Madonna : ‘Rebel Heart/MDNA SKIN’ Era

[SPRΞΞ]

Her debut album is actually my 2nd favorite album of hers. It doesn't get enough love, imo.

Confessions will always be my favorite tho. It was a life-changing moment for me. Imagine being 27 when the album came out. She literally owned the gay scene on a worldwide scale during that album, and she was 47! It's so crazy looking back.

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^ I hear what you are saying. I was addicted to COADF, I couldn't get enough of its energy and how alive it made me feel. When it was released during the holidays, I had my headphones 🎧 on constantly listening to it. I bopped and banged in the morning while wakening , in lines, doing chores, walking, I lived for it until I realized I was going a bit overboard with enthusiasm with that era. Those were innocent times for me.

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I was 30 when CODF was released. I see what you guys are saying but out of all her albums it's probably LAV that I feel the strongest personal connection to. I guess my own self-image is similar to how I perceived the M of that era. On the other hand, I simply can't relate to posh English country life, leotards, Farrah Fawcett hair or disco balls haha. (Amazing how much of the image gets imbued into the experience of the music.) But in the end, from a strictly musical perspective, my ultimate favorite M album is True Blue. Top-notch quality right there.

[bat1990]

I love all of M's albums equally except MDNA.

The highs of MDNA are exquisite, but the lows are nigh unforgivable.

[So Pure]

^^^
I blame that on the fact that she really "curated" that album. She was way to busy working on W.E. but she had contractual obligations for the Super Bowl, tour etc. An album was expected. She just wasn't as involved as the other records. But still, we got "Masterpiece" and "Falling Free" so I can't be mad.

[HolidayGuy]

TIC sold a little under 1,400 units last week, with more than half of its units at independent outlets.

There are two catalog charts now- the sales one and a multi-metric- looks like there are too many catalog titles ahead of it for it to rank in the sales top 50.

[areyoureadytojump]

2/11/17 Billboard's Top Album Sales

188. MADONNA|IMMACULATE COLLECTION 1,367

New Vinyl release

[HolidayGuy]

TIC debuts at No. 9 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

The album has been selling ~500/week on average, so it's probably close to passing 6 million scanned in the Nielsen era, if it hasn't already (5.992m was reported in early December).

[SPRΞΞ]

i don't care if MDNA was "phoned in" or not, there are still some incredible highs:

Girl Gone Wild (generic, but super catchy and a truly amazing, underrated video)
Gang Bang
Love Spent
Masterpiece
Falling Free
Beautiful Killer
and yes...
I Fucked Up

The duds are clearly Turn Up the Radio (why that was a single I'll never know), Some Girls, Superstar, Best Friend.

[Ivy Leegue™]

MDMA is two things, first and foremost: 1) a FUN album and 2) a headphones/producer's album. Granted, some of it may be faceless and anonymous but it actually SOUNDS fantastic. Here for pretty much all of it. Not a big Some Girls fan but I even like Superstar, Birthday Song, I Fucked Up, etc.

[SPRΞΞ]

Some Girls is one of those faceless, anonymous songs that sounds fantastic at the gym on a good pair of headphones. I'll give it that for sure. I had forgotten about Birthday Song. Yea, that one sucks too, but the Love Spent acoustic at the end makes up for it.

Madonna should finally make a video for Gang Bang, and use Trump as her victim. It would be amazing!

[SHOOTER]

Gang Bang >>>>>

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Jan 29, 2017 20:18:32 GMT -5 @cosmiccandy said:

I was 30 when CODF was released. I see what you guys are saying but out of all her albums it's probably LAV that I feel the strongest personal connection to. I guess my own self-image is similar to how I perceived the M of that era. On the other hand, I simply can't relate to posh English country life, leotards, Farrah Fawcett hair or disco balls haha. (Amazing how much of the image gets imbued into the experience of the music.) But in the end, from a strictly musical perspective, my ultimate favorite M album is True Blue. Top-notch quality right there.

true blue has took over and has become my favorite. It is such an iconic album and cover, classic M

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^ I wish it were longer!

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^I know...like if it had Each Time U Break My ♡ & Spotlight (and possibly Baby Love by Regina) on the tracklist too

[August]

Hearing folks talk about their favorite M album. There is something to love about each album, I think. We went through which songs we always skip on each album, but what about naming one single favorite track on each album? Here is my list...some of my favorites were not necessarily the biggest hit.

