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What songs was she screaming loudly on Madame X? 
And none of the people she worked with are teenagers. They are in their mid to late 20s. 

She didn't put much effort? Seriously? She spent almost a year working on Rebel Heart recording new music, changing lyrics, melodies, production.
That alone should prove you she was very into the music and the project as a whole, and so she was into Madame X as well, experimenting with Portuguese music, Fado and keeping the era alive (her own way) as she left the 'Madame X' Persona go on for almost three years.
Just because you're not into something, doesn't mean she is not into it as well.

Someone you never will be! 

You’re making a lot of assumptions not knowing anything about him. His last album got a high rating from Pitchfork. 
what makes you think her children are familiar with Nigerian singers? 

The full pic:

I don't know what it is for, but that outfit is FIRE.

How the fuck did I not notice this earlier? Rihanna getting pregnant is the perfect excuse to keep her fans begging for a new album for the next decade.

I'd like to add to this topic with something a little different, from the real life this time. Don't tell me that the first ever pics of Rihanna being pregnant didn't ring a bell to you?

Life imitates art, right?

I remember her in 2012 fighting against this beast on her russian concerts, major balls. Now this is a Madonna I deeply admire above it all.

I think they've melted by now

So recently I had a bunch of my friends and family over to my house and we were talking about music and who our favorite artists are. When I mentioned Madonna as one of them, I was instantly met with a bunch of rude comments directed at her, nobody even wanted to acknowledge how important her classic period was. Why is Madonna so disrespected musically?

Some more random MDNA thoughts:
I Fucked Up/ Best Friend are a very underrated duo.
The only thing that would have made the Cyberraga/ I'm A Sinner moment even better would have been a guest appearance from Fraggle Rock.
I think the only bad song on the album is Birthday Song.
The tour had the best version of Candy Shop.
I never went to see it live. It's the first M era I can remember having so many videos of people being there for rehearsal. Like I cannot imagine watching her rehearse in front of me and then do the show. It's the most bizarre and fascinating thing to me about that tour/era.

While I don't love all her albums, I think some of them are growers. Madame X was not a favorite of mine upon first listen and now I regard it as the best sounding record she has released since Confessions. 

You know if it ranks as the lowest album of her's by definition that means it's her "worst". 
Rebel Heart is an interesting situation. I like it a lot but I wouldn't rank it one of her better albums. I just like the sound and most songs, but it does fall flat as project overall. I think it really suffers from not being a double album. Like if Rebel and Heart were separate albums I think it would be looked on more fondly because both of those themes are there but they just collide one track after the other. It's kinda jarring.

MDNA feels more like a solid album than Rebel Heart, which has always felt like a playlist with random tracks thrown together.
Not saying that either of those albums are “bad” or are her “worst.” I might rank them lower than her other albums.
They just needed some A&R lovin, like the Warner albums.

Yes, I stand corrected. Courage sold 333k and Madame X sold 313k but it is possible Madame X could overtake it one day. I can't think of any example other than that.  Celine was 51 and Madonna 60 for their last albums.
However, if compare Madonna to her relative contemporaries by age, Madonna obliterated Celine when she was 51, as well as all the other divas of the 80s / 90s. Time will tell how Celine sells at age 60. 

I also had a change of heart for this album. Second one actually as I loved it when it first came out and after a few years I didn't. Fans always consider this particular album her lowest point along with Hard Candy, but MDNA is far superior. You can listen to it all the way through without getting a headache, like from HC's inexplicably long tracks and their RnB beats.
It can feel rushed and like a mess but it wasn't meant to be more than that. But even for those who take each piece of Madonna's discography very seriously, they can see it as one of the most reflective pieces of Madonna's life. Having divorced from her company, from her man, having rebellious teenage children all over the place, a woman on the last of her reproductive days, she was going through a lot. MDNA came out to be a divorce record with great energy to match her peers and even her children's energy. She was angry then she was sad then bitter and this record was her catharsis in a way.
We have to appreciate it for the honesty, it being more vulnerable than even the least known tracks of COADF. For its dance quality which puts most of today's pop albums to shame. Of course we could all do without some of its tracks like Superstar and GMAYL. But that is for every album she makes. Like A Prayer's Love Song is kinda meh, Ray of Light's Shanti/Ashtangi, Erotica's Did You Do It? and so on.
That said I still can't get over tracks like Girl Gone Wild, I'm Addicted, Gang Bang, Some Girls, I Don't Give A, I'm A Sinner and Masterpiece. I have started to enjoy Love Spent and Falling Free as well. The sound well has somehow aged. But I've learned to enjoy it for what it was back then and all memoried associated to it.
There is a smaller great album in MDNA and very Madonnaesque, just not the part of her some fans can appreciate. A mourning album by a divorced woman is always better received. A mad divorced woman doesn't click. I'd even put it ahead of Hard Candy, Like A Virgin, Music and probably beside her first one. It's not polished and it's not complete, but her life wasn't either.

OR Martha Graham... maybe even David Bowie, who knows... John Lennon?

Little Sparrow… Madonna’s legacy through a biopic called Little Sparrow. Wtf Lololol

I'm also fairly certain her new music sells better than any female act above 50. 

Well she's 63. I can't think of any female above the age of 50 doing better than Madonna. Mariah at Christmas but you take tours into account and Madonna's doing better than any of them. 

"What's the hardest thing about being a mom?"
"MDNA skin?"
"How do you balance motherhood and your career?"

We know those would be the questions. 

