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Unfortunately I missed the thread where you asked to vote for the most iconic moments and I regret it. Yet I think there is just one HUGE miss: the incredible "Living for Love" performance she gave at the Brits Awards after falling from the staircase. I mean, who else could ever do that? Who would ever even try to get back on stage at that point? One of her most iconic moments Great work: again, thank you!

Wich heart?

As always, congrats man (I watched the small clips you posted in the weeks ahead)! You are talented This is a proper way to celebrate! And now let's get back to the LIKE A PRAYER ERA!!!! (I'm waiting for the Erotica/Girlie Show one, wich is my favourite M moment and your vids are so fucking able to really get back the feeling of those days )

Ok. This is tragic. I know, don't worry, it's not you. It's the inflexible grip of bureaucracy regulations ... Just voted anyway.

NO PLEASE!!! We have to add the "Has to be" piano demo, it's a completely different song (and among my five favourite tracks of her whole career): PLEEEEASE!!!

Yes, if this is true, I thought the same, she could be recording a few new tracks to promote a career spanning worldwide tour

I do hope she will work with Jon Batiste (except the old usual Patrick Leonard dream). Does anybody know what happened to the ... visual biography, by the way?

I feel you man, I feel you

This is THE album I come back to the most, I love the most, that inspired me the most and that I still find the most ambitious, experimental, visually effective. The whole era is the seal of her icon status. Pure love!

I do think she could still put on a great show if she experiments complex, glamourous and evocative theatrics to create strong performances, spectacular and charismatic as they used to be, with a lower dance effort. Iconic and Heartbreak City from the RHT and Frozen or Extreme Occident from MX are good examples. Another huge possibility, left out for a very long time now, is to enhance the musical impact of her songs, realizing more creative and explorative arrangements that valorize the live instrumentation and vocal sound (the best example for that is the Girlie Show imo). The Dark Ballet rendition at Harlem, with Jon Batiste, was fire for me. She has a lot of tracks that can still be performed live with a huge potential, like Frozen, Like a Prayer, Rain, La isla bonita, Rebel Heart, Borderline, Live to Tell and I could go on. The point is chosing a set list where the "get into the groove" M gets the stage for two or three tracks (stuff like Holiday, Music, Hung up) - wich would also be good in terms of silly costumes risk - and releasing some good new tunes that propose a more mature and experimental sound. So imo she could still put on an excellent show, absolutely, but she doesn't seem to be going that way, that's all.

A vid of M presenting Amy Shumer (my god, how is it arrived to make me so sad just looking at her?!? ) https://www.facebook.com/madonnarevolutionoflove/videos/620133336369641

... well, at least many M's musical choises of the last 15 years seem legible now

I agree, and yet I like that it's mostly about the music, all eras are included and this is something I really hope M will be able to do, at least all the 80s and 90s stuff, also beacause, if WH had a strong musical and performative talent, she never got ambitious, innovative and provocative as M did. So of course M's backgrounds can be quite interesting to experience. Maybe that's one of the reasons why she's having troubles, she already said she doesn't know what to cut off and wants to include too much stuff.

Anyway I'm impressed about the complete lack of promotion reserved to "Material Gworl". I don't know, it feels like she neither believed in that in a way (or maybe, considering the contemporary market, this is an an old way to consider promotion or the actual value of a release). Let's see what happens with this one.

When I see pics like this, from her golden days, I do remember how amused I was each time I saw that cheeky expression

Ahahah ... me too

... wich was pretty good actually, thanks for sharing

Voted, quite interested to see wich tracks fans would have wanted in the final album Even if I would have considered as unreleased also Best Night, wich first demo had a complete different melody, and Wash all over me, wich Avicii's version was just at another level musically.

Wow for the first time I basically agree with the rating guys!! Only two exceptions. I would have changed the positions of God Control, wich I find an umberable mess (especially after having known that the intro and the lyrics are by another artist), with Batuka, wich is a kind of jewel for me, inspired, original, respectful (even if she seems to have lost her touch with words unfortunately). And of course Medellin should have been muuuuch lower than where it is but it was expected so ... yeah I think we made a good job this time, Madame X should have had more inspired and inspiring lyrics imo, but it's cohesive, interesting, ambitious, commited and full of good tracks!

I do agree, it's him, he's got it. He just has to look for his own voice.

yeah, hoping she's got one ...

OMFG!!!! Finally something to be excited for, I can't believe it

Noooo, huge fan here too! It's got weak sides but it was such a return to the right attitude and path that I started to think it was not over yet ... before we realized she was not to release any new music in 5, 6 years. Just voted of course