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Post by SPRΞΞ on Sept 23, 2014 18:42:58 GMT -5
or she's following me
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 23, 2014 18:58:03 GMT -5
"Just sayin.................#bitchimmadonna " -Madonna "2 sides 2 every story! #tsorrynotsorry #imdone #iconic" -Madonna
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Sept 23, 2014 19:02:54 GMT -5
"Just sayin.................#bitchimmadonna " -Madonna "2 sides 2 every story! #tsorrynotsorry #imdone #iconic" -Madonna Maybe it is going to be a double album with a different concept for each disc.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Sept 23, 2014 19:44:54 GMT -5
^ I was thinking the same thing. "2 sides 2 every story! Rebel - the fun fierce Heart - the deep introspective
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Sept 23, 2014 22:31:56 GMT -5
Maybe it's gonna fulfill her contract and she won't have to do another studio album after this.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Sept 24, 2014 0:09:21 GMT -5
Maybe it's gonna fulfill her contract and she won't have to do another studio album after this. Maybe. But she could always create her own label and do things on her own terms and then tour whenever she wants to.
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Post by grandelf on Sept 24, 2014 1:50:25 GMT -5
Maybe it's gonna fulfill her contract and she won't have to do another studio album after this. It does seem that way. I was always surprised that she signed a simple 3-album deal with Interscope, after she had been talking about having to reinvent the wheel regarding music distribution circa 2010. Maybe she realized it was not a bright idea with album sales collapsing and an album released 2-3 years later from now would do peanuts. It doesn't mean she won't record an "album" after this, or she will be like Prince, trying to make deals for every release and stuff, or just do digital EPs, whatever, many possibilities. But at the very least, she probably won't be in the studio for a longer period of time, she wanted to dedicate 2014 to this and do other stuff in the future. I don't see her wasting at least an album worth of material, we already have more than 20 rumored songtitles and she's still in the studio! I can see her touring in the second half of 2015 and taking a break towards the end of the year and then do another leg in the first half of 2016 (South America + Australasia). Not sure if the tour legs would be separated as two different tours, although due to her LN contract she has to do another tour till 2017, but of course that deal can always be altered and extended. Most likely she will do another movie project after the tour ends. The only downside to all this is that if she has about 30 songs on her double album, she can't even sing half of them on tour as she always does an average 19 songs live and she can no longer pull off a Drowned World Tour setlist. Maybe the second leg could have a completely different setlist? That would be disappointing because not many could attend both and it's doubtful both would be recorded for a DVD release...
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 24, 2014 5:46:18 GMT -5
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Sept 24, 2014 7:36:59 GMT -5
I love the way she pushes others who work with her to be more creative.
Thanks to UKMIX Guy Sigsworth: Madonna pushed us to be more creative! September 24, 2014 Interviews, News
He has been producing music for over 20 years. He’s worked with everyone from Madonna (on the song “What it Feels like for a girl”), Björk, Britney Spears, to Alanis Morissette, to name a few. Without a doubt, UK songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Guy Sigsworth is one of the most accomplished and well-respected people working in the music industry today.
When asked by website Radar Online what it feels like to collaborate with Madonna, here’s what he’s got to say…
Radar Online: How did you approach working with someone the stature of Madonna when you collaborated on What It Feels Like for a Girl?
Guy Sigsworth: That song was quite an unusual situation. I sent Madonna a backing track, which already had the spoken word bit in and then she wrote a vocal to it. At the start of our meeting together she sang me her guide vocal, which I thought was great. There was just one thing, in that it worked perfectly against the chorus but it was a little odd against the verse. Madonna said she wanted the music adjusted to better fit her melody so I moved a bar to bring it in line with the verse and she said she thought was too simple. She wanted to use the sounds that were already there so there was no question of overdubbing things so what I did was to create the arrangement by basically just chopping up and re-positioning sounds that were already in the mix in different positions around her vocal to create the verse. That was a wonderful challenge because I stuck with what I’d brought on the demo, obviously Spike (*co-producer Mark ‘Spike’ Stent) made sure it sounded even better but we never went into opening up a load of new synths or samplers to find new sounds. It was just ‘where do we place the sounds we have to make the verse work?’ It was a problem but in a way it was brilliant in the way she imposed a restriction on it that made us be more creative.
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Post by josh on Sept 24, 2014 7:39:32 GMT -5
grandelf, what do you mean by "she can no longer pull off a DWT set list"?
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Post by HolidayGuy on Sept 24, 2014 8:48:13 GMT -5
^I believe, a setlist focusing mostly on newer material, and having just a couple of classic-era material. She did a lot of MDNA tracks on the last tour, but that tour did have more Immaculate-era classics than Drowned World Tour (which only had "Holiday" and "La Isla Bonita."
