Fantasia Erotica is the sixth track on Carmen Electra's only album Carmen Electra, and, six months after the album's release Fantasia Erotica was released as the album's third single, containing several remixes of the track. Although official writing credit is split between Prince (music) and Carmen Electra (lyrics), the track was originally recorded by Prince in 1989, before he began working with Electra.
Initial tracking took place in eary 1989 at Paisley Park Studios, and the song was initially intended for Anna Fantastic. In 2014, Anna Fantastic posted a video on her Facebook page of a rehearsal for a performance video of the song, dated 14 February 1989, suggesting it may have been intended as a single.
When work on Carmen Electra's album began, this track was pulled from the vault as the starting point for the album. Further work was done on the track in March 1991, at Larrabee Sound Studios, West Hollywood, CA, USA when Carmen Electra's vocals were added (during the same set of sessions as updated versions of Elephant Box, Slappy Dappy, Jadestone, Whispering Dandelions and Crystal City Cry, and recording Fun, Carmen On Top and Uh Huh).
It was included as the eighth track on a 15 June 1992 configuration of the album, then titled On Top (with the artist credit "Carmen"). A "Dance Remix" of the track was also planned for inclusion as the third and final track on a planned single of Fun, in 1991 (also with the artist credit "Carmen").
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