Husam Elzien

I'm trying to sell one of my tickets for N2 but Ticketmaster's not letting me.

Honestly it's top 5 Madonna tours but it's sad that she had to go back on her "never doing the old hits again" statement after one tour with it. Like you know she knew when an era was in trouble (Erotica excluded) when she had to break out Material Girl .

Maybe her and her team were banking on a summer/fall tour to eat up the back half of 1989 and decided not schedule additional promo but then Pepsi pulled out and she did Dick Tracy so they had to scramble so the album sales didn't free-fall and we ended up with Oh Father, Dear Jessie and Keep It Together as singles. Also I feel like they knew Oh Father was too risky internationally to release as a physical single. Also, maybe the public decided to abandon the album because it looked like Madonna abandoned it. Not even three months after the release and Madonna abandoned the euro chic, natural brunette look she had originally adopted and went back to blond and old Hollywood glamour for Dick Tracy. Didn't help that she essentially abandoned it again by allowing Vogue to be released and cannibalize the sales of a LAP single. The tour was probably the only thing keeping LAP on the charts because that album disappeared almost Immediately following the North American leg

Honestly as long as the show doesn't get cut short by noise by-laws or anything like that, idc. Like I'm already planning on not leaving my house the day after.

I think it was less obsession and more necessity. She tried to semi-retire the back catalogue with DWT. Like we got Secret, You'll See, Frozen, ROL, BS, DTM, and Music instead of a lot of the 80s and 90s stuff. I stand by my belief that had AL not underperformed she wouldn't have loaded RIT with as many older hits as she did. Also, as much as she despises a lot of her older songs, she knew that those songs were the ones that were more likely to be remembered by/a bigger incentive for ticket buyers than stuff from 1994-onwards just purely because of a desire for nostalgia. For a member of the GP, if they had to choose between getting tickets for a show with Holiday, Into the Groove and Express Yourself or a show with Frozen, 4 Minutes and Take a Bow, they're most likely going towards the former. I do think however that her own stubbornness has prevented us from getting more great updated takes of her 1994-present discography on tour. MXT alone could've pulled and reinvented so much from BS, ROL and AL.

New era new knees!

When she talks about Rebel Heart having too many collabs does she mean the producers? Because 3 out of 19 tracks having features isn't messy? But 19 producers? Yeah, that was excessive.

After hearing her do the Classroom version of Music on Fallon, I'm not surprised. Take away the autotune and choreography and M can still give us a good vocal.

I would love that too. Honestly, they should've brought back Madame X Radio on Sirius for FEL and updated it with commentary for all the number ones. Mike Dean could never

Madonna got into New York with $35 and a dream and her and Shep wrote Vogue after Madonna spent a day at the beach which turned out to be her dressing room on Broadway and Shep came up with the instrumental in 1987 after creating Janet's Miss You Much remix. I love how he mentioned that he was surprised that Beyonce's team didn't ask for the masters and they just put new verses over the original (which is not all the way true) as if the multi-tracks haven't been leaked on the internet for years. Literally, she just needed to call up M to get her approval and Emily could've sent the MEGA link with it from this site for all we know

What do you mean? If they're willing to pay, they just contact the RIAA and request certification updates and they will have them all updated. Beyonce just did it with her discography. MDNA, Rebel Heart and Madame X might have to wait until they're officially under Warner.

It's a cash-in on Elton's part. Britney doesn't need him for people to buy her music but he kind of needs her if he wants a high charting hit like he did with Dua and Cold Heart. If she reached out first that's great but 100% if Britney didn't go through what she did, Elton would've declined a collab and probably would be shading her vocals like he did Madonna and Janet.

The production value dropped after the Rock Witchu Tour. The setlists started being recycled. State of the World was the beginning of slight changes but her current festival circuit setlist actually makes me excited. I think it comes down to the same issue that M has/had: her creative director/ musical director was putting her in a repetitive rut instead of trying to push her forward slightly. M could easily do a Kylie-style show. More emphasis on vocals with light choreo and sauntering around the stage. Plus, the only reason I use Kylie is because she's the only person (other than M) that I can think of who actually reworks her back catalogue to sound current.

What we'll actually get: Candy Shop Human Nature Medellin Frozen (any of the remixes) Vogue Holiday (if we're lucky) but most likely another Madame X song

Can this be the beginning of the Madonnaissance era, please? I'm talking fresh and back to basics. TikTok is positioning her to have a good starting point for it.

I don't expect a tour in 2023. Maybe an announcement next year of one in 2024 but she's still doing that bootcamp for the lead actress. I think she'll wait for filming to wrap before she starts mapping out a potential tour. But if she's also doing the editing then expect the film to be released in 2027 and a tour in 2028.

I did that before I went to bed and only got the album version and the GHV2 versions. Woke up this morning and found it under compilations.

Apple Music (Canada) doesn't even have it yet. What is Emily doing?! Since Oksana is filing frivolous lawsuits against Madonna's camp can she sue Emily for emotional distress and damages please? The Miami Mix deserves better treatment!

I don't know if I got on too early or M's team doesn't care but they just dated it 1996 and threw it on Spotify. No new release dated 2022 or promo. Take a Bow is still listed as the newest release.

The rest of the list is surprising. Like Tina only did two tours in 20 years and still managed to rank in the top 20 ahead of Janet and Kylie who did tour after tour.

Because people love to trash anything movie related that Madonna is attached to. Mostly because her track record with movie critics has largely been horrific.

ROL first week on the charts was in July. I think Billboard rules still prevented a song without a physical release to chart at that point in 1998 because it changed by the end of that year. So that means the sales did the heavy lifting at getting it to #5 because airplay did probably taper off by that point. I think 4 Minutes had better airplay I'm assuming probably because Justin was on the track and he was an industry darling at that point. In terms of Janet, Clear Channel was owned by Viacom who owned MTV and CBS meaning she was also blacklisted at radio, specifically for Damita Jo. Her sales were still strong enough after that (Call on Me was #1 on the sales chart for six weeks even though the song tapped out at #25 on the Hot 100) but she never recovered. I mean the blacklist was largely lifted by the time Discipline was released but the damaged was already done. Damita Jo was originally set to outperform All for You but ended up doing half it's numbers, 20 Y.O was marred by interviews focusing on the Super Bowl and her weight and Feedback could've been a major hit if she didn't lose four years worth of airplay. It sucked that Virgin gave up on her after the incident. Especially since Richard Branson once joked that the Janet album paid for one of his private islands. She was to Virgin what Madonna was to Warner (their main seller) but despite the success, they treated her like shit. The fact that they cut the All for You era short in part because of the Mariah/Glitter fiasco was an insult to Janet. They gave her the time of day when she filled their bank accounts. As soon as the album/single sales slowed down, they put her out to pasture.

Yes it was AL because after AL (specifically that original video), none of the other singles from the album managed to chart. Even Me Against the Music would've been a bigger hit if Britney wasn't at the tail end of her radio blacklist and Madonna wasn't at the beginning of her's. At least with Confessions she was able to chart two singles but all four could've impacted the Hot 100 if Madonna's relationship with US radio was better.

The sugar isn't as raw as it was 14 years ago, the Turkish Delights are past their expiration dates. It's all sticky, no sweet. It needs some "sweetening"."

I hear she's doing back up for Belinda on her next album.