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A surprise album drop for Madonna would be a disaster. She's been away for five years I need 3-4 singles released before a sniff of the album. I need an era and her eras have been shorter and shorter for nearly 20 years now. 3 singles and out. At least we got a few more vids for Madame X but it's my least favourite campaign from her. I wish it had been Rebel Heart that got six videos. 

I still can't believe how much stuff has leaked over the last couple of years. And I wonder how much more there actually is. 
 

New single, please. 
Go out with a bang in Rio.
On to the next thing. We don't have the luxury of time, Tina.

Exactly. I'm sick of looking back. If I thought it happening was at the expense of moving forward I'd honestly have waited til she ascended. The two things can easily happen side by side. Five years is too much. 
 

The “making of” the bank commercial. 

New single, please. 
Go out with a bang in Rio.
On to the next thing. We don't have the luxury of time, Tina.

New single, please. 
Go out with a bang in Rio.
On to the next thing. We don't have the luxury of time, Tina.

It's one of these things
The tour book A guest feature at Rio A second leg of the tour The first box set announcement A new single (probably for a new greatest hits now everyone has bought Celebration I fear) but most likely Celebration tour being either PAY PER VIEW or screened in cinemas too like Pet Shop Boys Taylor & Beyonce.

His first work with Madonna till COADF was so relevant for me through these years. I had bid expectations for Madame x, but then I didn´t liked it so much, well, I might revisit it 5 years later, in order to see if it has grown on me better.

I'm still traumatized from Boom Pride and the Times Square silent film.

I'm still traumatized from Boom Pride and the Times Square silent film.

Tour book of pics taken by Ricardo on his iPhone, facetuned by MyMadonnaLuvin?

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

Yeah, I can totally see the next proper tour being a huge global one stretched over 2 years but in 6 week stints with a month or two between each leg.
What I'd really love for her to do next though would be a month-long NYC residency with an orchestra for a slower show where she doesn't need to move much but gets to perform all her ballads and all of the songs with amazing string arrangements that never get performed (because the cost of a 20 piece string section)... No dancers, just 50 musicians on stage behind her. Imagine hearing Papa Don't Preach, Frozen, Don't Tell Me, Easy Ride and the whole STR album at Carnegie Hall or The Met. Mainly, I just don't want her to go to her grave without having given I'll Remember and TUTBMP the performance that they deserve.

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

Turn it into an autobiography right now and take my money, Louise. Do a tour of your favorite podcasts. Put out your house album as a companion piece. That's a perfect era to follow up the tour. Let them make movies and mini series based on it in the future.

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

Madonna complaining about someone's ego...

 
 

Madonna complaining about someone's ego...

 
 

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

" I hate it! I'm too beautiful! Looks like a L’Oréal commercial!"
"I have a genius idea. Let's make Love Profusion an Estee Lauder ad!"

I suppose that Madonna was not quite so happy with WTG, which some critics saw as a rip-off of La Isla Bonita and only floated on its wave of success. Maybe that's one of the reasons why they preferred to keep the song exclusively on the soundtrack, which sold fantastically, but also remembered of the flop of the movie.
LAP established Madonna as a serious artist and so they decided to go with Cherish, because her then current successful studio album couldn't be represented by only two singles. Maybe they also picked Cherish to compensate for the loss of the musically similar song True Blue, which also sold better than Cherish - but five True Blue singles would have been simply overweight.
By holding back a few gems (True Blue, Dress You Up, Who's That Girl, Gambler, Angel, Causing a Commotion & Keep it Together), they also supported the sale of the albums they contained. By leaving them out, they probably made more money than if they had put them all on a double album. Of course it was disappointing for many fans, but the new two tracks dried every tear.

Those prehistoric pre-internet paparazzi shots of Sandra, Madonna (and sometimes Jennifer Grey) running around NYC and LA in their matching Levi’s cutoffs and cowboy shoes from 1989-90 calling themselves “The Snatch Batch” was a great pop culture moment; I think the tabloid term “gal pal” might have been coined during that period. IMO Sandra and Madonna’s friendship flamed out as brightly as it started because they brought out the best and eventually the worst in each other. At their best,  Sandra made Madonna funnier & edgier and Madonna made Sandra sexier & more mainstream. At their worst, I suspect Sandra’s bitterness and Madonna’s selfishness broke them apart. I saw Sandra live back in 1989  and read her first two books, which I thought were very smart and devilishly funny. I sort of fell off the wagon when Sandra started singing more than telling stories.
 
