This is exactly what madonna was trying to say. This is my body and I'm in control of what I do with that body. Notice Madonna is always in control, men don't control her. It was groundbreaking at the time
Christopher Pratola It’s crazy to know that it’s fetching that price. I had two of the original pressings of the book. One open and one unopened, but I lost them in a fire. I got my replacement as a gift a few Christmases ago. I have no idea what they paid for it.
“I think the problem is about Madonna Erotica video is that everybody’s so uptight about [sex] that they make it into something bad when it isn’t, and if people could talk about it freely.
I personally think she is the only artiste who boldly explore taboo subjects and create it as a message in her music. Considering this was in 1992, it was cutting edge!
Madonna is da bomb. This was my fav era. Also w this she started to drop out of main stream and like it better that way. She went underground w us and took anyone who wanted along for the ride
Madonna at the time said, it's a fantasy, the whole video is a fantasy, not necessarily her reality but she felt that's where she was in her life and what she wanted to explore at the time being a 34 year old grown woman and she respects that MTV did not want to show it because it's too adult in nature. It was definitely bold and brave, she was the biggest female star on the planet. Her previous album had sold over 30 million copies and then she released this as the first single from the new album. Even today i don't think many mainstream popstars would dare to do it in this way.
Agreed! People talk about WAP and all the controversy around it but doesn't compare to erotica in terms of substance and true displays of sexual sub cultures,
@@Chris-vj8fv Exactly. Also she was brave enough to launch the album with it and took the risk of the backlash overshadowing the rest of the tracks. She could have easily released a beautiful ballad like Rain as the first single which is universally praised or Dance Bop Deeper and Deeper and launch the album with that and safe Erotica til single #3 or #4 when the album already did big numbers and has scored some hits but she went all in with this song and video as single #1 and the album release immediately afterwards. At the end of the day it's not really ''Sex'' album, there's about 3 songs on the album that deal with Sex in some way or form. The rest deal more with relationships, loneliness, redemption, loss etc.
Ayanna, I love some remarks you made like “why is the naked body of woman so offensive” and that the imagery is very artistic. First of all, “Erotica”, the album, is for me Madonna’s masterpiece. Until today there’s no other album that explores kinky and sexual phantasies in general in such a provocative but artistic way at the same time with such class. You should listen to it. The song is sexy and I remember the fuss when it was played in the nightclubs when I was a teenager. Now let’s talk about the concept: Madonna wanted to portray a woman who owns her sexuality. The album was released with the Sex book, that was a big success in the editorial market, but also caused a big backlash towards Madonna. Most of the sex book imagery is in this video. And that’s the point you very correctly observed. Like Justify My Love, that is a prelude to Erotica, there’s more teasing than anything else. It’s not gross, it’s erotic art. But she crossed some boundaries, like that last shot of her naked trying to get a ride, that was actually shot in a freeway in Miami or LA (she said people didn’t believe it was her lol). A few years ago, Madonna gave a speech at the Billboard Women of the Year award talking about it. She said she was called a w****, antichrist, s*** etc because of Erotica And she said she has always been so inspired by Bowie and his androgyny, but she realized that men could explore their artistic and sexual limits and women couldn’t. Watch this speech too, is very interesting when she points that Prince could use fishnets and nobody would say nothing bad about it. After Erotica, Madonna released Bedtime Stories and Human Nature, the answer to the media and the critiques to Erotica, was included. So now you understand the narrative behind these three videos. Again, always a pleasure to see you reacting. You are so smart and can’t wait for the next. Sorry if wrote too much. ❤️
Madonna grew up with a lot of brothers who were shirtless all the time. You totally get how simple her message was. The sex book she made was with a famous photographer who hadn't made a coffee table book like others in his league had, Madonna talked him into by saying she'll star in it. They were inspired by photographer Man Ray
Aside polemics, this song is amazing. The beat is impressive ❤️ I agree with you and like Madonna said..."Im just exposing something from real life...If thats shocking for you...maybe the problem is you"
My favorite album, tour, music video era. Movie era Body of Evidence Dangerous Games Movie Soundtrack This Used to Be my Playground. Favorite TV interview David Letterman. 92 started of great with A league of their Own then Erotica ended the year but started the era for 93...
