Mensch
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7 minutes ago, toujours said:
mon Dieu!
"dark ballet" a masterwork in short horror film. malevolence pervade its visual and aural orchestration. for the less perceptive, the video might even contain "demonic" elements.
but the messaging is very clear...
omnipresent to this day are the religious, political, cultural, and social inquisition of people in the fringes and margins. the dark ages never came to past but was tempered only by science and modernization. prejudice lurks in the minds and hearts of those who refuse to step beyond their bubbles, towers and zones.
the divide remains. the battlefields are still there. people might have discovered cures for epidemics. but none yet for today's pandemic disease of rage and ignorance that are magnified by mass media and digital technology.
and yet like cascading water, the vulnerable will continue forging a path for their redemption. orders and systems be damned.
triumphantly, emmanuel and madonna have realized their artistic vision. they found a brilliant conduit in mykko. surrounded by a lovely cast of actors, he personifies the persecuted lot of this world that soldier on. and the third person narration of madonna, more heard and little seen, give more focus on the film's message.
"dark ballet" is a fine addition to Madonna's exceptional videography.
You said it best!
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9 minutes ago, bardo said:
i was thinking the same thing. it might be a stand-in though. do we know if she was actually on set for this one? because i suspect if she was, they might have shown her more. she's not in any of the other group shots of the women. i also wonder why she didn't direct this herself. it would have made perfect sense if she wasn't in it much.
I think she may have directed it
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@Amelia totally get what you’re saying but she could’ve been among them and crying quietly as if it were out of her control ...
Idk love the video though. The more I watch it the better it is, even without her in it!
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If reminds me of Anhoni’s video where Naomi Campbell sings the song and Anhoni isn’t featured at all...i like it though of course I miss her not in it. I wish she was standing with the other women and had some close up shots of her face watching the burning OR it would swap between M and Mykke when he’s in the circle of men...
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18 minutes ago, metalissimo said:
I think Madonna fans who will not attend the tour and not preorder on Amazon iTunes etc, will just buy Madame X on the stores like Walmart, Target etc, they didn't preorder on Amazon etc because they don't wanna pay the shipping cost and want to get the Madame X albums earlier, because if they preorder on Amazon, it will Take 2-3 days by mail to get the CD which will be around June 17-19 so they will just go to Walmart or Target stores in their neck of the wood to buy Madame X CD as soon as possible on June 14 because they cannot wait.
Usually they ship these things out so they are received by release day
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9 minutes ago, Ven Conmigo said:
Mind yo business. He and other forum members have sources which have provided a lot of reliable Madonna insider info in the past. It’s wise for them to keep their names on the dl so the info keeps coming.
Thank you.
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9 minutes ago, metalissimo said:
which source ?
My sources. If you don’t want to believe me, please just avoid my posts. I’m not going to go around in circles.
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3 minutes ago, metalissimo said:
where did you get the info that she's doing CNN, Jimmy Fallon in the US ?
2 hours ago, Mensch said:Source.
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34 minutes ago, dcbyebyebaby said:
Any more live performances? Thank you in advance.
Apparently yes but no mention yet of what’s been decided.
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Fans will be allowed to ask questions for the I Heart Radio interview.
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1 hour ago, Mario Lopez said:
Fantastic! Where did you find this out?
Source.
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I really hope she’s in the video more than just her face wearing a veil!
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1 minute ago, Alain Delon said:
Wow! That's amazing! I'm sure this is going to be awesome live (for those who have tickets). One more week and we'll hear the full album!
Live with a visual presentation, dancers and a live pianist breaking it all into that frenzied piano bit...I think it’s gonna be fantastic!
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7 minutes ago, Amelia said:
For those few who have been overly vocal about not liking Dark Ballet, you might want to stop thinking of her for just producing a "catchy song" for general consumption, and think of her interested in sharing an experimental aesthetic which most likely will come more together for some when the video is released. Still, I don't expect everyone to get it. Though, I'm sure this release is not intended for radio consumption. At this point, radio doesn't really play her, so she's looking outside the box and letting her artistry and vision drive this particular release. I don't know about you, but for the past decade or so I've been digging how Madonna doesn't just come up with only catchy infectious pop songs. She seems to serve a smorgasbord of styles and artistry anymore. Each album, she seems to explore more artistically. I've always thought she was a visual artist, so I think Dark Ballet is a very fitting sampling to deliver to the world, five songs in. I'm sure there will be some catchy songs on the album, but for me, not every song on the album has to be this infectious dance banger some are begging for.
