Erotica (song)
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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Erotica
| Cover = Madonna - Erotica single cover.jpg
| Artist = [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
| Album = [[Erotica (album)|Erotica]]
| B-side = "Erotica" (Instrumental)
| Released = [[October 11]] [[1992]] <small>([[United Kingdom|UK]])</small><br>[[October 13]] [[1992]] <small>([[United States|U.S.]])</small>
| Format = [[CD single]], [[gramophone record|7" single]], [[cassette single]]
| Recorded = 1992
| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[trip hop]], [[dance music|dance]]
| Length = 5:17
| Label = [[Maverick Records|Maverick]], [[Sire Records|Sire]], <br>[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| Writer = Madonna, [[Shep Pettibone]], Anthony Shimkin <small>(uncredited)</small>
| Producer = Madonna, Shep Pettibone
| Certification = Gold <small>([[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]])</small>
| Last single = "[[This Used to Be My Playground]]"<br>(1992)
| This single = "'''Erotica'''"<br>(1992)
| Next single = "[[Deeper and Deeper]]"<br>(1992)
| Misc = {{Extra track listing
| Album = [[Erotica (album)|Erotica]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track =
| prev_no =
| this_track = "'''Erotica'''"
| track_no = 1
| next_track = "[[Fever (Madonna song)|Fever]]"
| next_no = 2
}}
{{Extra track listing
| Album = [[GHV2]]
| Type = compilation
| prev_track = "Deeper and Deeper" (7" Edit)
| prev_no = 1
| this_track = "'''Erotica'''" (Radio Edit)
| track_no = 2
| next_track = "[[Human Nature (Madonna song)|Human Nature]]" (Radio Version)
| next_no = 3
{{Extra album cover
| Upper caption = Alternate cover
| Type = studio
| Cover = Erotica2.JPG
| Lower caption =
}}
}}
}}
"'''Erotica'''" is the first single from [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]'s fifth studio album ''[[Erotica (album)|Erotica]]''. The single was released in October 1992. Despite being released in a blaze of publicity and hype for the single and other projects at the time, ''Erotica'' became one of her first debut singles from an album not to hit number one in the US since her debut album in 1983. Fourteen years after its original release, the song received renewed attention with its inclusion in the set list for the [[Confessions Tour]].
The song, along with "Secret Garden", were the only Madonna songs used in her feature film debut as a director, ''[[Filth and Wisdom]]'' (2007).
==Song information==
"Erotica" debuted at number 13 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]], and instead of zooming to number one as had been expected, it peaked at number three in its second chart week and began to move down the chart the following week, charting for a total of 18 weeks. "Erotica" made the highest debut in the history of the [[Hot 100 Airplay]] chart, entering at its peak position of number two (it reached number four on Hot 100 Singles Sales). Despite its relatively short chart tenure compared to some of Madonna's other hits, the single was nevertheless certified gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].
There are three different versions of this song; the original demo, the album version and the song "[[Erotic (song)|Erotic]]" which was created exclusively for the 1992 book ''[[Sex (book)|Sex]]''. The latter was created during the "Erotica" album sessions. It was producer Shep Pettibone's idea to use the writing from the book included in the song, the result was more "erotic", borked down and raw than "Erotica." These lyrics can also be heard in the William Orbit remixes on the single. In the original demo for the song, which leaked to the internet in February 2008, the lyrics of the opening and chorus differ from the final recorded version. The lyrics "My name is Dita, I'll be your mistress tonight", are omitted. The chorus is also substantially different. Madonna performed "Erotica" as the opening song on her 1993 ''[[The Girlie Show Tour]]''.
For Madonna's 2006 [[Confessions Tour]], Madonna and [[Stuart Price]] created a remix of "Erotica", which used the demo chorus and featured musical excerpts from her very first single, "[[Everybody (Madonna song)|Everybody]]". This version mixes a different verse and chorus with the original album version's chorus ("Erotic/Erotic/Put your hands all over my body"). It also features the album version's intro and uses the bridge "Erotica/Romance/Erotica/I'd like to put you in a trance". While listed as "Erotica" in the Confessions Tour program, most fans know the song as "You Thrill Me" after its unique chorus:
:You are who you are (and I)
:Wouldn't want to change a thing (,in spite of)
:All the pain that love can bring (, tell me)
:What can I do, I'm so in love with you
:You thrill me/Surround me, you fill me/You send me/You put me in a trance
:You fill me/Inside me you take me/You thrill me/You put me in a trance
Some of the lyrics from the original demo of "Erotica" can also be heard in the "Jeep Beats" remix on the "Erotica" maxi-single. Madonna can be heard singing "I'm so in love with you" and "You thrill me" in this mix - lyrics not used in the album cut of "Erotica".
