and that she sees and knows that he accompanies her, despite this, she continues with her promiscuous life until she finds her tormentor ... finally they meet in spirit.
This was inspired by Looking For Mr. Goodbar ( inspired by the true story of Roseann Quinn)
Guardian Angel
@@Gwenny0612 Angel of death/Grim reaper really. He didn't protect her... he allowed her to live and essentially led her to death, rescuing her from a deeply unhappy and immoral life.
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@@Gwenny0612 I believe Walken has stated it's basically his version of Gabriel the Archangel from the Prophecy movies.
David fincher showing us the story of the victim of a crime, with a beautiful song of madonna as soundtrack.
I just wish she had more cinematic video clips in her catalog. 84% of the reason why I love this single is the video - my top 3 besides Take a Bow and Rain. It's a masterpiece!
Her 90s vids are stunning
@@MagneticElectric_Mark The Best! #erotica30 ❤️
And human Nature
Same here and ray of light too had great singles with videos. Erotic was the first single I owned. I just turned 34 and it's been 30 years. 😲 I'm feeling old.
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gorgeous
R.I.P Mark Margolis. His performance as the bartender is absolutely outstanding
Yes, he lit that cigarette like nobody's business!!
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I just noticed him, I was like Hector Salamanca is the bartender
yesss Slamanca ... ❤❤
I came to watch hector salamanca
This video should have 100 million views. Pure art!
Keep watching. Keep streaming #Erotica30
1 billion! This video is iconic 👏👏
Which would be about 1% of today's world population.
Should but unfortunately it's not the case
@@helgafever768 *i´d lOve to see David Fincher in conversation with William Friedkin ..X - David is known for doing 2!300 takes (my Goodness me) for a scene --whereas Billy says he usually goes for one take only?!!*
Even now, 29 years after it's release, this video still makes me cry. Christopher Walken and Madonna express so much emotion in such a short space. I wonder why this never get made into a full length movie? It would have been a blockbuster!
Watch the movie or read the book, "Looking for Mr Goodbar".
@@flashyottb4403 I looked it up and wow, definitely something I need to see, thank you. :)
@@UnholyTriforceDelenn you're welcome. I just watched it again today! It's on RUclips for free.
@@flashyottb4403 Oh nice! I'll look it up :)
Thers a movie called The Prophecy with Walken in a weirdly similar role
classically beautiful
she's so fkin gorgeous in this video. one of my favorites from her
Honestly- I base my style on Madonna in this video!
Where do you find clothes similiar as madonna's look here ?@@Catherine-yy5ut
I just love how her eyes are so expressive in this video ..she is the greatest of all time of giving sexy eyes and glances. She looks absolutely beautiful in this video.
I agree 100% with that.
This is the last time she looked young, few months later she made lot of excercise and got emaciated, was a shame, she never recovered since Girlie Show
When she said "I don't wanna feel blue" I felt that.
Same. I think the point is we will do almost anything to avoid our feelings. And you see what happened to her because of that : (
Me too
seriously beautiful song, was surprised this wasnt part of a film. A shame really, because it captured something.
Damn I thought this was from a film. High quality music video! Go queen!!
It is based on Looking for Mr. Goodbar
@@thenightporter Ah.. Thankyou.
В первый раз когда увидела этот клип, думала что это кадры из фильма. Прекрасная работа ❤
Christopher Walken elevates almost every project with which he is involved.
I only watched this video bcs of him
I love his appearance as the "Angel of Death." It is so poignant.
@@RosePetal17, according to Mel Gibson, hes that irl too. Apparently when they met at a restaurant, Walken levitated across the room. 🫣
I could sit and listen to walken talk about a watch stuck in his rectum all the livelong day
Scary how good this song and video are. I remember when People magazine named Erotica the worst album of the year. To all the haters who thought this masterpiece and her Sex book would end her career, here we are 28 years later...who had the last laugh?
Agree. This video and the song, so emotional. Around the release of that song those words spoke to me.
And now erotica the album is considered essential Madonna. Ahead of its time .
@@bdfan4ever I agree! I can hear a lot of artist being inspired by that album. They dont say it, but I hear it.
