hyper Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I think most of you should take a break from those blogs and comments. You crearlo arent used to negativity. There has always been negativity but you seem to be looking for it! Enjoy yourselves a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannylex Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I think most of you should take a break from those blogs and comments. You crearlo arent used to negativity. There has always been negativity but you seem to be looking for it! Enjoy yourselves a bit I agree with this. This thread is full of negativity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dollhouse Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A shallow, tacky, ugly woman with disproportionately over-inflated plastic jugs and too much plastic surgery in general, too early, with a C-list gossip TV show in the US? I've heard she talks REAL celebrities to make a living, anyone can confirm? I love Wendy, she's cracking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lautnerfied Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I wish Madonna had never discovered Instagram. I wished this long before she used the app last weekend to post photos of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., a rubber cord wrapped tightly around each of their faces in the style of her newest album cover, Rebel Heart. I wished this before she used it to refer to her (white) son Rocco as a “dis nigga” in a caption last year. I even wished this before the two- and three- and four-selfies-a-day from her bathtub or the grams flaunting her burgeoning bff-dom with nursling DJs Disclosure. Mostly, I’ve wished this as an adoring Madonna fan who became transfixed by her power when I stumbled onto a Truth or Dare rerun late one night as a closeted 13-year-old. The 1991 documentary captured Madonna at the summit of her fame, having just released her most lauded and successful album, Like a Prayer, and music video, “Vogue.” The film had her captivating audiences on stage during the Blonde Ambition Tour—the gold standard of all major pop arena extravaganzas since—and toying with Warren Beatty and Antonio Banderas. She was brash, cocksure and utterly in control. Watching Madonna operate at her pinnacle was intoxicating. Since that night I’ve ridden with her, even through the middling albums, fluid accents and dated Timbaland collabos that have characterized her output during much of my adult life. In fact, it wasn’t until the past couple weeks when 25+ demos from her forthcoming 13th album, Rebel Heart, leaked onto the internet that I was finally and fully jerked out of my reverie. No artist deserves to have their work assessed before they’re ready for a referendum. But listening to Madonna’s new tracks—including six which she shrewdly pushed to iTunes following the leak—felt disheartening. Like much of 2012’s MDNA and its predecessor Hard Candy, this music felt lifeless and pandering, lacking the spark that saw her releasing relevant and poignant music into her third decade in the industry. The new tunes, along with her recent myriad Instagram faux pas, demanded a step back and critical reconsideration of Madonna’s current place in the pop music lexicon. In retrospect, Madonna hit her artistic peak later than she did her commercial one. While Like a Prayer, “Vogue” and Truth or Dare were decidedly her market apex, her greatest aesthetic feat came seven years later with Ray of Light. Here, M’s audacious experiments with electronica—trip-hop, drum & bass, ambient music, among others—served as the backdrop for her most raw, dynamic and seamlessly rendered lyrics and themes. She tackled her discovery of yoga and Hinduism and candidly addressed motherhood and aging. Her vocals felt unprocessed, textured and restrained. More than ever before, her gaze focused squarely inward rather than seeking approval from the public or top-40 radio, then dominated by the bubblegum bop of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys. Most importantly the music and themes in Ray of Light appeared to strike a clear path forward for a female pop star in her 40s and 50s, a paradigm previously unexplored. It felt bold. It suggested she could remain relevant on her own terms. In return, she received the highest critical acclaim of her career and her first Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Indeed through 2005’s disco-house revival Confessions on a Dance Floor,Madonna maintained a level of hit-making, discernment and integrity that was fumbled far earlier by most of her 80s and 90s pop peers. “Hung Up,” the lead single from Confessions, is undoubtedly one of her quintessential singles, quite a feat when your oeuvre stretches back a quarter century and includes “Like a Prayer,” “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin.” Confessions, though, spelled the end of the two most important components in Madonna’s success, things which had crested with Ray of Light and had roots even in her earliest work. For one thing, from Confessions backward Madonna achieved the crucial trick of planting her feet firmly ahead