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Roland Barthes

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  1. Wanna know how Steve Bray sounds in 2023 ? Well he co-wrote and co-produced most of the soundtrack of the new Color Purple musical (adapted from the musical version he already had his hands in) here's the playlist and credits
  2. Kylie already blew it twice with Madonna (canceling Alone Again & Rebel Heart Tour in Australia)
  3. DAD, her last single where all the remixes were good (i still can't say which one is my favourite) Causing A Commotion Keep It Together The other ones don't have remixes or they are just uneventful. Maybe Cherish, just for Supernatural and because the mixes (including Supernatural's) were done by Kate Bush's sound engineer. Love Profusion only if it includes the only interesting remix in the pack, Headcleanr rock mix, which was, in fact, on R&R but we can have hope for an official lossless file of it, finally.
  4. Michelle Visage should be the judge in London.
  5. And i adore these fan videos, i mean it's incredible to go on youtube and have the show you saw live with her live banters specifically for every show, i mean even the bad ones (due to tech of the time) from Virgin (we wouldn't have BU, BOrderline and ANgel without it), WTG and Ba....they have a special something....especially since she started over post producing the official releases that are unwatchable more than once as she removes anything live from them.
  6. The problem with George, and from the very start, it's he's bitchy about everybody. Dissing people was his main occupation. And in the early 80's it was manadatory in the british teen magazines. Last summer i read all the Smash Hits and Number Ones available online from the 80's (for research) and every single popstar was pushing to diss other popstars, it's absolutely unbelievable nowadays since everybody is so beige (except towards Madonna) and lame. they even had popstars reviewing other popstars releases and trashing them and their character.G. Michael, Neil Tennant, Robert Smith, Morrissey (whom made a parallele career out of it)....it's all on (digitalised) paper. So George comes from this culture which is popular brit culture at the time (hence the tabloids because people enjoyed trashing celebrities). For George it must also come from lack of self confidence and tht is really a shame because behind the costumes and the makeup, the vile words, there's a fantastic songwriter, brilliant lyricist and singer (contrary to some other one) and it's a shame that the best of Boy George is not out there or so fragmented that you have to dig deep to find it but in th 90's he was at his peak as a musician, sadly, for lack of focus, ambition, laziness...i don't know, it's all lost. And he does not seem interested in making the wrongs right now by releasing this stuff (we're talking about more than 200 songs and alternative versions). He enjoys more being a b-list celebrity i guess. He said himself that when they met at her birthday in 87 she invited him to go running with her and hang out in NYC but he was condescending and regretted it. He also said that, and the editor of Smash Hists Australia related it on Insta a few months ago, that when she blew the candles of her bday cake she said "Easiest blow job i did all year". Keep in mind that George was on top of the world in 83 by 84 a bad CC album and drug problems plu fame going to his head ruined his career (he was in his early 20's only) just like Elton John was finally having a hit after a long string of flops (and before a few others), Cher was making Cher albums (aka duds) etc...and Madonna blew them all out of the water. She finished their careers at that point. the only one that was not mean to her was Olivia Newton John. All the other ones were awful, that's one of the reason why Prince admitted her in his Revolution circle in early 85 because he saw the rejection from the industry and peers. She was not welcomed with open arms at all. I guess that's why she never really got into that fake public showbiz celebrity friendship thing that some adore so much like Elton. George is a big fan but George is George, he "only hurts the ones that he loves", he can say whatever he wants about her but he got his claws out more than once defending her on Twitter....just like us, just like family in fact. I just wish he would focus on being a musician and not on being a celebrity.
  7. I remember when i went to see Confessions, when she emerged from the disco ball, the whole venue lit up with the thousands of flashlights from cellular phones, i wrote a review in the press for it and i said "Madonna, [all the names of the french providers then] welcome you to Paris !". And it only got worst from there, i remember how annoyed i was at l'Olympia for the Hard Candy promo show because some guys in front row had Ipads to film her and they were blocking our view, people were insulting them but it was not only at Madonna's, all concerts became like that. If you are a bit remote in the back, you can see the screens of the smartphones and the artist's image replicated a thousand times in the venue. It's like having a multiangle view. They know about it, Celebration was conceived for social media as La Horde said. And she asks people to show their "lights" at one point. You can't fight that in an arena or a stadium. You can't hold 10000 or more people's phones. It would need extra staff to pay for it.
  8. Wanna know more about the early days ? Watch the docudrama Madonna & the Breakfast Club. It is not the whole story though, it's very fragmented, it's only the parts people interviewed and portrayed featured in it witnessed but it's still a pretty good one .
