UNDERRATED TRACKS- WAITING

     EROTICA is now considered one of Madonna's most artistic and daring moments- one of her greatest albums. Such a rich era, both sonically and visually. There isn't a dull moment to be found on this masterpiece album, and "Waiting" has long been one of my favorite Madonna tracks. I'm literally obsessed with her spoken word phase- fans, you know what I'm talking about! She did it on "Justify My Love", "Rescue Me", "Erotica", and "Waiting"- and on other tracks off the album. This song is sexy and sassy, with a thumping bass line and those wonderfully raspy, spoken bits... god I love this era.

GIRL GONE WILD

     I know it's popular to diss everything Madonna has done since CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR, although let's be real here- she couldn't make bad music if she tried. When it comes to Madonna's music, there are many fans simply stuck in the 80's and just want more of the classic Madonna. However, she has never rested on her laurels, thankfully. She would have fizzled out years ago if she had just kept giving us another "Vogue" or a RAY OF LIGHT.

     "Girl Gone Wild", off her 2012 MDNA album, is a sorely underrated Madonna track that should have been a smash hit. It's super catchy and danceable, and Madonna gave us a fiercely stylish video that channeled early 90's vibes and combined superb choreography and stunning imagery to make her most memorable video since "Hung Up", if you ask me. She opened her MDNA tour with this number, and it's one of her best live performances. This is 150% Madonna here, folks.

SANCTUARY

     One of Madonna's most criminally underrated and gorgeous songs is "Sanctuary", off her sublimely delicious album BEDTIME STORIES. A precursor to the trippy spiritualism of her next album RAY OF LIGHT, this mid-90's track has a bumping bassline but absolutely beautiful lyrics and why this song wasn't released is beyond me.