Rebel Heart - Album Thread [Happy 1st Birthday!]

[madgefan 10,202]

I still want a Devil Pray remixes.  

 

Not gonna happen since the era is pretty much over 

[groovyguy 63,864]

Rebel Heart era awards/nominations

 

International Dance Music Awards
- Best Commercial/Pop Dance Track (BIM) - nom
- Best Dance Music Video (BIM) - nom
- Best Full Length Studio Recording (RH) - nom

MTV Video Music Awards Japan
- Best Female Video (BIM) - nom

NRJ Music Awards
- International Female Artist of the Year - nom

Echo Awards
- Best International Female Artist - nom

People's Choice Awards
- Favorite Music Icon - won
- Favorite Female Artist - nom

Billboard music Awards
- Top Touring Artist - Pending

* Bitch I'm Madonna was also one of the songs that nominated Diplo for Producer of the year at Grammys

[groovyguy 63,864]

Living for Love - short "Making Of"

Video @ https://www.facebook.com/497141760457725/videos/vb.497141760457725/563829170455650/?type=2&theater

[Headless.Headphones 728]

Not gonna happen since the era is pretty much over 

 

Don't shatter my unrealistic dreams. 

 

I cannot wait for the DVD being the first tour I attended and oh the live album, so pumped. Please save the Mr. Roboto for Styx!

[groovyguy 63,864]

on the official vevo site

 

Living for Love  25,643,231 views 

Ghosttown  25,490,218 views

Bitch I'm Madonna  190,101,259 views

[groovyguy 63,864]

More Pix of Box Set Rebel Heart Tour With Vinyl

[Stevo 6,451]

That box set looks pretty spectacular

[groovyguy 63,864]

Enjoy this Madonna's "Iconic" fanmade video using her video singles and part of her tour videos. 

[groovyguy 63,864]

AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0xkbHWfYY&feature=share

[Headless.Headphones 728]

AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0xkbHWfYY&feature=share

 

Just makes me ache more for a single and remix EP. 

[groovyguy 63,864]

MNEK discusses auto-tune, debut album, collaborations with Madonna, Beyonce etc

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36744245

 

MNEK interview: 'Auto-Tune is the elephant in the room'

 

Pop star MNEK became a professional songwriter at the age of 14, when he signed his first publishing deal. Two years later, he won a silver disc for composing The Saturdays' hit single All Fired Up.

 

Born Uzoechi Emenike in Catford, south-east London, he has now worked with the likes of Madonna, Beyonce, Rudimental, Kylie and Little Mix - to name a few. But after years as a featured artist, the Grammy-nominated writer he is about to break out on his own right.

 

Never Forget You, a dramatic duet with Swedish singer Zara Larsson, became a global hit last year; and his new single, At Night (I Think About You) is set to do the same.

 

Amiable, talented and bewilderingly young, the 21-year-old invited the BBC to his cosy studio in East London to illustrate how he constructs a hit song (see the video above).

 

Along the way, he revealed what it's like to get "the call" from Beyonce, and why Auto-Tune is the "elephant in the room".

 

 

 

 

What was the first song you wrote?

It was called Paper and Pen, and it was really bad! It was all about songwriting. About how, with my paper and pen, I can sing whatever's on my mind. It won't be on the album.

 

 

So how do you go from that to making hit songs in your teens?

I don't know. I guess I did what everyone does: I put some songs on MySpace and I sent them to everyone I could find. I messaged all my favourite artists and all the record labels and said, "check out my music". And it caught someone's attention. I remember distinctly, I was on my Easter holidays and I was meeting people every day - publishers and managers and lawyers.

 

 

And you were still at school at this point. Did your grades suffer?

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school! Every weekend, every half-term was me going to a studio and having a session with someone. That was me as a 15 and 16-year-old.

 

 

You must have had nerves of steel.

I was just excited. I was just like, "Yeah, sick, I'm getting paid to do what I want to do my whole life".

It gave me a better understanding of life outside Catford. I'd never ventured outside of south-east London. I'd never even taken the tube.

 

 

How do you end up working with people like Madonna or Beyonce? Do they just call you up?

I wish! The Beyonce thing actually came about when I met my publisher, John Platt. He heard my EP and said, "I want to get you in with Beyonce". Now, I take everything with a grain of salt because I've been doing this for a while, but then, three days later, it happened. She played me the chorus for Hold Up and then I came back here and recorded all the ideas I had for the song.

 

 

You're one of 13 writers on Hold Up. Was it constructed like a Frankenstein's monster?

