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  1. .....drum rolls please..... VOGUE!!!!! Wow, I thought for sure "Like A Prayer" or "Hung Up" would have won. Maybe at another given day and time, they would have. Though for now the winner is VOGUE!! We must be in the mood to dance. Not sure, but, here's how the top Decade winners placed with their numbers.... Vogue - 1st Place with 48.89% of the vote Like A Prayer - 2nd Place with 33.33% of the vote Hung Up - 3rd Place with 13.33% of the vote Ghosttown - 4th Place with 4.44% of the vote So, for fun, let's review all of the Decade Winners again including the songs that tied. Question: Would this make a good set list for an upcoming Greatest Hits Tour...and would you be ok with it? More questions: If this were a Set List for a Greatest Hits Tour, how would you modify it? Also, if you were to add any songs to make it more appealing to you, which songs would you add? Are there enough ballads? 80's: La Isla Bonita Like A Prayer Into The Groove Express Yourself Open Your Heart 90's: Vogue Frozen Ray Of Light Erotica Deeper and Deeper 2000-2010: Music Don't Tell Me Die Another Day Jump Celebration Hung Up Get Together Sorry 2010-2020: Girl Gone Wild Masterpiece Ghosttown I Don't Search I Find Living For Love Crave I would love this for a Greatest Hits Set List. If I were to add a few more songs or somehow mix them in, I'd add; Messiah, Joan Of Arc, Beautiful Killer, I'll Remember, and Nothing Really Matters. Thanks again for all your comments and votes!!!! You are all a blast!!!
    8 points
  2. 4 points
  3. Now she can rest by sitting down and editing the tour dvd
    3 points
  4. Are you fucking kidding me? Shipping to your country and the customs of your country have nothing to do with the item’s listing price. If you buy from her US store and you’re in Canada or any part of the world, you will still pay shipping and customs. And yes, I can say whatever the hell I want. I don’t owe Madonna, her management or you go censor how I feel about their shit strategies, just because your fragile selves won’t get hurt.
    3 points
  5. Cant bring myself to buy it for that price after watching the youtube video. Basically a glorified tourbook with alot of dead pages
    3 points
  6. Voguerista

    End of the Tour Party!

    Last night was an End of the Tour party. Below is a video and some photos. She looks so beautiful and moved....
    2 points
  7. danMfan

    End of the Tour Party!

    She looks awesome
    2 points
  8. The coronavirus thing (despite I think is over-reacted and over-exposed on the media) is not a matter of her and her 'gang'. In fact the coronavirus stopped her 2 last shows, and better not to play with how invincible she is, with something that is causing a lot of problems in every country now. And yes, she looks good after the filters. PD: I think I'm angry with her for some reason lol.
    2 points
  9. I want that house!!! Maybe with Justin Bieber inside
    2 points
  10. I am completely outraged. ...that I bought one.
    2 points
  11. Hey, everyone! For the rest of you who don't want to shell out 200+ dollars for a book, you aren't real fans, sorry
    2 points
  12. scion

