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For me Kylie represents pop in the best way. Dazzling girl, light voice, perfect pop jams, little fluctuations and crossovers with other genres, big gay fanbase. Kylie is pop. I think probably only Britney has been that consistent with pop. The other girls have been through so many other artistic and dramatic phases and also genres. They've also raised families, something that made music somewhat of a second priority to many of them.

Damn these titles and the themes they imply are so her. She may have reinvented her image a thousand times but her themes have been forever the same.

I too wouldn't consider it one of her best albums but it's a really fun one. It's what she can achieve when she does music for herself, without preaching, without thinking much, without following anybody.

...release music more often. So she has at least one new song as a lead artist every year.

True Blue, the warmest colour

I don't disagree with the rest you said but I found I Don't Give A a highlight of MDNA as it's very different for her and expresses what really troubled her at the time. When it comes to the Baby Jesus lyric, I think it's a very cute one. The way I understand it, she was leaving the house without saying her prayers because there was no time to and her schedule was too hectic to remember it every day. So she was reciting some prayer addressed to Baby Jesus, as her kids were all very young then, while climbing down the stairs to leave. In my opinion, only a song with that pacing could give us a glimpse of what it is to be a single mom of four and career woman. Just wanted to clarify that song a little the way I understood it, thank you.

She didn't become the queen of commercial music on good news and positive stories. Let it be once again

Well they'd never compare to the hardcore Swifties who are almost capable of counting each hole of her sweater and calculate when her next album is coming. Madonna with Future presented the world's end from human stupidity leading to an environmental reaction, something we all fear will happen sooner or later. There was fire, there was hail and blizzard, probably radiation too, hence the masks with flowers (probably giving off rare oxygen). But people never discuss the cute things she does. Fans never discuss the cute things she does. They only care about the notes she never hit. Good thing Future is getting some attention now. Maybe those morons have good music taste after all.

Wasn't she unsuccessfully writing a musical when she decided to just make a damn COADF instead? She has my blessings then Anything that keeps her into music

My feelings are kinda mixed. Many celebrities out there tell us to stay home, their home looking like some luxurious paradise compared to ours. I find it rather funny, not offensive. And she was absolutely right about the infection itself not discriminating, despite the difference it can make among people of various incomes. That said, she could indeed make some more useful posts. I mean when she wanted she made videos about using a beauty roller and applying day cream or whatever. She could talk about more practical things in her own sexy way. Be a little more humble so people can feel better, as they're doing the same things as Madonna right now. But the whole Madame X views the world from a third point of view thing might look a bit silly at this point. What's there to promote any more?

This song is from a Greek indie singer, apparently for a fellow indie singer who made a film. It says something like (look at me boys?) dancing like Madonna, in Spanish but someone more fluent should help you with that.

Although, at least lyrically and in some other ways, she has done some very beautiful things in the years that came. Time Stood Still, Devil Wouldn't Recognize You, Voices, Falling Free, Wash All Over Me etc. are quite the proof that she hasn't lost it. Still waiting for a sound majestic as POG though to get lost in

I was in junior high when it came out. I pretty much was discovering her discography in the summer of 2011 and that's when I became a fan. So I was very excited to witness my first era. It was November I think that the GMAYL demo leaked. I adored it, I was listening to a lot of bubblegum pop back then and I hadn't really created that impression of Madonna as a quality artist that should say no to any lesser song. For me she was just a dance queen and GMAYL gave me just that. Then I fell in love with Masterpiece and Elton's face at the Globes, the GGW song and video, which I still think is one of the best. In March she would upload small snippets of her songs and while most people seemed to love Gang Bang I was instantly drawn to I Don't Give A. It sounded so different for her (the snippet had that cute baby Jesus lyric). I had too much time to even edit my fb profile picture to look like her broken mirror effect on the covers, listen to Best Friend and I Fucked Up a thousand times every time I would fight with my best friend crush, even spend hours comparing her to Gaga which was the coolest thing back then. Since then of course I've listened to pretty much every album of hers and I'm not sure MDNA is a good album anymore. But I don't really care, it was my first era and the perfect album for that point of my life. A great album for early '10s pop too. My only problem was that the whole era died too early, like the next ones.

Not necessarily about the current state of things. Just simple and peaceful.

@Blue Jean @confessed Reminder, this topic is not about the songs we don't like. It's for the powerful ones.

So I'm bored and this is my second topic We all have songs that we avoid because they're just bad. But right now I am wondering if you have any Madonna songs that you avoid because they are so precious that you fear wearing them out or they are associated with some bad or peculiar memories that come back each time you listen to them. For me such a precious song is This Used To Be My Playground because I was in my teens when I first listened to it and too afraid to grow and leave the safety of my home. I get emotional when I listen to it and do so rarely. Another one would be Sorry, which I used to send to a friend I had, whom I secretly liked in a different way, everytime we fought for unimportant reasons. The song reminds me of that sexual tension and made me cringe for years before going back on my constant rotation. So do you have any?

And yet I've seen the Oprah performance being used to mock her, compared to other vocal divas such as Whitney, on youtube videos. Some people just gotta hate her.

Think it must be Le for males

It's such a nice video, we should appreciate it more, given she spent time in between tour dates to give it to us. She looks so gorgeous when she smiles without a care. I'm happy I was a teenager and got to fully appreciate it back then. After that my music tastes and life probably got a little gloomier Thanks for the reminder Rista!

We know Madonna's albums have quite distinctive productions but even she sometimes tends to reminisce and revisit some sounds or ideas. So are there any songs but mostly singles that you could easily imagine as parts of other albums of hers with little to no changes? For me there's Cherish that feels a lot like a True Blue song while Live To Tell has that dramatic feel of Like A Prayer. Of course I Don't Search I Find as part of Erotica as well but that similarity was intentional. What's your ideas?

I liked it a lot. But to be honest I'm not captivated by Madonna doing nothing and plainly singing ballads, same as she did with Like A Prayer at Eurovision. A dance cover reconceived with new instruments (no idea what Prince song would suit her better) would blow people away. Purple rain gave the performance some life at the end but still it's better when she does what she does best and that's creating euphoric moments. Other people's ballads, especially from black people, are probably not her terrain and a guaranteed cause of hate. When Madonna dies I hope dance artists won't only be tributing with Like A Prayer or Frozen by the way.

Jesus being that hot doesn't come instantly across as an intellectual talking about the universal law (was his English even that good?) but who knows, we can never judge by the cover However we should be talking more about the cute things and songs Madonna does and not just to judge them, so I appreciate this thread. MDNA is pretty much an electronic extravaganza but it gets so cute and vulnerable so often. I think that Madonna could be aggressive and sarcastic about the man who wasn't her husband any more but still she was a woman who lost a man, a companion who made her life happier and a little easier. I think it's admirable how specific these songs are, something she doesn't often do.

I'm not afraid of who you are. We can fly! Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

That one friend got me confused. First saying Madonna is overrated then wondering why her views are low and why her singles didn't sell that well. Where's the overrated part then? The obsession from the media? Apparently she has been leading a lifestyle in front of them that seemed more interesting than most to many people and many want a glimpse of that. I'm sure Madonna would be well below many other names on the list of overrated women, Kims and Kylies and Kendalls and so on. At least she has a Ray of light and half a dozen more works of genius to her name. Not a sex tape or a lipstick or foundation. Nothing against those K women right now. Just examples. How can even a completely talentless self made woman be overrated when not many in the world can do what she did?

So I am very happy we will all be killing it in the clubs dancing in our sixties till the dawn because we'll never have danced with an eye patch