of the curve. The warm house throbs on Confessions, crafted by then little-known collaborator Stuart Price, jump-started the next decade of pop music where dance and house music offspring—what we came to deem EDM—would wholly dominate the mainstream landscape. Like all of M’s most successful work, it saw her cannily culling from the obscure and repacking it for the mainstream. Secondly, Confessions felt like the last time when Madonna’s music and lyrics felt united and inspired by one another. “Jump” illustrated how she used dance to escape her fear of passing time. “Isaac” explored her study of Kabbalah, and “Sorry” alluded to the problems in her long-term marriage to Guy Ritchie. These actually felt like, well, confessions on a dancefloor, an album’s worth of songs that utilized dance music as catharsis. Confessions existed not just as a capsule for pop music in 2005 but, like many great albums, as an artist’s personal statement of truth. It was the last time we’ve gotten such a clear declaration from Madonna. By contrast, Madonna’s latest leaked material reveals how little she appears to be singing about anything terribly specific to her current life as a 56-year-old, recently divorced mother of four. Nowadays her music, with a fewnotable exceptions, is as it was when she first appeared with her eponymous debut album at the age of 24: centered mostly around partying, sex and the sheer awesomeness of being Madonna. This vapid frivolity has been a theme since 2008’s Hard Candy, but it’s one that came to full fruition on MDNA’s second single, “Girl Gone Wild,” a slice of sub-Britneyan EDM. “Girls they just wanna have some fun / Get fired up like a smoking gun / On the floor ‘til the daylight comes / Girls they just wanna have some fun / I’m like a girl gone wild,” droned the chorus. One of the recently leaked songs, “Bitch, I’m Madonna,” contains lyrics meant to convey unabandoned partying and hubris as a form of rebellion, something Madonna has addressed infinite times in the past. Here, she gets mired in contemporary hip-hop-appropriated slang far more worthy of Miley Cyrus or Ke$ha. “We go hard or we go home, we gon do dis all night long / we get freaky if you want… bitch, I’m Madonna,” her delivery unfavorably conjuring Amy Poehler’s “Cool Mom” character from Mean Girls. Perhaps more troubling than her broad content or “hip slang” lyrical choices, though, are the sounds and collaborators Madonna has chosen to employ since Confessions. Madonna has never been a boldly talented musician in a traditional sense—she’s not an exceptional singer, dancer or lyricist. When she succeeds, it is as a supreme cultural curator and astute artistic director. Her music from the past decade, however, is oddly rehashed, featuring sounds and tropes that play catch-up with pop artists 30 years her junior.Hard Candy’s Timbaland cuts like “4 Minutes” and “Dance 2Night,” felt like Nelly Furtado’s sloppy seconds. MDNA found her aping a novelty Martin Solveig club hit as well as her own Ray of Light-era work with far less revelatory results. Most of the music that found its way onto the internet in December was produced by Diplo and scan as lukewarm redos of his own former successes—“Unapologetic Bitch,” for instance, feels like a middling do-over of his work on Santigold’s influential 2007 debut. Most pressingly, working with Diplo in 2015 puts Madonna precisely where she doesn’t thrive—going hit-for-hit with every Jo-Shmo contemporary pop star, all of whom exist in her shadow and many of whom have a Diplo confection somewhere in their catalogue already. The pairing highlights how starkly Madonna’s work unthreads when she loses her singularity and, perhaps more critically, her savvy. All of the above could just as easily describe Madonna’s misguided posting on Instagram as it does her musical efforts. She has, of course, always used her image to court controversy. But at her best she did so masterfully and under the guise of worthy causes, even when noble poses masked expert attention-getting. Rallying against sexism in the Catholic Church or the right of a woman to have agency over her body were radical and relevant agendas. Comparing the rebellious nature of your pop career to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. by wrapping his face in a rubber cord, however, is certainly not. Madonna’s recent grabs for attention through Instagram only illustrate how out of step she is with contemporary culture. Madonna has always used her image to court controversyAnd while it’s true that Instagram has become intertwined with pop stardom in 2015—I’m as fascinated watching Rihanna get naked on Instagram as much as the next Stan—Madonna is much greater than 2015, or should be anyway. Madonna attempting to mimic Rihanna’s digital persona has the vibe of a mother competing for her daughter’s boyfriend. It feels lurid and beneath her. Lastly it’s not at all that a middle-aged mother can’t sing about or include raging, sex and frivolity as part of her image—Confessions proved handily that one can. But when she was riding her initial tsunami of success, Madge appeared to exist above the fray as opposed