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@mikenmarkYes! That's the one! Your turn!

Unfortunately not... I'll give you a hint: it's a song from one of her last three studio albums...

@AspergerArtistBedtime Story!

@AspergerArtistCorrect! Your turn again!

@AspergerArtist Justify My Love (Hip Hop Mix)

I was pleasantly surprised by The MDNA Tour, especially because (for me personally) MDNA was her weakest album. I also have lots of love for the Confessions Tour and the Reinvention Tour.

Spanish Eyes He's a Man Back in Business Thief of Hearts Secret Garden Don't Stop Love Tried to Welcome Me Swim To Have And Not to Hold Time Stood Still I Deserve It Paradise (Not For Me) Nothing Fails I'm So Stupid Intervention Voices I'm Addicted Some Girls Falling Free Best Night Messiah

Act I Erotica Bedtime Story Rescue Me Future Lovers Secret Garden Paradise (Not For Me) Justify My Love Act II Music Ray Of Light Holiday Love Profusion Borderline Jump La Isla Bonita Act III Express Yourself Open Your Heart Like A Prayer Frozen Papa Don't Preach Material Girl Into The Groove Act IV Secret Tell Me Nothing Really Matters Voices Take A Bow Falling Free Mer Girl

I don't care, except for Rescue Me. I need to hear that song live!

Perhaps Madonna just wants to have some fun?

Yum yum!

It's not a popular opinion, but Ghosttown did nothing for me. I think the song is overproduced, sounding too much like a Miley song. It just lacks the Madonna magic. It's not because of Madonna's age that Ghosttown didn't get played on the radio or didn't sell well, it's just a matter of quality. Yet there are a lot of fans who love the song, so perhaps I'm wrong.

This has always been one of my favourite Madonna pics.

Justify My Love and Erotica are probably my most beloved Madonna songs. One is the beauty, the other is the beast. So I can't choose.

You are totally right!

Fortunately Madonna's relationship with her children is quite good (as far as we know), so at least we won't get a Mommie Dearest... "No wire hangers!!!"

Dear @Enrico, thank you so much. But you and @poserdemadonnaboth call it a bad script, so I'm not sure whether it would be wise to read it. Well, perhaps to have a laugh then...

Don't Tell Me and What It Feels Like For A Girl should have been included.

Was it? That's quite a shame. Usually these Black List scripts are rather excellent. But I'll take your word for it!

At the end of 2016 Elyse Hollander’s Madonna biopic Blond Ambition was the top script on The Black List, the annual list of the most-liked screenplays in Hollywood that have not been produced. The script, from the WME- and Bellvue Productions-repped Hollander, is set in 1980s New York, where Madonna struggles to get her first album released while navigating fame, romance and a music industry that views women as disposable. The script received 48 votes to top the list. Madonna, however, was furious. From The Hollywood Reporter: 'The singer has posted several Instagram messages denouncing the project. In the first, posted just hours after The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the project on Tuesday, she writes, "Nobody knows what I know and what I have seen. Only I can tell my story. Anyone else who tries is a charlatan and a fool." On Wednesday, a copy of the script now in hand, her criticism grew more pointed and personal. "Why would Universal Studios want to make a movie about me based on a script that is all lies???" she writes. "The writer Elyse Hollander should write for the tabloids." As an example of the script's inaccuracies, Madonna singled out a line of dialogue on the first page, in which Madonna tells Dick Clark in an interview on American Bandstand, "I was born in Detroit. I'm a famed high school dropout." "I was born in Bay City, not Detroit. And I did not drop out of high school. In fact, I went to University of Michigan," Madonna counters. But Hollander took that exchange directly from the actual American Bandstand broadcast, as evidenced by this YouTube video. (Perhaps that is why Madonna later deleted the second Instagram post.) Figuring heavily into Blond Ambition's plot are such early Madonna hits as "Burning Up," "Everybody," "Borderline," "Lucky Star" and "Holiday" — all of them hit singles off her self-titled debut album from 1983. For Universal to include these songs, they would need to secure a sync license for the master recording (if they use the originals) and the music publishing rights. Even if Madonna holds none of these rights herself, one prominent music lawyer estimates that "given her stature in the industry, she probably has an approval right" over the songs and could prevent them from use in Blond Ambition. The resulting film — a Madonna biopic without any Madonna music in it — greatly runs the risk of coming off like a big-budget Lifetime movie in the vein of Britney Ever After.' So if Madonna doesn't like it, it won't happen. I guess we will have to wait for a long time. But when it does happen, I think it will be very successful.

So why do people say Madonna has no talent? I think the answer is actually quite complicated. It goes a bit further than ignorance and jealousy. I see Madonna not just as a singer or a performer. I consider her to be an artist, in the true sense of the word. Remember she used to be friends with the likes of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring? And that Madonna's art collection consists of works by Frida Kahlo, Picasso and Damien Hirst? Not only has Madonna been friends with famous artists all her life, she herself has tried to bring art to the mainstream as we can see in her groundbreaking videos. We consider successful art to be beautiful, but 'beautiful' is a word with multiple meanings and layers. When it comes to beauty, there are basically two camps: the people who think of beauty as everything pretty and the people who think of beauty as terror. Art we consider to be pretty is soft and consolatory whereas terror is always quite alarming. Madonna often operates between these two aspects. Her videos are always pretty to look at, but what we see are burning crosses (LAP), violence (WIFLFAG), emasculation (Express Yourself), death (Oh Father), sex (JML, Erotica) and mysticism (Bedtime Story, Frozen). Madonna's body of work can be quite confrontational when it comes to religion, sex and female empowerment. But most people don't want to be confronted, they simply want to enjoy and not have to think about their identity or place in the world. But Madonna questions everything. So acknowledging Madonna means acknowledging things we always consider to be true to actually not always be true. That is why so many people just want her to go away, they don't want to learn or understand that the old opinions they are clinging on to are false. It's quite safe to think the catholic church knows best, that sex isn't something to be talked about, that gays are sinful and that women are inferior to men. But Madonna shows us the world can be different. Should be different. We as human beings rather stick to our views, it gives us the support we need to live our lives. Someone challenging these views can be considered to be dangerous. It is the human fear of the unknown. So why do people say Madonna has no talent? It's because they are afraid. Afraid of change, afraid of letting old views go. Fear of reconsidering one's place in the world and one's identity. Who am I if I let everything go I used to believe in? So instead of embracing change and charter into the unknown we desperately cling on to our views and reject people like Madonna who provoke our thoughts. Instead of questioning our sexuality, we just call her a slut so we don't have to think about it. It's the safe way of handling our fears. This is what makes Madonna a true artist. Her body of work isn't so much pretty as it is sublime. She's playing with our prejudices and fears. Successful art leads to discussion, admiration and also rejection. It always is provocative.

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Well done indeed! Glad the WIFLFAG video gets the recognition it deserves!