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THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD. IM READY

I wanna have a word with him. Just for a short while.

I think she says “ artists are here to disturb Madonna-infinity “ but I could be wrong ? …

Maybe she got bored nobody leaked anything so she will do it herself I'm all in for that 90's Enigma whispering style.

Oh no, my life is ending!! Bes regards and congratulations for 2 years of pure artistic joy according to your great taste.

Talk about immaturity. The fact you go on unhinged tangents about who's a true fan, debbie downers, haters and try to act superior while also constantly taking jabs at people you have on ignore. Lol, the fact you called me a negative person though I rarely ever put down Madonna shows you have no knowledge and are merely here as a nuisance. The fact half the forum is on your ignore list says a lot, maybe be less sycopant, post what you want and ignore those you disagree with? Instead of throwing shades, insults and feeling the need to respond with your diatribe every time. Less is more "beautifulkiller" we all know it's you.

Her most creative era. She understood perfectly the link between pop-art and consummerism. That was her playground, and both SEX and EROTICA reflected this. Not only was she her "own work of art." By 1992 She'd become a product as well. The packaging illustrated this. She had a great and naugthy sense of humour. Love her.

And as long as he keeps wearing his gas mask M won't be able to slip him the tongue

Oh Gosh. I hope he is gone for good. Like, it's one thing to enjoy some dope...but to gloat on it on social media...gtfo...nobody needs to see that. And bring Moira back. I'd love to see what she looks like rn. Let's start a movement. #Bringbackmoira 🤣

sounds reductive ....

2 months of pink hair vs. 2 decades of blonde hair. pick your battle.

It could be Sickick's first official solo single featuring M. maybe not the start of a new album. Whatever it is it sounds great. Im all up for her working with him. She always tests the waters with a remix or 2 and then goes for it with them if they work for her

Great, thank you! I remember reading here: That she had a HARD time connecting to the UK audience when she started. They didn't get her at all.

I like that Sickick is aware of her fan base, haha. Like, hopefully he knows how to balance what M demands and also with what would work for her fans base as much as general public

"Post a selfie with your copy of Everybody!" was a thing 10 years ago. Her first album is still among my favourites, as a teen I always wondered why she called her second album Like A Virgin.

@Simonsays I would hope that it is understood that it is implicit that what I write about is my opinion. What else would it be? I’m not presenting a historical list of events. I’m expressing my perception from my unique perspective. My opinion is always expressed from a place of intended honesty. I have been very consciously experiencing Madonna and her fanbase for 38 years. That gives me a certain insightfulness that is, in my opinion, worthy of being approached as coming from a place of integrity. In your posts, you expressed that you think some Madonna fans are resistant to the idea of her being overtly sexual at 64. Personally, I am not interested in this part of Madonna as it seems gratuitous and mindless to me. What is this fake construct we all have bought into that it is ageist to question why a person isn’t able to find greatness and beauty in aging? Isn’t there something off in that perspective? I won’t indict her ideas about self-image as I’m not in her head, but I can certainly observe the potential for perceived hypocrisy in her actions. The many times she has stated her own revised disinterest in provocation for the sake of provocation leaves me questioning where she sees purpose in returning to that behavior late in her career. It might be more understandable if she followed a consistent narrative, but there isn’t one. For decades it was the journey from the wilderness to redemption, which by the time of Rebel Heart took on a more palpably collective tone in the form of talk of a spiritual revolution. Four years ago she was finding her way through the sea of nihilism in a world gone mad on the verge of destruction as Madame X. Perhaps the fact that we actually experienced radical societal shifts as the result of a global pandemic that robbed us of the illusions of freedom, exposed the hypocrisy of hegemony, and ultimately brought on a resurgence of saber rattling and war drums that put us closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before (Is all of that just an opinion too? Hmmm. I don’t know.) made her just say “Fuck it!”, and thus the constructed narrative ended. Unless she tells us what has been going on in her mind…unless she openly shares her feelings and thoughts on her physical and emotional struggles with injuries and pain…unless she intellectually reviews her career and sociocultural impact with honesty and objectivity, all we are left with are our opinions. But hopefully these are formed from experience and observation.