I followed her career since the beginning when I was a mere 5 years old. I remember during this era she was angry at the hypocrisy of what male artists were able to get away with in videos as far as objectifying women sexually and being explicit while being praised instead of being called whores so she went over the top with this album/videos and the corresponding SEX book she released. She wanted to make people uncomfortable and confront them with their own hypocrisy over what they called her out for vs what the male artists were praised for. That's what always made her a legit artist to me. She wasn't just making pop music. She had real messages and points to prove with her music/shows/videos.
My very favorite Madonna album. A huge fan forever and I NEVER EVER SAW THIS VERSION ! Thank you Ayanna. I love this reaction video and I am a subscriber. I love the QUEEN "M" Erotica album is fantastic. Deeper and Deeper is my favorite song. Try some Kylie Minogue too if you want to get into other pop artists :)
omg even the uncensored one which is even too much for me haha But well with Erotica and Justify My Love you've seen her by far most sexual videos ever. She moved on after that. Definitely excited to see your reaction. Would be nice to react to one of her ballads or mid tempos after that. Bad Girl and Rain from Erotica album prove there's much more to that album than just scandal and overtly sexual themes. Amazing videos as well and then obviously Frozen and Bedtime Story are amazing songs and videos as well.
Madonna !!! BIGGEST ENVELOPE PUSHER EVER !!! she has huge balls and you gotta appreciate that. I love that you do all these Madonna videos. So great. By the way I think what you were trying to say is that the video is racy and all, but tasteful not raunchy
Great video and you're spot on with your analysis. To people who weren't around at the time (or too young to remember), it's worth knowing that the video may not be *that* shocking now, but in the pre-Internet era you had to go out of your way really to see pornographic type imagery and it certainly wasn't the done thing to show this much nudity in mainstream videos. It's not like now where you have Nicki Minaj and people like that waving their butts in music videos. Madonna was also really right up there at the peak of her popularity immediately before this with her Blonde Ambition Tour / Vogue / Dick Tracy era and although she was known to be provocative and sexual in her work, she still managed to shock the mainstream with Erotica. In fact, the mainstream media tried to "cancel" her and almost succeeded for a short time in making her Public Enemy Number One in terms of the "moral health" of the nation. She took hit after hit and although she battled on and eventually overcame the prejudice, it did affect her psychologically as she later admitted. Still, it perhaps overshadowed what was a very creative and experimental era for her not only in terms of visual imagery but also sonically. It's a brave and progressive album, which I think now is getting the critical recognition that it deserved at the time.
I think this song is beautiful. It’s got a poetic vibe to it, in my opinion. Love how the whole song flows. Sex is such a taboo topic, particularly in this country (USA). Americans in general are so pent up and repressed. Images of violence are more tolerated then anything of a sexual nature. Go figure. Thanks for your vid reaction. You have a great energy about you! I enjoy watching your reactions. Stay safe! 🙂✌🏻🙂
Please listen to the entire album. It’s one of the most underrated pieces of art ever done. The album was ahead of its time. It’s barebones house music. Artistically done with very little production. Madonna broke every rule and every female artist that came after her, owes her a great deal of respect. The video isn’t offensive to those who are open minded. But in 1992, largely due to homophobia because of AIDS, people lost their minds and punished Madonna for what she created. It’s very tame in today’s world when a song like “WAP” can rule the charts for months. Without “Erotica,” there would be no “WAP.”
The problem 30 years ago specially in America is that they heavily criticized Madonna when she did Justify My Love, Erotica and Sex book... While they allow Prince, George Michael, David Bowie to express their sexuality..... They crowned Mariah & Whitney as Queens so they could get rid of Madonna, and that's because these two were controlled by men... And these men just want women to beautiful, sexy, and nice but doesn't want women to be on top of them, to have a voice, to be in control of their career and life, or to challenge their status quo.
After this, you'd want a softer vulnerable side of Madonna so react to Take A Bow and all the elements you'd love in her videos I'm sure you're gonna love this one 😍
Your analysis, is pretty fair and I appreciate that. It's 2020. Madonna did this in 1992. Very beyond of her time. That's crazy and fair enough. That's why Madonna has the status she does. Thanks
For those times Madonna was ahead of her time. You are right it was /is artistic. Because it was never been seen in music videos like that before only in soft porn it was considered too risqué. Madonna changed that perception.
Let’s be clear, this version is not the official music video, and NEVER aired on MTV. The official commercially released video is what aired, at midnight. Two nights in a row. Than it was pulled. Later resurfacing on MTV2. This uncensored version materialized on RUclips much later. I prefer the original releases version personally, you don’t need the extra nudity to get the artistic message of the video across.
