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    REBEL HEART REWIND REASSESSMENT RANKING: Where would it rank in her catalogue?

    in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum

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    You're silly. Friends to the end, baby.

    You have impeccable taste in music. And I think you and I have similar tastes, that's why I asked. I love talking music with you too.

    When I first heard AL, it definitely struck a different chord for me. That's why I liked it. Her work with Mirwais remains my favorite. The more experimental, the better. It was a good time to be a Madonna fan. She wrote songs on Music and American Life that blew me away. But, that's we love her, right? She can do it all.

    Oh certainly she can do it all, any genre she wishes to approach is a discovery :)

    You see to me her work with Orbit still sparkles something inside, that joyful sensation when your ears witness something magical in music. A total work of art which will continue to be so for decades to come. Gotta say that American Life along with my bottom listed is the one I barely listen to these days, I shall give it another full-attention try in the future and perhaps I might change my mind.

    But... even if I may learn to love it, it will never be like loving an album, a song, a musical piece at first listen. It will never become part of me, know what I mean?

    I am rambling my dear.

    Friends for life :wink::vogue::kiss2:

    REBEL HEART REWIND REASSESSMENT RANKING: Where would it rank in her catalogue?

    in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum

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    PJ, interesting line up. I'm surprised AL ranks so low on your list. ...bearing in mind that making a list is almost impossible.

    I'd like to know your thoughts on AL.....

    My list is always changing...

    My list is always evolving too but I have never had love for that album and I still don't love it. Didn't feel it, hardly liked any tracks in it. She looked awesome though, I just don't think it was the right sound for her.

    Hope we can continue to be friends?... :blush:

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    Ghosttown #1 Best Song of 2015 | Rolling Stone mag readers' poll

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Songs of 2015 See which single beat Drake and the Alabama Shakes for the top spot

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    (Kevin Mazur/Getty)

    The music industry has had a historic 12 months as the streaming wars heated up and album sales reached record-breaking highs thanks to Adele after years of diminishing returns. As the business itself faced incredible changes, breaking artists and veteran musicians alike experimented with their sounds, doing everything from throwing back to the Seventies to getting everyone to cha-cha. As 2015 comes to an end, we asked our readers to vote for their favorite songs of the year.

    1.Madonna, "Ghosttown"

    Even in a great year for pop music, Madonna is still the queen. The power ballad off her March album Rebel Heart was a more classic pop turn for the singer after the house hit "Living for Love" and trap digression of "Bitch I'm Madonna." On the massive, romantic track, the singer tackles both world issues and a reflection of self. Even though the single didn't crack the Billboard Hot 100, it still topped the dance charts and showcased one of the singer's strongest vocal performances.

    Rolling Stone

    Why I love Madonna for shouting at her 'diva bitch' fans

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Thanks to the vagaries of London transport, a tendency to over-commit myself and a hopeless sense of optimism about what can be achieved within a narrow time-frame, I am often very late. I have lost count of the number of times that I’ve slid into a restaurant, meeting or cinema seat, muttering “I am so, so sorry. I am literally the worst, ” when I’m really thinking “I achieved six impossible things before breakfast, my feet are wet, my armpits are sweaty, I’m starving and I ran the last half mile to get here. F*** you. F*** EVERYTHING.”

    So I have a lot of love for Madonna, who was almost an hour late to her own gig at the MEN arena on Monday night, and instead of apologising, addressed the Manchester crowd with "All you bitches who keep complaining about it can shut the f*** up!"

    Apparently technical issues had kept Madge from starting the show, as the video system crashed. “The video lights 75 per cent of my show. We can’t play in the dark,” she explained, adding: “I'm not back there eating chocolate and filing my nails and getting my extensions done."

    She addressed it all to the complaining “diva bitches”. It’s interesting that 'diva' is the insult Madonna picked to fling at her fans- and that she assumed that was the sort of behaviour she was being accused of. She’s spent much of her career battling to be taken seriously in an industry that’s all about image, speaking out about ageism and sexism while maintaining a range of distinctive looks. Her comments highlight the inherent contradictions in our expectations of women, especially famous ones. They have to look fabulous, glossy and groomed - but spending time and money pursuing this image and meeting everyone’s expectations is thought to be trivial and selfish.

    But sometimes selfishness needs to be celebrated. I fell in love with Madonna as a teen, when I was a desperately self conscious people-pleaser. I longed to be more like this woman who seemed to live entirely on her own terms, constantly shocking her fans, pulling the rug from under them and changing everything the second she felt bored.

