Blue Prince

Truth is I was more excited about a new album track for Lipa's FN but it may still be good. It will gain a lot of press coverage for sure. But memories from the vile Don't Call Me Angel are still very fresh and haunting... 

Well what I'm saying is that her choices imply some effort to keep a balance between artistic quality and a very commercial album. When she walked into the studio with JT or Nicki Minaj was she intending to make some art to last through the ages? I don't think so, lol. Of course I still enjoy the records she is putting out and I think her writing is much better now with her latest two albums than during Confessions up to MDNA. She knows of course that many won't enjoy her work. I think it will always be her intention to make songs that leave people divided and I believe she enjoys it. It's what gave her a career after all.

As long as she keeps doing honest albums like Madame X and touring I'll be more than happy

First step for this to happen would be to make a lead single that commands to be heard without Madonna's name being necessary. Last time she did that really was with 4 minutes which was a monumental song, at least for the younger generation back then. If you are Taylor Swift or Rihanna you can sneak onto the first positions with stupid songs like Me! and Work but Madonna's prime is well over so she needs something stronger. I feel like she hasn't made a song this past decade with the prospect of it becoming a lead single until the record is almost over and it shows. After that some great promotion of course. But she has been an albums' artist practically forever and apart from Madame X every single album of hers has sold pretty well. We can never be sure how her singles will fare from now on. I mean she might make a strong soundtrack song with an actor and have it playing everywhere or she can have a full dance comeback or she could die in a few decades leaving a heart breaking death ballad behind that will bring everyone to tears. We'll see. What's important is that she keeps making more and more new music with stronger lead single choices.

REBEL HEART
Living for love 
Ghosttown
Bitch I'm Madonna 
Devil pray
Unapologetic bitch
Rebel heart
Those extra three were so single-worthy!

It is not right to promote such illegal acts and not just because some people might get to do them by imitating you. A most influential pop artist should be a role model at least in their work. It doesn't mean to conform to society's rules all the way of course. But if you want to promote a different way of life, it should be done bearing in mind what is good for people and what brings them together without hurting or traumatizing them. Something better than what society suggests. Now, it might be a fantasy of some white men for example to rape a black man's black wife while he is watching all tied up unable to intervene. Am I supposed, not completely appalled by this fantasy, to share it with my fans and audience amongst other fantasies and call myself a free of shame, forward thinking genius? It might be a not uncommon fantasy to seduce a preadolescent girl whose breasts just started to develop rapidly and who might be your daughter. Am I supposed to make it my art, thinking you are a moron if you don't understand it? No no, Madonna had a good intention but some of those stories and fantasies should never have been made public. Keep it to yourself, girl, and do something creative, legal, and good for other people (and animals). And shame alone is never a bad thing. Shame is only a natural mechanism serving some purpose. Oppression of freedom alone is not a bad thing. Ultimate freedom would be a disaster in a society. It's all about measure and balance. Us people must never promote ideas of disrespecting other people or violating their rights. And again, creating a Dita to do that instead is not an excuse.

Well said @Blue Prince??

It is not right to promote such illegal acts and not just because some people might get to do them by imitating you. A most influential pop artist should be a role model at least in their work. It doesn't mean to conform to society's rules all the way of course. But if you want to promote a different way of life, it should be done bearing in mind what is good for people and what brings them together without hurting or traumatizing them. Something better than what society suggests. Now, it might be a fantasy of some white men for example to rape a black man's black wife while he is watching all tied up unable to intervene. Am I supposed, not completely appalled by this fantasy, to share it with my fans and audience amongst other fantasies and call myself a free of shame, forward thinking genius? It might be a not uncommon fantasy to seduce a preadolescent girl whose breasts just started to develop rapidly and who might be your daughter. Am I supposed to make it my art, thinking you are a moron if you don't understand it? No no, Madonna had a good intention but some of those stories and fantasies should never have been made public. Keep it to yourself, girl, and do something creative, legal, and good for other people (and animals). And shame alone is never a bad thing. Shame is only a natural mechanism serving some purpose. Oppression of freedom alone is not a bad thing. Ultimate freedom would be a disaster in a society. It's all about measure and balance. Us people must never promote ideas of disrespecting other people or violating their rights. And again, creating a Dita to do that instead is not an excuse.

Totally with @emanon& @Blue Prince??
 
to a person (Madonna) who had a very bad experience with rape at young age I don’t think displaying such a “fantasy” would be accepted not only for the general public but also herself! Right?... what’s the real fantasy of being rapped??? It’s sick & disgusting thoughts.

I hope Erotica's I'll teach you how to ... isn't about that boy, even as a fantasy. For a Puerto Rican to barely have any pubic hair he must have been barely 13. I find it insulting for any mature, educated, smart woman, Dita or Madonna to think about these things. Perfectly okay to fantasize about younger men but if you want to become a mother in the coming years, don't think of very young boys that way. I've had some sick thoughts in my head many times but I keep them to myself and my dreams and don't take pride in them. If it's illegal, her taking on a role doesn't excuse her promoting of it. Anyway she's already received hell for it once, she doesn't deserve twice. At least she made a great album to go with it. Free of stupid ideas and of more substance.

I hope Erotica's I'll teach you how to ... isn't about that boy, even as a fantasy. For a Puerto Rican to barely have any pubic hair he must have been barely 13. I find it insulting for any mature, educated, smart woman, Dita or Madonna to think about these things. Perfectly okay to fantasize about younger men but if you want to become a mother in the coming years, don't think of very young boys that way. I've had some sick thoughts in my head many times but I keep them to myself and my dreams and don't take pride in them. If it's illegal, her taking on a role doesn't excuse her promoting of it. Anyway she's already received hell for it once, she doesn't deserve twice. At least she made a great album to go with it. Free of stupid ideas and of more substance.