  9. So, Madonna did not perform Burning Up at CBGB's. When she first played CBGB's it was with the Breakfast Club (original line up minus Bray). She wrote Burning Up later while in Emmy. There are tons of videos where Dan Gilroy explains how he taught her how to play guitar and how she wrote her first songs with basic chords, hell, you even have these recordings online because the Shamrock reels leaked. She played rhythm guitar when she left Breakfast Club beause she wanted to lead and they did not want her to. She first had her drum kit but it was too heavy to carry around so she got rid of it and focused on playing guitar instead. she moved into the Music Building where she lived illegally but she went back to the Gilroys in Queens for a few onths after she left because she was homeless in new york. She formed her first band "Madonna and the Sky" and yes, there are recordings besides the receiver records 4 tracks ep that was released, you have the "demos" of her on a tape recorder, playing guitar and singing the songs and sometimes just playing guitar, yes also available online. DO THE WORK. The band became Emmy when Bray moved from Michigan to New York. They played Max's Kansas City which was the other punk joint on the Bowery, Gary Burke, the band's bassist (and with Madonna since Breakfast Club) secured the gig by hanging out with the guys from the band Suicide. The gig was such a success that they got invited back and Max's wanted to sign them on their label (they had their own) but Madonna had other ideas, she had invited Camille to see the second gig. Meanwhile she had no place of her own, crashing at friends or at the Star Motel when she had enough money. One day her electric convector set the room she was in on fire. She had to leave and at this point she was so destitute she had her first breakdown and was close to moving back to Michigan. Steve Bray said she could have made a career out of being a rhythm guitar player. She did not like the direction Camille wanted her to take, Jon Gordon, the producer of the Gotham demos (and later Suzanne Vega) said that she was always playing with her guitar and keyboards and testing sounds, that's how he found out she was not happy with the direction she was forced to take and he did not like what he did with the demos either. Madonna was already doing dance music with Bray and hanging out at clubs in Manhattan, she wanted to make the music she was dancing to at these clubs, punk rock was 2 years ago for her and yet New Wave and dance music in New York at this time were derivative of punk rock in terms of being DIY. Camille managed to lure her into renewing her contract by securing a gig to be the open act for New York Dolls singer David Johanssen at his Xmas show for newly launched MTV. So she signed that contract but Camille did not know Madonna had also secured a new agent from CAA so after the gig she told camille the contract was over but her new agent left her (it's that second contract Camille sued her for when Madonna signed with Sire Records). She was on her own again with no place to live because Camille was paying for the apt. she lived in. She was back to the Music Building. That's when she shopped the demos she did with Bray around the clubs she was already hanging out at. She then moved in with her friend from UoM, Janice Galloway (whom later married Madonna's first a&r Michael Rosenblatt) and worked at the Lucky Strike bar occasionally with Erika & Martin under the supervision of Haoui Montaug. Montaug was also doorman at Danceteria and had his own night their "No Entiendes Cabaret" (he was in Martin's room with Madonna when he died and in 1991, terminally ill with complications in connection with being hiv positive he organized his suicide, Madonna was on the set of A League Of Their Own but was there via phone, his portrait also appears during Live To Tell). And on and on and on. It's ALL out there. If you are curious and interested in the truth and not letting ignorance spread like a substitute for knowledge. It's all out there. You have biographies, including the new one, youtube files, websites etc....and most of all the incredible work of Webo1958 on Instagram. If you are interested in Madonna's roots and past and you are not already following this account, do it, it's a goldmine and you even have Madonna's past collaborators correcting or adding things in the comments like Jon Gordon, Jellybean, Gary Burke etc...
  10. Debi is the one whom first brought Madonna to a ballroom to witness a voguing battle so it's full circle.
  11. The ending did not bother me. It can't be worst than the original DWT one with Ali G coming on screen telling the crowd to get the fuck out "she ain't coming back" (they dropped that after a few shows because it did not go down well...i was really angry at it...that's one of the reasons why i had a hard time enjoying the DWT live in the flesh). As for the lateness, there's no excuse but i was told around Madame X by someone working with her on the tour that she develops stage fright as the tour progresses, something he already witnessed on Rebel Heart.
  12. I must say that i laughed hysterically during Like A Prayer last night because her lisp due to the grillz ws really prominent and i started thinking about Shelley, Stan's sister in South Park. Then i said to my bf that it must have been how i sounded singing it with my retainer when i was a teen. On the way back we kept laughing and singing "Itch shlike an anshel shighing" and when you start doing that you just can't stop doing it.
  13. For some weird reason i could not connect to the website from within Bercy (sorry, i say Bercy and will always say Bercy fuck that corporate BS) It was even better than the first night. She was on fire and so was the audience. She could have easily booked the place for another one. Kiddy Smile was the judge guest, a french voguer, dj and producer and also judge on the french version of RPDR and Nicolas Huchard's friend...and he's got giganormous dick... I'm on a high and yet sad because she's leaving.
