Msig
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Around 90 people in the Early Entrance line now. Sound check was short, already over. When I got my wristband, I could clearly hear M singing "Like a Virgin".
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About 200 Early Entrance tickets have been sold - so far, there are 50 of us in the queue. According to a Live Nation staff member, we'll be let in at 5.30 pm, after the sound check has ended.
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Madonna just arrived
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Guy O just arrived
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The tour crew started arriving at the venue about an hour ago. They came in 5 or 6 busses.
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I've been queueing since 11 a.m., and I'm #18 in line in the Early Entrance queue. In total, there are about 30 people in this line.
In the General Admission line, there are about 10 people, in the two Golden Circle lines, there are 5 and 30 people, respectively.
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According to Danish newspaper Politiken, one of the MDNA Tour dancers, Stephanie Nguyen, happens to be Danish, of Vietnamese descent. She confirms what we already know, that Madonna is involved in every aspect of the show, from choreography and costumes to lighting and staging.
The article also reveals that the tour features 6 female and 16 male dancers. After every show, each dancer gets a list of the mistakes they made during the show.
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So what if it's not 100 % sold out, the only bank account that care about that is Madonna's and she is performing anyway
Personally, I don't care - but the media certainly do.
However, the projected sell-out should be met. According to Christian Krage, promoter of
Live Nation Denmark, total sales should reach about 40,000, which is "what they expected".
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According to Danish newspaper B.T., Madonna's tour crew arrived in Copenhagen earlier today and will be staying at the 4-star Hotel Phoenix Copenhagen until Tuesday morning.
Madonna herself won't arrive in Copenhagen until tomorrow and will leave for London immediately after the show.
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Oh can't wait for MSig to come back with his review. I'm sure its going to be filled with positivity.
I loved the Sticky & Sweet Tour, and from what I have seen and heard so far, tomorrow's show will be much better.
I'm sure that press reviews will be very mixed, with B.T. and Jyllands-Posten probably being the most positive media.
And their points of criticism will be the same as usual: horrible acoustics (an infamous characteristic of the Parken stadium), too mechanical performances, lack of spontaneity, too many new songs, old songs performed in unrecognizable versions (most Danes want songs to sound like the album/radio versions, even when they go clubbing), etc.
But I don't care - I'm sure I'll love the show anyway!
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I think the chorus is the weakest link of "I Don't Give A", but I LOVE running to this song!
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Next stop: Copenhagen!
I know that Carta and I are going - anyone else?
The show will take place at Parken, Denmark's national stadium, which has a maximum capacity of 50,000 for end-stage concerts.
For the MDNA show, the retractable roof will be on.
Early Entrance ticket holder have to register at the entrance no later than 5:30 pm.
Doors will open at 6:00 pm, Martin Solveig is scheduled to go on stage at 8:00 pm.
According to Live Nation Denmark, the show will end no later than 11:30 pm.
Madonna previously performed at Parken during the 2009 leg of the Sticky & Sweet Tour, on Rocco's 9th birthday (11 August).
Back then, she sold a total of 48,064 tickets - all Golden Circle and General Admission tickets sold out within a few hours, and by the time Madonna went on stage, there were only tickets left in the cheapest seating category, in which not a single ticket had been sold.
This time around, with less than 36 hours to go before the show starts, there are still lots of tickets left. In any seated section, I'd be able to get 10 adjacent seats. And neither the Golden Circle nor General Attendance standing tickets have sold out.
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EDIT: Nevermind. Now that my post count has reached 200, I'm able to start new threads
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The Copenhagen show takes place in 2 days, and there are still LOTS of tickets left.
In any seated section, I'd be able to get 10 adjacent seats..
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How do these people get this shit? Amazing!!! *downloads*
Those two videos, which were done by Tom
Munro, were uploaded onto his official website.
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IMO, CT is the best, overall, but MDNA comes a very close second, followed by S&S.
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when is this video going to be aired? and the remixes? and everything? i guess they want it to explote while she´s in the UK?
For now, the video is scheduled to premiere in mid-July. Apparently, the video premiere will co-incide with the radio release and the release of the R3HAB and Laidback Luke remixes.
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At the gym, I recently heard a cover of "Vogue" by Paffendorf.
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What would you usually consider as your #1?
Tie between MDNA and Ray of Light
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So I did this, I listened to each album today, and gave each song a rating out 10. Then added the songs together for each album, then divided that number by the total possible points
I just did the same, resulting in this ranking:
1. MDNA
2. Hard Candy
3. Ray of Light
4. Confessions on a Dance Floor
5. Music
6. American Life
7. Like a Prayer
8. True Blue
9. Erotica
10. Madonna
11. Bedtime Stories
12. I'm Breathless
13. Like a Virgin
I always thought Like a Prayer would be in my overall top 3 - but I guess that has something to do with "Like a Prayer" being my all-time favourite Madonna songs.
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Bea Akerlund (Jona's wife) is the stylist for the video so maybe the director is Jonas in the end.
