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    THNTH got a reaction from Blue Jean in Madonna’s Greatest Tours POLL results 6pm UK time TONIGHT   
    I'm surprised that "Madame X" is the last one. But I guess that less people got to see it live, compared to other tours.
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    THNTH reacted to PlasticLimbo in Madonna: Rare   
    Posted by Peter Savic on Instagram 
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    THNTH reacted to stormbringer in "Immaculate Collection": Which track would you have replaced?   
    I always thought Physical Attraction was only on You Can Dance so the track listing spelt Shep's name...
    Spotlight
    Holiday
    Everybody
    Physical Attraction
     
    I do love Physical Attraction though!!
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    THNTH reacted to steady75 in Rehearsals (spoilers alert)   
    Borderline might be my least favourite Madonna single. I always think it's so unMadonna. Especially that era Madonna. Like she'd be waiting around for something as basic as a man. Laughable.
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    THNTH reacted to PaperFaces in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW   
    But what is she saving them for???
     I dont want to be enjoying these when im 80 or when Madonna is dead.
    Good God! It’s been too damn long already.
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    THNTH reacted to LuckyBorderline in [DL] CRAZY FOR YOU Vision Quest Full Vocals   
    new link : 
    This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Hello everyone, I dedicate this song to the Madonnainfinity community!  I LOVE THIS PLACE! 
    Although I'm not an expert in music editing, I managed to create a much-improved version of the track by removing the annoying talking parts and bringing out the vocals. This has been a long-time desire of mine—to hear her beautiful voice and the music without any distracting background noise or dialogue from the movie. I couldn't be happier with the results.
    The process of making it sound smooth and cohesive was incredibly challenging. I had to put in a tremendous amount of effort to piece everything together and ensure it worked seamlessly. Working with fragmented music files and filtering low-quality audio made the task even more difficult. I relied on tools like lala.ai and audacity to achieve this "creation," using only the vision quest demo music and nothing else.
    It involved a lot of cutting, pasting, and extensive filtering to bring everything together. Additionally, I had to scour the internet for other fragments of the CFY demo movie version that were available online. It was a painstaking process, but the end result was worth every second of frustration.
    Now, the track showcases her vocals and the enchanting music without any distractions, allowing the listener to fully immerse themselves in the experience.
    (I Love CHATGPT wahahahaahaha this is how I would like to write it )
    anyway Here You Go!  Crazy For You movie version 2023.  
     hope the link works 
    ... if you can do it better good luck...   I would like to hear it what it sound like.. :-)
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    THNTH reacted to Skin Bruno in DL: Veras La Isla Bonita (Skin Bruno Remix 2)   
    Many have asked me for this version that I had only posted on instagram as a test and since they like it I created a complete version.
    It's not a mashup. There is only the drum of La Isl Bonita and some lyrics. The rest is very much the same as my remix 1


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    THNTH reacted to DanK in [DL&YT] "MADONNA" // Dan·K A.I. covers // Updated SEPT. 5   
    all sung by "Madonna" :
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    added June 10 :
    𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦'𝘴 𝘚𝘜𝘚𝘗𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘜𝘔 (𝘥𝘶𝘦𝘵)
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘏𝘠𝘗𝘖𝘊𝘙𝘐𝘛𝘌𝘚
    added June 6 :
    𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒 𝘏𝘖𝘓𝘌 𝘚𝘜𝘕 (𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦)
    𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘈𝘛𝘖𝘔𝘐𝘊
    added June 4 :
    𝘗𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴' 𝘏𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘛
    added June 2 :
    𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘉𝘓𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘓𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛𝘚
    𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘙𝘉𝘖𝘠
    added June 1 :
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘓𝘌𝘛'𝘚 𝘎𝘖
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘉𝘜𝘙𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘖𝘉𝘌𝘋𝘐𝘌𝘕𝘛
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘍𝘜𝘌𝘓𝘚 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘋𝘠
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘜𝘗
    𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘯'𝘴 𝘕𝘈𝘙𝘊𝘐𝘚𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘊 𝘊𝘈𝘕𝘕𝘐𝘉𝘈𝘓 
    𝘋𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘤𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘈𝘔𝘌𝘙𝘐𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘗𝘐𝘌
    𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴' 𝘔𝘐𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘌
    𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴' 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘐 𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌 𝘏𝘌𝘙
    𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘴 & 𝘠.𝘈.𝘚.' 𝘍𝘈𝘟
    𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘴 & 𝘠.𝘈.𝘚.' 𝘈𝘡𝘡𝘈
    𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘴 & 𝘠.𝘈.𝘚.' 𝘋𝘈
    𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦'𝘴 𝘋𝘖𝘕'𝘛 𝘋𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘔 𝘐𝘛'𝘚 𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙 (𝘏𝘌𝘠 𝘕𝘖𝘞)
