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Hugs to you, funkydita. Just read what you wrote in ackoâs âyear laterâ thread and ... my heart really went out to you. I really can empathize with almost everything you wrote. Iâm so sorry itâs been so sad and discouraging for you. Iâll be thinking about you and hoping things improve for you. Sending hugs and sunshine your way, friend. xoxo
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Sending you positive vibes! Wishing you all the best in making changes that you need to make. (I just caught up in ackoâs âyear laterâ thread and read your post ... so was thinking about you and what you wrote.) xoxo
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That âyear laterâ thread ... whew! Everything you wrote, I was feeling and the âthatâs your costumeâ reference â canât tell you how many times I said things to co-workers with that inflection. I know we do ToD a lot around here, but ... it *really* increased in the cluster that was 2020. (And 2021 has not been an improvement yet...)
I love you â just want you to know that.
I know Iâm like a nobody, so whatever, but I hope it encourages you as you pursue a new venture, because it speaks to your complete ability to excel at it and really engage students in a meaningful way. If you can connect with anonymous internet loser, how much more so in real life with your charming personality and considerable talents. Youâre gonna be so awesome at this. I wish I could be in the House of Acko. Not younger than you, but I feel I would learn much from you and your wisdom. Thanks for sharing on here.  xo
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Hope you forgive me! Extra kisses to Lola! xoxo
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Oh, nothing!!Â
 
 I was in a rush and posted something that, in retrospect, I was afraid youâd think I was just ... I donât know, snotty or petty or something. But then it looked like you might have revised, so I later edited my original post to just show you some love, as you deserve! (It was really just that I was in a hurry and didnât add any emoji or emoticons or anything, like a wink or something, to make sure I didnât sound like I was being bluntly critical or worse. So Iâm glad if you didnât see it!)Â
Also, I overthink sometimes?
Anyway, hi back to Lola, with a few pats on the head for extra good measure!Â
xoxo
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For the same reason I just âbumpedâ the âCome Aliveâ thread, I wanted to show âCrazyâ a little love, as it is another of my faves. It just has a little bit of bounce to it, but also the lovely Portuguese instrumentation ... I know lots of folks say this song makes them happy ... and it does that for me, too, in a way. But I also feel a real sense of sadness and the melancholy in it. The weight of lost love â you can hear its strain on her voice. Even though she is defiant and determined to move on, I still feel tears well in my eyes sometimes when I listen to it. The real and raw delivery on the second verse, and the spoken Portuguese line ... and the bridge! Her bridges are always so good. (Love that muffled âyeah yeah yeahâ falling in the background of the bridge, too!) I think this one is influenced by the morna style, yes? Someone was asking up-thread, and I donât know if anyone mentioned morna. Thought she said that in one interview. That accordion sound is so mournful and longing to me. And again the live version was a lovely highlight! Her standing on a table in her fado club and turning the male dancers away. Loved it.
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With the impending closure of the Madame X album discussion section, Iâve been spending a little time this weekend trying to catch up on threads I neglected earlier. I just wanted to say that âCome Aliveâ is one of my faves (on an album full of stellar offerings) ... I love the background of the songwriting process for her, the stories of what inspired her (her own personal experiences, her daughtersâ experiences, the instrumentation and its history) and then choosing the childrenâs choir, which conveys such a sense of hopefulness and joy and vibrancy of life. The history of the percussion just really makes this song even more profound. Love all the little extras in the production, and her slightly autotuned harmonizing back-up vocals... and then then climactic ending, which is just rapturous and reverberates in your spirit (and ears). The live version was such a highlight â even if it wasnât so high concept, the music really lifted everyone in the audience. Just wanted to contribute something before we shut this thing down. Thank you, Madame X!
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You have a boxer?!?Â
 I had no idea!! So cute and adorable! (We had two growing up... and have since had two bull mastiffs.) Whatâs your puppyâs name? Sending extra smooches for you gorgeous pooch! 
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   Lola is beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing her glamour shots! She looks so happy â I bet she adores you. And how could you not adore her?! Congrats â 8 months is just a puppy yet! (Though, I donât think they ever get too far beyond puppy in their minds. Haha!) xoxo to both of you!! (Sorry if Iâm late to the party in welcoming Lola to the furry MadonnaNation family... I have found the âpost a photo of your petâ thread to be heartbreaking sometimes ... so Iâve done the immature thing of avoiding it altogether for the most part. I should probably re-visit â look at all that cuteness Iâd be missing!)
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Hope you are well, VogueMusic. xoxo.
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Ah, thanks @peter. yes, I'm well..or as well as one can be in times like these.
