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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 12, 2021 18:06:13 GMT -5
^ many physical copies of magazines are printed with a date of a week out. Some monthly magazines are dated 2 weeks out. Don’t quote me on that tho lol
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 9, 2021 17:31:46 GMT -5
She’s number one on the WW album charts. Was not expecting that.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 9, 2021 13:17:25 GMT -5
Another positive review 👍 NME Four stars Madame X’ review: Madonna concert movie proves the Queen of Pop is still in her prime Despite a debilitating knee injury, Madge continues to strive for perfection www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/madame-x-review-madonna-documentary-3066124Though Madame X is billed as a “documentary film” and a “concert documentary”, it’s really a concert film – albeit a highly stylised and beautifully executed one. If you’re expecting backstage footage of Madonna grappling with the knee injury that sometimes interrupted 2019-2020’s ‘Madame X’ tour, you’ll be disappointed. But if you want to see the pop queen reinvent her live show with an even more devil-may-care attitude, it definitely delivers. That knee injury had already forced Madonna to cancel several shows before Madame X was filmed in Lisbon in January 2020, but she doesn’t appear to be struggling here. Admittedly, it doesn’t feature as many high-octane dance routines as a typical Madonna gig, but this seems by design rather than necessity. The singer was so keen to make her latest theatre tour a more “intimate experience” than previous arena-filling juggernauts that she even banned audience members from using their phones. With 48 performers on the payroll, it’s hardly a stripped back affair, but Madonna is probably as accessible as she can be at this point in her career. During one interlude, she takes a polaroid selfie on stage, then sells it off to the highest bidder. We also see Madonna interacting with a famous friend who attended one of the Lisbon gigs: comedian Dave Chappelle. Sadly, it’s pretty jarring to watch this longtime LGBTQ ally enjoy a mutual love-in with someone who has just branded himself “team TERF” in a Netflix special. Still, it’s a brief blip in a film that captures the sensory thrills of the ‘Madame X’ tour, if not necessarily its intimacy. Because it keeps cutting between footage of Madonna on stage and the tour’s pre-recorded video segments, we can take in her artistic vision, but don’t see the singer herself as closely as we might. The film begins with a James Baldwin quote Madonna is fond of – “artists are here to disturb the peace” – then follows the singer’s eyepatch-wearing Madame X character as she barrels through her own vague but effective version of this. It’s a wilfully provocative mix of politics and pussy jokes as she underlines her feminist credentials by singing ‘Express Yourself’ a cappella and pledges her allegiance to numerous marginalised groups on ‘Killers Who Are Partying’, a clunky track from the ‘Madame X’ album. Fortunately, she also performs superior ‘Madame X’ songs like the stylish house bop ‘I Don’t Search I Find’ and a more generous smattering of classic hits than she is generally associated with. A heartfelt rendition of ‘Frozen’ accompanied by black-and-white footage of Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon is a strikingly poignant highlight. Though this film doesn’t acknowledge it, grinding through a lengthy tour with a painful injury must have been traumatic for a performer who’s famously a perfectionist. Madame X feels like an opportunity to end the experience on a positive and empowered note. Throughout Madame X, Madonna is in total command of the stage as she follows her own mantra: “Don’t go for second best, baby.”
