Madonna at "Che Tempo Che Fa"

[Frank 42,521]

Meanwhile, outside Rai3 studio...

 

Poor mimosas, they didn't deserve that ending... Lol

[groovyguy 63,856]

Awesome performances! 

[Halex 1,610]

Poor mimosas, they didn't deserve that ending... Lol

Well, she had to be cautious with the mimosas, as they do stain. 

I love the smell, though.

[cindy_ve 800]

Really love the preforumense

[Alex JLR 1,180]

Poor mimosas, they didn't deserve that ending... Lol

Imagine this with hydrangeas ^^

[xavier 4,787]

She was beyond glorious!

[groovyguy 63,856]

[groovyguy 63,856]

 

[groovyguy 63,856]

Have watched both the performances numerous times now. She looked so gorgeous. It kind of remind me of the ROL promo era as the performances seem to mirror some of her moves back when she was doing the ROL promo. Loved esp. the part where she got a bit emotional with Ghosttown. Once again, "I WANT MORE" and can't wait for the next TV appearance!!!

[stfan97 2,829]

I get angry every time with all the french and italian interviews because a non-native speaker cannot understand anything because when Madonna speaking the translation over her voice is very loud  

 

Okay, here is everything Madonna said.  I understood a good bit of the Italian, but I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to translate it out, so if someone else wants to fill in what Fabio said, feel free! 

 

About Rebel Heart:

The first thing I wanted to do was just sit down and write songs that I knew I could play on the guitar and sing by myself that would be powerful on their own.

 

About Devil Pray:

I don't know, right?  No, the song is about not being fooled, the idea that drugs are an illusion, that they can make us feel good and we can enjoy them, but at the end of the day, if you become a slave to them, they will only fool us and lead us down the wrong path.

 

About her kids and RH:

No, I've asked their opinion on every song.  They were with me a lot in the studio.  I rely on their taste.  I value their opinion.  They have good taste.  But, that doesn't mean they like every song.  They've very opinionated.  I'm just saying. [Fabio: Like their mother?]  Yes.

 

About the title Rebel Heart:

Correct.  But let me explain the title Rebel Heart.  Because I feel like there are two very strong sides of my personality.  There's the rebellious side, the provocateur, the renegade, the warrior, the freedom fighter, the bad girl, and then there's the romantic side.  The side of me that believes in true love and that wears my heart on my sleeve.  So the album is an illustration, or an expression, of both sides of me.

 

[Fabio talks]

No, I didn't say that.  No, no.  I just said there are songs where, like there are songs... do you want me to give you examples of songs?  I don't think being a bad girl makes you free, but I say that speaking my mind and not caring what people think makes me free.  Yeah.

 

But you know what, you can't really be a freedom fighter if you don't have a big heart.  Impossible.  You can't have one without the other.

 

[Fabio brings out wine]

I'd like to say that wine also does not guarantee freedom.  It will probably relax you more. [Fabio pours wine, Madonna inspects the bottle]  So we make a toast?  [Fabio: To Rebel Heart]  To Rebel Heart.  Wait, to all of us, to all of us finding our.. [Translation begins, applause] No, no no, I'm not finished.  To all of us finding the rebel heart inside of ourselves.  Okay?  Cheers.

 

[Fabio: It's okay?]  Mmm.  It's good!  [Madonna sips]  It's going to take a little more than that to make me smile.

 

To speak your mind, to express your opinions, to fight against discrimination and bigotry, um to say unpopular things, to go against convention has always been difficult and it continues to be.  As you can imagine.  It's the only way, for me it's the only journey an artist can go on.

 

About Charlie Hebdo:

I think that we take freedom for granted everywhere, even in America, so I think what happened in Paris was a big wake-up call for the entire world.  Not only to make us more aware of the freedom we do take for granted, but also to make us understand that we must become more tolerant towards one another.  And we must try to come to have an understanding of one another's differences.  Yes.

 

I didn't know what I wanted to become when I was a child.  I just knew that I was living in a kind of a box, a cage, a world in which people thought in a very narrow-minded way, and I wanted to break out of this.  And I needed to find ways to express myself, through poetry, through art, through dance, through music, through film, all of these expressions... I knew one of these roads would lead me out of this box.  And it has.

 

[Fabio talks]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by intellectual scandal. [Fabio speaks more]  Well, at the time when Picasso was painting, and he created Cubism, or he was part of the Cubist movement, his paintings were considered scandalous.  People were outraged by it.  Is this what you mean? [Fabio: Exactly]  Okay, so what is your question?

 

You just want to have a conversation.  Yes...

 

Yeah, I'm a performance artist.  And I use my body as one way that I express myself.