That process of piecing a song together... I did a whole thing and Beyonce snipped out the pieces she really liked. The end result was this really great, complete song. There are 13 writers, but seven of them wrote the original song. The rest are because there are samples on the track.

 

 

Did your contribution to Madonna's Rebel Heart album work in a similar way?

That was very much like, "OK, you are going to come to this studio, at this time, and record the vocals this way." She brought me over to Metropolis [studios in West London] and we did all the vocals for that song there.

 

 

You're obviously a very accomplished singer. Do you ever use Auto-Tune when you record other people's vocals?

Everyone uses Auto-Tune! It's the elephant in the room [that] no-one likes to talk about. I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.

 

So is the idea of a perfect vocal take history?

Naaah. The thing about Auto-Tune is it can't fix everyone. It only fixes pitch. Everything else - the emotion and the attack and the energy? That's what a singer is. 

 

 

 

 

What's difference between writing for other people and for your own album?

I think it differentiates itself. If I'm writing a song for Karen Harding, I know I can't impose what I want to say onto her. I literally have to get into her headspace and think, "what does she want to say?" When it comes to my stuff, it's the same. What can I write that's true to me?

 

I often get asked if there's a song I wish I'd kept for myself - and it's funny, because that's how Never Forget You came about. It was originally Zara Larsson singing by herself. but it was one of those rare cases where I was like, "Grr, I wish I could sing this!". So I tried a solo version and then the suggestion came for it to be a duet.

 

And great things happened...

I'm really proud of it. It's the first song I've done that's been a genuine worldwide smash.

 

So what can we expect from the album when it comes out?

The mantra of the album is the desire to be understood. Because I've written loads of stuff for other artists, there hasn't been a medium for people to get a sense of who I am. So that's what I feel the album is.

 

And all of it will have been recorded here?

This is the home of all of my stuff. Mama Do The Hump was recorded in this room. The whole of the Home album for Rudimental. The Little Mix girls have sung in that mic.

 

I wanted the studio to feel like home. I didn't want it to be a clinical dungeon. If I want to sleep, I can sleep here. If I want to hang out with my friends, there's a place to do that. But it's a working space too. And I'm thankful to be doing what I've wanted to do since I was a child.

 

 

MNEK's single At Night I Think About You is out now on Virgin EMI. His debut album follows later this year.

[groovyguy 63,864]

A great edit
Credit goes to Cr@zy4Mad*nna

 

https://vimeo.com/122884485

[groovyguy 63,864]

Australian production studio York Studios uploaded an 18 second video on their Vimeo account last week that included professionally shot Rebel Heart Tour footage!

 

Their website also confirms they are working on the Rebel Heart “Music Video†that is “coming soonâ€.

http://www.yorkstudios.tv/Our%20work/

 

[Fighter 28,874]

Live music video of the song or do they just mean the tour? 

[Headless.Headphones 728]

I know albums like Confessions and Hard Candy right? haven't leaked even in full and maybe Bedtimes Stories still if I remember. When can we expect like the Instrumentals? official because why has nobody tried to make a decent Unapologetic yet, it's blowing my mind! 

[NowRadiate 3,334]

I am SO ready for the Rebel Heart BD/DVD now.

It's been a while. Time to shoot it out.

What's the intended release again? Christmas?

[o_g_c_x 2,787]

Question that maybe has been answered: why Iconic is always live in Spotify. There is no album version, or at least I can not find it.

[RUADJAI 15,475]

You know the album version has audience noise....... 

 

If it's not that, maybe you are not searching Spotify's music but only the music in your own collection? There is no officially released Iconic Live version. I just opened Spotify and found it. 

 

 

 

Question that maybe has been answered: why Iconic is always live in Spotify. There is no album version, or at least I can not find it.

[groovyguy 63,864]

[rmccarthy_1 39]

Love all the spelling mistakes

[groovyguy 63,864]

Flashback

 

[groovyguy 63,864]

Ask Billboard: What Songs Should've Been, & Should Be, Singles?

Madonna, "Joan of Arc." One of the best pure-pop songs from Billboard's 2016 Woman of the Year, and one well-crafted and timeless enough that it would've fit on True Blue or Like a Prayer.

 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7573561/ask-billboard-what-songs-shouldve-been-should-be-singles

[groovyguy 63,864]

I've grown to luv this album so much

 

[groovyguy 63,864]

[stancherry 361]

What is that huge jewel case CD next to the vinyl on the right side?