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Originally posted by Dark_Lorde
Erotica and American life days have absolutely nothing to do with ARTPOP.
They're not even close to being similar.
Erotica is an album that deals with love, sex, fantasy and aids. The social climate during which it was released was those things were taboo. Mentioning those things, singing about those things was u heard of.
American life's lead single was anti war and anti bush and it came out during a time when the approval rating for bush and the war was at an all time high.
ARTPOP is an EDM album about sex, fashion, money and fame which was released during a time the media embraces and celebrates those things.
Dear fellow Madonna listener, American life and erotica serve as evidence of madonnas artistic
Integrity. There's no comparable gaga related moment.
As we Madonna fans from that very era (erotica) know, when it comes to censorship, where does Madonna draw the line and what does she feel crosses that line? - degregration and rape.
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Wow man, you completely missed the point of my post. Jesus Christ. What I was trying to say is that both era's had shocks and themes that didn't turn out quite well for the artist i.e. sales, acclaim, longevity, etc. It's pretty similar. All the casual listeners are hating/ignoring Gaga now just like they were hating/ignoring Madonna during the Erotica and AL era's. No one back then gave a flying **** if it was a good single/album or not. It was destined to fail when Madge started to believe her own ******** (Justify My Love being a succes) and started pushing it. Same with Gaga, like, who in their right mind would call an album ARTPOP while it's full of generic dance-pop songs? It was ALL destined to fail.
By the way, Erotica is my favorite M album and in the future, you don't have to explain anything Madonna related to me. I already know what you know, probably even more. Don't even bother.