jonski43
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we are the world was the american version of band aid.
I have absolutely no idea what point you are trying to make there, matey. I am well aware that WATW was the American Version of Band Aid but why did you highlight the bit about Cyndi?
Honestly, I am clueless.
Looking at the list of those that took part, it really was adult MORsville. What about all those other top pop acts of the time? Rocksteady Crew, Maria Vidal, Animotion, Nu Shooz. Where were they too? Yes, they missed a lot of ground breaking artists in favour of the middle of the road mob.
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Paul Oakenfold To Me on Twitter in a pvt message..
"Your Gonna love it its amazing"...
I ask if its used in Holiday on Tour..
"Its only the music of Holiday on tour no vocals used"
I ask to describe the sound
"written in the same Key as Holiday, with a cutting edge sound"
Wasn't the production American Life meant to be cutting edge? And talk of a vocoder?
It's AL part two!
Any word on remixers?
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I think US radio stations are so out of date. Spotify and LastFM.com are where's it at now. If people aren't hearing the songs they want, they will go elsewhere and US radio will suddenly find itself out in the cold.
Leave Mariah for the radio and the old order and push Madonna on the latest technology! Young people are turning away from traditional media like TV and Radio and getting their music in new ways. And you know how Madonna likes to stay current!
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FRACASO
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they don't look amused lol
That's botox for you!
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Might have something to do with the economy too. Spain is suffering very badly with unemployment at 18% I think. With a large number of concerts, high prices and a lot of young people out of work, it's not surprising.
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Erotica is maybe my all time favourite Madonna album. The book, singles, remixes, videos and concert package, for me, are almost faultless. Erotica as a track is immense in all its versions, album version, sex book version, WO 12", Underground Club Mix, Kenlou Mix, Madonna's In My Jeep Mix, You Thrill Me, Rain Tapes demo.
The era had a real sense of edge, darkness and power to it but with an undercurrent of playfulness and humour that people either didn't get or chose to ignore. At the time the Sex campaign (and M) felt unstoppable, important and massive,you really need to have lived through it to appreciate the magnitude of coverage she received and the downright nastiness of the backlash that followed.
I also think she was at her most beautiful during this period; icy, haughty, androgynous beauty is always a winner for me.
I feel the opposite about it. With the launch of Sex, the massive backlash began and with every subsequent release, her popularity was waning. Singles didn't chart so high or stay around so long and Body of Evidence tanked. I couldn't understand it as the songs and videos were great. However, from a fans perspective, it was great as the record company had to put in more effort so we go more releases, mixes and videos!
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The Solid Gold performance is not an official video for the song. There has been much talk of several videos for the song and one supposedly being official, but nothing was officially commissioned as one.
I don't really see the point of a montage. No video channel in the U.S. will play a video montage. She has more of a chance to have an original video played though. But that's a big stretch.
The point is there is a video to accompany the song that was distributed with it. Having no video, especially for a lead song of any sort of album project is bad marketing, especially when the technology available makes it possible to create something very cheaply. Youtube is the first place people will go to hear and see this song.
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her and cyndi had the same amount of hits and time in the public eye.
Cyndi was bigger in the UK before 85. It was only as LAV took off here that M became big and Cyndi's fame waned. Borderline didn't chart so she did seem a one hit wonder. So, to me it would have been no surprise to see Cyndi on the single but not Madge although I remember being disappointed by the time it was released as M seemed the biggest thing in the world by April!
*clutches Crazy For You shaped picture disc*
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I don't know? There was no official release for "Holiday" and that became a Madonna anthem. Hell, it never cracked the top spot, but I get the feeling it's the one song EVERYONE knows of Madonna. It's a very popular song. So maybe, they are trying to duplicate that success with "Celebration"? I don't know? Also, videos do not have the same impact anymore. I really don't see a montage being something video stations will play (whenever they do play videos). And I don't see it being a very popular video on the internet.
WB needs to make sure they push this single. Radio won't play it if WB just releases it without a big push. And maybe Madonna will add it to her show as a full song before she finishes up the leg of this tour?
I'm excited though. I can't wait to hear the new song.
There was a video for Holiday - the Solid Gold performance was distributed and is still shown, certainly in Europe. And videos are essential. People go straight to youtube now to see and hear a new song. Look how many hits the 4 Minutes video got - it was huge. However, Miles Away had no video and anyone posting there own had them removed by Warner's. Probably her worst performing single ever. With little outlet on the main stream channels to see music performances and MTV etc devoting themselves to reality TV or old videos, places like youtube are essential for viral spreading of songs. A video is essential - a montage as good as She's Not Me would work well although an original one would be much better as the video montage idea has been done by her several times now.
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oh dear gawd... i'd rather have the world end when that day comes...
or the Duran Duran Decadance / Burning The Ground travesty. She did go down that route with GHV2 and megamixes got zero airplay in Britain.
Hopefully they will hash some compliation together or at least give the fans a chance.
