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Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

But music videos in general were worse in 2005-2009, the old industry model was collapsing and record companies didn't invest in them anymore. If you watch "Umbrella", "I Kissed A Girl", etc. they're all not so expensive videos. It wasn't until Gaga (she was putting her own money to pay them) and all the product placements that videos started to "grow" again.
Anyway, she's always been practical with music videos, cause Warner gave them the money to do them BUT she ended up paying for them in the end with her royalties (that's the way record companies worked). Even in the 80s she had "Crazy For You", "Live To Tell", "True Blue", "Who's That Girl", etc. She's always had more basic videos between great videos, but her 90s run was quite impressive in general, that is true.

Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

But too bad that she wasn't the one who reinvented the wheel as before, it was Gaga and the rest... then she was behind, with her gang and her white walls as I said. 

But music videos in general were worse in 2005-2009, the old industry model was collapsing and record companies didn't invest in them anymore. If you watch "Umbrella", "I Kissed A Girl", etc. they're all not so expensive videos. It wasn't until Gaga (she was putting her own money to pay them) and all the product placements that videos started to "grow" again.
Anyway, she's always been practical with music videos, cause Warner gave them the money to do them BUT she ended up paying for them in the end with her royalties (that's the way record companies worked). Even in the 80s she had "Crazy For You", "Live To Tell", "True Blue", "Who's That Girl", etc. She's always had more basic videos between great videos, but her 90s run was quite impressive in general, that is true.

Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

Her current team/social media manager/s is/are a total MESS. I can't believe no one there see how wrong that message is.
You can sell the book of course but DON'T say that, for God's sake.
They're destroying her brand even among her hardcore fans and it's sad to see.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

I really hope there are no more cancellations and that the tour can just end and we can all move on. It’s been so stressful for so many fans and no doubt for Madonna and everyone around her.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

People questioning her injuries... gosh. If you've seen this show live is obvious she's damaged.
And the moments/days when she looks better or not in pain... painkillers. And we all know how dangerous those can be (Michael, Prince).
Last minute cancelled shows are sad, yeah, but this is a sad situation for everyone involved, including her. Tour will be over next week and hopefully she can rest and heal.

It's amazing. Congratulations!!!

Madonna - The Immaculate Collection 30th Anniversary
Hey gang - long-time reader/lurker, infrequent poster 
Like everyone else, I'm frustrated at the lack of any anniversary/expanded/box-set/celebratory anythings from Madonna.
For The Immaculate Collection's 30th anniversary this year, I knew we weren't likely to get anything nice, so I designed something myself and put it out in the universe to see what would happen. Tadaaaa.
Click here to check it out

This.
We (and the general public) used to think Mrs. Ritchie was a grown up Madonna but as soon as she divorced she came back to her old self. That means she was simply compromising during her second marriage and not being fully herself. All she got from it was her husband cheating and walking away with a lot of HER money so she was obviously pissed off.
I watched the "I'm Going To Tell You A Secret" documentary the other day for the first time in ages and it's super sad to see it now. He treated her like shit.
Anyway, she's a 60 year old woman with a stunning career, a happy family life (apart from the Rocco stuff) and no major drama in her life. And still creative. I think we should celebrate that, not thinking why she's not the same as 20 years ago, cause we all have changed too.

Kelis, "Flesh Tone":

When the first news about "MDNA" started to come out (dance music, Benassi brothers, Jean-Baptiste as a co-writer), I always thought she was going in that direction. But I guess it wasn't commercial enough for what she was looking for ("Flesh Tone" flopped).

