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    4Mins was a pretty good track.

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    I love the instrumental intro without fucking Timbaland singing and doing his annoying beat box thing. The vocals are one of the first thing Demo Castellon worked on, he detailed how he cut and mixed them for a magazine. Since then he recorded, cut and mixed all her vocals and since then they are all shit. Living for love "i could get caught in bitterness" and Ghosttown "bound to breaaaak" are the same awful job as the mechanical & metallic sounding "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

    Madonna and France

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    Madonna enduring love affair with all things french

    Madonna and France

    Madonna was born to Sylvio (Tony) Ciccone a first generation son of italian migrants from Pacentro in Italy and Madonna Fortin Ciccone an american of french canadian descent.
    Her french ancestor is Julien Fortin (known as Bellefontaine) left Saint Cosme en Varais (Perche) in 1650 for New England.
    In 1714 he married Anne Bossé in Cap Saint Ignace, QC. They gave birth to Claude Fortin the ancestor of Elsie Fortin the grand mother of Madonna
    In 1735 he married for the second time with Madeleine Langelier, their Son augustin is the ancestor of Madonna's grand-father Willard.
    In 2000 Mirwais said during an interview about Paradise (not for me) that the broken french she speaks in the song is written by her and he did not want to correct because
    she told him that's how she spoke with her grandma Elsie growing up after her mother died.
    Her second name is french : Louise and some of her siblings call her that since she became a superstar and the name Madonna a brand.
    When she was a starving dancer in New York in 1978, she auditionned for Jean Van Lieu and Claude Pellerin the producers of french disco sensation Patrick Hernandez
    During her audition they asked her to sing which she did not expect (she was already living with the Gilroy brothers but only for two weeks and the Breakfast Club band
    did not exist yet). She sang Jingle Bells. They decided she was too good to only dance behind Hernandez and brought her with them back to France.
    She never danced for Patrick Hernandez. He confirmed this again last april in an interview. They gave her singing and acting lessons. They wanted her to be a disco singer
    but she did not like the direction they wanted her to take. She wanted to learn how to write her own songs so she moved back to New York but the Paris 6 months experience (she lived Bd Courcelles near le Parc Monceau in the 17th arrondissement) planted in her head that she could be a singer which she did not envisionned until then.
    She met Maripol during a Fab Five Freddy concert when her future stylist asked her if she had a nice bra and minded remove her top to go on stage with Freddy. Maripol is a french migrant of moroccan descent who with her italian husband Edo Bertoglio were at the center of the east village art scene. Maripol was her first stylist and together they created and refined the "Madonna look" of her early years.
    She's also the godmother of her son.
    1986 Open your Heart video with Mondino
    August 1987. Madonna first concert in France takes the country by storm. It's still the biggest paying concert with the biggest attendance in France. She played for 150 000 in a field in Sceaux in the outskirts of Paris.
    The media went Madonna crazy for a week. She was given the keys to Paris by then mayor Chirac and she gave her salary for the show to "Les artistes contre le sida" a new association created to fight Aids
    inspired by AMFAR. It was later rebranded Sidaction. She was the first artist to support the association.
    1990. She hires Jean Paul Gaultier to create the costumes for the Blond Ambition tour. Shoots Justify My Love at the Royal Monceau Palace.
    1991. Cannes filmfestival is hijacked by Madonna, she creates another media storm when she presents her movie "Truth or dare : in bed with Madonna", Cannes and the whole country are watching her walk the red carpet and steps of Le Palais des festivals
    1992. Fabien Baron designs the sex book
    1996. She names her daughter Lourdes Maria in honour of the frech city of miracles, a place her mother wanted to visit before her early death.
    2000. She hires Mirwais to co-produce her album Music, the french producer, son of afghani refugees was an obscur producer then, he used to be in an underground band in the late 70's, Taxi girl.Mondino shoots the album cover. in 2003 he will co-produce American life and in 2005 some tracks on Confessions on a dancefloor.
    Her kids go to the lycée français (de Gaulle) in London and Los Angeles, her kids are fluent in french.
    2006/15 She starts hiring more and more french back up dancers for her tours they also become close to her family especially her kids (Norman). More french dancers in Sticky and sweet and even more on MDNA (Brahim, Valerie, Emily, Yaman, Marvin, Loic, Adrien....)
    She attacks Marine Le Pen during her shows and on Instagram for being racist. She plays the Olympia, covers Gainsbourg, works with Martin Solveig, pays tribute to the victims of Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher
    Her covers of Brel 's If you go away and Charles Trenet's boom leak online.
    She covers La vie en Rose during her tour, pays tribut to the Victims of the november 13th terrorist attacks by singing a few songs with her son David and Monte on Place de la République at equal distance of the Bataclan and Cafes were people were killed.

    Marine Le Pen’s National Front FLOPS

    in Politics and World Events

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    Or maybe countries like France, Germany and Australia that are predominantly secular ( or not so fanatical about religion ) are getting fed up with all religious "proporganda". And since Muslims / religion is very obvious to the eye due to dress and appearance, ( unlike a Christian who wears poorly made brands like A& F or H & M ) it is easier to discriminate.

    Le Pen grand daughter who is about to overtake south of France wants religion to be above the law. She made some pretty jaw dropping comments about christianity for someone so young. So this is not about religion in general. And as for muslims not wearing the same clothes as everybody else most of my muslims friends do and one works as a manager for H&M :)

    Marine Le Pen’s National Front FLOPS

    in Politics and World Events

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    People are racist in France no matter how some try to spin it that's the truth. They vote for Le Pen because they blame the arab next door for their own misery. I'm not surprised, the rise of intolerance in France started with Sarkozy's election as a president. He toyed with the race and identity card and by doing so he gradually liberated the racist thoughts people were holding back. Hollande used gay rights to hide his politics, while extremists were attacking us, they were not paying attention to what he was doing elsewhere. Both put people against each other and divided the country.

    Le Pen (daughter & granddaughter...the latter is the worst) are not only racist but they absolutely can't run anything because they are all talk only.

    Yes, she used sex. But she was never an object

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Madonna is always dominant, she's a top. She's not sexy, she's sexual. The Sex book is not about being sexy, it's about being in charge of your sexuality. When she walks that feline walk in Desperately Seeking susan all over New York sidewalks, she does not ooze sexyness but sexuality. Kylie way of being sexy is asexual, with Madonna you know that she really fucks and she even looks like she just did. She's not playing the male fantasies but her own.

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