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Originally posted by Monroe
I wouldn't say that. Anyone with half a lick of sense would have cooled it a bit after the Pope proclaimed them to be Beezelbub for what she did with Justify My Love. Logic says turning the notch up to 11 with Erotica (the song) and then continuing to do stuff like this even there after, out in the open when the public despised her -- clearly wasn't a smart move. She was imploding creatively as a brand (at the very least) during this time period.
Which is why there was such a significant break between her studio albums during this time period. She was running on fumes here.
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 You seriously have no idea of what you're talking about.
If you're really interested in this particular time in her career you have to read this interview (or at least this piece):
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S: Did you realize the commercial viability of pushing the envelope?
M: No, and when I put my Sex book out — my mistake was that I naively thought that everybody liked the same things I liked, and had the same sense of humor I had, and was turned on by the same things, and I was really creating in a vacuum. I was pushing the envelope with “Justify My Love”, but when I put out Sex, that’s when the big steel doors came down on my head. It’s like, you can push the envelope, but you can’t open the envelope.
S: But why not? The book was hugely successful.
M: Yes, but I’ve been hanged in the public square ever since. There are people that liked the book and didn’t like it just on a taste level, or whatever. And then there are people who just were horrified by it and didn’t even bother to look at it or read it. I divide my career from before and after the Sex book. Up until then, I really was just being a creative person working and doing things that inspired me and I thought would inspire other people. After that, I suddenly had a whole different point of view about life in general. Ever since that book, I think there are the people that look at me and go, ”Oh man, she just went off the deep end, she went too far. I can’t deal with her, she disgusts me.” And then I think there are other people who go, even if they didn’t like the Sex book, ”Oh well, she survived that and she goes on and she continues to do what she wants to do,” in spite of the fact that the press beat the **** out of me. Very few people came to my rescue. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience. You can’t be a pop star and have an opinion. Some unknown entity can put out a magazine with erotic photographs, but a famous person young girls identify with can’t do that and make money off of it. I think men can deal with those fantasies when a man is in control of them and in charge, like your father and his magazine. It’s a man’s point of view, it’s a man’s fantasy. Sex was my fantasy, and I made money off of it. That is a no-no. Then there was just a lot of imagery that grossed people out in the book. A lot of people were really disgusted with the men that were together with men. They were fine, you know, with my naked ass all over the place.
S: Do you think that the problem was that you, the subject, were in control?
M: Yes, I was not objectified. I was involved on every level, and that is unacceptable. It’s all part of the strong woman in control being terrifying to people.
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Full: http://www.lastfm.fr/group/Madonna/forum/16350/_/614573
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