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Please  help  ASAP this morning for Pre-Sale for Washington DC:
LIVE NATION Pre-Sale -
I've not received any email from LN (as of almost 9am today) as to what their code is for today, and can't find instructions in my LN account page.
Previously I had heard it was "SOUND" for Madonna's earlier dates that went on LN Pre-sale last week.
Can anyone please confirm the LIVE NATION CODE asap?  
 
ICON LEGACY -
if anyone is feeling kind and charitable, could you please share the DC date code?
 
 

We finally won kids!! 
This was so unexpected and exciting. I hope aside from the actual music releases themselves (personally hoping for gorgeous gatefold vinyl releases with new inner artwork designs etc) we’ll get lots of proper polished content online as well. Like Mariah’s MC30 campaign, I hope ‘M40’ gives us sleek branding and videos and never seen before photos and M actually posting and reflecting on her back catalogue. It seems like they’re taking it seriously so I would hope so.
 
I think this would need to mean her Instagram account is at least part-managed by the label though. I just think her Instagram presence properly giving credit to these iconic albums and her showing herself engaging with them and being nostalgic and proud of them too would make such a difference to how people see her online. I know that’s not typically been her way of thinking… but hopefully this starts to change that.

I love this look, love that she went for something different with the hair and silhouette. 

Such good work! These are miles better than the actual covers.
This video is the best thing about this whole project, actually feels artistic and M looks real and beautiful. 
 
Such a shame the official photos for the spread we ended up with were so underwhelming in comparison. The over editing and the use of bizarrely low-quality images that are all pixelated and low- budget looking… expected better from Steven Klein. 

Such good work! These are miles better than the actual covers.
This video is the best thing about this whole project, actually feels artistic and M looks real and beautiful. 
 
Such a shame the official photos for the spread we ended up with were so underwhelming in comparison. The over editing and the use of bizarrely low-quality images that are all pixelated and low- budget looking… expected better from Steven Klein. 

Such good work! These are miles better than the actual covers.
This video is the best thing about this whole project, actually feels artistic and M looks real and beautiful. 
 
Such a shame the official photos for the spread we ended up with were so underwhelming in comparison. The over editing and the use of bizarrely low-quality images that are all pixelated and low- budget looking… expected better from Steven Klein. 

i did a quick covers from film 





 

This was such a joyous appearance. She came across so well and funny and looked gorgeous. Great time to be an M fan! 

This was such a joyous appearance. She came across so well and funny and looked gorgeous. Great time to be an M fan! 

Why so many likes on these atrocities? 

I believe it might have been filmed. There was a camera crew there for the entire thing and guys holding big spotlights on people asking questions. 
 
I forgot what made her mention it but she said she was part bionic, and that she got a hip replacement. And she struggled and made it through the tour dancing in pain everyday. 
 
I think it was a really good interpretation of it being in a theater. I don’t think the editing is as bad as RHT or MDNAT but I don’t think I’m as critical as some fans ?. The only times I think it was bad was flipping between eye patch and no eyepatch and sometimes it switched between the professional footage and what Ricardo recorded on his phone. Like the polaroid montage moment had a lot of Ricardo’s footage which is not as crisp

Wow what an incredible experience! I’m sure we’re all insanely jealous but very happy for you too! 
I really hope the Q&A was recorded because that list of celebrities is really impressive! Surely she’d want to use that wider than this event. Did it look like it was being filmed?
Cant believe you got to dance with her, every fan’s dream surely! 
What exactly did she say about the hip replacement? Just curious!
And in your opinion did the film come across how it did in the theatre? And do you think fans will respond to it better than the RH and MDNA tour films in terms of the over editing?

You guys are being a bit too critical and judgmental towards her lately tbh. I worry too because I love her sm, but the things many people focus on are honestly absurd and laughable, chill lol. 

Hey everyone! Last night I got the opportunity to attend the Madame X Tour film private screening. 
 
The event was phone free until after the show ended, so no one was able to snag videos of the film or Q&A. The place had an open bar with 4 signature drinks: Madame X (Basically a vodka martini), Espresso Martini, Crave (some light drink with a splash of red and what were written as caviar, not sure what it actually was lol), and champagne. They were also handing out little snacks like popcorn, red-vines, and some honey truffle bar. 
 
The beginning of the night was kind of just a mingle and drink before Madonna arrived. Liz was there and so was Erin Wilson, who I got to speak with. She was really sweet and seemed actually interested in our conversation. She was praising Madonna so hard and you could tell how passionate she is about the biopic. Once Madonna arrived we all sat down and the show started to play after a short speech from her and she saw some of the tour band members who she hasn’t see in awhile and got super excited. Also she gave Liza a long hug. 
The film was absolutely amazing! There was an MTV logo at the beginning, so maybe this was the broadcasted one since some songs were cut. I answered a lot about it in other threads so I’ll just summarize a bit here, but lmk if you have anymore questions. The film was so powerful and I felt like she was inspired by her biopic when making it. 
 
