[Which "Studio" Album of Madonna's would you recommend FIRST to a potential new Fan??]

True Blue and Like A Prayer. If they don't like these two, not worth the try.
One thing I have learn by observing this tiktok generation. They like nothing.

[Rolling Stone Brasil Magazine May 2024]

For what it says on the cover, it probably is the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the 2015 The Ultimate Guide to Her Music and Legend. 
I just hope they use some different pictures (like the one released in Argentina).
About the cover, I definitely prefer the Virgin era best. 

[Rio de Janeiro live May 4, 2024]

On 3/22/2024 at 9:43 AM, Nahash said:

Speakin' of the devil, does anyone here know what the hell is he now? And if he even have been a M fan at all... (a Gospel music stan doing the same for M... Comm'on!)

@michel.kettermannsince you were also a part of Madonna Brazilian fansites in the past, would love to know from you the digging from such info. Or of course from anyone else.

Bees, o Diogo com O tá vivo ou não???

I'm sorry, but I have no idea who this person is. 

[Rupaul's feud with Madonna]

18 hours ago, Starchild said:

I'm not even a RuPaul fan but this is clearly a spiteful statement just because you're bruised on behalf of your queen.

 

18 hours ago, Starchild said:

I'm not even a RuPaul fan but this is clearly a spiteful statement just because you're bruised on behalf of your queen.

[Rupaul's feud with Madonna]

Never liked this guy. Never got why he is famous. 

[The Best Greatest Hits Package]

What I like most about "Something to Remember" is its simplicity. The backside of the vinyl is so pretty. 
Although it is a great compilation, I don't care for the versions used on the TIC (I can't stand the remix of "Like A Prayer").
 

[Dancer drops Madonna in chair during Open Your Heart in Seattle, WA. (Nothing serious)]

Not a big deal.

[DL/ Don't Stop (AI Vocals & Instrumental.WAV) Album Version]

Thanks, man. 

[Favorite Madonna Soundtrack/Film song?]

I love I'll Remember, but Live To Tell is a masterpiece. And thinking back, she was very courageous for choosing a ballad as the lead single of a new album after all the party that was the Virgin era. I rewatched At Close Range a few months ago and the final scene when Sean's character started crying then the song starts playing, that's a wow moment. 

[Madonna’s BEST interview?]

On 7/22/2023 at 3:11 AM, McDonna said:

 

This Camile interview was done on the same day that she did many other press interviews sporting her newly dyed long dark hair.  It was September 1998!  One of those interviews she did was with ET (see below which documents the September date by mentioning the upcoming VMAS that same week).  As you can see, it's all from the same day and she's wearing the same outfit and sporting the same hair do.  It's a great interview. She talks about so much, including the death of Princess Diana, motherhood and also giving a sneak peak of filming of The Power of Goodbye video.

 

It is funny to listen to the journalist saying, "exclusive interview" and here in Brazil journalist Marilia Gabriela said the same at the opening of the program. By the way, that "interview" haunts her to this day. And every time someone asks her about that she basically puts the blame at Madonna.

[Did anything unusual happen in a concert you've attended?]

On the second show in São Paulo (December 20 2008) there was a quick problem with the screen and sound in the beginning of "Get Stupid". 
At the MDNA concert in Porto Alegre, she cut two songs (Like A Virgin and Love Spent). The concert started almost three hours late and the crowd got really pissed. It was Sunday, the day was really really really hot and most people started to curse and boo. Then, during her speech, she said she almost didn't go on stage because of a cold. I was at the golden triangle on that day and saw the whole rehearsal. 
When the concert ended it was past 1 am. That's why I don't take her seriously when she says, "I love my fans". She loves money. Whenever she performs in latin American countries she shows how disrespectful she is towards her fans. 
 

[All time favorite Hung Up Performance]

15 hours ago, True Blue 84 said:

What if you had to make a top 3 out of those performances, what would it be? 

Mine would be 1 Grammys 2 Ema 3 Star Academy, the holy Hung Up trinity 👑

EMA first
Koko second
Live Earth third

Although I love the Confessions Tour, the ending is a little bit tiring for me because of the long lasting "time goes by so slowly".

[All time favorite Hung Up Performance]

EMA

[Did teachers and or professors you had in school like or dislike Madonna?]

