DavidEye said:

What'd she say?

GangstaFam said:

she said you were the one who advised her to pee in the shower

DavidEye said:

"no babes, you don't wanna get yer tits out for Tatler"

IstenSzek said:

Exactly! lol,controversy follows her wherever she goes

IstenSzek said:

This is true.

GangstaFam said:

I love the extended breakdown in "Get Together",where the music slows down and the beat just throbs

DavidEye said:

Love this one, despite the strange grammar!

MendesCity said:

I can't get the chorus outta my head

GangstaFam said:

Somewhere on nr 4 or 5. Bad memories. Can't be helped.

GooeyTheHamster said:

Why's that?

GangstaFam said:

Person I hate now loved it so much I cannot help but link it to him. Bummer.

GooeyTheHamster said:

Hate is a very strong word.

Well, I love it. So think of me instead.

GangstaFam said:

:mumble: ...other times... :mumble: :mumble:

cueing "Think of Me".

GangstaFam said:

Confessions Of A Dance Whore, pt 475

(You! No, YOU!)

from Madonnamad

Hung Up #1 on 16 out of 20 itunes stores across the world
http://www.apple.com/euro...songs.html

The Times London

There has always been a lot of gubbins spoken and written about Madonna. A popular theory sees her as some kind of Machiavellian pop genius, always right on the shoulder of those on the cutting edge taking notes and making plans to appropriate their vision for her own use. And there are those, like me, who think that school of thought gives the shameless self-publicist far too much credit. Madonna’s secret is simple – she has always worked her butt off. Ally this work ethic with an overarching streak of ambition and you have a formidable combination that makes her a one-woman multinational entity.

And like any voracious corporation, Madge strives to be the best all the time, to outsell everone, regardless of those who get in the way. She’s at her best when she’s at her most populist, crafting fantastic pop music for the masses; not when she suddenly starts to believe the hype and strives to make art. There have been two of these self-indulgent phases – the early Nineties when she produced Erotica and Bedtime Stories and the early Noughties when she made the passable Music and the hilariously po-faced American Life, probably the worst record of 2003.

But breathe easy. Confessions on a Dancefloor sees the return of Madonna, the acquisitive, robber baron pop star. She’s suddenly remembered what she does best and it sure isn’t art, baby. But it is – mostly – great pop music. Better still, there are – joy! – no awful Madonna ballads. It’s probably no coincidence that her collaborator this time is Stuart Price, a distinctly non cutting-edge minor pop star who values tunes over innovation.

1) Hung Up
You know this by now – the sample of Abba’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man after Midnight) is so great by itself that all the old pro only had to do was come up with a half decent chorus to complement it. And in this she has succeeded.
Sample lyric: “Ring ring ring goes the telephone”

2) Get Together
This has a simple electro pop frame with a gauze of fuzzy synths draped over the top. There is a slightly worrying 2Unlimited “techno-techno-techno” mini-riff but the middle eight is, more agreeably, reminiscent of Daft Punk and the tune is strong.
Sample lyric: “Can we get together/I really want to be with you”

3) Sorry
Again vibrant simplicity is the keyword here. Collaborator, Price, throws in a cheeky reference to the Jacksons’ majestic Can You Feel It? before Madonna lets loose with an irresistible pure pop chorus of which Benny and Bjorn would have been proud. A surefire single.
Sample lyric: “I don’t wanna hear/I don’t wanna know/Please don’t say you’re sorry”

4) Future Lovers
Here’s the first sign of a wrong move. It starts sumptuously with a Donna Summer-like I Feel Love throb but Madge insists on intoning portentously over the top. Old buddy Mirwais provides a thrilling production job with dark slabs of noise moving menacingly just below the surface but the song is not strong enough and its power slowly ebbs away.
Sample lyric: “There’s no love like the future love.”

5) I Love New York
This is a real misfire. It features a decent enough brooding synth line but the lyrics are beyond caricature and the tune is banal. A low point.
Sample lyric: “I don’t like cities but I like New York/Other cities make me feel like a dork.” Yes, really.

