Human Nature

Madonna is no stranger to controversy, but there's only so much criticism a person can take. The media took aim at the Material Girl for expressing her sexuality in her notorious coffee table book Sex, and the unapologetically explicit Erotica album. In "Human Nature," she mocks the pearl-clutching outrage of her critics, sarcastically cooing, "Oops, I didn't know I couldn't talk about sex." She told the Los Angeles Times: "It's my definitive statement in regards to the incredible pay-back I've received for having the nerve to talk about the things that I did in the past few years with my Sex book and my record. It's getting it off my chest. It is defensive, absolutely. But it's also sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek. And I'm not sorry. I do not apologize for any of it."

Madonna highlights the double standard of scorning a woman for embracing her sexuality, whispering, "Would it sound better if I were a man?" She elaborated: "I'm being punished for being a single female, for having power and being rich and saying the things I say, being a sexual creature - actually, not being any different from anyone else, but just talking about it. If I were a man, I wouldn't have had any of these problems. Nobody talks about Prince's sex life."

The hip-hop infused R&B track samples elements of Main Source's "What You Need" from the 1993 album F--k What You Think.