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Ricardo Gomes says hello. 

I'm a 40 year old gay man and I know every Taylor Swift album except her self titled.  I think a lot of you have your heads stuck in the sand if your idea of Taylor Swift's music is "teeny bopper" and you're talking about Shake It Off.  That song is almost a decade old and if going by total stream count is only her FIFTH most popular song.  The string of Folklore/Evermore/Midnights/The Tortured Poets Department have most people in the music industry praising her songwriting ability.  Adele, Billy Joel, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Phoebe Bridgers, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Bon Jovi, and Dolly Parton have all praised her songwriting.  Taylor might not write songs that you specifically like to listen to, but to discredit her songwriting ability is basically saying some of the people known for being the best lyricists of all time have no idea what they're talking about.
Multiple women can make good music.  It's ok.

It doesn't matter Rabboni. You're always saying to me
 
But I just can't...
 
I will survive, but I just can't get you out of my head, Rabbi!!!

I like the Portugese tracks the most but the issue with MX is the lack of good melodies, the terrible vocal production and in some cases, the writing. It’s also a bit inconsistent in terms of styles.
You’re reading too much into it. Hard Candy was the divorce album. She was going through a breakup at that time. It’s apparent on Incredible, Miles Away and She's Not Me. That was the "escapist" album.
For MDNA she just didn’t have the time to actually write and produce a full album's worth of songs. She was focusing on directing her movie and raising 4 children on her own. I don’t blame her for that but maybe it would have been better to just go on tour with a GH Tour that year following the Superbowl HTS instead of forcing herself to create a mixtape of songs with 50% not written or produced by her.
There are some personal and introspective moments on the album, yes. But they get lost in the bunch of hand-me-down tracks not actually written or produced by her. That, paired with the lack of quality in almost every aspect of this album makes it her second worst in my opinion and that of many fans.
The opposite was the case for me. I liked MDNA at first but my god…it has aged like milk that was already partially spoiled.
Hard Candy still sounds fresh and that Timbaland/Neptunes sounds is making a comeback.
YES! 🙌🏼 

Looks like Apple Music is giving us above CD quality on some Madonna releases then 🙏🏼

Yeah well, it's also true that she was going out for dinner in one of the most exclusive summer locations in Europe. I mean, if you watch the video posted in the previous page, it's really exhausting to watch. Of course it's usual for her and, yeah I agree, she wouldn't like not to be followed anymore, but still I didn't think there would have been so many people (not just paparazzi).
I honestly can't understand them, spending their time following a group of people during their vacations I love her myself but just ONCE in my entire life, in 2000 at the age of 22, I chose to spend my time to see her (or anyone else) walking by. I wanted to make that experience and see how it was, she was at three metro stations from my home and I went. I saw her quite close, she strangely look at us, smiled and was beautiful and blablabla but, really, it was not worthy for me. I enjoyed the people I met, that was the good thing (one of them is stil a big friend of mine, even if with MDNA he completely repudiate her ... love you the same Alex!  )

Looks like Apple Music is giving us above CD quality on some Madonna releases then 🙏🏼

Yes, those Mike Dean produced remasters and singles were always available in “Hi-Res Lossless” on Apple Music from the get go. Some albums now appear to have most songs in 24bit/44.1 kHz which is theoretically an improvement from the 16bit/44.1 kHz format they were previously only available in. Some songs on those albums remain in 16bit and I was wondering if you guys were observing the same thing. And if you guys were hearing an improvement in quality a well (dynamic range?).
For your HomePods, if you have Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless enabled in your Home App for them and in your Music App on your iPhone, they will be able to play songs up to 24bit/ 48 kHz for stereo songs and Dolby Atmos versions of those (if available) if you have the regular HomePod (not the mini).

Some albums, (LAP, HC, Confessions, etc.) appear to have most songs updated to 24bit/44.1kHZ as opposed to 16bit/44.1kHZ  previously on Apple Music. Are you guys seeing that too? Do they actually sound better(er)? Do you see EY and 4 minutes still only in 16bit/44.1 in their related albums?

@BoyToyMark For example, this is 'Beat Goes On' with less compression than the CD version: 
 

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His Celebration Music Inferno mix is even better 

Uploaded it to the MediaFire, tagged and with this cover I created

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Well, it's not new music, but it's nice to have something fresh, I think 
 
Thank you, Stu! We need more collabs between M and you!

There you go girls! I don't know what bitrate this is though
 

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This is what he played all three nights I saw him warm up at Miami! It's superb
According to @cosmic_system this was not the case in other venues so I was pretty lucky!!!

Just started watching again , my 2nd viewing and got up to Holiday. My goodness, it’s all just so amazing I can’t get over it.

Yeah, I have to agree.  This show and broadcast was the best thing to happen to her.  The "audio" discussion is just obsessive nitpicking at this point.  No one is talking about it or bothered by it, but the couple who keep repeating it.  At the end of the day, she scored big time here and we should be appreciative and happy of that. 

I think the show needed extra illumination (sometimes it looked darker than DWT), less backing track (I wonder if the Globo delayed stream was retouched and different), a little more "beach party atmosphere" and therefore some extra interaction (the public was singing everything - it reminded me of Ciao Italia), for instance during Hung up, EY, Music. But it was a career-defining moment and definitely the best way to end a great tour that luckily took away all the bad memories of recent disaster performances. A year ago M almost died and came back as iconic and strong as she really is.
 

Justice for Let It Will Be (Paper Faces Mix)

With William Orbit I'm sure there are a lot of cool sounds, loops and bits that are interesting but I also doubt there's any unmined masterpieces waiting to be heard. Madonna's pretty efficient with her songwriting for albums, at least she was especially that way back in the late 80s-90s.

I'd like the Hard Candy LP to be reissued again soon.

Soooooooooo good, sooooooooooooooo amazing 😍😍😍😍😍😍... Im soooooooo happy....
This is really amazing 🏳️‍🌈
Anybody got this quality kind of video but without la isla bonita? For my collection 😁 Please share the link if you find one on YouTube, i can't find any with this kind of quality, its great. 
 
Oh god i love this so much 

Just waking up, reading the last few pages with the biggest smile 😃 Be still my gay beating heart. I’m so damn happy. Got to see both the Celebration Tour and the Vegas Residency earlier this year, and could never have dreamed that they’d share a moment like this. Not to mention Kylie’s shirt! Was Jonas Åkerlund there?! I hope they were filming 😂