    Madame X Tour | Paris

    I have noticed that a lot of what is reported online this era seems to get very much lost in the translation between languages and the differences between reality and the internet.
    2 points
  13. It’s hard to judge. Through the whole tour we’ve heard these types of reports and then we hear or see it it’s not how it was perceived. For eg, that French friend of Rocco’s in London she was supposedly “rude” to but then when we saw it on her insta it wasn’t the case.
    2 points
  14. And not paying storage for the unsold books ?
    2 points
  15. Has to make up for the lost revenue of the cancelled shows.
    2 points
  16. Just looking at my book and realised Madonna is using a Corona ? At least she is wearing gloves...
    2 points
  17. I saw my first show in Las Vegas which had a very late start time with a very irate audience booing and screaming at her for much of the night. Next I saw her in Los Angeles with the most adoring crowd I have seen. It was absolutely incredible and nothing I have experienced before. This era has had the most ups and downs but also brought back some of the mystery and intrigue that made Madonna so special in my opinion. It has been different, defiant and a complete roller coaster. I'm just glad I got to experience it and no matter what is next I will be there for it!
    2 points
  18. We all know this bitch will take 8 months to edit the damn thing and it will have a ridiculous release date on October 10th, 2021 or something like that.
    2 points
  19. I haven't reevaluated her albums in awhile but if I look at things from purely Madonna's perspective I would have to say Like A Prayer. My personal connection to her work would not reflect her ultimate expression. Ray of Light is my usual favorite but I think I am due for a reevaluation of her work. Like A Prayer has it all from Madonna. Speaking out on injustice, her use of Catholic imagery to draw parallels. Putting herself and others up on a pedestal and being loved for who you are. longing, breaking up, joy, forgiveness, innocence, grief, sadness, family.... It has pain, fear, heartache, confidence, self esteem, happiness, tears and even a touch of humour. While she definitely explores these things in depth on other songs... as an album Like A Prayer is where I think you see a glimpse of Madonna from many angles.
    2 points
  20. Understood! I can't pretend to know what makes one person see improvement where another sees otherwise; there's personal taste at the forefront of the debate, and that being totally subjective makes for a weak argument, and so I won't try to elaborate, but I appreciate your point of view. What I can say is that I have struggled with my own perception of Madonna and my admiration for her over the past decade, and so I know how to contextualize the perception of diminishing returns. I have spent many hours in potential disillusionment upon experiencing various new Madonna projects. That said, I grew up very aware that everything Madonna did was reviled or dismissed by at least some faction of society, and I learned to become one of her fiercest advocates in my youth. Eventually, at around the time of the emergence of Kabbalah in Madonna's creative vernacular I became more questioning and cynical myself. I became more private in my experience of Madonna. I wasn't the targeted demographic of the children's books, and I didn't enjoy her GAP jeans ITG, or her discomfort with the worth of her own music at times...Fortunately, there was always something much meatier and more intense and dense to keep me interested; American Life was the first time that I saw Madonna universally dismissed for something that I found profoundly futuristic and thoroughly enthralling; a subtler monument to her power, but one that matched her evolving maturity. I stuck to that narrative throughout the subsequent years of resurgence and renaissance via COADF and grew to love that version of Madonna; the spiritually political mother and wife. When she then reemerged with Hard Candy I had to readapt again, but this time I was excited to see Madonna's defiance regarding her age. She was so physically powerful...It didn't matter that my private conversations with fellow fans and friends revolved around "did she/didn't she?' plastic surgery analysis and circumspection. I didn't take to the music on Hard Candy in the same way I had to her previous albums. I, like many other fans, had enjoyed the increasing creative influence of Stuart Price, and had hoped for Eurocentric Madonna to prevail. But Hard Candy was Madonna's clapback to Guy Ritchie's English fantasy/nightmare, and I accepted that I was essentially two steps behind, something I have always assumed whenever Madonna has made me uncomfortable or when my devotion has faltered...I know for a fact with hindsight that Madonna and Ritchie had split long before their relationship was publicly dissolved. It made sense that the entire HC era was an act of implicit rebellion. I have reassessed my experience of that period of her