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Review

The "Spiritual Girl" roars back with this acclaimed video collection, taken from her more matured (and in our opinion more fabulous) phase - from 1993 onward. Fourteen videos are included here, from 1992's Erotica album through 1999's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack.

Highlights include "Beautiful Stranger" (featuring a hilarious pop-culture moment between Maddie and Mike Myers in full Austin mode), Christopher Walken's ghostly appearance as the Angel of Death in "Bad Girl", and the groundbreaking "Bedtime Story," which is probably her most technically brilliant work ever (even non-fans stop and stare at it).

The most "adult" one though is undoubtedly Ray of Light's "Drowned World/Substitute for Love", an extremely haunting and stinging indictment of the paparazzi and living one's life constantly in the public eye. With it's startling and disturbing special effects, it's her most personal work yet, and was never seen in the U.S. until now.

Alas, her fabulous (and still controversial in some quarters) "Erotica" video from the Sex book era is not included here: maybe the now-maternal one is trying to forget about it...who knows. For fans though, this is an absolute must-own. For the rest of you, it's a terrific encapsulation of the ongoing career trajectory of one of the world's most famous, creative, annoying, inspiring and all-around grandest divas of all.

 -- Erik Schut