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  1. Seems like we got "Justify My Love'd" with this one again... I bet the intern saw that the video is already on 720p, so he called it a day and went to a Starbucks to get a frapuccino spending his afternoon on TikTok xDDD
    9 points
  2. Jamie Lee Curtis shared this on Facebook today.
    7 points
  3. Hope I don't get cruicified for this but imo the remixes for get together are shamefully inadequate. I don't understand why Madonna doesn't release a box set of alternate versions and demo's. There are so many incredible gems in the vault, and the original production of Get Together was among the best of them.
    6 points
  4. Sadly I agree, I found the remixes of "Get Together" VERY disappointing at the time, coming from all those excellent remixes packages in a row since... "Nothing Really Matters" really? "Get Together" deserved better. I now remember the city video was the ICON version, yes! Thanks for the info about that.
    5 points
  5. I saw the pink one here in the US on VH1 though many times. The city one I remember being through her fanclub Icon no?
    5 points
  6. Get Together? Give us something else, give us Sorry.
    5 points
  7. It makes the song justice, same vibe, more esoteric and ambient than dancing up and down. Could be a cool performance from M : )
    4 points
  8. Dear Madonna fans / collectors. We would like to invite you to participating the event managed by Royal Madonna Read below: June is the Pride Month. Yesterday, in one of the Facebook groups dedicated to music releases, there was an escalation of homophobic comments due to the publication of a photo of a collector's edition of #MadameX in rainbow vinyl by one of the members of Madonna Discography. Music is supposed to unite, not divide, no matter what color we are, no matter who we love, what gender we are, what age we are, what God we believe in or what skin color we have. Join the community of Polish fans and say "NO" to dividing people, regardless of which orientation you identify with. Each of us can become a victim of hate and we should protest in all of the case of it! Send us a message with your photo and a colorful vinyl of "Madame X" to show that music makes the people come together! People who don't want to publish their image are also welcome to participate! All you need is a photo of a person or a hand holding the "Madame X" rainbow vinyl - no face required. Photos will be published anonymously in the form of a collage (if we receive enough amount of pics). https://www.facebook.com/MadonnaDiscography/posts/3939061752795967
    4 points
  9. Art was not on the menu when those vids were created Hen. The Warner Rot was really starting to set in here.
    4 points
  10. 4 more months to go! #soon
    4 points
  11. the city one didn’t come out till 2007, then was released commercially on the celebration dvd
    3 points
  12. I didn't even know that "city" version existed! Gross. Get Together is one of my all time faves from her so I'm glad it's getting more attention. However, the pang of bitterness is real too, it would have been a monster hit if it had been given a decent video and the song treated with love by her and warners instead of the limp push at radio, uninspired cover art and general "focus on the tour" attitude. Sigh.
    3 points
  13. I'm fully vaccinated and I don't regret it. I was sceptical at first but I don't know anybody close to me that had any complications. ?
    3 points
  14. Any arrangement that's not a karaoke track 2 semitones down with the studio vocals louder than the live mic?
    3 points
  15. I’d rather M filmed herself dancing in her bathroom to Get Together as an alternative video.
    3 points
  16. Yes, but we still have the same problem, these masters are not the original, these master were made for vinyl. They can sound almost the japanese pressings but the problems are still there (Surface noise, high frequencies a little distorted, the tracking goes and going...) Anyway, with the japanese EQ the tracks sounds really OK: Open Your Heart (Dub) [With JP EQ]: [Hidden Content] Causing A Commotion (Yellow CD) [With JP EQ] [Hidden Content]
    3 points
  17. they commissioned 2 videos to be released simultaneously in different markets. However, this didn’t end up happening. Only 1 (the pink and yellow one) was sent to TV back in 2006. The 2nd one, was released exclusively to ICON members in 2007, and later on the Celebration DVD.
    2 points
  18. Get Together seriously? Can they release the unused Confessions backdrop in HD and surprise us for once in our life? The official video is trash.
    2 points
  19. "Get Together" deserved the most amazing video ever. Its one of the biggest crimes in her career for me. The remixes are great though.
    2 points
  20. The announced and still unreleased Justify My Love "HD" video seeing the Get Together announcement:
    2 points
  21. And also the fact that this video was made using SQ clips from a show and wasn't filmed in HD lol. Get ready for the mess
    2 points
  22. I love this video, FYI. The original that is. The 2nd one that came later with the city imagery, not so much.
    2 points
  23. It really shouldn't. Thanks for sharing though .
    2 points
  24. Please be the pink surrealist version and not the city one
    2 points
  25. I just love this Emily the intern persona on this forum. She makes all the fuckups more bearable.
    2 points
  26. I loved Desperately Seeking Susan and Madonna couldn't have been more fitting in her role. Great interview with the director below with mentions on Madonna... ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ Director Susan Seidelman on Casting Madonna and Shooting the ‘Sex and the City’ Pilot By Pat Saperstein Susan Seidelman on Directing Desperately Seeking For a certain generation of women, director Susan Seidelman’s second feature, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” is a formative text, an indelible record of New York in the ‘80s, from Madonna’s iconic hair bow to Rosanna Arquette’s spirited performance as the lead. With its cast of New York underground habitués, and fizzy pace set to the tune of Madonna’s “Into the Groove,” “Desperately Seeking Susan” was a fashion-forward change of pace from the teen comedies and slick action fare of the time. Seidelman’s first feature, the scrappy microbudget “Smithereens,” shocked everyone when it was selected as one of the first American independent films to be accepted into official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. With a cast that included proto-punk rocker Richard Hell, the 1982 “Smithereens” captured the East Village in all its grungy, pre-gentrification glory, and has become a cult classic. A die-hard New Yorker, Seidelman never felt comfortable in Hollywood. The studios kept offering her movies about cheerleaders, and she heard horror stories about controlling producers. In some ways, she feels that aligning herself with the New York independent community and picking the right partners shielded her from the worst of the sexism experienced by women directors working in mainstream Hollywood. Her other 1980s films included “Making Mr. Right,” “Cookie” and the Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr starrer “She-Devil,” which Seidelman shot while pregnant with her son. In the 1990s and 2000s, she directed a mix of Showtime movies and indie features like “Boynton Beach Club.” Just as she was struck when she read the script for “Desperately Seeking Susan,” when she got the offer to direct the “Sex and the City” pilot, she immediately felt it was the right project at the right time. The show captured an equally vivid slice of New York life, and became a pivotal cultural moment. Now she’s diving back into television, with a project hatched during the pandemic. In honor of Women’s History Month, we talked to the pioneering independent director. What was it like working in New York at that time? It was right when things were kind of changing from that hippie period into something different. Everyone was influenced by what was going on culturally and the changes we were seeing in that neighborhood. When I made “Smithereens,” which was in some ways an extension of my NYU film school days, it was primarily the same crew I had worked on with my student films. We never said, “Hey, we’re going to make a movie and it’s going to be in the Cannes Film Festival.” In some ways I think that naïveté is what enabled me to do it because I didn’t really know all the obstacles involved in getting into the film industry. When you were at NYU, were there very many other women who aspired to be filmmakers? There were 35 students in the graduate program and there were five women. Then when I taught at NYU up until around 2017, I think the classes were pretty much 50/50 by that point. When you started to make “Smithereens,” were you aware of many women working in film? New York really was slightly disconnected from L.A., I didn’t know who the agents were, what the production companies were. I went to film school around the same time as Jim Jarmusch, and I think the Coen brothers were also there and Amy Heckerling. There were women who were also doing very low budget films like Beth B, who was an underground filmmaker with her husband, Scott B, and Bette Gordon and Lizzie Borden were around. We all knew of each other’s work. What was it like while you were filming in the East Village? Why did you want to cast Richard Hell? The way I saw my job was to capture the things that I thought were interesting about Richard Hell as a persona and get them on celluloid. It was shot over a year in three different time periods because the main actress broke her leg (during the production), so she was a cast for five months. How did you happen to get “Smithereens” into Cannes? Film school back then was so different than film school now. We learned some basic editing skills and we were around a bunch of people who like watching movies and talking about films, but there was no kind of practical element about what you do after you make a film. But I had heard of the Cannes festival, because this is also pre-Sundance. I literally just sent a postcard to Cannes asking for an application form. Weeks went by and I got a call from a woman saying, can you bring your film to this address? And I dropped it off. And then, a few days later, I got a call from a guy who wanted to put it in the Director’s Fortnight. Then I got another call from a guy named Gilles Jacob who was running the whole shebang, saying “I just saw the film. Would you mind if I took it out of the Director’s Fortnight and put it into the official competition?” This was sort of mind blowing. What was it like when you got to France? Alice in Wonderland! We showed up with this ragtag little group and there was this other world out there. When you walked down the Croisette, this was the time of Menahem Golan and Cannon Films. They had like 50 posters for all the movies that they said that were going to make that they might not make, the whole thing was slightly surreal, but in a wonderful kind of weird way. Did that lead to being able to make “Desperately Seeking Susan”? When I was in Cannes, I started getting calls from agents right to the hotel where I was staying. So I signed with this agency and I started getting scripts that were being submitted to me through production companies in L.A. And they were all these mostly just kind of silly teen comedies. It was the “Porky’s” era, right? That’s what it was like, female “Porky’s.” I knew especially being a female director, trying to transition from doing low budget, independent film, I needed to be kind of selective and passionate about what I chose next, because I heard some horror stories about what was happening to other directors. After reading a bunch of really dopey cheerleader or sorority scripts, I finally got the script called “Desperately Seeking Susan.” I saw that it was being produced by two women, that it was written by a woman. Rosanna Arquette was loosely attached. And then I read the script and it was amazing because it dealt with the subject matter that was very close to my own — the themes that I’m interested in, like the idea of reinvention, the idea of somebody who comes from outside of New York, coming into New York to be whoever she wanted to be. What I really liked is that they were first time producers and I didn’t feel like I was going to be bullied. I didn’t feel like I’d have some heavy presence looking over my shoulder and that would stop me from doing what I felt like I wanted to do. How did casting the Susan part come about? We first started out going the more traditional route, auditioning young up-and-coming actresses. I remember some of them were like Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Griffith. They were all wonderful. But for me, coming out of downtown Manhattan, I had enjoyed working with Richard Hell, I thought it would be good to work with somebody