Pettibone first began working with Madonna during the 1980s, providing remixes for several of her singles. Madonna primarily collaborated with Shep Pettibone for the album. I also come in contact with a lot of young talent that I feel entrepreneurial about.' The first two projects from the venture were her fifth studio album, Erotica, and a coffee table book of photographs featuring Madonna, entitled Sex. I want to incorporate them into my little factory of ideas.

There's a group of writers, photographers, directors and editors that I've met along the way in my career who I want to take with me everywhere I go. She stated: 'It started as a desire to have more control. Madonna said that she envisioned the company as an 'artistic think tank' and likened it to a cross between the Bauhaus, the innovative German arts institute formed in Weimar in 1919, and Andy Warhol's New York-based Factory of artists and assistants. It gave her 20% royalties from the music proceedings, one of the highest rates in the industry, equaled at that time only by Michael Jackson's royalty rate established a year earlier with Sony. The deal was a joint venture with Time Warner and paid Madonna an advance of $60В million. Ten years after signing her first recording contract with Sire Records, Madonna founded her own multi-media entertainment company, Maverick, consisting of a record company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), and associated music publishing, television broadcasting, book publishing and merchandising divisions.

Many critics noted the influence of the album on the works of other female artists from Janet Jackson to BeyoncГ©. Overlooked at the time of its release in part due to the backlash surrounding the Sex book, Erotica has been retrospectively considered one of 'The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s' by Slant Magazine and one of the most revolutionary albums of all time by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The album was supported by The Girlie Show World Tour, which visited cities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Australia in 1993. Six singles were released from the album, including the title track and ' Deeper and Deeper', both of which reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100. Erotica was later certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold more than six million copies worldwide. Internationally, it topped the charts in Australia, Finland, and France, and peaked within the top five of several other countries such as Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Commercially, the album was less successful than Madonna's previous albums, peaking at number 2 on the US Billboard 200, becoming her first studio album not to top the chart since her debut. According to him, Madonna's compositions were serious and intense, moving the creative direction of the songs into a deeply personal territory.Д®rotica received generally favorable reviews from critics, who regarded it as one of Madonna's most adventurous albums and praised her comments on taboos and AIDS. During the sessions, they had problems during sequencing, and, as a result, Pettibone kept trying to move development as fast as possible as he did not want Madonna to lose interest in the music. She began creating the album's demos with Pettibone in his apartment in October 1991, and wrote the melodies and lyrics on top of the basic music which Pettibone produced in the style of his remixes. Madonna recorded the album in New York City with Shep Pettibone and AndrГ© Betts while she was working on her book and film projects. Some of its songs also take on a more confessional tone, influenced by the loss of two of Madonna's close friends to AIDS. Erotica is a concept album about sex and romance, incorporating her alter ego Mistress Dita, inspired by actress Dita Parlo. The album was released simultaneously with Madonna's first book publication Sex, a coffee table book containing explicit photographs featuring the singer, and marked her first release under Maverick, her own multimedia entertainment company. Erotica is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Madonna, released on Octoby Maverick and Sire Records.

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