Rollap
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Madonnas has the worst fans
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Madonna has the worst fans
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Cherish is one of the greatest pop songs of all time by anyone.
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It's a crock of shit. This and Superstar are the worst songs she ever recorded. Even Hey You had some redeeming features.
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I don't think Annie Lennox shades Madonna at all. I think she finds Madonna intriguing.
She also has been very complimentary if her. And if y'all recall she was so thrilled that M recorded vocals for her 'Sing' charity track a few years back and was very respectful.
I think she has a right to question M's motives. Yes Annie needs to be less up her own ass but she is no M hater. Quite the opposite.
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1. Nothing Fails
2. Like A Prayer
3. The Power of Goodbye
4. Dear Jessie
5. Oh Father
6. Jump
7. Express Yourself
8. True Blue
9. Hollywood
10. Erotica
11. You thrill Me
12. Physical Attraction
13. Ray of Light
14. Don't Tell Me
15. Human Nature
16. Deeper And Deeper
17. Get Together
18. Candy Shop (SAS version)
19. Drowned World
20. Till Death Do Us Part
21. Love Spent (acoustic)
22. Like a Virgin (MDNA tour version)
23. Promise To Try
24. Impressive Instant
25. Time Stood Still
26. Has To Be
27. Vogue
28. La Isla Bonita
29. Gone
30. Pray For Spanish Eyes
31. Cherish
32. Hanky Panky
33. Justify My Love
34. Let It Will Be (Paper Faces Mix)
35. Live To Tell
36. Into the Groove
37. Swim
38. Frozen
39. Thief of Hearts
40. Open Your Heart
41. Secret
42. Buenos Aires
43. I Want You
44. Rainbow High
45. Papa Don't Preach
46. Bad Girl
47. Give it 2Me (SAS version)
48. This Used To Be My Playground
49. Bye Bye Baby (TGS version)
50. Everybody
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There's a difference between able to play an instrument and mastering it. Madonna can definitely play guitar and I enjoy her guitar playing, but I don't think she's mastered it. It's like speaking a foreign language. I can have a casual everyday conversation with someone in Spanish, but I can't have a deep profound philosophical discussion in Spanish.
It's all relative. I play guitar but there's no way I could get up on stage and play with a band or remember songs without reading from a sheet or write a song with one. I play the guitar, Madonna mastered it. Doesn't mean she is the greatest ever player.
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Um, Madonna has mastered the guitar. Is she Hendrix? No. But she's now pretty effortless. Some of you may know it's not new to her as she played guitar in the late 70s/early 80s. Also remember when M and Prince jammed together for LAP album. She played plenty keyboard while he did his thing. But her best instruments are her body and voice.
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After Jump, yes.
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I understand what you're saying but maybe you think that way because you have an American sensibility. I live in Europe and I lived through the era JML was released and it wasn't half as controversial as it was over there.
See above. The reason I say it wasn't risky is because it was dipping her feet in the water as it were. She was testing before really diving in. The reason I said STR was more risky is because it stepped away from Madonna's image as an overtly sexual, dance orientated, confident woman. She had been building that image for ten years and suddenly did something very different. Not everything that the mainstream consider negative should be deemed risky and vice versa.
NB: Yes I am a very young bitch.
Re:STR; You forget that the public had abandoned her because of the aggressively sexual Erotica era. So she knew the only way to get their forgiveness was mature ballads. Now if she instead pushed the sex agenda again, it might have been the end of her commercial viability. It was the smart move, not a risky one.
You're cute though ;-)
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I was referring to JML. I don't consider it risky. For me, the most risky thing she did was something to remember.
Bless! You must be very young.
I was a teenager when JML was released, so trust me it was a huge risk and totally unique musically.
And yes I'm Breathless was also a big risk. M had no fear back then.
STR was sooo not a risk, more like a plea to the public prior to Evita.
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.I don't consider it risky. A little left of field maybe but not exactly bizarre/avant garde.
More risky than anything else on the album.
But she's not taken musical risks really for a decade.
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I think what... whoever it was who first said they wished she would still take risks, was not talking about political or social risks, which we all know she still does regularly, but rather musical risks, like Justify My Love.