6) Let It Will Be
The clumsy title aside, this Kraftwerk-inflected track with its nursery rhyme verse and perkier-than-Audrey-Tautou chorus represents a welcome return to form after the dire previous track. It’s about fame, apparently although the lyrics are as bad as ever.
Sample lyric: “Now I can tell you the place I belong.”

7) Forbidden Love
The album’s clearly going through a patchy middle phase as this drab, pedestrian pop song with trite lyrics attests. Madonna’s horse-frightening ballad-singing voice (first properly unveiled on Music’s Frozen) makes its only appearance on Confessions on a Dancefloor. Why has she never been on Stars in Their Eyes? “Tonight Matthew, I am going to be Nana Mouskouri.”
Sample lyric: “Just one smile on your face was all it took to change my fortune.”

8) Jump
It’s nearly all gravy from here on in. Almost all the bad tracks have been dealt with as Madonna and her collaborators find the keys to Pop Heaven and make themselves at home. Jump, another likely single, is a loping, athletic dance tune with a sinuous verse and a catchy if slightly obvious chorus.
Sample lyric: “I’m going down the road and I can’t make it on my own.”

9) How High
One of the album’s high points, How High is pretty electro pop with a strong sense of melody and a strong confessional tone that for once doesn’t sound forced. A lesson to the Kylies and Rachels on how it should be done.
Sample lyric: “It’s funny how I spent all my life wanting to be talked about/Should I carry on?/Will it matter when I’m gone?/Will any of this matter?”

10) Isaac
This is the most ambitious track on the album – a folky, klezmer-dappled bubbly dance track that is both highly propulsive and utterly ridiculous due to Madonna’s absurd attempts at being deep. Quite brilliant nonetheless.
Sample lyric: “Wrestle with the darkness/Angels call your name”

11) Push
It’s heartening that the best track on the album hasn’t been frontloaded. It’s quite usual for most records to die a slow death, as the act or record company like to get the best tracks in first. Push is an exception and is monumentally good with a kind of Cossack hip-hop beat played backwards, sideways, every which way and loose. It seems to be a tribute to Guy Ritchie but even this can’t detract from a fabulous chorus that is eerily reminiscent of Like A Prayer.
Sample lyric: “Everything I do, I owe it all to you.” And no, it’s not a crafty Bryan Adams’ cover.

12) Like it Or Not
The short answer would be, “Not.” An elaboration? It’s ungainly, stupid, and embarrassing. It’s meant to answer Madonna’s critics but it merely offers them more ammunition. An unfortunate way to sign off Madonna’s finest album since 1989’s Like A Prayer.
Sample lyric: “I’ll be the garden/You be the snake/All my fruit you can take.”

There you have it, the album that will restore Madonna to the top ten. I have a feeling she’ll be there for quite some time.

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[Edited 11/9/05 11:25am]

MendesCity said:

I think that's my favorite on it.

Ooh - another webcast's on it's way...

http://www.companyannounc...ny368.html

BinaryJustin said:

uh huh from drownedmadonna

Track-list for the Promotional Tour:


Hung Up
A re-invented version of Everybody
Get Together
I Love New York
A remix of Let It Will Be

Madonna is going to perform all the tracks above at G-A-Y on November 19 and at KoKo on November 15 (which will be webcast live on AOL, accessible to everybody). As for the TV shows - Parkinson, Star Academy and Children In Need, here are the two songs Madonna will perform:

Hung Up
Get Together


Band and Dancers:


The band is the same of the re-Invention Tour. There won't be any background singer. There will be 10 dancers involved, amoung them Daniel 'Cloud' Campos, Mihran Kirakosian and Marlyn Ortiz from the re-Invention Tour.

[Edited 11/9/05 11:50am]

ehuffnsd said:

Geez, 50 doesn't even trying to stay in his closet anymore.

ehuffnsd said:

It's like the SEX Book shoot but with a disco ball and a lot of RED.

After seeing the booklet, all I can say is....starting printing your damn lyrics in the book again!

Hung Up # 6 on TRL