This MV and song was released alongside her controversial photo book called sex which was photo imagery of things that were considered taboo such as fetishes, lesbianism, Homosexuality and older with younger. She was an activist that liked to push buttons. In the book itself there were Supermodels and also pornographic film stars that appeared in the different photos and themes presented in the book. While many were outraged by it the people who were the topics of the communities she was shedding a light on ate it up and people were fighting for copies of the book. While many thought it was pornographic it was actually all tastefully photographed and artistic.
One thing about erotica reactions is that, everyone is shocked by the imagery but love the music. Can we first appreciate how beautiful and groundbreaking this song is. One of her best musical experience musically and lyrically.
This wasn't the version that played on MTV. There is a censored version, and this was the explicit version sold with the Erotica DVD/VHS/Laser Disc. The MTV version was mostly covered up.
When she released that I was already 18 and going out, that video was like a media bomb, she was always known for cause controversy but that was another level entirely ( remember that those scenes from this videos are just the making off of the picture of her SEX book that was released at the same time ) that is when everybody, including her fans like me that loved all this thought: ok now she went too far, all the news channels talked about her for months, even the Vatican spoke against her, she was so provocative that no pop star even got close to what she did here, you see people like Rihana making video cute inspired on this, but no one have the balls to do something like this and survive to tell the tale, the book is far more explicit but even this video along with the Justify my love video were both block in countries and only play on MTV after midnight
When I was in art school I used to get a French magazine called Photo. It was a photography magazine and had occasional nudity in it, even on the cover, but it was art nudity. So I used it as reference for my drawing at my local coffee shop and if I had to use the restroom I would just leave it out on my table, nudity and all. I thought nobody would have the right to complain because it's art. Nobody ever did.
Amazing. I did the Same. Exact. Thing. The slight difference being that I was at a fashion academy. I still regret not having gone to Otis or Parsons instead.
After Madonna had been subtly adding sex imagery into her persona and videos, she decided to just blow the door down with this video which then allowed other artists to follow. She actually started a sexual revolution of her own. You can still see her impact of that sexual revolution in the music business just by looking at how female artists dress and pose in photos today.
Liberalism is to liberate. She blasted through restrictive, conservative perceptions and tore down those barriers. Thus freeing herself from them by offering a liberated perception.
martini Are you trying to use liberalism, or as you say ~”liberal” in the political sense?? Roflmaoooo.... If we’re going there I’ll state a long, ongoing fact ~ If anything, it’s always been the archaic, narrow parameters of conservatism that has always feared, restricted, condemned, criticized, attacked, and opposed change and progression. They did the same thing with Josephine Baker, MadeWest, Marilyn Monroe, and Madonna. They fear societal change. These women challenged perceptions and broadened perspectives. As for feminists, madonna showed a new side of feminism where she was in control of her sexuality and presented a powerful, fearless representation of feminism without guilt, shame or apology.
They showed this on TV in the UK at 3am in the morning - my gran video taped it as she wanted to see what all the fuss was about about, lol She wasn't impressed - "she just kissed some girls and rode a bike with her m1nge out"
You don't have to be Madonna for your kids to question your past. but she stands by her work and the point she was making. It's a sex positive message for adults and was made as a response to females only being actors in male sexual fantasies. As with a lot of her work misogeny and double standards on "what women are socially allowed to do" are addressed here. At the time interviewers never bothered to even try and delve into why this video is an important feminist Statement.
Erotica is one of her most intellectual videos. Consider the early 90s in the USA and how conservative things were (compared to the late 90s which experienced a zeitgeist) - Madonna was skating on very thin ice and received so much flak, that it almost became a feat of endurance. Erotica and the Sex book came out at a time when she was going down a rabbit hole of the contrast to this conservative wave, people were still finding little dingy erotic shops and xxx stores to get their porn and experience their fetishes. Madonna chose to explore that shadow of humanity and bring it to the light. She also firsted many celebs in the Sex book, people like Naomi Campbell, Vanilla Ice & Isabella Rossellini for example. This in itself was a feat as the book was predicted to cause scandal. When I was growing up with MTV I remember Erotica would be played (and played a lot) after midnight along with the the other darker videos (the late 90s had a slew of excellent music videos with very dark themes - which were more gruesome than sexual). I always loved Erotica for its sound, inspired by erotica novels, female fantasy, grainy textures - an immersion for the unknowing conservative person going through one of these New York alley XXX stores and getting schooled. Madonna is a master and a posthuman. Hard to know now how much this sort of thing challenged the status quo and how many artists today have her to thank.
