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    Madame X album general discussion

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    Here are details... I got this email from Madonna site today - Madonna <newsletter@madonna.com>... Hope you all have signed up for an account on Madonna.com site,  so you should get this email to the email address you have on file with the site.  

    Get ready to stream Madonna's new album on Friday, June 14th on Amazon Music Unlimited! I did and just signed up for free!!! As a treat to Madonna fans in celebration of Madame X, sign up today for an exclusive 4 months FREE of Amazon Music Unlimited*.

    It took me literally 2 minutes to sign up. I am already streaming the songs already released.

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    STREAMING/SALES strategy and discussion

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    Did you guys get this email from Madonna site today??? Madonna <newsletter@madonna.com>...

    Hope you all have signed up for an account on Madonna.com site,  so you should get this email to the email address you have on file with the site.  

    Get ready to stream Madonna's new album on Friday, June 14th on Amazon Music Unlimited! I did and just signed up for free!!! As a treat to Madonna fans in celebration of Madame X, sign up today for an exclusive 4 months FREE of Amazon Music Unlimited*.

    It took me literally 2 minutes to sign up. I am already streaming the songs already released.

     

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    STREAMING/SALES strategy and discussion

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    On ‎5‎/‎19‎/‎2019 at 3:35 PM, jandresrc said:

    UPDATE:

    PROMOTE THIS LINK:

    http://bit.ly/BUYandSTREAMadameX

    it has all the playlists for each platform

    Spotify premium accounts link:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D3iUg02JU5dTPL-Na1Eq1SotKSMbIONL/view

    Thank you again for all the info you shared with us in May! It served me well!  I am personally adding additional hour of Spotify Premium streaming of Madame X per day starting today, and I will not stop for two weeks. 

    Jandresrc, I think you should post an info update (including Dos and don'ts on how to stream properly for it to count) on your available Spotify Premium accounts you have for us. You should also share the same info in a couple of more treads, like the General Madame X tread. Hopefully lots of us are willing to stream Madame X on Spotify Premium starting Friday as it comes out to guaranty a #1 or 2 finish for first week.

    Madame X album general discussion

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    32 minutes ago, Katypatra said:

    This album is on a cosmic level that just took me somewhere away from this earth and yet brought me so close at the same time! The universe is like within M’s voice and in the beat,  something so deep and spiritual and human at the same time about this album... something so raw and honest and real. I can’t find words to describe it. 

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    I think you just did, and very well I might say. 🙂 Can't wait to hear it!

    “Dark Ballet” thread

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    While we are waiting for the Dark Ballet to be released in each of our countries, please don't forget to vote for CRAVE to be played on radio station NOW@New1027 , the big Hottt AC station in New York City. This is our chance to push the song on Hot AC radio and radio charts. Please VOTE for it below. WE have 6 hrs left to vote.

     

    “Crave” thread

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    All, we need your help... NOW@New1027 , the big Hottt AC station in New York is continuing to push Crave hard. This is our chance to push the song on Hot AC radio and radio charts. Please VOTE for it below (UPDATE: 6 hrs left). We been easily gathering 2 to 3000 votes for Crave last week for other contests :-)8-)

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    MADAME X: official reviews are in: MADAME X is a hit with the critics!

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    3 hours ago, air1975 said:

    Guardian review is online. 

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/04/madonna-madame-x-review-her-most-bizarre-album-ever

     

    Madonna: Madame X review – her most bizarre album ever

    4 out of 5 stars.

    (Live Nation/Interscope/Maverick)

    The lows, featuring white-saviour narratives and witless lyrics, are really low. But by embracing Latin pop, Madonna sounds more natural than she has in years.

     

    We all get old, but never at the same age. Some of us are old when we’re children, bringing briefcases to school and talking to adults at family parties; others leave uni with the thrill that they never have to go clubbing again. Most of us think we’re doing pretty well, then we find ourselves nodding appreciatively at something in a Boden catalogue and suddenly death is real.

    For years, Madonna outpaced all of this. In 1996, Evita looked like ushering in her middle age, but she did an about turn, delivering convincing, idiosyncratic trip-hop on Ray of Light (1998) and convincing, idiosyncratic electro on Music (2000). Confessions on a Dancefloor (2005) was even better, its Abba samples and smooth deep house a way for her to stay out past 4am with dignity, rather than trying to score ketamine off teenage fashion influencers at the afters, musically speaking.

    But she couldn’t run forever. Perhaps it began pre-Confessions, when she kissed Britney Spears as if to parasitically extract her youth. Certainly by Hard Candy in 2008 she was playing catch-up, spurring Timbaland and the Neptunes to some of their tamest work, a good five years after their pomp. MDNA (2012) tried to keep pace with stadium EDM, while Rebel Heart (2015) struggled to get its head around a newly global, musically cosmopolitan pop market, and just randomly glued hip collaborators together. The woman who had once led was following, and sluggishly.

    To her credit, she has not done what many in her position would then do: lick their wounds and sell a jazz standards album to Radio 2 listeners. With Madame X, Madonna instead grits her teeth, puts on a glitter-encrusted eyepatch, looks in the mirror with seriously reduced depth perception and says: “Bitch, I’m Madonna.” And by drawing on the Latin influence of not just reggaeton-crazed recent pop but also her new home base of Lisbon, she has, at 60, produced her most natural-feeling, progressive and original record since Confessions.

