this is the one. I had always liked music, but there was something about this sound that really hooked me. it really steered me onto the path of electronic pop and shaped my taste from then on out.
little me didn't know the sample then–but this ABBA sample and instrumental are still one of the best of all time.
(also yes, it still bangs. that era of electronic pop... sexyback had me in a chokehold too.)
Aug 5, 2024
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My hater arc is over. As all life on earth evolutionarily tends towards crustaceans, so too must the gay boy gravitate to Madonna. It’s ancestral, sorta kinda. Why did nobody tell me how fucking rad the Orbit 12” mixes of Erotica and Justify My Love were? Where is the news and the media? I need to learn to DJ just to spin some of this shit. Ugh. Up Down Suite on the Rain maxi?????? What the hell?
Apr 9, 2025
used to listen to this a lot like 7 years ago
it’s back in rotation
Jan 9, 2024
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when i was in 6th grade my catholic mom gave me this album for christmas lol. i was a huge madonna fan and course she knew most of it would go over my head. in my 20s i got back into this album and it still slaps. 90s house, post-AIDs crisis darkness, a mediation on love and sex and it’s inseparable ties with pain and death. it sounds really raw in places; madonnas voice sounds thin and her lyrics are occasionally clumsy. but it’s haunting and beautiful. crazy that a pop star of her stature did an album like this at the height of her fame.
also the bad girl video is directed by david fincher and stars christopher walkin. incredible.
Mar 6, 2024
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such a long time coming since the release of girls in 2022 and it bangs. electropunk is back baby.
recs: open up, i destroyed disco, all night
Sep 6, 2024
i remember the time that i showed my parents Election for the first time... then we watched it three times that week. (they wanted to watch it with everyone we knew.)
they also recently loved Julio Torres's Problemista.
Jul 30, 2024
saw this collab at the met the other week. it's not a favorite or even a single painting, but the intentional placement added so much and each work was the better for it.
@ curators, we should bring back unique installations in galleries. 🤝
Jul 30, 2024