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LOVE
# 1 - Rebel Heart
# 2 - Unapologetic BitchLIKE
# 3 - Make The Devil Pray
# 4 - Illuminati
# 5 - Heartbreak City
# 6 - Messiah
# 7 - Addicted (The One That Got Away)
# 8 - Joan of Arc
# 9 - RevolutionOK
#10 - Borrowed Time
#11 - Wash All Over MeDON`T LIKE
#12 - Bitch I`m Madonna
#13 - Living For Love -
...and again she made the wrong choice with the lead single!
Living For Love is not single material! She is so bad in picking those...
Rebel Heart is so instant, classic, melodic, commercial, flowing, Madonna, perfect...
Unapologetic Bitch sounds fun also... Illuminati also...
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Just saying that some stars like Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver, etc look way more natural than Madonna sometimes does. It`s the curse of the cat face.... but... ok... after a while it always gets better with Madonna until she gets her next treatment (plumping up her cheeks). I just don`t want her to be virtually unrecognisable like so many other celebrities... and no... I do not like this latest picture of Madonna with all that white wrinkless skin... it looks somehow unnatural... doesn`t mean that in her next selfie she will look more beautiful than ever... that`s it.
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I`m 41 and so in love!
Just met this English dude, I just know this guy was meant for me and I was meant for him. He`s this hot new director. With his help I will finally get my Oscar nomination, cause I just signed to play a violin teacher in this super-prestigious big Hollywood production. I just know after all the awards I collected for my last album, I will finally get the artistic recognition as an actress as well. -
That`s clearly a recent picture of Madonna. You can tell by her cheeks. I really love Madonna, but the one thing I can`t stand about her is the obsession with staying young... these surgical procedures... it really mirrors our superficial culture...
But there are lots of stars in their 50s and 60s who are aging gracefully, without all the nips and tucks... Madonna should do the same... she is in such great form, physically fit, she should stay away from all that plastic surgery...
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It was an eight-year-peak... from 1984 to 1991... she was on top... at least musically and commercially... it all started to fall apart in 1992 with Erotica... after that she has never been that successful anymore... she was successful, but not that crazy level she had from 84 to 91... at least in the US... after 1992 she had peaks with Evita, ROL, Confessions...
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I'm Addicted - 32
Love Spent - 49 -
Gang Bang - 26
I'm Addicted - 30
Love Spent - 25 -
Typical stanbase vote... I can`t believe iconic albums like "True Blue" (Papa Don`t Preach, La Isla Bonita, Open Your Heart, Where`s The Party, True Blue, Live To Tell, etc...) and "Like A Virgin" (Into The Groove, Material Girl, Dress You Up, Over And Over, etc...) are below albums like "Hard Candy" or "Erotica"... those are the albums that connected with the Zeitgeist... they captured the people and had real cultural influence... and were way more relevant than those "fan-favourites"!
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... 1 - Everybody
...10 - Burning Up
... 9 - Borderline
... 7 - Lucky Star
... 6 - Like a Virgin
... 10 - Material Girl
... 6 - Crazy for You
... 3 - Into the Groove
... 5 - Gambler
... 10 - Dress you Up
... 8 - Live to Tell
... 10 - Papa Don't Preach
... 7 - True Blue
... 10 - Open Your Heart
... 9 - La Isla Bonita
... 7 - Who's That Girl?
