Aaron Evans

Yes also why not using for this Dolby Release the album version of Lucky Star? If something happened with the Immaculate multitracks of that song using a shorter version for a greatest hits makes more sense. But they remixed the remix that was on this digital version of the album since day 1. Wasn’t the remix used on the Immaculate dvd too (I always forget what versione they used on Immaculate and what on the first vhs with the videos from the first album and LAV). 

Maybe the original stems for the "Immaculate" mixes of those two songs are lost or maybe is the way she wants it now and that's it. But she's definitely OK with that, that's for sure, especially when it hasn't been fixed now and this release has been approved by her.
In the end this the digital version of that album and it's been for almost 20 years now, so we need to accept that the physical and the digital versions are just different. No big deal really.

I know tscott has me on ignore (lol), but as I stated before, Mike Dean probably mastered all of her albums in Dolby Atmos.
And yes, it seems obvious now that Lucky Star and Borderline are intentional.

I wonder why on You Can Dance "Physical Attraction" is the original album version on streaming instead the "mixed album version". It's the same version, only mixed at the beginning with the end of everybody and different speed. It has no sense

Why the remix of Lucky star and the album version of borderline instead of the one chosen for immaculate? they doesnt fit... She need to hire crew and people that were real fans and lovers of her music, not just those one that adore her. T.T

In my opinion it's a simply mistake. Mike Dean forgot to mute Madonna's voice at the end. In Material Girl her voice has too much echo... All the tracks have been mixed again from the original stems and they sound different if you compare them with the original CD.

The version on YouTube is the 7-minute version of Lucky Star too... So weird. Did Emily not, like, look at the OG CD for a second?
 

and they didn't use the proper versions? 
Honestly who the fuck runs this shit it's absolutely ridiculous. So Mike Dean sat and mixed an over seven minute version of Lucky Star and didn't think something was up?
Good luck with your reissues guys cause it's gonna be a shit show. 
I have to laugh gif

Why couldn’t they upload the original 1080 master sent to broadcast?!?!?

There are things in this world that we will never fully understand. We want answers.

AI Gollum making a precious appearance

The video itself isn't as bad as the ones they've put on YouTube over the years, too bad for the poor child who is practically back from a season of Ghost Adventures 

Oh my God but it's a Ghost Adventures episode ??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

That AI Bot was not so kind to this kid:


 
And that moving camo backdrop wallpaper....

Actually “She who shall not be named” did even more than that:
She released all songs from the album as “instrumental singles” as well as several other physical items such as 12 versions of her album that together make a clock. That resulted in every song from the album charting consequently on the BB Hot 100 from #1 down to 12 or something. 😵‍💫😵‍💫
Then, when it was time to block (mostly black artists) from #1 she amped up her desperate tricks and released even more exclusive items and bundles, as well as discounts. I think, in the end there were about 30 different versions of her album alone.
That woman is a whole nother level of insane.

Now lies the question: which ending will she use?
The Bush ending? The grenade ending?

The Director’s Cut is the super explicit video with the grenade ending and her covering her ears.
The Bush ending was the one sent to media and premiered in some European countries for 24 hours and then pulled. But that wasn’t considered the Director’s Cut, just the official video before being deleted.
One thing is for sure: there’ll be complaints from some fans in any case haha.
Never liked the Bush ending... too parody territory for me. The Director’s Cut tik tok grenade ending is perfect (the rest of the blood and violence on that one, not that much!).

Who knows. The Bush one is the original video right? The other one is the Director's Cut with the additional explicit stuff that are not on the Bush one, also more war film.

A t shirt and another 'holographic' sleeve w/ no vinyl as merch
https://shop.madonna.com/products/american-life-holographic-album-sleeve
https://shop.madonna.com/products/american-life-20th-anniversary-tee

The Director's Cut of the "American Life" video is officially coming next week:
https://www.facebook.com/madonna/videos/807319703643522/

We did it, people. 20 years later.

People mislead the Director's Cut video that was leaked later as the original broadcasted video (me too until recently). I would love to know the background of this one. Wikipedia doesn't says a lot.

The Director’s Cut is the original. It was never released but leaked some years later.
The one with the Bush ending is a re-edit to try and soften the message in the video by cutting some parts and adding that ending. This was aired only once in a few countries outside of the U.S.

I recommend this recent Rolling Stone piece, it's quite a good timeline from the director (Jonas Åkerlund):
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/madonna-american-life-video-iraq-war-controversy-1234714498/
Basically as @Blue Jeanexplained, the super explicit later leaked Director's Cut was the original version but MTV demanded changes, cause it was too much. Then they started playing with different endings and less violence. In the end, the Bush version was the final one before being pulled. And then the flags version became the official one.

And some on here think we are complaining over ‘an obscure edit’ missing here and there on these EP’s 😂🥴

I am willing to bet that it will be the grenade version. Really profound to release it at this time.