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    “Faz Gostoso” thread

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    4 minutes ago, Mat.Guy said:

    Anitta just said she can't meet Madonna soon because she has a schedule of shows in Brazil to do and that she's very sorry for not being able to be in two places at the same time.

    I think Madonna is just stirring the pot   :stir:

    Where did she say that?

    STREAMING/SALES strategy and discussion

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    7 minutes ago, Who Is That Girl? said:

    Mx is now number 10 iTunes US and UK that’s not great, she has so much trouble sustaining these days, why is that? The media latch on and run with it saying album is a flop bla bla I don’t understand that as soon as her albums are released it’s radio silence from her label in terms of marketing, she needs its.. I am in Australia and have not seen one TV advert or poster around the streets, is it because the material is so different? Has she alienated her fan base over last decade? I know its just an iTunes chart but it is a barometer of what is happening sales wise.. god she needs a new strategy to maintain sales or is she such a part of global consciousnesses that people are now thinking ‘oh it just another Madonna record, she always there in the background when I need a fix’ and are not actively sourcing new material?? 

    All of the answers you seek can be found in the song “let it will be”

    Success for M will have to be measured in a different way as times goes by. But most importantly there is an artist that is passionate, hungry, irreverent, inspired that has created an album like MX 30+ years after her first record- and all those things are what got her all the amazing legendarysuccess she has had over the years. Life is indeed a circle.

    Madonna on Jimmy Fallon

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    1 minute ago, FreeMySoul said:

    She’s not performing that’s the issue not the interview. It’s strange there isn’t 1 televised US performance other than the BBA. 

    Maybe Eurovision was a turn off for her and she wants do it as little as possible (Pride) and then just do it for her show where she can control the variables and fans will be enthusiastic as always.

    It does seem like she has been rehearsing A LOT since March, for just billboard, eurovision pride and for a tour that starts in September.

    For RH she did so many amazing performances, various songs, changed choreo often and it all seemed pretty effortless. I dont forgot though the days of erotica and bed time story when it was rare for her to perform- but the medium has changed- radio and music videos sold the albums back then to GP

    Madonna @ NYC pride - CONFIRMED !

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    1 hour ago, Ai Papi Si. said:

    Yep. That big dissertation about gay pride from @Raider of the lost Ark is like ok great - let's make the performance both activist in nature and also uplifting. He maintains she's aiming for deeper meaning. Why not go for the most political song on the album? God Control. It hits every mark. Lyrically, it's incredible. Future can be on the setlist too as a bookend - clearly she loves it. Fine. I am not opposed to it being in the mix. But American Life is a lurch into incompetence for me. Why that song? 

    I'm not saying Madonna's career is over or that I hate her. I just want to understand these choices. American Life is a song about vanity and fame that accompanied an album (and music video) with very politically charged imagery, so people automatically assume it's a political song. We can dissect that word all we want, but that song about Madonna.  Performing that song at this event is ridiculous. No one even likes it. Music is democratic in a way. A fan here and there may like American Life. Most do not. It won't play well. 

    Alright I'll stop posting about this :rotfl:

    I agree with this 100%. Reading the room. I love AL, but that song has no place in Pride.

    With Madame X she was rebellious and did her thing but she made something amazing- so everyone was loves it and gets the message. If she does the same with her performance she ll please her fans, warm her public and say the message she wants to say. Singing AL sounds lazy concep wise considering the gold of an album she has just released.

     

    I love M when she is transgressive (dwt!) but failing to read the room (like she did in eurovision makes it so less people get the message. Thats something I have learnt from her- how to communicate things in ways that can get the most amount of viewers, biggest reception of crowd whilst still being transgressive, experimental and speaks truth.

    God Control video - OUT NOW!!!

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    3 hours ago, Nikki said:

    Yeah I only saw one member panic.

    maybe they’re just waiting for the second week, to get some extra streams and sales. Maybe we’ll get it on thursday night.

    I think now that they know the album will be #1 they want to give that information space to breath in the news cycle, GC would take that over- and haters would relish on that

     

    Also I Rise video just released is good ground work a week or so before the GC video is releases so thar GP can see this is a recurrent important theme for her and not just shock value (we know that, GP dont and critics will take their knives out)

    MADAME X album reviews

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    11 minutes ago, Ven Conmigo said:

    Behind a paywall for me. Can you copy/paste the text here?


    Madonna turns ‘secret agent’ with a Latin accent on Madame X Reggaetón meets classical piano and electropop on an eclectic, expansive 14th album Madonna strikes a defiant note with 'Madame X' ©

     

