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The arrangement seems a little different to me, but the RHT version was already great, so if it's going to be similar I will be happy! On this video it is a semitone higher than the RHT version

Nothing can deny that Madonna has faced knee problems for the past twenty years. Really looking forward to her tour, I don't wanna see videos, the only spoilers I want are setlist (Opening Song , if what I read is correct it will be great) and costumes, hope they're gonna be amazing. Matters most to me in this situation is her remarkable resilience, steadfast in the face of these enduring challenges, I'm sure she's doing an incredible show.

The corset she's always wearing is also not the right size, and it doesn't flatter her beauty at all. It creates the appearance of saggy skin and excess fat, when in reality, she has flawless skin

In this rehearsal list I read BIM and Celebration were at the end 🤫 But it could be just a list for the day. And it could be fake. I don't know if it's true, but in that case, apart from these two songs, there are going to be big suprises!

Bitch I'm Madonna will almost certainly be there. I reread yesterday the list of songs she had rehearsed in April and BIM is there. I don't know if she cut it, but it was in the closing act. But I don't know if it's a reliable source.

Yes, absolutely. Better sing it as a closing. However, there is an inkling that it will be a tour of songs that we would have liked to forget and songs that we would have liked not to forget and still don't want to forget. In my opinion, it would be a great idea to film it in Italy, in Milan. It's three shows. And Italy is one of the countries where she is loved more. There are other countries with adoring audiences, but in Milan it's three stops in the second month of the tour. Given her experience with the end of the tours (in both the RHT, Reinvention Tour, and Madame X, she had more vocal and physical energy at the beginning of the tour). Otherwise, also the four stops in Paris.

I also remember a few other songs she's going to perform. But I know that she's going to open or close the show with Celebration (and that's pretty obvious). I cannot show any receipts, though 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I read that she will open or close the show with Celebration. And it's likely that the choreography will be similar to the Pride one. I then read some other information, but I forgot it and I don't want to say inaccurate things.

Many Madonna fans are saying Sam Smith is gross. I'm supporting Sam Smith even more than before, hate these Madonna fans. They only like beauty. If Sam Smith had abs they would have said he was great

It is not a photo manipulated by the media. It is a photo taken with a normal smartphone, like an iPhone, which does not have great zoom capabilities. It is zoomed in a lot (it is probably a photo taken from a distance) and this is the effect of oversharpening and some artifacts. I, however, do not see it as strange. In the Rebel Heart era she often had this expression. And I like her here. I disagree with banning phones and cameras again, if this is the purpose. I would agree if the purpose is creating intimacy, not if it's for preserving her fake image. I would not encourage the obsession with her appearance and image by not allowing photos that don't go through an AI like FaceApp to heavily change her features. Has she had plastic surgery, is her face swollen? That's fine. But I find it boring to constantly see photos of a person who does not exist. I prefer reality. Because her team doesn't put simply well-done photos where she looks good. Her team puts photos where she is transformed to look like another person, first using the usual spotlight on her face (which they carry around everywhere - so far so okay) but then changing her features with AI.

The Best (1) Oh Father (2) Drowned World/Substitute for Love (3) Live to Tell (4) You’ll See (5) Rain (6) The Power of Good-Bye (7) I Want You (8) Take a Bow (9) Bad Girl (10) Secret (11) I’ll Remember (12) You Must Love Me I really like them (13) Nothing Fails (14) Crazy for You (15) Another Suitcase in Another Hall (16) What It Feels Like for a Girl (17) Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (18) Don’t Cry for Me Argentina They're okay, just not the best (19) Ghosttown (20) This Used to Be My Playground (21) The Look Of Love (22) Miles Away (23) Masterpiece I can't stand them (24) One More Chance (25) Hey You (26) Crave (27) I Rise

I love Holy Water. I agree that there is not a single bad song in Rebel Heart, although there are some not to my taste, and that it is an immensely superior album to MDNA. And I hate MDNA, it sucks for me. Production-wise Rebel Heart is a polished record and done very well, better even than MX. I recognize that objectively MX has so many problems. Starting with the vocoder effects. Madame X has bad songs (Bitch I'm Loca, Come Alive) or songs that, although done well and not objectively bad, are not to my taste (Medellin, Future, I Rise, Crave). What makes me prefer MX is the simple fact that there are those three or four songs that are superior to all of Rebel Heart on a production, harmonic, and compositional level. God Control, a song where the vocoder in my opinion makes sense. IDSIF, also makes sense there; to me the beat is not dated at all, it deliberately has 90s and early 2000s inspirations tracing those beats but it sounds fresh. The Peaky Blinders quote I like a lot, it must be that I love that TV series. Then I don't think that sounding "new" is a virtue. Ray Of Light and Music are much more futuristic than MDNA and Rebel Heart. Music nowadays has an increasing tendency to flatten melodies, to nullify any reasoning about harmony and progressions. The rhythm sections are increasingly banal. There are no decent drums; they are dumb beats. It is less and less music and more and more a fancy background (a point I make as a person in his 20s and as a musician). And then there is Killers Who Are Partying, my favorite, it has crazy layers, amazing production. The lyrics are corny in the verses, but not bad. Made worse by the vocoder, but with that melody and production I get over it. Extreme Occident then would have been good if it wasn't for the vocoder that penalizes it so much. In the interviews she had described this as the "mega-paradox," it would have been okay to describe this, but it is somewhat poorly written.