career and my life in accordance with that understanding! And that is where I was going with all of this...Thanks for being patient enough to get this far! When I was growing up and Madonna was ubiquitous and omnipotent, the channels that delivered her message and her vision targeted the masses. Everyone was exposed to the mainstream. There were fewer choices, and therefore there was more opportunity for an established act to have a huge cultural impact. Madonna was hyperaware of that rare opportunity and she made it work for her no matter the consequences. That hasn't been true for a good while - for her and any other artist for that matter - and so I think it is impossible to have the same experience of Madonna as we were lucky enough to experience twenty or thirty years ago. Madonna has produced music that I find exquisite and deeply moving in the last ten years that will never reach the ears that heard Material Girl or Vogue or Into The Groove. It doesn't make it lesser in quality in my opinion, but I know the lack of cultural impact of a song like Masterpiece makes it seem a diminished work in many people's minds. That's how I perceive things in any case. I love this debate by the way! Please keep it going!
    2 points
  21. I'd remove: Crave, I Don't Search I Find, Masterpiece, Celebration & Jump Everybody / Music (Mashup / Medley) Lucky Star / Impressive Instant (Mashup / Medley) Like a Virgin Material Girl / Hollywood (Mashup / Medley) Into the Groove Papa Don't Preach / Die Another Day (Mashup / Medley) Open Your Heart La Isla Bonita / Who's That Girl (Alternatively) Like a Prayer Express Yourself Vogue Rescue Me / Living for Love (Mashup / Medley) Erotica / Justify My Love (Mashup / Medley) Deeper and Deeper Secret / Bad Girl (Alternatively) Take a Bow / You'll See / I'll Remember / Crazy for You (Alternatively) Frozen Ray of Light Nothing Really Matters Don't Tell Me Hung Up Sorry 4 Minutes Girl Gone Wild Live to Tell / Ghosttown (Alternatively)
    1 point
  22. What back catalog songs would you really like to see performed live next time she tours? I would love to see Sky Fits Heaven, Bad Girl, Stay, The Look of Love to name a few.
    1 point
  23. Madonna made Time's list of the most influential women of the past century. So deserving. Read more below.... 100 Women Of The Year: World 1989: Madonna By 1989, Madonna, the scrappy performer born Madonna Louise Ciccone, was already a superstar: she’d whirled onto the landscape, in a torn-up T-shirt and two wrists’ worth of rubber bracelets, just as America was awakening to the AIDS crisis, and for young people became a symbol of determination and self-invention. She had defied our expectations so many times. How many surprises could she have left up her lace sleeves? The bombshell answer came in the form of a hymn of joyous carnality, “Like a Prayer,” the lead single and title track of her fourth studio album. In the video, Madonna—sending a marvelously mixed message of purity and seduction in a 1950s-style slip, a discreet cross sparkling around her neck—spreads her gospel of joy and erotic ardor within the sacred confines of a country church. A statue of a saint, presumably Martin de Porres—he’s a black man locked in his own little cage, a not-so-metaphorical prison—comes to life and kisses her gently on the forehead. This could be the start of a mutual seduction, but he leaves her. She seizes a dagger and wraps her fingers around the blade, though the resulting cuts aren’t the normal kind: stigmata flower in the palms of her hands like two bloody pennies. Pepsi had used “Like a Prayer”—accompanied by tamer imagery—in a commercial. But the video cast the song in a new light, and religious groups were enraged. Pepsi canceled her contract in response. Yet Madonna’s allegedly blasphemous act of creation carried her all the way to the bank: “Like a Prayer” spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the album on which it appeared went on to sell more than 15 million copies. Even more significantly, this close-to-perfect song marked Madonna as an artist in it for the long haul, one whose marriage of provocation and pop would inspire future generations to shape their careers in her image. She couldn’t be underestimated or circumscribed, least of all by a multibillion-dollar corporation. She was a material girl, always, but only on her own terms. —Stephanie Zacharek
    1 point
  24. Just for laughs.. thought I’d see how the stock inventory was across the U.K. and USA online stores why am I not surprised that they didn’t pay for the stock/inventory module of their e-commerce system ”lets spend just enough for Cart to function and take money, who cares if we have what the suckers want?” anyone for 10,000 VIP books on the U.K. store? or how about 100,000 VIP books on the USA store or maybe it was always planned to be a post tour merchandise item and will become what they classify an evergreen product - always available and always in production... or they just cheaper out on their e-commerce platform!
    1 point
  25. lmvc