Madonna pretends to drink and use cannabis for the negative response she gets for it? Seems unlikely, but why not? It’s true that she definitely doesn’t give a hoot how she is perceived. To me, she seems to be caught up in processing an anger that results from the friction between her self-image and her public image. As fascinating as that is - although she is certainly stingy nowadays in terms of throwing us crumbs about who she truly is behind the mask - it’s also uncomfortable to observe at times. That’s just an opinion, but I’m sure some other fans can relate. While everyone is entitled to love or leave whatever Madonna does these days, there’s a common truth that no one wants to continue highlighting here because it incurs too much wrath, and yet it deserves to be explored more intellectually. Much of the rejection of modern Madonna is not only about ageism, but also about perceived mediocrity (again, it’s all about opinion and taste). Whether that is because Madonna wants to emulate the general mediocrity of current algorithmic, reductive pop culture to stay current and fit in or because she isn’t very good anymore is sort of a pointless debate. She may simply be having fun, and good for her, but I do often find myself asking what the point is of her harping on about a message that is never actually reflected in her work? The end product isn’t disturbing the peace, nor is it breaking new ground. It is aesthetically displeasing to many, has no social context or message other than the perpetuation of vapid narcissism, and therefore has no exceptional reason to enter the zeitgeist. Madonna has principles. Madonna has experience. Madonna has a history of injecting her work with the personal and the provocative, and yet there hasn’t been an ounce of that in anything she has done since Madame X. Another elephant in the room is that Madonna’s legacy has been canceled, or at the very least radically reduced due in great part to the problematic existence of a privileged, self-obsessive, white woman with a history of alleged cultural appropriation failing to address her cultural impact in a contemporary manner. I see it in every newspaper or cultural magazine. Madonna is an afterthought. She is rarely quoted or named as an example of anything…this after three decades of being the de facto reference for everything from motherhood, philosophy and spirituality to sex, politics and materialism. These are not my feelings about her at all. I am not an apologist. I don’t do woke revisionism. I accept that culture is vibrant and ever changing, and that great artists are also often personally problematic and compromised. This generation will eat itself, and its Pollyanna activism will barely make a ripple in the grand scheme of non-manufactured consent and dissent. Of this I am certain. I love Madonna for her irreverence, her rudeness and her arrogance. Sometimes her insecurities overshadow these qualities and make her seem mean and callous, but that’s who she has always been, and will eventually be celebrated and cited for. Not the icon on a pedestal many of her fans want to hold onto…that’s fine too. After all, she spent decades building that facade. Ugliness and mediocrity can be found throughout her career. There are moments when things were gauche or gratuitous. I can be objective about that and still be captivated by her, even at her very worst! Usually these short chapters were countered by a moment of sheer brilliance and a momentary embrace of conventional beauty and glamor…just enough to keep everyone mesmerized. That’s the part that is missing, and a lot of that comes from the discomfort surrounding her radically altered appearance and her complete disregard for convention. Discussing this from a more objective perspective is difficult on here as there is always someone ready to pounce on any implication they can insert of misogyny, ageism, or discrimination of any other kind. I understand this too. We are all trying to be just, fair and inclusive, but let’s be honest…it’s so confusing nowadays to speak on anything due to the necessary vetting we all must do before risking our reputations and our feelings by sharing a personal perspective. Maybe that’s the source of any true activism to be found at the core of the essence of Madonna’s legacy…that her very existence provokes so much confusion and vitriol because it is so charged with electricity…because she invited us all to approve and disapprove constantly for the sake of the exposure and the collective reactivity…because she told us not to take anything literally while hiding behind a blanket of alleged irony that was often just an expression of her own struggle with literalism. The guarantee I see is that those of us who remain beholden to her artistry will all rip each other to shreds just because we think we all know/own a part of her that no one else sees. I wish there was more incentive to invest time in discussing Madonna’s latter day output, but until her innovative nature re-emerges, I’m personally left still waiting for the extraordinary courage of Baldwin’s spirit that she so often references to manifest in Madonna’s work.

And maybe it's connected with the Ray Of Light Tour next year, closing thw circle. #dreams #notgonnahappen

She might decide to stick it elsewhere... she's got form

So more infos on March 1983 London promo tour found here: https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/everything-from-everybody Mark Kamins says he was there with Madonna and that not only she did a track date at Camden Palace, but also very trendy clubs usually attended by the likes of Wham (George Michael), Culture Club and Marylin, Le Beat Route, Heaven and The Wag , of which not even a picture exist on the web... “Madonna’s first international promotional tour was arranged in March ’83, when Sire sent her on a short promo tour of the UK midway through the recording of her debut album and following Everybody’s UK release in December ’82. With Kamins in tow for “the first and last time”, Madonna played London’s Camden Palace, Le Beat Route, WAG and Heaven. Mark Kamins admits: “Her first tour in England was a total disaster.” Also found another 1983 attendance of which I don’t know the exact date and I never heard of before: Madonna at the Buffalo Gals party, 1983. Is it New York or London? https://wwd.com/eye/people/gallery/madonna-then-and-now-from-the-wwd-archives-10962345/ Seems to be a Malcolm McLaren album party/launch?

