qans1990
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That's a lot of flying in the space of one week, if she's due in Rio on Monday. Doesn't sound very relaxing or fun if it's that hectic.
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Miley again
At first I thought this one was Lola
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This has been going on with prince since the 90s. He's even sued his fans and some fan sites. I'm not 100% this is true but some fans were selling unreleased albums for upwards of 250k
Where's Barney and the other prince loons to clarify?
It must suck for artists that experience this
Wow that's just crazy. That might explain why he's pretty much retired from the industry side of music now.
She's trying to take advantage of that whole issue. It's really a shame Dr. Puke didn't choke this bitch to death while he raped her.
That's not a cool thing to say even as a joke.
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its hard to tell if he's one of the best. There's no one he really created that I can think of. He made a name for himself with Madonna. I think he's done a lot of good things and caused a lot of embarrassments. Thank god that free iTunes album was U2 and not Madonna. What an utterly horrible idea.
Also, considering every lead Madonna single has leaked early since Frozen in 1998, I think Guy should have been responsible for maintaining security around Madonna's recording sessions. I think Guy can be out of touch, which makes Madonna look out of touch.
I appreciate the fact that he (and M) are willing to try different things as "non traditional promo". You never know what's going to work out until you try it.
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i tweeted the guy.. i think he corrected it because i don't see it on his article anymore.
That's great! Can you imagine if other media outlets started running with the story that she was making light of ISIS by putting it into a pop song?
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I found this review to be dripping with snide little digs throughout. When reviewing new songs, do people have to always bring up past albums they did not like. Also, calling her Superbowl performance awkward was unwarranted and goes against the great reaction she received everywhere. Plus, the writer seems to miss the point about things. ISIS in this song is referring to the Egyptian Goddess and the drug references in Devil Prays is actually an anti-drug message.
I agree. The review of the new album was overall positive, but there were digs about M's past work and also inaccuracies (for example the nipple flash in the MDNA tour was during Human Nature, not Like a Virgin).
I liked the way the Boston Globe referenced MDNA: "a ruminative dance record for Ciroc-sippers in a Parisian discotheque". It summarized why that album might not have clicked with the general public without putting it down.
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Illuminati mentions ISIS
Behind the curtain of the new world order
It's not platinum encrypted corners
It's not Isis or the phoenix, pyramids of Egypt
Don't make it into something sordid
It's not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates
It's not the Google of United States
It's not Bieber or Lebron
Clinton or Obama
Or anyone you love to hate
But that's a different Isis, no? As in, the Egyptian goddess? I don't think that's the Islamic State (ISIS) she's referring to. At least from the context of the lyric, that's what it seems to me
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Six officially released songs on my spotify, and LFL on her youtube page are what I have been playing.
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There is no "feud." True, she might add fuel to the fire with the mash-up but mostly bitch is simply laughing at the stalker. If anything, bitch is simply annoyed that stupid people actually believe there is a feud. Mostly fueled by Reductive One playing victim to anyone who's willing to listen and get paid.
Exactly
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If this is true, she should have a huge hit since we've all basically been playing it non stop for 8 days lol.
If it's your downloaded itunes songs, I'm not sure that counts. And of course playing demos doesn't count either (even though a couple were on spotify briefly)
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Good review overall, though I think he missed the point of DP. Also, I don't know which song mentions ISIS?
Madonna Sings About the Islamic State and Sniffing Glue on Her Great New Album 'Rebel Heart'December 28, 2014Associate EditorOn paper, Madonna singing about the Islamic State and the Illuminati sounds atrocious, but Rebel Heart is easily Madge's best album in at least 16 years. The artist initially planned to drop the album in the spring, but after a series of tracks leaked, she decided to release the first six song on iTunes, three months before the whole album comes out in March.When the songs premiered, gay Twitter naturally exploded—some people were literally downloading the tracks on their smartphones at gay bars—but many fans expected little from Madonna's 13th album. Since her 1998 comeback Ray of Light, Madonna has released five full-lengths, but only two have been truly worthwhile: Music andConfessions on a Dance Floor. In recent years, instead of collaborating with relatively obscure producers as she did on classics like Erotica and Ray of Light, Madonna has hired major names like Timbaland and Benny Benassi. The results, 2008's Hard Candyand 2012's MDNA, sounded tepid. On "Give Me All Your Luvin'," a 2012 song featuring Nicki Minaj and MIA, she sounded downright bland when placed next to the rappers' swag, like the queen of pop was attempting to reclaim her title from female MCs who had never stolen her throne in the first place. Coupled with an awkward Super Bowl performance and a lackluster grinding session with Miley Cyrus, some fans believed Madonna had lost her creative way and become a vampire lusting after her competitors' youth.
