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5 hours ago, dollhouse said:
These videos are easily in her top ten or top 20
I think youre evaluating her past videos with nostalgia and chart success
We have all of them
Why do you rate the videos so highly? Nobody’s really giving reasons.
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11 hours ago, MichaelDieker said:
Pedestrian? Small painted stone? Not in her top twenty best videos? Is it crack you smoke? These are some of the best videos of her career I have no clue what you are going on about. You and mimifarts can go fuck a garbage disposal tbh
Wow.
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None of the videos for this album come close to cracking her top ten (or even top twenty), but I don’t think it’s fair to compare these videos to the others in her catalog. Each one feels like a small painted stone in a mosaic; viewed separately, they’re fairly pedestrian, especially for her; viewed together, you begin to see the motifs. I think once we have all the videos we’ll be debating what order to watch them in.
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Crave for her flawless hair.
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I think the people who don’t like “Batuka” don’t like it because there’s no chorus. It doesn’t follow a traditional song structure. That’s what I love about it. It only moves forward, never circulating back on itself.
It’s what I want “Extreme Occident” to do. When the song dissolves into Middle Eastern instrumentation and she sings “no, I wasn’t lost...” I want the song to come apart at the seams, get messy, build in intensity as she ad libs over the beat in that same delirious voice. Instead, it recirculates, reconstitutes its form. Could have been a masterpiece.
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I just came to be amused by the Extreme Occident fandom.
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1. God Control
2. Come Alive
3. I Don’t Search, I Find
4. Crave
5. Crazy
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On 7/3/2019 at 5:38 PM, YannBouch said:
THIS
I know you’re kidding, but on a serious note, “Crazy,” for me, is about drawing a boundary with someone you’re dating who likes to play games with your head and heart. It’s about self-protection. I really like that theme.
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I really like the order of tracks, especially the middle of the album, but “Medellín” is way out of place leading into “Dark Ballet” and “God Control.” Such a jarring transition.
I have a feeling the tour will open with “God Control” so...:
1. God Control
2. Dark Ballet
3. Future
4. Batuka
5.
6. Crave
7. Crazy
8. Medellín
9. Come Alive
10. Faz Gostoso
11. Bitch I’m Loca
12. Looking for Mercy
13. I Rise
Really don’t know what to do with “IDSIF” either.
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I feel like I had this weird dream where Madonna fans were really into this fine-okay track off the album and then I woke up and was like “Oh, whew.” Except the last part.
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15 hours ago, Shaun said:
...are gripping.
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Really don’t get the love for LFM and EO but go GC!!
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6 hours ago, MLVC82 said:
I'm sorry but the Difference between QUEEN MADONNA and the other "cult " figures you mention Bowie, Prince etc.....
is that QUEEN MADONNA is still selling......still on top of the charts......still relevant (have you seen how many young youtube fans react?...or how many young people on twitter are now starting to give her praise and see her true artistic merit?)
Bowie, Prince et all....were "Cult" status......but also declining in sales....and artistic output...sorry.....
MADONNA is in a (pardon the pun) LEAGUE OF HER OWN......
Um... Madonna is still alive?
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1. God Control
2. Come Alive
3. I Don’t Search, I Find
4. Crave
5. Medellín
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1 minute ago, KalamazooJay said:
What the hell does she have to lose by releasing 'controversial' these days? Not a fucking thing.
Nowadays a 'controversy' by anyone that breaks at 9am - politician, celebrity, - is old news by 5pm. She'll get some buzz with this video and she'll get some flack by the usual bunch of pearl clutching, woke, Twitter tappers and that will be that.
I mean, I read in some review of Medellin that she was 'insensitive' by even putting the word 'cartel' in the song. I mean, are you kidding me? This is where we're at? Dissecting a pop song lyric by lyric and showcasing 'outrage' over the phrase 'cartel for love'?
It's no wonder she enjoys singing Future since the song seems address this very type of eye rolling behavior.
I hope the video is graphic. I hope it's shocking. I hope it gets my heart beating. I hope it offends as many people as she can hope to offend. I hope MADONNA is trending ALL GOD DAMN DAY LONG the day the video is released regardless of if it's positive or negative.
This is different, fam. People died. A lot of people.
Anyway, it’s up to fate now. Not me.
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Just now, Flip The Switch said:
This is your perspective. Wait till the full video drops. Too much paranoia.
Maybe. But once the video drops it’s too late.
But it then again... not my circus.
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I’m not worried about a backlash affecting her sales. It would be worse than that. “American Life” merely pissed off the country because it wasn’t yet in the mindset that the war was wrong. They felt the video was political grandstanding. This would be different. If it backfires, she’ll be dragged for being insensitive to shooting victims by depicting the act so literally in the video.
I mean, I could be wrong. But it’s definitely touchy and it’s going to depend on how carefully Akerlund handles the subject. There’s just a million ways this could go wrong.
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Just now, frzndrwnwrld said:
SJWs have said she's guilty of cultural appropriation for a while now, so being accused of appropriating a tragedy won't deter her. She should just do what she wants.
I mean I agree that she should do what she wants. But if THIS backfires, it could be devastating. I guess I just have to hope the director knows what he’s doing. If I was a Pulse survivor I might feel a bit uncomfortable watching a video depicting a massacre at a disco.
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What happens if the violent imagery backfires and the Twitter mafia accuses her of appropriating a tragedy? This just feels really risky to me. Really, really risky.
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20 hours ago, headonfire said:
Exactly... Don't give them clicks people. Every click drives up their revenue through advertisement.
Just ignore them. Who the fuck even reads Pitchfork? Like @Nikki just said, they're trolls with a paycheck who run a blog.
All positive reviews focus on the music, the actual melodies, the sonically experimental nature of the record, etc. The bad are just hateful and they focus on her age, the 'she's chasing trends' line that we have heard over and over, the 'she's irrelevant' and 'she has no talent' stuff that we have heard many times before... It's depressing and frustrating and infuriating, but we must not give in.
This record is special! It's a great work of art! It's fresh and new! It's experimental, futuristic and has an aural vibe to it at the same time. It's nothing like other pop records from the current 20-something it girls of today. Madonna will survive the test of time. These 20-something it girls of today won't, and most certainly these hateful reviewers will not be remembered for anything at all.
Disagree. It isn’t our job to worry about ad revenues, it’s our job to push back against unfairness and bias from a music critic. But this energy should be focused and have an objective.
I think the objective should be an apology and retraction.
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Not done with him yet. He ought to formally apologize for the review, and Pitchfork ought to retract it. No replacing it with a less bitter review by someone else, either. No review for Pitchfork.
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Someone should make a post for ranking all of M’s albums. I’m curious where MX falls for most people.
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I dunno. I love “American Life.”
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I’l actually think she’s doing the right thing by delaying the release of the GC video and not performing it at Pride. It would be a PR disaster otherwise. The video looks like it’s about the Pulse nightclub shooting; I don’t think she wants to take that tone for a Pride performance. The confusing part is that I Rise follows the same theme of gun control.
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