... 7 - Like a Prayer
... 8 - Express Yourself
... 8 - Cherish
... 5 - Dear Jessie
... 8 - Oh Father
... 10 - Vogue
... 10 - Justify my Love
... 6 - This Used to be my Playground
... 6 - Erotica
... 4 - Deeper and Deeper
... 8 - Bad Girl
... 3 - Fever
... 8 - Rain
... 5 - I'll Remember
... 6 - Secret
... 9 - Take a Bow
... 5 - Bedtime Story
... 6 - Human Nature
... 7 - I Want You
... 8 - You'll See
... 3 - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
... 2 - You Must Love Me
... 2 - Don't Cry for me Argentina
... 7 - Frozen
... 7 - Ray of Light
... 7 - Drowned World/Substitute for Love
... 8 - The Power of Goodbye
... 6 - Nothing Really Matters
... 6 - Beautiful Stranger
... 8 - American Pie
... 4 - Music
... 9 - Don't Tell Me
... 6 - What it Feels Like for a Girl
... 10 - Die Another Day
... 9 - American Life
... 1 - Hollywood
... 2 - Me Against the Music
... 7 - Love Profusion
... 9 - Hung Up
... 5 - Sorry
... 1 - Get Together
... 1 - Jump
... 6 - 4 Minutes
... 5 - Give it 2 Me
... 3 - Miles Away
... 5 - Celebration
... 6 - Give me All Your Luvin'
... 6 - Girl Gone Wild
... 3 - Turn up the Radio
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Just send in my Top 40... including
5 Entries - True Blue
4 Entries - Confessions On A Dancefloor & Like A Virgin
3 Entries - Music, Madonna & Ray Of Light
2 Entries - Vision Quest Soundtrack, American Life, Bedtime Stories & Hard Candy
And the songs that slightly missed my Top 40 are: Hollywood (American Life), Dear Jessie (Like A Prayer), Supernatural (Like A Prayer Sessions), Let It Will Be (Confessions On A Dancefloor), Over And Over (Like A Virgin), Devil Wouldn`t Recognize You (Hard Candy), Like It Or Not (Confessions On A Dancefloor), Sky Fits Heaven (Ray Of Light), Across The Sky (Hard Candy Sessions) & Everybody (Madonna)
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Madonna - Holiday
Like A Virgin - Shoo-Bee-Doo
True Blue - Love Makes The World Go Round
Like A Prayer - Express Yourself
I'm Breathless - He`s A Man
Erotica - Bye Bye Baby
Bedtime Stories - Human Nature
Ray of Light - Shanti/Ashtangi
Music - Runaway Lover
American Life - American Life
Confession on a Dance Floor - Sorry
Hard Candy - Spanish Lessons
MDNA - Give Me All Your Luvin
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1 True Blue
2 Confessions On A Dancefloor
3 Like A Virgin
4 Madonna
5 Ray Of Light
6 Like A Prayer
7 Music
8 MDNA
9 American Life
10 Hard Candy
11 I`m Breathless
12 Bedtime Stories
13 Erotica
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Gambler
Who`s That Girl
True Blue
Justify My Love
Burning Up
Dress You Up
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What I find amazing is the reaction to the Daily Mail article... usually those reports don`t get a lot of responses... and if people react to it, especially in Madonna`s case, it is mostly negative stuff about her flappy bingo wings, her age or her puffy cheeks...
But this time the responses is almost overwhelming... lots and lots of people respond to the article... and 90% is pro Madonna! And it`s not the usual fan reaction... I get the impression that it`s common people, (mostly women in their 50s) defending Madonna...
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“Today is your new birthday, my darling daughter, as it is the day you came to me. It is a new beginning for us all. The world is ours to change together now. I promise I will love, protect and guide you with my every breath. I can’t wait to welcome you to your new home, my beautiful child. You are part of us now — of me, Lola, Rocco and David. You are so loved.”
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I really, really like what I hear so far... I loved Lollipop and I think that Die Happy sounds like a really promising track...
If it`s going to be released as a single it will surely be another Top 5 hit for Madonna... has a nice beat, happy feel to it and sounds very commercial... love it... thumbs up...
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I'm afraid he's right about that!
U2 Vertigo Tour
Berlin, Germany : July 7, 2005 : Olympiastadion : GROSS $4,725,530 : ATTENDANCE 70,443 : SHOWS 1 : SELLOUTS 1
Cardiff, Wales : June 29, 2005 : Millennium Stadium : GROSS $6,406,073 : ATTENDANCE 63,677 : SHOWS 1 : SELLOUTS 1
Yes... true... but she still got more money... at least in Berlin... and almost the same for Cardiff....
Olympic Stadium Berlin - 47,368 / 47,368 (100%) $6,048,086
Millennium Stadium Cardiff - 33,460 / 33,460 (100%) $5,279,107
And I believe touring the big European countries is still the most profitable, if you compare with the total gross from most American or Eastern European states...
