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That's pretty awesome, one of my favourite songs of hers. Probably my favourite actually 🙂

Sometimes, just sometimes, an artist will work on a song for months and then hold it back from the upcoming release because sometimes, just sometimes, it no longer fits the concept of the album. And then the right album for it just never materialises because an artist keeps moving forward instead of backwards. Doesn't mean they hate it or disliked it, it just no longer represents what the album is about.

Following up on my LAP promo tour (let's add Supernatural to it!), let's try the Evita promo tour 🙂 building on the idea that they were originally going to release a remix EP, but also updating a couple of previous hits for the sound that was current then: 1) Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Remix), 2) Buenos Aires (Remix), 3) Another Suitcase In Another Hall (Remix), 4) You'll See (Remix), 5) La Isla Bonita (Remix), 6) Who's That Girl (Remix) Now let's imagine she did a short promo tour (although she didn't need to) for The Immaculate Collection. There's no way I can imagine her doing Justify My Love so I'm skipping it. 1) Rescue Me 2) Vogue 3) Like A Prayer 4) Open Your Heart 5) Into The Groove A Bedtime Stories promo tour? Gearing up for what would have been the cancelled tour, I imagine something like this: 1) Secret 2) Don't Stop 3) Survival 4) I'll Remember 5) Bedtime Story Given that the ROL tour was cancelled as well, I imagine a different kind of promo tour that was a bit more fleshed out and focusing on ambient/clubby/trip hop elements with her post-Evita vocals that would give us a rendition of Rescue Me: 1) Ray of Light (Twilo Mix) 2) Shanti 3) Skin 4) Sky Fits Heaven 5) Frozen 6) Bedtime Story (Orbital Mix) 7) Justify My Love (Orbit Mix) 8) Rescue Me (Titanic Vocal Mix) Or what if there was an Erotica promo tour that was focused on showcasing some of the mixes that could've gone onto the tour: 1) Deeper And Deeper (Klub Mix) 2) Fever (Edit 1) 3) Rain (Remix) 4) Vogue 5) Express Yourself (Remix) What if there could've been a promo tour for Something to Remember? Something a bit more unplugged and showcasing her balladeering at that time 🙂 1) You'll See 2) I'll Remember 3) This Used To Be My Playground 4) Forbidden Love 5) Love Don't Live Here Anymore 6) Something to Remember A promo tour for You Can Dance might have given us a live version of Spotlight! 1) Spotlight 2) Holiday 3) Over And Over 4) Into the Groove 5) Physical Attraction 6) Where's The Party And lastly, pre-BA, what might a promo tour for I'm Breathless looked like? Would it have been necessary then for her to include a Dick Tracy section on the BA tour then? Something that brought to life authentically the sound of the 1920s big band period she was evoking at the time: 1) He's A Man 2) Cry Baby 3) More 4) Hanky Panky 5) I Surrender Dear 6) Express Yourself

Well, she's in London now it seems, probably considering her options already. Always nice to have her back here, whatever the circumstances. Also, we just a Labour government back 🙂

Can you imagine though if Like A Prayer had had a promo tour back in 1989 before the BA tour? With her brunette hair, pre DT, and trying out those songs. Something like this I'd imagine: Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherish, Keep It Together, La Isla Bonita, Spotlight, Holiday

I think Madonna has parodied herself quite well - Star - the BMW short film was hilarious, as was the MTV commercial she did where she has a nightmare that she can't get into an event because security doesn't believe it's her, whilst letting through drag queens dressed as her 😂 both were 2001 I think. I think there's an element of self parody in the Music video, as well as Beautiful Stranger ("she's a master of disguise").

#soon he will join the long list of hangers on whom Madonna will eventually move on from. Once they're out of her orbit she'll find a new toy to play with.

He is so cheap I'm sure he doesn't even subscribe to Adobe to use Photoshop. Effing facetune.

Absolute trash. He can't style, light or set a scene like any of the other greats she's worked with. The overuse of filters is a giveaway that his images have little to know substance to begin with. He has degraded the royalty of what was once her brand. One is an icon, the other is simply, a con.

Bitch looks amazing 😍

Erm ... Lolahol 🙂

Madonna is the mold they all came from. Every single one of them. It's hard to look at pop culture and not see the influence of La Ciccone in every facet. She might not have invented certain things, but she made it accessible, and what's more, she made it possible. But the difference with Madonna doing it is that she did it for a cause. There was always a reason or an issue she was highlighting, or an idea she was rebelling against. What's the point of doing anything after Madonna did it anyway 🙂

It was one of the New York shows. Her throat must've been killing her, but it does sound gorgeous 😍 Like a Virgin (BA 1990 NY)

Oh that's easy; Blond Ambition (maybe the one where she spoke some of the lines from Like a Virgin a bit like Justify my Love because of throat issues, I think) and Who's That Girl.

Personally, I think Frozen was the best choice. It was a big risk - the intro is very long with those strings, but radio supported it. Nothing in the mainstream sounded like that. But it was such a lush production, almost like a Bond song in some ways it could've been produced by David Arnold as well. But it's masterfully done; a mature sound that blended genres and introduced us to a different side of Madonna. I mean, songs like Scheherazade by Peter Cetera and Desert Rose by Sting straddled that eastern vibe with pop sensibilities but Frozen brought ambience and classical strings to the table. It was perfect to start with and then raise the notch with the title track.