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Originally posted by Meowster
I mean, IDC, it's one of Madonna's best albums and there has been a big critical shift regarding the album this past decade so clearly she did something right for it to be reexamined with fondness (unlike, say, American Life). I was just speaking from a purely business point of view.
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I guess my point is that she didn't really "shoot herself in the foot" because she wasn't trying to have another enormous, four quadrant blockbuster album. I can't think of her listening to that album and saying to herself, "this is going to sell really really well!". It almost feels like she purposefully did not put a guaranteed smash on there, because her hit-making capabilities were still at full power, as evidenced by "This Used to Be My Playground" (which she wrote the whole top line for, melody and lyrics, by herself) and "I'll Remember" bookending the Erotica era.