I studied in public schools the whole elementary cycle and never heard or saw anyone saying anything bad about her. When I was in the 9th grade (1993) Madonna came to Brazil for the first time and she was all around. I was already a fan at the time and both classmates and teachers used to bring me newspapers and magazines clippings and we even worked the lyrics of "In This Life" in one of the English classes. I took a cassette tape with the song and we followed the lyrics and she explained the vocabulary. 
Back in 1989 one of my clasmates took her cassette tape of "Like A Prayer" to show us and everyone was like, "oh, my God, put it on, we want to listen to the song (which had been released a few weeks before and everyone was in love with it).
Even in high school my classmates and teachers used to mention they had seen her video or an interview on TV or heard her song on the radio and came to me to ask if I had the album or the CD.
So, all my memories of that period, at least for me, were realy great.

[Least favorite album]

Music

I don't consider here anything she has done after Confessions on a Dance Floor.

[Pop Culture & Music Press News]

2 minutes ago, Anapausis said:

Yep, I used to be an ESMA collaborator too.

Btw, how's Fábio Freire, have you seen him lately? Last time I had Instagram he was living in Portugal. How I miss him, Jota, Rachel...

Time goes by so fast, as @Enricotold splendidly!!!

We have a short chat sometimes. Nothing like we used to back in the day. But these things happen. Life.
He's been in Portugal since last year I guess.

[Pop Culture & Music Press News]

3 hours ago, Anapausis said:

My 2nd one comes from Madonna herself, as a columnist to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Akronoth (where you do find the only ever mention by hers of my belief, Gnosticism, afaik):

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3755074,00.html

@michel.kettermanntranslated this text, when it came out, to Portuguese, I'll never forget that.

Did I? Don't remember that 
Probably when I used to be part of the EstiloMadonna fan page back in the day.
Good times, by the way.
Thanks for that.

[Boy George about Madonna]

1 hour ago, DiegoLCL said:

The way Madonna is still gracious to Cher and Elton John after all the shit they say and has never responded to this man in forty years speaks volumes about his relevance. It must hurt him...

Does anyone have this interview? She was so beautiful in it. I've only seen a few seconds here and there with poor quality.
About Boy George, who cares? It looks like famous gay men have severe problems againts Madonna.

[This!!!!! Hey You / La Isla Bonita / Hung Up (Live Earth 2007) [Rehearsals]]

Hey You / La Isla Bonita / Hung Up (Live Earth 2007) [Rehearsals]

[George Michael comments on the Britney and Christina kiss]

I saw nothing wrong on his comment about that.
I wish Madonna had never worked with britney, prince, justin, minaj (you have no idea how much I dispise that thing), not to mention all the recent trash she has done with Frozen and Hung Up.

[The (lack of) tour book]

5 hours ago, Gaviinj said:

I asked the official shop

"New items" = a bunch of T-shirts with pictures you can randomly find on Google and have them print yourself. I guess they forget her fans are not teenagers anymore. 
Her official merchandising is so shallow.

[Mid-90s Ballad era/Something To Remember appreciation]

Most fans will disagree, but the simplicity of this compilation is what makes me put it as number one amongst her compilations (yes, I prefer it over The Immaculate Collection - I've never been a fan of remixes and, for me, there is no better version of "Like A Prayer" than the album version). Anyways, "Something to Remember" has a special place in my heart because it shows the other side of Madonna. Although I miss "The Look of Love" and "Bad Girl" and I would definitely include "Love Tried to Welcome Me", the tracks she put in it were pretty well chosen. I also love the simplicity of the cover, the flowers in the back cover and I wish they had included a booklet with pictures and a few lines from the lady herself talking a little bit about each song. But I know that is too much to ask for.

[Rebel Heart Vinyl on amazon.us]

Funny that this was the only Madonna era I didn't buy anything because I got them as gifts. The CD a friend gave me as a b-day gift, the vinyl the person whom I bought a laser disc from sent as a bonus (still sealed) and the bluray/CD/DVD from the tour another friend gave to me as a Xmas gift.

 

[The (lack of) tour book]

For a tour that celebrates her 40 years in music, they should rerelease all of her previous tourbooks and put them for sale on her official page. At least everyone would finally have the chance of getting a physical copy.

[Me Against The Music Opinions]

I don't even consider that a Madonna song. Worst crap she's ever done.