- Video opened with Madame X Manifesto and some montage before it with some upbeat music and negative clips from her career 
- Papa Don’t Preach, Crave, and Sodade were not apart of the film
- There were close ups and shots of the crowd. Quick cuts but better than past tours. Vocals sounded from the tour! Filters used occasionally but very tastefully done
- FUTURE WAS AMAZING, AS EXPECTED!
 
Once the film ended, the Q&A started. The first part was all celebrities with video recorded questions. Questions from Lil Nas X, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Connor McGregor, Sarah Paulson, Jean Paul Gaultier, Billie Eilish, and countless others. Madonna revealed that farts make her laugh and then recited the fart poem. She then took 3-4 audience questions. One of which was from me! I think she remembered me after we bantered a bit about our convo at the Madame X Tour, at first she was like who? ?
 
Once that ended they removed all the chains. French fries and pizzas were being brought out and the room turned into a club. Got the opportunity to dance with Rocco and David, David was super nice and formally greeted himself and shook my hand. Rocco seemed really nice too, he was hanging with his friends. And one of them was dancing with me and that’s how I got over to the group. Then Madonna came out and I got to dance with her a little bit and I took pictures of her next to Ricardo. Then someone performed, I have legit no idea who it was but he was wearing what I’m going to call a “nail wig”and he was really good! The rest of the night was just dancing. I talked to Steven Klein a little, he seemed a little like he didn’t want to talk to me but I was probably a little too tipsy, sorry ?
The night ended at like 4-4:15 AM. 
 
Please let me know if you have anymore questions! 

I so wish we were able to see the full Q&A with all the celebrity questions (Katy, Doja etc) that sounds like so much fun! I love hearing her just talk about stuff. Hopefully they recorded it?

I so wish we were able to see the full Q&A with all the celebrity questions (Katy, Doja etc) that sounds like so much fun! I love hearing her just talk about stuff. Hopefully they recorded it?

The Q&A sounds ???

Me bopping me ass to Killers and American Life while the entire room is quiet 

They really need to relax on the filters on her pics, they do her no favor, people will only get more arshe on her seeing how she really looks like in real life vs what she posts on her insta. A little editing is ok, but this is another level. I like to see Madonna for what she really is, not a fake person.

Future, the masterpiece that it is, was kept in full length with the new verse. You bitches gonna be shook by it. The sound system was shaking my bones during it 

Her reaction for the vegas residency question? :)) A big NO

Okay here goes…
personally what I would love to see from M is an album that isn’t to do with starting “revolutions” or politically charged. I want Madonna to be more self reflective on her past and looking towards the future. I think the auto tune needs to go, we heard enough of it on the Madame X album and we have heard it on all 3 tours MDNA (revolver, hung up) Rebel heart (iconic, body shop) and Madame X (god control, dark ballet, Medellin etc.) and personally it doesn’t sound good in live arenas, theatres. 
when I saw M at the Rebel Heart Tour in Glasgow where she sang Ghosttown (which is criminally underrated) her vocals were amazing and she genuinely looked to be having the most fun she had in years. Moving forward to Madame x tour Frozen was also loved by fans in attendance as the whole palladium was up on their feet after that performance. 
So personally I would love to see a ballad album from M trying out new sounds, instruments I don’t think she needs features as she is powerful by herself (if marketed and promotional work is done properly by management and record label) 
I would love to see more interviews on chat shows with M for promotional material heck even a special sit down with Oprah that takes you behind the scenes of M putting the album together. Performances at music awards such as Grammys, Brits etc in the build up to the album release. Having more of a social media presence on places such as TikTok etc would benefit the album.
I know some people would disagree but like I say everyone has their own opinion and this is what I’d love to see for M15 

You can still retouch and leave the peach fuzz, retouching used to be a mostly manual & artisanal craft, almost like an art but it seems photographers these days rely more and more on new software and algorithms and most human qualities are lost via these new editing methods. Herb used to have great retouching, although even Herb went too far with the retouching on a couple of his photos. So not even the greatest are exempt of fucking it up in the editing. 
In my personal experience, and I am no expert, it can take hours to manually retouch a photo when you are trying to make it look natural and as faithful as possible to the real features of the person Vs. minutes or less than an hour if you use presets.

I am just glad it's shot by Klein and not Gomez...

Ffs 
I have nothing against a little enhancing on photos, everyone does it. But I just wish Ricardo would do it well…! It just feels so lazy, like he has a preset effect which pulls her jaw in to give her an alien shaped head, doubles the size of her eyes, and smooths her out to look like plastic. It just feels so rushed and low effort.
Any photo re-toucher’s basic ability is enhancing an appearance in such a way that way you can’t even tell it’s been edited. That’s just the basic skills surely. The way he edits is just so obvious to everyone, and that just reflects badly on M.