Roland Barthes

So this Borderline update is also a hint about how the 1st album reissue will sound like..

I'm gonna save you time. First trans people are being killed for what they are. Killed. Not just harrassed on the internet but killed. I see what my trans friends face DAILY on Facebook, terfs trolls joining their pages and profiles to tell them they should kill themselves. So there's no absolutely no discussion there. And IRL it's less vocal, they just get killed. Killed. Like dead. It's not like they are being told they are transphobic because they have transphobic ideas and they express them then cry victim. No they are being killed. And anyone partiipating online in these discussions, saying "i'm not transphobic but..." are active actors in these killings. Regarding plastic surgery, tattoos, sexuality, abortion, transition....: people's bodies, their choice ! People must be allowed to do whatever they want to do with their bodies. People discussing other people's bodies or personnal choices they make is their prerogative. They don't need your permission or mine, your opinion, mine or anyone's unless they ask. BUT since people keep thinking they must have a say about what perfect strangers do with their lives then they must deal with people telling them to eff off. If you can't deal with people telling you to eff off, telling you what your "opinions" are then don't make them publicly. I don't want to discuss with a terf or someone who thinks women dressing sexy deserve to be sexually harrased. There's absolutey no discussion there. They just need to be told the scum they are and if they can't deal with it, their problem. I was not always like this, i was prejudiced too. So convince i was right and then you meet people. They are no longer an idea but your friends, your family and then you see how dangerous the world is for them. How brave they are to be who they want to be in a society that judges and puts everyone in a box when everyone wants to be unique and respected, yet most of us partiipate into limiting others in their freedoms because instead of doing the work, meaning working on ourself to understand why we are prejudiced, we'd rather judge and denigrate. I won't tand silent when limited and narrow minded people try to maintain the statu quo, to control the narrative and the world because they are scared of what does not look like them or fit in the boxes they want to trap everybody. That's what bothers me, not someone extending a truly joke beyond it's past date or people being outraged because some people deny people of what they are or wear like it's their business. That's when it becomes MY business. And i won't stand by reading phobic stuff without saying how stupid it is.

So people making transphobic and sexist remarks on a Madonna forum does not bother you ? What bothers you is when they are called out. Well i agree with you on one thing, this forum has turned into shit with dozens of trolls (probably the same no life self hating racist guy from south america), Maga lovers, terfs and transphobics assholes and that guy who thinks women deserves to be harrassed at the gym for not covering up. It really, really puzzles me how these people can be Madonna fans when she's a trans supporter (Vogue anyone ? Paris Is Burnng her favourite movie from 91 ?) has trans collaborators and a woman who's been criticized for undressing and wanted to bomb the white house because Trump was president then. I TRULY try to understand what Madonna these people are fans of, certainly not the Madonna or they've just nevr paid attention. And don't get me started on fans of other female artist coming here to derail the threads, making ones, to downplay what Madonna is or has done and then play victims when they are called out for their pueril schemes. I'm not against people saying transphobic stuff, freedom of speech, but i will surely tell them they are transphobic pieces of shit whenever they do and if that is going to ban me from the forum, so be it. I'm most of the time blocking people i disagree with including that annoying truly troll because i don't make the rules here and he's free to say what IT wants in my book as long as it's not insulting and diminishing, degrading and insulting a category of people Madonna champions. But i won't shut up when i read transphobic and rape apologist stuff. I won't regret regret being being baned for it because at least i'd know what kind of place this is.

Throwback Times square in april of 2003 Virgin megastore and MTV studios

They all look like shit on this pic. It's takn from a long distance, everything is in a blur.

Here comes Madonna's duet with AI https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrtDn6EO9n7/

I remember in the first issue of Encyclopedia Madonnica, Matt Rettenmund claimed she sang "it makes no difference if you are straight or gay" in some original version of Vogue. I wonder where he got that from and it never was mentionned ever again.

Since that insta reel she did with Candy Shop as background music, writing the titles of her most famous songs and asking which one we would like to hear, i'm 100% sure she's perfectly aware of our Candy Shop fatigue and she'll probably troll us with it in one way or another. think bout those "3 notes" Tony talked about...definitely the 3 repetitive ones from the intro (the signature of Pharrell on all his songs). I can hear the screams, the meltdowns, i picture that scene from "Death Becomes Her" when Goldie Hawn in group therapy wants to talk about Madeline Ahston again.

i'm surprised she did not go with posting ALL the live versions available of Candy Shop in there.

I was never the biggest George Michael fan but his legacy deserves to be handled better. It really breaks my heart how poorly his work is showcased. I don't know who is in charge of it, it seems like it used to be his sister but she passed, i don't know if his estate sold everything to a company or not. Apparenty he made it clear when he was alive that he did not want any unreleased material to be released.

She's just waking up from a fuzzy dream

I wonder if there's an artist that got it right. It seems to me that fans always complain no matter what, it's never up to their standards and sometimes, yes, it's very cheap or stuff is missing. But i witnessed it from every fanbase wether it's Bowie, a film director releasing a box set, a writer releasing an anthology etc... I was listening to the Human League album Dare and on spotify, the deluxe edition missed b-sides.

Coco Chanel also slept with a nazi officer she lived with at the Ritz hotel. She also met with Hitler and reported the jewish family who owned the license to her perfumes to the nazis to get the licence from them. She was also mean. She owed her life to the General de Gaulle who had mercy on her after the war. She is, to me, and to many other french persons, the epitome of vulgar and should have been put in jail for the rest of her life. It's a shame our culture has turned that broad into some sort of iconic hero.

