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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 2, 2015 17:39:59 GMT -5
Amen. "Carry on" Very true Tweet To all Madonna fans: 'Madonna's myth absorbs everything'. Every hater there's ever been has added to her myth. Recognize that its just noise.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jan 2, 2015 18:37:56 GMT -5
Cheers to Madonna fans not turning into blind Iggy Azalea stans in her thread. But...THE H8RS ARE GUNNA H8 YESSSS PROGRESSIVE QUEEN SLAY W/UR ICONIC IMAGERY!!11!!
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Post by vipanonymous on Jan 2, 2015 18:53:10 GMT -5
The Marilyn Monroe pic make me follow her. ♥
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Post by Nick on Jan 2, 2015 18:56:03 GMT -5
Yeah, agreed. This is so f*cking tacky.
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Post by floridagrl on Jan 2, 2015 19:40:27 GMT -5
Madonna Climbs on Dance Club Songs ChartMadonna motors forward on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with each of the three songs that she debuted last week. "Bitch I'm Madonna," featuring Nicki Minaj, lands one spot short of the top 10 (14-11), while first official single "Living for Love" also leaps three rungs (16-13). "Unapologetic Bitch" jumps four notches (26-22) and "Bitch I'm Madonna" scanned 17,000 units in its first full sales week, up 33 percent. (The tracks were rush-released on Dec. 19, so their first chart-tracking week was abbreviated). By contrast, the other two tracks posted modest sales gains: "Living" is up 4 percent to 11,000, while "Unapologetic" ups by 2 percent to 8,000. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6429337/nick-jonas-conquers-dance-club-songs-madonna-climbs-hot-dance-electronic-songs?utm_source=twitter
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 19:40:44 GMT -5
The dreams MLK and Nelson had were actual dreams that involved more than selling, doing whatever to sell a few thousand copies of a cd. Use living people to endorse your product and leave the dead hero's well alone. She has this hero complex like what she is doing is actually world changing when she is basically a more amped up version of Katy Perry nowadays. The god complex needs to have a line drawn just because you have a black child in a shed doesn't mean you can get away with dropping the N bombs and using these folks who changed lives and helped millions to peddle whatever your selling. How about you just let your music and talent do the talking.
I need her to know her only role in society doesn't go beyond being a successful pop star and stop trying to shock us into thinking you antics are meant to help the world instead of help you. Sip on that reductive tea ,gif.
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Post by floridagrl on Jan 2, 2015 19:42:38 GMT -5
Acclaimed Music is a site which compiles best-year-end lists and best-of-all-times lists from professional critics creating a ranking of the most recommended music ever created. Top Artists The artist ranking is based on the positions for the artists' acclaimed albums and songs. Madonna is at number 23 on the best artists of all time list, the number 1 female artist.1- The Beatles 2- Bob Dylan 3- The Rolling Stones 4- David Bowie 5- Bruce Springsteen 6- Radiohead 7- Elvis Presley 8- Neil Young 9- Prince 10- R.E.M. 11- The Beach Boys 12- U2 13- Led Zeppelin 14- The Who 15- The Velvet Underground 16- Marvin Gaye 17- Jimi Hendrix 18- The Clash 19- Kanye West 20- Elvis Costello 21- Miles Davis 22- Nirvana 23- Madonna of course! 24- Pink Floyd 25- Stevie Wonder www.acclaimedmusic.net/
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jan 2, 2015 20:35:23 GMT -5
^I think I posted as much back when the update took place. :) It's the combination of her strong catalog and all associated with it, not to mention her approach to her art, that's made her stand apart from the crowded pack these last 30-plus years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 21:30:54 GMT -5
It feels like in the past 10 years, everything that people used to unfairly rag on her for (being an insufferable, tasteless attention seeker who had no point other than to shock people) has become her reality.
What kind of one second I'm the koons, suddenly the koons is me teas?