The way you can't stop yourself from making enemies with almost everyone on this forum. Get a life and go outside, jesus.

Great that they’re doing dance music together. We need it. Now let me dust off those cha cha heels.

As always, everything is assembled in a perfect and impeccable way, the taste and passion in doing things can be seen in the small details that make the final result great , same for "Bitch She's Madonna" which is truly excellently done.I'm not a lover of the files downloaded from You Tube because they are too compressed but your Docu-series is the only thing that I download from You Tube (I admit that I would love to have the files you upload to your channel which are sure to be of better quality).These are the things her team should be doing instead of posting fake HD. AS ALWAYS GREAT WORK @Blue Jean !

Happy

I thought we would be talking about “Is Madonna gay?” 🤣🤣🤣

and the other same users will claim it's brilliant even if it's terrible... in the end, it's all subjective

A documentary can be made at any time in the future. See Tina Turner...

I finally found more infos on her 1983 tour. Before visiting Italy on October 13, 1983 Madonna did a track date at London’s Camden Palace (now Koko) to perform Everybody, Burning up, Lucky Star and Holiday! Her hair style is in fact very similar to the one showed on the Italian performances. But apparently that wasn’t the first time since she already had done a track date at Camden Palace in March 1983 to perform Burning up and Everybody (which if I remember well she hated because the audience wasn’t really nice to her). More pics here: https://the-m-magazine.com/2016/12/30/el-show-en-camden-palace/ apparently and unfortunately no video footage of these 2 gigs exist

I remember the fans moaning Hung Up was generic before it smashed…

He's wayyyyy better than this Mike...

This pink hair isn't the issue. She always changed her hairstyle as part of her reinventions but she still looked like herself facially. She looks unrecognizable to me now. She was a classic beauty IMO and had expressive eyes. She has erased that for a motionless and emotionless face. I see a resemblance to Marilyn Manson, especially in her lasted Instagram video.

OMFG IT'S HER FUCKING VOICE AAAHHHHHWJWKWKSJJS(52&_33€)6=56@JDIEIR8W9SXNRJIWOWOEJFJS

I hope that real musical instruments are used on this tour and not those artificial and synthetic sounds that should only be allowed in remixes and that, by the way, predominated in her last tours. On the other hand, not only the fans but the general public want to listen to the classics just as we remember them but unfortunately Madonna decides to transform them completely altering their essence in the process as happened with Open yor Heart (Mdna tour) or Borderline or Vogue (Sticky ands Sweet), etc.: totally unrecognizable. I hope that Madonna doesn't get upset with this little criticism that I just made but I really hope that she changes her mind and doesn't modify the original sound of her classics which is what the public wants to hear since after all, she is a brand and like any product on the market, she should seek consumer satisfaction, in this case, ours and not so much hers.

No Velvet Rope slander. Not on the lords day.

I want M to release all unrealeased Erotica singles/remixes to streaming platforms on the 30th anniversary. Is that too much to ask? It is a couple of buttons to press. Lol. I do want the demos and remastering but I really want something in the here and now.

If Madonna's message is to sell less tickets and release mediocre videos she needs a new message.

Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.

And don’t forget the T-shirt’s too

Yesterday's update: Up to 20.328.445 monthly listeners and repeating at #185 overall. "Hung Up On Tokischa" enters Madonna's Spotify Top 10 at #10. Total streams so far: 1.875.807 "Everybody (7'' Version)" debuts with 25.027 streams, with Thursday (release date) streams. On Friday it was added to Release Radar playlists so we'll see the impact of that in today's results. "Finally Enough Love": "Express Yourself" and "Secret" just passed +500.000 streams.

"Let's spend a year making another NFT for an obscenely wealthy teenager who then has a piece of your soul forever".

You have the vinyl 3 track so guess M thinks you should be grateful to have that especially as she worked so hard on curating those huge 3 songs …

Erotica Deluxe is something fans actually want which means that we will not be getting it.

Here's to another great 38!

just watched the whole thing and it's incredible! congratulations and thanks for doing it and sharing <3

LOL It's missing everywhere. I noticed this months ago. I'd mention A*do D*az, but he'd rant again about being bullied or something.

Amazing work, I have no idea why I was not subscribed to your channel before now.

Probably because everybody already have those original 80’s vinyl in their collection (as they are easy to find too...). I guess that if they made a danceteria project on vinyl with demos the situation would be much different... let’s hope they keep them for the first album reissue at least..

That’s a great question to ask yourself…