At that time she launched 3 things... The album EROTICA, the book SEX (with pretty explicit photographs of what u saw in this vídeo. And u didn´t notice, but... There were some famous people on it: Isabela Roseline, NAOMI CAMPBELL, Vanilla Ice, etc... ) and a movie: BODY OF EVIDENCE... After that she got so much backslash. Specially after gave David Letterman an underwear live. After that she released BEDTIME STORIES... And made a video that u should react: HUMAN NATURE... A very good response to all those who critizied her...
Make a reaction ton Madonna ''BLONDE AMBITION TOUR" the tour that change the concert tours bec. before this concert scene is always Convetional until the BAT came in 1990.
You are right, she isn't singing in this song, she is reading one page of her book she released along the album, her book 'SEX' and all the images from the video are from the same shootings of the pics from the book 🍌
Can I say .. I was big fan back in the day (as a teen) .. she was huge .. but I don’t think I ever saw “erotica the uncensored version” ever .. I can see it’s a little risqué tho .. she’s deffo the queen of controversy ..😆
Lol. Yeah the word you are looking for is actually the title of the song, "erotica." There is a BIG difference between "erotic" art and "pornography." Also the lighting effect you are trying to describe is "strobe." A strobe effect can cause an epileptic person to have seizures actually. FYI. Glad you like the music, the whole album is awesome actually and in a very similar style.
*WHAT SHOULD I REACT TO NEXT?* 👀✨
Bad Girl
Bedtime Story, at the time was the most expensive video ever made, and it has some pretty "strange" imagery and it's definitely a must see!
Song from her Ray of Light album; Power of Goodbye.
"Music Inferno" from her MDNA Tour DVD, such an awesome performance, you'll love it!
Christina Aguilera Dirty
No other artist will ever match Madonna Ciccone
Kylie and Bork say hi
Michael Jackson is the biggest selling artist ever
Erotica most underrated album because of all the controversy over her sex Book
Erotica was also maligned in tandem with the Basic Instinct copy cat Body Of Evidence. I also agree, Erotica is my favorite CD of hers
Absolutely. The music is fantastic.
@@olpappy1175imitador? El cuerpo del delito se hizo antes que Instinto Basico. Se paro su proyección por el libro sex pero ser realizo antes
This is exactly what madonna was trying to say. This is my body and I'm in control of what I do with that body. Notice Madonna is always in control, men don't control her. It was groundbreaking at the time
No female artist compares to Madonna period. Never ever. She is one in a Trillion
I just received her Sex book as an early Christmas gift and it’s the book version of this video. Great piece of feminist work!
@@jrs3617 that’s a very cheap price. I just sold an open copy for 500 and am selling a never been opened copy for a grand
Christopher Pratola It’s crazy to know that it’s fetching that price. I had two of the original pressings of the book. One open and one unopened, but I lost them in a fire. I got my replacement as a gift a few Christmases ago. I have no idea what they paid for it.
“I think the problem is about Madonna Erotica video is that everybody’s so uptight about [sex] that they make it into something bad when it isn’t, and if people could talk about it freely.
I personally think she is the only artiste who boldly explore taboo subjects and create it as a message in her music. Considering this was in 1992, it was cutting edge!
Madonna is da bomb. This was my fav era. Also w this she started to drop out of main stream and like it better that way. She went underground w us and took anyone who wanted along for the ride
her best lead single, her best album and her best era!!!
Madonna at the time said, it's a fantasy, the whole video is a fantasy, not necessarily her reality but she felt that's where she was in her life and what she wanted to explore at the time being a 34 year old grown woman and she respects that MTV did not want to show it because it's too adult in nature.
It was definitely bold and brave, she was the biggest female star on the planet. Her previous album had sold over 30 million copies and then she released this as the first single from the new album. Even today i don't think many mainstream popstars would dare to do it in this way.
Agreed! People talk about WAP and all the controversy around it but doesn't compare to erotica in terms of substance and true displays of sexual sub cultures,
@@Chris-vj8fv Exactly. Also she was brave enough to launch the album with it and took the risk of the backlash overshadowing the rest of the tracks. She could have easily released a beautiful ballad like Rain as the first single which is universally praised or Dance Bop Deeper and Deeper and launch the album with that and safe Erotica til single #3 or #4 when the album already did big numbers and has scored some hits but she went all in with this song and video as single #1 and the album release immediately afterwards. At the end of the day it's not really ''Sex'' album, there's about 3 songs on the album that deal with Sex in some way or form. The rest deal more with relationships, loneliness, redemption, loss etc.
