HavenHigh
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Only similarity is that both can be labeled as ballads. And the already-dated production I guess.
Bad Girl had a subject matter that was not the average "you left me" ballad-type, not suitable for radio at all, it wouldn't have been a big hit even without the SEX book controversy etc.
Ghosttown is her attempt in the late 2000s Ryan Tedder/Leona Lewis ballad style, would have been a hit if it was a Celebration bonus track or something...
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The question is can she do more than her usual 18-20 performances? She's going to have to!
I think it's highly unlikely at this point, she did not sing more songs in her 30s and 40s so why now?
It just means a lot more samples/snippets/medleys like She's Not Me/Erotica/Cyber-Raga/Give It 2 Me on MDNA Tour.
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No, the production is now dated. William Orbit bleeping sounds are dated no matter how "well" it was produced at the time.
Bedtime Stories is more current than ROL.
Yeah, definitely. Several songs on ROL sound now dated and WAY overproduced like Sky Fits Heaven or Little Star (though Orbit did not touch the latter)...
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Queen is registered at both ASCAP & Warner Chappell unlike a lot of other unreleased stuff like Revolution or Nothing Lasts Forever so I'm sure at some point it was meant to be released...
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Hold Tight reminds me of something you would hear on an updated Ray of Light.
The opening recalls the intro of The Power Of Good-Bye...
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It would be very interesting to hear LDLHA with her mature voice. I think it would suit the song better, and it might make for a memorable live vocal performance from M.
Definitely, I've wanted her to perform it live for a long time. And it's a famous cover song, not really associated as "one of her flops"...
No clue why Rama did not post any concrete spoilers yet, same reason they deleted all the album spoiler posts when stuff started to leak?
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This setlist can't be real... Nothing from 1992 to 2012 ?
Well she can do 19-20 songs at most, so if there are several songs from Rebel Heart and a lot of 80s stuff then there is really no room for more... Though I still can't believe she'd do a full performance of True Blue over Ray Of Light or Music!
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Matthew Rettenmund (longtime NY fan and author of Encyclopedia Madonnica) has just posted on Facebook:
"I can't say much of what I know about the REBEL HEART TOUR, but it has TONS of oldies ..."
"Many '80s hits."
I guess this means post-1990 stuff will be largely ignored just like on MDNA Tour. That one had Human Nature, Hung Up & Candy Shop, now we're likely to have Deeper And Deeper, Frozen/Ray Of Light & Music/Don't Tell Me I guess.
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Bored with the classics? Vogue on The MDNA Tour was the very definition of pop performance art. It was fucking PERFECTION. (If only it hadn't been an edit it would have been even more perfect). And it was obviously one of the true highlights of the show as it's the only MDNA Tour performance 'music video' up on her official Vevo to promote that tour film. She only came off 'bored' during the last few shows cause she was sick. She was pretty much killing it for all the other performances.
Anyone who says otherwise can suck a dick.
Seriously? She barely moved, there was no major choreography, light years behind all the previous performances. Plus the dancers were almost a Justify My Love at The Girlie Show rehash...
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I doubt the setlist isn't even finalized yet.
It probably is though, judging by the past several tours when the full show is being rehearsed, only 1-2 songs are replaced at most...
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Not that most of Justify My Love on TGS and Gang Bang on MDNA Tour were live though! Same for Erotica and interestingly enough the CT version eradicated the spoken word bits.
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I can't see Iconic being performed since it's mostly spoken verses
Still a lot less spoken stuff in it than Illuminati, Body Shop, Veni Vidi Vici & S.E.X., I don't see those fully performed for the same reason.
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For the MDNA tour she did 10 songs from MDNA and 13 oldies. If some songs are mixed with other songs, anything can happen!
I don't think video interludes or snippets should count when discussing these things.
Her thing seems to be doing 19 songs live, based on the past 3 tours (21 on RIT including short Lament + Imagine and 18 on DWT without The Funny Song).
On MDNA Tour initially she did 10 new songs (including Revolver & Celebration) and 9 oldies. She did add Love Spent that tipped the balance but in the end it was more like a medley since Like A Virgin got shortened because of it.
So I doubt she'd do it radically different this time around despite the fact that she has the most songs ever recorded for an album...
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It's her longest album ever so of course many fans expect lot of Rebel Heart tracks. I feel that either way the setlist will be disappointing for many...
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I honestly can't see her ignoring the title track.
I think several of the ballads and the "explicit" tracks might only be partially performed/included though, as medleys, snippets or interludes.
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While I love listening to it, the RIT version has always been way too simple and basic for me.
DWT is perfectly staged, one of her best performances ever.
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Hold Tight & Inside Out, two I'd like to hear the most...
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where are the 90s songs, besides JML and D&D?
She's got some crown jewels there that she always ignores!
She's not into performing the 1990s stuff based on previous tours, she's ignored a lot of ballads through the years, on RIT BS was the only album that did not have a proper live performance, on MDNA Tour she ignored everything between 1990 and 2005 as a live number EXCEPT Human Nature...
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M often has one random song on her tours such as Lament, the Unfunny Song and I'm Going. Bananas. I suppose it makes it interesting for her!
Add the Erotica demo and that's about it. Rest of her choices are almost always the hits that appeared on The Immaculate Collection/GHV2/Celebration. If she's performing all the hinted at songs, it would be her most extraordinary setlist ever...
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She has a second leg of the tour, in a country she hadn't visited in 22 yrs. I am almost certain there will be another single when she returns to Oz!
Well those dates are 9 months away so only something like Queen would make sense to be released March 2016...
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Queen was produced by The-Dream
That is not actuall confirmed, just based on his co-writer credit. Mike Dean also co-wrote the track, he is also likely to be a producer of it. Both Ghosttown & Queen sound Ryan Tedder-ish so it's still possible he gave a hand to Queen...
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Philip Meckseper, who co-wrote "Hold Tight", is better known as Junior Blender. He is usually one half of the German production duo So Shifty.
He also co-wrote Major Lazer's recent hit single "Lean On".
And I believe he was not a co-producer there either. Just like how Djemba Djemba got a co-writer credit only for Best Night. I guess not every songwriter becomes a producer on a Madonna song automatically now, even though they most likely contributed to the music. And yet despite the reworks, the Avicii entourage gets a lot of producer credit. So I guess it works like that.
As for Ryan Tedder, it is still possible that he co-produced Queen which was dropped in the end but it might have been part of the plan to release it when that press release was issued. It's the reviews that said Hold Tight was produced by Ryan Tedder, maybe everyone assumed since it sounds like his recent tracks?
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There's no way she solo produced Hold Tight? If she had would've she have a made a huge fuss about it? I think it's a typo.
Some of these production credits seem to be a compromise, like Avicii in Wash All Over Me (or Orbit in Masterpiece, he didn't even co-write the song, nor he played any of the instruments in that one), but it's likely that nobody else's input was notable enough in Hold Tight to warrant a credit (just like how Diplo is not a producer of Auto-Tune Baby).
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SOPHIE is actually there, credited as (Samuel) Long.
EDIT: These guys did Unapologetic Bitch:
Brown is likely to be Omen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omen_%28record_producer%29
And the guys who co-wrote and co-produced HeartBreakCity:
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Stina+Wappling/iHeartRadio+Artists+Verge/zJuQzgj_V2A
Appreciate "Erotica" single
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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The bassline is everything! Took me a long time to appreciate this track fully but now I consider it one of her most special entries in her discography.
As others have already mentioned it, the remixes are great, love the Kenlou B-Boy Mix that was used on The Girlie Show.