Rebel Heart takes this critique and uses it as gasoline for empowerment anthems and vulnerable confessions perfect for the surreal, tragic year known as 2014 . The lead single "Living for Love" discusses surviving after a breakup with a guy Madonna left herself vulnerable to. (The person could easily be her haters.) "I'm gonna carry on," Madonna triumphantly sings. "Living for love / I'm not giving up."
Against a throbbing Diplo beat on a later track called "Bitch, I'm Madonna," her angriest song since 1994's "Human Nature," the pop star sings about "jumping in the pool and swimming with our clothes on" and then imitates the ageist critics who complain about her dressing like a twentysomething. "Who do you think you are?" she angrily asks, before answering herself: "Bitch, I'm Madonna." Next, Nicki Minaj jumps on the track, embodying Madonna. "Ain't got a thing left for me to prove / It's that bottle service all night," she raps. "Bitch, I'm Madonna. These hoes know." Unlike her "Give Me All Your Luvin'" verse, Minaj's vocal swagger compliments Madonna instead of overpowering her. Madonna's anger gives her a charisma we haven't seen since she danced alone in a dance studio to "Hung Up" nearly a decade ago.
On another Diplo joint, "Unapologetic Bitch," she becomes an Anna Wintour–like boss, echoing "Human Nature": "It might sound like I'm an unapologetic bitch / but sometimes, you know I've got to call it like it is," she sings. "You know you never really knew how much you loved me 'til you lost me / Did you? / You know you never really knew how much your selfish bullshit cost me / Oh, fuck you."
As she did on her recent tour, where she flashed her nipple while singing a ballad version of "Like a Virgin," Madonna veers into the ridiculous on "Illuminati." "Rihanna don't know the new world order," she sings. "It's not Isis or the phoenix, cameras of Egypt." The song starts as a vague, confusing meditation on the media, but the song's chorus ("It's like everybody in this party shining like Illuminati") elevates the track from a piece of camp to a great dance banger. Few listeners can relate to a global superstar's analysis of a celebrity-oriented conspiracy theory, but everyone can relate to feeling like a superstar at a club for a few fleeting minutes.
Madonna's surprising relatability sounds like downright vulnerability on other tracks. "Devil Pray" opens with string sounds reminiscent of Madonna's American Life singer-songwriter phase, but avoids the awkwardness of a pop star channeling her inner Liz Phair when a beat kicks in as Madonna sings, "We can do drugs and we can smoke weed and we can drink whiskey." (She goes on to brag about how they could sniff glue and take E. Did I mention she's 56?) Like "Illuminati," the refrain seems absurd, but when Madonna admits she's "getting weaker" and asks to "sing hallelujah" and save her "soul," she sounds honest, even spiritual, and for the first time since Confessions on a Dance Floor, she finally fucking nails it.
The vulnerability crescendos on the standout track "Ghosttown," one of those great dance songs that's moving but not catchy enough to become a single. "Everything's gone to hell," Madonna sings. "All we've got is love." Capturing the mood of the country, she asks how we've got to such an odd, terrible place. During the refrain she sounds like she's painting herself as a savior, belting, "When it all falls down / I'll be your fire when the lights go out." But at the end of the chorus, she reveals she's discussing a one-on-one relationship with the listener: "We'll be two souls in a ghost town."
The trick captures what made Madonna great in the 80s and 90s: her ability to sing cliches ("I am a material girl," "we need a holiday," "you've got to make him express himself") and transform them into both personalized anthems and universal truths. And the slick, expensive production is catchy as hell this time around. What else can you ask for?
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Already pre-ordered my digital copy. Will buy the physical if it has good artwork, but see no point in it otherwise
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NYC radio sucks, it's her home city and they hardly ever play her. Just sidestep radio bs and play on youtube or spotify both of which count towards the charts (since begin of December they count towards the album chart too, not just the singles chart).
