[Was Anyone Else Caught Off Guard by Hard Candy?]

Taken off guard by how astronomically bland it was. 

[Nelly Rips Madonna]

Omg, I'm gonna burn all my Nelly records now.... Oh wait... ?

[Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones]

Any hope for Gambler, Dress You Up and Burning Up getting beefed up in a non-house mix way? They're not on the list, so I doubt they'll appear anyway. 

[Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones]

It looks like the tracks are being sequenced together as a seamless mix, from what I've glimpsed of the studio session photo with Mike Dean at his DAW.

[RIP Jamie Auld]

? I'm shocked, so young. Wonder what happened. Rest in peace Jamie. 

[Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones]

2 hours ago, Rory said:

Madonna’s No. 1 Billboard Dance Club Songs: Impressive instances! (from drownedmadonna.com)

1983 Holiday/Lucky Star
1984 Like a Virgin
1985 Material Girl
1985 Angel/Into the Groove
1987 Open Your Heart
1987 Causing a Commotion (Remix)
1988 You Can Dance (LP Cuts)
1989 Like a Prayer
1989 Express Yourself 
1990 Keep It Together
1990 Vogue
1991 Justify My Love
1992 Erotica
1993 Deeper and Deeper  
1993 Fever
1994 Secret
1995 Bedtime Story
1997 Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
1998 Frozen
1998 Ray of Light
1999 Nothing Really Matters
1999 Beautiful Stranger
2000 American Pie
2000 Music
2001 Don’t Tell Me
2001 What It Feels Like for a Girl 
2001 Impressive Instant
2002 Die Another Day
2003 American Life
2003 Hollywood
2003 Me Against the Music, Britney Spears ft. Madonna
2004 Nothing Fails
2004 Love Profusion
2005 Hung Up
2006 Sorry
2006 Get Together
2006 Jump
2008 4 Minutes, Madonna ft Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
2008 Give It 2 Me
2009 Celebration  
2012 Give Me All Your Luvin’, Madonna ft Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.
2012 Girl Gone Wild
2012 Turn Up the Radio
2015 Living for Love
2015 Ghosttown
2015 Bitch I’m Madonna, Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj
2019 Medellín, Madonna & Maluma
2019 I Rise

2020 I Don't Search, I Find

Her favourite song, Candy Shop, ain't there ?

[Your Opinion On Bedtime Stories?]

I like the album a lot, and would say that for the best parts, along with Erotica and I'm Breathless, it could've done with real drums and percussion, juxtaposed with bass, keys and guitars, would've formed a great rhythm section and thus creating an authentic jazz album. The vocals are great and sound sincere and the writing as well as themes explored make for an introspective experience.

[Demos performed by other artists]

There are a couple of 80s ones. Like A Virgin and Open Your Heart. They're writers' demos though.

https://youtu.be/GsttxzlrHHI

https://youtu.be/LbpqItgBGdo

[Madonna Back In The Studio!]

She didn't create those trends, she brought them into the mainstream. Either of those is an accomplishment for a commercial artist.

[Madonna Back In The Studio!]

It's Warner, not "Warners". It's like saying Sires, Interscopes or Mavericks. Where do folks keep getting that "s" from?

[Your opinion on Erotica?]

You know what? So many great albums came out in 1992. Some of my favourite ones in fact. It was a truly unique time; grunge, shoegaze, stoner rock, sludge, britpop, industrial and indie were making huge strides and emerging as their own genres and blurring the lines between indie and mainstream. 

 

What Madonna was doing with Erotica was pretty brave; taking those underground sounds and making it commercial with the themes she wanted to explore, but it was still only a small fraction of what was going on in the musical landscape of 1992.

