Rebel Heart - Album Thread [Happy 1st Birthday!]

[LZE 468]

she is into dicks as much Drake is into vaginas. just saying.

 

That's why she's performing!

[groovyguy 63,856]

LOL The media's talking  about the leaks like M dropped the songs

 

Madonna Is The OG Queen Of This Pop Sh*t

http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/02/madonna-pop-queen

Today Madonna dropped off two heat rocks, reminding us all that she is the OG Queen of this pop thing, the MJ of this shit, whichever one: Jordan or Jackson. One features Chance the Rapper and Mike Tyson ("Iconic"), and the other features Nas ("Veni Vidi Vici"). Back in December she let loose "Bitch I'm Madonna" featuring her heir to the pop throne, Nicki Minaj, and the Diplo-assisted "Living for Love." And I must say, she's back like she never left.

 

"Iconic" and "Living for Love" feature hard-hitting dance beats. They'll make you want to go hammer with some glow sticks and tongue a stranger down on the dance floor. "Bitch I'm Madonna" and "Veni Vidi Vici" are more of the traditional pop variety one would hear on a Top 40 station, a tactic that she's perfected. Nicki, Chance, and Nas spit nothing but fire on their respective features. It's dope that she has rappers on her upcoming project because it's a show of respect to a genre that, over the course of her career, has gone from a "fad" to the driving force in popular culture.

 

Never one to shy away from controversy, Madge found herself in one with her Rebel Heart online marketing campaign. She replicated her album cover by placing the various "rebel" faces of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, and Jesus Christ in bondage or whatever you want to call it. I'm still trying to figure out the point of that album art. She tried to compare herself to those icons and then she apologized for doing so. This made me skeptical of the whole project at first. The aforementioned online campaign was sketchy at best, and she's also 56 now and hasn't made a great album in nine years, which made it feel forced (don't hate on my opinion!). But I digress. 

 

WE'RE IN OUR LATE 20S, EARLY 30S NOW, AND MADONNA'S MUSIC WAS JUST AS FAMILIAR TO US BACK THEN AS SAY WU-TANG'S MUSIC.

 

Once upon a time my friends and I would get lit to various Madonna albums. Mind you, we were street kids from North Jersey. We're in our late 20s, early 30s now, and Madonna's music was just as familiar to us back then as say Wu-Tang's music. We would pregame to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor or a mix of her greatest hits with various drugs in our systems. Play drunk Twister with a group of pretty girls while listening to Madonna before you judge the kid. These new tracks remind me of those times. I'm writing this as "Sorry" plays, and I'm feeling froggy. I wish I had some 'shrooms or some acid, to be honest. Roc-A-Fella, Dipset, Max B, Madonna, piff, and Henny got the god through college in one piece, feel me?

 

Accept no duplicates. Lady Gaga can't wash the Queen's throne. She's a hack at best, a shock jock. Not to say Madonna isn't, but she manages to come across as original while Gaga comes across as trying too hard—she's already washed up. The only ones who come close are Onika, Azealia Banks, Rihanna, and Beyonce. "Truffle Butter" samples the deep house cut "What They Say" by Maya Jane Coles, and Broke With Expensive Taste is a brilliant mixing of genres, something Madonna does very well. Rihanna is a hit-making machine, and Beyonce was born to perform. Madge birthed them all, and we must honor and respect that legacy. I'm expecting Rebel Heart to go platinum in like two weeks. "Bitch I'm Madonna" and "Living for Love" have a combined 5,253,598 Spotify streams.

 

Let us all bow our heads because we are not worthy. I for one can't wait to turn up to Rebel Heart when it drops. Thugs fuck with poppy, dance bullshit sometimes too, lord. Only God can judge me. I'm going to play some 2Pac after this, though, for sure. I'm sounding kind of crazy, but fuck it, it's the truth. 'Pac used to fuck with Madonna, and so should you.

 

Angel Diaz is a staff writer for Complex Media. Follow him @ADiaz456.

[Yung Rapunxel 2,174]

I believe that what we have is not the final version and we will all be surprised at the end even all the tracks may change...

 

It's the final but I think it's unmastered so

[MadonnaLove 6,183]

It's the final but I think it's unmastered so

 something will change :P

[skyfitswim 906]

i really hope so , it still sounds empty fare away .

something does not sound right or it's me ( i having a bad cold for the moment ).

[MadBritFan 401]

It's the final but I think it's unmastered so

I don't think these are the full mastered versions either. For one, the version is very loud and distorted. Almost like they've been magnified. Also, there's a really odd moment at the beginning of Messiah at around the 27 second mark. I'm wondering if this copy might be....watermarked at different parts.Production is aces though.