I also had a change of heart for this album. Second one actually as I loved it when it first came out and after a few years I didn't. Fans always consider this particular album her lowest point along with Hard Candy, but MDNA is far superior. You can listen to it all the way through without getting a headache, like from HC's inexplicably long tracks and their RnB beats.
It can feel rushed and like a mess but it wasn't meant to be more than that. But even for those who take each piece of Madonna's discography very seriously, they can see it as one of the most reflective pieces of Madonna's life. Having divorced from her company, from her man, having rebellious teenage children all over the place, a woman on the last of her reproductive days, she was going through a lot. MDNA came out to be a divorce record with great energy to match her peers and even her children's energy. She was angry then she was sad then bitter and this record was her catharsis in a way.
We have to appreciate it for the honesty, it being more vulnerable than even the least known tracks of COADF. For its dance quality which puts most of today's pop albums to shame. Of course we could all do without some of its tracks like Superstar and GMAYL. But that is for every album she makes. Like A Prayer's Love Song is kinda meh, Ray of Light's Shanti/Ashtangi, Erotica's Did You Do It? and so on.
That said I still can't get over tracks like Girl Gone Wild, I'm Addicted, Gang Bang, Some Girls, I Don't Give A, I'm A Sinner and Masterpiece. I have started to enjoy Love Spent and Falling Free as well. The sound well has somehow aged. But I've learned to enjoy it for what it was back then and all memoried associated to it.
There is a smaller great album in MDNA and very Madonnaesque, just not the part of her some fans can appreciate. A mourning album by a divorced woman is always better received. A mad divorced woman doesn't click. I'd even put it ahead of Hard Candy, Like A Virgin, Music and probably beside her first one. It's not polished and it's not complete, but her life wasn't either.

As time passes I find myself liking this album more and more. It's pure energy and one of the only alternatives to Confessions on a Dancefloor that keeps the energy at 100% for a good portion of the album. 
I think she approached this era with a carefree look/attitude that confused people. She was going for relaxed and confident and I think it came across as lazy.  Whether you want to believe she was trying to compete with Gaga or not, in the public's eye Madonna's throne was threatened by Gaga's string of hits, epic music videos, her single handed resurrection of huge dance numbers, extreme fashion, and she "could sing". So when Madonna presented her first musical/ visual ideas after a 3 year hiatus everyones eyes were on her. And the music wasn't as good as everyone else's, the dancing wasn't as elaborate, the looks were pedestrian and the vocal delivery wasn't anything to write home about. I remember the first time hearing Girl Gone Wild and it was painfully obvious in the part "but I'm a bad girl anywayyyyyy HEY!" That "hey" was manufactured in post production to create a climax of sorts in the song... and it falls extremely flat. as does the word "wild" in the chorus... over and over and over again. There's no real substance to the music video, definitely no storyline. Gaga was making mini movies!! I don't think she was competing, if anything I think she did the opposite... but I don't think that strategy worked. 
 
With that said.... Now when I listen to it, I can listen without the comparisons to Gaga or anyone else who was making superior EDM at that time and the album stands on it's own better now. I appreciate that it isn't as high gloss sounding as Femme Fatale. I appreciate the craziness at the end of Gang Bang, at the time I was staring at my speakers in horror while she screeched "drive bitch!". I can listen and hear Madonna in it that I couldn't hear at the time. 
I also just love that she kills Guy Ritchie on the second song on her album. I mean... how bad ass is that! I think in an alternate universe, she released Gang Bang as the first single with an epic music video. 

1)Loved the Tour, the only time I have seen her, in Barcelona and she was flawless and the show amazing and was a total success for her.
2)The Superbowl perfomance: awesome, iconic, loved by everybody and a total success.
3)The cover of the album: one of her most beautiful ever.
4)The album itself:oks, I could do without Birthday song or I fucked it up, and I never quite liked the first single, even though it was fun and a success, but at the end MDNA mixed all the Madonnas (the funny, the strong one, the  fighter, the ballader, the melancholic and reflective). Girl gone wild is pure vintage Madonna and the video is a total homage to her carreer. I always loved Addicted or Some girls, and some ballads like Masterpiece and Falling free remind me of the best ballads with William Orbit of the ROL time. It is special for me that acoustic version of Love spent, which is really emotive and on the other hand, I´m a sinner reminds me of the LAP days and it´s also quite funny and ironic. And Beautiful Killer is sooo sexy.
5) It was very succesful at the first, went to number one and sold at first a lot of copies, oks I know it had  no legs, but on that last decade who had legs not being Adele?
6)She looked amazing throught that Era, much better than in the previous one and much better than today.
7)She danced wildly on the Tour as one would expect Madonna dance on a Madonna show, she was impecable and even at that age, superhuman.
8)The whole era and the album gave me a much more european vibe than Hard Candy, which I think suits her musical work better.
9)She fighted for many great causes and was very brave on many times, but with more intelligence, wit and charisma than in later manifestations, and in a less narcissistic way.
10)It was for me the last era of Madonna in her prime as a force of nature, despite it all, because, even I like a lot some things about The Rebel Heart era and album, I think by 2015 her insecurities, which on the other hand made her human and that was not bad at all,  started to show a lot, and it was quite clear though the tour she was struggling personally and professionally (dancing less, the Roccogate, the leaks, the fall on that awards show..) and then for me the Madame x one has been her worst ever (eurovision, covid, tour cancellations and at the same time my father died and I have the most horrendous memory of that era, sorry.)

You’re looking at it too literally.
Live To Tell is the perfect title as it symbolises her survival in the music industry and years of public scrutiny.
It’s a mental game, and she’s kept her sanity, humanity and humour despite it.