V.K
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12 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Thanks V.K.
If I did not have to work the next day, would have set up alarm to watch it ! Can't go to work tired and out of it though so had to see it later.
I am adoring it. First listen, was not 100 % sure I loved it but within 2 more listens I was hooked. Has so much variety in the song and I think Maluma has a lot of character in his voice and is a good singer. They went so well together. The 1, 2 Cha Cha Cha is such an addictive part too but it is not overdone. The song has so many layers to it. The verses are so dreamy and melodic and contrast beautifully with the choruses. Love the mellow slow burn too which is so seductive. Now, can't wait until the video and the performance at the Billboard awards. Madonna's music always lifts my spirits - has my entire life and her excellence, variety and music magic can never be denied.
You broke it down beautifully . + The song's structure is quite idiosyncratic which is always welcomed in my book . She went with the time's and generation Z obsession with vibe-y and mixed it with her power for euphoric choruses , two distinctly different choruses ! That's pretty unique in pop .terms
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18 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Same here. I actually love rhyming verses in songs. They don't all have to be rhyming verses in songs of course but it is a trick that pleases the ears. Think it is done very well here.
As everyone is saying, the song gets better and better with each listen. I love it.
To those who have not been that impressed, just give it some more listens as it truly is a real grower.
@Jazzy Jan Missed you so on the premier
! I read how it was basically impossible for you as it was 2am there and you had to wake up super early
Loved it from the get go . Took a few listens to digest all the elements , the BRAND NEW MADONNA she presented us .To my ears , last time that truly happened was Hard Candy , smh even though Rebel Heart played with sounds and merged genres that had practically just been born in music ( trap , PC music )
First time I listened " Medellin " I smiled early on , then started laughing as in " she did it , she totally surprised me " , I never thought I'd feel like that again about any new release really what with social media / constant "new" shit and me growing older and wearier by the year . I was suddenly 11 again . That's the mode I'm entering this album cycle and it's wonderful , thank you Madonna
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That's actually great exposure , really really big...kinda shows on her "monthly listeners" daily average
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Maybe i'm just a dumb blonde but i see nothing cringy on the 'champagne" line . She finally accepts her pain / troubles , is able to turn them into something positive . It's perfect in the context of the song , "forgave myself for being me "
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41 minutes ago, Crystal Coffin said:
And what about YOU? Get yourself a fucking mirror. YOU are so fucking bad at posting.. "sorry, lol.." and we just have to cringe at your extreme stupidity.
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2 hours ago, Samo said:
Uh the NYT not only reviewed RH but featured an exclusive multi page interview with Madonna, and put part of it on their cover on their prized SUNDAY edition
I know about the interview, I mean the Medellin review even redirects to it but review ? Link , pease
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Here , getting the lion's share of attention in NYTimes weekly pop review (They didn't review anything from RH ? Someone plz correct me if wrong ) . Also included on top of their respective Spotify playlist where it also gets singled out ! )
Madonna has been almost everything — that’s the party line of her nearly four-decade-long career. But on her 14th album due in June, “Madame X,” she promises to become an actual shape-shifter, a secret agent “fighting for freedom” and “bringing light into dark places” in the guises of a professor, a housekeeper, a nun, a cabaret singer and a prostitute, among others. If her overstuffed 2015 album “Rebel Heart”was a touch reflective, reckoning with elements from her past as a not-always-embraced cultural rabble-rouser, “Madame X” so far promises to be a bit of a romp. She has said the inspirations come from her adopted home, Lisbon, and her longtime fascination with Latin music, which has been a part of her aesthetic since she touched down in New York at age 19. Its first single, “Medellín,” is a spotlight for the Colombian star Maluma, who met Madonna backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards last year and cheerfully glides through the track. Though this is likely the song on which she morphs into a cha cha instructor, Madonna is playing a fantasist. The producer Mirwais, who was one of Madonna’s core creative partners from her 2000 album “Music” through “Confessions on a Dance Floor” in 2005, returns to help provide a dreamy backdrop for her carefully sung (and digitally tweaked) voyage to an alternate past: a life, and love, in Medellín. The track soars when it hits its arms-outstretched chorus and dips when it reaches its most cringe-worthy lyric, but while its missteps aren’t barbed enough to deflate a reverie, it feels more like a stride in the right direction than an emphatic stomp forward. CARYN GANZ
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3 minutes ago, graomi said:
Oh ok. Maybe one day I'll spot something else ridiculous to share.