     Since her last truly notable album, 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna’s records have suffered an uncharacteristic degree of uncertainty. Musical trends have been chased rather than assimilated. She has tried to project both vulnerability and indomitability. The best-selling female performer in pop history has lost her old aura of invincibility and come to seem fallible. Against this backdrop, Madame X strikes a defiant note. “I’ve got the right to choose my own life,” she announces. While it is hard to imagine anyone depriving one of the wealthiest women in US music of that right, at least she exercises it boldly on her 14th album. Although it has a scattershot quality, the scattering is done with a devil-may-care bravado. There is a prominent Latin influence to the music, partly derived from the singer relocating to Lisbon so her son, David, could pursue a football career. Several songs find her singing in Portuguese, and there is the occasional hint of fado amid the contemporary pop production. “Batuka” ditches chart music entirely in favour of a traditional style from the Cape Verde Islands, a former Portuguese colony, in which Madonna and a choir warn of “a storm ahead” over an insistent percussive groove. Other Latin-influenced songs coincide with current pop trends, genres such as reggaetón having crossed over into non-Spanish-speaking markets in recent years. “Medellín” and “Bitch I’m Loca” pair her with Colombian singer Maluma: both achieve an entertaining union between her and his musical worlds. There is a well-worked dancehall flavour to “Future”, in which she is joined by Quavo, a member of rap group Migos, while a duet with another US rapper, Swae Lee, has a sweetly understated feel. The album’s main producer is Mirwais Ahmadzaï, who contributed to Confessions on a Dance Floor and co-produced 2000’s Music and 2003’s American Life. He helms the house-music track “I Don’t Search I Find”, a throwback to the days when Madonna’s musical choices followed a clearer, more certain path. “Dark Ballet”, which Mirwais has also produced, shows how far she has strayed from that path. The song illustrates the confusing concept behind Madame X, whose title, according to Madonna, refers to a multi-dimensional alter ego: “Madame X is a secret agent. Travelling around the world. Changing identities. Fighting for freedom,” and so on. In “Dark Ballet”, this chameleonic character sketch translates into eccentric musical segues between classical piano and Kraftwerk-style electronic pop, with Madonna singing about how “I can dress like a boy, I can dress like a girl”. No, me neither. Trying to be something to everyone has been Madonna’s Achilles heel over the past decade. During the odder moments of Madame X, she actively flaunts that heel, as with the universalising phrases uttered in “Killers Who Are Partying” (“I will be poor if the poor are humiliated . . . I will be Islam if Islam is hated”). These tracks bring a disjointed feel to the album, but also an unfettered and expansive sensibility. That is the “X” factor that elevates it above its immediate predecessors. ★★★☆☆ ‘Madame X’ is released on June 14 on Live Nation/Interscope/Maverick

    Madame X album general discussion

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    2 minutes ago, Confessit said:

    Eurovision has been done to death.

    But you are right. The song is amazing and would of worked for the audience. It's instant love.

    But Madonna is in artist mode not for the masses mode. 

    I know but God Control also has a very artistic, political and powerful message. Its a trip. She takes the disco language and shakes it all up.

    There were reports that she was going to sing it at some point- must have changed for some reason

    Madame X album general discussion

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    6 minutes ago, Rock said:

    As I've been saying for months, Portugal looks just like the place where things happened and not the influence: Faz Gostoso, despite being a previous Luso hit, is sang with Brazilian accent which kinda cancels the theory and (other than the blue tiles on the album art photos and the Billboard performance scenario, which are visual aspects) so far I've heard zero Portuguese input.

    So far we havent heard half of the albumx There will be more Portuguese influence in the album than just the tiles Im sure.

    Also i think she was inspired by the soulfulness, nostalgia and artistry of Lisbon/ Fado/ Portugal and made that into a  madonna/ global sounding album. So at the core Lisbon is there in the dna of the record and the fact that she seems more inspired than in a LONG time with her music (although I think she was inspired for Rebel Heart as well but not as much).

    Wouldbt be surprised if she releases an ep of fado songs eventually.

    “Dark Ballet” thread

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    11 hours ago, Ven Conmigo said:

    http://www.papermag.com/bops-only-muna-2638730598.amp.html

    Bops Only: 10 Songs You Need to Start Your Weekend Right

    Michael Love Michael

    07 June

    Madonna unleashes her latest taste of Madame X today, in "Dark Ballet," which has a dramatic Joan of Arc-themed video starring none other than Mykki Blanco. The song is indeed a somber meditation on the state of the world, and an indictment of perpetrators of gender-based, racial, and sexual violence. Over mild vocoder, a hard, slow beat, and a flurry of piano notes, it sounds like one. The song mutates halfway through to a severely distorted section where that piano races like a wild heartbeat and Madonna muses about "god" and people who are burned at the stake. There is also a clever, but no less impactful spoken-word moment during which the superstar tells those in Supreme hoodies (get it... white supremacy, in other words, she's saying) that the "howl of the wind" aka radical, necessary change, is near. Let's hope a new paradigm truly is among us.

    Interesting- I thought the supreme hoodie was just an ironic reference to the very sought after brand and the superficiality of that and materialism keeping us blind and deaf- but the reference of white supremacy / supremacy / trump / right wing govs adds another layer.

    Madame X: Discussion (LISTENING PARTY info within)

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    1 minute ago, BrendanT1993 said:

    Wow, overdramatic much? Albums leak all the time, and no one is protected from it. sadly It’s the nature of the music industry and releases nowadays, nor is it disrespectful to listen to the leak. It's finished material, and 7 days isn't that big of a deal anyway. 

    Yes it is. It diminishes the views, streams and purchases significantly. The majority of listesns take place upon release. 

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