    𝘌𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰'𝘴 𝘈𝘓𝘔𝘖𝘚𝘛 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌
    added May 31 :
    𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 & 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘢'𝘴 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘚𝘛𝘜𝘗𝘐𝘋
    𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘴 & 𝘠.𝘈.𝘚.' 𝘎𝘈𝘔𝘐𝘓
    𝘌𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘖𝘙𝘙𝘠 𝘚𝘌𝘌𝘔𝘚 𝘛𝘖 𝘉𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘈𝘙𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘛 𝘞𝘖𝘙𝘋
    added May 28 :
    𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘴 & 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘌𝘗𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘠𝘕 / 𝘙𝘈𝘠 𝘖𝘍 𝘓𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛
    added May 20 :
    𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘞𝘈𝘠 𝘛𝘖 𝘏𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌𝘕
    𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴' 𝘚𝘊𝘈𝘙 𝘛𝘐𝘚𝘚𝘜𝘌
    added May 19 :
    𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘦'𝘴 𝘈𝘓𝘖𝘙𝘚 𝘖𝘕 𝘋𝘈𝘕𝘚𝘌 (𝘥𝘶𝘦𝘵)
    𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘔𝘌
    added May 18 :
    𝘋𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘗𝘶𝘯𝘬'𝘴 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘓𝘜𝘊𝘒𝘠
    𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮'𝘴 𝘏𝘈𝘗𝘗𝘠
    𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 "𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰" 𝘔𝘙 𝘊𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘖𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘌
    added May 17 :
    𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘺'𝘴 𝘞𝘐𝘛𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝘠𝘖𝘜
    𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘺'𝘴 𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘙𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌 𝘚𝘈𝘋𝘕𝘌𝘚𝘚
    𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘺'𝘴 𝘛𝘖𝘟𝘐𝘊
    𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨'𝘴 𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘐 𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘐 𝘓𝘈𝘋𝘠
    added May 16 :
    𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭'𝘴 𝘛𝘈𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘋 𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌
    𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘓𝘈 𝘝𝘐𝘌 𝘌𝘚𝘛 𝘉𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘌
    𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 & 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮 Ø𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘗𝘜𝘙𝘌 𝘚𝘏𝘖𝘙𝘌𝘚
    𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴' 𝘉𝘠 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘞𝘈𝘠
    𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘔𝘠 𝘉𝘈𝘉𝘠 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘊𝘈𝘙𝘌𝘚 𝘍𝘖𝘙 𝘔𝘌
    added May 15 :
    𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦'𝘴 𝘊𝘙𝘠 𝘔𝘌 𝘈 𝘙𝘐𝘝𝘌𝘙
    𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦'𝘴 𝘌𝘕𝘑𝘖𝘠 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘐𝘓𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌 (𝘸/ 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰)
    added May 14 :
    𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘺'𝘴 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖𝘎𝘈𝘔𝘌𝘚
    added May 13 :
    𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 "𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭" 𝘐'𝘋 𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙 𝘉𝘌 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌
    𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 "𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰" 𝘞𝘏𝘌𝘕 𝘠𝘖𝘜'𝘙𝘌 𝘎𝘖𝘖𝘋 𝘛𝘖 𝘔𝘈𝘔𝘈
    𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 "𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰" 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘛 𝘑𝘈𝘡𝘡
    𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 "𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰" 𝘙𝘖𝘟𝘐𝘌
    added May 10 :
    𝘋𝘶𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘱𝘢'𝘴 𝘓𝘌𝘝𝘐𝘛𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 (𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯)
    added May 9 :
    𝘖𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘴' 𝘞𝘖𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘙𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘓
    𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘙𝘈𝘗𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌
    𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘞𝘈𝘠 𝘖𝘙 𝘈𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙
    added May 8 :
    𝘙.𝘌.𝘔.'𝘴 𝘓𝘖𝘚𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘔𝘠 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘐𝘎𝘐𝘖𝘕
    𝘓𝘢 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘹' 𝘉𝘜𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘛𝘗𝘙𝘖𝘖𝘍
    𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘺'𝘴 𝘉𝘈𝘉𝘠 𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘔𝘖𝘙𝘌 𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌
    𝘓𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘍𝘜𝘊𝘒 𝘠𝘖𝘜
    𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦'𝘴 𝘗𝘌𝘙𝘚𝘖𝘕𝘈𝘓 𝘑𝘌𝘚𝘜𝘚
    𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬'𝘴 𝘛𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘋𝘙𝘖𝘗 (𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢)
    𝘒𝘺𝘭𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘈𝘓𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘈𝘎𝘈𝘐𝘕 (𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢)
    I created these as simple tests, the results are more or less convincing depending on the track. And YES, A.I. is pure evil, of course it doesn't actually sound like Madonna, nor does this replace new original music or actual covers, etc... It's only meant for fun, enjoy it as such. 