First album: Physical Attraction
Like a Virgin: Angel
True Blue: Open Your Heart
Who's That Girl OST: Who's That Girl
Like a Prayer: Express Yourself or Oh Father (sorry, hard to narrow down between these two)
I'm Breathless: Vogue
TIC: Justify My Love (only because I wanted to call out one of my favorite songs overall)
Erotica: Erotica
Bedtime Stories: Bedtime Story
Ray of Light: Drowned World / Substitute for Love
Music: Music
American Life: Nobody Knows Me (don't read too much into this one. I don't like this album all too much, but to me it's the best of a boring album)
COADF: Future Lovers
Hard Candy: Give it 2 Me
MDNA: Girl Gone Wild
Rebel Heart: Ghosttown

[bat1990]

^OMG!!!!! I'm so glad you love "Angel" too!!! I remember when I first discovered that song and was so happy it had been a single, if overlooked by posterity

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First album: Physical Attraction
Like a Virgin: Stay
True Blue: White Heat
Who's That Girl OST: Causing a Commotion
Like a Prayer: Till Death Do Us Part
I'm Breathless: He's a Man
TIC: Lucky Star (great remastering)
Erotica: Deeper and Deeper
Bedtime Stories: Survival
Ray of Light: Sky Fits Heaven
Music: Runaway Lover
American Life: Love Profusion
COADF: Push
Hard Candy: Heartbeat
MDNA: Beautiful Killer
Rebel Heart: Joan of Arc

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First album: Burning Up
Like a Virgin: Angel
True Blue: Live to Tell
Who's That Girl OST: Who's That Girl
Like a Prayer: Oh Father
I'm Breathless: Vogue
TIC: Justify My Love
Erotica: Erotica
Bedtime Stories: Bedtime Story
Ray of Light: Skin
Music: Paradise (not for me)
American Life: Die Another Day
COADF: Hung Up
Hard Candy: Give It 2 Me
MDNA: Gang Bang
Rebel Heart: Joan of Arc

Soundtrack: Beautiful Stranger

[Anticonformity]

Music: Music (non single : Impressive Instant)
American Life: American Life (Non single: Nobody Knows Me)
COADF: Sorry ( Non single: I Love New York)
Rebel Heart: Rebel Heart (Illuminati, Borrowed Time, Devil pray, Bitch I'm Madonna, Unapologetic Bitch)

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nymag.com/thecut/2017/02/madonna-aging-sexism.html
WRINKLES IN TIME
February 2, 2017
12:26 p.m.
Why Won’t We Let Madonna Age the Way She Wants To?
By Véronique Hyland

Helen Mirren’s snowy crop. Patti Smith’s silver locks and crinkly eyes. Charlotte Rampling’s chiseled laugh lines and Diane Keaton’s covered-up chic. These are some of the things people will reliably cite when they talk about “aging gracefully.” Of course, we all know that there’s a very specific social prescription for how to do so, and it usually involves a) embracing your natural hair color, b) an absence of visible “work”, and/or c) being French.

One person who consistently falls on the other end of the age conversation? Madonna. When she strutted into the Alexander Wang show in September with her college-age daughter, Lourdes, in tow, they almost looked like classmates, not mother and daughter. Madonna was flaunting a lace corset and track pants, while her daughter wore a turtleneck. At the after-party, she was having more fun than anyone, even donning a branded beer helmet. But everything about Madonna — the red-carpet flashing, the “new new face,” the string of younger boyfriends — seems to bring out criticism that she’s not aging in the “right” way, which seems to mean that she’s just refusing to settle into a role as a grande dame. Her every move is the stuff Daily Mail caption writers’ dreams are made of, whether she’s “worse for wear” or “attempting to outdo Ariana Grande despite 35-year age gap” or skiing with a “toyboy.” (Have these people not seen that iconic belt?) Then there’s the way she folded an Illuminati-chapter-meeting’s worth of celebrities into her “Bitch I’m Madonna” video, earning cries that she was out of touch, even vampirically siphoning off the talents of younger stars.

Sure, every pop star has his or her legion of haters, but Madonna’s actions sometimes even make her critics literally ill. “You can’t be 58 and dancing around like that,” said Piers Morgan, immediately before stage-vomiting into a bucket on British TV. (The inciting incident: She had the audacity to twerk during her “Carpool Karaoke” segment.) Recently, she’s been on the receiving end of slings and arrows from Camille Paglia, who wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter called “How to Age Disgracefully.” She called out Madonna’s “pointless provocations” and “trashy outfits,” while suggesting she be more like Marlene Dietrich.


Three years ago, Out.com columnist Michael Musto wrote an essay for Scene in which he, too, was critical of Madonna’s clinging to youth. He called her Grammys outfit that year “latter-day Mae West impersonating Colonel Sanders,” and he was no fan of her penchant for grillz. Since then, Musto says he has “done a complete flip-flop” on Madge. For a long time, he hoped she’d “do a Peggy Lee tribute album and dress in a sultry, age-appropriate gown,” he admits. But her recent speech at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, where she confronted the misogyny she’s faced throughout her career, changed his mind. Madonna is stuck between a rock and a hard place with her refusal to go gently into that good night, to the tune of “Is That All There Is?”

“We’re all for aging,” points out Musto, “but God forbid someone have a natural wrinkle and God forbid someone Botox their wrinkles … you can’t win.” Unspoken in our paeans to the beauty of aging is the fact that it has to look effortless. Madonna’s “work,” her Botox, and her gym-hardened body, are too visible. We want our pop stars to be forever young, but are uncomfortable reckoning with the kind of labor that requires.

