Glindathegood
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I love every single one of her records up to HC. A lot of people say COADF showed a lack of creativity and her unique touch, but I don't see that at all. I don't think it's a standard dance album. It did have very personal and creative elements to it.
I like a few songs on HC (Miles Away, Devil, Voices, Candy Shop) but overall I think it's a very weak album. I feel the same about Celebration.
I don't think you stop being a fan because you don't like one album and one single. But if you hate everything someone has done recently except for the 80's, it's hard to call you a fan anymore.
I don't think she's losing her creativity. I just think that she has had a lot of other stuff on her mind and has had a lot of personal issues the last couple of years.
I can't be too harsh on her. No one can be inspired all the time. I know from my job sometimes I don't feel inspired or excited about doing something, but I have a deadline and I have to finish something, so I do the best I can. You can't come up with something brilliant and mindblowing all the time. But I think over the years, she has had an excellent record of doing that with just a few missteps.
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I almost wish she would just lose commercial relevance altogether so she could just go crazy exploring different styles without having to care about commercial prospects anymore. But, I don't know that she'll ever go that far out there.
I don't think Madonna or any artist can or should completely forget about commercial considerations. But I do wish she would explore other kinds of music. I think she needs to get the balance between commercial concerns and artistic concerns again. It seems to me in the last couple of years she has only cared about the commercial side. But I wouldn't want her to go too far to the other side and do something too weird or avant garde either. I will always want her to do melodic accessible things that you can sing along with, but show more creativity and innovation than she has in the last couple of years.
I also feel like she's getting caught in just the dance club/electronic/fun music box right now. She really needs to break out of that.
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I would have to put in my bottom 20 songs! It's not in the bottom 10 though. It's not horrible. It's too boring and prosaic to be in the bottom 10.
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That's where I got it! If you look the prior two people's posts in the thread were about how much they enjoyed HC. Obviously muse was responding to them rather than the general subject of the thread, even though muse didn't directly quote them. It's the only thing that makes sense. Context, honey!
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it's not in your TOP 20 and yet you said it is this decade's Like A Prayer? uhm, is Like A Prayer in your Top 20?
I believe Muse meant that Hard Candy was this decade's LAP (divorce album) not that Celebration was this decade's LAP!
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I think it will be a hit, but not one of her biggest hits. Just because it comes from a GH album means there's a lower level of excitement than it if it came from a new album.
Plus, she on tour so there's not going to be a lot of promotion. And although I like it, it is so referential to her older hits, that it doesn't have that unique element that most of her biggest hits have.
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Am I the only person who thinks that Revolver demo is pure shit?? I'm seriously not getting the love for that piece of crap.
I'm praying she reworked the hell out of that.
No. you're not. I don't like it too much either. I think Celebration was a much better first single choice.
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I don't know if this is real, but someone sent me this. They claim this is the back of the cd with the track listing.
http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu156/b...EAROFFICIAL.jpg
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I love the cover! But then I"m a huge Andy Warhol fan. I have a copy of the Marilyn Monroe painting which inspired the cover in my bedroom. So it's great that she used it for her GH!
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Thanks! I really love the dub remix, and I usually don't like remixes.
The 20 second clip didn't do much for me, but I think this is great.
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I don't want to be negative and rain on anyone's parade, but I worked for a radio station once and fans' requests have actually very little bearing on what they choose to play. They mostly ignore requests. Their playlist is based on some kind of corporate market research.
So if Mariah is being played more than Madonna, it's not because of anything her fans are doing.
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I don't get this 'it's her AGE' argument. It's so pessimistic, like the situation isn't going to improve -for all we know her next tour could feature amazing live vocals. NO she shouldn't be able to do the same high pitched voice, but that doesn't mean she can't still well and be recognisably 'Madonna' just with a slightly lower register.
I don't get where you're coming from at all. Her voice now doesn't sound radically different from any of the older records. She still sounds like Madonna to me.
Yes, she hits some flat notes on Sticky and Sweet, but she does that on every tour. She's never been a perfect live singer, but the basic tone of her voice is pretty much the same as it has always been.
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Here's a review of it. They didn't seem to like it too much.
The ethics of moving natives of Africa to the West was further explored by Jacques Peretti in Madonna and Mercy: What Really Happened?. This was a documentary examining the pop star's recent adoption of a four-year-old Malawian girl called Mercy, and Peretti, while disingenuously claiming that he was open to all kinds of conclusions, duly arrived at the one that he had clearly reached long before the cameras started rolling – namely that Madonna has no business swanning over to Malawi and plucking out cute-looking kids to take back to New York. He also suggested, while never managing to find much evidence, that the esoteric spiritual movement to which Madonna belongs, Kabbalah, lends a decidedly sinister dimension to her family-planning decisions.