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 9:33:33 GMT -5
I agree with Holidayguy. At that point in her career, she could have done a tour reciting Beowulf and everyone would have lapped it up. She had not toured in over 8 years, so the anticipation for a Madonna tour was HUGE, plus she had music from Bedtime Stories, Ray of Light, Music, and Evita that she had never performed before. I wish she would have done some more of the singles from those albums, but overall I was very pleased. I remember how impossible the tickets were to get, but I was able to nab one through work. Now, though a tour by Madonna always sells out, the hunger for her classic stuff is probably higher sine she has toured so much since 2000.
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Post by grandelf on Sept 24, 2014 9:42:08 GMT -5
Yes I meant that, half of her setlists now consist of tracks that appear on her greatest hits collections, I don't think Live Nation would allow her to do less than that, the negative word of mouth would hurt her and even when she does 8-9 tracks fom her current album, it's already "too much" for the casual fans. MDNA Tour initially had only 8 tracks from the album not counting the Best Friend interlude so she ignored almost half of the deluxe edition (but this can slightly be attributed to her performing both Celebration and Revolver), this is why I think releasing 20-30 tracks at the same time on a double album would feel like a "waste".
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Post by kmbgs on Sept 24, 2014 11:17:47 GMT -5
When I finally go see Madonna on tour this next tour, I need to be honest and say that if the show isn't AT LEAST 50% of her classic hits, it would be a complete disappointment.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Sept 24, 2014 11:50:07 GMT -5
When I finally go see Madonna on tour this next tour, I need to be honest and say that if the show isn't AT LEAST 50% of her classic hits, it would be a complete disappointment. Then skip it cuz Madonna is not a Cher-type "farewell tour" artist.
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 11:52:37 GMT -5
Cher has a huge catalog of songs, yet she has done the same setlist pretty much since her first farewell tour in 1999.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Sept 24, 2014 12:22:56 GMT -5
Well I mean that Madonna, whether people agree or not, considers herself a contemporary artist, not a has-been, and she's not gonna conform to the idea that everyone just wants her old hits. And I'm glad she's like that. If you're a person who doesn't really like her new material, and only like her 80's hits, then you really shouldn't be going.
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Post by kmbgs on Sept 24, 2014 12:27:29 GMT -5
Well I mean that Madonna, whether people agree or not, considers herself a contemporary artist, not a has-been, and she's not gonna conform to the idea that everyone just wants her old hits. And I'm glad she's like that. If you're a person who doesn't really like her new material, and only like her 80's hits, then you really shouldn't be going. I like her 90's hits too :)
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Post by bat1990 on Sept 24, 2014 12:29:17 GMT -5
^What if she does her 2000s hits? Music, Don't Tell Me, What It Feels Like For a Girl, Die Another Day, Hung Up, Sorry, 4 Minutes, Give Me All Your Luv Well I mean that Madonna, whether people agree or not, considers herself a contemporary artist, not a has-been, and she's not gonna conform to the idea that everyone just wants her old hits. And I'm glad she's like that. If you're a person who doesn't really like her new material, and only like her 80's hits, then you really shouldn't be going. When I saw her on the MDNA Tour, there were people next to us shouting "Sing it the REAL way!" during the slowed down "Like a Virgin" rendition. They were middle aged and tipsy; I felt a mixture of anger toward and embarrassment for them.
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Post by grandelf on Sept 24, 2014 12:42:41 GMT -5
But half of her last 3 tours were songs from her compilations, except Paradise + Candy Shop so this is the standard for her now. And she is kind of repeating her most recognizable hits on every other tour at least so I'm sure the next tour will feature at least some of Holiday, Into The Groove, La Isla Bonita, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Music or Don't Tell Me...
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 13:30:27 GMT -5
There are a bunch of songs she has never performed on tour...or hasn't performed in a very long time. Here are some forgotten songs I would love to see featured in a tour...alongside her new material:
-Take a Bow -I'll Remember -Angel -Everybody (a proper performance, not a fan request version) -Secret -Bad Girl -Who's That Girl -Causing a Commotion -Cherish -Keep it Together -Power of Goodbye -Rain -Rescue Me
She should retire the following songs from future tours, just because she has done them to death..not because I don't love them: Like a Prayer, Holiday, La Isla Bonita, Into the Groove, Vogue
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Post by kmbgs on Sept 24, 2014 13:38:15 GMT -5
She should retire the following songs from future tours, just because she has done them to death..not because I don't love them: Like a Prayer, Holiday, La Isla Bonita, Into the Groove, Vogue I mean that's basically blasphemy that you want her to retire such classics! I'm in for those jams, plus Cherish, Express Yourself, and OYH. Also would love Deeper and Deeper. In a perfect world, True Blue, but I imagine that will never happen.
