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More ridiculous album comparisons - 'Erotica' is what 'Diamond Dogs'
could've been if DB wasn't such a genteel spineless art-school fence-
sitter. (And I LIKE 'Diamond Dogs')
― dave q, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Going 'deeper and deeper' - DB needed all that nose candy just to
achieve that clear, pitiless, single-minded vision (music + lyrics)
that Madonna just HAD. (Has?)
― dave q, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Haha, I actually like Davey and haven't heard DD, so I cannot
comment.
Hey Ally, if you don't mind me asking: what *is* your sign anyway ?
Still have a Spice Girl appreciation-thing going on, or has that
branched out into A-teens/All-Saints fandom? Just curious. ;P
V
― Vic, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Well, I'm a Taurus, if it matters, I don't mind sharing :)
Anyhow, I do think Dave is right and it's been something I've thought
for a while: the complete disregard for Erotica does come down to, on
some level, sexism. There have been loads of male rock stars who've
gone as far as Madonna, but I don't see anyone raising much of an
eyebrow, besides the extreme right. Madonna does it and it becomes
an "issue".
As for Like a Prayer, I think that's a good point, that it's a very
girly, feminine, pink-elephants-and-lemonaide type of album. It's
like a musical version of a stereotypical slumber party. Erotica, on
the other hand, is a very hard edge album (by Madonna standards), and
as such comes off as "inappropriately" masculine. *shrugs* But I
always thought that sort of traipsing back and forth between
stereotypes in art was supposed to be applauded, not vilified. At
least when the aforementioned David Bowie does it ;)
― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
nine years pass...
i just found some demos dave q sent me eight years ago, for an ambitious concept album he was working on based on donna summer's 'bad girls'. i wonder if he ever did any madonna covers.
― geeta, Monday, 20 June 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link