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    Madonna on Ellen: continued

    in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum

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    I just came across the interview Madonna did on the Today show with Carson Daly (it was playing on the screen in a taxicab of all places), and it reminded me of how relaxed and charming and funny she was on that interview and also how great she looked in it (reminded me of I'm Going to Tell You a Secret). I wish she had either performed during that appearance, or that her Ellen appearance had the same face, hair, makeup, outfit, relaxed feel, etc as her Today show interview.

    REBEL HEART TOUR: My dream setlist

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    MY "REBEL HEART TOUR" SETLIST :

    ACT 1 : MATADOR

    1. Video Intro - Art for Freedom/Revolution of Love Speech

    2. Living For Love (Living for Drama Mix/Extended Dance Break - Similar to Brit Awards)

    3. Unapologetic Bitch

    4. La Isla Bonita (Major Lazer Mix)

    5. Hold Tight (Extended Outro Mix)

    6. Video Interlude - Illuminati (Middle Eastern inspired video)

    ACT 2 : MEDIEVAL

    7. Frozen/Messiah

    8. Devil Pray Joan of Arc

    9. Joan Of Arc (Acoustic Mix) Don't Tell Me

    10. Don't Tell Me Devil Pray

    ACT 3 : SEDUCTION

    11. Video Interlude - Best Night (contains elements of "Waiting")

    12. Justify My Love (contains elements of "Inside Out") Addicted

    13. Erotica/S.E.X Inside Out

    14. Holy Water/Vogue Love Profusion

    15. Deeper & Deeper Secret

    16. Bad Girl (contains elements of "Live To Tell") Body Shop

    ACT 4 : APOCALYPSE

    17. Video Interlude - Veni Vidi Vici (contains elements of "Iconic")

    18. Ghost Town Wash All Over Me

    19. Heartbreak City Ghosttown

    20. Ray Of Light

    21. Rebel Heart (Avicii Mix)

    ENCORE :

    22. Wash All Over Me (contains elements of "Rain")

    I like most of your choices, except reordered and changed as noted..

    Guest musicians on RH tour

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    Who was the group she posted on Instagram over the summer? I bet it's them

    I don't remember her posting about any group, will go back and check if I get a chance..

    Whoever sang for her birthday last year :newspaper:

    I guess then Lola is going to be the featured world music act!!

    Centerpiece of Each Studio Album?

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    Madonna: Burning Up

    Like A Virgin: Like A Virgin

    True Blue: .Open Your Heart

    Like A Prayer: Like A Prayer

    Erotica: Secret Garden

    Bedtime Stories: Secret

    Ray Of Light: Drowned World / Substitute for Love

    Music: Music

    American Life: American Life

    Confessions On A Dancefloor: Future Lovers

    Hard Candy: Give it to Me

    MDNA: I Don't Give A

    Rebel Heart: Rebel Heart

    "Rebel Heart" Reviews [continued] - thread 2

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    I don't think it counts for metacritic, but overall positive review. It has several factual errors.. I'm not sure why people who get paid to write reviews don't fact check before publishing their work.

    http://www.newsadvance.com/the_burg/music/pop_rocks/album-review-madonna-s-rebel-heart/article_7d510812-d23b-11e4-aac2-8bdf51d76bb9.html

    Album review: Madonna's 'Rebel Heart'

    By Matt Ashare | Posted: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:15 pm

    So I actually thought Madonna’s new album came out months ago.

    Or maybe I was under the impression that she was merely gearing up for a big tour this summer when she showed up to perform her newest night-clubbing single “Living for Love” at the Grammy Awards in February. Or, who knows, and, does it even matter?

    Well, it matters a lot to Madonna.

    The queen of pop royalty was thrown for a virtual loop late last year when tracks from the new “Rebel Heart” began leaking to the general public on the Internet. It was a major breach of security for a star who’d grown accustomed to enjoying tight control over everything related to her own branding. She actually likened it to being sexually violated, which I can appreciate on one level.

    But, on another level, it seems like an unfortunate frame of reference for an artist who once published a racy book called “Sex,” a project/publicity stunt based around the brilliant premise that people would flock to stores and plunk down 50 bucks to see naked pictures of the star.

    That, my friends, was way back before we were all online, in 1992, when Madonna was just 34 years young. And, in what now seems like a quaint memory, the scandalous “Sex” book quickly topped the “New York Times” bestseller list, even as it was being roundly dismissed by the stolid arbiters of cultural etiquette as a crass exercise in pornography.

    Madonna is nothing if not layered, which is a big part of what’s made her a pretty reliable source of fascination for fans, critics and even academics for close to four decades. Ultimately, “Sex” found its way onto the coffee tables of millions of fans, and then probably onto shelves and into closets, where it was quickly forgotten. Actually, I’m guessing a first edition of “Sex” is probably worth something on eBay.

    Anyway, Madonna was not at all pleased about the leaked material. She quickly reasserted her dominance and marketing savvy by brokering a deal with iTunes to offer six “Rebel Heart” tracks as a free download to anyone who pre-ordered the album, and then embarked on her version of a media charm offensive.

