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> Erotica was her using her power to make an uncompromising album about sex and AIDS and freaky shit but telling you it’s not freaky to be into freaky shit. It wasn’t her best album, but it was a brave one!
It was an incredibly risky move for her, especially given the period. To give some context, pop culture was considerably less-sexual in the very beginning of the 1990s in the wake of the AIDS crisis, which was impacting not only queer and POC communities on the fringe but also mainstream society. The explicitly exuberant sexuality of Madonna’s Erotica era was a world away from the chaste female-led soft pop and adult contemporary of the Wilson Phillips, Amy Grants and Roxettes that had been dominating the cultural conversation for the early years of the decade; and as you said, it was really brave of her to do so. To make such a sex-positive and queer-positive album in the days of “No glove no love” was groundbreaking, and certainly influential.
(For more information about what queer life was like in the early 1990s, I’d recommend Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life In America for an incredible analysis of what life was like for already-marginalized communities living in the shadow of an epidemic.)
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