Madonna

On Erotica Madonna made the mistake of selling herself like a manufactured product. With this warm follow-up, she reminds people that intimacy is also emotional. This one bops along with a mellow but steady groove that's more in sync with the head-bobs drivers do when listening to their car stereos rather than anything that happens in the bedroom.

After the drubbing she has taken in the last few years, Madonna deserves to be mighty
mad. And wounded anger is shot through her new album, Bedtime Stories, as she works
out survival strategies. While always a feminist more by example than by word or deed,
Madonna seems genuinely shocked at the hypocritical prudishness of her former fans,
leading one to expect a set of biting screeds. But instead of reveling in raised co... More >