    Madame X Tour DVD

    I think M should say something about DVD just to say there will be an official release. Because until now, all about that are predictions. We don't know if there will be a release for sure.
    1 point
  26. It's sold for $145 on ebay, from the US. And for us in Europe they requested additional $70 and god knows how much at costume. But hey, you can keep complaing.
    1 point
  27. Enrico

    Madame X Tour | Paris

    She basically chose one of her haters as the last beer bitch of the tour.
    1 point
  28. I'm so happy for the Madonna's knee ❤️
    1 point
  29. Oh honey we’re on the brink of a shortage due to this virus. YouTube the brawl on YouTube over TOILET PAPER
    1 point
  30. scion

    Madame X Tour | Paris

    Bless. Catty remarks contribute even less than my posts. The end of the tour has indeed been very anticlimactic. No special songs, no serious changes to the show as it's gone on besides deductions. Rebel Heart had song additions, MDNA had the special celebration songs as the tour went on, Confessions had that very strange wig that caught us all off guard... I just feel like at a time when she's publicised very well on social media, there could have been something triumphant about the last show that's unusually missing. Maybe a special performance of Holiday or something like that would have been nice...
    1 point
  31. It's a luxury, not a necessity. You'll somehow live without it and so will I .
    1 point
  32. All of you shocked by the price should visit Taschen’s website.
    1 point
  33. Enrico

