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I completely agree. nicki's verse was on fire too.
just listening to Hard Candy again for only the second time and thinking about how disjointed it is in comparision to Confessions, which flows together as a cohesive whole to me. I find the same problem with MDNA. Maybe this is more of a problem for me as an older listener of music but I have to wonder if artists these days, including Madonna, feel like they have to put a collection of disparate songs together rather than an album that works either thematically as a whole or a collection of individual songs that work together as a whole. In other words, patchwork compared to a completed tapestry of music. That is frustrating whether you consider Madonna or Prince or other artists who used to put out entire albums which would capture and enrapture you from beginning to end. Ugggh! Mark it down to the times we live in, I guess... 
Are you attending any of the concerts? I'm going to two. This will be my first time going to see a Madonna concert (after all these years!). I'm really looking forward to it. 
The 30 April issue of UK magazine 'Now' features Dan Wootton's interview with Madonna that was broadcast on ITV1's 'Daybreak/Lorraine' earlier this month.
I'm Addicted is a decent dance/pop number, no more and no less, it's not a new Sorry or Impressive Instant, c'mon Soul, admit it
Some Girls has a nice chorus, but the production is overkill, it doesn't breathe, it doesn't roll; the anti-bitches (Jersey Shore?) lyrics are good, I admit it...
I Don't Give A is one of her best "not gonna hit rock bottom" songs! the rock/techno sounds truly works here... [Edited 4/25/12 19:25pm]  | |
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I think "I'm Addictive" is one of Madonna's best dance tracks.This song is intoxicating! I love the way it builds and builds and builds,then reaches its' startling climax near the end ("I need to dance",Madonna says,like someone needing a cigarette after hot sex,lol).The production is stellar.
"Some Girls" is a club banger! Has an early 80s/Blondie/Deborah Harry vibe.This is actually my favorite song on the album.
"I Don't Give A" isn't terrible,but I sometimes find myself skipping it.I'm not too fond of the lyrics but the Nicki Minaj rap is great ("there's only one queen...."). | |
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Soul, I'm surprised you don't like "I Don't Give A" that much. That song has grown on me and I quite like it now, although it doesn't grab me like "I'm Addicted," "I'm a Sinner," "Gang Bang," and "Falling Free" do. This album is a mixed bag for me but for the most part I like most of the songs and the first part of the Deluxe edition flows quite nicely. I don't play it over and over again the way I do Confessions and others, however. But I am totally stoked for this tour! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Hmmm, [Edited 4/26/12 18:00pm] "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 think part of MDNA's problem is that she worked with so many different people. The album's no masterpiece but it works together good. And please in no way, shape, or form compare Hard Candy to any other Madonna album | |
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I do like some songs on Hard Candy--it just doesn't work as a whole with the songs I don't like. I agree that MDNA works better than Hard Candy as a whole. But, I'm hoping for something that works as well for me in the future as Confessions (keep in mind I just heard the entire album a couple of months ago LOL). "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 hope so too but I don't think we will. She'll probably keep releasing commercial material beside good material from now on. I do admit its a smart marketing technique though | |
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Guess we'll have to wait and see. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Just discovered why I like "Don't Give A"--it is a musical and lyrical litany of what an overwhelmed single mother who does it all has to go through. The rap and overwhelming flow of the music echoes what goes on for real, especially the slowed down segment when the "speaker" realizes that she is getting her own life back again and doesn't "give a ****." Yeah, I like this song... "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 planning on going to one (my first Madonna concert too). The one closest to me still has a lot of seats left so I'm kinda wait for details on the tour and the setlist before I decide. A friend of mine learned that leason the hard way when she went to see Whitney Houston awhile back. | |
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I guess it depends where you are at. In my location all the good seats are nearly gone. But, I remember when Sade was here, there were still seats available almost until the concert date, but when the concert was held, the arena was totally packed. A total success as a world tour. I don't doubt that Madonna will be like that, too. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Damn, just have to post one more time about how much I LUV the Confessions album. I truly love every single song on this album and I know I'm VERY late to the club but all the lyrics and music just totoally work for me right now. Did I say, I love it! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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It's an OK song,but the lyrics in the verses get on my nerves | |
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What songs do you dislike on Hard Candy? I think the whole thing flows perfectly until the very end.After "Dance 2Nite",it's all downhill. | |
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These are the only songs I remotely like
Candy Shop 1.5/5 4 Minutes 3/5 Give It To Me 3.5/5 She's Not Me 1/5 Miles Away 3.5/5 | |
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Madonna’s November concert in Medellin sold out in less than a week, Radio Caracol reported Friday. Colombians clamoured to see the Queen of Pop on her first tour date in Colombia and the last 2,000 tickets sold out in less than half an hour.
