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wow she really is bored i love her

How cool isn't this?

Vogue at the Sticky & Sweet Tour was the highlight for me. I saw her 2 days after the filming of the DVD in Buenos Aires. It was hot as fuck and I got sick. When she first appeared on stage I thought to myself: so this is Madonna, huh?

I like the days when Madonna followed interesting people. Today is not one of those days.

And this is the reason why the Like A Prayer album needs a remaster. In the original master tape the bass is barely audible. Fortunately, the singles fixed the problem with the bass.

But Lady Gaga isn't following M would be great when the two follow each other haha

My most prominent memory of this era: Confessions Tour on European opening night in Cardiff, at the back of the golden circle: - The SMILE on her face as that disco ball opened for Future Lovers - The BASS that dropped and made the place (and my heart) jump throughout Sorry

what ive been saying to people for years is try to enjoy the ´now´ while you still can. even if life is harsh try to do little things that make you happy everyday, be good to yourself now, there's no guarantee of the future. sorry for getting deep for a moment

M has just started following Lady Gaga today. Probably means nothing but who knows... maybe the collab will happen on Gaga's new album...

Thank you everybody for your kind words. I'm happy I could brighten up your day.

Gaga has been "following" Madonna for years. Haha

I love how he's clearly still enjoying it and loves the track too! he's entertaining too and seems like a nice guy as well

And Ariana has deleted her pic with Gaga. I seriously hope it's something

This is SOOOOOOO cool!!!! Omg. I got shivers just watching him that bass line is amazing. You cannot replicate the bass of the 80s/early 90s. You can, but it’s just rarely done. I’m obsessed with this.

not a big fan of these sort of things but this bassline is the best ever

The whole like a prayer blond ambition era needs a serious recognition from M and her team and not just dumping inferior quality stuff on YouTube

I'm afraid a complete failure of imagination has befallen me.

Oh, hell yeah! I queued overnight in the cold. It was exhausting, but I'll never forget when the lights went down and the sound of the running horses thundering all around me. That show was FIRE! x

I personally won't be excited about this DULL Vogue celebration unless this is leading to them posting the MADAME X TOUR PERFORMANCE of Vogue or at least the PRIDE one. In Italy we say MINESTRA RISCALDATA. What's the point of eating the same old re-heated soup?

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@MarXusThat is a good idea. But I don't know how to do that. Perhaps @Fighterknows? Something like 'Vogue Live: The YouTube Uploads'?

This. I would actually love to see the persona again, provided that she manages to properly flesh her out, rather than limit her to an eye patch and a typewriter, but actually give her different identities and have her do something global. Madame X would've been the perfect candidate for a visual album, musically and visually and it could've been epic That said, I really don't wish to see any more hip hop influences in her music or rappers involved or any new collaborations with singers. Like I'm so not interested in that.

It may only be me that thinks this... buf I wouldn't put it last her to do a literal sequel to Madame X where she carries on the persona. it would be my worst nightmare music wise but I know a lot of you would absolutely love it!

Not my video. Uploader (possibly) did some great editing and bass enhancement to a number of tracks used.

How would you grade and rank the David Fincher videos: Express Yourself, Oh Father, Vogue and Bad Girl?? They are all so good. I give them ALL an A++++, But, my faves in order would go like this: 1. Vogue 2. Oh Father 3. Bad Girl 4. Express Yourself