Undoubtedly, there is a valid debate to be had about Madonna adopting children from Malawian orphanages, especially as it turned out that Mercy is not an orphan. But Peretti crafted a documentary to fit his own preconceptions. He also claimed that, when he got to Africa, a local journalist "reminded" him that Madonna had previously adopted another Malawian child, David Banda. If he needed reminding, then he should have been a little more thorough with his research. If he didn't, he shouldn't have insulted our intelligence by pretending he did. But in fairness, he uncovered plenty of material worth knowing, enabling the rest of us to be rather more objective before deciding whether Madonna has behaved monstrously, or admirably.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...-4-1724418.html
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Well, the good news is the press and everyone else will pay no attention to this documentary since everyone is focused on MJ's death right now.
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I haven't seen the documentary yet, but I find the whole title "What Really Happened" really ridiculous and very arrogant on the part of the filmmaker.
Everyone knows if you do a documentary on whatever subject, it is just your point of view. So to subtitle something "what really happened" like only you know the truth is quite arrogant in my opinion.
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She's wearing precisely the same outfit she wore to that ball thing, right down to the hideous boots it seems. Which I guess means that her wearing that mess to that costume gala was more of a contractual obligation than her showing her 'kooky' side. I don't know whether to be releived that she hasn't lost her mind after all, or sad that she's willing to go out looking like a total twat just for LV's filthy coin. She really is sleep walking through her career at the moment isn't she?
Does it ever occur you that actually it's the other way around? She agreed to do the Louis Vuitton ad because she likes the clothes and find them creative and interesting. Madonna has always worn and admired avant garde fashion and is not a conformist like you obviously are!
How is this different from earlier parts of her career? She has always done fashion ads like for Versace.
You attacked Jesus for no reason. Your venom never ceases to amaze me.
I'm all for gay rights and gay marriage. but the venom of some gay men on this forum never ceases to amaze me. Why are you so nasty and cruel? I don't get it.
It's great to be a gay icon, but there is nothing so harsh as the judgments of the queens.
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I love it, too! It's very stylized and doll like but it suits the clothes.
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I love Frozen, but I don't think she should take out Hung Up. I know a lot of people hate it, but I really enjoyed the rock version of Hung Up. But if it's the rock sound of it that's a problem, then she should just change it back to a dance song. Hung Up was huge in Europe and one of her biggest hits in recent years, so I don't think it would be a good idea to take it out completely.
I'd rather her replace one of the HC tracks with Frozen.
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I'm sorry, but he's seriously deranged with this one, that song sounded dated already on the day it was recorded!
I agree! And how can he say Gone is just sort of all right. It's one of my favorite Madonna songs ever! Julianna Hatfield even covered at one of her concerts and the audience loved it.
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I hope it's true. But I'm not going to get my hopes up because didn't the British tabloids say before, the adoption would go through.
I think it's the right decision to let her adopt Mercy so I certainly hope it's true.
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I don't really understand his comments. Dance remixes are such a big part of the music industry no matter who you work with. Everyone has them, not just Madonna. As a professional, you'd think he'd understand that. The fact that someone remixes his songs doesn't undermine what he did, as his original productions were still released in their original form.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be real, they interviewed Madonna in 2005, where she answered cool fan questions. The tone of the article is their style, would they post fake quotes of Oakenfold?
Why would titles be confidential? Timbaland and Justin revealed songtitles of HC back then. And maybe Madonna gave him the greenlight to create more buzz.
I'm not that familiar with their publication. But a phrase like this sounds very strange to me. "new songs that Paul Oakenfold has recorded with her royal highness, all time queen of the pop fiefdom and snout rubberer of the puffed up and self righteous in the poop (ie Madonna)."
Maybe you're right and it's some kind of weird British humor that I don't understand.
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Is this a serious article? The tone of it indicates to me it's their idea of a joke, sarcasm and playing a joke on their readers.
I doubt that Paul Oakenfold would just give out the titles of the songs to some magazine reporter. I thought that producers who worked for Madonna were supposed to keep that confidential until she is ready to release information on the new album and songs.
Madonna and US Radio
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Why does Madonna have to limit herself to just dance music? Now I understand for a tour to be successful, you have to have melodic catchy songs that people can sing along with, and nothing too strange and avant garde. But lots of different kinds of music can do that. What about pop,rock or ballads? I do think she is becoming one dimensional as just a dance artist. Her career has always been about not being limited to neat little catergories and overcoming stereotypes, and trying new things. Yet she is getting stuck in doing just club floor dance music. I really think she needs to step away from that a little bit to keep people's interest.