Agree the queen
Erotica is one the most Artistic, beautiful, videos ever !!!! long live the QUEEN !! Madonna is an Icon .
It was 28 years ago...that was the world back then.
Madonna opened people's minds
All this controversy and she didn't say a single curse or bad word...
Yeah it’s crazy
In the album she did
@@LordBizarrluis not really? The only explicit song is Did You Do It and that only because of the 2 rappers
Ayanna, I love some remarks you made like “why is the naked body of woman so offensive” and that the imagery is very artistic. First of all, “Erotica”, the album, is for me Madonna’s masterpiece. Until today there’s no other album that explores kinky and sexual phantasies in general in such a provocative but artistic way at the same time with such class. You should listen to it. The song is sexy and I remember the fuss when it was played in the nightclubs when I was a teenager. Now let’s talk about the concept: Madonna wanted to portray a woman who owns her sexuality. The album was released with the Sex book, that was a big success in the editorial market, but also caused a big backlash towards Madonna. Most of the sex book imagery is in this video. And that’s the point you very correctly observed. Like Justify My Love, that is a prelude to Erotica, there’s more teasing than anything else. It’s not gross, it’s erotic art. But she crossed some boundaries, like that last shot of her naked trying to get a ride, that was actually shot in a freeway in Miami or LA (she said people didn’t believe it was her lol). A few years ago, Madonna gave a speech at the Billboard Women of the Year award talking about it. She said she was called a w****, antichrist, s*** etc because of Erotica And she said she has always been so inspired by Bowie and his androgyny, but she realized that men could explore their artistic and sexual limits and women couldn’t. Watch this speech too, is very interesting when she points that Prince could use fishnets and nobody would say nothing bad about it. After Erotica, Madonna released Bedtime Stories and Human Nature, the answer to the media and the critiques to Erotica, was included. So now you understand the narrative behind these three videos. Again, always a pleasure to see you reacting. You are so smart and can’t wait for the next. Sorry if wrote too much. ❤️
Please explain then why the body of a man is so offensive...
@@donniehagy5125 so many men not being able to walk shirtless on the streets. So many men being raped for wearing shorts. #saidnooneever.
Madonna grew up with a lot of brothers who were shirtless all the time. You totally get how simple her message was. The sex book she made was with a famous photographer who hadn't made a coffee table book like others in his league had, Madonna talked him into by saying she'll star in it. They were inspired by photographer Man Ray
Aside polemics, this song is amazing. The beat is impressive ❤️
I agree with you and like Madonna said..."Im just exposing something from real life...If thats shocking for you...maybe the problem is you"
My favorite album, tour, music video era. Movie era Body of Evidence Dangerous Games Movie Soundtrack This Used to Be my Playground. Favorite TV interview David Letterman. 92 started of great with A league of their Own then Erotica ended the year but started the era for 93...
I’m so glad you have discovered the genius of this woman
I followed her career since the beginning when I was a mere 5 years old. I remember during this era she was angry at the hypocrisy of what male artists were able to get away with in videos as far as objectifying women sexually and being explicit while being praised instead of being called whores so she went over the top with this album/videos and the corresponding SEX book she released. She wanted to make people uncomfortable and confront them with their own hypocrisy over what they called her out for vs what the male artists were praised for. That's what always made her a legit artist to me. She wasn't just making pop music. She had real messages and points to prove with her music/shows/videos.
My very favorite Madonna album. A huge fan forever and I NEVER EVER SAW THIS VERSION ! Thank you Ayanna. I love this reaction video and I am a subscriber. I love the QUEEN "M" Erotica album is fantastic. Deeper and Deeper is my favorite song. Try some Kylie Minogue too if you want to get into other pop artists :)
Timeless video. There's no artist today who has the guts to do something like that!
omg even the uncensored one which is even too much for me haha
But well with Erotica and Justify My Love you've seen her by far most sexual videos ever. She moved on after that.
Definitely excited to see your reaction.
Would be nice to react to one of her ballads or mid tempos after that. Bad Girl and Rain from Erotica album prove there's much more to that album than just scandal and overtly sexual themes. Amazing videos as well and then obviously Frozen and Bedtime Story are amazing songs and videos as well.