Yes, but there's was a video of her talking about that. I really don't know, I just reported what I remember. We are talking about a person who took his own life; it is a very tragic episode. And I suspend my judgment. Madonna will have had her reasons for not responding publicly to these allegations. It is also likely that she eventually reached out to her sister and not just through her lawyers.

I agree with you, but this time we don't know if she's singing Like A Prayer. I read she reharsed and and then stopped reharsing the next week, don't know. Maybe she will sing it as a request song.

We really don't know anything. The sister says Madonna fired Caresse with just a one paragraph fax after 13 years of them working together. There must be a reason for that. Maybe Madonna got plagued by kaballah and was not lucid, maybe there were rational reasons. But until we know the truth from both sides, it's just speculation

Caresse Henry’s sister told that "Madonna has blood on her hands" after Caresse's death. She had said that working for Madonna had taken away her sister's happiness and lightheartedness and that Madonna had suddenly fired her because of Kabbalah, thus receiving a severe shock and feeling betrayed. I don't know how true this is, Madonna has never talked about the topic and no one has ever asked her questions about it. These are very delicate things, after all.

If the record had been like that I would agree with you, it would have made more sense. But it didn't. And then, for my taste, in RH, although I like almost everything (there are a few songs I would have avoided but I like almost all of them), there is perhaps not a single song that makes me say "wow." In Madame X I skip half the record but I say "wow." 90s house is not dated and IDSIF is much more avant-garde than all of today's pop that is now hollow and anti-musical, sonically, compositionally and arrangementally.

For the opening the most obvious choice would be Celebration, since it is the Celebration Tour. And I bet she's opening with this song! Like 99%. As for the other songs, we know that she rehearsed Hold Tight. We know she rehearsed Candy Perfume Girl. She will probably do Everybody. She could perform Nothing Really Matters, I'm feeling that it will be in the setlist. Unfortunately, I'm expecting Hung Up raggaeton with Toshika, I'm expecting that atomic shit of Material Gwooorlll, and I'm also expecting that loose shit of Frozen remix. Or at least two of those three disasters. But I hope none of them. But either way it's okay, there will be a time to play around with social media or to go to the bathroom ahah Then on one sheet she had written "Bad Girl, Rescue Me, Like A Prayer, Physical Attraction, Human Nature, Crazy For You, Lucky Star, Erotica, Papa Don't Preach and Like A Prayer." These were probably songs she was considering. I hope very much for Bad Girl and Physical Attraction. My guess is she won't do Like A Prayer this time around, I read she stopped reharsing it, but that doesn't mean anything. In my opinion, she will not even play an MDNA song. Or maybe GMAYL

Rebel heart is a record of potential chart hits. But it has no idea behind it, in fact I see it as a collection of songs from different projects. Certainly if I had to average the votes I would give to individual songs RH would win. And I agree that Madame X is spoiled by that horrible vocoder that ruined the ballads. Because if on I Don't Search I Find it can fit, on Extreme Occident or Killers Who Are Partying it doesn't fit at all. In fact, it takes the soul out of songs that would have been perfect with clean vocals. Nevertheless, I still prefer it to Rebel Heart. The production and musical quality of Madame X's best songs surpasses any of Rebel Heart's songs. I think of Killers, I think of Extreme Occident or I Don't Search I Find. It may be that I prefer the experimentation and when she deviates from pop over her more purely pop songs. And Rebel Heart is her most pop record ever. And MDNA is her worst record ever imho.

Yes, AL is just on another level than Madame X, without taking anything away from MX, which has good songs and is more inspired than the previous two records. But AL is much more cohesive, with no trashy songs in between. I would have edited a version where before the end of the video in the audience you see Bush lighting his cigarette with the grenade and then the ending where the grenade goes toward the audience. Because I always loved both scenes.

The point is that Madonna in 2003 gave right to those who criticized her, showing little confidence in what she was doing. And that is something she has never done other times. She has never spoken again about her choice, but from the way she has talked about the record in recent years it is obvious that if she went back she would not make the same choice again. Batuka, God Control, and Dark Ballet have beautiful video clips with messages. Madame X certainly had very inspired songs. The problem with the record was the excruciating choice of omnipresent autotune even in the ballads and the choice of including several songs of little artistic substance, perhaps to try to be on top of the charts.

I respect your point even though I don't fully agree with you. I don't think that Madonna's mistake was the end of her career, but I think it was the worst moment of her career. It was a big misstep, which no doubt she herself realized years later, but she never seriously talked about it again. Interviewers now ask her light-hearted questions, they don't try to put her on the spot by presenting her with contradictions or critical issues. It is true that afterwards she tried to catch up with the American public without ever fully succeeding. It's also true that music nowadays has changed a lot. There are hardly any genuine songs on the charts anymore, with studied arrangements, well-thought-out melodies and beautiful harmonic progressions. Everything is minimal and fake now. That's why teenagers nowadays discover 70/80/90s music and are amazed by it. She didn't end up completely conforming to the sterility of today's music scene, but she got influenced a lot and lost her brilliance a bit.

This version is wonderful, perhaps better than Madonna's original version.

Just like her part in God Is A Woman by Ariana Grande