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I thought she only got asked to do Live Aid at the last minute too?
As the sinlge was record in January '85, M would have only had LAV out by then and probably would have been considered a flash in the pan. If you look at the line up, they were the really big icons of MOR.
* Lionel Richie
* Stevie Wonder
* Paul Simon
* Kenny Rogers
* James Ingram
* Tina Turner
* Billy Joel
* Michael Jackson
* Diana Ross
* Dionne Warwick
* Willie Nelson
* Al Jarreau
* Bruce Springsteen
* Kenny Loggins
* Steve Perry
* Daryl Hall
* Huey Lewis
* Cyndi Lauper
* Kim Carnes
* Bob Dylan
* Ray Charles
Extras
* Dan Aykroyd
* Harry Belafonte
* Lindsey Buckingham
* The News
* Sheila E.
* Bob Geldof
* Jackie Jackson
* LaToya Jackson
* Marlon Jackson
Extras
* Randy Jackson
* Tito Jackson
* Waylon Jennings
* Bette Midler
* John Oates
* Jeffrey Osborne
* The Pointer Sisters
* Smokey Robinson
* Rob Halford
She had a lucky escape and I can't imagine her having her arms around Harry Belafonte and Tito crooning into a microphone. I like history they way it was when she came in and dropped a lingerie covered bomb on the charts in '85!
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Celebration is a perfect title for the album! It goes right back to her breakthrough hit and and comes full circle.
People will get used to it. I remember the commotion over COADF and many people hating it and saying it was obvious.
And not long to wait for the single! Woohoo!
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you are ready as well ?
That line is from Love Song with Prince so is the Like A Prayer era or did she reuse the line somewhere else?
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If I had to save one album, I think this would be the one.
I love everything about the era - the music, the videos, the remixes and the looks - everything was perfect. And the album tracks are fantastic too - Waiting, Why's It So Hard, Where Life Begins, Secret Garden.... such a strong album and finally being recognised as a classic. The opening of Erotica just sets the fantastic dark, seedy tone.
To me, ROL just drowns in WO's production for the last half.
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AbMad has finally posted the broadcast in HQ!
http://www.absolumentmadonna.fr/en/2009/07...-sky1-hq-109gb/
Anyone know if there is a torrent of this yet?
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we already got the new track titles, officially confirmed or not
and it was pretty obvious that it would get a fall release
yes, a couple of months before the release it's not unreasonable to be still firming up plans. There was some twitter news too about the remixing side and general overview of the htis. However, the MJ news will have meant many people have surpressed their PR for a while as it will just get buried until the fuss dies down. I would be surprised if it were late July or August when we start to hear more information.
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^A few posts back you can see my post about the Music Week report, which lists his 5 best selling UK singles and "Heal The World" is not among them. His best seller was always "Earth Song", don't know where you got the info about "HTW".
Right, just looked into it. It was an old stat from when Radio 1 did MJ's 40 best selling singles of all time quite a few years ago. They did M as well. It was pre-itunes by quite a few years so stats will have changed in the meantime. They updated the chart last Christmas with the 30 at 50 series - all based on sales at that time where it was still Number six. I suspect that has completely changed again in the last couple of weeks.
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^I read that ALL the AbMad videos are out of sync, that's not just you. They most likely put them up in a rush because they knew it would take ages with the actual HQ show.
Cool, thanks. Sometimes my quicktime can slow down so wanted to check.
Tour does look great though in all its glory.
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I've just watched the DAD video and the syncing is all over the place and compeletely out of time with the vocals. I'm wondering if Absolutemadonna got these from youtube? I've had issues when I've loaded up videos that the soundtrack and video get out of sync somehow during the upload process.
Just looked at Beat Goes On and Miles Away. The syncing on those is out too. Anyone experiencing this?
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Yes, I wonder if we will see Hard Candy rocket back up the charts after this weekend.
I also can't make up my mind if La Roux can sing in tune and Lady GaGa is beginning to annoy me now especially as she is writing about the paparazzi before she was famous.
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Man In The Mirror was being promoted by Chris Moyles in the UK. I suppose it is the poignancy of the song but I don't quite get it as it is not one of most well known songs by a long stretch. Just shows the power of Radio One! Still, it leaps from 11 to No.2 in the single sales and downloads chart with Billie Jean landing at No. 10 which I thought would be the big hit. Thriller and Beat It both in Top 20. It was the last three singles I expected to dominate. At least he didn't push Heal The World which is MJ's biggest selling single in the UK! Tragic!
He has three GH collections in the top 5 albums with Thriller and Off The Wall in the top 10! Sony will be happy!
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Was the opening video the new Green Pink Caviar one we saw the clip of?
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I actually like the wig and glasses. Is the new outfit much different from the previous one?
Which of these albums spawned her best videos?
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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Erotica
Bedtimes Stories
Ray of Light
NRM was the only great vid from ROL although I like POG. F and ROL don't do anything for me. But Erotica was amazing - brilliant videos