  14. She apparently moved a lot ! My friend there said she was first almost behind the stage with her husband and kids. She has been a massive fan for a long time. If you watch the movie Jane B. by Agnes V. and Kung Fu Master made at the same time at her mom, Jane Birkin, home in the 80's, there's a scene in her real bedroom and there's a huge Papa Don't Preach/Herb Ritts poster above her bed. Apparently her father sent Madonna a letter in the 80's to collaborate just to impress his daughter. Another huge french nepo baby fan (i don't know if she still is) is Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve & Marcello Mastroianni daughter. I was told by a friend we share (her editor)
  15. Most importantly, that's Charlotte "What It Feels Lik For A girl" Gainsbourg
  16. OMG that's Michele Lamy, Rick Owens "wife", i adore her, they are linked by Bobby Woods. Merde, i wish i had gone tonight instead of tomorrow !
  17. Two faced cunt, not only with Madonna but with friends as well, i know this guy whom used to host him in Paris and he pretended him to be his best friend then he ghosted him after more than a decade and he told me other bad things about him, so when i read he says Madonna is a horrible human being it's really perverted. Maybe selling his book will able him to pay back the money he owes to a lot of people. Judging by his new cheap dentures making him lisp, money has not come yet. Except for Marilyn who is not the last one to trash him, he does not have a lot of friends left and people from his Camden years hate his guts. I say two faced because when he's not promoting something and needs Madonna to be talked about, he defends her bites and nails on social media, i guess her totally ignoring him last month backstage at the Celebration tour cut deep. Why would she talk about him ? He is irrelevant to her life and she does not need him to be talked about. I mean his life is doing reality tv and being managed by a reality tv star husband...Sad because he has a lot of very very good tracks in his vault but music is not his focus and it has never been hence his career....he'd rather release another cheap Culture Club best of with sad remixes than going into his vault and give fans the real diamond he has there. Boy George is one of these sad persons, most of them older gay men, who think being a cunt is having a personality when it's just being a cunt. When you see all these 70's and early 80's pop stars saying nasty things about Madonna you have to remember that when she came onto the scene she obliterated and ended their careers because she was the real deal.
  18. Apart from the Timo Maas and the Calderone sensory mixes which i have been regularly listening to over the years, i had completly forgotten the abomination the other mixes were. And i still love Cyberagga/Mysore Smile "Ah ah eeh oh, trendsetter" (that's how i sing it)
  19. The Prince hommage is better than Michael's and i realized it was David impersonating Prince and not just any dancer, it makes it more personal. I wonder if he was doing Jackson as well. That's something i forgot to talk about in my review.
  20. I'm not judging anyone not going, i passed on Rebel Heart because i had health issues and developped agoraphobia in the process. It's a tough economy RN, going to a concert is a luxury a lot of people can't afford and we're not all made of money. I was gonna pass on this tour too for that reason because i was broke when tickets went on sale, luckily i was invited last night and i bought a ticket for next week end because things have changed and i can afford it now. It must already be heartbreaking to not being able to attend for lack of money (and that's something you don't want to brag about) but having people you don't know judging you for not going is hard. Like twisting a knife in a wound. She's not in her prime and so are we, i looked around me last night and i gasped because i realized how fucking old we all got. But even if she was not at the top of her game, which is not the case, there's something mystical and magical about basking in Madonna's energy in her presence. I may be crazy saying this but it's sort of molecular....which makes me think of the lyrics of Physical Attraction while i'm typing this. I've been told she's meeting with the french minister of culture this week, we don't know why.
  21. On a political note, she talked about Congo. Security may be extra tight tonight since it's the 8th (already) anniversary of the Bataclan terrorist attack...and considering the situation now and we are again at maximum level alert for terrorist attack (since anothe teacher got murdered 3 weeks ago). I arrived late last night and i was a guest so passing security was pretty quick but people told me it took them forever to get in through general admittance. But seriously again, she's always had great dancers and choreos but this is next level. It's really impressive, yet simple, it's not about physicality like on previous tours, the Erotica ballet really is modern dance, it's stunning, but Die Another Day is also something else. I think it did not translate well on videos i had seen from the show, it's splendid live (i'm not saying this because i know Arthur and Jonathan from La Horde) you really have everything there, a pop show and a ballet. Someone told me that part of the Living For Love ballet with Prince incorporates movements from the original choreo Jamie King did for Prince in the early 90"s (his first job as a choregrapher), an easter egg for hardcore Prince fans. I'm so pumped up that i woke up at 6 !
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