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.
