Lessons to be learned from the leaks

[HolyWater 28]

Obviously the first lesson for the Queen is obvious....protect yourself better and hire better staff to prevent the leaks from happening.

 

The second lesson is in FAN THIRST! We want all this bad and so that says something!  Madonna could start actually charging for demos on her website...the thirst is there for that.  Also what about a 2-3 disc album full of her best unleaked demos spanning her entire career???  There is still tons of them out there that have never leaked....capitalize on it already!  It would be a win for her and for fans!

[Breathless 5,286]

I know what you mean. Many artists do this already, but I think she's waaay too concerned with that she wants nothing but the best out there, and demos are demos..... in her opinion, not what she wants out there, I guess.

[ITG 3,325]

Stephen Bray says Express Yourself demo is better than the final.I sooooooo want to hear it! Lol!Also, maybe she doesn't want old stuff released because when she's old & retired, she might want to release them for nostalgia.Imagine an Madonna demo album with Warning Signs, Desperately Seeking Susan, Each Time You Break My Heart, Sidewalk Talk, Just A Dream, Alone Again, Love Attack, First Is A Kiss, Possessive Love.......

[G_O_N_E 453]

Madonna is just not that type of artist. She's very rarely nostalgic, and is more focused on quality than quantity. 

 

With every project, there are always people in the know. Whether or not the whole "hacker part 2" story is true, who knows. The suspect had already been questioned and had everything confiscated; yet album masters leaked on January 7th. Surprised the whole release didn't surface sooner.

 

The problem with this release was that far too many people were involved. Sharing all of the recorded music with various producers, engineers, it's inevitable, 

[ITG 3,325]

Madonna is just not that type of artist. She's very rarely nostalgic

We can dream though!

[HolyWater 28]

Madonna is just not that type of artist. She's very rarely nostalgic, and is more focused on quality than quantity. 

 

With every project, there are always people in the know. Whether or not the whole "hacker part 2" story is true, who knows. The suspect had already been questioned and had everything confiscated; yet album masters leaked on January 7th. Surprised the whole release didn't surface sooner.

 

The problem with this release was that far too many people were involved. Sharing all of the recorded music with various producers, engineers, it's inevitable, 

 

First....I wasn't talking about HOW all this stuff leaked so much as the fact that it happened and that there is a security lesson to be learned from it.

 

Second...Madonna IS nostalgic and has been been since the Music era in MANY ways...Veni Vidi Vici lyrics???

[LTSP 227]

I doubt she cares enough about her legacy now to release unreleased material. I mean she did not care about GHV2 and did not care enough about Celebration ( so many butchered tracks ! A real shame)

[DiscoThomas 1,172]

Maybe all of this will plant the seed and we'll see something in the future.

[Halex 1,610]

I'm not sure M is the only one that needs to take lessons from leaks.

[Fighter 28,799]

I actually dont want her to be nostalgic pretty much at all, but im concerned about how nostalgic shes become in the last two albums. I cant relate to Like A Virgin references and I dont care about them. lolI think the lessons are, be more careful, dont bitch about it too much cos it only makes it worse, dont do online public witch hunts, dont change the music just because it leaked and end up with rushed sounding remixes that are inferior to the demos.

[HolyWater 28]

I doubt she cares enough about her legacy now to release unreleased material. I mean she did not care about GHV2 and did not care enough about Celebration ( so many butchered tracks ! A real shame)

 

GHV2 is on Warner Brothers shoulder's not Madonna's.   She didn't want it to be released yet and WB did and following their fight with Madonna over Impressive Instant vs. Amazing they didn't give a shit.

[momosfantasy 947]

Maybe we, as fans, could start a petition to get her to release the extras from her vaults, alongside some of the more radically different demo versions. I would absolutely love to hear something like what ITG suggested. Whether she would listen or not, who knows. But then, if she wasn't interested, Warner Bros might be. We would have to get a good group of signatures though.

[Breathless 5,286]

OMG, reading that the Express Yourself demo is better than the released version kills me because I loooove EY!!!

[ITG 3,325]

OMG, reading that the Express Yourself demo is better than the released version kills me because I loooove EY!!!

I know right!!! How could Express Yourself be better!!!?????!!!It's already amazing!

[RebelHeartbreak 407]

I could see her being nostalgic when the inevitable autobiography is written... It would be only too fitting to provide a soundtrack to accompany it. I don't find her nostalgia of the last 2 albums to be any more than a reference of her past, rather than a fondness or desire to revisit it. She's still moving forward, so if she wants to glance over her shoulder here and there, that's great for us fans that DO remember when Like A Virgin was a new album. It's all about context, and she's never mined her back catalog/legacy in an unintelligent or unclever way, IMO