    Madonna is a law unto herself, and she’s never rushed to meet anyone’s expectations. When every other high profile woman in the world, from Taylor Swift to Nadiya from Bake Off, seems pressured to make sweetness and likeability part of their brand, it’s refreshing to watch Madonna refusing to apologise and play that game.

    I can’t count the number of times that I’ve watched other women saying sorry for something that wasn’t their fault. I’m always at it - when someone bumps into me, if I don’t have the right change, or even if I feel like I haven’t been to the gym enough. Every unnecessary apology undermines our presence. How can we be taken seriously if we willingly make ourselves into doormats, constantly putting ourselves down and diminishing our right to exist?

    Is it more important that other people find us easy going and likeable, or that we value ourselves properly and allow ourselves to make mistakes? Our words and actions will never be observed and respected if we’re always taking them back and trying to make ourselves smaller.

    Madonna’s behaviour on Monday night has reminded me that at 30, I still sometimes feel like a horribly self-conscious teenager, and it’s time to snap out of it. She’s shown me that I’m allowed to get angry, shout and stand my ground - and if I worried less about being liked, I might be respected more.

    When teen pop idol Justin Bieber keeps his young fans waiting for two hours, saying “It’s my gig and I’ll go out when I like,” he’s just enhancing his bad boy reputation. No-one seems surprised that he’s turning his back on the fans who have formed the motor that has run his relatively short career.

    Yet, Madonna’s fans - people who have chosen to follow a woman who has been excommunicated by the Catholic church - were posting tweets that made them sound like the dullest people in Middle England writing grumpy letters to Jeremy Vine on Points Of View.

    If anyone has earned the right to be late, it’s Madonna. In the fickle, fan led world of pop she’s one of the few performers whose career doesn’t depend on people pleasing. When you’ve inspired and entertained millions of people across the world over 35 years, no-one is allowed to treat you like a Yodel driver who has missed a delivery slot. I’m sure some of the fans at the MEN had waited a lifetime to see her. Madonna knows she’s worth an extra hour of their time.

    Article available here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/why-i-love-madonna-for-shouting-at-her-diva-bitch-fans/

    :clap: excellent article

    Do Teens know 80s music?

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    On second thought, when they do happen to have some knowledge of 80s music and fall in love with major artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson for instance, nothing else exist to them, they don't seem to have the curiosity to see where M and MJ's sound and style for example came from. Nothing prior to the 80s appear to have existed for these half-knowledge teens :biggrin:

    They embark on hilarious claims such as "Madonna and MJ invented Pop Music" which, as much as I adore both of them, couldn't be further from the truth. It really isn't just a specific decade teens seem to be lacking knowledge of these days, it's the curiosity of digging a bit beyond what is corn-fed to them. As others have mentioned and I agree, with today's available information technology is kinda absurd, everything is at their disposal if they wish to, with very little effort unlike it was for us 20, 30+ years ago. :old:

    Your Year End Rebel Heart Awards

    in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum

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    Top three songs:
    1. Wash All Over Me
    2. Inside Out
    3. Joan of Arc
    Song that grew on you: Ghosttown
    Song that faded for you: Living for Love even though I still enjoy it

    Best Lyrics: Wash All Over Me

    Best Vocal: Devil Prays

    Best Melody: Wash All Over Me

    Best Chorus: Rebel Heart

    Most Fun To Play Loud: Body Shop

    Most Overrated Song: Holy Water

    Most Underrated Song: Messiah

    Most Classic Madonna Sounding: Joan of Arc
    Most Groundbreaking: ...not sure?

    Manchester Arena UK 14th December

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    Sorry! I don't know how to embed an instagram post :/ https://www.instagram.com/p/_UFHYcmESh/?taken-by=madonna

    A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on
    Dec 15, 2015 at 5:14am PST

    FACTS: its good to have them before you jump to conclusions! The Entire video for my show crashed as I arrived for sound check. The back up file was corrupt. We had no choice but to reboot and pray for a good outcome. The video lights 75 % of my show. We cant play in the dark. We were rebooted and ready by 9:30 even though we planned to go in earlier. I had to make cuts in show before show started. Dress you Up was one of them and my 3rd guitar song. This still brought us past the 11:00 curfew! But we went on and the venue was kind enough to extend till 111:39!! It was there choice not mine to end the show!! always want to finish. So we all missed the last 3 songs! And I'm sorry about that. And i thank all my Rebel Heart fans for understanding! We did our best! And we still had to pay a fine! That life. 😂. The ❤️#rebelhearttour goes on

    All is well what ends well.

    As for me I am glad she's okay, I was truly worried for her - I hope I have not upset anyone for my concern... :(

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