Supernatural
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I don't understand why some people don't get Madonna is NOT touring to sell her cd ...THE TOUR is what she's selling that's where the money is coming from.. Hard Candy is just the new batch of sons to add to the live show. If HC somehow added a million copies in the US to equal Confessions that would barely make ANY difference finanicially .. I bet is anyone asked her would she rather sell 3 million units US or sell out a week at MSG in NYC ... i'll bet she would choose the shows.
MTV is gone. Most CD stores are gone. Over the next few years artists who can't bring in an audience, at $20 or $500, will be out of work. Madonna ended up at the top of her game.
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Monday's show blew me away and this one was 10xs better!! One of the best nights of my life. By far her best tour ever.
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If you need for tonight (SAT) PM me.
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She may be ignorant and simple-minded but I don't think she is evil or anything.
If that's the case SHE SHOULD NOT BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULDN'T YOU SAY?
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I think you guys are taking the Palin comments too seriously, Madonna's just being topical and poking fun, I highly doubt SP is actually BANNED or was ever going in a million years anyway.
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They were selling HC CDs at the NYC show for $20. Never saw CDs for sale at a M show...
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She looked like Marcy Rhoades
I thought the same thing!
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Thats true.
Its distasteful and tacky. Like Palin is interested. Please.
Women are the worst critics of other women.
Madonna would have supported Hillary.
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I also want to say that I was watching her last night thinking how lucky I am that my favorite singer for the past 21 years is still going as strong or maybe stronger than ever. It really defys all logic and reason and I don't ever want to take it for granted!
People complain about her prices but I paid $99 (+ fees), still had a very good view, and I left feeling like that was more than what $99 should give you. My friend text me today that she's still not over it.
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is she having any problem because of this (and the get stupid video)? I mean, people booing her...
During some political stuff in re-invention (I think she gave a speech? pointed out Michael Moore?) I remember some boo-ing. This time, the video and whatever she said about Palin got 100% support from what I could hear. People even clapped at the shot of Michael Moore in her video.
On another note, I was thinking during the show as some have said here, that this probably wouldn't be as good at an arena.
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Don't have much time...
show was amazing!! Youtube clips are utterly worthless compared to being there.
I'm not sure I liked it better than Confessions (my fav M tour) I have to let it sink in....
my friend who's a casual fan that I always have come with me said she really wants to see it again, said she never felt like seeing a Madonna show twice. My other friends loved it but they are big fans.
I did notice a number of older (40-50s) people there, as someone else mentioned. Don't know what that was about. The audience was good but I've seen better at Madonna shows. Someone also mentioned the random empty section. I noticed that, and saw it empty (same section) on one of the Confessions tours. It seemed to fill up once the show started. Maybe it's for press, or people with ticket screwups..?
Madonna's energy is really stunning, you feel like you are watching a 20 year old the whole time.
My favorite performances were LAP, DWRY and GI2M
Where production slows down with Hung Up is probably the only negative... that, and the "OK" opening. I don't think the show feels or looks rushed, but the merch was pretty crappy this tour (except for the tour book). But that's good, the less I buy the better.
8 or 9 out of 10 compared to other Madonna tours. 10 compared to anyone elses tours.
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The guy who wrote that article about the set-list is also the same person who gave "Hard Candy" 5 out of 5 stars and said it was the best album of her career. So I guess he's a bit biased when comparing it to "Confessions"
His COADF review:
Making music that is fun takes hard work. You need airborne melodies, insouciant hooks and a beat you cannot resist. Such were the goals of Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor, in stores Tuesday.
As every breathing person knows by now, Madonna intends her new CD as a return to the zesty dance pop that launched her. Confessions aims to bring back the halcyon days when Madonna whipped every club to a frenzy with hits like "Holiday" and "Into the Groove."
The mandate comes at a telling time. Madonna's last album, the deadeningly literal American Life, was the first sales boo-boo of her career (barely going gold in America). So, getting back the fun was not just a whim - it was a career necessity.
Since we are talking about Madonna, the feat of making terrific dance records was not enough. She also has to teach us something. Thankfully, her windy bromides do not kick in until halfway through. And before they do, Madonna delivers such beat-crazed bliss, we can forgive her for (almost) anything.