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Madonna leaves Malawi after adoption bid refused
Madonna has left Malawi after being rebuffed in her attempt to adopt a second child from the African nation, according to air traffic officials.
Last Updated: 9:35AM BST 05 Apr 2009
Madonna has left Malawi after adoption decision Photo: AP
The officials say the singer left on her private Gulfstream jet headed for London. Police roadblocks prevented reporters from approaching the airport but one police officer also said Madonna carried David, her adopted Malawian son, up the steps to the plane.
The singer's lawyer has said that she will appeal against a court ruling that she is not eligible to adopt a 3-year-old orphan girl because she has not lived in Malawi.
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Madonna is a 'great mum' says Guy Ritchie after adoption bid failsPeter Baneti, the uncle of three-year-old Mercy James, said the child's Malawian relations were deeply unhappy that the orphan would now miss out on a life of luxury and privilege as part of the 50-year-old singer's extended family.
"We don't understand the judge's reasoning," Mr Baneti, 41, told The Sunday Telegraph in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.
"We as a family discussed this and agreed that it is in the best interests of Mercy to have her adopted, so why should the judge stop this if the family is OK with it?"
Mr Baneti said Judge Esmie Chombo, who threw out Madonna's adoption application on Friday, had denied his niece the chance of a new life away from the Kondanani orphanage where she is now living.
He was scathing about the judge, who had said she would not bend strict residency rules even for a wealthy foreign celebrity.
"Does she know what it means to be poor? Does she know life in an orphanage? How can she say Mercy is better off at Kondanani?" Mr Baneti said.
"We are very disappointed. We hope that the Supreme Court will overturn her ruling."
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Madonna adoption: Mercy's Malawian uncle condemns judge's decision
The judge who stopped Madonna from adopting an African girl has been condemned by the child's uncle.
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last Updated: 6:12PM BST 04 Apr 2009
Madonna visits Salaza village near Lilongwe, Malawi on Friday Photo: AP
Peter Baneti, the uncle of three-year-old Mercy James, said the child's Malawian relations were deeply unhappy that the orphan would now miss out on a life of luxury and privilege as part of the 50-year-old singer's extended family.
"We don't understand the judge's reasoning," Mr Baneti, 41, told The Sunday Telegraph in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.
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Mr Baneti said Judge Esmie Chombo, who threw out Madonna's adoption application on Friday, had denied his niece the chance of a new life away from the Kondanani orphanage where she is now living.
He was scathing about the judge, who had said she would not bend strict residency rules even for a wealthy foreign celebrity.
"Does she know what it means to be poor? Does she know life in an orphanage? How can she say Mercy is better off at Kondanani?" Mr Baneti said.
"We are very disappointed. We hope that the Supreme Court will overturn her ruling."
Madonna's lawyer Alan Chinula immediately lodged an appeal against Mrs Justice Chombo's decision, which is likely to be heard later this week.
On Saturday night the star was still staying at the luxury Kumbali Lodge outside Lilongwe with her two children, Lourdes, 12, and Rocco, eight, and David Banda, the three-year-old Malawian boy she adopted in 2006.
All 13 rooms at the hotel, including nine thatched chalets, had been booked for her 15-strong entourage of assistants, nannies – including one for Mercy – and even a child psychologist.
The singer reacted with astonishment when she was told of the decision by her lawyer and stormed out of the hotel room where her lawyer informed her. Mercy, whose Malawian name is Chifundo, had been staying with Madonna at the hotel for the last week and had already been introduced to her children while the judge considered her ruling.
Yesterday she was hosting a small party in the lodge's forested grounds. Government officials, staff from her Raising Malawi charity, and other visitors were seen arriving during the afternoon.
Malawians, who have followed the case intently, have been divided about the judge's decision. Human rights groups had argued that allowing Madonna to adopt the child would encourage trafficking and perhaps even attract Western paedophiles.
But messages on social networking sites in Malawi were overwhelmingly in favour of Madonna.
"We have had hundreds of calls about this, and most of our listeners seem to be supporting the adoption," said Mary Innocencia Segula, a chat show host on Lilongwe's Capital Radio.
"There is a feeling that Chifundo would have had a very comfortable life with Madonna, and why should she be denied that just because some children's activists want to raise their own profile and get money?"