[skyfitswim 906]

but will mastering make the albums songs sound sounds closer/warmer ( or is it me having a bad cold ) ?

[G_O_N_E 453]

I don't think these are the full mastered versions either. For one, the version is very loud and distorted. Almost like they've been magnified. Also, there's a really odd moment at the beginning of Messiah at around the 27 second mark. I'm wondering if this copy might be....watermarked at different parts.Production is aces though.

You're right. It is watermarked, and it is not mastered.

[skyfitswim 906]

would be a differents sounds wise if its mastered?

[G_O_N_E 453]

would be a differents sounds wise if its mastered?

More clear, crisp, balanced volume, vocals, bass

[skyfitswim 906]

ooooh that gives me hope , i really like the songs so that's not the problem

but it seems a bit unballanced or it's my cold that i have ( i mean it i have a cold )

[Guest]

ooooh that gives me hope , i really like the songs so that's not the problem

but it seems a bit unballanced or it's my cold that i have ( i mean it i have a cold )

 

but will mastering make the albums songs sound sounds closer/warmer ( or is it me having a bad cold ) ?

 

i really hope so , it still sounds empty fare away .

something does not sound right or it's me ( i having a bad cold for the moment ).

 

Do you have a cold?   

(just messing with you lol)

[skyfitswim 906]

hahahahah yeah i really have a cold , but i really love most of all the songs dude  

can't wait to have the new album on cd and vinyl  

[Yung Rapunxel 2,174]

Do you have a cold? 

(just messing with you lol)

 

I SCREAMED

[xavier 4,787]

Yeah some of the tracks do seem unbalanced. The vocals overpowered by music that seems uneven! Example inside Out!

[Yung Rapunxel 2,174]

I think this is in reaction to the ISIS burning of the Jordanian man

 

[Breathless 5,286]

I've been listening to the Messiah song 27 secs in and I can't actually hear anything wrong with it. But I agree that there is some warmth missing from the album - this is why I now don't believe it's the proper release, even if all songs are in order and the songs are "correct". Still, it's very very good!

[TomAce 2]

In't it ironic that the vocals on Beautiful Scars are manipulated / autotuned? 

[G_O_N_E 453]

In't it ironic that the vocals on Beautiful Scars are manipulated / autotuned?

They are on the demo as well, they just tweaked them during the chorus. She's also used autotune lightly in Heartbreakcity.

[MadBritFan 401]

I've been listening to the Messiah song 27 secs in and I can't actually hear anything wrong with it.

It's around when she sings "light of my own", the music sounds really odd for a second...like the tape has been warped or something. It isn't present in the other two leaked demos (Demo 2 being the similar to this Version) I found it really, really jarring when I first heard it last night.Until this album is posted on iTunes/out physically, I think changes are possible. This version of the album has been making it's round for awhile.

[MadBritFan 401]

They are on the demo as well, they just tweaked them during the chorus.

 

The way the pitch is changed in "Take Me, With All Of My Beautiful SCARS, I Love You For All That Your ARE" was a bit odd to hear initially.  I don't think it'll be that noticeable in the mastered version. It's a little... too pronounced as is right now.  Or maybe that just speaks to me knowing the demo so well.  In cases like this though, I question why she just didn't do another vocal take.

[Guest]

The way the pitch is changed in "Take Me, With All Of My Beautiful SCARS, I Love You For All That Your ARE" was a bit odd to hear initially.  I don't think it'll be that noticeable in the mastered version. It's a little... too pronounced as is right now.  Or maybe that just speaks to me knowing the demo so well.  In cases like this though, I question why she just didn't do another vocal take.

 

I agree with you. I didn't hear the demo beforehand, but it was really noticeable and kind of ruined that song for me lol.

[chipie 338]

More clear, crisp, balanced volume, vocals, bass

I really hope so.

The sound in many songs its terrible.

 

I still hear the noise in the begining of Ghosttown, just before she starts singing. Some said it was something with her microphone, I dont know.

 

I hope this noise is not there when the album comes out.

With M everything is posible. I just remembered the problems with many songs in Celebration (Erotica, Justify ML, DYU), or with MDNA Tour. :1f614: :1f614:

[Guest madonner]

And do you remember the first Celebration releases with some tracks not correctly mixed like Cherish?

[Andymad 10,381]

And do you remember the first Celebration releases with some tracks not correctly mixed like Cherish?

And Express Yourself... omg the transition from the second chorus to the bridge... I can create a smoother transition in Garage Band on my computer. And I paid $30 for that album.