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    How are you like Madonna?

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    18 hours ago, madfan13_86 said:

    Hmmm....

    - I have a gap in my front teeth
    - I am bossy
    - I intimidate people (don't mean to? ;) )
    - I make people uncomfortable with my sarcastic/unfiltered/dark sense of humour
    - I'm forward-looking
    - I love books
    - I love pushing buttons
    - I'm resilient
    - I'm creative
    - I was raised Catholic too
    - I love Césaria Evora, Frida, Tamara de Lempicka and a good rosé 

    Hi Madge!

    M working on new project...

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    On 8/25/2020 at 8:42 AM, Enrico said:

    Directing his first music video??

    Living for weed

    Joint of arc

    Promise to smoke

    Thief of weed

    Weed all over me

    LOL! My turn!

     

    I'm Breathless (from too much smoking)

    Weedtime Stories (let's all get drunk and smoke weed ?)

    "The taste of weed, a substitute for drugs"

    Don't Tell Me (We ran out of cigars)

    "Cherish the thought of all having some weed by my side"

    Waiting (for booze)

    Rescue Me (From a Hangover)

    American Lungs

    Think of weed

    Weed fits junk pod so smoke it (that's what my doctor said to me...)

     

     

    No hating but...what happened to Madonna after 2007?

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    On 2/22/2020 at 7:28 PM, Alibaba said:

    With the exception of a few posts throughout these four pages, there is a fundamental lack of attention given to the primary issue here. It has less to do with Madonna changing, and more to do with the concept of fame changing post-digital revolution. Madonna's type of fame was truly exceptional for the longest time, but she aged out of the Zeitgeist when corporate interests no longer saw her preeminence as commercially useful. There was more money to be made from youth-oriented culture. Doing business with an artist of Madonna's stature would have meant profit margins for the corporate entities were diminished because she could take a larger stake herself. As the industry changed and panic kicked in regarding dwindling sales and illegal downloading, replacing artists like Madonna with green-eyed younger and more malleable acts would have been a natural shift. As it turned out, Madonna and Oseary were prescient and understood that they needed to strike while the commercial iron of touring receipts was hot, thus her 360 deal with Live Nation. Sidenote: Recording music hasn't been a valid source of income for Madonna for well over a decade; she herself decided to use her records as showcases for her live performances. She approached her creative flow as a Broadway director does. The music is the soundtrack to the show. No one seems to get this. Look at how this has become a more cynical template for less successful legacy acts who all have some type of dreadful Broadway adaptation of their back catalogs in the works.

    As much as it upsets many of Madonna's fans to face this truth, most of them have long stopped being a core capitalist demographic. In fact, whenever I consider Madonna's modern legacy I am more fascinated by how limited many of her fans' perspective on her evolution is. I read endless posts about how she should be promoting her music as she did Ray of Light...That she would be better off returning to Warner Bros, as if nostalgia holds some sort of commercial magic wand in an era when almost no one sells music anymore! It shows a fundamental lack of comprehension that the world itself has drastically changed over the course of Madonna's career, and the fact that her phenomenal stamina managed to give her a somewhat imperialistic hold on global pop culture for two and a half decades is unprecedented. That's enough within itself to make everything she has done since that imperial phase ended worthy of admiration and a much kinder assessment, but there is so much more to explore here. 

    There is no doubt that the public essentially wrote her off after she returned to her raunchier persona post-divorce.  One cannot deny the dismal showing of Celebration was more than a commercial embarrassment; it was a global smack in the face to the woman; age seemed to offer the world the chance to finally kick her where it hurt. 

    I am more shocked by people's surprise at Madonna's healthy appetite for self-preservation through plastic surgery than by the results of the surgery. In an era of digital film and photography, no one can afford to show signs of obvious aging, and as one of the world's most photographed women whose career was built in great part on the promise of video as art form, it seems entirely logical that she would succumb to the pressures of the industry. Surely people aren't shocked to learn that Madonna is vain and a narcissist? 

    Madonna explained herself most effectively during her promotion for her film W.E. I don't think many actually caught on at the time when she made parallels between herself and Wallis Simpson by describing the limiting views of the masses that prevent a public person from having more than one or two characteristics. It had long become painfully obvious that Madonna could not simultaneously and successfully be a provocative showwoman, a film director, a recording artist, an actress, a business owner, a good mother, and a human being with an evolving intellect...She therefore seemed to step back until she eventually found the best way to enable her own version of that narrative to thrive by inventing the Madame X character; an empty vessel capable of being anything she wants to be at any given fork in the road. Tears of a Clown was her first foray into meta-identity-fucking, and she knew all along that the only way forward was to leave the past and its intransigent inhabitants behind. I believe Madonna is a deconstructionist at this point in her life, fully in charge and fully self-aware. Whatever anyone else thinks of her is merely a projection of something deep within themselves. The need to denigrate her choices and their results is most probably more indicative of the audience's inability to move beyond preconceived notions and prejudice. After all, in a world of bullies, everyone is somehow still a victim. Madonna's greatest achievement is that she is a living work of art, full of contradictions and the ability to elicit the fullest emotional spectrum no matter the brush stroke. 

    Wow what an insightful response. I do have a bit of trouble understanding some of the context and the vocabulary  but I get what your saying 

    Madonna’s Weirdest Songs

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    Dark Ballet—the interlude in the middle was cool but that's the only part of the song worth listening to

    Bitch I'm Madonna-No. Just no

    Act of Contrition-the one "song" on LAP that I can live without. It really brings the album down

    Mother and Father-good lyrics, messy production and shrill vocals (oh Mutha ohh fatha.......arg)

    I Rise-generic ballad, nice lyrics 

    Impressive Instant-messy song, awful songwriting. "I like to singy singy singy, like a bird on a wingy wingy wingy"-those lyrics NEVER fail to crack me up ?

     

    Unpopular Madonna Opinions

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    17 hours ago, Husam Elzien said:

    Through her PR work, I think Liz did give her the motherly guidance that Madonna lacked growing up and I also think Madonna hasn't found or doesn't want to find another Liz-type publicist because of the history they have together. I wonder if she still talks to her?

    Probably not lol. Madonna has lost her marbles. Like I was wondering was she always this way? I remember reading comments from old school Madge fans on the thread: "What Happened to Madonna after 2007?" where they were claiming she's always been this way...I just don't know

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