The spokesman for Ocesa Colombia, the event company putting on the concert, said it was a dream come true for Colombians to bring Madonna to their country and credited Medellin’s mayor Anibal Gaviria for making the event possible.
The concert has promised to bring a large influx of tourists to the city with hotels in Medellin already 80% booked for the night of the concert.
Although most (55%) of ticket buyers were in Medellin, many out-of-towners bought tickets for the pop star’s only stop in Colombia on her six-city tour of Latin America. 34% of ticket buyers were in Bogata and Cundinamarca, another 4% were in the Valle del Cauca department, and the remaining 7% were from elsewhere in Colombia and neighboring countries. http://colombiareports.com
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The highly anticipated opening of Madonna's MDNA Tour is now planned forThursday, May 31st at Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv, two days later than previously scheduled due to production delays.
The change in the opening date was announced today by promoters Live Nation and Shuki Weiss. All tickets dated May 29th will be honored at the rescheduled May 31st event. The Material Girl has already announced 76 concert dates in arenas, stadiums and special outdoor sites throughout Europe and North America with confirmed sales of over 1.4 million tickets to date. The MDNA tour which has already sold out in Berlin (2 shows sold out), Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Istanbul (45,000 tickets sold) as well as Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Quebec City (70,000 tickets), New York's Yankee Stadium (73,000 tickets over 2 shows), Washington DC and the Staples Center in LA has recently announced additional concert dates in Mexico and South America which will be followed by a visit to Australia where Madonna has not performed in 20 years.
Along with state of the art technical components including the largest video screens ever created, Madonna, her band and her dancers are expected to reach above and beyond her Super Bowl performance where she performed to an audience of over 112 million people around the world, the highest number of viewers in Super Bowl history.
Madonna's latest studio recording "MDNA" debuted on iTunes at the #1 spot in over 40 countries. Her newest single "Girl Gone Wild" is #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs Chart - her 42nd time in the top slot. She remains the artist with the most #1 songs in the chart's 35-year history. MDNA has received glowing reviews including USA Today which commented, "Madonna's MDNA is rocking and revelatory... her most personal effort to date.
"The woman is pop's most durable alpha female, coolly courting fascination and controversy on her own terms." Added The Sun in the UK, "The album should be the spine of an incredible live show - just what her army of followers will want to hear." The MDNA Tour is produced by Live Nation Global Touring and presented locally in association with Shuki Weiss.
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Madonna is featured as the cover star on Chinese magazine 'Hit' - inside is a six-page article and a large fold-out poster. Click on the images to enlarge.
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MDNA WORLD TOUR SETLIST | |
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In The Press: Madonna at Madison Square Garden
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  Madonna: Controversial queen of pop is always in vogue writes Chitra Ramaswamy
LET’S look back for a moment: four weeks, four controversies. A typical Madonna month, you might say. Number one, YouTube slapped a viewing restriction on the video for ‘Girl Gone Wild’, presumably on the grounds that it features a 53-year-old woman humping a wall while making I-don't-give-a... eyes at the camera
Number two, at Miami's Ultra music festival, Madonna took to the stage (minus a golden throne carried by glistening gladiators – this was not a Superbowl moment) and screamed, “How many people in this crowd have seen molly?”. The ravers went wild. So, too, did a DJ called Deadmau5, who pronounced her an “idiot”. Molly, you see, is American streetspeak for the drug MDMA. Oh, and Madonna's new album is called MDNA. It was hardly an Evita moment, but then again... has everyone forgotten The Shamen?
