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I hate the album Like A Prayer. It's praised and bathed lavishness, but it doesn't do anything for me. For instance, I'm like crazy about keeping my books and CDs in as good a shape as I can. Like A Prayer sat on my desk in a random spot upside down for five months collecting dust and maybe a scratch or two and I never once felt the need to do anything about it. #RebelHeart
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Don't forget she was also thinking about doing the cover in black face...the pictures are out there.
Steven Klein shots...wouldn't have gone down well I'd imagine.
It wasn't the right direction but I still think it was a brilliant artistic work. But no it wouldn't have worked well given the absence of religion in Hard Candy. I would have love a few more songs towards the "candy" theme.
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Not so much anymore. The last couple of albums have been embarrassing. Bitch... is the worst Madonna has ever done (the video made it even worse), and would be sad even for a 20 something artist.
Maybe it was backwards to you, but it is undeniably a catchy fun song that employed Sondcloud's Sophie in its development. Sure, Diplo is the big name there, but even that is powerful, given Diplo is mainstream while still being underground. The video was explosively colorful and showed a very energetic Madonna still wanting to be on the Dancefloor. Rebel Heart was a bounce back. Had it have followed Confessions or Hard Candy, the respect for her in mainstream pop would still be there. I love MDNA but it's clear it is the album that contributed little to her career.
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Most of today's pop artists will burn out faster than she ever did. Even if she's not ahead of the pop industry as she was a decade ago, she was for way longer than any other peer. Britney got a nice boost with Glory but she's about had it. Rihanna is a club girl, and dance music can keep anyone youthful, so she might stick around. Arianna is another Mariah. She's got some good music, and her voice is phenomenal but I still don't see her staying ahead of the game forever.
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So here's my top 14 (reasonable) songs I think would be perfect to reuse.
1. Sorry
2. Ghosttown
3. Love Profusion
4. American Life
5. Candy Shop *just wedged in their somewhere ;)
6. Girl Gone Wild (drop the religious themes)
7.Devil Pray
8. Don't Tell Me
9. Nothing Really Matters
10. Express Yourself
11. Into The Groove
12. Human Nature
13. Luckystar
14. Live to Tell
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Good God! She looks amazing! Her touring years are long from over. Perhaps these sounds are what are to be expected, the heavy bass and hip-hop sounds. I say hip-hop but I'm sure someone else can more accurately say what it is.
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I'm sure a militaristic theme will pop up again soon, so American Life and maybe I'm So Stupid with a mash up with I Love New York. I'd second Sorry and Ghosttown. Obviously some oldies but goodies like Everybody or Luckystar, Open Your Heart, Express Yourself and maybe Oh Father. I'd also like Dear Father to come forth. It's a long shot but I've fallen in love with that demo. Secret, Tale A Bow, Swim.
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I don't mind buying anything from her, but being her singles missing the charts more, a greatest hits is becoming far fetched. I believe if there's anything like it coming, it would be something along the lines of a singles collection. And that would probably only occur in fullness upon her quitting music. Something I pray she is far from doing.
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I would suggest GHV3 (another name or whatever), made of the better singles (usually the first two) of each album starting with American Life. Let's face it, Celebration did nothing in regards to American life and Hard Candy like it should have. American Life made higher on the charts than Sorry but was still dropped, maybe due to the trouble caused, which wasn't very much. I would suggest maybe a greatest hits but with extended versions of everything, to help fill the spaces. Since the IC featured remixed versions and GHV2 featured a lot radio edits, i think taking extended routes would be smart.
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Eh, she should have done two more like the first. She looks great in it but I'm not sure if that's 2003 her or current her. It's the American Life styles photo.
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Wow! Four Rebel Heart songs, very nice! Although I could do without Inside Out. Borderline and Burning Up were left off.
Mine would go as (just chronological since I'm just thinking off my head):
Luckystar
Like A Virgin (it is promiscuous but it's still love)
Dress You Up
True Blue
Like A Prayer
Fever
Rain
Drowned World/No Substitute
I Deserve It
Nothing Fails
Love Profusion
Forbidden Love
Push
Masterpiece
Superstar
Ghosttown
Hold Tight
Best Night
I picked only love songs where the love was complete, not songs of heartbreak or denial or wanting. These songs I think express love to a lover as much as expressing the love being received by the singer.
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I always felt like it was a message. To remind people. I'm Madonna, I can swim in my clothes and pour drinks in my shoes and nothing about that should make you gasp. It's trendy but a lot since Hard Candy has been trendy, so no surprise there. I suspect the next album to have some trendy songs, that's how they hold up well in their year.
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A lot of the cringey songs for me land in her early career where singles were everything and then the rest of the albums songs were kind of forgettable.
1. I Know It
2. Pretender
3. Jimmy Jimmy
4. Love Makes the World Go Round
5. Dear Jessie
6. Survival
7. Don't Stop
8. Nobody's Perfect
9. Isaac
10. Dance2Night
11. B-Day Song
12. Graffiti Heart
13. Inside Out
I did these in chronological order, so I went ahead and listed 13 to give all the ones I could have done with out. SEX technically should have made it, but these are songs I absolutely never listen to or care for and I must admit SEX has been given more listens than any of these.