Meanwhile, Musto points out, Mick Jagger — who is 73 to Madonna’s 58 — can dress, dance, date, and reproduce without much outcry. I’d add that he’s hardly under the pressure to reinvent himself that Madonna is. No one seems to complain that he hasn’t explored the world of EDM or brought in some younger, hotter artist for a feature on a “Wild Horses” remix. In Madonna’s Billboard speech, she paid tribute to fellow shape-shifter David Bowie, but also noted that he was far less subject to critique than she was. “He made me think there were no rules,” she said ruefully. “I was wrong. There are no rules if you’re a boy.” She ended by advising her fellow women in pop: “And finally, do not age, because to age is a sin. You will be criticized, you will be vilified, and you will definitely not be played on the radio.” Her morally loaded language is no accident — to be female and age unapologetically is still a venal sin in some quarters.

Still, we can hope that maybe Madonna is creating a new playbook for how to age, a freer one that those a generation younger than she — like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga — are already starting to follow. Think of her as the rocky test case for this new approach. Musto predicts that soon, “it’s going to be ingrained in our society that a woman can be sexy in her 50s, 60s, and so on. And Madonna can be thanked for having paved the way for that.”

Drew Elliott, Paper’s creative director and a judge on America’s Next Top Model, goes so far as to call Madge’s youthful ways kind of punk. “She behaves like a young person in that she’s radical still,” he says, “which I think is fabulous and usually associated with youth.” He cites her in-on-the-joke performance as a clown at Art Basel as a recent example. While many of her contemporaries have settled into placid diva-dom, she refuses to play it safe, and Elliott hopes it stays that way: “The last thing I want to see is Madonna in a muumuu.”

[@DjKingBee]

Madonna: Borderline/Physical Attraction (TiE)
Like a Virgin: LIKE A VIRGIN I mean cmon!
True Blue: True Blue
Who's That Girl OST: Whos That Girl
Like a Prayer: Love SONG
I'm Breathless: Sooner Or Later
TIC: Justify My Love
Erotica: Waiting
Bedtime Stories: Survival/Love Tried to Welcome Me (Tie)
Something to remember- Ill remember / This used to be my playground (tie)
Ray of Light: Ray Of Light
Music: Music
American Life: American Life - Grew on me these last few months!
COADF: Get Together
Hard Candy: Heartbeat
MDNA: Love Spent/Masterpiece (tie)
Rebel Heart: Holy Water

[August]

A revisit to this video in today's political climate seems appropriate.

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Feb 3, 2017 15:26:46 GMT -5 @DjKingBee said:

Madonna: Borderline/Physical Attraction (TiE)
Like a Virgin: LIKE A VIRGIN I mean cmon!
True Blue: True Blue
Who's That Girl OST: Whos That Girl
Like a Prayer: Love SONG
I'm Breathless: Sooner Or Later
TIC: Justify My Love
Erotica: Waiting
Bedtime Stories: Survival/Love Tried to Welcome Me (Tie)
Something to remember- Ill remember / This used to be my playground (tie)
Ray of Light: Ray Of Light
Music: Music
American Life: American Life - Grew on me these last few months!
COADF: Get Together
Hard Candy: Heartbeat
MDNA: Love Spent/Masterpiece (tie)
Rebel Heart: Holy Water

Most of your picks were in my runner up spots...cool

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Feb 3, 2017 18:26:45 GMT -5 August said:

A revisit to this video in today's political climate seems appropriate.

I'd forgotten how powerful that vid is.

[HolidayGuy]

^That director's cut is rough (in a powerful way).

There's also the version that ends with her tossing the grenade to "George Bush" (the version she pulled). Good stuff.

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THE LAST 17 SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOWS, RANKED

4 Madonna 2012

Just like Madonna’s career, the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show had a little bit of everything: controversy (cheers, M.I.A.!), elaborate stage setups (why don’t more halftime shows call on Cirque du Soleil?), guest stars (Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj), guest stars that definitely belong to early 2012 (LMFAO), and a ton of hit singles. When you open with “Vogue” and you close with “Like a Prayer,” you make the Top 5 of this list.

www.fuse.tv/2016/02/super-bowl-halftime-shows-ranked?utm_campaign=fuse&utm_source=facebook&campaign=scl%7Cfbk%7Cfsc&utm_medium=social#1

[August]

This mashup, done by Wax Audio, marries Justify My Love with Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." It got a lot of press attention last year when it was put out. I have always loved it. Thought I would share for those who have never heard it. It is pretty fabulous.

[SHOOTER]

It's being reported that she's adopted two more Malawian children; 4 year old twins named Esther and Stella.

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Feb 7, 2017 11:34:27 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

It's being reported that she's adopted two more Malawian children; 4 year old twins named Esther and Stella.

I'm so happy for her, for the twins, and for Malawi.