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I disagree , while Hard Candy the concept is as corny as a dad joke. With CODF the whole concept is dated and so 2000 amateur graphic designer job. I remember discussing it in the forum before and went down investigating and is the same guy that did I believe rebel Heart and MDNA design.
Bedtime stories is far more interesting and better put together.
The typefonts are an interesting choice, using a modern style font,  with an attempt of neon effect (just go into layer styles and add glow) matching with a cursive handwritten. Adding a 3D element of a globe that suppose to look like a disco ball. But is not a disco ball is a globe. None of the typefonts represent 70s or disco.
Background: an overlay gradient with pattern of circles that suppose to represent the disco ball reflecting, but they don't. They look like  a weird circle pattern from the 50s
Madonna cutout like a paper-doll and buttered up with a soft filter removing any shadows or lines and adding color over layers that make her hair and skin look like the coloured photos from the 20s. She even has a shadow over , from the title, because nothing cast more shadow than a neon light (?)
It's a mess from a visual graphic point of view. The photoshoot with Klein has lots of great photos and they used the lights and reflection so good.  Just to get them all wiped out and do that cover.
One of the photos with some profesional editing, keeping the disco lights contrast  and add some simple but retro typeface. Like from Studio 54. And you have a great, classy effective cover.

Dissing Hard Candy for looking like a blotched photshop job and putting CODF on the top. along the best, better designed and more photographic cover.
That cover is whack. looks like a parody

Medellín, Batuka, God Control, Bitch I'm Madonna, Give me all your luvin'... those videos pee on Love profusion, Jump, Celebration, Give it 2 me and Miles Away. And I just said some of the good ones of 2010's...
Superbowl pees on all Live Earth show and Live 8. MDNA pees on Re-Invention Tour.
I can continue on and on. Let's not pretend that she wasn't good on her 50-60's 

Madonna sang plenty of "silly lyrics" in the 90s and the idea the past 15 years has been characterised by "silly lyrics" is just utterly nonsense. And saying age has nothing to do with it then immediately going to a ridiculous representation of her appearance says it all.

It's precisely cos I hate the standom thing of hurling insults at each other than I always stick to the discussion at hand and try and think about things, hence longer posts than might be typical. Pointing out that ways in which age plays a role in someone's pop career and in how it's interpreted is not 'I can't stand anyone saying they prefer M's music pre-Hard Candy' (which isn't what was said anyway) and I'm sorry, but one second saying we should be 'respectful' and then suggesting it's unreasonable to challenge someone attacking a woman's appearance for no apparent reason is totally wrong-headed to me.
I couldn't care less if someone 'prefers' a certain era of Madonna. That's an incredibly different proposition from banging on about her face or saying she's done nothing decent in 20 years (and as I wrote above, someone can of course believe that all they want - I just question what they're hoping to achieve by stating it in a Madonna forum, particularly when folk with that view tend to state it a lot).

If you wanna see some behaviour that's actually uncalled for and unprofessional check this diva. And he's talking to HIS crew member:
 

If you wanna see some behaviour that's actually uncalled for and unprofessional check this diva. And he's talking to HIS crew member:
 

If you wanna see some behaviour that's actually uncalled for and unprofessional check this diva. And he's talking to HIS crew member:
 

God forbid she can be human and not a robot and be out of cue arriving to the piano ahead of time for the first time in this tour. And immediately saying sorry to Mercy after.
Lucky you didn't see in the past how many times she's missed some step on the "Papa Don't Preach" bed scene cause again, she's not a robot and every show is a different show and will have its own particularities. With her and everyone else.
The "Human Nature" exact point in your video is always like that on every show, it's an act: she's arrested by the police and she insults them. She even spits on them sometimes.
It's a SHOW.
Honestly. It's like some of you are expecting drama or something very bad to happen, when she's championing this tour so far like the 40+ years professional she is.
Let go of the drama. There's no drama, just a professional artist making everything she can to finish a tour and offer the best for her audiences.

This is not true.
Every vocalist on a long tour and depending on their voices to, well, WORK, will ask for no AC. If you check interviews with other artists is a subject that can come up from time to time (same as not partying or drinking while being on tour, no smoke around, etc.).
It's not that hard to understand, IMO.

Has she? I've seen heaps of collaborators who've only had good things to say about working with her. I've seen the repeated statements that the folk who work on and dance on her tour are the best paid in the business. And as for interactions with fans, I actually met her in 2019 and she was fabulous. Perhaps she is a horrible person but neither you or I have any way of knowing it, and it's a pretty extreme statement to make for no real purpose and very swiftly just becomes that self-aggrandising 'oh I'm an honest fan who tells it like it is, not a loon stan!' thing that has very little to do with the artist whatsoever. 
The folk who were there who've posted seem to have overwhelmingly had a great time and the one review from a Miami newspaper I've seen so far was very positive. This will be forgotten about by everyone except us hardcore stans, akin to when the London Palladium dropped its curtain.