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Post by xxzion72xx on Jan 2, 2015 22:48:28 GMT -5
First of all!..none of these 3 men above influenced me... Period!....second... She portrayed the same bound face picture of Jesus a few days ago.. And there ain't no way in HELL that these 3 men put together are bigger the Jesus Christ!!!... Third ... She anit ever gonna back down to this ... If anything is going to make her more pissed off and let loose a few other things on my mind...think on it and get back too me.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 2, 2015 23:04:02 GMT -5
Madonna - Quote I would like to thank all my fans for recreating my album cover with the ❤️Rebel Heart ribbon on the faces of so many Great Hero's. It shows that you are also celebrating and in admiration of these great freedom fighters! When I repost these images i am saying YES! These people are all Rebel Hearts in one way or another from Martin Luther King to Jesus to Nelson Mandela to John Lennon. YES! Lets celebrate them! The world needs more people like them. I hope to one day accomplish. 1 100th of what these Rebel Hearts have accomplished. As I Said in a previous post "I walk in the footsteps of Giants" and i will continue to do so G*D willing. They are my guiding light. ❤️#rebelheart ❤️#livingforlove
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 23:10:16 GMT -5
"First of all!..none of these 3 men above influenced me... Period!....second... She portrayed the same bound face picture of Jesus a few days ago.. And there ain't no way in HELL that these 3 men put together are bigger the Jesus Christ!!!... Third ... She anit ever gonna back down to this ... If anything is going to make her more pissed off and let loose a few other things on my mind...think on it and get back too me."cant believe what you typed out especially the ending at that whole defense of her. I'm sure those men didn't influence you. Madonna did!
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Post by Dammn Baby on Jan 2, 2015 23:20:06 GMT -5
Social media is really exacerbating her narcissism.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 23:22:37 GMT -5
Madonna - Quote I would like to thank all my fans for recreating my album cover with the ❤️Rebel Heart ribbon on the faces of so many Great Hero's. It shows that you are also celebrating and in admiration of these great freedom fighters! When I repost these images i am saying YES! These people are all Rebel Hearts in one way or another from Martin Luther King to Jesus to Nelson Mandela to John Lennon. YES! Lets celebrate them! The world needs more people like them. I hope to one day accomplish. 1 100th of what these Rebel Hearts have accomplished. As I Said in a previous post "I walk in the footsteps of Giants" and i will continue to do so G*D willing. They are my guiding light. ❤️#rebelheart ❤️#livingforlove Me too I walk in the footsteps of greatness and one day I would like to accomplish what Jesus Christ did Is she serious???!?? #RebelHearts
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Post by seaguy27 on Jan 2, 2015 23:23:13 GMT -5
Madonna - Quote I would like to thank all my fans for recreating my album cover with the ❤️Rebel Heart ribbon on the faces of so many Great Hero's. It shows that you are also celebrating and in admiration of these great freedom fighters! When I repost these images i am saying YES! These people are all Rebel Hearts in one way or another from Martin Luther King to Jesus to Nelson Mandela to John Lennon. YES! Lets celebrate them! The world needs more people like them. I hope to one day accomplish. 1 100th of what these Rebel Hearts have accomplished. As I Said in a previous post "I walk in the footsteps of Giants" and i will continue to do so G*D willing. They are my guiding light. ❤️#rebelheart ❤️#livingforlove If you have a problem with this comment and what was obviously her intention before this comment…then I have nothing left to say to you. If saying how great someone is in your own way becomes offensive then we are a lost society in my opinion!
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Post by seaguy27 on Jan 2, 2015 23:25:29 GMT -5
Madonna - Quote I would like to thank all my fans for recreating my album cover with the ❤️Rebel Heart ribbon on the faces of so many Great Hero's. It shows that you are also celebrating and in admiration of these great freedom fighters! When I repost these images i am saying YES! These people are all Rebel Hearts in one way or another from Martin Luther King to Jesus to Nelson Mandela to John Lennon. YES! Lets celebrate them! The world needs more people like them. I hope to one day accomplish. 1 100th of what these Rebel Hearts have accomplished. As I Said in a previous post "I walk in the footsteps of Giants" and i will continue to do so G*D willing. They are my guiding light. ❤️#rebelheart ❤️#livingforlove Me too I walk in the footsteps of greatness and one day I would like to accomplish what Jesus Christ did Is she serious???!?? #RebelHearts She said she hopes to accomplish 1 100th of what they did….it is the same as saying trying to become the best person you can. You may never accomplish what these great people did, however we all can do great things on our own small levels.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 23:28:00 GMT -5
Like any other person who has made bad judgement all she has to do is just say it wasn't a bright idea. The defiance and her trying to explain and sounding even more god like complex while doing it is not doing her any favors. Its tacky, it's offensive and its borderline narcissistic. Its worse with her because she wanted to created controversy and she did but its just tack how she did it.
