EgoRod

Yeah it does, thanks. I can understand a DJ edit for example, because it gets play in a set and as you said, you might don't want to go 2 minutes on with a beat or instrumental part

Yeah exactly for the collectable side of it. But that's when I struggle with local edits, because they tend to be a mess the most part of the times

This is a genuine conversation, open to opinions and comments. Is not about what's best or worst. What's the deal with edits? Apart from the radio playing. Edits supposed to be a shorter, censored version with the most relevant and compacted punches in the tune in a minimum time. For me if I love a song I actually don't want it to be short, quite the opposite. If an artist work in a length to tell or express their idea, cropping and chopping to the essential seems (to me) a bit rude. I do value the type of edits that work with the original stems and kinda recreate a different take of the similar idea. But I see these more like a mix. There are big fans of edits, that's why I'm asking publicly, Why do you love of edits? When do you think are a good idea? Why edits are better than the original album version?

Everything is subjective. She has some more meaningful and invested lyrics (Check Erotica's album as example) Then two songs after " Secret' you have this:

That's good thou

I was lucky to go twice and I loved it. It was a totally different experience from previous concerts. And being slightly inebriated helped, but I was so emotional and happy the whole way through in both occasions. I'm looking forward seeing again

Fever single never got it's own artwork, just the stills from Bad Girl right? Apart from the vinyl that shares the B&W Bad Girl photo too I'm confused about the singles order: Erotica was the first one Deeper & Deeper second Bad Girl was 3rd? Fever was 4th Rain in 5th Bye Bye Baby was the 6th and in between she dropped This Used to be my Playground?

but the rough demo (1999-10-13) has the same lyrics

"Like “Oh Father”, “Bad Girl” feels like a personal exorcism for Madonna, of a kind only Fincher seemed to be able to coax out of her. Speaking to the BBC in 1992, Madonna dismissed speculation that “Bad Girl” was about sex work, and instead about a woman embroiled in a toxic relationship. “She really cares for this person and she’s having a hard time saying goodbye,” she explained. “She’s unhappy with her situation and getting drunk, smoking too many cigarettes ... because she’s trying to distract herself from reality.” In the video, Madonna portrays a Manhattan magazine editor named Louise Oriole – “Louise” lifted from Madonna’s own middle name, and “Oriole” likely a reference to Oriole Way, the LA street in which she lived with her ex-husband Sean Penn. (Their marriage, which ended in 1989, was reportedly a volatile one, with Madonna only explicitly denying in 2015 the long-standing rumours that Penn was violent towards her.) Louise is fraying at the seams, a cigarette always dangling from her lips, and easing her pain through sex with strangers. All the while she is being watched over by the Angel of Death (played by Christopher Walken – Penn’s co-star in 1986’s At Close Range), who hovers above her bed, watches her from window sills and dances in her apartment while she’s out. Horror also haunts the city, the angel reads a newspaper splattered in grim headlines (“BLOODY RAMPAGE: Teen chops heads off dad, cat & parakeet!”), and Louise unexpectedly picks up a serial killer. In a moment of stirring beauty, the sound of “Bad Girl” drops out entirely, the Angel of Death kisses Louise, she accepts her fate, and is later seen hanging out with him on a street corner watching her corpse being removed from her apartment in a body bag – finally free. Enveloping her at every turn, New York has never seemed lonelier, icier or more intimidating.' https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/madonna-david-fincher-bad-girl-music-video-vogue-mank-netflix-b1616824.html

What? i never read the video that way, I always thought that Walken was this 'Angel of Death" and she was the girl always making the wrong choices. In the path of self destruction. One of this choices hooking up with a killer that stranglers her. After that she is free from suffering and oversees her life from above with the angel.

I think it was recorded when they were doing Music sessions but intentionally for the movie that was released few months later. The lyrics are too obvious. Or maybe they were planning to add it to Music (EU released) instead of American Pie ( that would be 100 times better) In that Mark Endert interview he says she brought the two songs as an extra apart from Music

I found about the Rupert Everett version: http://thebeatswithin.blogspot.com/2011/07/maybe-youre-next-best-thing-rupert.html

Apparently there's an unreleased version that it meant to be a duet with Rupert Everett. That can be dreadful.

Madonna picked the music for the soundtrack and it was under Maverick. It was produced with Orbit in purpose for the movie along American Pie that it was requested by Rupert Everet. And then gave away without much interest to Ellie Lawson for her track Inside Out. I feel they were expecting more out of it but the movie was a flop so couldn't care about the song? "In December of 1999, it was revealed by British house music DJ Sasha (who had contributed remixes to the Ray of Light single) that he and William Orbit had begun production on Madonna’s next album, exclaiming a “progressive house feel to it”. These sessions began in September 1999 and gave birth to a cover of Don McLean’s American Pie and an original track Time Stood Still, released on the soundtrack for the film “The Next Best Thing” that following year to which Madonna also starred." Source: https://lucascava.medium.com/madonna-mirwais-an-impressive-instant-chapter-1-music-f6b50619b3e5

I always thought that Bad Girl Madonna have a similar look than Body of Evidence's Rebecca. I wouldn't be surprised if the original X-rated direction was alike to the film. A bit of 50 Shades of vanilla enough to stir the media: "Madonna showing her tits! Madonna with handcuffs! Spanking!"

Why they said Netflix when it shows in Amazon? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madonna-World-Madame-X/dp/B07TM1M7W8

I just saw Black Widow and she is so good in it. Also she will be taking the role from Scarlett next.

Exactly that's why lookalikes and over fabricated don't cut it for me. I prefer the pose and the natural flow. And Florence has that. You know is someone that would study Madonna and bring her personality rather that someone trying to imitate her.

I always took it as an improvisation on the strings theme.

The instrumental part with the dancers? The original strings are heavily influenced by Vivaldi but on the interlude bit I don't recall any particular piece or sample play. It has like 3/4 episodes of music, one even like a Tango around the main string chords. They keep it baroque but playful.

I actually love Falling Free, Gang Bang I liked it when it came out not anymore ( I think because of the MDNA tour) . I do like Some Girls and GMAYL. I realized I was thinking about Rebel Heart when I said about the Bonus tracks. Gonna give a couple of runs to MDNA. This thread is making me listen to all of them

Yeah she looks like a drag queen version of Madonna I don't want look alike I want actors, I want someone that makes me believe I'm seeing Madonna, not someone that makes see they are wearing a bad wig.

Really? I think they all rub me on the wrong way somehow, there's something mopey about them, or maybe its because the birthday song is in between. This is an album that I played a lot when it came out and I was pleased with the brainless pop and EDM vibe. But annoys me a bit now. And I do still enjoy fun brainless pop, so it's nothing about musical maturity or crap like that. Maybe I'll get back to it.

You are right they are. I think I stopped on record one ?

After finding myself in this thread I just start playing Madame X. I learn to value more albums when I listen to them in vinyl instead of custom playlist etc. Even Hard Candy that I didn't care much when it came out. MDNA I liked it at the beginning because it was so different from Hard Candy but the interest faded fast. Still listening in one go with vinyl is more enjoyable, all the bonus tracks aren't missed.