Bedtime Stories - Madonna

After the sex driven theme of Madonna's previous album (Erotica) comes a lovely collection called Bedtime Stories. This album shows off Madonna's softer and more romantic side of her character than her previous work This album has had mixed reviews over the years and with 6 Million album sales to date, it isn't one of her best sellers but it is still a worthy purchase. The direction of this album is also very different for Madonna, with a more RnB / urban sound than she is used to having. This wasnt the orignal concept for the album, rumour has it that she was going to go with a more sexual edge like her previous work with Erotica. But changed ...

When this album was released in 1994, I thought Madonna was going through a period where she had tried to shock and offend so many people that she became almost invisible for a while, as nothing she could do or say would surpass any of her previous offerings, and a lot of people viewed her as tacky. All of this really stemmed from her 1992 ‘Erotica’ album where had it not been for her fame, an album like that would have sunk an artist never to be seen again. For me, her music also seemed to reflect what I took to be a loss of confidence, and it was no surprise that this album was not initially as critically or commercially as well received as so many of her other ...

‘Bedtime Stories’ is not Madonna’s most popular album, but was described by many at the time of its release (1994) as her best. With 6 million copies sold world wide, it hasn’t come close in sales to such albums as ‘True Blue’ (20m) and the most recent ‘Music’ (12m so far!), but it is definitely worth a listen. The music industry thought so too, giving it favourable reviews. It ranked at #30 in the NME top 50 albums of that year, and Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 stars out of a possible 5! Madonna also received a Grammy Nomination for the album, and won an MTV award for the video to ‘Take A Bow’, the last ...