nimos
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did she control the lighting tonight at stellas show?
Flash photography. Plus her eyes are covered.
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It's sad that she will ditch people like Donna, Nikki, Pat Leonard etc. at the drop of a hat, but seems to show undying loyalty to Guy Oseary, Steven Klein and that awful Liz Rosenberg woman.
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It seems far too soon for trends from just six or seven years ago to be coming around again, but that seems to be what's happening. I definitely noticed the similarity to Mirrors and Blurred Lines, even before I'd seen other people making the comparison. Then again, I think the relative failure of Hard Candy was partly down to the bad publicity from the divorce, the image, the plastic surgery etc. and not much has changed in that respect since 2008.
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I want a CD too. An iTunes Store audio version would also be fine by me.
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- The lyrics to Falling Free sound like bad teenage poetry.
- She'd rather look trendy than beautiful.
(Any hate for Erotica, The Girlie Show and Confessions is definitely an unpopular opinion with me.)
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How you think this is a fair comparison I don't know.
Plus, I have two sisters and a brother and we're all aging differently.Yeah it's not really fair. If you gave her sisters the same hair, make-up and wardrobe people as Madonna they could probably look pretty good, but not as good as Madonna, of course.
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- Jump and Turn Up the Radio are good music videos.
- Hard Candy is better than MDNA.
- Love Spent isn't the great song people claim it to be.
- Her political views, while well-meaning, sound very naive and simplistic.
- She should not have divorced Guy Ritchie.
- Her 80s and early 90s voice is more expressive and listenable than her current voice.
- I love how the Immaculate Collection tracks were remixed and not just album versions.
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The complaint says that Hamilton performed significant services for Madonna in the summer of 2004, including filming her dress rehearsal and shows in Manchester and London.
But the leaked footage was from Lisbon. Was that not intended for the DVD then?
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I know 2001 is regarded as a bad year for her looks-wise, but I thought she looked very nice on this night:
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I really like the song. It sounds like it was written very quickly and spontaneously and she was inspired, it just flows like that.
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Madonna wasn't pleased with the footage and, therefore, the DVD release was eventually cancelled.
I can see why. After all, the footage filmed in Paris by Jonas Åkerlund and his crew looks so much better.
I read somewhere that Madonna was happy with the footage but the whole project had been organised by Caresse Henry and once Madonna split with her, there would have been too much red tape involved to get the DVD released. Plus I think there might have been a clause in the IGTYAS contract preventing a "rival" concert DVD from being released until a certain amount of time had passed, and by that point nobody really cared about the Re-Invention Tour any more.
I actually prefer the style of the leaked footage because it feels a lot more real and live, and it gives you a better sense of being there. Any flaws are probably down to the fact that it was a rough edit and not finished. I'm not fond of Jonas Åkerlund's directing style, with all the fast edits, slow motion, and screen graphics plastered all over the screen, not to mention the fake-sounding retouched vocals. It makes for a flashy music video - and it was fine as part of the IGTYAS movie - but it doesn't really document the actual concert. I really agree with this quote from Pitchfork's review of the Confessions DVD, for example:
Åkerlund gives you everything you don't want from a concert film: incessant quick cuts that you give you no sense of space or stage, overdubbed music and vocals that give you no sense of performance, and only a few shots of the audience to gauge their excitement. -
Her final pre-surgery public appearance, wasn't it? Beautiful!
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Nice of her to give her time and fly over for a good cause, especially since she has been doing this kind of thing for years before Beyonce got involved.
As people have said, her face doesn't look good or natural in the broad daylight, and it's hard not to notice. I think we just have to accept that the perfect 2005/6/7 face isn't ever coming back.
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That was kind of the end of an era: pre-surgery, Donna DeLory, Cloud...
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Looking forward to this, whenever it arrives. I really hope they go easy on the effects and editing and don't "filmize" it. I don't want dubbed or retuned vocals, either.
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It's kind of sad that the idea of Madonna being keen to make new music has become implausible.
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I think it's a nice letter apart from the 'Dear Joyce' bit which sounds a bit over-familiar if she doesn't know the woman.
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I agree that straight hair (usually) makes her look younger and is probably one of the reasons she looks so stunning in those photos. Remember the Revolver premieres in 2005 when she appeared at the first one with that old-fashioned Hollywood-style curly hair and then straightened it for the next one and looked about 15 years younger? The only time I didn't like the straight hair was the 2011 Oscars. I don't know if she'd recently had the cheeks refilled but with the poker-straight hair she looked like pure plastic that night.
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I remember just being shocked to hear her acknowledge and sing another old song again, since it was pre-Reinvention.
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I know you can never keep everyone happy, but I think the problem with Celebration is that it doesn't really cater to any audience particularly well. I mean, why would the casuals want to listen to Miles Away or Hollywood instead of one of the many omitted hits, like You'll See or Deeper and Deeper? And why do they need 5- or 6-minute-long versions of Hung Up or Frozen instead of the radio edits? I think if they'd done a chronological tracklist featuring the biggest hits and used the original radio or video versions, many of which are rare or unavailable on CD but which would still be recognisable for casual listeners, it would have been a much better compilation for everyone.
And I know some people don't like TIC because of the new mixes but at least this was a deliberate choice and the whole package had care and attention lavished on it, which the shoddy Celebration apparently didn't. I love the original versions of the songs, but the Q-Sound mixes at least remove a lot of the dated 80s compression and really open up the songs.
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Does anyone know if they fixed some of the errors on the iTunes version as well? I still have the files from when I bought it in September 2009 but might try re-downloading it. This was such a slapdash compilation and not worthy of Madonna's oeuvre. And it was a missed opportunity to include some of the single versions that are unavailable or rare on CD.
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I don't care where she lives but all the people complaining about her use of cosmetic procedures and wishing for her 'old' face back have America to thank for that. Anybody living here knows the aesthetic difference.
But she had her most drastic procedures done in late 2007/early 2008 while she was still living in London.
Anyway, I miss her living in London, too. Such a positive time for her - happy family, hit albums and singles.
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Wonderful album. Not sure it needs remastering if that would result in the loud, distorted sound that you often get with remasters nowadays. I would love to be able to get hold of the original single mixes for LAP and EY, though, as bonus tracks.
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Ah I've always wondered why that particular picture has been used for so many years. It really doesn't capture what Madonna's about.
Questions You Want Answered That Never Will Be?
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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I think the closest we had to that was the Attitude interview from 2005, where there was a whole section with these sorts of fan-type questions, and she was in a good mood so answered most of them. I was surprised just how good her memory was considering her never-look-back attitude. However, I imagine if you tried those sorts of questions now she'd just say, "Next question!" or, "That's a boring question!" and refuse to answer, which she often does according to several interviewers.