The Immaculate Collection

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A trip hop-influenced song, with mid-tempo settings and an almost hypnotic instrumentation, this is another of Madonna's best, and even though the video contained images of sadomasochism, voyeurism and bi-sexuality and was censored for television screenings, 'Justify My Love' still became a major hit. Not surprisingly, the single release of 'Like A Prayer' quickly topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. After all, she was striving to remain ahead of the curve, and the obligatory slipshod career recap would not be very fitting for an idol still in the habit of reinventing herself as an artist and maintaining her immense popularity.

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Here, Madonna sounds more refined and expressive, living the song's theme and delivering her most convincing performance to date.

Well, actually some of the songs we changed up a bit, but most of the songs we kept in their original form. Following the completion of the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, Madonna began rushing the project aimed to be released in time for the year's Christmas season, working on new material for the album with Shep Pettibone and Lenny Kravitz. It was first written as a love letter by Ingrid Chavez, who was having an affair with Kravitz at the time.

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A box set titled The Royal Box was issued on December 4, 1990, containing the audio and video versions of the release, a poster, and postcards. Naturally, Madonna rejected the notion of assembling the standard overview for pop stars at the end of their imperial phase.Moving away from the Church into her swish high-rise apartment, she finds herself looking at her jewels and satin sheets and decides she'd much rather have a man who is in touch with his feelings and able to express himself. The remix was just really to create the Q Sound, and make the song kind of envelop you when you listened to it in a certain sweet spot in front of the speakers […] That wasn’t easy to do. The song also caused her first conflict with the Vatican, as she dedicated it to Pope John Paul II, who urged Italian fans to boycott her concerts during the 'Who's That Girl' World Tour in 1987.

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Kevork Djansezian of Tulsa World commented that "if the controversy, the outrage, the boycotts, and the sexual revolution it created don't spark your interest, at least you can have a great time dancing and lip-synching to its acclaimed and definitely catchy pop tracks. Although it did not contain all of Madonna's music videos at that point, the collection marks the first time the clip for " Oh Father" (1989) was commercially available worldwide, as it was first limited to the United States. NME ranked it as the second-best greatest hits album of all time, claiming that "In her pomp, Madonna was the best pop star of her time. All the previously released material were reworked through the QSound audio technology, becoming the first ever album to use it. Depicting materialism, she is asking for a rich and affluent life as opposed to romance and relationships.Giving the release three out of four stars, Los Angeles Times ' Chris Willman felt that "the imagery in almost all of the dozen clips collected here has already entered the realm of popular fantasy", but pointed out that "yet few of these hold up as great videos", highlighting " Open Your Heart" (1986) as the only "close-to-brilliant" video. Upon its release on DVD in 1999, The Immaculate Collection reached the top 10 in Denmark and the United Kingdom, [30] [31] while peaking within the top 20 in Greece and Portugal. Photographer Herb Ritts shot the booklet's black-and-white images, which previously appeared in the June 1990 issue of Interview magazine.

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Also of note are two brand new recordings, “Justify My Love” and “Rescue Me”, predating the overtly salacious, trip hop-leaning “Erotica” era rather than celebrating her diverse, strident, dance-inflected brand of pop music, perhaps included to entice for fans old and new to purchase a copy should they fail to be incentivized by the shiny new remixes courtesy of Shep Pettibone. Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album.The video album was released on VHS and LaserDisc on November 13, 1990 on the same day as the audio release, containing thirteen music videos, including the live performance of "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards. It was later included in the box sets The Ultimate Collection (2000), which also contained its follow-up The Video Collection 93:99 (1999), [14] [15] and The Madonna Collection (2000), which also included Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour (1985) and The Girlie Show: Live Down Under (1994).