- pop, dance-pop, adult contemporary, rock
- 75 min
- 14 tracks
- Sire Records
Erotica is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on October 19, 1992, by Maverick and Sire Records. The album was released simultaneously with Madonna's first book publication Sex, a coffee table book containing explicit photographs of the singer, and marked her first release under Maverick, her own multimedia entertainment company.
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Character-led, spare, grave and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Chicago Sun-Times2.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyC+
- Los Angeles Times2/4 ★
- Music Week3/4 ★
- Q3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceA
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock3/5 ★
- Pitchfork9/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
- Spin Alternative Record Guide4/10
- The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Erotica5:19
- 2Fever5:01
- 3Bye Bye Baby3:56
- 4Deeper and Deeper5:33
- 5Where Life Begins5:58
- 6Bad Girl5:23
- 7Waiting5:47
- 8Thief of Hearts4:51
- 9Words5:56
- 10Rain5:25
- 11Why’s It So Hard5:23
- 12In This Life6:23
- 13Did You Do It?4:54
- 14Secret Garden5:32
14 tracks, 75 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Madonna
- Label
- Sire Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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