    If you didn’t happen to be following her on social media at the time — and I wasn’t — then you probably missed most of the Madonna drama as it unfolded over the course of the holiday season.

    And then, suddenly, right around the time of the Grammys broadcast, Madonna started popping up on the cultural radar in all kinds of ways, including an oddly irrelevant incident that ended with her issuing a rare public apology for using the “N” word in the caption of a photo she’d posted of her son Rocco.

    With her plan to make a major event out of a Valentine’s Day arrival of “Rebel Heart” largely foiled, she pushed the release date back to March and promised that the final version would include a lucky 13 more songs.

    Her Grammy performance was followed by an appearance at the Brit Awards, during which a bizarre costume malfunction led to yet another minor dust up. This time, the culprit was a flowing black cape, designed by Armani, which was supposed to give way when a dancer tugged on it from behind.

    Instead, the 56-year-old Madonna was yanked to the ground, prompting her to post a visual of the cape with not one but five exclamation points in the caption: “Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I'm fine!”

    Giorgio responded by telling reporters that Madonna was “very difficult to work with,” as if that would come as any surprise.

    And, then, just as the drama was threatening to subside, and “Rebel Heart” was finally arriving in finished form with an as-promised 19 tracks on the “deluxe” edition, Madonna got into a little spat with the BBC, of all people.

    Apparently, BBC Radio 1 had declined to add “Living for Love” to its playlist, perhaps as part of an effort to lower the demographic of its listening audience, which led to accusations of age-discrimination, or ageism, from the Madonna camp.

    If nothing else, it was good grist for the controversy mill, and Rolling Stone played it up quite well in their March 12 cover story on Madonna.

    The BBC relented, and “Living for Love” was indeed heard on Radio 1, but the Brits wouldn’t be entirely cowed: Last week, in a show of defiance, the people of England spoke with their wallets, buying just enough copies of Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” to deny Madonna the honor of having “Rebel Heart” debut at the top of the British charts.

    It’s hard to be Madonna, but it’s worth it. That’s pretty much the subtext and boldface type of “Rebel Heart.”

    As she puts it in the acoustic intro to the sprightly “Joan of Arc,” one of the new album’s more touchingly introspective tracks, “Each time they write a hateful word/Dragging my soul into the dirt/I want to die/Never admit it but it hurts.”

    As a tempered beat kicks in, she goes on to admit, “I don’t want to talk about right now/Just hold me while I cry my eyes out/I’m not Joan of Arc, not yet/I’m only human.”

    I’m tempted, on the basis of that song alone, to say that “Rebel Heart” is far and away Madonna’s best album in years, but that may just be because I don’t remember the last few all that well.

    It’s definitely really, really long. You have to make your way through 18 songs before you get to the title track, which almost feels like an afterthought, although it’s also among the disc’s better tracks.

    It’s almost as if Madonna wanted to punish all of us for getting a sneak peak at the album before it was ready. Or, maybe it’s just her way of giving more of herself to her fans.

    Either way, her staying power remains as impressive as it’s ever been, but it’s starting to feel a little exhausting. I was worn out just watching her athletic performance at the Grammys, and I’m not sure that’s the effect she should be going for.

    Then again, media saturation and stamina have always been important to Madonna. And I can’t help thinking that she did the math this time around and figured that an extra-long album plus a whole lotta social media bandwidth would be just the thing to keep her on top of the cultural heap.

    In fact, as the “Huffington Post” reported, Madonna now has the distinction of being the first major artist to debut a video on Snapchat. Your move, Lady Gaga.

    As for the rest of “Rebel Heart,” it’s a sprawl.

    The requisite house-music-based club anthem “Living for Love” is a classically defiant dance-floor gospel redemption tale. And there’s also the heavier, teasingly playful slow dance of “Inside Out,” with its “show me yours and I’ll show you mine” refrain, and the hypnotic seduction of “Hold Tight,” a “we’re gonna be alright tonight” mid-tempo technotronic confection.

    There’s also plenty of attitude, including a pair of tracks that deploy the “B” word — the surprisingly cool, reggae inflected “Unapologetic B----,” and the more in-your-face, glitchy “B---- I’m Madonna,” which features some guest rapping by Nicki Minaj.

    And, of course, there’s some gratuitous sex as well, including the 50 shades of silliness of “S.E.X.,” and the unfortunate “Body Shop,” a folktronica construction in which Madonna whispers sweet double nothings about various parts of what almost certainly isn’t a car — “You can polish the headlights/You can smooth out the fender/You can start the ignition.”

    You get the point.

    But Madonna is at her best and most provocative when she lets down her guard a bit, stops worrying about whether she’s hip or hip-hop enough for contemporary primetime, puts away the lingerie, and just reflects on what it’s like being this strange being of her own creation.

    That includes the title track, which references half a dozen of her previous albums, hangs on an unblemished hook and finds her acknowledging, “I’ve spent some time as a narcissist/Hearing the others say, look at you, look at you/Trying to be so provocative/I said oh yeah, that was me/All the things I did just to be seen.”

    It’s by no means an apology, and it doesn’t have to be. But it feels more real than all of the virtual drama that was kicked up along the way to “Rebel Heart.” And, in the end, it feels like it was worth the trip.

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