Erotica is criminally underrated. It is lyrically probably her deepest, considering it's a concept album. The Sex book took the focus away, which she probably hadn't counted on. Rolling Stone gave it a good review at least.
For me, Erotica is my favourte album from her, together with 'Ray of Light'.
Bad Girl. One of Madonna's bleakest and darkest songs with no light in sight. Rarely does she write songs where there's no positive messages. BADGIRL is deep sadness and agonizing pain that slowly drips into all facets of one's life. Absolutely loved the celebration performance with Mercy James.
Stream Erotica and Like a Prayer
brilliant masterpiece
I feel so lucky that the Madonna Erotica era happened in my early 20s when the clubs in NYC were a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The best of times.
I was early 20s when this came out, too... the erotica album will always be one of my favorites. The explicit songs made me feel very free to express my sexuality.. to find myself.
You’re so lucky to have that experience. Her Latest music just doesn’t hit the same. Erotica will always be my favorite album of hers.
Deeper and deeper, Secret. Her output at this time was excellent. She may get knocked for her personal life, but her talent is undeniable..this song and video is dark and haunting. She's produced some magnificent tracks.
Fucking great clip Madonna!!!
That's why she remains on top.
Well said 👏👏👏
@@paulclapperton9866 thank you ✌🏾
Elegant and very well produced, the presence of Christopher Walken is perfect.
omg this music video is insane... it's so good!!! David Fincher directed it???? Christopher Walken as the Grim Reaper??? LIKE HELL YEAH
One of the best videos EVER made, one of Madonna's artistic peaks.
100%
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Agree 100%.
100%
This video is not a video, is real masterpiece, a real work of art, as well as the song...!!! Madonna in the 90s...!!! Erotica era was just awesome. Thank you God for allow me to live in the 90s...!!!
Right I feel the same way!
One name: David Fincher
They couldn’t have paired her up with anyone better than Christopher Walken!! Absolutely the best the both of them.
Wow, what a video! Like a movie! and with Christopher Walken!
The artwork in the Apartment are original photos by Steven Meisel. She always made friends with great artists
"Erotica" is one of Madonna's best albums. It's one of those records that I listen to from start to finish without skipping tracks. Album unfairly underestimated !!
This is probably the best music video ever made..... goes perfectly with the song, its a mini movie... its haunting, gives you chills when they bring the body out of the apartment at the end of the video. Very powerful..
Would love to see Jeff Lynne and Madonna collaborate for one song. That would be epic!
@@linus98765 never given that a thought... I think that would be very intriguing. Madonna has gone through so many different styles, now in her more mature years maybe it a collaboration that could work...
Very morbid but the scene when she and Christopher Walken (Death) are sitting in the tree is my favorite. There’s just something so… mysterious and intriguing and fascinating about the afterlife
@@dojacatsorangewig3223 i agree fully... this whole video makes me thing along those lines, its so powerful
could be
Madonna looked flawless in every scene in this video.
Madonna is so Beautifullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 😍😍😍😍😍😍
All her videos are like miniature
movies.
If anyone compiles ALL Madonna videos, it would be a Powerful
Collection.
Anybody dare to try?
The hair is gorgeous!
Yeah she did MADONNA IS FLAWLESS
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Iconic! So grateful she included this song in the Celebration Tour. This tour is a gift to us.
this sounds so fresh. madonna is timeless
The duet with Mercy James is so beautiful.
Arriving in Lisbon right now. I’m crying I’m about to see our queen tonight, after 14 years. I’m crying to have learned that she’s included Bad Girl, my favorite song. OMG, I’m thrilled!!! I love you, queen!!! ❤ 💫👑
How was the concert?
Been there with you it was A DREAM
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3:36 When she puts on her make-up and sings to the mirror.... It always gets me. I am amazed by her acting in this music video. It should have won awards (Correct me if it did.)
They weren't giving awards to Madonna back then, she was too controversial for her time
She won an Oscar.
Great song and yes definitely underrated. I still remember her singing this on SNL way back when.