to in direct competition with her peers. There’s certain hollowness, then, to Madonna’s recent output. It’s as if she’s merely desperate keep the dream alive by any means necessary. A controversial meme? Sure thing! A broad club anthem about “going hard”? Coming right up! Diplo drops are all the rage? Well D’s on speed-dial! There’s a moment toward the end Truth or Dare where one of M’s dancers lays in bed with her and cries about how much he’ll miss being around her, the opportunity to bask in her supernova aura. When I first watched the film I was right there with him, sharing in his awe. These days though, I’m not quite sure what to make of M. She’ll always be a legend—perhaps the most important female pop artist of all time. But I’ll never stop wishing she’d quit her bout with trend-hopping and go back to doing what made her great: Following her own muse, genuinely pushing music forward and digging toward some form of truth. Posting semi-nude selfies or memes of revolutionary civil rights leaders in the style of your album cover is not radical. But a woman making relevant pop music that rings true to herself at age 60 and continuing to set the pop music agenda while doing so certainly would be. And I’ll never stop wishing Madonna had never discovered Instagram. Because the truth is Rihanna will always, always do Instagram best. https://medium.com/cuepoint/i-wish-madonna-had-never-discovered-instagram-87503dff88db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 lmao rihanna posting pics of her smoking blunts and posting pics mocking real high school students wearing outfits similar to hers OK what a role model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Jan Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 "Love this photo from Mario Testino-Says it all.#jesuischarlie #livingforlove" -Madonna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lautnerfied Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Madonna has once again sparked outrage and disbelief with her lack of knowledge when it comes to using social media, this time by using the tragic Paris shootings to promote her new album. The 'Living For Love' chanteuse posted images on Instagram from the mass demonstrations following the shooting of 12 journalists at the office of French Satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo, captioning them with the hastags #RebelHeart and #LivingForLove (the name of her album and it's first single). Fans are understandably upset with the Queen of Pop, airing their furstrations on Twitter. How has no one stepped in and said 'Hey Madge, you really can't just post things like this on a whim'? Artists like Azealia Banks may rant and rave, but at least they are conscious of the impact of their actions - in Madonna's case, it seems like she actually has no clue what she's doing. This is far from the first time Madonna has upset fans on social media - just earlier this week she posted pictures of deceased luminaries Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Lady Diana with digitally inserted black bands on their face. Maybe Madonna should just stick to making music videos - she seems good at that. Watch some of her best ones below. http://www.take40.com/news/49775/madonna-uses-paris-terror-attacks-to-promote-new-album-#rebelheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Jan Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Amen! #devilpray" -Madonna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Jan Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Can we now please stop posting the negative articles etc others have written about Madonna on her instagram thread. I have been guilty of responding to them on this thread too - guilty as charged - but realize now that I should just ignore them. Seeing them here makes people want to respond as they are annoying and wrong. Plus it makes them more important than they are. We have too much to love and celebrate about with Madonna's great new music and her own Instagram posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Any article that attempts to insult her with the prefix of *I was one of the people that loved her as a *insert age* closeted boy* needs to stop. She owes you nothing and using her age as a way to drag her down 20 years later suggests that being a fan taught you nothing either. And this person rates Rihanna and her nudes on Instagram? The tackiest and most vulgar of any Madonna doppleganger? Okkkaaayyy... And while we are on the topic of "acting your age' If this person was 13 when Truth or Dare came out then that would make them a 37 year old describing themselves as a Rihanna stan. End of rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Above Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Any article that attempts to insult her with the prefix of *I was one of the people that loved her as a *insert age* closeted boy* needs to stop. She owes you nothing and using her age as a way to drag her down 20 years later suggests that being a fan taught you nothing either. And this person rates Rihanna and her nudes on Instagram? The tackiest and most vulgar of any Madonna doppleganger? Okkkaaayyy... And while we are on the topic of "acting your age' If this person was 13 when Truth or Dare came out then that would make them a 37 year old describing themselves as a Rihanna stan. End of rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Can we now please stop posting the negative articles etc others have written about Madonna on her instagram thread. I have been guilty of responding to them on this thread too - guilty as charged - but realize now that I should just ignore them. Seeing them here makes people want to respond as they are annoying and wrong. Plus it makes them more important than they are. We have too much to love and celebrate about with Madonna's great new music and her own Instagram posts. totally!