Priceless
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I would be curious to know how much muscle Interscope has in the territories where Anitta is popular. Would they even have been able to handle the single properly?
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I was very impressed with this piece (although it has me wondering if Donatella had some assistance writing this) and it manages to touch on so many reasons why Madonna is phenomenal.
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If we are to believe everything we've read, Madonna was told about Casey's involvement and tried to make it right. However, her lawyers FAILED in not getting this wrapped up before he blew his top and went on his Insta-rant. (Why does she always have such lousy lawyers?) They could have paid him his $25,000 (a drop in the bucket for her) and he would have been gone. Is it possible he refused to sign the non-disclosure agreement he alluded to in one of his posts?
Regardless, I always think it's cool to hear other people's demos and what Madonna winds up doing with them. The pieces of what became the opening lines of God Control are there, but it's clear that she made even further changes to the melody (the rhythm of the words are different, too) and made additional adjustments to the lyrics. Her vocal performance also brings to life what was an otherwise tepid idea.
I'm confident that we would have wound up with a great track even without Casey's involvement. It's a shame it wasn't handled better from the start.
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The irony of Madonna getting snubbed when the Grammys avoided chart-toppers and also getting snubbed now that they have embraced chart-toppers (and she is no longer one of them) is somewhat irritating.
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I'm not sure the bright, peppy voice belongs to Madonna. Vocal manipulation aside, it just doesn't sound like her voice in the slightest. I would love to be proven wrong!
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On 8/15/2019 at 9:33 AM, Beastialg said:
It's a terrible edit. It can't be official.
Agreed, it's terrible. Once I realized that it cut out the intro with just her voice and the piano, I deleted it. The other edit that was posted weeks ago was much more professional.
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Some of the worst wobbly vocals are on the remixes for Take A Bow. It sounds like they changed the chords for the song and did pitch correction to match...and it sounds like she's singing while drunk.
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This version has really grown on me, too! (I never really cared for the demo very much.) I like it mostly because of the world music vibe and the way the vocals are chopped up and repeated. I'm also very fond of hearing her sing "i'll be wearing diamond grills and seeking thrills a lot" because it's a line that only she can really get away with singing because everybody knows it's the damn truth.
The sparse use of the "do it" refrain is also a definite improvement. (The way it repeated on the demo was severely grating.)
I never have and probably never will come around to liking Birthday Song. I remember hearing Madonna talk about recording the "Like a Prayer" album and she said that one day she and Pat decided they were going to write a really crap song just to get it out of their system. This sounds like something she would come up when she's really trying to lay a turd (metaphorically speaking.)
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12 minutes ago, miki said:
I am with you on that. I figured that on every song she just assumed different personalities and maybe accents. And the lyrics on certain songs are as if written or sang by a person of a non English speaking country. And all of these work phenomenally. I think she is like an actor in the album and is a young girl from Cape Verde on Batuka, then a Portuguese in Killers, and a woman on shrooms on Medellin. And maybe she used vocal effects to attain her goal.
I feel like this is what sets her apart from so many other pop performers out there...she truly inhabits a mood, a feeling and a character in so much of her work and she employs a level of specificity and detail that other performers simply cannot match. There were several reviews that spoke of her using "so many accents" on this album - it's like, duh, of course she is speaking in different accents on this album, this is what Madonna does. I think her use of a vocal producer and vocal effects are really just an extension of that...she's trying to push her voice into new territory and different realms. And her voice is particularly suited for that, because on its own it's so clear and melodic that it really lends itself well to manipulation and distortion. I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea, but when has Madonna ever pleased all of the people all of the time?
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I love this song and the strings that underscore the second verse are EVERYTHING.
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On 7/17/2019 at 5:10 AM, promise to try said:
it sounds strange, but the timing for a star to die, is everything.Donna, or farrah fawcet for example, very bad timing...hopefully somebody will do a show with donna´s songs ala abba or queenn, and her name will be back where it should
anyways, the name that I miss there is george harrison´s, they wre (?) friends, at least back in the day
Welp, sometimes life just isn't fair. They already made a show on Broadway last year with all of Donna Summer's music in it (it did get a few Tony nominations) and it's now on tour but it certainly isn't getting the kind of reception that Mamma Mia got. And the less said about "We Will Rock You" (the Queen musical,) the better.
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On 7/16/2019 at 10:49 AM, Kurt420 said:
Same here. Crave in particular is perfect the way it is. Doesn't need all the "extra" that Mirwais would bring......I'm not dissing him in ANY way because he has helped create some of the best music of her career with this album. Totally agree though, a full album with him may have been overkill. It's nice to have some variety. *warning* I'm giving a "friend" story....lol....so, I was at my cousins pool on Sunday and she and her friend and myself were swimming and I put on MX and the ONLY song both of them actually started to sing/hum along to was Crave. I truly think in another day and time, this song (in the US anyways) would've been a TAB sized hit. At the end of it all though, my cousin did say she thought the album was good and she liked the variety on it.
To me, Crave is the only obvious single on this album. I know many will say God Control but.......as brilliant as it is, one of the best of her career in fact, it's NOT single material (again, at least in the US)....it's WAY too "out there" and not a song most can immediately relate to. It's a song that's made to make you think.....typically, songs like that aren't the best single choices. Not that it matters what she releases as a single these days but just sayin.