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1. Masterpiece
2. I Fucked Up
3. Gang Bang
4. Love Spent
5. Beautiful Killer or Falling Free
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If someone who understands the collectors' universe could explain what they would gain from spreading all these songs in such a concentrated manner, please say something because I do not get it. Thanks!
I would like to understand that also.. Logically, you would think by broadly leaking the songs, they are devaluing the stolen songs compared to how much they could get if not leaked.
I was about to say Prince. Some of his fans are ruthless and sell/sold his stuff for thousands.
How long has it been going on for Prince? Are they relatively the same in terms of how much their music sells for in the collectors market?
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Wow I can't believe there was yet another leak. I wonder if all of these stolen songs were part of a single hack (or other type of theft), or multiple instances?
I don't see the monetary incentive in leaking the stolen songs, unless, as someone mentioned, there was blackmail involved. From a collector / trader perspective I would think it works against their interest to leak the songs. If it is blackmail, it seems maybe M and co are not giving in, with the result that there are these continual leaks and may end up seeing further leaks until there are no more stolen songs left to leak. If not blackmail, then I guess it would be someone driven by malice with intent to sabotage the album release. Either way, if it wasn't a hacking situation I think it has to be someone at the label - only they would have access to all of these different songs with different producers and at different stages of production (to get feedback on what to develop further to include on the album and potential singles). I hope she just breaks this into two discrete albums at this point in order to finish up her deal with Interscope and move on from them.
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Seems like she started following a bunch of people just today. probably for the upcoming promo. i wonder what's in the works?
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Tell her to keep WAOM on the album!!! Please!!!
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omg they should make this the official video
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I'm sure there have always been 'crap' songs/artists played on radio, but I think before 8 or 10 yrs ago, when the reality shows and youtube started becoming more important there was more of a variety of music and artists I heard. Now it seems you only hear the same selection of pop, urban and country music everywhere, and a lot of it seems catered to a certain generic common denominator sound. Of course there were/are exceptions, but overall that's the feeling I get.
Oh, saw you just said the same thing, should read all the posts before weighing in
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Fair enough. But then what do you mean by "matter"? And where's the cut off? I could have said that M's legacy was cemented in 1996 and that if she never had another hit or another critically acclaimed or influential album that it wouldn't "matter." But just like ROL, Music, and COADF built on that legacy, I believe that M's career has a lot more potential. And obviously she does too. It's not a matter of having to "prove" anything, but continued hits means more exposure, more people discovering her catalogue, more respect, etc. etc. No one can ever take away what MJ achieved from the 70s to the early/mid 90s, but imagine if he hadn't turned into a joke after that? Imagine if he continued to put out hit albums?
As for radio/charts being "crap" today, they said the same thing in the 80s and the 90s and the 2000s. We're all getting older, we all think the past was better. That's just life. Look at the shit M was competing with in the 80s. Most of it is HILARIOUSLY terrible. Nothing has changed.
I'm sure there have always been 'crap' songs/artists played on radio, but I think before 8 or 10 yrs ago, when the reality shows and youtube started becoming more important there was more of a variety of music and artists I heard. Now it seems you only hear the same selection of pop, urban and country music everywhere, and a lot of it seems catered to a certain generic common denominator sound. Of course there were/are exceptions, but overall that's the feeling I get.
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I'll remember has that special something that made it such a popular hit.
I'm not a fan of Ghost town either, it feels bland and generic to me, especially in comparison to her other ballads. It reminds of I Fucked up or Best Friend (I'm not even sure which is which) from MDNA.
Agree about Best Friend, but I Fucked Up is such a good song, and so is Ghosttown.
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All in one + an extra CD with the songs that didn't make it!!!! C'mon M!!
Yes please a deluxe version with an extra set of songs that didn't make the original concept!
Also, I'm not sure how even the songs released so far would fit the Rebel vs Heart theme. I guess UB and BIM would fit the Rebel part, and LFL and Ghosttown would fit the Heart, but I'm not sure which part DP or Illuminati would fit? I'm not sure if they fit either...
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YES! "Ahhh-ahhh" is the new "mmmm mmmm"
And don't forget 'ooooh oooooh' (DP), 'yeeaaaah yeeaaah yeah' (UB) and 'nanananana' (BIM) They are also contenders for the new 'mmmm mmmm'
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Beautiful song. I wish I knew more about the story behind it, like was it written about Sean Penn or just for him for his movie