Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Location: Colombia, SC. Erotica song - Wikipedia Not the album, but the single, released September 29, The lead single to her contreversial album of the same name, which we will discuss very soon.
Erotica is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Madonna , released on October 20, by Maverick and Sire Records. The album was released simultaneously with Madonna's first book publication Sex , a coffee table book containing explicit photographs featuring the singer, and marked her first release under Maverick, her own multimedia entertainment company. Erotica is a concept album about sex and romance, incorporating her alter ego Mistress Dita, inspired by actress Dita Parlo. Some of its songs also take on a more confessional tone, influenced by the loss of Madonna's two close friends to AIDS. She began creating the album's demos with Pettibone in his apartment in October , and wrote the melodies and lyrics on top of the basic music which Pettibone produced in the style of his remixes. During the sessions, they had problems during sequencing, and, as a result, Pettibone kept trying to move development as fast as possible as he did not want Madonna to lose interest in the music.
It's time to celebrate the twenty years of Erotica , one of Madonna's most original and controversial albums, with an exclusive chat with Tony Shimkin , co-producer and co-author of some of the album's greatest songs. How did you start your career? Tony Shimkin : I began in high school by working as an intern at Soundworks studio in NYC which coincidentally is the same studio we mixed the Erotica album in as well as all the remixes of her previous records. I later became an assistant recording engineer and then engineer. I then started editing Shep's remixes on the side.
His frequent work with Madonna led to her then-label, Warner Bros. Records, asking Pettibone if he would like to collaborate with her on an original song. How can we get this out there? Pettibone and Madonna would collaborate again on another No.