    YouTube streams : (deleted from YT)

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    THNTH reacted to steady75 in Rehearsals (spoilers alert)   
    I think the only nods to previous tours will be costume wise. Variations like the Vogue Basque on MDNA. I don't see any reenactments happening. It's a bit Whatever Happened To Baby Jane for her to be reenacting something she did forty years ago to be honest. She's better than that and it would just embolden the critics who call her old and past it. Not that she or I care but you know. 
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    THNTH got a reaction from dubtronic in Causing A Commotion (Dubtronic E-Motion Remix)   
    Fantastic!
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    THNTH reacted to dubtronic in Causing A Commotion (Dubtronic E-Motion Remix)   
    MP3: 
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    THNTH got a reaction from blondeboy in Madonna Just A Dream, Sidewalk Talk Madonna vocals AI demo   
    A weird idea maybe: I'd love to hear some songs from Madame X with some other vocals, without auto-tune. I think that "Crave" or "Crazy" could be more  beautiful with more "organic" vocals.
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    THNTH reacted to wtg1987 in Will she allow phones this time?   
    People have to film concerts on their phones now because they dont know how to enjoy themselves unless they are collecting likes on social media - i dont know why they even bother to go - they arent interested in living in the moment ....
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    THNTH got a reaction from luluthecat in Madonna Just A Dream, Sidewalk Talk Madonna vocals AI demo   
    A weird idea maybe: I'd love to hear some songs from Madame X with some other vocals, without auto-tune. I think that "Crave" or "Crazy" could be more  beautiful with more "organic" vocals.
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    THNTH reacted to deathproof in BILLBOARD: ‘Maybe We’re Wrong’: When Madonna Got Cold Feet Over Her ‘American Life’ Video   
    A FANTASTIC read from one of my favorite writers, Sydney Urbanek.
    Check it out:
    "Life" was going to be Madonna and director Jonas Åkerlund's statement clip about the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq -- until pop's queen of controversy decided it was one battle she didn't want to fight.
    This summer, Madonna will embark on her Celebration Tour — the promised showcase of her four decades as a hitmaker, a title she’s rightfully held onto since 1983’s “Holiday.” But while certain landmark songs from the icon’s discography are, like “Holiday,” practically guaranteed to appear on the setlist, there’s one that feels like more of a toss-up: the doomed title track from 2003’s American Life, which served as both midpoint and turning point in her career.
    Madonna is to some extent synonymous with the controversial lead singles (and especially music videos) she released on her rise to superstardom — from 1984’s VMAs-inaugurating “Like a Virgin,” to 1989’s Vatican-condemned “Like a Prayer,” to 1992’s NSFW “Erotica.” But 2003 was a rare case where provocation didn’t quite translate into sales. “American Life,” ill-timed for release within days of the United States invading Iraq, paired radio-unfriendly critique of Madonna’s home country with an anti-war video designed to shake people up. Her subsequent decision to pull the clip remains divisive even among her biggest fans, but its existence arguably foiled the album proper all the same — one of her most ambitious and introspective sets, however idiosyncratic. And though the song and video have, for many Americans, aged about as well as the Iraq War itself, the scandal of “American Life” seemed to force a permanent change to Madonna’s playbook as a provocateur.
    Despite public-opinion speedbumps that led many to declare her career over at various points in her 30s, Madonna had ultimately forged into her 40s with 1998’s Ray of Light, the blockbuster new-mom album considered by many to be her magnum opus (and still her sole album of the year nomination at the Grammys). Then came 2000’s Music, which Encyclopedia Madonnica author Matthew Rettenmund calls “the exclamation point on her salvation in this period” — the first Madonna album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in more than a decade, having sold 420,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week. Critics and consumers alike had clearly responded well to her pivot into spiritual techno-pop and then folktronica, forward-looking sounds that heralded her into the burgeoning TRL era. “It was cool to love Madonna again, and to respect her,” says Rettenmund, “and motherhood was no small part of the equation.” 
    By 2003, the “Material Mom” — as she’d been nicknamed by the press — was raising two kids with director husband Guy Ritchie, and had settled into a notably mature and reflective iteration of her ever-changing persona. But Rettenmund adds that the stage had in many ways been set for a bumpier period, noting “some fatigue from all the feel-good.” The new millennium had also brought a string of poorly-reviewed acting performances on Madonna’s part, including a live stint in London’s West End and a starring role in Ritchie’s panned 2002 film Swept Away. In a March 2003 piece, The New York Times noted these failed forays into acting and her “somewhat older audience” — largely north of the 11-25 age range most likely to buy CDs — and concluded that the 44-year-old star “may be looking at the final stages of a long career.”