 

About Frida Kahlo:

Well, that wasn't the postcard I had in mind.  I think what I loved about Frida Kahlo is that all of her paintings are self-portraits and she suffered a lot in her life, but in spite of all of her suffering, she found a way to express herself.  And when I look at her paintings, I see strength, I see compassion, I see suffering, I see um... I see honesty, and I see a kind of, she's looking at you in the eye, she's not hiding anything, she wears her heart on her sleeve, and to me she was a real rebel heart.  Also important, that she wasn't conventionally beautiful.  People made fun of the fact that she had "one eyebrow", "one mustache", blah blah blah, and she didn't give a fuck.  She said this is who I am, like it or not.  Okay?  That's it.  [Fabio starts to talk] And wait!  I'm still talking.  Anyway, the other important thing to know is that during the time she was painting, there were very few women painting.  So she was one of the first successful female artists in a world dominated by men.  Okay, so also for this reason I feel very inspired by her.

 

About the Tamara de Lempicka painting (nude) that Madonna owns:

For many reasons.  First of all, again, it's painted by a woman, Tamara de Lempicka, and second of all, she's portraying a woman who's very voluptuous.  Some people would say she's fat.  She's unconventionally beautiful but again, there's a strength in her beauty.  Finally, there are chains on her wrists and for me, this is an illustration of how I felt growing up as an artist, as a female artist.  To a certain extent I feel like I've been in chains, imprisoned, not having the same freedoms as men. [applause]  Not having the same freedom as STRAIGHT men. [more applause]

 

[Fabio asks how she feels after the Brits?]

Right now, I feel slightly drunk. [drinks more wine] Thank you.  Nothing could be more dangerous than what happened a few days ago.

 

About not being a typical New Yorker(??):

Really? [Madonna gives a look, Fabio talks] Okay, I'll say something that will shock you.  Every morning, I say prayers with my children before they go to school.  Okay? [Fabio: You get up?]  I do.  And then I go back to sleep.

 

About the tour:

Yeah, I'm starting to think about ideas, looking for inspiration, again always in art, in film, in music, in nature, seeing other people's work, everything inspires me.  I might steal the idea of the screen from here, it's quite cool. [Fabio talks] You know the expression?  Really?  Okay.  Thank you, Pinocchio.

 

About Ghosttown:

I call Ghosttown a post-apocalyptic love song.  If the world that we live in falls apart, if civilization as we know it collapses, and you must know this is possible... At this point in the world, we have enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy the planet.  God forbid, if this happens, my fantasy is that I'm left in this world with one other person and together we start a new world. [Fabio talks] Yes, I was thinking of you when I wrote this song. [Fabio talks] Actually, I was thinking of my son (Rocco - people say it's about the fallout from M's breakup with Brahim and how she and Rocco will be fine on their own?).  You don't know.  Do you?

 

[Fabio talks]:

And again, this is Women's Day, so it's important to bring this up.  If men behave the way that I behave, no one says anything about it.  Okay, so hit yourself on the back.  Do that again.  Just hit yourself.  Mea culpa, mea culpa.

[groovyguy 63,856]

https://twitter.com/DrownedMadonna/status/574907384973385728

Great ratings for @fabfazio yesterday! Over 4m average viewers! Season record! With @Madonna on air the total viewers were 5.200.000!

[MadonnaLove 6,183]

 

Okay, here is everything Madonna said.  I understood a good bit of the Italian, but I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to translate it out, so if someone else wants to fill in what Fabio said, feel free! 

 

About Rebel Heart:

The first thing I wanted to do was just sit down and write songs that I knew I could play on the guitar and sing by myself that would be powerful on their own.

 

About Devil Pray:

I don't know, right?  No, the song is about not being fooled, the idea that drugs are an illusion, that they can make us feel good and we can enjoy them, but at the end of the day, if you become a slave to them, they will only fool us and lead us down the wrong path.

 

About her kids and RH:

No, I've asked their opinion on every song.  They were with me a lot in the studio.  I rely on their taste.  I value their opinion.  They have good taste.  But, that doesn't mean they like every song.  They've very opinionated.  I'm just saying. [Fabio: Like their mother?]  Yes.

 

About the title Rebel Heart:

Correct.  But let me explain the title Rebel Heart.  Because I feel like there are two very strong sides of my personality.  There's the rebellious side, the provocateur, the renegade, the warrior, the freedom fighter, the bad girl, and then there's the romantic side.  The side of me that believes in true love and that wears my heart on my sleeve.  So the album is an illustration, or an expression, of both sides of me.

 

[Fabio talks]

No, I didn't say that.  No, no.  I just said there are songs where, like there are songs... do you want me to give you examples of songs?  I don't think being a bad girl makes you free, but I say that speaking my mind and not caring what people think makes me free.  Yeah.

 

But you know what, you can't really be a freedom fighter if you don't have a big heart.  Impossible.  You can't have one without the other.