 

Madonna's contribution to that zeitgeist shouldn't be ignored in terms of sexual politics and aesthetics, but I would question, musically, did Erotica have an equal impact? I think the title track itself is perhaps the most interesting song with its bassline, Eastern flavours and dominatrix themes. As with all Madonna albums, there are usual fillers sequenced between dance tracks, ballads and downtempo songs. The album explores genres such as new jack swing and deep bassy blues with the help of Andre Betts, but is let down by the laxed production by Shep Pettibone on other songs that make the album feel lackluster. 

 

Whilst Erotica is an album praised by many fans and does have its merits, for my tastes, it offers far too little for its total runtime of 75 minutes. 

 

For those curious about what else 1992 offered, here are some of my favourite releases:

 

Manic Street Preachers, Generation Terrorists

Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes

Curve, Doppelganger

Ride, Going Blank Again

Tool, Opiate

White Zombie, La Sexorcisto

Jesus and Mary Chain, Honey's Dead

Godflesh, Pure

L7, Bricks Are Heavy

The Cure, Wish

Skinny Puppy, Last Rights

Ministry, Psalm 69

Sonic Youth, Dirty

Morrissey, Your Arsenal

Morphine, Good

NIN, Broken

The Prodigy, Experience

Siouxsie, Twice Upon A Time

Nirvana, Insecticide

[Madonna Back In The Studio!]

[Madonna's voice?]

I love her pre-fame vocals, her VT, WTG, BA, GS, DWT, RIT and CT vocals, SNL, Oscars 91 and a lot of others. So much energy and colour in those tones. 

When it comes to singers there are voices I like; Stevie Nicks, Marianne Faithful, Siouxsie Sioux, Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Andrew Eldritch, Morrissey, Alice Cooper, Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Shirley Manson... 

It's all about the tones, expression, the theatre of their vocal artistry. I'd listen to them recite the fucking alphabet because each one would be so unique and not depend on enhancements, pitch correction, retuning or any of that shit. It's their real voice. 

Madonna is best when she's at her most real and RAW!

[Madonnas current state of mind]

My goodness, so many PhDs here and close personal friends of Madonna ?

[Your Expectations Vs Reality for 2022]

I couldn't give a crap what Madonna or anyone else does, I just know I'm gonna have a fantastic year ?

[Madonna on Instagram / Facebook / Twitter + other Social Media]

Madonna always refers to it as "Get Into The Groove" ?

[Ever mistook anyone for Madonna?]

Saw this picture today on Insta and thought it was Madonna for a split second!

Happened to anyone else, you mistake someone for Madonna for just a second? Easy to do these days on a phone when thumbnails are so small.

[Celebrities Madonna has never met]

Siouxsie Sioux, Peter Murphy, Robert Smith, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper.

[Madonna Vs Sickick - Frozen (FULL Version)]

Trap is Crap.

But whatever gets her those streams I guess. 

[What Madonna song would you play on these speakers first?]

The Beast Within

[Madonna pop star or artist?]

Pop star. A pioneering one at that. She's opened a lot of doors for other pop stars. 

Madonna seems to be rewriting her job description and that's her right. 

Like someone above said, she was more of an artist when she wasn't broadcasting it all the time without producing the work to back it up. 

Ultimately it's self-serving, but perhaps that's the actual art? The art of staying relevant. The art of surviving. The art of celebrity. The art of narcissism.

 

[If Madonna were to pick 3 Ballads....]

To be absolutely honest, I think this is the sort of thing that works fine in fans' imaginations, but in real life, it's just a terrible idea. Madonna and an orchestra... The reality of such a pairing would be a nightmare. And it would be boring. How long before she starts dry humping a double bass during the first verse? She needs those 808s and autotuned live vocals and those tits out moments, not an orchestra, how can she disturb the peace with a string quartet? ?

[If Madonna were to pick 3 Ballads....]

Anything by Sondheim.

[Did Give 2 To Me destroy any chances of successful future Madonna singles?]

Why would it destroy future chances? She just needed to release better singles that would resonate with the public. She had shitty singles prior to that one.

[When exactly did Madonna become a superstar?]

It was a little wedding dress and a whole lot of ass ?