    Madame X Tour DVD

    Keep Madonna out of those videos!!!! Send her to quaratine!!!
    1 point
  34. Or...you know...I want to buy it but I don't want to pay for a book the same amount as 2 tickets maybe?
    1 point
  35. Some may hate me for what I am going to wirte... but... would it be possible to have a HQ scan of this VIP Tour book? I really cannot afford a book of $225!
    1 point
  36. I’ve really enjoyed the album and show, the videos have also been excellent. I don’t think I’ve listened to a Madonna album as much as Madame X. It has been let down by piss poor management of the tour, but I still rate the whole era extremely highly.
    1 point
  37. I really love This era great album great visuals great tour...but poor management She and the fans This time really had so much bad luck in the near future I will share My version of the Madame X Tour.
    1 point
  38. Ray Of Light. Although not my favourite album (that's Erotica) I think it's the album where her artistry went hand in hand with the critical and commercial reception completely. It wasn't released with controversy (Like A Prayer, Erotica), which often overshadowed the music, it was just about the songs and it was loved by critics and the public.
    1 point
  39. As much as Ray of light was such a strong statement of an album when it came out and is a great solid listening. Being honest is WIlliam Orbit music that Madonna sung on top. I think Erotica it was and still more relevant on the writting of lyrics and music. She talks about so many subjects that were important to her and the lyrics are the most elaborated and personal she ever did. Her strongest albums are those with strong producers and collaborators (Stuart Price, Orbit, Mirwais) But the most part of the times they influence a lot of her work. When with Pettibone she had more control and input overall, I think.
    1 point
  40. RoL isn't my absolute favorite album, but I think it's her flawless masterpiece.
    1 point
  41. I would have gone with a LAP-era photo, but other than that, good stuff. From what I can see, these are other female music acts who were chosen: Bessie Smith (1923), Billie Holiday (1939), Zenzile Miriam Makeba (1967), Aretha Franklin (1968), Sinead O'Connor (1992), Pussy Riot (2012) and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (2014).
    1 point
  42. I would have no issue doing it, but I would not say "HC is garbage". I don't care if she does music I don't like. My questions would be "Pharell made you cry?" "You had to chase after Diplo to get him in the studio?" What happend to you? This just isn't Madonna to me, at least professionally, and it shows through her output from that time forward. Which is why I wasn't surprised when William Orbit complained about her lack of input in MDNA. It is a feel, not the quality of her work. I can accept Madonna doing things I don't personally like, MX isn't a fave of mine, but I appreciate that it seemed she was more inspired to do this album and seemed more invested than the period between HC to RH. My issues with those is the lack of control and investment that I feel from her, and yeah that is my personal feeling not a fact. It just felt like she lost her mojo and was letting others dictate her creative output more. Neither Pharell or Diplo were worth the effort. I feel like old school Madonna would have dumped both men and found others, but she seemed almost beholden to them and put up with shiz she should've shut down straight away.
    1 point
  43. To a degree that's true, especially during this album cycle, I think Madame X is a great album with a great concept but since it didn't do well commercially some people judged it harshly. However I do think that many people lost interest in her for a reason, and it's not just age. As a person, I know that she's a bit narcissistic, but I do miss the kabbalah days of a bit more kindness and introspection, and a message that came more from the heart rather than ego. To me her ego has exploded again in recent years, and while I'm not trying to tell a woman what to do or how to be, as a human being i do think that narcissism is the problem not the solution. I hope that I will still see a kinder, more open version of herself in the future, and more joyful too.
    1 point
  44. With the exception of a few posts throughout these four pages, there is a fundamental lack of attention given to the primary issue here. It has less to do with Madonna changing, and more to do with the concept of fame changing post-digital revolution. Madonna's type of fame was truly exceptional for the longest time, but she aged out of the Zeitgeist when corporate interests no longer saw her preeminence as commercially useful. There was more money to be made from youth-oriented culture. Doing business with an artist of Madonna's stature would have meant profit margins for the corporate entities were diminished because she could take a larger stake herself. As the industry changed and panic kicked in regarding dwindling sales and illegal downloading, replacing artists like Madonna with green-eyed younger and more malleable acts would have been a natural shift. As it turned out, Madonna and Oseary were prescient and understood that they needed to strike while the commercial iron of touring receipts was hot, thus her 360 deal with Live Nation. Sidenote: Recording music hasn't been a valid source of income for Madonna for well over a decade; she herself decided to use her records as showcases for her live performances. She approached her creative flow as a Broadway director does. The music is the soundtrack to the show. No one seems to get this. Look at how this has become a more cynical template for less successful legacy acts who all have some type of dreadful Broadway adaptation of their back catalogs in the works. As much as it upsets many of Madonna's fans to face this truth, most of them have long stopped being a core capitalist demographic. In fact, whenever I consider Madonna's modern legacy I am more fascinated by how limited many of her fans' perspective on her evolution is. I read endless posts about how she should be promoting her music as she did Ray of Light...That she would be better off returning to Warner Bros, as if nostalgia holds some sort of commercial magic wand in an era when almost no one sells music anymore! It shows a fundamental lack of comprehension that the world itself has drastically changed over the course of Madonna's career, and the fact that her phenomenal stamina managed to give her a somewhat imperialistic hold on global pop culture for two and a half decades is unprecedented. That's enough within itself to make everything she has done since that imperial phase ended worthy of admiration and a much kinder assessment, but there is so much more to explore here. There is no doubt that the public essentially wrote her off after she returned to her raunchier persona post-divorce. One cannot deny the dismal showing of Celebration was more than a commercial embarrassment; it was a global smack in the face to the woman; age seemed to offer the world the chance to finally kick her where it hurt. I am more shocked by people's surprise at Madonna's healthy appetite for self-preservation through plastic surgery than by the results of the surgery. In an era of digital film and photography, no one can afford to show signs of obvious aging, and as one of the world's most photographed women whose career was built in great part on the promise of video as art form, it seems entirely logical that she would succumb to the pressures of the industry. Surely people aren't shocked to learn that Madonna is vain and a narcissist? Madonna explained herself most effectively during her promotion for her film W.E. I don't think many actually caught on at the time when she made parallels between herself and Wallis Simpson by describing the limiting views of the masses that prevent a public person from having more than one or two characteristics. It had long become painfully obvious that Madonna could not simultaneously and successfully be a provocative showwoman, a film director, a recording artist, an actress, a business owner, a good mother, and a human being with an evolving intellect...She therefore seemed to step back until she eventually found the best way to enable her own version of that narrative to thrive by inventing the Madame X character; an empty vessel capable of being anything she wants to be at any given fork in the road. Tears of a Clown was her first foray into meta-identity-fucking, and she knew all along that the only way forward was to leave the past and its intransigent inhabitants behind. I believe Madonna is a deconstructionist at this point in her life, fully in charge and fully self-aware. Whatever anyone else thinks of her is merely a projection of something deep within themselves. The need to denigrate her choices and their results is most probably more indicative of the audience's inability to move beyond preconceived notions and prejudice. After all, in a world of bullies, everyone is somehow still a victim. Madonna's greatest achievement is that she is a living work of art, full of contradictions and the ability to elicit the fullest emotional spectrum no matter the brush stroke.
    1 point
  45. I've always thought her divorce really hit her hard.
    1 point
  46. This is one factor of many. Like Blockbuster never caught up with the times of streaming and went out of business, Madonna didn't catch up with the times regarding YouTube and Spotify
    1 point
  47. Regardless, her interviews and musical appearances during the Ritchie years - she claimed to be happy. She looked happy. Healthy. Grown-up. Was she lying and putting on a front? I dunno but I liked that front.
    1 point
  48. Lucky Star Into the Groove Like a prayer Cherish Vogue Ray of Light Nothing Rrally Matters Beautiful stranger Hung Up Bitch I’m Madonna
    1 point
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