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Oh Lordy.... some of people's choices.  It should be an automatic flush for listing anything from Ray of Light.  Complete apostasy....

Oh Lordy.... some of people's choices.  It should be an automatic flush for listing anything from Ray of Light.  Complete apostasy....

So you prefer Cry Baby to The Power of Goodbye?  Just curious.

Oh Lordy.... some of people's choices.  It should be an automatic flush for listing anything from Ray of Light.  Complete apostasy....

Oh Lordy.... some of people's choices.  It should be an automatic flush for listing anything from Ray of Light.  Complete apostasy....

The only issue that I have with TIC is that it should have been two discs to include all of her hits to that point.  Angel... Dress You Up... Gambler.... True Blue... Who's that Girl... Causing a Commotion... The Look of Love... Oh Father... Keep It Together.... and Hanky Panky... are the obvious omissions.  Everybody and Burning up are historical masterpieces and belonged in the collection.  The material was definitely there.  Who's that Girl would have definitely fit in the released version and a true blue edit as well. 

Madonna needs to open a political tour section with Rescue Me.  It is very Madonna 2019.  Maybe even the tour opener.  It sounds modern still as it sounded out of place among the 80's collection.  It is power.  It is fire.  It is life.

Madonna needs to open a political tour section with Rescue Me.  It is very Madonna 2019.  Maybe even the tour opener.  It sounds modern still as it sounded out of place among the 80's collection.  It is power.  It is fire.  It is life.

Loved Revolver live.  M was on fire.

Madonna has had hits in the last decade.  Celebration (2009), Give Me All Your Luvin' (2012), and Living for Love (2014).  And you are dead wrong about M not being victimized by sexism.  Nobody ever bitched about Michael Jackson or Prince needing to retire, despite the hits still coming and massive tours.  Madonna carries a lot of records that men once carried and she is largely dismissed as something less than she is.  Listen or relisten to Madonna's Billboard Woman of the Year speech.  Did she lie?  Was she confused?  I think not.  As for Prince and Michael Jackson's record of hits, I maintain that Madonna was far more consistent over the four decades.  I am not sure who said that there were no hits for the two after a certain date but I do know that Madonna did not speak and fade after Vogue in 1990.  

1.  Billboard UK says those songs were hits.  The US is not all that matters.
2. Michael Jackson and Prince were not consistent in the nineties and two thousands, chart wise or artistically.  
3.  Erotica sold 6 million copies.. and American Life sold 5 million xopies.  Neither was a "flop".
4.  Madonna's experience with sexism in the industry goes far beyond a single event.  Madonna has been a target since Like a Virgin.  Being called a "slut" and a "bitch" for 35 years is arguably much worse than being called a "faggot" for an imagined performance.
5.  I am not taking away from Prince or Micjael Jackson in all of this, only offering that Madonna is at the same level and is not credited as such.

1.  Billboard UK says those songs were hits.  The US is not all that matters.
2. Michael Jackson and Prince were not consistent in the nineties and two thousands, chart wise or artistically.  
3.  Erotica sold 6 million copies.. and American Life sold 5 million xopies.  Neither was a "flop".
4.  Madonna's experience with sexism in the industry goes far beyond a single event.  Madonna has been a target since Like a Virgin.  Being called a "slut" and a "bitch" for 35 years is arguably much worse than being called a "faggot" for an imagined performance.
5.  I am not taking away from Prince or Micjael Jackson in all of this, only offering that Madonna is at the same level and is not credited as such.

For the life of me, I cannot understand the Celebration compilation. Below is a listing of all Madonna UK and US top 40 songs (with most well above #20).  There are also all of the dance songs that were club smashes outside of the top 40 charts.  Madonna is a global icon and  legend and we got "Celebration".  Incomplete... hacked edits... out of order...  crappy art... etc... etc... Madonna's discography deserves justice.  Huge hits in multiple decades and yet she has been largely ignored.  Michael Jackson and Prince did not have this impact on the charts or the world for 4 decades and they are revered.  WTF
1. Holiday
2. Lucky Star
3. Borderline
4. Like A Virgin
5. Material Girl
6. Crazy for You
7. Angel
8. Into the Groove
9. Dress You Up
10. Gambler
11. Live to Tell
12. Papa Don't  Preach
13. True Blue
14. Open Your Heart
15. La Isla Bonita
16. Who's That Girl
17. Causing a Commotion
18. The Look of Love
19. Like a Prayer
20. Express Yourself
21. Cherish
22. Oh Father
23. Dear Jessie
24. Keep It Together
25. Vogue
26. Hanky Panky
27. Justify My Love
28. Rescue Me
29. This Used to Be My Playground 
30. Erotica
31. Deeper and Deeper
32. Bad Girl
33. Fever
34. Rain
35. I'll Remember
36. Secret
37. Take a Bow
38. Bedtime Story
39. Human Nature
40. You'll See
41. One More Chance
42. You Must Love Me
43. Don't Cry for Me Argentina
44. Another Suitcase in Another Hall
45. Frozen
46. Ray of Light
47. Drowned World/Substitute for Love
48. The Power of Good-Bye
49. Nothing Really Matters
50. Beautiful Stranger
51. American Pie
52. Music
53. Don't Tell Me 
54. What It Feels Like for a Girl
55. Die Another Day
56. American Life
57. Hollywood
58. Me Against the Music
59. Nothing Fails
60. Love Profusion
61. Hung Up
62. Sorry
63. Get Together
64. Jump
65. 4 Minutes
66. Give It 2 Me
67. Miles Away
68. Celebration
And GMAYL and L4L after the collection.