From the ones I've lived I'd go back to the beginning of the MDNA era because everything was so perfect in my life then and the era started off huge, like some extraordinary start to a new decade of records. Of course it didn't exactly turn out to be that huge hehe, doesn't matter.

It's quite the sexy track and the Police band's lyrics reference is fun but sorry my appreciation ends here. 

I normally respect Pitchfork and their reviews and I read them for every album that I'm interested in or everyone talks about but I can't help but notice some seriously biased reviews when it comes to Madonna. I thought reviewers were supposed to read between the lines and notice things the average person might not. There's no such reading here. Same thing happened with Madame X. There were so many publications giving it 4 stars out of five and Pitchfork blatantly compared her negatively to Mariah Carey and wouldn't even give her five out of ten. They give out reviews about the average pop stars today that exceed those of almost every Madonna album, even Ray of light. So yeah I would probably read everything they have to say about her and just delete it from my conscience the moment after.

Stop giving it views and promoting it. I work in magazines and online publications, i know how this works. it's clickbait. Funny how the writer is a white girl...maybe she should resign and stop writing stuff and leave her job to a black girl.

Has anyone said that her body looks gorgeous and those abs ain't 60, amongst ageing process philosophies or does it go without saying?  By the way, according to madonnachartsww on Instagram this photo has led to an upsurge in sales of her albums on iTunes, mostly Rebel Heart and Celebration. Looks like her bod and her control over it will forever stir the industry and the masses.

Has anyone said that her body looks gorgeous and those abs ain't 60, amongst ageing process philosophies or does it go without saying?  By the way, according to madonnachartsww on Instagram this photo has led to an upsurge in sales of her albums on iTunes, mostly Rebel Heart and Celebration. Looks like her bod and her control over it will forever stir the industry and the masses.

Has anyone said that her body looks gorgeous and those abs ain't 60, amongst ageing process philosophies or does it go without saying?  By the way, according to madonnachartsww on Instagram this photo has led to an upsurge in sales of her albums on iTunes, mostly Rebel Heart and Celebration. Looks like her bod and her control over it will forever stir the industry and the masses.

Uhmm did Madonna intentionally make two albums named Like A Something? Probably just happened

I kinda like Dua, and her music is nice, just nice to me, nothing spectacular, just the "less bad" that we can hear in radio currently. I listened to her album and wasn't impressed at all, it just sounds, yeah nice, nothing more. Nice in the sense that it's refreshing to hear some pop music again but not good enough for me to download a track... That being said, i'd like the collad with Madonna to happen because it would be way better than those horrible rap collabs she made these last year, it would be bring M back into the spotlight (well if she does things right, see a previous comment i wrote in this thread), and it could bring the Dua track from nice to good, so yeah i hope it will happen.

Okay here's some thoughts. Dua of course has a deep voice, so yeah Madonna should try and match hers. That means that vocals like Faz Gostoso that blend perfectly with Anitta's wouldn't work here. But maybe some GMAYL/Hung Up sweetness would make a good contrast. 
If she adds some of her own lyrics I would love some nod to the Confessions album. With a song like Levitating she can throw in a lyric of How High for example but any other song would be great. And if there is a video she should try a revamped version of an older look of hers, from Confessions or from the 90's, so she can star in it as the Muse, the inspiration.
This year has been a great year for female duos topping Billboard. An element of surprise along with a big emphasis on nostalgia could probably give their song a trajectory close to that of Rain On Me or Say So.

My favorite from Dua's album is Love Again. If there'll be a featuring remix I hope it will be for this one.
 
 
 

Okay here's some thoughts. Dua of course has a deep voice, so yeah Madonna should try and match hers. That means that vocals like Faz Gostoso that blend perfectly with Anitta's wouldn't work here. But maybe some GMAYL/Hung Up sweetness would make a good contrast. 
If she adds some of her own lyrics I would love some nod to the Confessions album. With a song like Levitating she can throw in a lyric of How High for example but any other song would be great. And if there is a video she should try a revamped version of an older look of hers, from Confessions or from the 90's, so she can star in it as the Muse, the inspiration.
This year has been a great year for female duos topping Billboard. An element of surprise along with a big emphasis on nostalgia could probably give their song a trajectory close to that of Rain On Me or Say So.

Okay here's some thoughts. Dua of course has a deep voice, so yeah Madonna should try and match hers. That means that vocals like Faz Gostoso that blend perfectly with Anitta's wouldn't work here. But maybe some GMAYL/Hung Up sweetness would make a good contrast. 
If she adds some of her own lyrics I would love some nod to the Confessions album. With a song like Levitating she can throw in a lyric of How High for example but any other song would be great. And if there is a video she should try a revamped version of an older look of hers, from Confessions or from the 90's, so she can star in it as the Muse, the inspiration.
This year has been a great year for female duos topping Billboard. An element of surprise along with a big emphasis on nostalgia could probably give their song a trajectory close to that of Rain On Me or Say So.

I'd take the birth lyric more literally. She is talking about getting the kids ready and taking them to school before. A school where they may never come back from after some mass shooting. So each new birth, every new child coming to this world, gives her hope that their story, their school years might be different and free of fear. That's why she won't smoke that dope and shut up about all that's going on.