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TearsInHeaven Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Jan for President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 "She's not the best singer or dancer" blah blah blah for the one millionth time. When to be honest, she pretty much is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Can we now please stop posting the negative articles etc others have written about Madonna on her instagram thread. I have been guilty of responding to them on this thread too - guilty as charged - but realize now that I should just ignore them. Seeing them here makes people want to respond as they are annoying and wrong. Plus it makes them more important than they are. We have too much to love and celebrate about with Madonna's great new music and her own Instagram posts. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
side_streets Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 "She's not the best singer or dancer" blah blah blah for the one millionth time. When to be honest, she pretty much is. I heard it all before, I heard it all before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguadar1720 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm sorry, I have been trying to ignore the stupid articles, but the last one really finally got under my skin, and had to respond because people are just so fucking stupid, My friend, MY FRIEND posted an article on my Facebook page a new article about madonna using the Paris attack as promotion for her album,I totally lost it and had to respond...I won't post the article because its not worth it but i would like to post my response Richard Gatchel Richard Gatchel #mediasmessiswhatitisnotmadonnas#promotionoflovenotanalbum #kissmyassyouignorantmedialovingfucks#rebelheartmovement Like · Reply · 12 mins · Edited Richard Gatchel Are you fucking kidding me??The media and the general stupid public just need to stop, if people are just too stupid and ignorant to get her message, then sit the fuck down...The only thing she is trying to promote here is peace love awareness and freedom. It's been so misconstrued by the media into something awful. and most people are sheep. they will follow anything, You know what? Think for yourself, be a rebel , don't listen to the media its full of lies and hatred...Proud Member of the Rebel Heart Movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 <p> I'm sorry, I have been trying to ignore the stupid articles, but the last one really finally got under my skin, and had to respond because people are just so fucking stupid, My friend, MY FRIEND posted an article on my Facebook page a new article about madonna using the Paris attack as promotion for her album,I totally lost it and had to respond...I won't post the article because its not worth it but i would like to post my response Richard Gatchel Richard Gatchel #mediasmessiswhatitisnotmadonnas#promotionoflovenotanalbum #kissmyassyouignorantmedialovingfucks#rebelheartmovement Like · Reply · 12 mins · Edited Richard Gatchel Are you fucking kidding me??The media and the general stupid public just need to stop, if people are just too stupid and ignorant to get her message, then sit the fuck down...The only thing she is trying to promote here is peace love awareness and freedom. It's been so misconstrued by the media into something awful. and most people are sheep. they will follow anything, You know what? Think for yourself, be a rebel , don't listen to the media its full of lies and hatred...Proud Member of the Rebel Heart Movement. Your response is so damn wonderful! HUGS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick00 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 ^ I understand why you are angry because the perception of M Instagram posts are highly bias and people have always been quick to agree with the bulls**t reported in the sensational news. I had a few close friends email me M articles that included "bad"statements she has made or write ups by journalists who criticize her supposedly inappropriate behavior for a woman her age. .Of course, it was mentioned how M currently is offending more leftist people because she compared herself to dead black icons. Like others have recommended, will do my best to continue focusing on the positive and to ignore the the attention-seeking trolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
