jiorjios said:

she does make them, they are now just used as tour interludes and released for commercial use.

the new Bedtime Story video is probably the best video of this decade
[Edited 9/1/09 1:21am]

LAME video.

The video is mediocre but really...what's the point in making outstanding videos anymore? MTV and VH-1 don't even show videos anymore She would just be throwing her money away.

ehuffnsd said:

I agree...these days,her best videos are the ones that she uses for her concert interludes.

SoulAlive said:

Yeah OK but I guess I was not thinking about those

SoulAlive said:

Its a truly dreadful video. I actually found all that crotch thrusting and grinding difficult to watch.....
My view is that if you're going to make a video, put some effort into it - dont just churn out these pointless lights and backdrop shoots. Uninspired and boring. I just wish she'd put some effort and thought into these things.

CrozzaUK said:

Yeah,it's obviously something that she didn't put alot of effort into,just like the song itself.I think she filmed it on a day off from the tour? Face it,I don't think we're gonna see alot of outstanding videos from Madonna anymore.Nothing like 'Bad Girl' or 'Like A Prayer'.Those days are long gone.Look at the videos from the last three albums.A few good ones ("Sorry","4 Minutes"),but nothing extraordinary.I thought for sure that "Miles Away" would have an amazing video (since she clearly loves that song so much) but the video we got is simple and lackluster.

SoulAlive said:

I don't think she's had a good video since "Hung Up". And I don't think she's had a great video since the Ray of Light album. It seems that she has shifted her visual focus from music videos to tours.

Apparently,iTunes has three different versions of 'Celebration' for pre-order:

***2-disc version with the Benny Bennasi edit of "Celebration" as a bonus ($19.99)

***1-disc version ($13.99)

***2-disc version plus 30 videos (different from DVD tracklist) and the bonus track "It's So Cool" ($29.99)

Moonbeam said:

I love "Hung Up" and "Sorry" those videos truly captured the mood/vibe of the album.

"4 Minutes" was cool,from a visual standpoint.

I think these three videos are as good as it's gonna get,these days.

Japanese promo version of 'Celebration' 2-CD set

jiorjios said:

SoulAlive said:

For me Love Profusion was the last great video. And it was a bit of a surprise considering it was the last video from American Life and came after the dreadful Hollywood video so I guess there is still hope. Since then we had:
1)Hung Up: it was good but far from impressive
2)Sorry: boring boring boring plus it was a bad sequel to Hung Up
3)Get Together: the best video 2005-2009 for me but still not on the level of her 80s/90s vids
4)Jump nice hair and nothing more
5)4 Minutes:It had all the ingredients of being a great video but somehow it fails
6)Give It To Me;this competes strongly with True Blue for the title of worst Madonna video ever
7)Miles Away: nice tour footage, bad clothes
8)Celebration: another wasted opportunity/bad styling
7)

SoulAlive said:

Ah ok. I was thinking she would be dressed like Madonna in the Like A Virgin video so I missed her.

jiorjios said:

Yeah,that's what we heard.I guess she changed her mind at the last minute? lol

SoulAlive said:

I knew I would get this reaction which is why I added the words: for me

Isn't there two videos to be released for "Celebration"- this remix video and the single version complete with fan footage and Lourdes?

SoulAlive said:

Co-sign.

This promotional 2CDR album "Celebration" was released by Warner Music Japan

on 28th AUG 2009. It is the pre-release for the Japanese 2CD album which will be released commercially on 30th SEP 2009. The most interesting point is the track listing on this promo. "Burning Up" and "Hollywood" are replaced by "You Must Love Me" and "American Life".

Also the track order is slighty different than the announced by madonna.com.

We must wait for the final release...




CD1: CD2:

01 Celebration
02 Hung Up
03 Music
04 Vogue
05 4 Minutes
06 Holiday
07 Like A Virgin
08 Into The Groove
09 Like A Prayer
10 Ray Of Light
11 Sorry
12 Express Yourself
13 Open Your Heart
14 Borderline
15 Secret
16 Erotica
17 Justify My Love
18 Dress You Up
01 La Isla Bonita
02 Material Girl
03 Everybody
04 Papa Don't Preach
05 Crazy For You
06 Who's That Girl
07 Frozen
08 Miles Away
09 Take A Bow
10 Beautiful Stranger
11 Don’t Tell Me
12 Live To Tell
13 You Must Love Me
14 Cherish
15 Lucky Star
16 American Life
17 Die Another Day
18 Revolver

[Edited 9/1/09 4:53am]

jiorjios said:

You find LP better than Hung Up and 4 Minutes?

Hung Up is iconic, it's truly famous all over the world. It features an impressive image of Madonna.


I like Celebration. Personally I hate those videos like Toxic and ALL of Pink's videos, where they dress up as different charakters and do "funny" things.

Madonna always had much more style than this, and this new video is fastly edited, each shot doesn't take longer than 2 sec.
Plus, I like the dancing. Madonna is embarrasing at times, and I don't find her sexy at all. Especially not when she's flirting with Jesus. The dress is okay.

I like the dancers, they wear cool clothes, and actually, we'll soon get another version, featuring Lola and hopefully some of the fans they casted in July!!

SoulAlive said:

I think this is the video 4 the remix version and we're gonna get the one 4 the album version later 2day

SoulAlive said:

If that happens, she's lost a sale.

Moonbeam said:

lol,it's just for the Japan promo

SoulAlive said:

Taking off my favorite Madonna song ever ("Burning Up") and replacing it with my least favorite Madonna song ever ("American Life") is tantamount to sacrilege! My only hope is that all of the other tracklistings available (on her website and iTunes, for instance) have the tracklist we've been assuming to be the real one for a few weeks now.

graecophilos said:

Well yes Hung Up is famous all over the world and the video do match the style of the album perfectly but I wasn't impressed mainly because it basically reminded me of a movie which I know very well:Fame and which has been immitated in videos countless times (by JLo and Geri Halliwell among others). Love Profusion (although itself an immitation of the ad) was more special. But that's just me. I do not like Toxic very much either but I find it better than Celebration. Britney is not really impressive as a video artist although Everytime was pretty good. However I think Pink's Sober video is one of the best I have seen the past few years and also Kylie Minogue still does great videos (and surely other artists too)
[Edited 9/1/09 5:15am]

go2theMax said:

Yeah,there are two different videos.Here's some info....

This first video,filmed in Milan,Italy,features cameo appearances by Lola and Jesus and is available on iTunes where it can be downloaded for free.The Benni Benassi remix of the song is used for this video.The Sticky and Sweet tour dancers are prominently featured in this video.

The second video will arrive in two weeks and it uses the album version of the song.This video features scenes of the fans who were chosen to dance/appear in it.

SoulAlive said:

I need you to calm me down about "Burning Up"! Do you think it'll stay in the tracklist?

Moonbeam said:

Yes,it's still there!! The tracklist is final,nothing's being removed,lol.

SoulAlive said:

Whew! You had me scared there for awhile! Naughty DavidEye!