The first three tracks on Confessions pump so hard it may take you a while to get beyond them. (I suggest taking as much time as you can.) You already know the single, "Hung Up," a pulsating mulch of Giorgio Moroder beats and Abba-sampled pop that has the boogie-oogie-oogie fever down pat. It is chased by "Get Together," a swirling blur of beats, followed by "Sorry," with a bass line that will drive deejays to distraction.
Other engaging tracks turn up: "I Love New York" not only celebrates our city (at the expense of Paris, London and L.A.), it boasts a hot chord structure recalling Iggy Pop's "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog." "Future Lovers" has some of the hypnotic lure of Madonna's "Erotica."
The deeper problem comes when Madonna feels she has given us kids enough fun and it is time for some serious lessons. Starting on track six, the improbably named "Let It Will Be," Madonna sings "Now I can tell you about fame," as if she hasn't told us about it 100 times before. In "How High," she blah-blah-blah's about celebrity culture, a subject she seems to take to heart more than most. And, naturally, it would not be the modern Madonna if she did not work in a kabbalah nod: the inorganic, Hebraic dance cut "Isaac."
Whenever Madonna tries to be "meaningful" in this way, she winds up obscuring something far more substantial - the wit, sex and intelligence of great dance music. Only when she is content to deliver that does Confessions have the goods to move you.
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Is worldwide the only word you people know? This is a US thread.
It's not a Mariah Carey fan thread either, but you asked.
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twice as much as Madonna is LOL worthy?
US sales are pretty much WW sales for Mimi. And it's not like she's going to get a tour together. So it's a great number if you can't stand her.
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On a side note, why is it that euros are always complaining about her being late to start her shows? I would think by now, most would know that Madonna ALWAYS starts her shows later than advertised. I've never seen her start on time. It's part of the tension she builds in an audience before the show.
Every Madonna show I've been to the tickets say 8 and she comes out at 9. Is this what people are talking about? That hour? If I get to MSG at 8 the place is 60% empty.
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She left a record company for a touring company. That pretty much says it all.
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i dont know how saying shes 50, in great shape, out does herself with each tour outing and me looking forward to her tour turns into BLIND WORSHIP.
its just a way for people to come in and let pud whacker have it because theyre unhappy with their own lives. and thats cool. but just say that dont disguise it under something else.
just say:
IM MEAN AND UNHAPPY.
I think some people are lacking this kind of support in their lives.
You got to earn it, baby.
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I think there are different sets of fans who go to her shows and she has to take all things into consideration. To cater to the 5% of her audience that would go to a Madonna message board and want to hear II over ROL is a mistake, and she has certainly catered to us more than she ever needed to (maybe spoiling some people). Am I right that only hardcore fans can tolerate DW for the most part? I think S&S a good balance.
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Just like the whole "she can't do nothing wrong" shit.
which doesn't even exist, just a lazy reply when people ask if we need to hear whining about the same thing yet again.
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I heard due to some mismanagement Rihanna has made very little off her recording career so far.
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What was Madonna's quote about unhappy people?
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he right to a point, except right there. theres also the business aspect of it and she clearly want to SELL tickets. the same handful of songs over and over is going to leave some people unexcited.
except for the fact that if she could magically come up with a setlist to please everyone, the same people will find things to complain about (most likely how she compromised her artistic vision to please everyone).
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Quality? ROL and LAP did not really do great business for their time, Erotica flopped, LAV and TB sold buttloads.... more like correct marketing, timing, etc.
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For the past few years Madonna seems to be keeping a close eye on Kylie and Gwen Stefani (the words two best Madonna impersonators). What it's all about, I don't know but I'm curious. It's just minor stuff Madonna doesn't really need to make her music or act better, so I wonder if it's a kind nod, or "I can do it better" as the song goes.
In a low-sales era, what's a hit in music?
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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Once Madonna said she was leaving Warner I felt HC was going to suffer for it. Warner and Madonna both seem to be doing the minimum to sell it and I don't think they've been a happy partnership for a while now. If I'm right about that, the CD is selling in spite of itself.
No Wal-Marts or Targets in my area have HC in stock.
Hard Candy is currently the #3 best seller at Virgin Times Square, which shows what good pricing ($10) and availability (tons of copies) can do.