    It’s also one of her most bizarre and sprawling, and features some of her worst ever music. Killers Who Are Playing finds this American multimillionaire – already not shy of white saviourhood – play empath to the world’s huddled masses: “I’ll be Africa if Africa is shut down. I will be poor if the poor are humiliated. I’ll be a child if the children are exploited …” We pause for presumably more of the same, this time in Portuguese, and then: “I’ll be Islam if Islam is hated. I’ll be Israel if they’re incarcerated. I’ll be Native Indian if the Indian has been taken. I’ll be a woman if she’s raped and her heart is breaking.” It’s well intended but fails to read the room – the room here being the entire planet.

    The dog’s dinner of Dark Ballet, aired in part at Eurovision, features vocodered vocals sung to a melody from the Nutcracker, and irritatingly gnomic pronouncements about commerce blinding us to reality. Extreme Occident, only available on the deluxe version for a very good reason, sees Madonna trying to “recover my centre of gravity” in a politically polarised world – a really worthwhile topic, but expressed in witless lyrics. “I guess I’m lost / I had to pay the cost / The thing that hurt me most …” (at this point you’re ready to bet your house on the final line being about a ghost, but no) “… Was that I wasn’t lost.” Tablas arrive with stupid kneejerk exoticism. It ends with her asserting “life is a circle” about 20 times.

    These shockers are suitable only for schadenfreude lovers or scholars of extreme camp, but another of these wildly messy tracks actually matches its vaulting ambition. God Control was presumably made after an all-nighter on Reddit – a rambling “Wake up sheeple!” screed that confronts gun reform, disenfranchised youth, democracy and the man upstairs. One section has her rap “Each new birthday gives me hope / that’s why I don’t smoke that dope”, and that her only friend is her brain – all with the peppy naivety of Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood. And all of it set to hi-NRG disco with cascading strings and Daft Punk vocoders, for over six minutes. It is – only just – brilliant, and will become an equally beloved and despised curio among fans.

    All this baroque weirdness knocks the album off its axis, but most of its 64 minutes are actually full of very decent pop songcraft. Future is her go at pop’s next big trend, roots reggae, and while there is a slight, perhaps unconscious but audible white-person Jamaican accent, it is catchy and full-bodied, producer Diplo shamelessly ripping off the brass from Outkast’s SpottieOttieDopaliscious. She returns to Deeper and Deeper-style house on I Don’t Search I Find, its strings and fingerclicks a clear nod to Vogue. Crazy is beautiful and brilliantly catchy, a midtempo soul ballad that you could imagine Ariana Grande singing, but which has clever detailing like an accordion that has surely been influenced by Lisbon’s fado scene. The most emphatically Latin tracks are all strong, particularly Faz Gostoso with Brazilian superstar Anitta, whose frenetic beat is somewhere between baile funk and Angolan kuduro – another Lisbon-influenced rhythm that also flits through the polyrhythmic Come Alive. Bitch I’m Loco, the second track to feature Colombian star Maluma after lead single Medellín, is reggaeton roughage, but will be satisfying enough booming out of a club system. Perhaps there isn’t an absolutely diamond pop chorus on Madame X, but the singles I Rise, Crave, and Medellín all have elegant, sinewy melodies that twine around you rather than jabbing you into submission.

    Throughout, there is more density and musical adventure than at almost any other point in her career (perhaps this is the influence of Mirwais, who produces numerous tracks here and gave Music its fiendish intricacy). Her voice is remarkably plastic, pitched down one minute and up the next, into a Sia-like bleat and out into robotic polyphony. Often, around the seabed of the mix, is a swirl of aqueous psychedelic sound, profoundly different and much more interesting than her earlier R&B and EDM minimalism.

    Killers Who Are Playing ends with the questions: “Do you know who you are? Will we know when to stop?” The untamed, batshit Madame X suggests that Madonna doesn’t have the answer to either – and that her strength is in never knowing. 

    Killers Who Are Playing ends with the questions: “Do you know who you are? Will we know when to stop?” The untamed, batshit Madame X suggests that Madonna doesn’t have the answer to either – and that her strength is in never knowing.

    OMG! The reviews are making me soooo exited about hearing the full album!!! I am soooo ready for it. They are describe amazing innovative sounds...  I love the way all of them are struggling to create a sandbox to fit this Album in.

    “Crave” thread

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    28 minutes ago, V.K said:

    "I never ever in my life have been addicted to some shit that ain't good for me ... except for alcohol but that may or may not be because I have an alcoholism problem " I mean :rotfl:

    lipstick X ding dong comment comes close second

    🤣 I died. so funny! But, I don't think it was intended to be funny. If it was meant to be, he is a great actor.   

    Madame X: Discussion (LISTENING PARTY info within)

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    1 hour ago, robster said:

    Apple is doing these town hall events called “Today at Apple” at Apple store’s and she’s going to do one to promote the remixing possibilities of the Garage band app, using her single Crave. People will soon be able to sign up for the event and there will be a video she recorded where she talks about the process of recording the new album! More info is going to be released soon!

    Sooo glad to hear there is actually some kind of promo for Crave. The song deserves a chance, and some live performances would go a long way.  From her Instagram this week, I started to think that she gave up on promoting the released singles and  is already fully focusing only on the tour.

    STREAMING/SALES strategy and discussion

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    4 minutes ago, metalissimo said:

    Are Medellin remixes available for sale on ITunes? 

    Are Medellin remixes also available on Spotify, Apple or other streaming media? 

    There are two Medellin remixes on both Spotify and Apple that were uploaded two weeks ago when they were released. I was hoping we will get a couple of more by now, so I can buy them and also to guaranty more options for DJs club plays.

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