This video is so magnificent. Probably the best video Fincher has ever done. Combine with this amazing song this is a masterpiece that deserved HD a long time ago. Every detail in the video is well thought out, so telling, it sends chills down my spine still. Walken is giving the oscar worthy performance, without telling a single word. Good old times, 90's when such cinematic marbles have been made, you can't see anything even close nowadays. I can only imagine the budget for this one. Even though everyone at that time was giving her a hard time, she just pushed this record and released marble after marble. After 30 years #Erotica30 we can finally appreciate the ground-breaking art she was doing at that time. Thanks, Madonna, Warners, David.....
well said! she received a torrent of abuse from the press, but her beauty, talent & artistry is phenomenal. This is song is heartbreakingly beautiful. The production is incredible, not overdone and this video was cinematic quality. She is forever an icon & im so grateful to be alive in her 40yr reign!!! magnificent!! 💯👋🌟👑👑👑
Stream #Erotica30 now!
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Brings back memories. I was living in NYC in 1992. This was Madonna in her slickest video and at the peak of her beauty. Song is a bit overlong but still has soul.
Finally this masterpiece is in HD, I’m crying right now 😭❤
Take your meds
💯💯🙏👏👏 same here!! I'm also so glad that this song & video is getting the love & justice it deserves!!!! 💯💯💯👑👑👑👑👑💚💚💚💚💚💚
Great video storyline, great song, great lyrics, great music, great director, + Chris Walken!!
Even today this video still amazes me. Best video ever for me.
❤️ #erotica30 ❤️
The wardrobe of Dolce and Gabbana still look so chic 30 years later…❤❤❤Timeless!!!!
This is ALAIA ❤
Precisely the styling of this clip is a mistake. She looks much older than she really was. She was 34 years old and looks 50!
I remember buying this music video on VHS back in the day. It has always been a masterpiece for me. Erotica is a mysterious album So 90s so timeless.
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Very true. I usually listen to hard Rock but Madonna is sexuality in song
I 🖤 Erotica
This is definitely one of her best cinematic videos. How a woman's promiscuous ways caught up with her. Watching this video as many times that I've done makes me tear up. It's like a PSA to all women that if you're not careful. There will b dire consequences.
One of her best videos ever! So many scenes, so many stories, so well directed so well acted! She's so beautiful and right in this video! ❤️
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*😈ya think that N.Y (apartment) building you see (at the time) was hers🙃*
Right 👍
I can't believe ,I missed this gem of a song and video.
Thirty years flew by quick .
6/8/2023
David Fincher directed this masterpiece and she definitely felt very comfortable under his direction…
se gana un premio de hollywood
One of her most underrated songs and beautiful videos ever
Are you watching this in March 2020?
Directed by David Fincher - masterpiece
Most definitely
@@ronaldrodriguez9601 I love this. She is gorgeous. Christopher Walken is a. Fantastic angel of death. Plus the killer is sexy in that bad guy way.
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that’s a masterpiece. the cinematography, the melancholy atmosphere and the lyrics are such an art. one of her best music videos. 💜
This is such a great song/video about the danger of addiction. I remember times I lived like this as a way to cope with trauma and the lyrics are spot on, I definitely wasn't happy.
Finally reached 10 million views. This song was one of the finest ballads of her.
Her 80s and 90s ballads were just.....👌
Man i''m just 20 years and this is an amazing song. I knew after the concert and the video, wow.
Absolute masterpiece. The song the video. By far her no.1 for me and that's coming from someone who has mostly LOVED each and every song of her unending art.
One of the best videos ever made ... and this song is a masterpiece, almost like it as much as Live to tell. Long live the queen 👑
One of my favorite songs, ever!
Long live the Queen is right!!! 💜🌟🌈🦋🦋
Yes those are my favorite by her as well
winfrey? how do you dare kissing..
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Erótica my favorite album, I love this song Christopher Walken added something extra to the magic of the video.
Gay Bible
A true Masterpiece !!!!! Erotica era lives with me and in me. If I could keep one album on a desert island it would be Erotica.
Gosh..Madonna was really beautiful
This is a real music video with a real story line. A lost art.
Not really, there are still videos that tell stories out there. Less than before but still there.
Check out the music video Furiosa by New Evil
Agree 100 %
This video is a fucking masterpiece.
