material_boy
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If it isn't changing the world then maybe it's because there are too many people with an attitude like yours.
Yes, of course. Because having spent my entire career working in charities and politics to promote social justice and stop right-wing zealots from destroying the social safety net -- Yes, I'm the sort of person who is stopping the world from being changed.
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He does have sexy eyes... But other than that, I have to agree with those above who said he looks like a douche.
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Some people are so fucked with their priorities.
'Please don't try to make a positive change in this world Madonna! I'm a spoiled little brat! Give me a new single now!'
Oh please. Madonna has done great charitable work in the past -- but that does not include #vanityprojectrevolution.
If she was spending her time at the Ray of Light Foundation, traveling to Malawi to break ground on a new school, or starting a new project to help rebuild Detroit, then she'd have my blessing. But let's not pretend that having pop stars post art to Flipboard is doing a damn thing to change the world.
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it wasn't me.... but...
preach!
Agreed! Enough with this #secretprojectrevolution bullshit. (I actually forget she was still doing this f-ing thing.)
Back to the music, M. I want a single by summer.
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Ugh. "GMAYL."
There is waaay too much going on here -- the godawful cheerleader chant, two raps, a dubstep -- and the poor song just ends up an over-produced mess. The Queen ends up sounding like a featured artist on her own song.
It's a shame, too. All that extra crap buries what sounds like a fun kinda-60s throwback. (Fast forward 1:22 and listen through 2:15. If the whole song had sounded like this -- all Madonna, no cheerleaders -- and they'd cut momentum-killing dubstop and MIA's lazy ass rap, then I'd probably love the song.)
She does look spectacular in the video, though.
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"Bedtime Stories" -- She was in such a unique place in her career at this point. She was still a megastar able to move huge numbers of albums, but she was despised by the general public. I'd love to see how she worked at the absolute low point of her career, how those external pressures inspired / motivated her and how they depressed / stressed her.
Also, I'd love to see how she managed to put together an album with four different producers that spans R&B, pop, electronica, and hip hop while still managing to make it sound cohesive.
Also also, I'd love to be a fly on the wall for those very early "Bedtime Stories" recording sessions -- back when Shep was still involved with the project. I'd love to see "Secret" go from the rumored 70s throwback disco / dance song to the slow-burning R&B track we got.
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I think it's safe to say that the discussion of who should produce the next record is officially dead. This is how I feel reading this thread now:
And it died before anyone else said whether they wanted Nile to make a comeback. I guess I'm alone on that one.
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My sister is quite a bit older than I, and she was a big fan in the 80s -- so I was kind of born into it. (I remember hearing "Live to Tell" after becoming a fan myself and being surprised that I already knew all the words.)
My own fandom started in 1994. That's when I first started recognizing her on the radio, enjoying her music on my own, and singing along when I could. ("I'll Remember," "Secret," and "Take a Bow" was the 1-2-3 punch that did me in. I remember putting the "Don't Cry for me Argentina" single on my Christmas list two years later.)
I went from casual fan to complete fanboy in 1998 -- first time I heard "Frozen" was life-changing. Those strings, that haunting production, that voice...
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Incredible
"I'm Going Bananas."
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I don't really mind who the producer is. I tend to like all of her albums in different ways. I just want good material
been listening to bedtime stories a lot recently, so I wouldn't mind more of an RnB feel to be honest, but that's just me in the winter"Bedtime Stories" is one of the all-time best. Her voice is probably at its all-time sexiest.
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This is how I feel about TheUnseenHand-neutrocks feud:
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So this performance is also the finale of her heydays in the US
Pretty much, yeah. I'll say again that "4 Minutes" was gigantic -- all over radio and sold more copies than "Vogue" -- but that's it: one mega-hit in the past decade. (Did "Hung Up" even go top 40 on radio play? I think it peaked top 10 on the Hot 100 due to sales alone.)
Where are you from, CC? Obviously not the States ;-)
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Hm, this is tricky. We don't know much about the aborted 1995 tour, other than that she was considering it up until the last minute. Without much else to go by, I think we'd need to consider where she was at this point in her carer to try to create a setlist for the tour.
Looking at the evolution of her tours up to 1995, I imagine that a tour would be set up similarly to the Girlie Show -- 16 to 18 songs broken into three to four distinct sets that are held together by a broad theme.
The Girlie Show was a logical extension of "Erotica." It was a sex circus, with separate sets showcasing the dominatrix, the Studio 54 excesses and orgy (with a safe sex epilogue), and a cabaret show. The encores for the show existed as separate entities, with "Everybody" seemingly unrelated to the show's sex circus theme.
Let's assume then that a 1995 tour would be a similar extension of "Bedtime Stories." Considering the album title, the "pajama party" album launch, the title track's video, and the Brit Awards performance, we can guess with some confidence that the show's theme would be a dreamscape. Since "Bedtime Stories" is Madonna's "lonely at the top" album, we could also guess that the show would prominently feature some juxtaposition of her dream / vision of fame vs. the reality she encountered as the most famous woman in the world, particularly in the wake of the "Sex" backlash.
GS was also the first tour to prioritize new album tracks over mega-hit singles -- with seven "Erotica" tracks making up nearly half the setlist, it was the first time that she didn't perform "Material Girl" or "Into the Groove" on tour. With that in mind, we can also guess with some confidence that the 1995 would feature a large number of "Bedtime Stories" and other early- to mid-90s tracks with few early- to mid-80s tracks represented.
Using this as my guide, here's my stab a 1995 tour setlist:Part 1: The Surreal
A mind-fuck opening set -- We're in a dream with big sets, elaborate costumes, heavy lighting, flying dancers, etc.