As said earlier, the video and "controversy" (much needed, imo - the Nightline interview is necessary viewing for an M fan), overshadows the simple artistry of the track which is, musically, regardless of content, risky. The spoken vocals, the beat, the sparse production, it's not pop, it's not mainstream it was a very risky move.
With regards to recent years we can hardly argue she has released the risky music. She can make as many shocking and important political stands but without the innovative music to back it up in the public eye it could feel a bit like shock for the sake of shock to outside viewers.
Thank you! Exactly what I meant, Madonna no longer takes the MUSICAL risks she used to.
Cicatrix et al keep banging on about repeating herself/controversies etc, but I'm real talking about the music.
Yes Gang Bang could have been, put she chickened out of releasing it in favour of braindead singles like TUTR etc.
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Catholicism is vile and Madonna totally fucking called it here. Obviously worshipping a naked man on a cross is a fucked up image and it fucks with your view of sex. I love her frankness and those who were shocked are hypocritical liars.
This song is about sex, romance, loneliness, religion, innocence and orgasms all at once. As the choir crescendoes, Madonna writhes and rubs her tits, and the rest of the world came and cried at the same time.
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Madonna does take risks. Today, female sexuality in mainstream artists isn't taking a risk and that is BECAUSE of Madonna. Madonna is constantly pushing the envelope and trailblazing. If she were to keep doing the same thing over and over she would be doing the opposite. I'm glad that Madonna has grown and changed. Otherwise what would be the point of all of the amazing lessons she taught and all the things she learned?
Queen of everything.How does she take risks now? She's played it safe since 2004. Musically especially.
Yes todays pop sluts owe it to M, I agree of course. But M's message has been trivialised/diluted such that female singers think that stripping off is daring and a statement whereas the public see it as conformist eye rolling sluttishness which does anything but empower women. Similarly, GaGa's 'reinventions' just totally miss the point (she doesn't even have a point) and Born This Way completely misinterpreted Madonna's hugely important message (Express Yourself).
M needs to wake up from her 10 year slumber and be real and fearless again.
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When I first heard it back in 1990 on the radio I was gobsmacked. It was unlike any record id ever heard before and was a huge risk.
As iconic as the video is, I think it trivialised the song in the eyes of the public.
I wish m took risks like she did back in the day.
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I think she should have called it The Immaculate Redemption.
Side 1 (crucifixion of Dita)
Erotica
Deeper & Deeper
Fever
Bad Girl
Rain (radio edit)
Secret
Human Nature
Bedtime Story (BRITS version)
Side 2 (rise of Veronica)
Frozen
Ray of Light (album version)
The Power of Goodbye
Beautiful Stranger
Music
Don't Tell Me
What It feels Like For A Girl
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I'm happy for her as long as she gets to fuck Avicii's brains out, takes him on tour and gets him to strip off for the behind-the-scenesDVD. :-)
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Was i the only one that thought "Blurred Lines" was a recycle of Give It 2 Me?
IKR! It disgusts me that it was a huge US hit when GI2M flopped and had no radio support. They are identical !
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Worst song on MDNA apart from Superstar. Pointless song.
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Interventions lyrics just let it down somewhat e.g. Like a bird in the sky etc
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Nothing Fails. Makes me well up and I'm not a crier. So beautiful.
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1. Like A Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Erotica
4. Music
5. Confessions on a Dancefloor
6. American Life
7. Madonna
8.Bedtime Stories
9. True Blue
10. Mdna
11. Im Breathless
12. Hard Candy
13. Like A Virgin
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Melrose gas a point, if slightly exaggerated.
Whenever I read sections in newspapers where a male celeb has to give his favorite 10 albums or artists, they are practically ALL male artists/make bands. I just roll my eyes. Very occasionally someone like Joni Mitchell or Beyoncé make it (usually black celeb) but never Madonna. I don't get it. To me female artists are way more interesting in their work than males. Male artists are very unimaginative and most just boring guitar graters with no imagination.
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I love the pop culture review because at last someone gives American Life the credit it's due for starting the trend of folk-EDM that Avici et al are now dominating the chart with. Ok so M's Music did it originally but that was more pop orientated.