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  1. Speaking of Bedtime Stories, am I the only one who changed the name of both Forbidden Love songs in 2005? In my music library, Bedtime Stories has "Forbidden Love (In Your Arms)" and COADF has "Forbidden Love (Just One Kiss)"
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  2. Yeah, the "upside down" version is the only cover for me.
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  3. The upside down: The other one looks so unnatural. Always thought the back cover was much better!
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  4. When I first noticed Madonna, she was purely entertaining to me (in 1985; Lucky Star/Into The Groove). I was captured by her persona on posters and in her videos. Then she became a role-model in outspokenness (Papa Don't Preach) and self-confidence, and has remained in this role for me ever since, reinforcing it time and time again (Like A Prayer/Express Yourself/Why's It So Hard/Human Nature/American Life etc.). She became a role-model as somebody who questions society, expands personal horizons, not afraid of experimenting in terms of sexuality and spirituality. She stood up for herself, co-wrote her music and lyrics, everything had a deeper layer/meaning. Her live performances captured me the most. Her fiery energy and talent, her fearlessness to provoke and shock has impressed me for life. As was said before, her interviews showed how intelligent she is, I did learn a lot from her just paying attention to what she had to say. She has had such a vital influence on personal lives and society's standards. A sheer force of nature. So inspiring, time and time again. (Thanks for posting this thread @Yot .)
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  5. The problem with the upside down one is the fact, that they forgot to switch the color of the text. I have recreated the original two covers as well as an upside down version with color corrected text. The album title doesn’t disappear as much in this one as it does in the one above but it’s still kinda hard to see. I personally don’t like how they zoomed in on her. Was that really necessary? I use this cover instead because it stays true to the original photograph and avoids the text issue altogether:
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  6. Yot

    What Madonna means to me

    I didn't exist when Madonna's greatest hits came out – I am twenty years old. But the first time I heard The Rain, I think I was 14 then, I just had to know who was singing it. This is when I discovered Power Of Goodbye, Frozen, and so many more amazing songs. I learned that unlike so many other pop singers, Madonna actually wrote these songs. Her grace and beauty in the song videos was amazing. I was very surprised to read in Wikipedia that "She later attended Rochester Adams High School where she became a straight-A student". I actually know a person who studied in that high school, it is one of the most competitive in the US, where students are prepared to apply to Ivy League colleges. Straight-A in a high school like that is NOT COMMON. This is when I started thinking that Madonna is definitely not a pop star like the others. She has very high IQ, is a powerhouse of willpower, writes amazing personal songs that touch me deeply. I find it amazing how she stands for what she believes in and actually puts effort in it: women rights, education in Africa, fighting stupid prejudice every step of the way. At 60 she is still the most beautiful woman, and still full of amazing strength. I know she can hear the loud trolls and haters who have issues with her age (!!!!), her openness and just the fact that she has opinions. I wonder if she knows how loved she is by people of all genders, ages and races. I know many people my age who adore her. She has been called by an ex-husband "domineering and castrating" but honestly so many young men would love nothing more than to be her servants in male chastity :) A woman should be allowed to be strong and expressing her opinions. And a woman that combines strength with artistic talent, great voice, inner and outer beauty, very high intelligence and so much desire to give and help... deserves our admiration.
    1 point
  7. Yot

    Madonna's body @ 60yo

    I would like to take this opportunity to say how strongly Piers Morgan disgusts me. Just thinking of him makes me vomit in my mouth a little bit. As a fat, sly and selfish 52yo liar and manipulator, he decided to lengthily elaborate and visually affirm how nauseas he is because of the sexy dancing of a 59yo fit, flexible, charismatic, fearless woman who can bend herself in crazy ways in a car while singing with a great voice all along. Don't we all love the image of the old perv chasing young girls and being disgusted with women around his age, even though he is a disgusting unkempt loser. Don't we all love the idea that women are only worth something when they are young, and once a young woman gets older there is nothing left in her to admire or love - she can be thrown in the trash. Well, these beautiful and noble concepts now have a champion, a man determined to promote all that is disgusting and unfair in this world. Madonna's sexy dancing in the carpool karaoke, and her "just do it" pubes picture - I found both of them very sexy, and I reacted accordingly via the expected biophysical response, and not because I prefer older women or anything like that, simply because Madonna really is sexy as f.... Some wrinkles and "imperfections" here and there, but an amazing character and incredible charisma.
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  8. Will be this photo a album cover....
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  9. I am very happy that some others - including the great @Beland @Frank- voted for Intervention! Being a school teacher, I always relate it to my job. But I also think Easy Ride is beautiful, love its meaning.
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  10. I have to agree with you, mlvc. I do seem to remember seeing this addressed at some point, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to the collection to see what article may have mentioned it. Either way, it seems evident that the upside-down cover would be the correct version. I know that the adverts, etc. from the time show the cover "right" side up, but if that was the way it was intended to be, why in the world would it get messed up for the second edition and beyond? It's not like the entire cover was flipped upside-down, whoever did it obviously had to change the lettering around to fit with the upside-down image. And at this point, it's been pressed and re-pressed. If it was a mistake, I'm sure someone in her team would have fixed it at this point 20+ years later.
    1 point
  11. WeYo

    What Madonna means to me

    She saved me (in many ways), it felt like somebody opened the window for me and I will always support her, no matter what!! There's only one Queen (for me) and that's MADONNA!
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  12. Aiwa08

    What Madonna means to me

    I'm not original saying this, but Madonna to me is the soundtrack of my life, and my force in bad times thanks to her music.
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  14. It was annoying but this debate pales into insignificance when put next to Rebel Heart which is completely unwatchable and cringeworthy. She really showed a human side on Rebel Heart and it was really accessible to watch live. The DVD however just looks horribly sanitised and over processed/headachey.
    1 point
  15. That session was done by Paolo Roversi. His work is really beautiful. Madonna talks about this image not being used for Bedtime Stories in the Aperture interview from 1999: "I also had my photograph taken by this other photographer who I adored, but the photographs never got used: Paolo Roversi, he does beautiful work. They were going to be pictures for my album cover – not this record but the record before – but the people at the record company were all too freaked out; they thought the pictures were too blurry, they weren’t going to read well – whatever."
    1 point
  16. Confessions Tour (2006) Future Lovers/ I Feel Love Get Together Like A Virgin Jump Oh Father (Interlude) Live To Tell Forbidden Love Isaac Sorry Like It Or Not Triggering (Rock Interlude) History I Love New York Let It Will Be Ray Of Light Nothing Fails Music Inferno Erotica Everybody Deeper & Deeper La Isla Bonita Lucky Star Hung Up/Holiday
    1 point
  17. Is this her new uberkinky store? Note that they’ve dropped the “I” in stories to “store”
    1 point
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