Or perhaps by "treating her like shit" she meant that godawful remix? 

Or perhaps by "treating her like shit" she meant that godawful remix? 

Or perhaps by "treating her like shit" she meant that godawful remix? 

This may be an unpopular opinion here but it seems many of you just don't get it.  Sandra hasn't used Madonna's name over the years to get press -- the press has asked Sandra about Madonna over and over and over and over because, if you were around back in the late 80's, they caused quite a stir.  There was a huge fascination in their friendship. Longtime fans of both loved hearing Sandra talk about her in her shows -- because she spilled tea.  But either way, Sandra was already well on the rise before she & Madonna struck up their friendship.  Sandra starred in Martin Scorcese's King of Comedy with Robert DeNiro way before all that.  She was a regular -- and hilarious -- guest on David Letterman for YEARS.   Yes, her association with Madonna introduced her to a wider audience, but it now follows her around everywhere. 
I am 100% certain if she showed up at a Madonna show, there'd be a ton of buzz and people trying to take her picture etc. because tales of their falling out are so well known.  I don't think she means she'd take the attention off the star, I think she means she just wants to go enjoy the show as an audience member and not feel on display.  (The way someone like Rosanna Arquette or Sean Penn or Rosie O'Donnell is gonna get attention at an M show too.) Sandra may not be everyone's cup of tea, but she's not a nobody.  She is a brilliant comedienne who continues to tour, and hosts her own show on SiriusXM.   Younger people might view her as "too negative" but that was part of her brand.  A darker, hilarious, bitter, cynical point of view.  She was brash and loud, in your face, and dangerous.  And SO much fun for those with a wicked sense of humor.
For those of us there at the time, Madonna's times out and about with Sandra were some of the first times we got a taste of Madonna's own sense of humor, they went out to clubs and restaurants, walked red carpets, and 'caused a ruckus everywhere they went.  In gossip columns and followed by paparazzi.  This was long before Instagram and Tik Tok.  We almost NEVER got a peek into celebs' personal lives -- so when we heard about who Madonna was running around with, we ate it up.  There was something really powerful about seeing 2 strong women tearing it up and not giving a f*ck what anyone thinks of them.  

But where does this whole she's not OK drama come from?
It's not like she's suddenly singing like a horse. Her voice, while a little tired already, is normal after six months of touring:
And of course, apart from that, she's going to haver better and worse night anyways, she even had those in Europe. And better and worse moments within the same show ("Take A Bow" is always the worst, we can agree on that xd).
She messed up "I Will Survive" a little bit in the last show: could be a million things - she wasn't feeling it that day, she couldn't hear herself, she has a cold, she simply wasn't on key, whatever.
She's human not a robot.

According to Shep, The Immaculate Collection and his work/mixing on it was very last minute, "a rush job" as he put it. That wouldn't make sense if "Vogue" had been written with it in mind, many months before. 

That performance of Like A Virgin is pure and utter genius. It's Madonna in a nutshell to me. The Girlie Show is absolutely perfect and I think it's a better show than Blond Ambition, it's also one of her most coherent tours when it comes to staging and storytelling. 

I think it would fit Like A Prayer even less to be honest. 

It's very good, I'd say the ultimate M biography so far. Especially first half of the book with Madonna's early years and beginnings. It's also the only biography of Madonna  that positions her career and its stages within sociocultural context of the times they occurred in. 

It's very good, I'd say the ultimate M biography so far. Especially first half of the book with Madonna's early years and beginnings. It's also the only biography of Madonna  that positions her career and its stages within sociocultural context of the times they occurred in. 

Nice to hear that, for sure I’ma buy it when it becomes available 

It's very good, I'd say the ultimate M biography so far. Especially first half of the book with Madonna's early years and beginnings. It's also the only biography of Madonna  that positions her career and its stages within sociocultural context of the times they occurred in. 

The most offensive thing about this book is how badly it's written. 

How strange. 
Any artist I enjoy as a fan, I always want to know their contributions to the actual song. Simply put, because in a lot of ways, I far more respect the artist who can contribute to composting and/or writing their own music than someone who just sings a song someone gives them. There are plenty of  artists who sing the phone book and I commend them for their singing ability, but when the artist actually writes and composes their own song, it's far more their baby and own though.  Then when they actually sing the song they wrote, they are able to convey and emote the way the song really needs to be expressed. It's just nice to know Madonna is usually behind the words she sings.  Certainly, I am a fan of artists who don't write their own lyrics or even compose their own music, but again, I feel like an artist who actually puts forth their own input when it comes to the composition or lyrics, is far more invested and creative to the the outcome and delivery of the song.