Pedro Almodovar Talks Madonna & Oscars http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2020/4/2/todays-must-read-pedro-almodovar-talks-madonna-and-oscars.html Today's Must Read: Pedro Almodóvar talks Madonna and Oscars Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 12:00PM by Nathaniel R Pedro quarantined and tripping through memory lane. You can keep all those celebrity sing-alongs or other social media attempts to cheer us up collectively. Instead give us gossip to chew on. More juicy shared "diaries" of stir-crazy stars, please! The occassion for this request is that we've just finished reading a new article by Spanish genius Pedro Almodóvar. He wrote a piece for the Spanish website el diario about... well, a lot of things. It begins with memories of getting dressed up to go on an errand during quarantine and segueways into other memories of getting dressed up for movie events. Lots of fun anecdotes follow including a night with Jane Fonda (!). But the bulk of the piece centers on 1990-1991 when Madonna entered his life via Dick Tracy through the essential documentary Truth or Dare (1991). You must read the whole thing -- Spanish readers will probably enjoy it most but the rest of us will have to suffer through a google translation. I've excerpted the Dick Tracy story after the jump... The day after the [Oscar] ceremony, in the morning, a female voice calls me to the hotel. She says to me, as if she was not aware of its impact, but sure that her voice was going to impact me, "Hello, I'm Madonna, I'm shooting Dick Tracy and I'd love to show you the set. Today I 'm not shooting and I can dedicate the day to you." It could be a false Madonna, or a psychopath who thought to cut me up in one of those fields that James Ellroy describes so well in his novels (if you read The Black Dahlia you will know what I mean. You can also see the movie that my beloved Brian de Palma shot about the book with Scarlett Johanson and Hilary Swank, but the truth is that it did not go very well. For the quarantine it is not bad, but before I would recommend many others, from De Palma himself: Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Carlito's Way, Body Double with Melanie Griffith at the peak of her career and thin as a reed, and above all Scarface with Pacino. Go from The Black Dahlia and make a cycle with all these films, you will thank me. All jewels, super accessible and super fun, in the end I will make you a list of recommendations. Going back to the Madonna call. It could be someone who was playing a joke on me, but my self-esteem, despite not winning the Oscar, was high enough not to doubt the authenticity. Madonna's voice gave me the address of the studio where they filmed, and I introduced myself there, happy as castanets. The truth is that the entire team, from Warren Beatty himself to [cinematographer Vittoria] Storaro, couldn't have been more kind to me. They treated me like I was George Cukor. Beatty forced me to sit in the chair that put his name, in the director's place, to watch the filming of the sequence they were shooting. I was about to confess to him that when I was a child I discovered my sexuality when I saw him in Splendor in the grass (there was no mason of Pain and Glory), but I kept it to myself, of course. They were filming a sequence in which unrecognizable Al Pacino chattered non-stop. For that performance, he earned an Oscar nomination the following year, and the film earned three statuettes. With Madonna I toured all the sets and met someone I greatly admired, Milena Canonero, the costume designer who had already won three Oscars (for Dick Tracy she would be nominated the following year) for Chariots of Fire, Barry Lyndon and Cotton Club [sic*] -- the three films are recommended for coping with quarantine. My favorite is Barry Lyndon from Kubrick. Milena Canonero would still win a fourth Oscar, I don't remember now which movie. Visiting the workshop where Canonero worked was probably what most impressed me about the visit, it would have been the only reason I would have liked to work in Hollywood: the obsession with details. One of the characteristics of Dick Tracy , the comic book character, is his yellow hat. Milena was obsessed with getting that yellow that one saw in the drawing of the comic. She showed me over two hundred hats in which the only difference was a subtle change in color. I totally identified with that detail obsession. As far as I am concerned I do the same thing when I roll, I don't know how to work any other way (but I do know how to work with much less money). If Madonna calls you and goes out of her way the day after you didn't win an Oscar, that means that the material girl has a huge interest in you. It was not long before we met again the following year on the occasion of her Blonde Ambition Tour... Pedro & Madonna at the party documented in "Truth or Dare" The following story gives you more Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, and Antonio Banderas anecdotes. A great read. Thank you to Iggy for sending us this photo of Pedro being interviewed on Spanish TV (where he mentions this article). Look you can see his BAFTA, Golden Lion and both his Oscars on the top shelf behind him! * Almodóvar had his Oscar trivia wrong there. Canonero had actually only won two Oscars at that point and had not even been nominated for The Cotton Club (though she won the BAFTA for that). After Barry Lyndon and Chariots of Fire there was a long drought before she won twice more for Marie Antoinette and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

This is the 'Country Club Martini Crew GHV3 Megamix'

The amount of people that comment disgusting conspiracy theory things on her posts and wish death upon her is terrifying, what is wrong with these people?! I know she always gets trump idiots bashing her but this seems even more so. Seems to be tonnes of anti-Gates comments, about him trying to depopulate the world and using vaccines to kill us all But some of the people saying these things even seem to be people who are M fans (if you go on their profile, they have posts about her etc) but they comment saying like ‘that’s it after 30 years I can no longer support you’. Are people really this idiotic?! So troubling.

