tek75
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M wanted to, back in the day. But Eminem apparently turned her down. I believed it was mentioned in at least one interview she's done. Anyhow, don't see the point of a collaboration now.
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Yeah I remember M saying her character wasn't supposed to die in the original script and that was a reason she was attracted to the project. Oops.
Anyway, it was not a classic movie to say the least but it's watchable in a guilty pleasure kind of way, and her body looks amazing in it (though the lighting kept highlighting the bags under her eyes and made her look tired).
Also, her interviews for this movie are rather sad to me because she seems blissfully unaware of the avalanche of scorn and hatred that's just about to fall on her with the release of the Sex book.
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wait, did that ACTUALLY happen? from visage's mouth? or just rumor? lol
Yup, it happened. I remember her talking about it years and years ago on that talk show RuPaul hosted (way before Drag Race).
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It's great that she doesn't hold a grudge from when Madonna's lawyers threatened her with legal action for copying Madonna's image (which Michelle certainly did) as a member of Seduction. At any rate, "It Takes Two to Make It Right" was a JAM!
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Why so cynical? Taylor said before the release of 1989 that it was influenced by 80s music, and she specifically named Like a Prayer (the song) in an interview around then.
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I've spent too much of my brainpower pondering things like this. Here would be my tracklist:
1. Holiday
2. Physical Attraction
3. Burning Up
4. Borderline
5. Like a Virgin
6. Dress You Up
7. Into the Groove
8. True Blue
9. Open Your Heart
10. Papa Don't Preach
11. Live to Tell
12. Promise to Try
13. Till Death Do Us Part
14. Like a Prayer
15. Vogue
16. Rescue Me
17. Erotica
18. Take a Bow
19. Love Tried to Welcome Me
20. Frozen
21. Nothing Fails
22. Gone
23. Music
24. Hung Up
25. Iconic (for now)
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I read the Grammy book that the guy who directs it wrote, and he says that lip syncing was done only by Janet Jackson and TLC, and it was no longer allowed on the show... But then again he writes in the same book that M opened one year with Ray of Light instead of NRM.
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She looks great, the concept is interesting, but not enough actual dancing/choreography. Those slo-mo effects just hide the actual choreography. I'm sure the Grammy performance will be a lot more exciting.
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I'm surprised there aren't more raves for Bad Night. I LOVE it; the spoken word part is classic M, right out of the Erotica era.
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It may be the song that broke her long Top 5 streak, but who now cares? Looking at her career overall, this song remains a huge highlight (more so than many of the bigger hits that came before or since). Great vocals, great lyrics, and of course one her all-time best music videos.
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Agreed, it's gorgeous, and it works so well as a closer (I actually like "American Pie" but it didn't really belong on Music). When I make my Madonna playlists, I usually pair Gone with Nothing Fails. Two amazing ballads that flow into each other very well.
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I wonder if the musicians are actually playing their instruments, or if they're "lip syncing," too. M's clearly miming, and it's so obvious Orbit's just pretending with his knobs and keyboards, LOL, but not so sure about the musicians.
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Christopher said in his book that Madonna didn't like Kate and Naomi, and she disapproved of him hanging out with them (he describes how Madonna and Ingrid stormed out of his birthday party after Kate and Naomi started getting raucous). Guess he either lied, or she grew to tolerate them.
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Ranking Time!
(Top 3 are flaw-free)
1) Blond Ambition
2) Girlie
3) Confessions
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4) MDNA
5) Re-Invention
6) Virgin
7) Who's That Girl?
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8) Drowned World (Too dark, overly conceptual)
9) Sticky & Sweet (The opposite problem, too much of a "normal" concert)
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Borderline had real emotion and pain behind the pop production. It had real weight behind the words and the delivery, while Holiday and Like a Virgin were a bit more lightweight and gimmicky, as great as they were.
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I think artists like Bjork, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos are iconic in their own way, but they're not for the masses (nor are they trying to be), which I think keeps them from being true music icons. I think jazzyjan's list is pretty much foolproof, though I'm not all too familiar with Hendrix personally, and I'd probably replace Fleetwood Mac (as much as I like them) with Bruce Springsteen.
I think Britney, Beyonce, Eminem, Whitney, Janet, and Mariah are all in the second tier. What keeps them from the top level IMO is their lack of versatility. They basically had one solid formula they replicated over and over again. Not enough "re-invention," I guess you could say
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Two more things she needs to do: Look fabulous and WORK THAT STAGE!!! The last time much of the public saw her was hobbling with a cane on the Grammys not looking her best. She needs to erase that memory from people's minds and remind us who Madonna is!
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I remember Simon being quoted as saying Madonna used to be good-looking but now looks like a housewife. Make him BEG, Madonna! (But you should say yes in the end, both for us fans and for your career in the UK!)
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In Christopher's book, he says that he suggested getting a private plane to Madonna, and she said, "That's too expensive! And I don't have to. I can just use the Warner jet." I guess Live Nation doesn't have a jet of their own!
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From various Madonna biographies, here are food-related quotes that I remember (some of them may be paraphrased since I'm remembering from the top of my head):
"When I go to the kitchen, I want to be served, not cook the food."
"Vegetarians are paler."
(About the rumor that John F. Kennedy, Jr. used to put peanut butter on her body and then lick it off): "Do you know how many calories are in peanut butter? Lowfat whipped cream, yes. Peanut butter, no."
"I still love popcorn. It's cheap, and it fills you up."
(To a guy who asked her out on a date before she was famous): "Does that offer come with dinner? It has to be Italian."
And there's the (possibly apocryphal) story that when she was poor in New York, she used to scrounge around trash cans for food. But she still considered herself a vegetarian, so when she'd find a hamburger, she'd throw the meat away and just eat the rest. Starving but still sticking to her principles, IMO that's Madonna in a nutshell.
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(Regarding "Behind the Red Door")
Oh, wow. Thanks for this! I had no idea the movie was actually made. Gotta go searching for this.
P.S. M was also quite solid and natural in that phone sex movie Girl 6.
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Well done! (Though I did feel bad that the girl had to get felt up to play Madonna)
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Seeing her so happy and proud makes happy and proud for her. I remember a 90's Madonna interview when she talked about seeing a psychic at a New Year's Day party who told her that she would never have children and her career would ultimately be a washout. Look where she is now. She's a true inspiration and a true survivor.
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Um... so back on the original topic, I remember reading years and years ago that Madonna was going to make a drama about a woman whose brother was dying of AIDS. Obviously, that never happened, but I think she could've actually acquitted herself (surprisingly) well in a very stark, dramatic role. She's gone through so many painful events in her real life (mother's death at such an early age, loss of friends due to AIDS, an abusive marriage, seemingly the whole world turning on her in the "Sex" backlash...), and if she could tap into that ("for inspiration"), I think it might've been amazingly powerful.
Hopefully, it could still happen someday!
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By the way, Paula Abdul did not win a bunch of Grammys. That was either the American Music Awards or the MTV Awards.