Just the beginning of her musicology era.

?

wouldn't she first have to go through a diamonds and pearls/symbol era followed by a gold/chaos and disorder era followed by an emancipation/crystal ball era followed by a dismal newpowersoul era and rave un2 the joy fantastic era? then maybe she could have a musicology era.


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SassyBritches said:

to some people AL was all that wrapped up in one... even though it's a great album that came with the highest grossing tour of the summer

SassyBritches said:

very funny... but u should look at the big
picture

origmnd said:

oh. i'm very sorry, sir. i shall look at the big picture as soon as you paint it for me. cuz i don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

SassyBritches said:

ehuffnsd said:

The only songs I know from that album are the title track and "Hollywood" and they are both tremendously underrated. Folks, the rap was ironic.

I'm curious: what are the complaints about this album?

Ace said:

my complaint is that its madonna

...flamed by the flamers once again

origmnd said:

well, duh! if you don't like madonna at all its kinda hard for you to give your opinion on where she is in her career. it would be like someone who dislikes prince saying that his lovesexy phase is the same as his symbol phase. it kind of loses credibility, no?

and i'm still trying to see this "big picture" of yours.

i dont even know if prince even likes doing pop music anymore? "rave" to me, was very poor.


"musicology" was not top 40 pop, i guess prince has moved on

thesexofit said:

this new madonna record is not top 40 pop either. i don't see it having a huge impact on american audiences, it sounds like europop to a t. which is brilliant by my sentiments!

hey, maybe this whole "not top 40" thing is the big picture origmind was talking about.

SassyBritches said:

The song is growing on me over in UK, as "music" did (god i hated it at first, and the video was original too)

Yeah, ur right the track is very euro. Heck, i'd rather dance to this then kelly clarkson faux rock or whatever america thows at us over here. Interesting to see how it will do in US?

how so? that she's having a comeback?

they both like getting their eyebrows done.

Anxiety said:

I never noticed that, probely because i dont even look at eyebrows, expcet al b sures!

thesexofit said:

oh god, shut up! (fuckin' al b sure...you crack me up!)

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thesexofit said:

Wouldn't you say "Call My Name" is very Top-40-ish?

Ace said:

Maybe i guess. The title song though But that was Prince's choice. It sounded old skool

I tried this topic awhile ago and got no insight, so I wont bother anymore.



Seems like there's more M fans than P on here.

here's 2 google groups for M fans:


http://groups.google.com/...schg&hl=en

http://groups.google.com/...schg&hl=en

origmnd said:

i've wondered that for a while now. madonna gets a whole lot more praise here than prince does and this site is dedicated to HIM. now i like madonna a lot but this is something i've noticed for quite sometime. strange but true.

origmnd said:

it would help if you explained what the heck you were talking about!

purplecam said:

if you want Prince praise go the section of this site that is devouted to him.

Music:Prince. there is a whole section there.

This if you forgot is
Music:Non-Prince.

ehuffnsd said:

I'm not looking for Prince "praise". Nothing is above the realm of ridicule.

origmnd said:

true

well i'm sure as shit glad the two of you know what the heck you're talking about. i still don't know whaat the parallel is. it becomes rather difficult for anyone to provide insight when nobody knows what the question is.

thesexofit said:

My bad - I missed the quotation marks around Musicology. I wouldn't say he's "moved on" though; I would think that there were several songs on the album that were attempts at Top-40 hits (it's not exactly Trout Mask Replica), I just think he was having a bit of a hook drought.

SassyBritches said:

That isn't the big picture either because Madonna's new single debuted in the top 20 in the U.S. last week. Americans were downloading it like crazy the first week. It remains to be seen how much airplay it will get from radio.

Just grabbing at straws I'd say there's somewhat of a similarity between the retro delivery of the music, image and performance. Prince was going for a classic 70's soul vibe and Madonna is going for late 70's disco. Sort of returning to their roots, but also digging deeper to an era right before they debuted. And, both albums seem to be a bid for the mainstream after the insular, message-driven and dark "American Life" and "The Rainbow Children". But I can't see much in common past that.

they do have parallel REARS

TRON said:

Good analysis.