I do believe the “think outside the box” stuff that was mentioned to me is starting to make sense in this context...she’s not chasing radio or releasing singles in the typical ways...or releasing videos that necessarily are singles...she’s just unleashing a plethora of fresh, forward thinking art and we’re all just gonna have to deal!
Cant wait for Pride!!! I’m gonna be on the Stonewall Float!
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1 minute ago, Confessit said:
I think the album will offer more straight up pop/dance tunes....and I do think the drag queen video will be one of these moments.
I think Dark Ballet is a one off an example of her and Mirwais most experimental work.
Yes I’m betting God Control, Crazy, Bitch She’s Loca are all more general pop/dance songs from the descriptions
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2 minutes ago, Confessit said:
Tell me we are getting warmer to a more commercial sounding single and the queens music video
Forget about a more commercial sounding single.
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1 minute ago, stevo208 said:
Is she actually in it?
I have no idea! She better be in it! I really hope so!
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Video drops tomorrow apparently
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So far in USA she’s doing Jimmy Fallon, CNN, I Heart Radio and there’s more coming!
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8 hours ago, Ven Conmigo said:
You again? Piss off with your fake leak alerts. You’re suspended till the album is released on June 14.
bless you!
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2 hours ago, dubtronic said:
Saw these at madonnatribes instagram with the hastag new york times
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4 hours ago, Sloane said:
Congrats to everyone here who bought tickets before she was confirmed. Well done.
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4 minutes ago, Bat-Fan said:
Ever since she emerged from New York in the early 1980s, Madonna’s moderate abilities in music, singing and dancing have been more than made up for in searing ambition, an ability to work with the right people at the right time and a brittle form of bravery, with outer toughness masking inner frailty. Now comes probably her boldest, certainly her strangest, album yet. Madame X veers between pop, Latin and clubby dance music, jumps from the personal to the political and is bound together by an exotic, breezy mood that feels strangely intimate, as if she is revealing a hitherto hidden part of her soul. She isn’t really, of course, but she does a good job of pretending she is.
Dark Ballet, recorded with the French producer Mirwais, throws all of these qualities into one three-part experimental epic. Over piano-led, minor-key pop, Madonna variously tells us that she can dress like a boy or a girl as she wishes, castigates the world for being obsessed with fame and concludes by saying that some unnamed people, at a guess Donald Trump and his team, are naive to think that we aren’t aware of their crimes. At one point she says something indecipherable in a half robot, half Disney princess voice. It is quite a trip.
Then there is Killers Who Are Partying, on which Madonna goes the full Bono as she identifies with Africa, poor people, exploited children and pretty much everyone else who isn’t a rich, old, golf-playing white man. “I’ll be poor, if the poor are humiliated,” she claims over a touch of Portuguese fado, and although you suspect that she isn’t really about to give up her life as the most successful female pop star yet and wander the Earth as a penniless ascetic, the sentiment is there. “I’ll be Islam if Islam is hated,” she continues. “I’ll be Israel if they’re incarcerated.” World peace through song may be a naive endeavour, as John Lennon found out five decades ago, but this flash of idealism at a time of rising global division is welcome nonetheless.
There are straightforward pop songs, such as the country-leaning Crave and the English/Portuguese Crazy, but the most captivating moments push the boat out. The Latin-tinged Batuka has a wayward quality reminiscent of Brazil’s late-1960s tropicalia movement and features the unequivocally Trump-bashing line “Get that old man and put him in jail”.
It wouldn’t be a Madonna album with a bit of overt sexuality and Faz Gostoso (“make it tasty”) pours the sauce over a samba rhythm, while on I Don’t Search I Find she reconnects with her core audience via the medium of high-energy, pumping house music. Finally comes I Rise, an empowerment anthem with a sample of the now-famous speech by the Parkland shooting survivor Emma González.
So good!
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1 minute ago, Flip The Switch said:
Would love:
• Deeper and Deeper
• Vogue
• Living for Love
• Human Nature
• I Rise
Nice!!
“Dark Ballet” thread
in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
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Anyone else obsessed with the outro piano part...it’s very dark and experimental in its scale (I wish I knew more about sheet music and scales to elaborate) but it ends wonderfully.