The album version of "Erotica" contains a [[sampling (music)|sample]] of the 1974 hit song "[[Jungle Boogie]]", performed by [[Kool and the Gang]]. In addition, the song samples an Arabic Easter prayer by Arabic singer [[Fairuz]]. Madonna used that prayer more prominently in her 'The Beast Within' track. The use of the Easter prayer song caused an enormous outrage in the Middle East and eventually the album and single were banned there.
The song has been [[remix]]ed by [[William Orbit]], who would later become Madonna's main collaborator on her 1998 album ''[[Ray of Light]]'', and prolific [[DJ]]s [[Masters at Work]].
In the sleeve notes to ''[[I'm Going to Tell You a Secret]]'' and the live CD ''[[The Confessions Tour (album)|The Confessions Tour]]'' it credits an additional composer to have written this song: Antony Shimkin. ASCAP have officially confirmed this.
A 12" limited edition picture disc was pressed by WEA in England and then withdrawn and destroyed. There are less than 150 copies known to be in existence.
There is a set of in-house promo CDs, with unreleased and unleaked edits of the song.
==Music video==
<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Madonna 166.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Madonna in the "Erotica" video.]] -->
The music video for "Erotica" is one of Madonna's most infamous videos, directed by fashion photographer Fabien Baron. The American [[MTV]] aired it a total of three times (all of these in the "[[Watershed (television)|safe harbor]]") due to its highly charged sexual content, and was eventually Madonna's second video to be banned from airing by that channel. There are two versions of the video - the "standard" version which contains no nudity was released in the United States (it can be viewed on Madonna's official web page); and a more explicit version of the video was released only in Europe and Australia, which contained full-frontal nudity of Madonna and variation in the editing. The video was ranked #16 on [[VH1]]'s "50 Sexiest Video Moments".
[[Naomi Campbell]] and Big Daddy Kane appeared in Madonna's music video for "Erotica". The footage of Madonna performing the song in her S&M dominatrix costume was shot at [[The Kitchen]] in [[New York City]]. The rest of the footage for the video was shot during the [[New York City]] photo sessions for her infamous book ''[[Sex (book)|Sex]]'' (many of the photographs in the book are actually stills from this footage) - an hour of this footage was compiled by Madonna and Baron for a film that was made for the party she gave at [[Industria (New York)|Industria]] in New York for the release of ''Sex'', a film that included a soundtrack of French music from the 1920s and 1930s that included songs from such singers as [[Charles Trenet]], [[Mistinguett]], [[Maurice Chevalier]], [[Edith Piaf]], and [[Josephine Baker]]. This film was also given by Madonna to her closest friends. It later leaked out to the public and copies of it were sold on eBay for some time. Today this film, known as the ''Sex Book Video'' is very hard to find and can go for prices as high as [[United States dollar|USD $]]500 - even more than the ''Sex'' book itself.
*Director: Fabien Baron
*Producer: Eric Liekefet
*Executive Producer: Bobby Woods
*Director of Photography: Michael Bernard
*Editors: John Murray, Tom Muldoon
*Production Company: Heart Times Coffee Cup Equals Lightning
==Official versions of the "Erotica" song==
# Album version (5:17)
# Album version - instrumental (5:17)
# Album edit (4:31)
# Acapella Transfer (1:39) </small>Unreleased, leaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 1 - Spoken Vox (3:01) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 1 - Lead Vox (5:58) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 1 - Harm Vox (5:58) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 2 - Spoken Vox (3:53) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 2 - Lead Vox (3:41) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked</small>
# Acapella Transfer 2 - Harm Vox (3:42) <small>Unreleased, Unleaked </small>
# Kenlou B-Boy remix +/+++
# Kenlou B-Boy instrumental+
# Madonna's in My Jeep Mix (5:46)+
# Jeep Beats dub+
# Underground Club mix+
# Masters at Work dub+
# Bass Hit dub+
# House instrumental+
# Underground Tribal Beats+
# William Orbit's 12" (6:07)++
# William Orbit's Dub (4:53)++
+ Remixed by Masters at Work<br>
++ Remixed by William Orbit and includes additional lyrics used in the "Sex" book version titled "Erotic"<br>
+++ Madonna performs this version of the song on her 1993 Girlie Show Tour.