Poor woman, today it's so hot and humid I can barely breath.
She was also the stylist for the "4 Minutes" video, and that one was directed by Jonas & François..
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Clive Muldoon/Dave Curtis wrote Sepheryn.
Christine Leach recorded the lyrics over Orbit's track, altered the melody and added extra vocals, which Madonna copied.
Orbit composed the track.
Madonna wrote the 2nd verse (I'll have to get someone to dig up the interview in which Orbit said she wrote the 2nd verse and other sections of the song) and added some additional lyrics.
All people are given proper credit for the song - I'm sure Madonna's share of publishing is a fair 20% or less. So again, what's the issue here?
That sounds very accurate, though Madonna's share is 30%, according to what Dave Curtiss said in the same Q Magazine interview:
"I was a bit annoyed at first because Madonna wanted 30 per cent just for changing a couple of lines, but then I realised that 15 per cent of millions is a lot better than 100 per cent of nothing. I did very well out of it."
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Devil Wouldn't Recognize You sounds like a crappy Justin Timberlake b-side melodically. Are you going to tell me that for that reason alone, Madonna had no other involvement with it other than simply laying down vocals for it? In fact- she wrote that song BEFORE Justin came into the picture. So just because a song sounds similar to someone else doesn't mean shit. Any how can a song SOUND like Britney Spears? Not only is the chorus of Some Girls completely distorted by vocal effects, but Britney doesn't even have a signature sound to begin with - if anything the song sounds like a Klahs Ahlund song, the guy who writes for Robyn.
Well yeah, musically, the released version of Devil is very similar to certain other Timberlake-penned ballads, especially his own "Cry Me a River", "What Goes Around... Comes Around" and Rihanna's "Rehab". Honestly, it doesn't sound to me like something Madonna could have composed. But as you mention yourself, Madonna originally wrote the song several years before that - as far as we know, already in late 2003/early 2004. But we don't know how Madonna's original demos sounds. All we know is that Mike McKnight revealed in a 2005 interview with DrownedMadonna.com that the version rehearsed for the Re-Invention Tour was a "20s style torch song". And I know that I'd love to hear how the song has developed over time - for some reason, I think the pre-Timberland version are superior to the released version.
Again, what I wrote was that "Some Girls" always sounded like a Britney outtake. More specifically, "Some Girls" reminds me very much of Britney's "Piece of Me", which happens to be co-written by Klas Åhlund and Bloodshy & Avant. But it doesn't sound like any other Åhlund songs I've heard so far.
Msig - ultimately if this were Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Beyonce, or Christina Aguilera I would be more inclined to believe that those women let a few producers and songwriters craft a song that paralleled a personal event in their private lives. That does happen. I just don't think that happened in this case (Love Spent) Madonna is known for micromanaging her recording and writing sessions in a huge way and I simply do not believe for one second that she just recorded a song about a painful divorce as it was given to her.
First of all, have you heard this demo?
No, I haven't heard the original "Love Spent" demo. And you're entitled to have your opinion. I just disagree with it, apart from the Britney/Janet parts.
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PS. Madonna did earn a writing credit on Ray Of Light. The only similarities between Ray of Light and Sepheryn are the first verses and a bit of the chorus. Following the first chorus of Ray Of Light, the remainder of the lyrics are Madonna's (Sepheryn's lyrics are totally different after the first minute or so) - the melodies also differ massively by the time both songs get to their respective choruses. That song has a lot of co writers - meaning it took shape through the minds of MANY writers before Madonna and Orbit came together to make the song what ultimately came to be.
So no, Sepheryn is not a COVER, just like Don't Tell Me wasn't a cover of Joe Henry's Stop. The fact that you're bringing these songs up as examples of Madonna earning writing credits she didn't deserve further supports my theory that all of you people over at MadonnaTribe (
) are full of baloney.I never claimed that "Ray of Light" was a cover of "Sepheryn". What I was referring to what Christine Leach told Q Magazine in August 2002:
"My uncle, Clive Muldoon, and his partner, Dave Curtiss wrote a song in the 70s called Sepheryn, which became Ray Of Light. I’d been working with William one fateful night in 1996, in London, and he played me a backing track that fitted so well with the lyric to Sepheryn that I just started singing it. Later, I was sent a cassette in the post, of Madonna’s version of the track and I nearly fainted. She must have loved the track – even her ad libs are the same as mine."
I also never mentioned "Don't Tell Me"! And I most certainly never said it was a cover, which it isn't. Joe Henry submitted the demo of "Stop" to Madonna - she didn't change a single word of his lyrics, but composed a completely different melody with Mirwais.
2 July - Copenhagen
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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I will - 6 of the people in front of me have Golden Triangle passes, so I'll be one of the 12 first people to enter Golden Circle.
Btw, the soundcheck isn't over yet - they only ha a break. They just rehearsed the three first songs of the show.
We were supposed to be let it 10 minutes ago, but NO ONE will be let in before 6 pm.