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Madonna performing with Taylor Swift was the most memorable moment from the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Last night, Madonna acted out one of her best-known recent tricks: enlisting a younger performer to grant her music some extra currency. In a televised performance of her new single “Ghosttown,” the performer was supported by Taylor Swift on guitar. It was the most memorable moment from the iHeartRadio Music Awards and of Madonna’s recent promotional campaign for her new album. Though the star is often criticized for her work with younger artists, her performance with Swift was, in fact, the very best sort of collaboration. . Madonna’s past few years have seen her, probably more often than is flattering, team up with stars of more recent vintage; her 2012 Super Bowl halftime show was ceded in large part to flavor-of-the-minute band LMFAO and bird-flipping scene-stealer M.I.A., while her appearance on Miley Cyrus’s MTV Unplugged taping felt undercooked. And some of Madonna’s earnest attempts to explore what’s hip out there, from her EDM-inflected 2012 album MDNA to her asking Miley Cyrus to introduce her at the Grammys as “our b—,” have seemed embarrassingly out-of-touch. . But criticisms of Madonna for working with younger artists tend to skip over the particulars of the collaborations right to broad-brush condemnation of a woman over 40 trying to stay contemporary. It’s been that way since Madonna’s performance with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 Video Music Awards, a brilliant piece of stagecraft that effectively anointed Spears and Aguilera as Madonna’s successors. A musical generation later, Madonna chose the perfect collaborator for a country-tinged pop anthem about heartbreak. . And Swift, lost in the music, seemed legitimately excited to be onstage with Madonna: Why shouldn’t she be? Madonna’s ability to reinvent her sound and her image has provided precedent for any number of pop stars, including one who recent switched genres entirely. Perhaps the issue, among those who critique Madonna’s work with a younger cohort, is one of framing. Madonna is subjected to all the same criticisms as a pop star under 30, “desperation” and a perpetually oscillating level of “relevance” chief among them.When Paul McCartney, by contrast, performs with stars like Rihanna and Kanye West, it’s not a sign of his desperation to stay hip, because he’s a legacy artist perceived as earnestly interested in what’s out there these days. . Where’s the same generosity of spirit when it comes to Madonna? When her album Rebel Heart missed the number-one spot on the Billboard charts, the schadenfreude was thick in the air, despite the fact that it’s no one’s baseline expectation that a new album by McCartney, or Prince, or Mick Jagger, would automatically become a hit. Madonna’s fame, though, has always been tied to a snooty assumption that her music is more popular than good, and thus it only matters if it’s popular. . But maybe it’s time to give her her due as an artist, not just a hit machine. Madonna has entered a phase of her career where statistics don’t necessarily matter, but where cementing her legacy absolutely does.Rebel Heart exists not to become a top-selling album but to prove she has a place in today’s pop-music ecosystem; not every one of its, or Madonna’s, attempts to prove contemporary savvy come across perfectly, but in general, the fact that we’re paying attention at all proves a point. Given Swift’s obvious willingness to perform with Madonna, and the degree to which their collaboration worked, the point seems made.
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Madonna looks awesome in these photos, even more so considering she's four years off 60!!!! www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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*Confirmed* Madonna will be both a guest and performer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on April 9th!
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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NOW THAT'S EXCITING!!! Madonna has not visited any of the new tribe of late night hosts. Here's hoping she gets down with The Roots for a sweet version of Ghosttown. I'd love to see her do something with the children's musical instruments too. | |
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[img:$uid]http://i58.tinypic.com/6g8owo.jpg[/img:$uid] will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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[img:$uid]http://i58.tinypic.com/6g8owo.jpg[/img:$uid] will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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KCOOL "is in dire need of attention right now."
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purplethunder3121 said: *Confirmed* Madonna will be both a guest and performer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on April 9th!
This era is so exciting! She's really doing lots of promotion and TV appearances.This is great. | |
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mjscarousal said:
Is it weird that I love this heffa but can't stand her!? She was the only interesting thing about that awkward cringeworthy conference. She never fails to entertain.
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Wow, that's just awful. I'll stick with the original, thank you! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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yeah,I really don't see the point of re-mixing a ballad.This is not a dance track and they shouldn't try to make it into one. | |
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. . As for the BS about P's shows "selling out in minutes", might want to check this thread...tickets were available at the door at a greatly reduced price: http://prince.org/msg/12/414760 BTW, where is the rest of the tour? "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 | |
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On YouTube today: | |
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Another good one. I like it! | |
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Out of those you mention, the THRILL remix is the better one (didn't say good! lol)--probably because it has the least resemblance to the original ballad... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Maybe Madonna just doesn't care about media response...did she ever really?
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Madonna looks like she's really enjoying herself these days.You could see it in her performance on the iHeart Music Awards and at that Jay Z. event the other day.....a fun,carefree,"fuck it" attitude Some people criticize her every move,but she seems to be at a point where she just doesn't care anymore.She's being herself.Maybe that's the real meaning of Rebel Heart. | |
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Madoona has a VERY good plastic surgeon!!! She almost looks like "Like A Prayer" Madonna.. will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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Why do you keep coming to this thread? Did you get tired of kissing Prince's ass and sippin' on the purple Kool-Aid? | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I'm not so sure ya know. Apart from a little botox here and here I've never looked at her and thought she's gone under the knife. She's been quite clever with her looks over time. You've never seen her with too much tan, she's always been quite pale...and I think she's reaping the benefits now, avoiding the old leather handbag look that trips up too many people who did anything for a deep tan in their younger days. www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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Should "Holy Water" be the next single? How about this for the single cover?
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Madonna song of the day: "Holy Water"
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Ghosttown teaser "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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The clusterfuck that is Madonna's current team has erroneously announced the Ghosttown premiere on an app called Meerkat and since re-treaded and deleted the annoucement. Facebook posts suggest the video will premiere tomorrow (not stated is WHERE). | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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