You guys should stop buying her curated vinyls, let them flop and pile on in her hallway until she gives us the promised expansive deluxe editions....AND these vinyls will be cheaper after they flopped so it's a win-win situation for us.

You made my point exactly. Thank you.

There are at least two different voice-over done by Madonna for ToD. The one in the blueprint bootleg is different from the final one.

The Like A Virgin corset has oxyded ! Gaultier said it was a nightmare even then because it was oxyding already. The second one is the prototype so she even has the prototype. The shorts were supposed to be worn during "La Isla Bonita" before it was switched for "Holiday" and Marlene Stewart had to make a costume for it. The pics are old but there's a reason why she posted them now, meaning, maybe, she's gonna wear them again or copies next tour, or the dancers.

Now i wonder if the next release for RSD in november will be that Madame X movie soundtrack Ricardo posted the sleeve of...

Of all the missed opportunities and fuck ups of the AL era, not releasing the full vocal edit of Hollywood by Stuart Price as an alternative single version is probably at the top of the list. Same goes for his mix of Nobody Knows Me, it should have been available as a b-side or on Remixed and Revisited because with just a few tweaks he transformed a very lethargic track that goes nowhere into an energetic bop, and again, it's not even a total remix but a mix. (AL was her first album since LAV to be solely (co)produced by one producer, Stuart should have been invited to, at least, do what Jellybean did for the first album meaning tweaking a few tracks a bit) (On another note i still don't understand how she did not get sued for not crediting Iggy Pop on I'm So Stupid, you can clearly hear the I Wanna Be Your Dog guitar line down in the mix throughout the song AND when she was promoting Confessions someone asked her about that Stooges track being sampled in I Love New York, which she denied, even though it is, and added that it was indeed ripped on I'm So Stupid on the previous record. And in rehearsals for the tour she made it even more obvious, even singing like Iggy Pop. The Dakar and Ginser electroclash cover was even played before every ReInvention tour shows and Pop was her special guest at Skibo Castle)

The MTV awards version is full vocals (and we have a member here who did a full vocal version of it. It sounds so good) and that would be a way to aknowledge that perf ^^

I'd die if she does the Thin White Duck mix of Hollywood on this tour. She would too though, everytime she performed it during the AL promo tour, she fuck it up and each time she said she had difficulties remembering the lyrics.

Oh, IT created another account to troll the site. How many there are now ? Like 6 or 10 ? Poor little no life qanon :/

maybe that was a typo and they meant expensive ^^

according to the credits Johann Delebarre the creative director (he did FEL too) so it seems he's probably in charge of the "epansive deluxe editions" (i quote the official statement*) of the albums too. * As a reminder, let's published the statement again. NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Madonna and Warner Music Group today announced a milestone, career-spanning global partnership that includes a new agreement for her entire recorded music catalog. With global sales of over 300 million records, Madonna is the best-selling female artist of all time, with countless accolades that include seven Grammy Awards, 24 ASCAP Pop Music Awards, and numerous international trophies, including BRIT, Bravo Otto, Danish Music, Edison, GAFFA, International Dance Music, Ivor Novello, Juno, MTV, and World Music Awards, among many others across the globe. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. This partnership marks the revitalization of a decades-long relationship with Warner that began with the release of Madonna's debut single in 1982. The deal encompasses her entire Sire/Maverick/Warner catalog, including global smash albums such as Madonna, Like a Virgin, True Blue, Like a Prayer, and Ray of Light. It also includes her three most recent studio albums, MDNA, Rebel Heart, and Madame X, which will join the Warner catalog beginning in 2025. All in all, the new pact includes 17 studio albums plus singles, soundtrack recordings, live albums, and compilations. Warner Chappell Music also globally administers all of Madonna's songwriting work. This features such top-charting hits as "Like A Prayer," "Vogue," "Into the Groove," "La Isla Bonita," "Live to Tell," "True Blue," "Open Your Heart," "Who's That Girl," "Express Yourself," "Lucky Star," "Take A Bow," and many more. 2022 will mark the 40th anniversary of Madonna's recording debut. This new deal heralds the launch next year of an extensive, multi-year series of catalog releases that will revisit the groundbreaking music that made her an international icon. For the first time, Madonna will personally curate expansive deluxe editions for many of her landmark albums, as well as introduce unique releases for special events, and much more. The series of releases will be overseen by Warner Music's catalog team, led by Kevin Gore, President of Global Catalog, Recorded Music, with the first release to be announced soon. This monumental deal was executed by Madonna's longtime manager Guy Oseary at Maverick, Allen Grubman of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sachs P.C., her business manager Richard Feldstein of NKSFB, and Max Lousada, CEO, Recorded Music, Warner Music Group. Madonna said: "Since the very beginning, Warner Music Group has helped bring my music and vision to all my fans around the world with the utmost care and consideration. They have been amazing partners, and I am delighted to be embarking on this next chapter with them to celebrate my catalogue from the last 40 years." Guy Oseary said: "Over the past 30 years, I've been fortunate enough to meet and spend time with many of Madonna's incredible fans, and this new partnership will bring to fruition what so many of them have been patiently waiting for: a celebration of her groundbreaking catalogue. My partner Sara Zambreno and I are working closely with Warner Music Group to bring new life to these iconic works." Max Lousada added: "We're honored to be forming a dynamic new partnership with an incomparable superstar whose influence on our musical and artistic landscape is immense and immutable. Madonna has changed the course of pop and dance music, while taking live performance to new heights of drama and invention. At the same time, she uses her fame to amplify some of the most important social issues and movements of our time. Constantly and fearlessly challenging convention, her four decades of music are not only an extraordinary body of work, but a playbook for creative and cultural evolution."