side_streets Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Here we go again. Another weekend, another fabricated Madonna controversy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmmmm Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 https://twitter.com/MDNAMafia/status/553645974015709184 Madonna was named as first supporter of "Je Suis Charlie" on French News from TF1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguadar1720 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Your response is so damn wonderful! HUGS Thank you! Hugs right back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qans1990 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 <p> I'm sorry, I have been trying to ignore the stupid articles, but the last one really finally got under my skin, and had to respond because people are just so fucking stupid, My friend, MY FRIEND posted an article on my Facebook page a new article about madonna using the Paris attack as promotion for her album,I totally lost it and had to respond...I won't post the article because its not worth it but i would like to post my response Richard Gatchel Richard Gatchel #mediasmessiswhatitisnotmadonnas#promotionoflovenotanalbum #kissmyassyouignorantmedialovingfucks#rebelheartmovement Like · Reply · 12 mins · Edited Richard Gatchel Are you fucking kidding me??The media and the general stupid public just need to stop, if people are just too stupid and ignorant to get her message, then sit the fuck down...The only thing she is trying to promote here is peace love awareness and freedom. It's been so misconstrued by the media into something awful. and most people are sheep. they will follow anything, You know what? Think for yourself, be a rebel , don't listen to the media its full of lies and hatred...Proud Member of the Rebel Heart Movement. Great response!! Let's drown out these moron articles with these types of responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adirondak Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Actually it's all perfect promo if you think about it. All the shit the media says is like those ropes around her head on the album cover. And yet she still stands tall and proud, as ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguadar1720 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) This is my response to the "Cultural Appropriation" Police....Yielding The term Cultural Appropriation is in fact racist it self. It's just another form of putting people at the back of the bus, so to speak. Separating one human from another. Segregation, Separation, Apartheid.... Haven't we fought long enough for freedom? We are only prisoners if we allow it. "Cultural Appropriation" should be a celebration of appreciation. Without the melting pot of cultures this world would be very different. Deprived.Dark...We are all one race...Human..Lets act like it. Be a Rebel Heart, Not a Racist Heart....Proud Member of The Rebel Heart Movement. Edited January 10, 2015 by jaguadar1720 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguadar1720 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Great response!! Let's drown out these moron articles with these types of responses! That's what I'm talking about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lautnerfied Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Lovely photo of Zendaya (one of my favorite young stars) holding Madonna records Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VogueMusic Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 For the love of Madonna...can we please STOP posting every fucking negative article written out there? That's why most of us are here...so we don't have to consume that negative narrative deliberately crafted by the media. Sorry, but you're not helping. I don't mind discussing the "scandals" themselves, but copy and pasting the entire articles is getting tired. Just post a link...if people want to read that shit, then they can go there. And it's not like many of these articles are even written by any noted, respectable journalists...they're from random shit sites written by mindless media drones with a shitty degree who want a site hit. Fuck em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aorlaan Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 For the love of Madonna...can we please STOP posting every fucking negative article written out there? That's why most of us are here...so we don't have to consume that negative narrative deliberately crafted by the media. Sorry, but you're not helping. I don't mind discussing the "scandals" themselves, but copy and pasting the entire articles is getting tired. Just post a link...if people want to read that shit, then they can go there. And it's not like many of these articles are even written by any noted, respectable journalists...they're from random shit sites written by mindless media drones with a shitty degree who want a site hit. Fuck em. agreed it seems some posters thrive in negativity though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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