Pretender1978
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who cares about metacritic anyway in this day and age, it's the most lazy, inaccurate, biased thing, who cares, other than her fans no one cares lol
as for the pitchfork review, it's special, I hope the reviewer got a real kick out of writing it, then at least it served some kind of purpose, really, what an idiot, I feel sorry for him a little bit
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This is just gorgeous in every sense, I actually quite appreciate the simplicity of the lyrics (no not cringe, not white savior) it feels very unfair to criticise the words but leave out the pre-chorus, they are the punchline to the song! I can only imagine that people based their review on one listen during a listening party, and the song being in the middle, the islam and indian line stuck out? I don't know, I'm not gonna break my head over it anymore lol. But this is def one of the best tracks on MX
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1 minute ago, Ozze said:
Nope, Emmanuel Adjei is the director.
Even better! Did he also direct the batuka singers, or is that someone else?
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anyone else think she directed it herself and that is one of the reasons she's not the centre star? It could be my mind playing tricks on me but didn't mykki say during her speach at GLAAD "not everyone can say they were directed by Madonna"? must be my mind..
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I too have been living in this ESC bubble for the last couple of days, but here's the secret; move on! Everytime you hit that search button you will find crap about that performance, and as long as those posts get hits, likes or dislikes the conversation continues, the funny part is, it doesn't really. It just moves in a circle of people salaciously attacking her and then people who defend M, the rest of the world has moved on (to Game of Thrones, lol) Just don't engage anymore, I won't after this post, and concentrate on what else this truely great era has to offer, like the crave video dropping soon, or the reviews that are being written as we speak, or the supposedly even more controversial video still to come etc. Concentrate on what brings joy to your life, just you, if it isn't Madonna anymore because she didn't sing beautiful than that's fine, there is no need to try and convince people you're right. The same goes the other way around, people that hate her will hate her, people that love her but don't like her new direction don't need to be convinced of it's briliance.
After this weekend her comment in Vogue of not having a lynch mob mentality has such irony to it don't you think?
only love!
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I think it's safe to assume that the greater good for M in this performance was to solidify her role as a provocateur and pro peace ambassador, all leading up to even more political messages from Madame x to come. In that she surely succeeded and bravo to her for it. I'm also gonna take the liberty to assume she couldn't hear herself during LAP, she sang that song a zillion times and if you watch the Met rendition, it's flawless. Sure it's not a vocalist voice, so people would have hated that too but it's controled and in tune. So not even nerves would cause being that off when you're that familliar with the song, we'll probably never know because M will not address it, because why should she defend or explain herself.
The only unfortunate thing is that it was this huge televised event, but then again that served the message, and the message is always more important. For those who want to remind themselves what sets Madonna apart from the rest, watch her imprompto concert at place de la republique after the bataclan attack in Paris, that is why she is such a star!
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1 hour ago, john_andy said:
You might like the performance or not, which is okay, but if you pay attention to what's beneath the criticism, it's rather transparent that it has nothing to do with her singing abilities, but with the fact that some people just can't cope with her still being around. Madonna has not based her entire career on having amazing control over her voice: she's not what you can call a vocalist. She's much more than that. I could understand it if someone like, let's say, Celine Dion had a somewhat poor vocal performance, given that her great voice is basically what she has to offer (with all due respect to her amazing, amazing voice), I could understand the meltdown, the criticism, the fear. But we are talking about Madonna, who is a far superior performer and a totally different animal. Would anybody have said that Bob Dylan's career or David Bowie's career or John Lennon's career were over after a not-so-brilliant vocal delivery? Would anybody have limited their contributions to music to just a nice singing voice? That is blatantly trying to diminish her talents and downplay her impact on music and culture.
Social media is, in a way, a celebration of simplistic thinking and reductivism (look it up). Do you imagine what would have happened had social media existed at the times of Frida Khalo or Picasso? "Damm, man, that dude can't get a damn nose straight. He can't get no eyes in the right place. My 6 year-old-boy can do better than that". Or... "And she thinks she can paint, she can't even get proportions right, man, no doubt she can't even fix her own eyebrows". What would they have said about Egon Schiele or Man Ray or Oscar Wilde or Virginia Woolf? Guess what? They would have torn them to shreds because they wouldn't have been able to understand them. Nor do they understand Madonna, simple as that.
In the end, our generation is not ready for a woman like Madonna. Wait thirty or forty years and we'll see what happens then. They will celebrate her then. Meanwhile, they're too busy now complaining about the fact that —oh, surprise—, she's a human being and somehow imperfect. Her voice can fail, what a scandal!
I think that if a provocateur can get people so polarized and so galvanized just for not being perfect, he or she might be doing something right. I'm certain Madonna is.
I think I love you
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LOL, I love all those critics getting off from authorising the end of M's carreer, how many of those have we seen come and go during the last 30 years, bye Felicia!
As for the performance, LAP was def. one of her worst unfortunately, especially when you beautiful she sang it at the Met. But the interlude and Future, and mainly the message she decided to bring to the ESF was impressive. The performance and backdrop is full of powerful imagery which should be the focus (and to some extent it will be as reports are already focussing more on the uniting of the flags than M's pipes) I like the growing flowers in all the costumes, implying groth, fertility and hope for the future. Love the Targaryanlike deathbyfire of all the religious leaders, some powerful over the top imagery of a broken statue of Liberty, and I adore adore adore the call out to all the complacent snowflakes of the world "can't you hear from inside your supreme hoodie" Then of course the dancers with the flags, which proves once more Madonna is not there to sell concert tickets (that tour was already sold out when they conceived the idea of a theatre tour) but to continue to be the provocateur that she has always been
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This is rediculously gorgeous! both the images and the text
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damn!!!! I can't
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I tried to shazam the snippet from MTV post but it has no results...
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Both Netherlands and Belgium accounts too!
I hope the snippet is the new track cos those beats are lit!!!!
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I don't think this is a reason not to work with Mirwais again. I think it's safe to assume Mirwais wrote the track (English lyrics and all, Casey Spooner said himself they were clunky, so he "Americanized" them) asked Casey to record vocals for it and additional imput. After giving the demo to Madonna (among others) I think he probably believed it was his right to do so. Maybe it was, maybe not, we won't know until we hear the original Mirwais demo. Spooner himself expressed he "believes" that "some" of his "melodic work" and textual "editing" made the cut, but isn't sure, which implies the demo he posted isn't his sole creation, otherwise there would be no doubt about it's use.
It's yet another of these things where people love to jump on the bandwagon and display their inabillity to inform themselves (FOX anyone?)
anyway, wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup...repeat and fade