I love demo version. She performed it on her Confessions Tour.
Brace yourself, Gurl. She went there. Lol. This song is everything, though. It’s her at her peak, musically.
her peak is ROL album
Madonna !!! BIGGEST ENVELOPE PUSHER EVER !!! she has huge balls and you gotta appreciate that. I love that you do all these Madonna videos. So great. By the way I think what you were trying to say is that the video is racy and all, but tasteful not raunchy
Love your reactions. I think it’d be great if you reacted to her Billboard Women in Music speech (the full version!). It’s so powerful
Totally. Particularly since it references this exact moment in time.
Great video and you're spot on with your analysis. To people who weren't around at the time (or too young to remember), it's worth knowing that the video may not be *that* shocking now, but in the pre-Internet era you had to go out of your way really to see pornographic type imagery and it certainly wasn't the done thing to show this much nudity in mainstream videos. It's not like now where you have Nicki Minaj and people like that waving their butts in music videos. Madonna was also really right up there at the peak of her popularity immediately before this with her Blonde Ambition Tour / Vogue / Dick Tracy era and although she was known to be provocative and sexual in her work, she still managed to shock the mainstream with Erotica. In fact, the mainstream media tried to "cancel" her and almost succeeded for a short time in making her Public Enemy Number One in terms of the "moral health" of the nation. She took hit after hit and although she battled on and eventually overcame the prejudice, it did affect her psychologically as she later admitted. Still, it perhaps overshadowed what was a very creative and experimental era for her not only in terms of visual imagery but also sonically. It's a brave and progressive album, which I think now is getting the critical recognition that it deserved at the time.
I think this song is beautiful. It’s got a poetic vibe to it, in my opinion. Love how the whole song flows. Sex is such a taboo topic, particularly in this country (USA). Americans in general are so pent up and repressed. Images of violence are more tolerated then anything of a sexual nature. Go figure. Thanks for your vid reaction. You have a great energy about you! I enjoy watching your reactions. Stay safe! 🙂✌🏻🙂
and here we are in 2023 and still people are shocked...i was around when it came out, same reactions...youre right Americans are all pent up...
I really am impressed with your break down of video. You definitely got what she was presenting artistically. 👍👍
Please listen to the entire album. It’s one of the most underrated pieces of art ever done. The album was ahead of its time. It’s barebones house music. Artistically done with very little production. Madonna broke every rule and every female artist that came after her, owes her a great deal of respect. The video isn’t offensive to those who are open minded. But in 1992, largely due to homophobia because of AIDS, people lost their minds and punished Madonna for what she created. It’s very tame in today’s world when a song like “WAP” can rule the charts for months. Without “Erotica,” there would be no “WAP.”
The problem 30 years ago specially in America is that they heavily criticized Madonna when she did Justify My Love, Erotica and Sex book... While they allow Prince, George Michael, David Bowie to express their sexuality..... They crowned Mariah & Whitney as Queens so they could get rid of Madonna, and that's because these two were controlled by men... And these men just want women to beautiful, sexy, and nice but doesn't want women to be on top of them, to have a voice, to be in control of their career and life, or to challenge their status quo.
Oh s***! Now you will come full circle. Justify My Love, Erotica and Human Nature hahahah
After this, you'd want a softer vulnerable side of Madonna so react to Take A Bow and all the elements you'd love in her videos I'm sure you're gonna love this one 😍
Your analysis, is pretty fair and I appreciate that. It's 2020. Madonna did this in 1992. Very beyond of her time. That's crazy and fair enough. That's why Madonna has the status she does. Thanks
No passing judgement. You've got it!
omg! the uncensored! How'd you get this girl?!? haha! Thank you for these vids!
You are totally gettig her art...like totally!! Hopefully more Madonna reactions!!
RESPECT ! Madonna is unique ! the last living legend ! French kiss from Paris
Your best reaction on a Madonna's video so far. My friends here in Brazil love you. You go, girl.
You're totally right. It is explicit but it is not pornographic. This video is a piece of visual arts.
Erotica is the most hype era of all time.
28 years ago it was so daring.
Nonetheless this was a huge hit on the charts, nothing could stop it!
The video was shot on old super 8 camera to give it that grainy look,also naomi Campbell is in the video.
For those times Madonna was ahead of her time. You are right it was /is artistic. Because it was never been seen in music videos like that before only in soft porn it was considered too risqué. Madonna changed that perception.
Madonna is the greatest cause she's unique!