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 8, 2021 12:48:07 GMT -5
Yep thanks Shooter. That was a lot of fun and now I fully appreciate how her debut album is legendary.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 8, 2021 10:25:56 GMT -5
Review: ‘Madame X’ concert film is a great way to get back into Madonna If you haven’t been paying attention to Madonna lately, “Madame X” — her concert film shot in early 2020, streaming on Paramount Plus starting Friday, Oct. 8 — is a great way to get reacquainted. It’s a good show, and one measure of it is that it makes you want to revisit previous Madonna shows afterward, either to re-experience them or to see what you’ve been missing. Madonna has been in public life for almost 40 years, and from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, she was arguably the biggest star in the world — bigger than movie stars, bigger than other musicians. She has a huge history, and based on that, she could choose to be nostalgic. Instead, she reimagines herself for each tour and keeps coming up with new ideas. You don’t have to be in love with every aspect of her “Madame X” show — you might prefer her to sing “Borderline” and “Into the Groove” and “Causing a Commotion.” You might prefer a show in which she plays all the hits from “Holiday” (1983) through “Hung Up” (2005). Even so, you have to appreciate a pop star in her 60s who refuses to rest on her laurels and who never stops challenging herself and her audience. Although she brought the show to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre in November 2019, the concert we see in “Madame X” took place in Lisbon in January 2020, where Madonna lived at the time. It’s heavy on songs from the album of the same name, the concept behind which is some vague portrait of a female spy, who is also a professor, a nun, a prostitute and several other things. Madame X wears an eye patch, apparently as a style accessory, though at first you might wonder whether Madonna is recovering from cataract surgery. (She was 61 at the time of filming, so that wouldn’t be unheard of.) The “Madame X” album is wonderfully loony, which benefits the show. The song “Dark Ballet,” for example, goes into a synthesized arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Reed-Flutes,” over which Madonna portentously intones about revolution, love and loneliness. Everything is almost tongue-in-cheek, but not quite. The tonal ambiguity seems intentional, and the spy angle allows for tableaux of forced interrogation and international intrigue, as well as for the occasional political comment. The audience banter is also a highlight. A feature of the “Madame X” tour is that Madonna at one point sits in the audience and talks to one of the fans. For this show, the fan happens to be comedian Dave Chappelle, who tells everyone about his friendship with the singer and about the Madonna poster he had in his room growing up. In a mix of the high-minded and low-minded that’s typical of Madonna, she takes a few Polaroids of herself on stage, in order to auction them for the poor in Malawi. She puts one of the Polaroids between her legs. “This is my pussy. Let’s see if it develops faster,” she says. After someone wins the auction, she tells the winning bidder, “Just empty your f—ing wallet.” A moment later, another one of her male fans offers to give an additional $5,000 if she’ll take a Polaroid with him. “You got some balls on you, baby,” she replies. Perhaps not everyone will find that banter charming, but I’m delighted to have this woman in my generation. As a singer, Madonna has never sounded better. Of the older material, she sings “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer,” two songs she seems to favor, because she does them often. Here she also does a beautiful rendition of “Frozen” from the 1998 “Ray of Light” album. Curiously, the old songs, sung from within the “Madame X” context and placed among Portuguese folk songs and whatever else Madonna currently fancies, don’t seem nostalgic but infused with extra meaning. They seem part of some larger emotional narrative. How does this compare with other Madonna shows? They’ll never again be anything like her 2006 “Confessions Tour,” but Madonna doesn’t need to compete with herself. In a sense, she’s competing across time with other people of the same stature at a similar stage. For example, what was Frank Sinatra doing in his early 60s? He was singing well, but it was the same songs and the same tuxedo until the end. By contrast, Madonna is walking a high wire without a net, each time risking making a fool of herself, each time risking falling on her face and not once doing either of those things. If you ever liked Madonna, this concert film will remind why you weren’t wrong. “Madame X” is somewhere between a success and a triumph. datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/review-madame-x-concert-film-is-a-great-way-to-get-back-into-madonna
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 8, 2021 9:45:21 GMT -5
iTunes Madame X Music From The Theater Xperience # 8 #1 Pop
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 7, 2021 9:36:37 GMT -5
MADAME X – TV PREMIERE SCHEDULE October 06, 2021 Madame X is… about to premiere on your TV screen! Starting October 8th, the concept film will be available for streaming on Paramount+ in various territories but will also be broadcasted on MTV where Paramount+ is not available. Below is a detailed schedule (all local times) to help you get ready for your own premiere! www.madonna.com/news/title/madame-x--tv-premiere-schedule
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 5, 2021 6:42:46 GMT -5
If she does perform, I imagine she will perform a song from the Madame X Tour.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 5, 2021 6:35:45 GMT -5
LFS #1 iTunes
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 5, 2021 6:33:53 GMT -5
Yep Borderline for the win. Holiday 2 place.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 3, 2021 19:25:50 GMT -5
No doubt whatsoever LFS will have longevity with sales. I predict this will sell fantastic leading up to the holidays and the Grammys.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 3, 2021 6:14:38 GMT -5
Shooter I’ve sent my rank down. 🎵
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