Anyways thats my own perspective on it, lets just agree to disagree and turn this back to the music. I more interested in what notes she can or can't hold than what she speaks.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 2, 2015 23:29:05 GMT -5
"I'm sorry I'm not comparing my self to anyone I'm admiring and acknowledging there Rebel Hearts This is niether a crime or an insult or racist! I also did it with Michael jaclson and frida khalo and marilyn monroe Am I saying I am them NO I'm saying they are Rebel Hearts too. And I didn't do it My fans did And I just re posted those photos My fans aren't racist either If they put me in the same category as these other people Thank you. I'm very flattered and I hope one day to live up to 1 100th of what those people accomplished." - Madonna
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 23:40:22 GMT -5
Did she just blame it on her fans?
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Post by surfy on Jan 2, 2015 23:47:54 GMT -5
Ugh, Madonna... Give it a rest.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 2, 2015 23:54:57 GMT -5
It's appauling how some can take things out of context . She stated that her fans feel these brave people and shared them. She's not blaming anyone. Her fans feel the same way she does and vice versa.
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Post by Az Paynter on Jan 3, 2015 0:05:43 GMT -5
Okay, but that's not touching on the part where it's a stupid idea. I mean if there's all sorts of negative implication that can (and have been) drawn from it maybe it wasn't the smartest course of action.
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Post by seaguy27 on Jan 3, 2015 0:07:45 GMT -5
It's appauling how some can take things out of context . She stated that her fans feel these brave people and shared them. She's not blaming anyone. Her fans feel the same way she does and vice versa. Im really stunned at how people can read what she said and come away with comments like that…I do not think she is blaming anyone, she was stating a fact of what happened and what the intent was behind it. If you want to tear apart everything someone says and try to pull something bad out of it, I suppose you could do that forever about virtually anything.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 3, 2015 0:15:26 GMT -5
It's appauling how some can take things out of context . She stated that her fans feel these brave people and shared them. She's not blaming anyone. Her fans feel the same way she does and vice versa. Im really stunned at how people can read what she said and come away with comments like that…I do not think she is blaming anyone, she was stating a fact of what happened and what the intent was behind it. If you want to tear apart everything someone says and try to pull something bad out of it, I suppose you could do that forever about virtually anything. Imagine reading the reactions of people calling you racist, arrogant and clueless when the intention is actually full of admiration and respect. It is really sad that in today's World where there is so much injustice and cruelty in the world, some need to create more injustice.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 0:31:15 GMT -5
At some point in life you need to separate from being a stan and calling them out for when they are wrong. Madonna is human she f**ks up. She f**ked up. That is all. There is no way whatever intention she holds..... that this was not a horrible pr and publicity stunt. I don't get the woe is Madonna angle here nobody is chasing her down and torching her home she is being criticized by many all over for a stupid, gimmicky stunt.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 3, 2015 0:45:30 GMT -5
People see and read into things differently.
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Post by Relaxing Cup on Jan 3, 2015 0:51:14 GMT -5
People see and read into things differently. Oh. Kind of like how you related 'injustice' in the world to Madonna receiving crisitism for posting pictures of Black historical figures tied up in liqourice to promote her album? I definately see how you see things differently. #rebelheart
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 0:53:48 GMT -5
People see and read into things differently. Oh. Kind of like how you related 'injustice' in the world to Madonna receiving crisitism for posting pictures of Black historical figures tied up in liqourice to promote her album? I definately see how you see things differently. #rebelheart its even more distasteful in light of last year. She had to know it would cause controversy and that is the sad part of it all. Madonna isn't a dumb person, she is smart and calculated. She had to have known its was poor taste and I think it was another opportunity for her to cause a scene just to sell records or get her music out there . That is the shameful part. She is a f**king music legend she should be above tacky publicity like this. The s**tty part is THIS is one of the strongest songs she has released since 'Music" , its frigging amazing and that is all she needs. She makes it hard for people to respect the woman behind the music but this song is literally getting better and better by the day.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jan 3, 2015 0:58:28 GMT -5
Again people see and read into things differently .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 1:09:05 GMT -5
Again people see and read into things differently . Agreed and that is why we should always disagree respectfully. It only becomes a issue when people like xxzion72xx spew whatever they spew.
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