Halloween

Yesterday, while treating the audience with another amazing performance (the 64th from the MDNA Tour) in Kansas City, M's dancers did the coolest trick of the season, during Human Nature. Love it!

Night Drive

A few more outtakes have arrived and this is definitely the one I love the most, from the first Versace campaign by Steven Meisel, back in 1995. Absolute elegance.

The one we've always known...

... the one we never knew (can't understand why, 'cause it's so freakin' amazing!)... 

... and the ones we (still) hope to see one day.

(Cover) Art: Ecstasy

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647–1652

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (detail)

Steven Meisel / Madonna, Erotica, 1992

Erotica

Once underrated by many, today a cult album for many more, it has always been my favorite M album and surely among the top 10 in my list of Best Albums Ever Made - and we're talking about 34 years of music listening.

Like A Prayer and Ray Of Light may be consensually appointed as M's ultimate masterpieces, but Erotica is the only one that encapsulates certain qualities like no other can:

Cutting-edge
Sophisticated
Avant-garde
Bold

(feel free to add some more)

It has now turn 20 years (release date: October 20, 1992) and still remains as one of the most remarkable sonic monuments The Queen has ever built.