Querelle
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10 minutes ago, peter said:
The dancers do remove the gas masks, if I’m not mistaken...
And there are comments on that EW article stating that “I bet Madonna doesn’t even know/understand the conflict or how long it’s been going on...” So I guess maybe she doesn’t know her audience...? It must have been her first time in Israel... Maybe we should cut her some slack.
Every person lives in a bubble of their own, also Madonna. Sometimes it is obvious that she wants to teach people more than they need. Not that that's bad, but sometimes it's just inappropriate or just too much. She obviously didn't know much about the ESC.
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5 minutes ago, peter said:
I guess some people don’t like being preached at.
Madonna should have known that everyone in the audience knows the disputes in the Middle East. That's why they wanted to celebrate and enjoy a time without war and violence together - and without pictures of violence and gas masks.
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23 minutes ago, DesperatelySeekingJacky said:
I think fan hype and expectations being so high worked against her with this performance.
Go to the Eurovision forums: It has nothing to do with her fans. No one liked her performance.
At the Met gala last year she was brilliant and at the Eurovision Song Contest she spoilt it completely.Madame X had a very bad day and terrible advisers.
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1 minute ago, ITG said:
But you don't need to prove it.
Simple truth is, Madonna has said she's not the greatest singer. She's not in denial of reality.
Like the banter on Blond Ambition tour where she says to 'Dick Tracy', "you can't sing?, neither can I and look how far I've come"
But when relaxed and enjoying herself, she can sing beautifully.
I know that she can sing beautifully live and it would have been a great experience together with my friends and family to enjoy a decent version of Like a Prayer because it's the song everyone likes - even most Madonna haters. I love her voice and I wonder how she can sing like an opera singer sometimes - and sometimes shes not able to find simple first notes of her greatest hits she sang a hundred times. I guess that's one of the secrets of Madame X.
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3 minutes ago, Herfaceremains said:
This performance of LAP was much too consistently off for my taste. That’s my only gripe! Otherwise, as always, Viva Madonna!
It's awkward if you want to prove to your friends and family what a great singer Madonna is - and then Eurovision 2019 happens.
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1 minute ago, Katypatra said:
I know that!! But it wasn’t a song! It was a spoken part of it.
... underlaid with an instrumental.
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2 minutes ago, Katypatra said:
WTH are you talking about? She didn’t perform Dark Balet aka Beautiful Game. She performed Future.
It was supposedly the part with her speech between Like a Prayer and Future.
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1 minute ago, Mensch said:
I do believe, even with the Nutcracker sampling, that it is dark ballet...
That's a pity, because "Beautiful Game" sounded so much more promising than this "new version".
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26 minutes ago, Nikki said:
how come you are so negative about it? don't you know that madonna is more than just vocals? you say nothing about the staging? the visuals? you can't say an entire thing is bad because you don't like the vocals.. you are ignoring a big part of the performance
The iconic lines "Live is a mystery, everyone must stand alone" are absolutely essential Madonna. If she is not able to sing them perfectly she shouldn't do it - especially not at the beginning of a performance that is seen by millions of vewers around the world. She spoiled her own performance completely in the first seconds. After that the performance did not get better.
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30 minutes ago, Starman said:
Bitch please
its fukcing LAP she has sang 100s of tines
That is why it is strange why she didn't sing these well-known lines loud, clear and precise.
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15 minutes ago, frzndrwnwrld said:
If you look at her television performances (for the most part) vs her tour performance, it's like night and day. I can understand why the general public might think she's not a good singer or performer. She rarely puts on a TV performance as good as her tour performances. It's frustrating because we all know what she is capable of. I've seen many stories of fans taking friends and family to a Madonna concert and them being blown away. It's a shame the general public (again, for the most part) have not experienced that.
That's it: I know she can sing perfectly and watched the show with my friends and family. Unfortunately I had to agree with them, when everyone said that she sang terrible.
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17 minutes ago, promise to try said:
so:
she sounded off key during like a prayer, which is surprising, becasue she usually nails the song. It seems to me that she started getting nervous while she was singing ans he lost her own key.sad, because now everbody will be saying she has lost her voice etc..
That's what I thought. She seemed very insecure and it was obvious that she had problems with the sound in her in-ears. She should finally resolve these constant problems with her sound team consistently.
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1 minute ago, animalinstinct said:
You can't deny that she's an amazing performer.
She definitely pushed all buttons.
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7 minutes ago, VogueMusic said:
Musically, maybe...but don't agree on the dramatic elements. Definitely worked for me.
Yes, it worked as an artistic and dramatic piece of art. But not so well as an entertainment intervall act at a "camp pop festival" in Israel.
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1 minute ago, Kilt said:
That would be Gay Pride
The Eurovision Song Contest IS some kind of gay pride.
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1 minute ago, VogueMusic said:
But she has always embraced elements of the dark and uncomfortable in her work. Not exactly new. Given the direction of the world right now, I'm wouldn't expect anything else from her.
I support her artistic and political point of view but the performance was musically and dramatically not well executed.
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2 minutes ago, Nikki said:
are people seriously JUST focusing on what some think are bad vocals and that somehow ruins the whole thing?
The apocalyptic war theme with gasmasks didn't help. The Met gala performance was absolutely wonderful. Everyone praised it because it was beautiful and uplifting. She turned it completely into something very uncomfortable.
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2 minutes ago, Confessit said:
I still think the grills have something to do with it.
She was totally off key. Obviously problems with the in ear headphones as usually.
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20 minutes ago, Kilt said:
If she lipped, she wouldve been crucified as well.
We know she CAN sing Like a Prayer like an angel. It was awful.
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4 minutes ago, Dany Targaryen said:
Nobody recorded it?!?
Hopefully.
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1 hour ago, frzndrwnwrld said:
Just because she performs "Future" tonight doesn't mean it's a single.
That's funny, because the Eurovision organizers are sure she will present her "brand-new single".
https://eurovision.tv/story/madonna-performs-new-single-future-with-quavo-eurovision-2019
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The more I listen to the songs, the harder it is for me to rate them individually. Each one shines for themselves.
Even Champagne Rosé fits surprisingly good into the musical world of Madame
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15 minutes ago, ashtangi74 said:
Hope she sings live or she will receive some criticism
I don't think she brings an epic choir to lip sync with them.
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14 hours ago, Flip The Switch said:
Since I’m a fan of reggae, I wouldn’t mind a full album of this genre with Madame X.
It's surprising for me to see how well this new direction suits her. Much of Madame X reminds me of Grace Jones latest albums that I love very much.
Madonna's CONTROVERSIAL & SHOW-STOPPING Eurovision performance
in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
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The problem is, the performance did not get better. The monk chants were much too long with her in the extremely unfavorable cape, the preachy middle part was too long, dark and preachy and Future wasn't the right song for this performance. It might have fit for Coachella or Glastonbury but not for this camp pop event. There was absolutely no big audience for it. I like Future, but Crave or Medellin would've been so much better.