You can post anything really as long as it's not trolling or bashing her ! No one's judging
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34 minutes ago, graomi said:
Hey. It's my first post as whenever I think I've got something exciting to say someone normally beats me to it (which is a good thing). However I'm just watching the rebel heart tour and noticed she's wearing the same shoes in the Living for love/las Isla segment as she wears in this new video.
She's been wearing variations of this design since before RHT ,out n' about too. Something like her favourite bra .
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LITERALLY CRYING HERE
TEARS OF JOY
THIS IS A NEW MADONNA , ANOTHER LAYER OF HER CAPABILITIES AND EVOLUTION
It's confident , has it's own personality and i'll just stop , i can't be at all coherent right now. Listened to it on my headphones , gonna try my speakers now
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Actually the more i see the "standard" cover the more I can appreciate it, the composition is rather inventive and genius . Fuck it , everything's perfect this time around , EVERYTHANG .
I think too her mother and Frida Kahlo inspired that one . She has said many a time how she sees what she does similar to Frida and Cindy Sherman . Same woman , different fibres of her being , different frames and it's true , since the very beginning .
Also , her mother's funeral and the stitches on her lips has been an image that haunts her still (oh father ,interviews ) , imagine what an imprint that leaves to a little girl and how cathartic to put her image through it , her trauma repurposed , for the whole world to see! . And it's perfect , stiched lips /silence = death
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16 minutes ago, Kim said:
Agreed, but everyone's gonna buy the deluxe version over the standard anyway, so win-win really. The deluxe RH is the one everyone considers the REAL cover afterall...
YES , Sir .I think i can even remember our Lady herself saying something along the lines " the deluxe IS the album " for MDNA and Rebel Heart .
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I am beyond happy rn , beyond elated even , like i've popped some happy pill (which i haven't ) .
I LOVE the deluxe cover so much , so fckin much . As many of you have already mentioned it gives me renaissance , fresco , iconography , resistance , women's movement . Dietrich's " Dishonored / X - 27 " , 30's studio photography and movie posters art...it gives me ART , past - present - future , it gives me LIFE !
I kinda wish she'd only gone with that one even though the standard looks great on it's own respect( by anyone's standards
) . Hope the vinyl's gonna be the deluxe one , it just begs for it .
Don't get me wrong , i love the standard one , it's just that the first one was such a climax!
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44 minutes ago, Mat.Guy said:
It kinda seems they are hyping an announcement not the video premiere. Could the video premiere be 04.24?
This . That's what i get too , audio tomorrow and probs download and streaming of new single , video on the 24th . I'm totally cool with that , video and song together would've been too much for me for my starved little heart .
Since we don't know what's the next time she's gonna have a record out I say extend the edging , the longer this era climaxes the better .
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Yes, MTV is a ghost of its old self BUT Madonna + MTV make perfect sense together and MTV is still quite global much like our girl. It's a throwback to the old days when the brand still served purpose, so it's a collab that works beneficially for both, equally
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3 minutes ago, acko said:
Um, my boss came & spoke 2 me about her new record.
This shit is definitely working
It does! Friends that are not that into her and obsessed with everything knew and millennial shit (e.g. Billie Eilish) have been posting about Madame X in their stories. Feels kinda surreal at this point.
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Her PR has already confirmed this to CNN so I'd say pretty finalized
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12 minutes ago, alquemist said:
the red letters on her black scarf !!!!
you joking ? That's LV , surely anyone would recognize the logo
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5 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
@V.K. Love that you brought this up
What a guilty pleasure of a movie. Plus, the wonderful Lana Turner is one of the stars mentioned in Vogue .
I know neither of us feels guitly of liking this movie
Lana's been in some of the best genre melodramas . Pretty sure M is aware of the film as well . No idea though if Madame X has anything to do with the album , after all
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There's an haute camp Lana Turner potboiler with that tittle, lol
Plus, how dare I forget, the famous painting of mysterious and alluring femininity, the woman in the sexy black gown by John Singer Sargent
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Infuriating and funny at the same time lie to claim they only play what's really good
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WTF is this article ? It's like a best of compilation of all negativity surrounding her name . It also seems planted .
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Madonna's nowhere to be seen in that StrangledMadonna instavid
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