I agree that it's nice to have different producers on an album for the sake of variety. I absolutely love what Mirwais did with some tracks, but I'm not in love with ALL of them. I don't think he's infallible.
I also agree that Crave is the only obvious single...just further proof in my eyes that if there weren't such a resistance to Madonna in today's commercial music landscape, she'd easily have more hits. I even think God Control could be a modest hit, protest-vibe-and-all, but only with that radio edit. I played it for someone I know and like and he said "Whoa! Now God Control sounds like a dance/pop song. That other version you've been playing (the album version) has a totally different feel."
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On 7/19/2019 at 3:37 PM, Crozzauk said:
Has anyone yet managed to work out the point of the Standard edition yet?
Different artwork aside, I can't figure this out either. In today's streaming and digital world, most people would be able to get all of the tracks from the deluxe edition, so are there really some markets where people only listen to CDs and only have access to the standard version? I notice it was the version I received with my ticket purchase and it feels very basic.
On a side note, I really wish there were official lyrics available somewhere. I remember getting an official version of the lyrics for Rebel Heart from the Japanese version (I think?)
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I played Faz Gosoto on vacation and my family had a real moment dancing and carrying on...and I'm pretty sure none of them had a clue it was Madonna. It was a real antidote to the fact that one of my family members was whistling the melody of a certain overwrought power ballad from ASIB for AN ENTIRE WEEK.
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After having the entire album for several weeks, what strikes me the most is that her new music feels like it has a real sense of purpose, urgency and maturity. I love the progression from the last few albums to this one, I really feel like she had to make MDNA and Rebel Heart the way that she did in order to get to a place where Madame X was possible.
I do feel like the sexy bad-girl element of her personality is somewhat subdued on this album, but I'm sure it will roar back into view at some point.
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23 minutes ago, Shaun said:
Omg I’ll never hear this the same way!
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I think it's a beautiful and stirring video. I especially appreciate the careful way in which she's spoken about and presented these women...it's obvious she's aware of the "appropriation" bullshit that SJWs perpetuate and is doubling down on her assertion that it's her right to bring light and attention to otherwise neglected subjects and people.
I also think it's very interesting that she rolled this video out long after it would have any significant impact on sales of her album or concerts. She is clearly more concerned with making artistic statements than anything else. It makes enduring all of those MDNA ads worth it, since we know she used the profits to pay for videos like this.
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When I hear the spoken word part "sometimes I feel..." I get a Jennifer Coolidge vibe from her voice because they lowered the pitch.
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31 minutes ago, dcbyebyebaby said:
Madonna herself said in an interview that Batuka was filmed already. So odds are its for that.
Thank you! There are so many interviews to catch, I'm not sure I saw that one. Can you tell me which one it was?
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47 minutes ago, Crystal Coffin said:
Remember everyone:
Excellent! And for those iTunes/Apple music users out there, you can also set the track to just start at 0:14.85 in the properties and it will begin with Madonna's vocal every time you play it. Too bad we can't mask the other samples of her voice throughout the song.
I want to be sensitive for what she's gone through, but her reaction is frustrating as it's clear she didn't watch the entire video. She obviously watched only part of it and then decided to broadcast her knee-jerk reaction on social media. On top of that, her talk about Madonna making money from the video is weird. Madonna's contribution here is the immense attention she'll generate for the issue; I don't think she'll wind up making back her budget on this video, much less any profits. (She's already sold the bulk of tickets for her tour, she's already past the first week in album sales.) The value in this video is the activism it represents, not because it's going to make any more money for her.
As others have said, she is young but she if she's old enough to understand "how the government works," she's old enough to understand how to give reasonable criticism based on facts.
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Just watched the doc and it's very cool. Lots of great insights into many of the tracks on the album and I definitely learned a thing or two I didn't know before. I especially liked the extra footage of our favorite Madame X character in the short dark wig, fishnets and accordion. She is also clearly very comfortable with that saxophone.
This is clearly the end result of all the footage shot during the blood moon at the Panorâmico de Monsanto. The only mystery footage is the stuff shot at the beach, which we have been speculating is a video for Batuka but remains to be seen.
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I think she should re-invent the arrangement for American Life just like she does with the other songs from her back catalog...then it might have a sporting chance.
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I think the interviewer was cloying and creepy. I don't feel like she came off rude at all, she gamely answered his banal questions and when he went for the brass ring (the Eurovision question) he totally fumbled the ball and ended up looking like an amateur. This is just another in a long line of interviews where the music sadly wound up taking a backseat to a bunch of boring questions the likes of which People magazine would ask.
But she looked gorgeous!
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18 hours ago, Crystal Coffin said:
But babe, not Santiago, it's Kimi Djabatè
I think it's the perfect closer. Sorry "I Rise". This song is CELESTIAL
Wow! Someone needs to correct Genius.com, Last.fm and the dozen or so other sites that list Dino as the vocalist. Of course, YouTubing their solo tracks, it's clear that Dino and Kimi have different vocal styles but not having heard either artist before, I assumed the internets were correct.
Pope calls couples who choose pets over having children ‘selfish’
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WHAT. EVER.
Do they really think they can shame people into having more children with this nonsense? The church just wants more people that it can indoctrinate and get money from.