Aaron Evans

If the Celebration "remaster" turns out to be as bad as the 4 Minutes "4K remaster", then I don't want it:

By the way, I think it's obvious by now that Madonna's team is lazy or incompetent or both:
cheap promo for "Finally Enough Love" cheap, unimaginative design for "Celebration Tour" (The wannabe designer must have gone through all the effects in GIMP 2 and then discovered the warp effect...) pathetic products for the Anniversaries (Where are the Deluxe Editions? What am I supposed to do with an overpriced hologram album sleeve that doesn't even have a print on the back?) some "remastered" music videos on Madonna's YouTube channel *cought* 4 Minutes *cought* look like they were upscaled by a 3 dollar AI Upscale software from eBay. If that's the level, I could upscale all Madonna videos from SD to 4K in 3 days... (Also Madonna's label should have access to all ProRes masters, VOB masters and whatever. So it shouldn't be difficult for them to find a suitable source for a remaster.)

The possible reason why this is still in 240p and why it was uploaded at 240p was mainly due to the video being hyperlinked into the website especially since they (and many others) started to reformat their sites to be mobile compatible. I believe the video played automatically when you land to the site and running it in HD video using mobile data would be expensive and you'd have long loading times navigating through the website. The celebration banner was in their youtube page so they were promoting this heavily online.
 

 

I love Celebration (the song) as well.  I prefer the album version.  As for the video, I like it for what it is.  It seems fitting.  I agree the quality of it is atrocious though. But as some stated, it was a weird time where people were still transitioning from SD to HD.   If anything I'm more bothered that LAP video hasn't been upgraded yet.  One of her biggest and iconic videos and it's still in SD.  The same goes for LAV and Vogue while lesser known videos like Get Together and Cherish got treatment beforehand.   
I'm one to think that the tour is actually somewhat in support for the Celebration compilation. After all, that is the last album both Madonna and Warner parted ways on.  Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I'm inclined to think that they could re-issue the compilation, possibly with a few more inclusions if not a new song or two.  It would make total sense to do so than rather do a whole new compilation at this time.  And it seems this is the Greatest Hits most go to, to listen to her biggest hits.

I've said it before but 2007-2008-2009 (even well into 2010) was a weird time for music videos and video formats in media, in general.
The TV standard was changing from years and years of SD to HD and Full HD and formats were mixed for some time and all kinds of a mess. Plus: music videos on YouTube didn't start to be in Full HD as a standard until 2010 - and only the new ones and not all of them. I remember well Christina Aguilera premiering her "Not Myself Tonight" video in 4:3 and 480p in 2010 and thinking WTF. Back then some people and artists were well into "the future" while others took more time to adjust.
There's no excuse for the "Celebration" video to be in that quality today. What probably happened back in 2009 was: the video was premiered on iTunes, if I remember well, as part of a promo deal. It was available for free on iTunes USA for a week I think. So Warner or whoever uploaded the video to Madonna's channel probably used the iTunes video or the low quality video they provided to iTunes and that was it. iTunes didn't have Full HD videos back then, quality was quite low.
They should update it soon, that's for sure. Funny thing it's her 20th most viewed official video on YouTube even with that potato quality!

Thanks for posting this and clarifying.  I don't believe anyone is saying there absolutely won't be any unreleased and/or demos.  Just some of us are clarifying nothing of such has been promised with the deal.  Personally, I agree that she should re-issue these expanded sets with something more than the original track listing. The problem I see is, so much of her demos/unreleased material are out there already, I can see meltdowns still happening because there might not be much more to put on these expanded sets that isn't already out there.  And like you pointed out, some of the unreleased songs that we know exist, she may not want to release them.  At the end of the day, we should respect the artist's decision. 

There are no anniversaries left for May, so we could expect the next release to happen in June. 
I think they might be preparing the anniversary edition of MADONNA for July, so we aren’t getting anything until then. That would perfectly link up with the start of the tour in July!

And that’s how the Madonna re-releases are going to go.
The album with a bonus cd with 7 bonus tracks of already released remixes lol

It can be simply laziness or Warner getting greedy when "Back That Up To The Beat" was released through Interscope and wanting their releases to appear always as latest...
Or a bit or both 
They need to fix it, though. It makes no sense after the first week.