Number three, Madonna was wearing fishnets at the time. Imagine! A 53-year-old woman in a pair of tights. We can only assume that stuffed inside the offending garment was the horny tail of a she-devil, and a wrinkly old one at that. This really was an unforgivable crime. One (female) columnist even wondered what could she be hiding under those trademark fingerless Chanel gloves? Liver spots?
Number four, and this one at least is about the music: MDNA has undergone the biggest second-week sales drop in US chart history. The crown is slipping. Never mind getting to number one on iTunes in 30 countries, the fact that Madonna has overtaken Elvis as the solo artist with the most chart-topping albums, or that MDNA is a fabulously camp, thinly veiled revenge album, a perfectly manicured finger raised at Guy Ritchie. It's official. Again. Madonna, finally, must be over.
“Some things never change,” is how Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, puts it. Well, quite. Let's look back again. To ‘Justify My Love’, which was banned by MTV in 1990 for its sexual content. Or to 1989, when a Pepsi ad featuring Madonna singing ‘Like a Prayer’ was pulled within just 48 hours for its religious content. Now it's the advert for her perfume, Truth or Dare, that's whipping up a storm as predictable as the missionary position. It seems Madonna no longer needs to actually do anything to court controversy. The memory of it, plus a bit of rolling around in couture lingerie, is enough.
The fact is that Madonna hasn't really changed, despite what people always say about her being the queen of reinvention. Her attitude, style, sexual politics, feminism, fighting talk, dance music influences and, yes, her fishnet tights, were all there from the start. Give or take some lace and a mockney flirtation, she's just the same. Apart from one thing...
Madonna's age has changed, and for this we seem unable to forgive her. The criticisms are the same as they ever were – she is too rich, too cold, too driven, too controlling, too much – but another insult is creeping in more and more. And it has the nastiest sting of all because, in directing it at her, it is directed at all women. Madonna is too old.
Actually, for all of us who have grown up with Madonna, sported legwarm ers with her, even endured the ignominy of Swept Away with her, her age is one of our favourite things about her. We love her longevity, the fact that she has stuck it out, that she's still not sorry, and that with each passing day she becomes a little bit more outrageous, a little bit more Liz Taylor. This is the point of Madonna. This is why we still need her. And, of course, this is why she drives people mad. Long may the fishnets continue.
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Interview: Madonna Madonna is heading to Murrayfield on July 21
MADONNA talks fashion, fragrance and retreating to her dungeon as she prepares for a global tour that will see the queen of pop perform in Edinburgh this summer
SHE may be sporting Gaultier and Givenchy – as well as her first fine fragrance, Truth or Dare – on her upcoming tour, but Madonna hopes there’s one thing she won’t be wearing as she travels the globe to promote her new album: injuries.
The MDNA tour, in support of her 12th studio album, has required some physically challenging moves. At Macy’s Herald Square earlier this month, making an appearance in support of her scent, the star was nursing what she called “a big old cut” on her leg. Motioning to her black lace Dolce & Gabbana dress, she laughs, “I take these clothes off and I’m covered in bruises. It’s very sexy.” Why? Wait and see, she says, but promises it will be intense.
The tour kicks off in Tel Aviv on 20 May, wending its way around the Middle East and Europe (including Edinburgh’s Murrayfield on 21 July) before North America in August. “It’s crunch time for me getting my show ready, so after this I have to go back to the dungeon,” she says. “I call it the dungeon, where we work. In a room with no light. It’s kind of our factory, but I have a lot of work to do.”
As for the show’s couture, she says, “I worship and adore [Jean Paul Gaultier]. He’s creating one of my costumes, and kind of godfathering the costumes for a section of my show, with all my dancers. I’m really happy he’s doing it, because he’s such a genius. I’ll probably wear something that Riccardo [Tisci] from Givenchy makes. But the rest of it is going to be what my costume designer, Arianne Phillips, creates with me.”
