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.....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!!!

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

Waiting is the hardest thing
I tell myself that if I believe in you
In the dream of you
With all my heart and all my soul
That by sheer force of will
I will raise you from the ground
And without a sound you'll appear
And surrender to me, to love

We wait 3 years until she releases it on DVD

Hung Up
Music
Get Together
Don't Tell Me
4 Minutes

1. Sorry
2. Hung Up
3. Celebration
4. Miles Away
5. American Life

In no order:
Music
Don't Tell Me
Hung Up
I would've left it at that but if I must pick 5, I'll add:
Get Together
What It Feels Like for a Girl

01.- Hung Up
02.- Music 
03.- 4 Minutes 
04.- Celebration 
05.- Hollywood 

here's mine(In no particular order)
What It Feels Like For a Girl Die Another Day Love Profusion Hung Up Get Together

What are your top five favorite Madonna Singles from 2000-2010? If you need a reminder on them, see this link. As said,....In a couple of weeks, I'll be putting a top five together from your selections for each decade. So stay tuned. If you've missed posting in the first two decade posts, go here (80's)and here (90's). I'll be posting a 2010-2020 post soon. Thanks for your fun participation in this series of posts these last few weeks.
Here are mine (my fave decade):
Music
Don't Tell Me
Die Another Day
Jump
Celebration

Bye Bye Baby 

Bye Bye Baby 

Poll: Favourite song: Fever or Bye Bye Baby?

Vogue
Beautiful Stranger
Secret
Human Nature
Erotica

for a trip?? Mdna

What are your top five favorite Madonna Singles of the 90's? If you need a reminder on them, see this link. (In a couple of weeks, I'll be putting a top five together from your selections for each era. So stay tuned  )
Mine are:
Keep It Together
Vogue
I'll Remember
You'll See
Justify My Love
 
(Omg, that was hard!   )

I mean, go watch some of her older interviews from the 90's. People back then were saying the same thing about her they are today. They're just the loudest. 
And even Warner didnt know how to manage her during the Erotica years. 
We are very critical of artists these days like they answer to what we have to say about them. When in reality, they owe us nothing. When we fail to understand their choices, we think they fail us.
For all the criticism I read at the time for Rebel Heart and how it hadnt sold, when I was at the show, EVERYONE around me knew the words to Holy Water and Rebel Heart, and Devil Pray, etc. 
I remember thinking: ok, so people HAVE the album. They know the music.
 

First, I think a lot of what has been brought up can be chalked up to personal opinion. 
 
"Career wise she always progressed in terms of ideas and you could feel an artistic evolution from her first album until American Life."
This is your personal opinion of how things are/were. In reality she has always worked with producers and artists of the time period they were in. Some are a little disguised, such as I think she plucked Mirwais to give her a Daft Punk sound, or William Orbit to give her a certain sound that was prevalent (Dido, Olive). Confessions was no different as I think she was completely inspired by by 2004 Call on Me by Eric Pridz. Hoppin on Timberlake, Timbaland, and Pharell was only natural after Justin's Future Sex Love Sounds album, Timbalands work with Nelly Furtado blowing up everywhere, and Pharrell just being the unique artist he is. 
 
Re-Invention Tour and the Confessions era was her "damage control" phase and worked for her. 
Says who? Reinvention Tour was hardly safe, and to categorize Confessions as just 70's disco is delusional.  
 
"How did we go from this to wearing grillz",     Erotica gold tooth?
"dating boy toys,"      Dennis Rodman, Tony Ward, 2 Pac, Warren Beaty, Vanilla Ice, The Kennedy brother, 
"that Drake kiss,"        The Britney kiss???
"Bitch I'm Madonna phase,"   a good phase if you ask me
"whatever she did at that VMA award where she told that Aretha Franklin story that went nowhere while dressed like...that."
Let her feel her fantasy girl. She's 60 and inspired! Im half that and uninspired most of the time. 
"Going completely unprepared to Eurovision."   Have you ever heard her sing THAT bad before? You don't think that MAYBE just MAYBE she had a sound problem and couldn't hear herself?
 
And yes, she is different. I think her priorities have changed. Her kids are first. As much as YOU care about her legacy or her image, I can guarantee that she could give 2 fucks about that especially if she's focusing on her kids. 
 
So much more to write. So little inspiration to keep on....  
 
P.s. None of this is meant to be rude. 
 
 
 

I don’t know why people always cite 2007 as the beginning of the end. Hard Candy was a great album, and very shrewd, let down by awful artwork. Confessions Part II was never going to happen. Sticky & Sweet was a huge tour.
 
 
 

Thats like looking at the Madonna from “Lucky Star”, and seeing the Madonna from “Erotica” and asking “What happened to her?”.
Madonna’s just done something alot of us fail to do: evolve.

La Isla Bonita
Express Yourself Remix Edit
Who's That Girl
Holiday
Into the Groove

What are your top five favorite Madonna Singles of the 80's? If you need a reminder on them, see this link.
Mine are:
Look Of Love
Holiday
La Isla Bonita
Oh Father
Papa Don't Preach
 
 
 

in no order...
Burning Up / Physical Attraction
Angel
Open Your Heart
Like a Prayer
Oh Father

The Look Of Love
Holiday
Open Your Heart
Causing A Commotion
Express Yourself