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I could probably come up with them all day long but my first Trinity would be Dress You Up, Burning Up, and Hung Up! Three of my favorites!
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I was obsessed with Let Down Your Guard when I discovered it, lol.
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I Deserve It!
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Yes Id like the next album to be more forward thinking rather than nostalgia driven.
I dont really know about concept or aesthetic. I guess whatever she wants to do. Althought theres been a lot of re-doing old concepts in recent years style wise. We'll see
Love. Sex. Religion. All three very integral in career. they're absolutely fine being reused, when done in new ways. Love is the least prone to being overdone, you just can't over do it. Someone's always falling in and out of love. Sex has become less shock factor, and religion has become less intriguing. But if they keep popping up, thats okay. But if they do, then their linking up with songs of the same nature is guranteed and then similar tour themes will be placed with them. Renaissance would be cool as a theme to a song, fusing religion, sex, and art. Lady Gaga's Venus took this idea of the painting of Venus and came out pretty good! No African themes have been done really, and Malawi could be a great source of sounds or lyrics. She's done gypsy, spanish, and french. So why not some African themes.
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Exactly! The tours really becoming just that, maybe rotating a couple in and out, like Music (only left out of MDNA since its release). Candy Shop is obviously a favorite of hers, one she has fun with! I don't know if she'd treat Rebel Heart like that, I could see Body Shop becoming a bit of staple, its fun and could reworked in various ways.
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Similarly, I'm Addicted should have been MDNA's Miles Away single, but we past that era unfortunately.
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Rebel Heart should definitely be a single in the way Miles Away was, video wise. But an older hit as well along side it maybe, Vogue would out because it sewn right into Holy Water. Like A Virgin is a good pick or even Material Girl. I love both performances, each quite an update for their songs respectively. My thing being this is a chance to slip in one more Rebel Heart song as an entry. Rebel Heart is just dying to be in the selection for a greatest hits one day! Honestly, when I design a greatest hits, I always place Rebel Heart in it as a closer, its just that fitting!
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Hmmm? She's touched on family life more than you think. She's mentioned living within siblings as far as back as the 80's with "Keep It Together". She also penned a song about her Mom during that era... "Promise to Try". "Oh Father" which about men in general, but is also related to Daddy issues. She sang again about her mom with the song "Inside of Me". "Little Star" wasn't the only song about her children. She penned "Intervention" with Rocco in mind. I'm sure there have been others which relate to her family life such as "Rebel Heart". The thing is Madonna usually writes songs with lyrics that might sound recent but could be about someone or something long ago.
As for her look, she's bound to keep the long blonde hair. Longer hair looks more youthful on her. I personally like when it's much more loose, and/or straight. She looks far more youthful when it looks like something from "Bitch, I'm Madonna" and/or "Ghosttown". Lighter on the make-up is very complimentary to her. The way she looked make-up and hair wise on Jimmy Fallon in 2016 was very complimentary to her. I just think the more make-up caked on and the more she curls/part her hair on the side, it makes her look older. She tends to look more younger when she goes with less make-up... more natural. That is my opinion.
Yeah I thought that would come up. I meant family unit wise, excluding parents and siblings, as she ofcourse has touched all those. I did forget about Intervention though. And I agree that B*tch I'm Madonna and Ghosttown hair did look very good, and the touch of pink in her hair was trendy too. But she did it, and like the cover to Rebel Heart, her hair do can be different on the album as much as the videos and then tour segments.
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So been thinking about maybe some ideas or what not for the next era, months from now or a year from now regardless.
Back in 2014 she had some hair styles I like when she worked with Tom Munroe.
I think she looked great with her hair up in the Flappers Segment of Rebel Heart, really worked. The whole hair down and loose is ok, youthful in some places, but sometimes it looks tired or too overworked.
As far as concepts, Rebel Heart may have come around organically, but the juxtaposing two concepts like Hard Candy was pretty meh, despite working out okay. Rebel Heart was also self-reflective and nostalgic and very career heavy. I'd like the next album to go in the direction pioneering or atleast resting on itself, strong lyrics driven from new ideas. She's never really sung about family life outside her husbands, and the kids maybe once with Little Star (specifically to Lordes).
I like the idea of a "Black Rose" kind of persona. The romantic Madonna versus the hazardous Madonna. The lovely rose and its many thorns. I'm not pinning this idea to the whole album but maybe to a single.
Any ideas or hopeful thoughts anyone? Feel free to share ideas about a new Madonna Era, from clothes, hair, tours ideas, and ofcourse album material!
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I'd choose Reinvention's Circus segment. Hanky Panky was a great opener for it, really disguised the darkness lurking with a light fun diddy. Deep and Deeper was breathless, her live vocals bleeding with power and emotion. Die Another Day was another step into the dark and a creative way to not include it in the Military segment as it would have blandly fit. Lament... A gem in the broken tents of this nightmare circus. Her vocals here stripped of the acting of Evita is blessed and amazing!
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