- Sanctuary
- Bedtime Story
- Like a Prayer (dance remix)
- Inside of Me
Part 2: The Big City
A funky, easy-going set. We're still dreaming, but dreaming of becoming a star. Imagine the "Secret" video come to life.
- Lucky Star
- Don't Stop
- Secret
- Forbidden Love (with "Bad Girl" interlude)
Part 3: Nightmare
A lush sex dream set that turns into a violent horror show -- a symbol of of the "Sex" backlash. It ends with a tightly choreographed "Express Yourself" as a nod to having survived the backlash and having come out stronger.
- Justify my Love
- Vogue
- Where Life Begins / Erotica (mash-up)
- Human Nature
- Like a Virgin
- Survival
- Express Yourself
Encore
- Take a Bow
Second encore
- Holiday
- Into the Groove
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am I wrong or the second part of the song has bits of Music sounds better with you?!!!!!
Right after the...When I say pimp, you say ho.
"Music Sounds Better With You" was sampled for "Holiday."
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EVERYONE had a cowboy hat in 2000 & 2001.
Truth.
It's been 13 - 14 years. Almost time for them to make a comeback.
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Where do you live? Alabama?
Anecdotally, I'm with Kurt on this one. I lived in Vermont at this time and I'm not sure I ever heard "Hung Up" on any of the American pop stations. I do recall hearing it -- and all the other "Confessions" era singles -- on Canadian stations that I could pick up from Montreal.
"Confessions" was big with my gay male and 20-something girl friends at the time, but I don't know anyone outside those circles of friends who are aware of Madonna releases after the "Music" era, with the sole exception of "4 Minutes."
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I just turned 17
Oh Lord. We have some young ones on here...
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Probably in the minority here but I'd like her to explore the folk sound more, teaming up with a band like Fleet Foxes, or Mumford and Sons. Even if she just uses more hints of it combined with dance, like she did on Love Spent.
Holy hannah. This is a GREAT idea.
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Favourite Madonna tour of all time: Drowned World
Least Favourite Madonna tour: Virgin
Best tour DVD/Blu-Ray: Sticky and Sweet
Worst tour DVD/Blu-Ray: Confessions *
I've awarded this to Confessions for its outrageous editing and special effects, which made the show look more like a music video than a live recording. But I'd like to take this moment to offer Dishonorable Mentions to Blond Ambition and Reinvention for not even being released.
Best tour live vocals: Girlie Show
Worst tour live vocals: Sticky and Sweet
Best costumes: Blond Ambition
Worst costumes: Reinvention
Best choreography: Blond Ambition
Worst choreography: Virgin
Best live band: Girlie Show
Worst live band: Confessions
Best setlist: Drowned World Tour
Worst setlist: MDNA
Best stage design & art direction: MDNA
Worst stage design & art direction: Reinvention
Best dancers: Girlie Show
Worst dancers: Who's that Girl
Best hair & make-up: Blond Ambition
Worst hair & make-up: MDNA
Your overall favourite segment within all of her tours: Blond Ambition church segment (including "Like a Virgin" intro)
Your overall least favourite segment within all of her tours: MDNA opening segment *
I understand this will be an unpopular opinion here. I'm sorry to all those who disagree.
Which tour do you wish you had been to see live (if you haven't been to all of them)? Girlie Show
If you could change one thing about the way Madonna puts on a live show, what would that be? The band. Her bands have become so disconnected from the show that they're feeling a bit mechanical. I'd love to see her disengage from the high tech and highly-choreographed spectacles she's done with Sticky and MDNA and do something more funky and organic. I'm not sure the music she's made in the past 15 years would allow her to go full-on funk the way she did in the Girlie Show, but I think she strike a balance between a tightly-choreographed spectacle and an organic give-and-take with the band.
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Worst ever. Is that a wedding band?!
RIT band was complete shit. But still somehow better than Confessions's band. Were they were playing instruments or just swaying back and forth in 2006?
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Nile Rodgers.
Let's look at the evidence:
- Madonna and Rodgers teamed up in 1984 to create "Like a Virgin." And all was right in the world.
- Rodgers followed up "Like a Virgin" with a string of hits unmatched by virtually any other 80s music producer. (Including two of my all-time favorite 80s hits: "Love Shack" and "Roam" from the B-52s.)
- Rodgers is still producing brilliant dance music, as seen on Daft Punk's latest album, where the Rodgers-produced "Give Life Back to the Music" and "Lose Yourself to Dance" are arguably the two strongest tracks on a critically-lauded album.
- Next year is the 30th anniversary of "Like a Virgin." A Madonna - Nile Rodgers reunion around the anniversary of that release would be cause the music industry and celebrity media outlets to cum all over themselves.
Bring back Nile Rodgers. #madonnanilerodgers2014
- Madonna and Rodgers teamed up in 1984 to create "Like a Virgin." And all was right in the world.
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Definitely one of her best tour finales.
Might just be the best tour finale in my book.
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This is worst idea I've ever heard.
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Yes. Yes. YES.
The long intro from after "Holiday" fades to black.
The dancers writhing on stage in their big headphones before the bassline comes in.
The slow ascent from below the stage.
The "mother f-cker" tank top.
Spinning around on the record as she sings "musiiiic" for the first time.
Fucking hell. Iconic from beginning to end.
I need to go watch this right now.
GMAYL
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I've never understood this moment -- It looks LMFAO is doing it intentionally and Madge looks momentarily panicked. Was LMFAO trying to sabotage the show or was something supposed else supposed to happen when they grabbed her belt?