1.  Billboard UK says those songs were hits.  The US is not all that matters.
2. Michael Jackson and Prince were not consistent in the nineties and two thousands, chart wise or artistically.  
3.  Erotica sold 6 million copies.. and American Life sold 5 million xopies.  Neither was a "flop".
4.  Madonna's experience with sexism in the industry goes far beyond a single event.  Madonna has been a target since Like a Virgin.  Being called a "slut" and a "bitch" for 35 years is arguably much worse than being called a "faggot" for an imagined performance.
5.  I am not taking away from Prince or Micjael Jackson in all of this, only offering that Madonna is at the same level and is not credited as such.

Madonna has had hits in the last decade.  Celebration (2009), Give Me All Your Luvin' (2012), and Living for Love (2014).  And you are dead wrong about M not being victimized by sexism.  Nobody ever bitched about Michael Jackson or Prince needing to retire, despite the hits still coming and massive tours.  Madonna carries a lot of records that men once carried and she is largely dismissed as something less than she is.  Listen or relisten to Madonna's Billboard Woman of the Year speech.  Did she lie?  Was she confused?  I think not.  As for Prince and Michael Jackson's record of hits, I maintain that Madonna was far more consistent over the four decades.  I am not sure who said that there were no hits for the two after a certain date but I do know that Madonna did not speak and fade after Vogue in 1990.  

Madonna has had hits in the last decade.  Celebration (2009), Give Me All Your Luvin' (2012), and Living for Love (2014).  And you are dead wrong about M not being victimized by sexism.  Nobody ever bitched about Michael Jackson or Prince needing to retire, despite the hits still coming and massive tours.  Madonna carries a lot of records that men once carried and she is largely dismissed as something less than she is.  Listen or relisten to Madonna's Billboard Woman of the Year speech.  Did she lie?  Was she confused?  I think not.  As for Prince and Michael Jackson's record of hits, I maintain that Madonna was far more consistent over the four decades.  I am not sure who said that there were no hits for the two after a certain date but I do know that Madonna did not speak and fade after Vogue in 1990.  

Miles Away was a genuine hit outside of the US.  We were too busy streaming pop and R+B records that were as "good" as a broken condom.  Miles Away over what has passed as pop art over the last decade and a half.  100% on this observation.

Everyone complains about Miles Away being on the tracklist but it's there because in Japan the song "became the best-selling digital single of 2008 and received music certifications from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)—platinum for 250,000 PC downloads, and double platinum for 500,000 master ringtones. At the 23rd annual Japan Gold Disc Awards, "Miles Away" won three awards as "Mastertone of the Year", "Mobile Single Track of the Year" and "Online Single Track of the Year".[31] According to the RIAJ, the song has sold 681,000 digital downloads as of April 2009." (cheers Wikipedia).
If Celebration had different regionalised track lists, then Miles Away would've been replaced by a bigger UK/US hit for those releases.

#justiceforAngel
#justiceforGambler
#justiceforCausingACommotion&TheLookOfLove

It is tough.  There have been moments of absolute perfection and brilliance on both sides.  

It is tough.  There have been moments of absolute perfection and brilliance on both sides.  

Some people feel very repressed by their parents.  M all but voiced it in Truth or Dare during the Like a Virgin number.  She also mentioned in an interview that the SEX book was an act of rebellion against the church, her father and patriarchy in general.  She also said that the Super Bowl was the only time that she felt that her Dad was proud of her.  Her dad has offered a lot of passive aggressive compliments to her over the years regarding her body of work.  In the end, if she never hears or processes that he is fundamentally proud of her, she may have a lot of unresolved feelings that trickle down in to her art.  It is not entirely out of the question for M to take a swipe at patriarchy and rebel the moment that she becomes the Ciccone Queen.  People process repression very differently and I am sure that M, being the intensely complicated individual that she is, will be no exception.  We shall see... although I want Dad to live forever because she loves him so much.

Anybody under the age of thirty five does not understand who Madonna really is.  #facts 

Erotica 2.0 or Ray or Light 2.0.  We shall see how M processes it.

My brother went there with his wife and let me know just to torture me.  They said it was really good.