jumpb4uthink
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 25, 2023 12:02:42 GMT -5
No Ghosttown is disappointing. Love the number 1 pick.
“The best songs from the inarguable Queen of Pop.”
“We here at Billboard wanted to celebrate the living legend with a list of our 100 favorite tracks from her incredible career. See our picks below, and be sure to take one day out of life to celebrate your own favorites by the artist who remains the dictionary definition of pop stardom.”
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 25, 2023 12:40:53 GMT -5
"We here at Billboard"??? ugh...
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Post by August on Jul 25, 2023 13:37:18 GMT -5
With all the Taylor Swift songs moving down or off the charts this week, Popular jumps from 80 to 66 this week.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Jul 25, 2023 17:49:17 GMT -5
Beautiful Stranger below Superstar?? lol
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Post by bat1990 on Jul 25, 2023 17:59:07 GMT -5
Why include "Superstar" at all? There's so many better deep cuts from MDNA like Falling Free, Love Spent, I Fucked Up, and I'm Addicted.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Jul 25, 2023 19:07:09 GMT -5
i wonder if we were supposed to get that Max Martin track by now...?
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jul 25, 2023 19:17:19 GMT -5
Beautiful Stranger below Superstar?? lol This sort of questionable ranking makes me wonder if the people who do the Rolling Stone lists did this one because this is all sorts of WTF.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 25, 2023 21:07:02 GMT -5
Is that an updated list of the one Billboard ran a few years back?
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Post by Daenerys on Jul 25, 2023 21:44:19 GMT -5
Besides wishing her the best recovery with or without tour, I'm very curious to see if and how this supposedly near-death experience will change M. With no purpose on criticism, it's obvious to me the M we've had in the last couple of years has been very in-your-face and defying all sorts of age-related and beauty standards and assumptions. To me it's had a less-sophisticated tone than in the past. In a sense perhaps more aggressive and totally more I-do-not-give-a-f#$k. And she's free to do as she wishes of course! I'm just curious if she now will come back softer and more zen OR if she will just go even harder and shocking in her ways since she's seen her mortality is a reality and there's no time to waste. I wish her all the best, and a healthy recovery. I'll say Ray of Light is my favorite album from her, where it felt like she was at the peak of her artistry, pop power and influence, and in her element of wisdom, self-discovery, and self-acceptance of everything she had been, was at the time, and what she was looking to still continue on the road to being. I wish for that again for her, from now and in the future. Frozen, Power of Goodbye, and Drowned World are still teaching me so much, even decades later.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 26, 2023 5:37:45 GMT -5
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jul 26, 2023 9:21:20 GMT -5
Welp, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of her debut album. I wonder if they're gonna announce anything about the re-issues.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 26, 2023 10:33:02 GMT -5
^Lucky Star remixes are out tomorrow.
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Post by August on Jul 26, 2023 15:42:59 GMT -5
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Post by Carlitoz on Jul 26, 2023 16:10:21 GMT -5
I’ve always been in the minority and I don’t care. 😄 I fell totally in love with I Know It since the FIRST time I listened to the cassette of the album in the 80s. To this day I still love it. 😏
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Jul 26, 2023 18:43:33 GMT -5
Welp, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of her debut album. I wonder if they're gonna announce anything about the re-issues. I have a hunch if things were different and the tour was on as scheduled it would be the first reissue released probably Friday. That Max Martin track is mia, too.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 27, 2023 8:22:40 GMT -5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 27, 2023 9:00:31 GMT -5
Yes- would be nice for some certs to appear today.
Lots of 40th anniversary articles posted, with more likely to come. Google, peeps. :)
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Post by spiritboy on Jul 27, 2023 10:14:22 GMT -5
Maybe they planned something but when health scare happened, Guy mentioned all "projects" are on hold or stg like that which means there were other projects besides the tour.