oh the other poem dedicated to Melly Mel goes like: ..."way back in the beginning when I started all of my sinnin' I needed a partner in crime you could say so I went on a search and started to pray I walked into my manager's office one morn I was mouthin' out loud in my usual form as my eyes toured the room my poor heart skipped a beat for there in the corner was the picture of sweet she was glued to the phone she was bathed in pastels her Lee press-ons were sittin' they were longer than hell I turned and I winked and I said "hey miss muffet" you think you can work for a bitch? can you tough it? "I'm gaggin no way get me outta this dump!" I said "hey Freddy find a new fiel to pump" so the rest is like history , legend, ok? you wanna hear dish? she don't play it that way how can I thank you my sweet Melly Mel you pick up my shit and my undies that smell you shield me from assholes and take all their calls you buy me my tampax my rubbers and all Now you can't count on much in this life I should know but I guess I got lucky I found me a pro she still lives in the valley but her press-ons are gone she still goes out with jocks but she sips Dom Perignon but without you I'm nothin' I'm gagging ,Miss thing If you ever leave me I'm gonna fucking kill myself"

Greatest Pop Star every year : Madonna 1985 and 1989 ! https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/9338589/greatest-pop-star-every-year 1985 MADONNA BY MAURA JOHNSTON By the end of 1984, Madonna had already established herself as one of the MTV era’s brightest stars, with boundary-pushing videos, underground-nodding dance-pop hits, and a writhing Video Music Awards performance that turned the then-fledgling telecast into a must-watch event. But the year after Like a Virgin’s release was owned by Madonna from back to front -- the last four weeks of the title track’s run at No. 1 on the Hot 100 opened 1985, and she followed it up with smash singles like “Material Girl” and “Angel,” her feature-film debut and first silver-screen starring role, and yet more unavoidable music videos. “Like a Virgin” hit No. 1 in December 1984 and stayed there until the end of January -- just as her Marilyn Monroe-saluting, Keith Carradine-starring video for “Material Girl” was being added to MTV’s rotation. The bouncy, sardonic track would go on to reach No. 2 and become one of Madonna’s career-defining songs, its video establishing Madonna’s blonde-ambition ideal while also showing off her more down-to-earth side. It also helped Like a Virgin reach the top of the Billboard 200 for three weeks in February, Madonna racked up another career milestone that month, when the May-December drama Vision Quest was released. In the movie, Madonna played a singer at a Spokane bar, performing “Crazy For You,” a lush, Jellybean Benitez-produced ballad that showed off Madonna’s lower range. Madonna’s star power was so strong that in some countries the movie’s title was changed to Crazy For You -- although in America, she had to settle for the soundtrack single being No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a single week in May. A month later, Madonna appeared in her first starring role in a movie, getting top billing alongside Rosanna Arquette in the hit mistaken-identity comedy Desperately Seeking Susan. The Susan Seidelman-directed ode to New York City’s bohemian enclaves featured the pop star’s “Into the Groove” in the background of a smoky club scene, although it wasn’t on the official soundtrack. At the time of Susan’s release, Madonna had two other videos still in regular rotation on MTV, and because Madonna’s label was worried about over-saturating the market, “Groove” was only released as the B-side to the glittery “Angel,” rendering it ineligible for the Hot 100. But the punchy, commanding song got an accompanying, movie-promoting visual, and became both a channel staple and a signature Madonna hit anyway -- while its “you can dance... for inspiration” koan would later inspire the title for her 1987 remix LP You Can Dance. In April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first live trek: The Virgin Tour brought Madonna’s vision of pop into arenas around North America, kicking off in Seattle and wrapping up with five shows in New York City -- three at Radio City Music Hall and two at Madison Square Garden. The video for “Dress You Up,” the final single (and fourth straight top 5 hit) from Like a Virgin, used footage of the song’s live performance from the Cobo Center in Detroit, while the home video featuring the show in its entirety, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, came out in November. Even while selling out arenas, Madonna remained a force in the clubs, with “Material Girl” and the double-A-sided “Into the Groove”/”Angel” single hitting No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart after “Like a Virgin” began the year at its summit. She was also a stealth (yet utterly unmistakable) presence on her frequent collaborator Jellybean Benitez’s blippy, freestyle-influenced “Sidewalk Talk,” a No. 1 dance hit and yet another crossover top 40 entry on the Hot 100 by year’s end -- a final testament to Madonna’s first year of true omnipresence. see 1989 on the Billboard site! also: Rookie of the Year 1984 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: MADONNA In 1984, Madonna climbed out of a cake and into immortality. Her performance of “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards that September, featuring the 26-year-old writhing on the Radio City Music Hall stage in a long, flowing wedding dress, quickly proved one of pop music’s most iconic national debuts, setting the rising dance-pop singer-songwriter on the path to global superstardom. Both “Like a Virgin” and its parent album of the same name would go on to top the Billboard charts; by the next year, Madonna’s stated ambition “to rule the world” had been fully realized. also: Honorable mentions in 1986 Madonna (True Blue, “Live to Tell,” “Papa Don’t Preach”) also: 2012 COMEBACK OF THE YEAR: MADONNA Leave it to Madonna to announce her return to pop at the year’s biggest televised event -- the Super Bowl. In February, Madonna, with the help of Cirque du Soleil, LMFAO, Cee Lo Green, and recent collaborators Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., headlined the big game’s halftime show. They debuted the Madge-Minaj-Maya collab “Give Me All Your Luvin,” while reworking hits like “Music” and “Express Yourself” and even courting controversy thanks to M.I.A.’s extended middle finger. That segued into the promotion for Madonna’s 12th album MDNA, an EDM-informed pop fantasia that hit No. 1 in April and set the stage for the set’s ensuing 88-date promotional tour.

