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I’ve never gotten why she did this book and it ruined her music career sadly ( erotica and it’s singles were wonderful but people were sick of her and kids went off her too ) as everyone got so uptight about it - now we can say it was very brave of a pop star to do this kind of project blah blah but it really killed her career until ROL came out - I look at the book now and just think it’s naff sorry ? 

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14 minutes ago, wtg1987 said:

I’ve never gotten why she did this book and it ruined her music career sadly ( erotica and it’s singles were wonderful but people were sick of her and kids went off her too ) as everyone got so uptight about it - now we can say it was very brave of a pop star to do this kind of project blah blah but it really killed her career until ROL came out - I look at the book now and just think it’s naff sorry ? 

Exactly... why it’s bravery to show ourselves naked lol? What’s the point? ? I find it very cheap & like you said she killed her career & image... p.s. this video/people very gloomy... the presenter ? 

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Notice how it’s the straight guy who is most offended by it - exactly the reaction she knew would happen and he tries to write her off as self promoter bearing in mind she had sold a 100 million records by 1992 - I’m sure he jerked off to some of the pics in private anyway the hypocrite ?

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1 hour ago, wtg1987 said:

I’ve never gotten why she did this book and it ruined her music career sadly ( erotica and it’s singles were wonderful but people were sick of her and kids went off her too ) as everyone got so uptight about it - now we can say it was very brave of a pop star to do this kind of project blah blah but it really killed her career until ROL came out - I look at the book now and just think it’s naff sorry ? 

I don't see how it could run her career when she came with Bedtimes stories after, that was a success worldwide.

Something to Remember was pretty succesful for a compilation, she was praised everywhere with Evita and then she delivered Ray Of Light, Music and American Life.

The whole idea that Madonna's career was drowned because of Sex was more of a media/press wanting to stirr shit than anything else.

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It shows she was an artist who was only interested in being true to herself. Commercial success and praise wasn't her main motivation in her career, nor should it be. If it was, she would just have just played it safe like most of the other female singers at that time and sold a lot more records.

I said it then and I say it now: Thank God for Madonna!

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38 minutes ago, rlittler81 said:

It shows she was an artist who was only interested in being true to herself. Commercial success and praise wasn't her main motivation in her career, nor should it be. If it was, she would just have just played it safe like most of the other female singers at that time and sold a lot more records.

I said it then and I say it now: Thank God for Madonna!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/16/arts/music/madonna-birthday-impact.html

"In the “Sex” shot, Madonna used her body with as much animalistic force as her fellow Detroit rocker Iggy Pop. Her pose turned inside out the way sex is commonly used in pop culture nudes, expressing not a sexual lure but the power of personal confidence."

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Madonna's career was "over" since 1984, the only thing Sex did was show how aware she was about the hypocrisy and misogyny that was being thrown at her since the beginning. It was like "Fuck, you think that was too much, now take this".

She could have sold millions and reached #1s through the 90's being a safe, ballad singer. 'This Used to be My Playground' proves it. But in the long run, Erotica/Sex/Girlie only gave weight to her as an artist and paved the away for the pop bitches that came after.

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3 hours ago, wtg1987 said:

I’ve never gotten why she did this book and it ruined her music career sadly ( erotica and it’s singles were wonderful but people were sick of her and kids went off her too ) as everyone got so uptight about it - now we can say it was very brave of a pop star to do this kind of project blah blah but it really killed her career until ROL came out - I look at the book now and just think it’s naff sorry ? 

her career wasn't ruined but she came far to close to the flames.. the fact that she came out of it intact, is sheer magic

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A piece of work that is integral to Madonna's story and mission as an artist...let alone the cultural significance then and now.

This piece of work, the subsequent era, and how she rose from it are what fundamentally separates her from every other "pop star" in the game, male or female.

Still amazed that there are fans that don't get it.

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Madonna could not release SEX today. Our attitudes towards sex are either pornographic or sex negative feminist prescriptive. She published it at the right time and in the right era during the feminist sex wars and queer uprising due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  

Some people disagree with this, yet sex was ground breaking. It wasn't porn, it wasn't arty erotica. It was a woman describing her own fantasies, being honest about her sexuality and having the body she wanted. 

It's a totally bisexual book. 

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15 hours ago, EgoRod said:

Also thanks to Madonna making Pop female artist as something with a empowering sexuality we arrived to where we are today.

It was always about cute pop singers or uber sexual artist, designed for men.

Miley Cyrus is the only female pop star IMO doing it on her own terms like Madonna.

All the rest are playing to straight men and misogynist gay men - Britney is a good example. 

 

 

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On 10/8/2020 at 10:01 AM, wtg1987 said:

I’ve never gotten why she did this book and it ruined her music career sadly ( erotica and it’s singles were wonderful but people were sick of her and kids went off her too ) as everyone got so uptight about it - now we can say it was very brave of a pop star to do this kind of project blah blah but it really killed her career until ROL came out - I look at the book now and just think it’s naff sorry ? 

Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but Sex and Erotica were and are still her most daring works.  I was floored as a 15 year old fan at the time, and I STILL think that this was Madonna at her absolute peak.  ROL is very close, and I would say the logical re-invention of her career post-Sex, but as incredible as that era is, it's still not as groundbreaking as the fall of 1992.  What an amazing time to be a fan it was.

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