 

[Fabio brings out wine]

I'd like to say that wine also does not guarantee freedom.  It will probably relax you more. [Fabio pours wine, Madonna inspects the bottle]  So we make a toast?  [Fabio: To Rebel Heart]  To Rebel Heart.  Wait, to all of us, to all of us finding our.. [Translation begins, applause] No, no no, I'm not finished.  To all of us finding the rebel heart inside of ourselves.  Okay?  Cheers.

 

[Fabio: It's okay?]  Mmm.  It's good!  [Madonna sips]  It's going to take a little more than that to make me smile.

 

To speak your mind, to express your opinions, to fight against discrimination and bigotry, um to say unpopular things, to go against convention has always been difficult and it continues to be.  As you can imagine.  It's the only way, for me it's the only journey an artist can go on.

 

About Charlie Hebdo:

I think that we take freedom for granted everywhere, even in America, so I think what happened in Paris was a big wake-up call for the entire world.  Not only to make us more aware of the freedom we do take for granted, but also to make us understand that we must become more tolerant towards one another.  And we must try to come to have an understanding of one another's differences.  Yes.

 

I didn't know what I wanted to become when I was a child.  I just knew that I was living in a kind of a box, a cage, a world in which people thought in a very narrow-minded way, and I wanted to break out of this.  And I needed to find ways to express myself, through poetry, through art, through dance, through music, through film, all of these expressions... I knew one of these roads would lead me out of this box.  And it has.

 

[Fabio talks]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by intellectual scandal. [Fabio speaks more]  Well, at the time when Picasso was painting, and he created Cubism, or he was part of the Cubist movement, his paintings were considered scandalous.  People were outraged by it.  Is this what you mean? [Fabio: Exactly]  Okay, so what is your question?

 

You just want to have a conversation.  Yes...

 

Yeah, I'm a performance artist.  And I use my body as one way that I express myself.

 

About Frida Kahlo:

Well, that wasn't the postcard I had in mind.  I think what I loved about Frida Kahlo is that all of her paintings are self-portraits and she suffered a lot in her life, but in spite of all of her suffering, she found a way to express herself.  And when I look at her paintings, I see strength, I see compassion, I see suffering, I see um... I see honesty, and I see a kind of, she's looking at you in the eye, she's not hiding anything, she wears her heart on her sleeve, and to me she was a real rebel heart.  Also important, that she wasn't conventionally beautiful.  People made fun of the fact that she had "one eyebrow", "one mustache", blah blah blah, and she didn't give a fuck.  She said this is who I am, like it or not.  Okay?  That's it.  [Fabio starts to talk] And wait!  I'm still talking.  Anyway, the other important thing to know is that during the time she was painting, there were very few women painting.  So she was one of the first successful female artists in a world dominated by men.  Okay, so also for this reason I feel very inspired by her.

 

About the Tamara de Lempicka painting (nude) that Madonna owns:

For many reasons.  First of all, again, it's painted by a woman, Tamara de Lempicka, and second of all, she's portraying a woman who's very voluptuous.  Some people would say she's fat.  She's unconventionally beautiful but again, there's a strength in her beauty.  Finally, there are chains on her wrists and for me, this is an illustration of how I felt growing up as an artist, as a female artist.  To a certain extent I feel like I've been in chains, imprisoned, not having the same freedoms as men. [applause]  Not having the same freedom as STRAIGHT men. [more applause]

 

[Fabio asks how she feels after the Brits?]

Right now, I feel slightly drunk. [drinks more wine] Thank you.  Nothing could be more dangerous than what happened a few days ago.

 

About not being a typical New Yorker(??):

Really? [Madonna gives a look, Fabio talks] Okay, I'll say something that will shock you.  Every morning, I say prayers with my children before they go to school.  Okay? [Fabio: You get up?]  I do.  And then I go back to sleep.

 

About the tour:

Yeah, I'm starting to think about ideas, looking for inspiration, again always in art, in film, in music, in nature, seeing other people's work, everything inspires me.  I might steal the idea of the screen from here, it's quite cool. [Fabio talks] You know the expression?  Really?  Okay.  Thank you, Pinocchio.

 

About Ghosttown:

I call Ghosttown a post-apocalyptic love song.  If the world that we live in falls apart, if civilization as we know it collapses, and you must know this is possible... At this point in the world, we have enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy the planet.  God forbid, if this happens, my fantasy is that I'm left in this world with one other person and together we start a new world. [Fabio talks] Yes, I was thinking of you when I wrote this song. [Fabio talks] Actually, I was thinking of my son (Rocco - people say it's about the fallout from M's breakup with Brahim and how she and Rocco will be fine on their own?).  You don't know.  Do you?

 

[Fabio talks]:

And again, this is Women's Day, so it's important to bring this up.  If men behave the way that I behave, no one says anything about it.  Okay, so hit yourself on the back.  Do that again.  Just hit yourself.  Mea culpa, mea culpa.