but at least fan accounts wont steal views anymore from these performances, especially the S&S one, it had 3 million views few years ago

I think that's when she was celebrating Melissa's Bday and she was reading her poem to Mel..."way back in the beginning when I started all of my sinnin' etc "

For anyone out there who ever thought they were delusional, just go on Madonna's instagram or twitter and read the comments and feel better about yourself.

she need to press them into a beautiful bound book with fab MX pics and sell it for 225 bucks (on sale!)

I think when she meant Tokyo just because Chiba is part of the Tokyo Bay , lol it's close enough (20 miles? M could jog there from her hotel back then hahaha) so Tokyo it is (even if it's ..well... not )

Forward to 8:00 to hear what we came for! It was amazing to listen to him playing the bass used in the song. Imagine how it could sound if she used live musicians onstage again!! Thanks for sharing

Isn't this for the coronavirus thing she mentioned doing with other celebs to help?

this!!

It's not the last couple of releases she's been doing that. It all started in way back in 2004 with Mr. Akerlund when she hired him to shoot the Re-invention Tour and create the montage used in IGTTYAS. The last real "closer to the truth" live show we got was HBO's production of the Drowned World Tour. The Confessions Tour DVD, as a project, was amazingly put together but it's still highly edited... And the use of filters is present during the whole thing. They used studio vocal tracks to support several songs (Future Lovers, Sorry, Music Inferno, Lucky Star, and Hung Up) which is really obvious. They just used more echo Messy editing where several shows are mixed was already present in 1988's Ciao Italia so it's nothing new whether you are satisfied with the final result or not. I read somewhere that Madonna wasn't happy enough with Mark Aldo Micelli's work on The Girlie Show, I believe it was a letter by fax she sent someone else. So, it's pretty obvious she likes editing her stuff, even when she's not in charge of the whole thing. We should not rewrite history. It's the artist we chose to follow and it's somewhat not fair to judge her choices after all these years.. I've been a fan for 20 years and I'm just happy we got official recordings of everything she ever did. And let's not pretend we're not going to buy this new concert in its multiple editions Let's be hopeful Ricardo Gomes is doing a good job with the Madame X Tour film

Thanks for this - I loved his story about how they recorded Oh Father and Madonna calling him a dummy when he didn’t realise he did the bass on the song Like A Prayer - we never get to hear much about the making of her old albums so this is gold ?

1) Vogue 2) Express Yourself 3) Oh Father 4) Bad Girl

The four videos are masterpieces. 1) Express Yourself (made me a fan). 2) Oh Father. 3) Vogue. 4) Bad Girl

Awesome. I'd love to see them do a song and video together. Can you imagine the power and creativity?

If she posts the Girlie Show Vogue in like HD or 4K I’m gonna fliiiiiiiiiiiiippppp

You do more moaning about the moaners moaning than the moaners actually moan! chill MarXus, you'll bring yourself down, and you're too good for that :) ---- ooooooh! I just love how punchy and strong the sound mix is compared to any other Madonna DVD. It's a brilliant performance.... her shoulder dislocated in Manchester during this in 09, or something to that effect!

hahahaha

It's her teams fault. at the end of the day they must have access to a 1080p transfer of IGTTYAS. If they don't, they could at least share footage that hasn't been ripped from YouTube!

Because it's not from a HD source. It's clearly a 576i DVD rip initially.

Blond Ambition Tokyo Black Tour Jacket Performance "just put your vogue costume on, put your jacket on, and that's your costume for the night... k? "