With the exception of a few posts throughout these four pages, there is a fundamental lack of attention given to the primary issue here. It has less to do with Madonna changing, and more to do with the concept of fame changing post-digital revolution. Madonna's type of fame was truly exceptional for the longest time, but she aged out of the Zeitgeist when corporate interests no longer saw her preeminence as commercially useful. There was more money to be made from youth-oriented culture. Doing business with an artist of Madonna's stature would have meant profit margins for the corporate entities were diminished because she could take a larger stake herself. As the industry changed and panic kicked in regarding dwindling sales and illegal downloading, replacing artists like Madonna with green-eyed younger and more malleable acts would have been a natural shift. As it turned out, Madonna and Oseary were prescient and understood that they needed to strike while the commercial iron of touring receipts was hot, thus her 360 deal with Live Nation. Sidenote: Recording music hasn't been a valid source of income for Madonna for well over a decade; she herself decided to use her records as showcases for her live performances. She approached her creative flow as a Broadway director does. The music is the soundtrack to the show. No one seems to get this. Look at how this has become a more cynical template for less successful legacy acts who all have some type of dreadful Broadway adaptation of their back catalogs in the works.
As much as it upsets many of Madonna's fans to face this truth, most of them have long stopped being a core capitalist demographic. In fact, whenever I consider Madonna's modern legacy I am more fascinated by how limited many of her fans' perspective on her evolution is. I read endless posts about how she should be promoting her music as she did Ray of Light...That she would be better off returning to Warner Bros, as if nostalgia holds some sort of commercial magic wand in an era when almost no one sells music anymore! It shows a fundamental lack of comprehension that the world itself has drastically changed over the course of Madonna's career, and the fact that her phenomenal stamina managed to give her a somewhat imperialistic hold on global pop culture for two and a half decades is unprecedented. That's enough within itself to make everything she has done since that imperial phase ended worthy of admiration and a much kinder assessment, but there is so much more to explore here. 
There is no doubt that the public essentially wrote her off after she returned to her raunchier persona post-divorce.  One cannot deny the dismal showing of Celebration was more than a commercial embarrassment; it was a global smack in the face to the woman; age seemed to offer the world the chance to finally kick her where it hurt. 
I am more shocked by people's surprise at Madonna's healthy appetite for self-preservation through plastic surgery than by the results of the surgery. In an era of digital film and photography, no one can afford to show signs of obvious aging, and as one of the world's most photographed women whose career was built in great part on the promise of video as art form, it seems entirely logical that she would succumb to the pressures of the industry. Surely people aren't shocked to learn that Madonna is vain and a narcissist? 
Madonna explained herself most effectively during her promotion for her film W.E. I don't think many actually caught on at the time when she made parallels between herself and Wallis Simpson by describing the limiting views of the masses that prevent a public person from having more than one or two characteristics. It had long become painfully obvious that Madonna could not simultaneously and successfully be a provocative showwoman, a film director, a recording artist, an actress, a business owner, a good mother, and a human being with an evolving intellect...She therefore seemed to step back until she eventually found the best way to enable her own version of that narrative to thrive by inventing the Madame X character; an empty vessel capable of being anything she wants to be at any given fork in the road. Tears of a Clown was her first foray into meta-identity-fucking, and she knew all along that the only way forward was to leave the past and its intransigent inhabitants behind. I believe Madonna is a deconstructionist at this point in her life, fully in charge and fully self-aware. Whatever anyone else thinks of her is merely a projection of something deep within themselves. The need to denigrate her choices and their results is most probably more indicative of the audience's inability to move beyond preconceived notions and prejudice. After all, in a world of bullies, everyone is somehow still a victim. Madonna's greatest achievement is that she is a living work of art, full of contradictions and the ability to elicit the fullest emotional spectrum no matter the brush stroke. 

Actually, "Revolver" was 100% the "Blackout" sound. I like it for what it is (though the final mix could be better) but I don't know about a full album like that.

Actually, "Revolver" was 100% the "Blackout" sound. I like it for what it is (though the final mix could be better) but I don't know about a full album like that.

Kelis, "Flesh Tone":

When the first news about "MDNA" started to come out (dance music, Benassi brothers, Jean-Baptiste as a co-writer), I always thought she was going in that direction. But I guess it wasn't commercial enough for what she was looking for ("Flesh Tone" flopped).