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Post by Safado on Jul 27, 2023 12:51:19 GMT -5
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 27, 2023 12:58:05 GMT -5
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 27, 2023 13:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 27, 2023 18:31:07 GMT -5
Guy Oseary tweeted this article: www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/07/40-years-of-madonna?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=vf&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=socialLucky Star 40 Years of MadonnaBY CHRIS MURPHY Four decades after its release, one VF writer looks back at Madonna’s self-titled, self-assured debut album and how it laid the foundation for a young woman from Michigan to one day become the queen of pop. “Unlike the others, I’d do anything / I’m not the same, I have no shame,” a 24-year-old Madonna proclaimed on “Burning Up,” the second single from her eponymous debut album. At the time, the world didn’t know just how true that was about the woman who’d go from shilling her singles on the dance floor to becoming the biggest, most influential pop star of all time. Whether performing an intimate acoustic set or entertaining thousands, Madonna is not and has never been like “the others.” If anything, the others have been trying to emulate her since she burst on the scene with Madonna on July 27, 1983, forever changing pop music. Through a mix of moxie, talent, and sheer force of will, she ascended to the highest echelon of music history—inventing the idea of the modern pop star and becoming the best-selling female recording artist of all time. There was Elvis. There was Michael Jackson. And there’s still Madonna. And boy, have we seen the multitudes behind her artistry over the course of her four-decade career. What makes Madonna remarkable is her perpetual reinvention. From her penitent Catholic Like a Virgin era to the Kabbalah-embracing Confessions on a Dance Floor moment—she laid the blueprint for aspiring female pop stars to continue evolving. Much ink has been spilled over the myriad ways Lady Gaga has seemed to model her career after Madonna’s (a comparison Gaga has refuted). And it wouldn’t be a stretch to say Taylor Swift owes the entire concept of having various “eras” to Madonna’s legacy. But before you can reinvent yourself, you have to prove that you’re someone worth paying attention to in the first place. And 40 years ago to the day, Madonna did just that. Cut to New York City in the early ’80s, when a 20-something Madonna, originally Madonna Louise Ciccone of Bay City, Michigan, was just a downtown girl with a dream. After trying her hand at modern dance and fronting two bands, Breakfast Club and Emmy, Madonna decided to strike out on her own. Legend has it that her big break came when she tried to get DJ Mark Kamins to play her demo, and then met Sire Records’ Michael Rosenblatt during a night out at Danceteria. Rosenblatt introduced her to Sire founder Seymour Stein, who signed her, and thus Madonna was born—well, almost. She still had yet to fully establish herself in the music industry. Enter Madonna, her self-titled debut album. Making Madonna was not necessarily an easy process, but the trials and tribulations underscored something that the world would soon discover about the once and future queen of pop: She’s always known exactly what she wants. Case in point: After recording Madonna, she wasn’t happy with the finished product, and brought in John “Jellybean” Benitez, a relatively unknown DJ, to assist (a story that her main producer on the album, Reggie Lucas, refuted). A risky move, but she knew exactly what she was going for with her music and how to get there. It’s no wonder that the album became a slow-burning hit when it was released on July 27, 1983. Madonna slowly crept up the charts, debuting on the Billboard 200 at number 190 and peaking at number eight on that same chart in 1984, around a year after its release, having sold over 2.8 million records. Critics and fans alike were taken by Madonna’s seamless integration of disco and pop beats, with critic Don Shewey writing for Rolling Stone that Madonna was an “irresistible invitation to dance.” Of course, not everyone loved Madonna out of the gate—Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called the aspiring popstar a “shamelessly ersatz blonde” with “a shamelessly ersatz sound that’s tighter than her tummy”—but even her biggest critics couldn’t deny the confidence of her catchy debut. Listening to the album 40 years later, her confidence and self-assuredness are hard to ignore. It’s nearly impossible not to bop along to the funky synth of “Lucky Star,” the album’s first track. Or lose yourself in the recursive choruses on songs like “Borderline” which plays at the double entendre inherent in the title. Or get swept up in the joyous percussiveness of “Holiday,” the album’s most enduring song. It’s evident that Madonna was in complete control of her artistry, even from the jump. “You better think of me,” she demands on one earworm-y hook. And we would for the next 40 years. In his review of Madonna for All Music, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine seemed to figure her out immediately. “All of the elements may not be particularly impressive on their own—the arrangement, synth, and drum programming are fairly rudimentary,” he admits. “But taken together, it’s utterly irresistible.” This remains true of both Madonna the album—sublime in its simplicity—and Madonna the performer. She has always been more than the sum of her parts and her mystique is the result of what she’s done with those parts, making herself the very personification of a pop star by simply being herself. She knows precisely who she is, what she likes, and what she loathes (note to self: Never send Madonna hydrangeas). This past year has been a difficult one for the queen of pop. In January, she kicked off the year by announcing her Celebration world tour. But in June, Madonna landed in the hospital with a bacterial infection, forcing her to postpone the North American leg of the tour, a total of 41 shows. “My focus now is my health and getting stronger and I assure you, I’ll be back with you as soon as I can,” she said in a statement. “I’m on the road to recovery and incredibly grateful for all the blessings in my life.” Of course, there’s so much more to Madonna than the music. There’s the movie stardom, the celebrity, the controversies, the fashion, but the music is where it all began. On July 27, 1983, it was impossible to know that Madonna would become forever synonymous with pop music, that indelible pop hits like “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl,” “Like a Prayer,” “Vogue,” and “Hung Up” were in her future. But what was evident even four decades ago was that a new force to be reckoned with had burst onto the scene, fully formed and ready to take over. And you can still hear why: On Madonna, she laid the groundwork for all the iterations to come. She may have been a once-in-a-generation lucky star, but we’re the luckiest by far.
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Post by Safado on Jul 27, 2023 18:54:56 GMT -5
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Post by Safado on Jul 27, 2023 19:46:02 GMT -5
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 27, 2023 21:35:54 GMT -5
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 28, 2023 10:23:09 GMT -5
Vulgar is now over 15 million at Spotify:
Vulgar - 15,108,718
It passed (only counting Madonna's releases since 2021):
Frozen (070 Shake Remix) - 14,697,778
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Jul 28, 2023 13:25:13 GMT -5
those are global numbers?
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Post by jenglisbe on Jul 28, 2023 14:20:48 GMT -5
My ranking: 8. Physical Attraction 7. Everybody 6. Holiday 5. Burning Up 4. Lucky Star 3. Think of Me 2. I Know It 1. Borderline
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Jul 28, 2023 14:51:43 GMT -5
My ranking:
1. Lucky Star 2. Holiday 3. Physical Attraction (this was especially my jam as a kid) 4. Burning Up 5. Borderline 6. Everybody 7. Think Of Me 8. I Know It
"Madonna once dismissed the songs on her debut as “aerobics music.”
This is VERY true! Especially when you listen to tracks like Physical Attraction and Burning Up.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 28, 2023 16:10:24 GMT -5
Team Borderline all the way.
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