Thirty years after she first whispered the iconic line: “I’m not your bitch, don’t hang you shit on me”, Madonna is revisiting perhaps her most quietly subversive album. On November 28th, the undisputed Queen of Pop will release ‘Bedtime Stories — The Untold Chapter’, an eight-track EP of previously unheard demos, alternate takes, and deep rarities that trace the sensual, R&B-infused world she created in 1994.
Announced via Madonna.com, the new project arrives as both a celebration and a reconsideration of ’Bedtime Stories’ — a record that, in the shadow of ‘Erotica’s’ controversy, found her retreating from provocation and redefining intimacy on her own terms.
The new EP, co-curated and mixed by longtime collaborator Stuart Price (Kylie Minogue, The Pet Shop Boys, Dua Lipa), offers what the singer calls “the sounds that never got to speak back then”.
‘Bedtime Stories — The Untold Chapter’ will be released on limited black vinyl and digitally. A deluxe 2CD edition will also be available, featuring the original ‘Bedtime Stories’ album and the new EP, along with a 20-page booklet of lyrics and illustrations. The artwork for the EP features never-before-seen images from a 1994 shoot by Paolo Roversi, whose photos were also used for the ‘Bedtime Story’ single.
BEDTIME STORIES – THE UNTOLD CHAPTER EP TRACK LISTING
Side One
1. Survival (Quiet Storm Demo Remix)
2. Secret (Allstar New Single Mix)
3. Right On Time (Original Demo Edit)
4. Don’t Stop (Original Demo Edit)
Side Two
1. Freedom (Short Mix)
2. Human Nature (Howie Tee New Clean Edit)
3. Let Down Your Guard (Rough Single Mix)
4. Love Won’t Wait (Original Demo Edit)
Bedtime Stories — home to classics like ‘Secret’, ‘Human Nature’, ‘Take A Bow’ and the Björk-penned ‘Bedtime Story’ — has long been considered one of Madonna’s most sonically daring works, a pivot into contemporary R&B, trip-hop, and ambient textures that prefigured much of 2000s pop.
Originally released back in the autumn of 1994, the album went onto tell over seven million copies worldwide and saw M team 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)
‘Bedtime Stories — The Untold Chapter’is available to pre-save here.
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