Based on book excerpts and bits of interviews from back then and now from Sandra plus Ingrid’s tweets from a few years ago, it sounds like two versions of events could both be true. Version #1: Sandra and Madonna’s falling out was over Ingrid crawling over Sandra to get close to Madonna. None of the them ever confirmed if Madonna and Ingrid had a sexual relationship, aside from appearing for the SEX book, but considering what phase Madonna was going through, I think we can guess they got it on. Without naming names, Sandra confirmed that she and Madonna never had a sexual relationship in one of her books but it doesn’t mean Sandra didn’t have feelings. Whether or not Madonna and Ingrid were lovers, Sandra must’ve felt used and jealous for being dumped for her very famous friend you’re crushing on and neither one of them wants to sleep with you. Version #2:  Ingrid tweeted a few years ago refuting a statement Sandra made about Madonna’s friendships not lasting, Ingrid claiming her own long friendship with Madonna was proof otherwise and added Sandra was just butt hurt over not being asked to be in the SEX book. (If you can imagine Sandra in the SEX book, I can see how it would’ve been more funny than sexy.) In either scenario, Sandra probably felt used by Ingrid for getting close with Madonna and unsupported by Madonna for not seeing it the same way and Madonna just absorbing Ingrid’s adoration which continues to this day. I’ve seen Ingrid at the recent LA shows and in the past in Miami and she still looks p---y whipped to me; I can only imagine Sandra’s triple whammy of being dumped by a lover who takes her spot as her famous friend’s BFF, possibly as a lover AND gets included in the SEX book. Ouch. Coincidentally, in “Truth or Dare” Madonna joked about a woman Sandra was dating (not Ingrid) who would’ve “f-cked over by the time this (movie) comes out”.
Ultimately, I think when fans like myself reminisce on "the good old days" , it's time to reflect on our own lives and realize sh-t happens and people move on. BUT it was fun to watch back in te day.

This may be an unpopular opinion here but it seems many of you just don't get it.  Sandra hasn't used Madonna's name over the years to get press -- the press has asked Sandra about Madonna over and over and over and over because, if you were around back in the late 80's, they caused quite a stir.  There was a huge fascination in their friendship. Longtime fans of both loved hearing Sandra talk about her in her shows -- because she spilled tea.  But either way, Sandra was already well on the rise before she & Madonna struck up their friendship.  Sandra starred in Martin Scorcese's King of Comedy with Robert DeNiro way before all that.  She was a regular -- and hilarious -- guest on David Letterman for YEARS.   Yes, her association with Madonna introduced her to a wider audience, but it now follows her around everywhere. 
I am 100% certain if she showed up at a Madonna show, there'd be a ton of buzz and people trying to take her picture etc. because tales of their falling out are so well known.  I don't think she means she'd take the attention off the star, I think she means she just wants to go enjoy the show as an audience member and not feel on display.  (The way someone like Rosanna Arquette or Sean Penn or Rosie O'Donnell is gonna get attention at an M show too.) Sandra may not be everyone's cup of tea, but she's not a nobody.  She is a brilliant comedienne who continues to tour, and hosts her own show on SiriusXM.   Younger people might view her as "too negative" but that was part of her brand.  A darker, hilarious, bitter, cynical point of view.  She was brash and loud, in your face, and dangerous.  And SO much fun for those with a wicked sense of humor.
For those of us there at the time, Madonna's times out and about with Sandra were some of the first times we got a taste of Madonna's own sense of humor, they went out to clubs and restaurants, walked red carpets, and 'caused a ruckus everywhere they went.  In gossip columns and followed by paparazzi.  This was long before Instagram and Tik Tok.  We almost NEVER got a peek into celebs' personal lives -- so when we heard about who Madonna was running around with, we ate it up.  There was something really powerful about seeing 2 strong women tearing it up and not giving a f*ck what anyone thinks of them.