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  1. Now that I am grown … I run around and sing "bitch I'm Madonna, na nananana." :D
  2. I think is could easily be achieved by moving things around a little. I must admit that I find the first segment a little weird. NRM sets a beautifully mystic tone which isn't picked up. Instead, she leaved after just one song for a costume change only to come out again and perform some of her biggest classics from the 80s. I'd say by moving the BS–ROL–Rain-section to the front right after NRM and moving Everybody—ITG–OYH–Holiday to the end (between BIM and Celebration), she'd solve the issue by creating a much better flow musically and by having the biggest party hits right at the end.
  3. She is, I didn't doubt that. But having your lead vocals doubled up by playing studio lead vocals along your live vocals is simply lazy, I'm sorry. Turn up her mic if the music is too loud but don't do that. And what does her age have to do with that? She's 65 yeah but she hasn't lost her voice. She either doesn't care or doesn't dare to sing without pre-recorded support which I do not expect to happen at a live (!)-concert. And – and that's more important – she diminishes her own talents by doing so. Yeah, you could hear her live vocals stopping when she had to sneeze during ITG but you could also hear how loud her pre-receded vocals were. I'd say it's a 50/50-thing. And it is fuel to the fire of everyone who claims she cannot sing. She obviously thinks so herself.
  4. But she is definitely partly to be blamed for that because with the exception of 1998–2004 she never really bothered with the singing. She didn't train her voice properly until Evita and she lost interest in doing so after Confessions. And these days, she's hiding her singing-ability (which its definitely there) behind effects and backing-tracks. She is not a great singer technically because she doesn't have a wide range. But she is a singer that is able to express emotions. I don't know how she does it but the way she sings a song tells the story at least as much as the lyrics do. She's much better than Taylor here, if you ask me, who doesn't have that ability. And yet, she goes for backing tracks and everything on tour rather than training her voice and singing properly. If you have the studio vocals playing behind your live vocals, you have to stay in synch with them. That means, you can't alter certain lines, etc., which means you cannot highlight certain parts of a song, depending on the mood or the night. It becomes very robotic. I don't mind if she lip-synchs a song when the choreography is demanding. Celine Dion is lipping two thirds of her shows and doesn't dance at all. But I H A T E it when she has her own album vocals playing along during performances such as NRM or Live To Tell. These are numbers where she's standing still. She's a singer after all and she's playing a concert. I expect someone with the professionalism and the talent that Madonna has to sing live without support in such moments. She has proven time and time again that she's capable of doing so. And yet she isn't, may it be a lack of nerves or a lack of training. But if people spend as much money as they do when they buy a ticket to her shows, they deserve someone who's in charge of their nerves and their instrument, here, her voice.
  5. I feel sorry for her but then again, I always wondered how she actually felt comfortable in that pot-smoking surrounding she's been in since dating the latest dancer (I can't even remember their names). It's really funny that one the one hand it seems she's really looking for men she can control, hence the young guys who are often much less educated than her, aren't as fluent in English as she is and at the same time you can see her changing quite drastically each time she is with a new man. Even 2012-Madonna would rather have shot herself than smoking weed and suddenly she was all about drinking and doing pot. That always seemed to be as if she wanted to make herself compatible to her boyfriends and their peers. But I guess, eventually, she needs someone much more impressive than any oof the guys she's been with since Guy.
  6. If you have a problem with opinions, you probably shouldn't join discussion forums.
  7. Technically, they never recorded a duet. Madonna did this song with Leonard and later with Orbit for ROL and didn’t release it. It was then given to Martim, he recorded his vocals and lowered the pitch of the original song to make it fit his range. That’s why Madonna sound rather odd on it. They’ve never been in the studio together and she obviously didn’t care enough to come in and re-record her vocals.
  8. She should just go back to working with one co-writer and there’s no more confusion. Madonna/Pat Leonard. That’s clear and understandable.
  9. Because that’s one of the reasons why she’s been so successful. Because people knew whenever she did something they would get flawlessly entertained. Yes, she had bad vocals before but every performance of her was a true extravaganza. if you strip it back like this – and I love that she finally dares to do that – you need to make sure that what is left is great. And she’s well aware of the fact that her live singing is often not good enough. That’s why she uses autotune, has loud album vocals playing along, that’s why she replaced her live vocals with newly recorded vocals when she releases something – from a dvd up to a performance that was aired in TV a few days before with horrible vocals. She is a singer and she has a good voice. It’s nothing out of reach for her to train her vocals and sound great, especially not if she’s standing on a bar rather than doing BAT-like dance routines. She just needs to bother.
  10. Me too. I love how the album gets more sophisticated towards the end. IMHO, she sold the record short by saying it was mainly about dancing and having a good time. It’s quite introspective towards the end and why everybody hates Push and the likes, to me Push, How High and LION are among the best productions from that album.
  11. Is it? I thought only one tiny bit of Vogue was from Lisbon. They even had to colour the corset differently as she wore the golden one in Lisbon and the lilac one in Paris. I doubt they’d go through all the trouble for more than one shot.
  12. I must admit, I can’t picture her doing any of her previous albums with the look she has currently. ROL was so laid-back and she was in such a different mood back then, I can‘t picture a Madonna with platinum blonde hair, giant boob pushed up to her chin, fillers and grillz doing songs like NRM or Little Star.
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