Lol. I love that you dove right into this video. So awesome. Her Erotica album is one of her best.
Let’s be clear, this version is not the official music video, and NEVER aired on MTV. The official commercially released video is what aired, at midnight. Two nights in a row. Than it was pulled. Later resurfacing on MTV2.
This uncensored version materialized on RUclips much later.
I prefer the original releases version personally, you don’t need the extra nudity to get the artistic message of the video across.
This MV and song was released alongside her controversial photo book called sex which was photo imagery of things that were considered taboo such as fetishes, lesbianism, Homosexuality and older with younger. She was an activist that liked to push buttons. In the book itself there were Supermodels and also pornographic film stars that appeared in the different photos and themes presented in the book. While many were outraged by it the people who were the topics of the communities she was shedding a light on ate it up and people were fighting for copies of the book. While many thought it was pornographic it was actually all tastefully photographed and artistic.
madonna is amazing
One thing about erotica reactions is that, everyone is shocked by the imagery but love the music. Can we first appreciate how beautiful and groundbreaking this song is. One of her best musical experience musically and lyrically.
I was 13 when this song came out. MTV wanted to ban it, but instead aired it at midnight. I stayed up and video recorded it on my VCR.😂 🥰
You need to do hung up now that it’s in hd! Also some of her live performances from confessions tour
Confessions tour is amazing! ✌🏻🙂👍🏻
This wasn't the version that played on MTV. There is a censored version, and this was the explicit version sold with the Erotica DVD/VHS/Laser Disc. The MTV version was mostly covered up.
The Erotica album is playing in my turntable atm
I remember when her Sex book came out. There were so many people upset about it being displayed in book stores LOL
I hav have the sex book. it's much more graphic than the video.amazing piece of art
first time i watched a reaction of yours and i definitely already love your channel!
Great content! Your comparison of it looking like euphoria feels is SPOT ON👌
No female artist in the modern era could never pull off anything like this like Madonna did and get away with it 💯
I like the way u react and think. Ur smart!
When she released that I was already 18 and going out, that video was like a media bomb, she was always known for cause controversy but that was another level entirely ( remember that those scenes from this videos are just the making off of the picture of her SEX book that was released at the same time ) that is when everybody, including her fans like me that loved all this thought: ok now she went too far, all the news channels talked about her for months, even the Vatican spoke against her, she was so provocative that no pop star even got close to what she did here, you see people like Rihana making video cute inspired on this, but no one have the balls to do something like this and survive to tell the tale, the book is far more explicit but even this video along with the Justify my love video were both block in countries and only play on MTV after midnight
Its been so long your hair is a whole new look!
hahahahaha omg that's hilarious and so true!! but, to be fair, i do change my hair like every week! 😂
Back in early 90s people was more conservative, Erotica album is iconic, it changed the music industry ❤️ she the queen.
YOU TOOK ALL TH WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH!! BRAVO!!!!. ❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This was a SCAN-DAL in '92.
you gave so good reaction and so smart comment
When I was in art school I used to get a French magazine called Photo. It was a photography magazine and had occasional nudity in it, even on the cover, but it was art nudity. So I used it as reference for my drawing at my local coffee shop and if I had to use the restroom I would just leave it out on my table, nudity and all. I thought nobody would have the right to complain because it's art. Nobody ever did.
Amazing. I did the Same. Exact. Thing. The slight difference being that I was at a fashion academy. I still regret not having gone to Otis or Parsons instead.
After Madonna had been subtly adding sex imagery into her persona and videos, she decided to just blow the door down with this video which then allowed other artists to follow. She actually started a sexual revolution of her own. You can still see her impact of that sexual revolution in the music business just by looking at how female artists dress and pose in photos today.
Madonna served taboo as style and artistic statement. She used liberalism against itself and cashed in. Clever girl.
Liberalism is to liberate. She blasted through restrictive, conservative perceptions and tore down those barriers. Thus freeing herself from them by offering a liberated perception.
@@anthonycoca2202 “liberals” and prominent feminists put her down for this video and her sex book at the time
@@anthonycoca2202 absolutely. After Ronald Reagan and Bush 1 it was time to have some fun
martini Are you trying to use liberalism, or as you say ~”liberal” in the political sense?? Roflmaoooo.... If we’re going there I’ll state a long, ongoing fact ~ If anything, it’s always been the archaic, narrow parameters of conservatism that has always feared, restricted, condemned, criticized, attacked, and opposed change and progression. They did the same thing with Josephine Baker, MadeWest, Marilyn Monroe, and Madonna. They fear societal change. These women challenged perceptions and broadened perspectives. As for feminists, madonna showed a new side of feminism where she was in control of her sexuality and presented a powerful, fearless representation of feminism without guilt, shame or apology.