David Fincher is the man.
Only 10 million views at this point (Jan 2024) for such a masterpiece? What a crime (along with it not being in 4K resolution)!
The one Madonna track I play the most, usually late night drives when I’m deep in thought. So haunting yet relaxing.
Amazing song.
Me too
@ithinkthefucknotyoutrickas5506 .. Clearly that's your fantasy. Lol.
Especially the live version which I listen to more than the recording cause her voice live is a lot better and even more expressive.
Definitely one of the best visual works on the official Madonna's videography . The dark aesthetic made , is considered the best level of a soundtrack . The video has mini spoilers that offer the viewer a trailer of intimidation and absolute thriller . BAD GIRL is a classic .
Made during or after her 'Body Of Evidence' film
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It is quite surprising that song of this quality and charachter remains mostly overlooked. I hope that one day we'll get an album as good as 'Erotica'
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This video caused me to smoke like crazy after watching it. Gawd I loved her so much in the late 80s and 90s. I was so obsessed with her that each time there was anything news about her on tv or the newspaper, my heart would jump! She was like a drug I couldn't get enough of.
it started my habit or snacking on cat food. those vittles man
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One of the best music videos ever made. Madonna rarely tells about the context or premises of her ideas, she is always the best, always better than the rest, this masterpiece is so timeless.
Erotica, was one of my favourite Madonna's album, it such a shame that when it came out,
people did not understand what it was all about, constantly underrated and criticised.
Thank you Madonna for having pushing the boundaries and allowed us to understand and discover other ways of relationships and different manners to love and being loved... 1992/93, New York City, the Best years, no iPhones or iPads around, just staring at people in a cafe while smoking a cigarette.
Missing these years...
RUclips is great to have. I miss having a stereo to listen to music in my SF apartment. Social media is great for closed groups, and meeting people threw these groups, but carrying around a smart phones, I hate. I miss having an SJP phone and answering machine, to come home to. During global shutdown 2020, I would leave my phone at home to go to the bodega. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I feel like there is no privacy with a camera connected to a smart phone. Oh, yes Erotica is a fave next to New Order 1987. With RUclips, you don't have to pull out CD after CD. And with laptops you can organize your collection in an app. And coffee, SF is a cafe town, but I tend to frequent Starbucks drive thru instead. "Starbucks, LiteBrite, first star I see tonight" "StarBurst, luckystar, lipstick cherry is my fave starburst all right"
I'm impressed of how your comments are so incredibly analytics and corrects, I always learn something .thank you
Erotica was probably one of the best albums she ever made back in that time
Her artistry is timeless and she sang about things that women just like men go thru. This video is an homage to Looking for Mr. Goodbar starring Diane Keaton. I was blown away on how dark and tragic and ultimately sad the movie was just like this video. A woman struggling with loving herself. Like all of us at some point .
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Это даже не клип - это фильм. Один из лучших клипов Мадонны❤
Да, классная эпоха была...
Фантастический клип, целый фильм- рассказ❤️ как жаль, что сейчас нет подобных качественных работ, похоже и не будет
This right here is not just my favorite Madonna video, it is my favorite music video period. It's just brilliant.
The song is just as amazing. Must be the most underrated song in Madonna's incredible catalogue.
What an artist. There will never be another quite like her.
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One of my favourite songs and videos! ❤
Foi lindo ouvir e vê-la cantando essa música ontem no Rio de Janeiro. Q show maravilhoso 🫶👏
Madonna was a better actress in music videos than movies.
Probably those movies were just bad.
Yesss! This is absolute true.
Yep. This music video should've been made into movie. Her makeup was flawless. Wardrobe on point and her apt. was spectacular!
She's a talented music artist and she expresses her emotions and feelings through singing way better. That's why in Evita she was brilliant, it was like a long music video. Either way I loved her in "A League of Their Own" and "Desperately Seeking Susan". People always give Madonna such a hard time for her acting roles in movies but they don't understand that it's almost impossible for her to make people forget that she's Madonna, the greatest Pop Star of all time and the least private person in music. With the right role she can be very good.
Watch body of evidence
This is one of the most profound songs of Madonna which proves her as an absolute artist.