Deeper and Deeper

"Deeper and Deeper"
Single by Madonna from the album Erotica
Released	November 27, 1992 (UK) December 10, 1992 (US)
Format	7", cassette, CD
Recorded	1992
Genre	Dance/House
Length	5:33
Label	Maverick, Sire, Warner Bros.
Writer	Madonna Shep Pettibone Anthony Shimkin
Producer	Madonna Shep Pettibone
Madonna singles chronology
"Erotica" (1992) "Deeper and Deeper" (1992) "Bad Girl" (1993)
Erotica track listing
"Bye Bye Baby" (3) "Deeper and Deeper" (4) "Where Life Begins" (5)
GHV2 track listing
"Deeper and Deeper" (7" edit) (1) "Erotica" (radio edit) (2)

"Deeper and Deeper" was the second single released from Madonna's 1992 album Erotica.

Song information

The song was probably the album's strongest dance number and it came as little surprise when it was released as the second single from Erotica in late 1992; the song went top ten on both sides of the Atlantic (not to mention topping the Billboard dance charts). Some of the lyrics in the song mimic the Barry White hit, "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby". There is also a reference to her 1990 number-one hit "Vogue". In the United Kingdom, a tabloid backlash began which would last for most of 1993 and the song ended a five year run of top five hits. Many fans have argued that had Madonna changed her overtly sexual image and released "Deeper and Deeper" as the lead-off single from the album, the whole Erotica project may have seen more commercial success. The song itself enjoyed much popularity at the time of release despite the controversy that it caused when it was revealed that the song was about raw homosexuality. Madonna performed "Deeper And Deeper" on her 1993 The Girlie Show Tour.

The song has been remixed by Shep Pettibone who both co-wrote and produced the track with David Morales. Some of their remixes feature use of the pitch shift. In Pettibone's "Classic 12" version, when Madonna sings "pretend", the "tend", which echoes at the same pitch in the original, is lowered quite a few octaves, raised to normal for a few seconds, and is raised to an almost child-like pitch for about 3 or 4 seconds before going to the final line. In Morales' club mix, after she sings, "never gonna hide it again", the pitch in "deep" is alternated between the original and a slightly lowered version for nearly 32 seconds. In the dub version ("David's Love Dub"), Madonna's heavily-phased "deeper and deeper" is at normal pitch for the first 15 seconds of the song, then gets lowered an octave until the bass starts a few seconds later, however, you can barely understand her, because the loop's phasedness distorts her words quite a lot. The remixes also feature nice beats, inlcuding a deep kick bass, and snaps. The "Shep's Deep Makeover Mix" inlcudes some women singing "hey" and "yeah". In "Shep's Deep Beats", there is a sample of "Vogue" where she says "Greta Garbo", but repeated and chopped up.

The song was "Re-Invented" on her Re-Invention Tour. The song was a slow cut jazz version with trumpets playing, and an up-right bass.

Music video

The music video was shot on November 7 and 8, 1992 at Ren-Mar Studios and The Roxbury nightclub in Hollywood, California. It is an ode to Andy Warhol, shot in near identical style to many of his films. In the video Madonna plays Edie Sedgwick. At the time of its release few understood the homage of the video, and it remains one of Madonna's most alluring videos (she did not include it in her 1999 video compilation The Video Collection 93:99.

Madonna's good friend and actress Debi Mazar makes a cameo in the video, as well as Academy-Award winning film director and screenwriter Sofia Coppola.

• Director: Bobby Woods
• Producer: Eric Liekefet
• Director of Photography: Michael Bernard
• Editor: Bob Jenkis
• Production Company: Heart Times Coffee Cup Equals Lightning

Track listing and formats

• UK CD Single

1. Deeper and Deeper (Album Edit) (4:54)
2. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Makeover Mix) (9:09)
3. Deeper and Deeper (David's Klub Mix)+ (7:40)
4. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Classic 12") (7:27)
5. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Fierce Deeper Dub) (6:01)
6. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Beats) (2:57)

• U.S. CD single and 7" single

1. Album Edit (4:54)
2. Instrumental (5:31)

• U.S. Maxi Single

1. Deeper and Deeper (Album Edit) (4:54)
2. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Makeover Mix) (9:09)
3. Deeper and Deeper (David's Klub Mix)+ (7:40)
4. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Classic 12") (7:27)
5. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Fierce Deeper Dub) (6:01)
6. Deeper and Deeper (David's Love Dub) (5:39)
7. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Beats) (2:58)

• Japan/Australia EP

1. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Makeover Mix)
2. Deeper and Deeper (David's Klub Mix)+
3. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Classic 12)
4. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Fierce Deeper Dub)
5. Deeper and Deeper (David's Love Dub)
6. Deeper and Deeper (Shep's Deep Beats)
7. Bad Girl (Extended Mix)
8. Erotica (Kenlou B-Boy Instrumental)
9. Erotica (Underground Tribal Beats)
10. Erotica (Wo Dub)
11. Erotica (House Instrumental)
12. Erotica (Bass Hit Dub)

+= Madonna performs this arrangement of the song on her 1993 Girlie Show Tour.

Charts

References

• Mad-eyes.net - "Deeper and Deeper" Single Page - last accessed on October 24, 2005
• Perso.orange.fr

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