who had a persona. I thought maybe we should look at the music sector to see if there was somebody there who could be interesting. Living downtown about two streets away from Madonna, I knew who she was. She had a video on MTV, I could see she had something. So I talked Orion into letting me do tests with her, and the screen test was successful. They liked her. During the nine and a half weeks that we were shooting, her “Like a Virgin” album got released and it was like watching a skyrocket. She was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and watching that rise so quickly was fascinating. By the time we were in our last week of shooting, there was security and all the things that are needed when you shoot with stars on the street. What was it like working as a woman director in the ‘80s? I’m a New Yorker and I’ve lived there for 45 years. The studio that I had to answer to was Orion, which was more New York-based that the other studios. They also had a more independent spirit in the sense that they were very respectful of directors – they worked with Jonathan Demme and Oliver Stone, and I was working for them because they basically kind of left me alone once they approved the cast and the budget. But I went out to take meetings at the studios in L.A. and there were a couple of weird things – I don’t drive, or I’m a bad driver. So just getting around. Also, I’m five feet tall. When I walked into the room and there were all these studio executives there, I know that the first thing they thought was, “Wait that’s a girl, that is a little girl.” I could see it in their eyes. Some of your films, like “She-Devil” with Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr, had ahead-of-their-time themes. Do you feel like people maybe weren’t ready for that kind of movie? I don’t want to sound too defensive or anything like that, but I do think that. I’ve been sent articles re-evaluating those stories, particularly “She-Devil,” from a younger set of eyes and a different perspective, and they interpret the film very differently. I think that part of it is that it was a female revenge comedy, but a lot of the subtext was about our culture’s obsession with power and beauty and money and glamour and all that kind of stuff. So it was a stab at that, which might have been somewhat misinterpreted by some people at that time. It also starred an overweight woman. I remember reading reviews that talked about physical stuff where I just went, whoa. I’d say that 90%, 95% of the critics were male back then. Did you think at the time that you would keep being offered more features, the way male directors often seem to just keep getting offered features no matter how much money their films make? Two things happened. One is I was disappointed by the response to “She-Devil.” The other was that at the time I was making the movie, I was pregnant. I had our baby the week it was released. So I have a distinct memory of literally being in the labor in the hospital room, watching Siskel and Ebert review the movie as I’m going through contractions. That’s crazy. Roger gave a thumb’s up because he likes underdog stories. Siskel gave a thumbs down. So it was very surreal. As a female film director back then, you really have to want to make a movie to get made. You have to want to make it way more than I think than male directors want to make it. You can’t just go to the golf course or the country club or the boys club and say, Hey, can I get $20 million or whatever? It’s a way more complicated and arduous process. And I liked being a mom. What did you think when you got the “Sex in the City” pilot script? It was like a gut thing, just like when I got “Desperately Seeking Susan.” I said, “Yeah, I can do this. This is material I can give something specific and personal to.” I thought the script was so funny and original and bold for its time. It wasn’t even so much the sex part of it, it was more the girlfriend part, the fact that the women were saying things that women talk about in the ladies room or just with girlfriends getting drunk. You did do some other television work, but did you think of going into television directing more intensively? With “Sex and the City,” it was different, I was involved in helping to create the tone and the look and the template. And that’s fun. In the ‘90s, I directed a few episodes of shows that were already up and running and it’s just not for me, to be totally honest. Since I was there early on in the process, it was interesting to watch how the characters were still evolving. I was involved in the N.Y. casting – which included Miranda and Mr. Big, as well as the secondary roles on those episodes I directed. Do you have anything in the works? Like everyone else, I have been stuck at home during this pandemic, and I’ve been working on a limited series that I’m excited about with my writing partner Susan Cinoman. It’s a revisionist, feminist re-telling of the Arthurian Legend, from the point of view of Queen Guinevere — who, in this version, is the hero of the story. What have you been watching lately? I was glued to “Fleabag” and “Call My Agent” during the pandemic. I saw “Nomadland,” which is wonderful. And the revenge movie, “Promising Young Woman,” which I thought was bold and strong and would have gotten a negative reaction, had it come out in 1989. It’s also wonderful that more women are writing about films and their reviews and voices and articles are all out there. It’s a long time coming, but thank God.
    1 point
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  28. All of Peter's remixes for M are brilliant, tbh. She has some fantastic remixes in her catalogue.
    1 point
  29. Shocking, they usually make such a great job at giving fans what they wish for, while preserving Madonna's legacy with care and intelligence. Her online team is awesome and not overpaid at all. Caresse and Madonna really had a great idea to hire such a brilliant, capable and deserving person all these years ago, it really gave Madonna the online presence she deserves. I don't know what fans have been complaining about. If that GET TOGETHER video upscale doesn't bring billions of views, I don't know what will. It's an excellent idea.
    1 point
  30. The Peter Rauhofer Private Mix is the best one.
    1 point
  31. I was always confused by them calling the video that they released to video outlets worldwide the "European Version". I hope that's the version they "fix" as to me that's the music video.
    1 point
  32. Andymad

