Thirty years after she first whispered the long-lasting line: “I’m not your bitch, don’t cling you shit on me”, Madonna is revisiting maybe her most quietly subversive album. On November twenty eighth, the undisputed Queen of Pop will launch ‘Bedtime Tales — The Untold Chapter’, an eight-track EP of beforehand unheard demos, alternate takes, and deep rarities that hint the sensual, R&B-infused world she created in 1994.
Introduced by way of Madonna.com, the brand new challenge arrives as each a celebration and a reconsideration of ’Bedtime Tales’ — a file that, within the shadow of ‘Erotica’s’ controversy, discovered her retreating from provocation and redefining intimacy on her personal phrases.
The brand new EP, co-curated and blended by longtime collaborator Stuart Worth (Kylie Minogue, The Pet Store Boys, Dua Lipa), affords what the singer calls “the sounds that by no means bought to talk again then”.
‘Bedtime Tales — The Untold Chapter’ might be launched on restricted black vinyl and digitally. A deluxe 2CD version may also be accessible, that includes the unique ‘Bedtime Tales’ album and the brand new EP, together with a 20-page booklet of lyrics and illustrations. The art work for the EP options never-before-seen pictures from a 1994 shoot by Paolo Roversi, whose photographs had been additionally used for the ‘Bedtime Story’ single.
BEDTIME STORIES – THE UNTOLD CHAPTER EP TRACK LISTING
Aspect One
1. Survival (Quiet Storm Demo Remix)
2. Secret (Allstar New Single Combine)
3. Proper On Time (Unique Demo Edit)
4. Don’t Cease (Unique Demo Edit)
Aspect Two
1. Freedom (Quick Combine)
2. Human Nature (Howie Tee New Clear Edit)
3. Let Down Your Guard (Tough Single Combine)
4. Love Received’t Wait (Unique Demo Edit)
Bedtime Tales — residence to classics like ‘Secret’, ‘Human Nature’, ‘Take A Bow’ and the Björk-penned ‘Bedtime Story’ — has lengthy been thought-about one in every of Madonna’s most sonically daring works, a pivot into up to date R&B, trip-hop, and ambient textures that prefigured a lot of 2000s pop.
Initially launched again within the autumn of 1994, the album went onto inform over seven million copies worldwide and noticed M workforce up with legendary R&B producers Babyface (Whitney Houston, Usher, Toni Braxton), Dallas Austin (TLC, P!NK, Sugababes) and Nellee Hooper (Janet Jackson, No Doubt, Tina Turner).
Madonna — Take A Bow (Official Music Video)
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