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 13:46:42 GMT -5
She should retire the following songs from future tours, just because she has done them to death..not because I don't love them: Like a Prayer, Holiday, La Isla Bonita, Into the Groove, Vogue I mean that's basically blasphemy that you want her to retire such classics! I'm in for those jams, plus Cherish, Express Yourself, and OYH. Also would love Deeper and Deeper. In a perfect world, True Blue, but I imagine that will never happen. Well, you know, personal preference...also, I have seen her 18x...so maybe I am a little tire of seeing them live. My favorite two songs by her are Open Your Heart and Express Yourself, but I left them off the wishlist, as she literally just did them on the MDNA tour.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Sept 24, 2014 13:58:32 GMT -5
re-Invention Tour- the closest thing to a GH tour since 2001- contained close to 50% of classics (depending on whether one would classify 1998-2000 tracks as classics). She performed/incorporated eight tracks that appeared on The Immaculate Collection, as well as Immaculate-era tracks "Burning Up," "Hanky Panky" and "The Beast Within." (intro). And then she threw in (a slowed-down) "Deeper and Deeper," "Bedtime Story" (interlude), "Lament" from Evita, John Lennon's "Imagine." From the post-Immaculate era, there were "Frozen," "Music" and "Don't Tell Me," plus six American Life" tracks (seven, if you count the few lines from 'Intervention").
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 14:27:20 GMT -5
re-Invention Tour- the closest thing to a GH tour since 2001- contained close to 50% of classics (depending on whether one would classify 1998-2000 tracks as classics). She performed/incorporated eight tracks that appeared on The Immaculate Collection, as well as Immaculate-era tracks "Burning Up," "Hanky Panky" and "The Beast Within." (intro). And then she threw in (a slowed-down) "Deeper and Deeper," "Bedtime Story" (interlude), "Lament" from Evita, John Lennon's "Imagine." From the post- Immaculate era, there were "Frozen," "Music" and "Don't Tell Me," plus six American Life" tracks (seven, if you count the few lines from 'Intervention").Re-Invention is my favorite tour for that reason..it was a terrific balance of old and new..hits and album tracks. Loved the choreography, the looks, etc.
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Post by grandelf on Sept 24, 2014 14:48:29 GMT -5
There are a bunch of songs she has never performed on tour...or hasn't performed in a very long time. Here are some forgotten songs I would love to see featured in a tour...alongside her new material: -Take a Bow -I'll Remember -Angel -Everybody (a proper performance, not a fan request version) -Secret -Bad Girl -Who's That Girl -Causing a Commotion -Cherish -Keep it Together -Power of Goodbye -Rain -Rescue Me She should retire the following songs from future tours, just because she has done them to death..not because I don't love them: Like a Prayer, Holiday, La Isla Bonita, Into the Groove, Vogue Outside Everybody and Secret, these songs are unlikely to be performed. :( MAYBE Who's That Girl since it's on Celebration but most of her 90s ballad hits have been written out of her history and she either sings an Evita track or slows down a dance hit instead of I'll Remember etc. Songs like Angel, Causing A Commotion, Keep It Together and Rescue Me are definitely just forgotten hits at this point and she won't drop Vogue, Holiday etc in favor of them. She detests Cherish, it's the only TIC hit from the 15 she has not performed on the last 4 tours. It is also a trend with her that if a song was not performed on the tour related to its parent album then that track does not get rediscovered, again only Evita tracks are the exception, but Bad Girl, The Power Of Good-Bye, Nothing Really Matters or Love Profusion did not get to shine on their parent album tours so they seem to be unlikely to appear (though I kinda want her to surprise us and do Some Girls from MDNA on the next tour)... I also wish she'd change the old songs up a bit more, but I guess as long as the tours are new music driven, it's a compromise that she does the most famous songs that are still remembered. I just hope she does not repeat many songs from the previous tour, it was a major disappointment for me that she reused 5 out of the 9 old songs of MDNA from Sticky and Sweet! I hope Like A Prayer sits the next one out because that one is getting worse on each tour and Vogue was not a reinvention on MDNA Tour at all...
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Post by seaguy27 on Sept 24, 2014 15:21:47 GMT -5
Well I mean that Madonna, whether people agree or not, considers herself a contemporary artist, not a has-been, and she's not gonna conform to the idea that everyone just wants her old hits. And I'm glad she's like that. If you're a person who doesn't really like her new material, and only like her 80's hits, then you really shouldn't be going. I like her 90's hits too :) I liked Madonna in the 80s and fell in love with her in the 90s…so yes to the 90s hits!! Some people are always stuck in what happen in the 80s… it was great but open your mind a little and move on or you might as well stay at home.
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Post by kmbgs on Sept 24, 2014 15:27:50 GMT -5
I need iconic photos of madonna for an invite I'm making (she's my birthday theme lmao). Any suggestions? Aiming to keep it in the late 80's early 90's for consistency (also no X rated pics from Erotica). Preferably one of her eyes, close up, head on
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Post by August on Sept 24, 2014 15:36:47 GMT -5
I need iconic photos of madonna for an invite I'm making (she's my birthday theme lmao). Any suggestions? Aiming to keep it in the late 80's early 90's for consistency (also no X rated pics from Erotica). Preferably one of her eyes, close up, head on Try playing around with this... www.ultimatemadonna.com/whos_that_girl/images/wtg_700_01.jpg
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Post by HolidayGuy on Sept 24, 2014 15:53:56 GMT -5
"Secret" was performed on DWT, so it's not quite as long as some others, or ones that have never been performed on tour.
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