    Madame X Tour DVD

    Where tf is a pro shot HD video of her Pride show? Is that “too much” like Madame XT to release it?
    1 point
  33. Ok so... let's go with Get Together I guess
    1 point
  34. Not in order but I'd love to have these on the next tour Everybody Lucky Star Into The Groove Papa Don't Preach Live To Tell Express Yourself Vogue Rescue Me Deeper And Deeper Secret Ray Of Light Nothing Really Matters Beautiful Stranger Music Don't Tell Me Die Another Day Hung Up Get Together Celebration Living For Love Watch the actual setlist have at most 2-3 of these
    1 point
  35. Wow I love how they do stuff that no one asked for! ?
    1 point
  36. Live from the Confessions Tour or KOKO would be better. Maybe they'll do that too.
    1 point
  37. Get Together HD video is coming tomorrow!
    1 point
  38. They are kinda immigrants and survivors, we dont know what of. As somebody said before The immigrant father/grandfather and family were alcoholics, maybe not nice ones. We dont know how poor they were or any other details. We cant say they were not survivors without knowing them. No need to jump in presuming being bitchy. We havent walked in their shoes.
    1 point
  39. Yep. Her father's parents were Italian emigrants from Pacentro, italy while her mother was of French-Canadian descent
    1 point
  40. I love how she rewrites history.... No he wasn't. He father was born in Pennsylvania
    1 point
  41. #blameitonemily
    1 point
  42. lmvc

    Madame X Tour DVD

    The problem is thinking that what it's on streaming will be online forever...
    1 point
  43. baymad4her

    Vote for "Vogue"!

    I voted for "Vogue" there is no way "Born This Way" is more of a gay anthem than Vogue. Bitch please, next.
    1 point
  44. xrhaul

    Madame X Tour DVD

    No multi city confirmed?
    1 point
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