PHIL
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PHIL reacted to Lucky90210 in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
Crazy For You is about gay men. Inspired by her nights at the Roxy. Listen to the lyrics and it will make sense. She includes it at the end of her ballroom as a reminder that she has always loved the gay community.
Also, TUTBMP Is about friends lost to AIDS and the end of the NYC club scene as she knew it.
Funny how two of her biggest ballads are about gay men and nobody knew it.
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PHIL reacted to Lorx in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
Looks good, but blue one is better and sexier
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PHIL reacted to Champ in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
I Madonna.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iV_SDoS1W/?img_index=1
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3x-vRoI7BF/?img_index=1
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PHIL reacted to Salida in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
Yes, sometimes she seems really surprised that fans know the lyrics to some of the lesser known hits. She doesn't know how much we love even the unreleased ones lol.
I think she really feels loved and after all the problems in the recent years, she must have really needed it. And I hope this inspires her also.
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PHIL got a reaction from HNS in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
can we quickly mention the fact, that she didn’t cancel ONE SINGLE show so far?!
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PHIL got a reaction from Black Mamba in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
can we quickly mention the fact, that she didn’t cancel ONE SINGLE show so far?!
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PHIL got a reaction from stefo in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from metamarc in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL reacted to Vogue Italia in Did you know Madonna helped to inspire the legendary hip-hop record Beat Bop?
Torrick "Toxic" Ablack is an artist, he was Jean-Michel Basquiat's friend and occasional studio assistant. He appeared in a few of Basquiat's paintings. He said Madonna played the keyboard during a jam session at Basquiat's loft. Basquiat heard the tape and it inspired him to produce "Beat Bop" by Rammellzee and K-Rob, which he released on his imprint Tartown Records. He had previously been in the noise band Gray. "Beat Bop" is ranked among Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time." The record is also very valuable because Basquiat created the cover art. It's so interesting how involved Madonna was with art, and hip-hop culture before she even became a pop culture phenomenon.
I just read his new interview with Juliet art magazine which he mentions Madonna.
I listened to the single “Beat Bop”, produced by Jean-Michel in 1983 for Rammellzee and K Rob. Jean painted the cover of the original vinyl, making the single one of the most valuable rap records in the world.
Before producing "Beat Bop", Jean was traveling in Los Angeles. At the time, Basquiat was dating Madonna, and she lived in his house in New York. One evening, with two friends of mine, we went to visit her and ended up doing a jam session: I on drums, Madonna on the keyboard, and my friend on the microphone. We then used Jean-Michel’s turntable and started recording. Later, Jean listened to the tape and decided he wanted to record “Beat Bop”. In those years we literally were in the middle of a creative hub!
https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/a-trip-in-the-1980s-bronx-with-toxic/
He also mentioned it in the book Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022):
"I knew Jean was in a band, but we didn't talk about it much. We were hanging out with Nick a lot. Jean bought a keyboard, A-One had a drum machine, and we would have these impromptu jam sessions. A1 would come by and play percussions. That kind of led up to 'Beat Bop.' Madonna was staying at Jean's place while he was in LA. I was there with my friends Trace and General EMC. She let us up, and we were just sitting there talking. I was playing the drum machine and Madonna started playing the keyboard. My friend started emceeing. We took Jean's turntable and scratched. Jean heard the tape. He loved that crazy impromptu shit! ... 'Beat Bop' was something that we took more as an art piece. Eszter [Balint] is on it ... We were around all these incredible musicians, like Arto Lindsay. We were painters, but painters who also DJ and make music, and Jean kind of tied it all together again, after Gray, doing 'Beat Bop.'
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Toxic and Shenge Ka Pharaoh holding a copy of "Beat Bop" at Basquiat's Crosby Street loft in 1983
Andy Warhol holding the record in 1983
Basquiat and Madonna with Toxic and Easy Gee (General EMC) at Futura 2000's Fun Gallery opening in 1983
Basquiat with Toxic and ON2 at Keith Haring's Fun Gallery opening in 1983
Madonna and ON2 in 1983
Basquiat and Toxic in 1983
Basquiat and Rammellzee on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood in 1982
Rammellzee, Kool Koor, Fab 5 Freddy, Basquiat and Toxic at the Fun Gallery in 1982
Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy circa 1983
Basquiat depicted with Toxic and Rammellzee in his paintings Hollywood Africans in front of the Chinese Theater with Footprints of Movie Stars (1983) and Hollywood Africans (1983)
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PHIL got a reaction from zephyr in the sky at night in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
can we quickly mention the fact, that she didn’t cancel ONE SINGLE show so far?!
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PHIL got a reaction from androiduser in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from heikeeduardo in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from animalinstinct in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from Gui in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from Donna in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from scallywally in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from Blue Jean in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from Angelo in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
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PHIL got a reaction from Champ in The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)
can we quickly mention the fact, that she didn’t cancel ONE SINGLE show so far?!