Yes. They left some space between the last digital maxi and "FEL"'s announcement.
I think we got "American Pie" on March 22 2022 and then "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" on April 3 2022. Then nothing until "FEL" announcement, pre-orders and the first pre-release track, "Into The Groove (You Can Dance Remix Edit)", on May 4 2022. A month exactly.
Of course this doesn't mean it's gonna happen again but hey...

In the VH1 special Madonna Speaks, Madonna clarified that the theme behind "Hollywood", as well as "American Life" And "I'm So Stupid" from the album, was about her "wanting to shout from the rooftops that we have all been living in a dream. I have been living in a dream — and you're all living in a dream and we have to wake up to reality.
I've always thought Hollywood is a tounge in cheek reference to a place of pop stars and illusory dreams. 

''Hollywood is like a metaphor for me. It's the city of dreams and superficiality. It's the place where you forget about the really interesting things in life. In Hollywood you can lose your memory and your vision of the future. You can lose everything because you can lose yourself."
—Madonna speaking to Spanish radio station Los 40 Principales about the song

Oh lordy, I'm growing so old waiting for these re-issues. Galaxies have imploded quicker.
Just give me the damn Causing A Commotion single mixes on streaming and I'll be on my way. 

"Madonna 40":
CD 1:
Original 8-track album.
CD 2:
01. Ain't No Big Deal -> a treat!
02. Everybody (Original Version)
03. Everybody (Instrumental)
04. Burning Up (12'' Version)
05. Holiday (7'' Version)
06. Borderline (New Mix)
07. Lucky Star (New Mix)
And we will DEAL.

"Like A Prayer" 30th was a test! Released in March 2019, and only on streaming (not available for purchasing) was kind of a test between Madonna and Warner to see how things worked and if they got good results. A year later they started with the old digital singles releases and the deal was properly announced in August 2021.
So without "LAP" 30th maybe we wouldn't have had anything else later. 
I agree it's a bad release. Only worth it for "Supernatural" on streaming.

Not lousy if that’s what she wants. 
Kate Bush did the same with “A Big Sky” on Hounds Of Love. She  replaced the album version with a remix on the remastered version. 

We need a real IMMACULATE COLLECTION without US remix & album version of LUCKY STAR & BORDERLINE.
Seriously, what a lousy job! I am very happy not to discover Madonna’s discography in our time. 

The problem with "She's Breathless" and "1983-1989" are the versions. They are album versions. We need "It's that Girl".

"The Immaculate Extension"!
I love this idea. Most of the TIC mixes were based on the Extended 12'' remixes of the singles, anyway.

I'd love it if they'd release The Immaculate 12" Mixes Collection: the full extended mixes of all the album tracks. Full of ad libs, instrumental breakdowns. etc. They clearly have the stems and are no longer limited to physical media.
 

EDIT: I'm sorry. Link dead. 
 

And the beast that I saw was a like leopard, its feet were like a bear's...

I don't think Madonna is personally aware of any of these mixing mistakes. To me it sounds like the person doing the mixing is not really familiar with the songs in their original form, in this case, the TIC remixes.

You're right.  The percussion is missing. Wow!  I would think that Madonna would prefer the percussion to be part of it, being it gives it a more latin flavor.  I'm so mixed on all these changes because for some songs, it sounds good, but others it sounds so different or odd.  I also feel like Live To Tell has lost its vocal flow (sounding almost flat or monotone) and notice the final words of some of the verses, they strangely repeat.  Her vocals don't seem to be blended in as well as the original. 

Imagine...

No. "The Immaculate Collection" on digital has always been like this, with the U.S. Remix of "Lucky Star" and the album version of "Borderline" since day 1 - 2005 when it was added to the iTune Store, I guess? I think in the first years even "Like A Prayer" was not the proper "Immaculate" remix, but the 12'' Dance Remix I think. But they fixed that around... 2011-2012 maybe.
Something wrong must happened to the original "Immaculate" mixes multitracks for "Lucky Star" and "Borderline". That's the only reason to explain why they've never been fixed, not even now. I mean, it was the perfect time to do so.