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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). 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 and has since become a fan favorite.
The song itself has been remixed by Shep Pettibone who both co-wrote and produced the track and also by 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.