  Hope you are doing well too.
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Ha! Right â I know! I should have probably said âas well as one can beâ â definitely didnât mean to be insensitive! Just was thinking of you and hoping you doing okay and managing as best you can. Hadnât seen many posts from you and was just hoping everything was all right. I know things are somehow even busier for me now, so I can understand if thatâs the case for you, too! Just wanted you to know youâre missed. Thanks for taking the time to reply, and take good care! xo.Â
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Not to blame others and blindly defend Madonna, but ... I think we can give most of the responsibility (for the lack of a video) to Anitta. Madonna posted several IG photos with the caption âWaiting for Anittaâ ... these were the photos of the nighttime shoot with her IG photographer â wearing the eyepatch and a black trench. (Several of them were incorporated into the Levitating Remix and Club Future Nostalgia collage cover art.) I think that was a pretty public way for Madonna to express what she wanted to happen. Guess Anitta wasnât interested? Or was too busy with her own stuff to drop everything and fly off to a video shoot with Madonna. Such a shame, though. ... This was my friendâs favorite song on Madame X. She and I saw CT and S&ST together â and then we were able to see Madame X together, too. (We both saw MDNAT and RHT, but in different cities, sadly. Time, travel, babiesâ due dates! It was crazy!) This friend used to have a karaoke b-day party every year, and hadnât been able to for the past few years ... but this year, her husband organized a big one for her b-day, and she wanted to do an elaborate song and dance extravaganza performance! It was a medley with several Madonna songs, one Robyn, one Deee-lite, and one Britney. (I think Iâm not leaving anything out. Oh! A Bjork one!) Anyway, one of the Madonna songs was Faz Gostoso! Thatâs how much she loves it! Her sister-in-law and I were her back-up dancers â we had a day of rehearsal and everything. It was so much fun, and I really enjoyed dancing to Faz Gostoso! Itâs a great song. I wasnât all that fussed about the original, honestly... so I wasnât expecting much from the cover â but it really works! Worst part was knowing Faz Gostoso wasnât in the setlist for MXT â my friend enjoyed the show, but was just slightly disappointed by the lack of Faz Gostoso. Didnât help that Madonna kept repeating the phrase the night we saw her â during the fado club section. Even I was wondering if she was gonna add it to the setlist by surprise or something. Alas, no. Great song, though.
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The "Madame X" forum will be closing Sept. 1st
peter replied to svperstar's topic in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
Sorry to hear that, svp. Youâre not alone. Please take time for yourself and take good care of you. Thanks for all you for the Madonna community here. -
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Nice to see you enjoying the sunshine! Thanks for brightening up our days with your sunny self!Â
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Aw ... youâre kind to say that, but Iâm sure itâs not the case. Itâs easy to find the positive with fellow Madonna fans. (I had to look up the definition of âRBF,â by the way ...Â
 I felt so dumb when I realized what it was! I did know it, just not the abbreviation. And it didnât look so much like RBF to me, but your eyes did look really beautiful in the light!!) Glad you had a good day, and hope today is another just like it! 
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Spotlight!!!Â
Youâre back!! Missed you!! Glad youâre LEVITATING along with us!Â
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Your new profile photo!!Â
 xoxo
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Of course! Love it â love you! Have missed you a bit! Good to see you around the forum a little more... (Also jealous of your haircut! I havenât been able to get mine cut since February... so it is an unruly mane right now! Yours looks so clean and sleek! So handsome!) Happy belated birthday, by the way! I hope you were still able to find ways to celebrate, despite the challenging circumstances. Take care, Bill, and donât be a stranger! xo
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Thank you my friend. Love you too and to be honest that pic is pre-pandemic so my haircut isnât quite as sleek right now since Iâm cutting it myself
I had a very nice birthday though, thank you for the wish!  Itâs really nice to hear from you and Iâve found a lot of comfort in being more active here with some of my long time friends still posting. 
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Madonna should have pulled a Taylor for Madame X
peter replied to Je5u5's topic in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
I was thinking about this ... well, not precisely, of course, @Je5u5, you have a brilliant idea!! It would have made much more sense, with the multiple identities of Madame X, for Madonna to issue a variety of covers. (More so than for Taylorâs folklore, in my opinion.) Madame X certainly had the imagery. I was wondering about how far that model can be stretched. It would be interesting to know how many of Taylorâs sales were from multiple copies, just different covers. But of course thereâs no way to know that, I suppose. I mean, for the past few albums, it has been this way for M, with a standard, deluxe, and super deluxe. I remember ROL, Music, AL, COADF, and HC all had one standard and one deluxe. Oh I guess thatâs all MDNA had, too â just felt like more because there were standard versions with Gang Bang and without. So they only started to exploit it a bit with RH and Madame X. But 8 editions each on CD and vinyl? Seems a bit over the top, in my opinion. But whatever. If she can move those units, I guess more power to her. -
Oh... hadnât quite heard that explanation. (But I was ... oh, a month late learning that Casey Spooner was claiming M had ripped him off!) So ... was Mirwais (and thereby Madonna) acquitted of this legally? Was the lawsuit dismissed?