MTV only aired it like 3 times. It was a song looking at the world of a dominatrix.
They showed this on TV in the UK at 3am in the morning - my gran video taped it as she wanted to see what all the fuss was about about, lol
She wasn't impressed - "she just kissed some girls and rode a bike with her m1nge out"
The moans are so iconic
I love Madonna and often wonder what her kids think now days when they look back on their Moms work? 😂
You don't have to be Madonna for your kids to question your past. but she stands by her work and the point she was making. It's a sex positive message for adults and was made as a response to females only being actors in male sexual fantasies. As with a lot of her work misogeny and double standards on "what women are socially allowed to do" are addressed here. At the time interviewers never bothered to even try and delve into why this video is an important feminist Statement.
Love queen Madonna
Pure art!
React to Live to Tell from the Confessions tour. Another side to the Queen.
Erotica is one of her most intellectual videos. Consider the early 90s in the USA and how conservative things were (compared to the late 90s which experienced a zeitgeist) - Madonna was skating on very thin ice and received so much flak, that it almost became a feat of endurance. Erotica and the Sex book came out at a time when she was going down a rabbit hole of the contrast to this conservative wave, people were still finding little dingy erotic shops and xxx stores to get their porn and experience their fetishes. Madonna chose to explore that shadow of humanity and bring it to the light. She also firsted many celebs in the Sex book, people like Naomi Campbell, Vanilla Ice & Isabella Rossellini for example. This in itself was a feat as the book was predicted to cause scandal. When I was growing up with MTV I remember Erotica would be played (and played a lot) after midnight along with the the other darker videos (the late 90s had a slew of excellent music videos with very dark themes - which were more gruesome than sexual). I always loved Erotica for its sound, inspired by erotica novels, female fantasy, grainy textures - an immersion for the unknowing conservative person going through one of these New York alley XXX stores and getting schooled. Madonna is a master and a posthuman. Hard to know now how much this sort of thing challenged the status quo and how many artists today have her to thank.
Remember this came out in 1992 ❤️
At that time she launched 3 things... The album EROTICA, the book SEX (with pretty explicit photographs of what u saw in this vídeo. And u didn´t notice, but... There were some famous people on it: Isabela Roseline, NAOMI CAMPBELL, Vanilla Ice, etc... ) and a movie: BODY OF EVIDENCE... After that she got so much backslash. Specially after gave David Letterman an underwear live. After that she released BEDTIME STORIES... And made a video that u should react: HUMAN NATURE... A very good response to all those who critizied her...
You get everything!
Make a reaction ton Madonna ''BLONDE AMBITION TOUR" the tour that change the concert tours bec. before this concert scene is always Convetional until the BAT came in 1990.
Queen of Pop
circa 1992 , sounds current AF
Cant wait
What a long wait 😭
and this was early 90's... this was a totally different time
You are right, she isn't singing in this song, she is reading one page of her book she released along the album, her book 'SEX' and all the images from the video are from the same shootings of the pics from the book 🍌
the end was a famous photo from the sex book. she went out on the open street to shoot that and had no shame! love her back then was crazy scandalous
The producer of this song took many samples from the 70s funk song Jungle Boogie
It’s completely artistic. Completely get u😊
28 years ago
Madonna oh Naomi, Naomi on Madonna
The video takes your mind to that fantasy.
Can I say .. I was big fan back in the day (as a teen) .. she was huge .. but I don’t think I ever saw “erotica the uncensored version” ever .. I can see it’s a little risqué tho .. she’s deffo the queen of controversy ..😆
Naomi Campbell, Vanilla Ice and Isabella Rossellini made cameos.
explicit - depends who you ask, very subjective
Could you do American Life uncensored version
Lol. Yeah the word you are looking for is actually the title of the song, "erotica." There is a BIG difference between "erotic" art and "pornography." Also the lighting effect you are trying to describe is "strobe." A strobe effect can cause an epileptic person to have seizures actually. FYI. Glad you like the music, the whole album is awesome actually and in a very similar style.
3:18...that was NAOMI CAMPBELL yo 😮
React to Madonna- Live to tell ( Confessions tour)
Turn up your volume