Grace Kamoto, 29, who sells fruit from a wooden stall on the road close to Madonna's luxury lodge, said: "We know that she is already giving a lot of money to this country's orphans.
"This would not stop if she was allowed to take the little girl away with her. It does not make sense that she was allowed to have David Banda and now she cannot take Mercy.
"We have been talking about this a lot. We can only pray that Madonna does not now become angry with Malawi and stop the money coming to help all the orphans."
Malawi's laws state that adoptive parents must be living in the country for at least 18 months, so that government child welfare officers can monitor them to confirm that they are suitable to adopt. There was disapproval in the deeply-religious country a recent divorcee adopting a child. Some Christian Malawians had been upset to learn that until a few weeks ago the star had been dating a 22-year-old male model called Jesus.
But Madonna is widely liked in Malawi for funding several orphanages and plans to build a school for more of Malawi's one million orphans, many of whose parents have died rom Aids-related illnesses. She first travelled there to film a documentary and afterwards spoke movingly of being inspired by the human spirit she encountered despite grinding poverty.
"Madonna should see this decision in a positive manner, not a negative one" said Mavuto Bamisa, director of the Human Rights Consultative Committee, one of the rights groups which had opposed the adoption.
"She has been doing tremendous work in Malawi supporting many children here, and perhaps she should continue with that model instead of taking just one or two children away. Her work here will help many more children.
"The best interest of the child, in our opinion, does not come about by taking her away from her own cultural, ethnic and religious environment, unless it is the absolute last resort."
Mr Bamisa said that Madonna's earlier adoption of David may now be investigated because the judge who approved it had waived the stipulation that a parent must be resident in Malawi in order to qualify to adopt.
"There was a waiver made in the David Banda case where Malawian government officials travelled to London to monitor David during the course of the interim adoption," he said. "This was an impromptu arrangement which the judge in this case did not want to see happen. We will be looking again at the David Banda case."
Mr Chinula, Madonna's lawyer said: "This won't affect David. Judge Andrew Nyirenda okayed David's adoption and this judgement cannot stop it."
He added: "We are appealing to the Supreme Court because we think Judge Chombo erred in basing her judgment on archaic laws from over 50 years ago.
"Laws must be dynamic. In any case this is not Malawi's first inter-country adoption. There have been plenty of others."
But child psychiatrist Dr. Stewart Chipendo blamed those human rights campaigners who were against Madonna's adoption of being motivated by politics.
"They want to feel good about themselves by saying 'We have frustrated a big star; we have stopped a big star from adopting. This is selfish," he said.
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I read in the newspaper today that Madonna will first meet the two uncles of Mercy when she arrives in Malawi. They will discuss and work out a deal to get the child to Madonna. The grandmother of Mercy was only mentioned marginally. Overall Madonna is getting really bad press at the moment here in Germany.
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I would say by far the TRUE BLUE album cover...
And most memorable images from her videos of course... in particular Vogue, Material Girl, Express Yourself, Open Your Heart, Hung Up and Like A Prayer...
And this one:
...also Madonna photographed by Kees Tabak from early... and one poster from the early years where she wears a leather hat and a wool pullover... and the one picture pre Erotica where she is smoking naked in bed...
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What hasn't been mentioned is that Madonna has also had a hand in writing 13 UK number 1 singles,
Does that include the 1997 #1 single "Love Won`t Wait" from Gary Barlow? I believe this song was written by Madonna and Pettibone.
And I think in 1986 Madonna and Pat Leonard wrote "Each Time You Break My Heart" for Nick Kamen. But I believe that one only reached the top5, not the pole position.
Living For Love or Unapologetic Bitch: Which one for the lead single?
in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum
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Rebel Heart should be the obvious single choice, since it`s so very mainstream and connects even with non-Madonna fans.
But since LFL and UB are the two being considered, I voted for UB... it would make a decent lead single.
My favourites from the Demos:
# 1 - Rebel Heart
# 2 - The One That Got Away
# 3 - Unapologetic Bitch
# 4 - Illuminati
# 5 - Heartbreak City
# 6 - Bitch, I`m Madonna
# 7 - Messiah