stevenflowers
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I immediately liked Looking For Mercy, i've always loved Madonna's adult ballads and the tone of her voice in them but have to say that from that moment on my interest in the song has constantly decreased and i started to prefer other ballads on the album.
Now i think it's a nice and pleasant track but not one of her best... it's Extreme Occident that truly deserved its place in the standard edition not Looking For Mercy. -
I can't believe there are so many really low votes... 0 or 1! The lowest that i gave was 6 or 6,5!
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really curious about it!
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Still a really enjoyable listen after one year, when i'm not listening entirely to it i put at least a song from it on spotify every day!
I can't believe it was so underrated, i can accept it from GP that have very disposable tastes nowadays but not by critics who are always praising every popstars and their cheap releases.
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Really hard to choose between Come Alive and Crave... but i go for the former. Crazy is a very good song too though, i think that the central body of Madame X is the bast part.
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10 hours ago, YannBouch said:
I really think she should re-release Madame X with one/or 2 new songs. With a powerful meaning single. The rest of the album speak for itself. Everybody knows the damn truth.
This is exactly what i hope it's going to happen with the release of the video tour. Not a "new" live album but a special double repackaging of Madame X with a new single at least, the 3 bonus missing on Spotify, and the audio from the tour.
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Just few days ago i was reading again some negative review both from italian and english magazines... it's beyond me how some critics were so harsh towards it. I mean i can get why they didn't consider it a masterpiece, i could be a divisive record but there's a difference between not liking it very much and give it a 4 like it was a shitty album. The richness and the research behind its production alone should be enough to give it a safe 6 at least.
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I clearly remember an interview made during Madame X promotion where Madonna told the journalist that "the album was not that kind of record", meaning it was not the type of album people were going to play it all over in radios, parties and so on. She was quite aware that it doesn't have the commercial appeal of most of her other albums. Of course she Is Madonna, a huge popstar and hence some commercial hooks were needed (the duets, some reggaeton influences...) but not too distracting from the album's main aims.
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12 hours ago, Eltacubo said:
Release God Control with an amazing lyric video, perform it in Eurovision
I think this could have been the original plan, since GC video was already shot, but they didn't let it perform it. Remember the rumours about a too much controversial performance that ESC organization was not too keen about? The contract signed at the last moment after negotiations? The GC choir would have been a perfect follow up to the LAP's one, the two songs are somewhat related and it would have been a more organic choice show-wise. Probably they decided to switch it with a less controversial Future (but with a trick) at the end.
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I've heard I Rise on italian radios very few times and only in the first 3 days of radio impact, then no more... don't know if IDSIF will be able to do better, too much time has passed.
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8 hours ago, roberMDNA said:
I have the feeling that it was planned as lead single at some point.. is not normal that video for a non-single/maybe 5th single
Could be, they filmed the video earlier than the Medellin's one. But maybe it's true that i would have been a misleading introduction to the album since it's quite different from the rest sonically.
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Really like your schedule @jeditegovna... i really don't understand how they have not released an edit version of GC and sent to radios, at least in Europe.
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On 5/2/2020 at 6:06 PM, karbatal said:
Is it me or the backing singers sound here better? Could it be that the broadcasting didn't put the sound of the backing singers at the optimal level?
It does sound better overall indeed... even if her LAP singing is definitely not good as usual!
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Not a bad track and definitely better than Ciao Bella but i really can't stand the lyrics, that name-dropping is so cringeworthy and cheesy... million miles away from the ballsy one in Vogue.
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I still listen to it a lot, i think it's the best record she has realized with Mirwais.
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I don't go to discos since ages si i don't know but do you really think general public would like to listen to those lyrics while dancing and havng fun? It's a great song but not so funny and "for everyone" despite its disco vibes.
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On 3/11/2020 at 3:14 AM, Narendra Sen said:
I'm wondering how the non-French people who went to Madonna's concert on Sunday, March 8, are handling this situation cause I don't really know what to do. Did y'all get checked when you arrived in your home countries? Cause here no one said anything to us at the airport. And the plane from Paris I was in was almost full. Just curious.
I was in Paris for the 7th March concert (sigh!) and when i come back to Italy on the 9th i did not receive any check in Rome Airport and my palne was full too. On my arrival in Sardinia though there was a very accurate check made by police and since i travelled through Milan on the outward now i'm on forced quarantine for two weeks and unlike the rest of the italian population i can't even go out to reach a grocery store.
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Madame X is at 45 on The 50 Best Album of 2019 by NME. Not one of the highest pop records there but better than nothing.
https://www.nme.com/features/the-greatest-albums-of-2019-2586777
"In a nutshell: The ultimate pop icon taps into the Latin pop zeitgeist
On her best album in years, Madonna returned under the guise of ‘Madame X’, an alter-ego that encompassed roles of a mother, child, teacher, spy, nun, saint, and more. The album that shared her new pseudonym was similarly imaginative, pulling together inspiration from the Latin-pop and Batuque music she’d been exposed to since moving to Lisbon, Portugal. Ultimately, ’Madame X’ represented an eclectic, masterful new phase that stood tall amid her inimitable back catalogue.
Key track: ‘Medellín’.
Best moment: The glittery pop waltz of ‘Crazy’’s chorus."
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I hope this story will end soon without a lot of noise and bad press for Madonna, Mirwais has definitely been too naive and somehow unfair but the late Spooner's behaviour is worse, it makes him go wrong and even more unfair.
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9 hours ago, dcbyebyebaby said:
Its kind of misleading. They are toward the end of the tracklist which songs at the end tend to get less streams. Plus they are next to FG and BIL which are features. So those two songs will get more streams. I Rise was also a promo single so it should have more streams. The only other non single is I Dont Search I find which is an uptempo song which could explain why it has more streams and it comes after BIL so people listening to that feature might keep listening to IDSIF.
Basically if you take out FG, BIL, and I Rise you are left with two random album tracks at the end of the album. So its not as surprising they have less streams.
Thank you for the explanation, it really makes sense now!
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About bonus tracks... what i find really curious is that exactly the wto bonus (EO and LFM) are exactly the ones with less streaming on spotify. They are definitely not the more difficult tracks to listen or the most experimental ones and they are not even labelled as a bonus there!
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The ones i love:
Killers Who Are Partying
Come Alive
Extreme Occident
Crave
Future
The ones i like:
Batuka
God Control
Medellin
Looking For Mercy
Crazy
The ones i'm not crazy about but still don't skip:
Faz Gostoso
I Don't Search I Find
Bitch I'm Loca
Dark Ballet
I Rise
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1 hour ago, lasky said:
Yes, I'm hopeful but at the same time prepared for disappointment so it's 50-50...
Me too, maybe i'm more 40-60 (nomination-not nominated)...
OT: i was sooooo in love with the toy in your avatar when i was a child!
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22 minutes ago, lasky said:
The Grammys have lost their credibility long ago.... but for justice's sake, I want Madame X to shine as it is her time!!! But I told myself repeatedly to be ready for the upsets and disappointment more than any surprises, that way, you could maintain some cool (at the very least)...
True, they have become more like the old VMA lately... but sometimes something unespected can happen, think about the last AOTY winner that was still not that big (commercially speaking) or Beck winning five years ago.
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I could do without laugh-cry emoji but don't take me skinny jeans away!!!