If her Super Bowl XLVI costumes – which included a glittering Egyptian caftan, fanciful Philip Treacy headpieces and a priest’s robes – are any barometer, those MDNA costumes will get people talking. Madonna calls the Super Bowl show “one ofmy most favourite and most treasured performing experiences, for sure. That was amazing”.
But next time she may opt for flats instead of heels. “The dance that LMFAO does, the shuffle, was really hard to do in heels. I have to say, I would prefer to do the shuffle in sneakers. If you want to drop it like it’s hot, it’s good to wear flats, because then your booty gets really close to the floor, but then there are things you can do in heels that you can’t do in sneakers.” Madonna’s fingerprint goes on anything that bears her name. “I don’t take the job of creating anything – whether it’s fragrance or beauty products or clothes – lightly, and I need a lot of time to do stuff. I don’t like it when other people create for me.” That was definitely true when it came to her debut scent. “The time was right,” she says of partnering with Coty Prestige. “I’ve been working off and on on various fragrances over the years, and [have been] approached by a lot of companies and have tried to create fragrances. They were always abandoned projects.
“I’ve always loved perfume; it has always been a big part of my life. But every time I tried to create the scent I was looking for, it never reached the stage where I thought it was good enough or I was told that the ingredients would be impossible to recreate in a mass way. Then I’d say, ‘Let’s try and do a synthetic version,’ and it never smelled as good as I wanted it to. And if I’m not going to wear it, I’m not going to sell it.
“So, I finally was able to create, with my partners, a fragrance that I could stand behind. We tested a lot of things over the past few years, and [Lourdes ‘Lola’ Leon, her 15-year-old daughter] has told me what she likes. She is a very opinionated young lady, and she likes this perfume.’' The singer had her late mother, also named Madonna, in mind when creating the scent too. Her mother, she recalls, wore Fracas. “I wanted to create a fragrance that would remind me of her.” She shrugs off the brewing controversy about the sexy TV campaign for Truth or Dare, a black-and-white spot that features her writhing in lingerie. “I don’t understand. It was perfectly innocent,” she says with an arch look. “I just touch my cleavage once or something. I think it’s dreamy and sensual, and I think it perfectly conveys the feeling I’m trying to evoke with the perfume. It’s a perfume for a woman.”
With her Material Girl line, also for Macy’s, Madonna has dabbled in body sprays and nail polishes, and would like to extend her Truth or Dare fragrance franchise into additional categories. But first up are lingerie and footwear under the Truth or Dare name. “Once again, time-consuming. I want it to be good. [More beauty categories are] something I’d like to develop, but I need to get past all of my other responsibilities and commitments, like my tour. So, sometime in the future, yeah.” She has a second fragrance in the works; it is due out “sometime next year. I think it would be good to do a men’s fragrance, as well,” she says. “My daughter thinks so. She wants to wear it. She likes to wear men’s cologne – don’t ask me why.”
If she does do one, she says, “I love musk and amber and woody kind of fragrances on men. I love the smell of whisky – we should make a men’s cologne that smells like whisky. I can’t drink it, it’s too strong, but it smells amazing – a really good old whisky.”
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Nice, she should play a full version of Angel
Question: who are her backup singers?
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Madonna's new Muse
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The MDNA Tour (what we know so far)----
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Not sure who the backup singers will be,but I agree with you about Donna and Nicki.When they were performing with her,she actually made them a huge part of the show.They brought alot to the table and Madonna obviously admired them.Nowadays,her tours have two female backup singers who remain on the side of the stage,in the back | |
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They have no chemistry with Madonna...they're just onstage,doing their job.mdna is out of the uk and us top40
in the uk spent 4 weeks in top40 -American life spent 11 weeks in top40 -hard candy spent 22 weeks in top40 | |
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Fasinating. BTW how many pictures do you have on your Madonna shrine? | |
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