==Official versions of the "Erotic" song==
# "Sex" Version (5:20)
# "Sex" Version Edit (4:30)
==In-House Promo CDs Set==
'''Disc 1'''
# Master Version - Wet Vox
# Master Version - Dry Vox
# Master Version - Alternate Harms
# Master Version - Vox Up
# Master Version - Vox Down
# Master Version - Lead Up
# Master Version - Spoken Up
# Master Version - Harms Up
# Master Version - Lead Only
# Master Version - Spoken Only
# Master Version - TV Track
'''Disc 2'''
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Vox Up
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Vox Down
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Lead Up
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Spoken Up
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Harms Up
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Lead Only
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - Spoken Only
# Master Version w/ Alternate Vox - TV Track
==Charts==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1992)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
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|align="left"|[[ARIA Charts|Australian ARIA Singles Chart]]<ref name="hitparade">{{cite web | author=Hit Parade | title=Madonna — Erotica (European Charts) | publisher=hitparade.ch | year=1992 | url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?key=2523&cat=s | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|[[Media Control Charts|Austrian Singles Chart]]<ref name="hitparade"/>
|align="center"|15
|-
|align="left"|[[Canadian Singles Chart]]
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|[[Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique|French Singles Chart]]<ref name="hitparade"/>
|align="center"|23
|-
|align="left"|[[Media Control Charts|German Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web | author=Charts-Surfer | title=German Singles Chart (Search) | publisher=charts-surfer.de | year=1992 | url=http://www.charts-surfer.de/ | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|13
|-
|align="left"|[[Irish Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web | author= | title=Irish Singles Chart (Search) | publisher=irishcharts.ie | year=October 8, 1992 | url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|[[Oricon|Japanese ''Oricon'' Singles Chart]]
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|Norwegian Singles Chart<ref name="hitparade"/>
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|Swedish Singles Chart<ref name="hitparade"/>
|align="center"|3
|-
|align="left"|[[Media Control Charts|Swiss Singles Chart]]<ref name="hitparade"/>
|align="center"|8
|-
|align="left"|U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="billboard">{{cite web | author=All Music Guide | title=Billboard Charts | publisher=allmusic.com | year=1992 | url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jvfyxqe5ldae~T51 | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|3
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot 100 Airplay]]<ref>{{cite web | author=Billboard magazine | title=Hot 100 Airplay | publisher=billboard.com | year=October 17, 1992 | url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=350&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+100+Airplay&ci=3013086&cdi=6658659&cid=10%2F17%2F1992 | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot Singles Sales]]<ref>{{cite web | author=Billboard magazine | title=Hot Singles Sales | publisher=billboard.com | year=October 24, 1992 | url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=353&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Singles+Sales&ci=3013102&cdi=6659733&cid=10%2F24%2F1992 | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot Dance Club Play]]<ref name="billboard"/>
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|[[UK Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web | author=Every Hit | title=UK Singles Chart (Search) | publisher=everyhit.com | year=1995 | url=http://www.everyhit.com/ | accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref>
|align="center"|3
|-
|}
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{{succession box
| before = "[[It's My Life (Dr Alban song)|It's My Life]]" by [[Dr. Alban]]
| title = [[Eurochart Hot 100|''Billboard'' Eurochart Hot 100]] [[List of number-one hits (Europe)|number-one single]]
| years = [[October 17]], [[1992]] - [[October 31]], [[1992]]
| after = "[[End of the Road]]" by [[Boyz II Men]]
}}
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==External links==
*[http://www.mad-eyes.net/disco/erotica/erotica.htm Mad-Eyes.net - "Erotica" Single Page]
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