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Yay! Was thinking this, and have been meaning all week (er, two weeks!) to find some TCM clips of Jacqueline Stewart talking about this -- love her! (Love all the TCM hosts, honestly!) Instead, I only found these, which are not as directly related as I'd hoped, although she makes some oblique references when discussing film history: But I know I've heard her speak eloquently about films that need to be contextualized for modern audiences. And now I see I'm super late in doing this, because @Beautiful Killer posted other videos that are more specific to Gone with the Wind from TCM, so -- thanks, BK! I'm interested to see what they have to share.
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Your favourite of the "C" trio from Madame X
peter replied to Flip The Switch's topic in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
Love all three â I think Crazy and Come Alive might be tied at the top for me, with Crave coming in a close second. Yes, @Mooncrown11, Come Alive resonates even more deeply right now â partially for the reason you stated â I love that background on the instrumentation (krakev, I though they were called in the doc, but I found krakebs and variant spellings online just now). I think she shared somewhere that her twin daughters experience being turned away from a class (gymnastics maybe, or dance?) â which Madonna suspected to be racially motivated. Knowing that, hearing her rally cry against that through the song, and feeling the inherently hopeful optimism infused through the voices of the childrenâs choir truly results in an uplifting song that takes flight and soars over adversity and oppression. But Crazy is so full of heartache, I just love wallowing in that melancholy, too. And Crave is full of longing. All such powerfully emotive songs. -
Okay then, it was a top40 radio hit, which was his question. It was the last time she had a radio chart appearance. It was pushed because of the Super Bowl, which made sense. The fact that her last radio chart appearance wasnât a #1 ubiquitous smash hit is not really a shocker. Iâm sure weâd all love for her to have her late-career âBelieveâ/Cher moment, but ... it makes logical sense that Mâs chart peaks would start to slip downward. Iâll correct my post above â I said top 10 mistakenly â I meant top 40.
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Yes, GMAYL was a top 40 in the US ... not sure which markets youâre talking about, but there was a deal for that song to be played hourly on the weekend of its release because of the Super Bowl. So, it made sense â while the idea of âpayolaâ for her to have a hit is kinda repulsive to me, I can accept it in that instance, because it was an event weekend and it made sense for people to hear that song before the performance. The idea is less offensive to me, I guess, because most media in the US do a lot of stories related to the Super Bowl during that week, so ... it made sense for radio to be playing her a lot and talking about how she would be performing, etc. Feels organic to me, not forced/fake. But, yes, that was her last radio hit in the US to my knowledge, and it was after she left Warner. Since then, itâs only gone down. Clearly the Warner machine knew how to help her on radio all over the world, and she completely lost that support network, sadly. On the other hand, with the edicts that happened from, say Radio 1 in the UK, it became clear age was going to be an insurmountable obstacle for her, anyway, so ... not sure if it would have mattered or not.
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^ And yet ... then she didnât film a video for Faz Gostoso, and she didnât even have any tour dates in South America to build on the momentum. And was MedellĂn even serviced to radio in those markets? I know youâre talking about streaming (Faz was a moderately popular track for streaming, yes?) ... but clearly there would have been some low-key success on radio just from the featuring players alone. The term âsingleâ in reference to Madame X release strategy has never been more confusing. In the past a âsingleâ would have received most of the treatment below (with the exception of a late single â probably wouldnât be available to download as a preview track). With Madame X, she filmed videos (thankfully!) for songs that were not singles, and yet she didnât really support the actual singles with the full arsenal. Music video? Serviced to radio stations? Track downloadable prior to album release? Remixes commissioned? Remixes available to stream? Remixes released to consumers via digital platforms for purchase? Remixes sent to DJs for club play? Featured in a promo performance? (Then again, I guess itâs true that it happened plenty of times before that she didnât film a promo video for every single. So. Maybe I shouldnât find it so confusing.)
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Yes, @Paul â thatâs it. Avicii has been corrected in this version, so our suspicions were correct.
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Additional âI Donât Search I Findâ remixes released
peter replied to Suedehead's topic in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
Thanks, @animalinstinct!
 
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