    Madonna had first started working on her ninth studio album, American Life, shortly after 9/11 — a period that, as Rettenmund puts it, “politicized the pop cultural environment to the extreme.” While President George W. Bush initially focused his retaliation efforts on Afghanistan, Hollywood edited the Twin Towers (and anything that might evoke them) out of movies, Disney Channel stars sat for bizarre PSAs extolling the American flag, and the country music world mobilized to provide (occasionally questionable) comfort to a wounded nation. 
    Around this time, Madonna was apparently feeling let down by the priorities and preoccupations of her country’s culture. Reflecting on what she characterized as her relatively immature past selves, who’d been obsessed with things like stardom and superficiality, she explained, “A lot of times, you go through life looking for distractions to cover up pain, when what you should really do is face the pain, and then you don’t need the distraction.”
    Teaming up again with French producer Mirwais, whose sound had provided the backbone for Music, she unpacked these feelings over ten tracks — also throwing in “Die Another Day,” the theme from the 2002 James Bond film of the same name (which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November of that year). In all, American Life would see Madonna interrogate the American Dream, chide herself for both perpetuating and being conned by it, and spell out what she’d realized was important: love, family, and spirituality. 
    The project was quite cohesive, if sometimes abrasive — confidently jumping between acoustic-folk and Euro-techno sounds, and containing the odd decidedly wacky lyric. Penultimate track “Die Another Day” (“Sigmund Freud / Analyze this”), which some figured had been included mostly to guarantee the album a hit, makes the most sense when read outside of its Bond context, as a kind of refusal to disappear — tying it to American Life’s closer, “Easy Ride,” where Madonna at once expresses a wish “to live forever” and “to work for it.”
    While the star had made art about being successful but only semi-happy before, the album’s promo cycle turned things into more of a sweeping statement about, well, American life. When journalists questioned whether Madonna was the best medium for that message, multi-millionaire and global icon that she was, she argued that it should be most believable coming from her: “I do think that we’ve become completely consumed with being rich and famous … I have all those things and none of them ever brought me one minute of happiness.”  
    This mindset was best exemplified by American Life’s title track, a bitter yet sporadically danceable lonely-at-the-top anthem that’s at least 75% squelchy bassline. Its most infamous component is its rapped bridge, where Madonna runs through the markers of her success — “Three nannies, an assistant, and a driver and a jet,” among other things — that don’t actually satisfy her. (The story goes that Mirwais had prompted her to improvise a rap in the studio, and while she was hesitant at first, they eventually made things work.) 
    There was nothing lyrically about “American Life” — or American Life, really — that made explicit reference to the so-called War on Terror. But by the time Madonna was finishing up the album in late 2002, there was talk of a looming invasion of Iraq. It seems to have been around then that the album’s visual aesthetics started to click into place. In October, she appeared on the Craig McDean-shot cover of Vanity Fair, in a look that nodded to a wartime Marlene Dietrich. She also premiered her six-million-dollar video (one of the most expensive of all time) for “Die Another Day,” which — while obviously an extension of the Bond film — fused her Kabbalism with a storyline involving her character escaping a military torture chamber.
    Sometime in November, Madonna got the idea to turn a potential video for “American Life” into an anti-war statement, what she’d later call a “last-ditch effort” to galvanize people to join the cause. She reached out to Swedish director and fellow controversy-magnet Jonas Åkerlund, with whom she’d been working at least once per album as of 1998’s video of the year VMA-winner “Ray of Light” — a rate the two have more or less kept up since. (Madonna had first sought him out in the aftermath of his MTV-banned “Smack My Bitch Up” video for the Prodigy.)
    Åkerlund says that while his goal as a director isn’t always to generate controversy, it was very much the intention behind “American Life.” “It was a whole plan,” he remembers of the thinking. “We’re gonna wake people up with the video.” Its concept, conceived with Madonna’s go-to choreographer Jamie King, involved her and a group of women revolutionaries — cast specifically for their “real” body types — crashing a war-themed fashion show (literally, in a Mini Cooper). The show’s audience, full of fashion-world lookalikes, consumes this violent imagery as if it’s perfectly normal, and as the line between fiction and reality gets progressively blurry. “We were intrigued by fashion but then started to realize what a weird world we live in,” Åkerlund explains, “and then used the catwalk as a way of portraiting what was going on.” 
    With things in pre-production, McDean returned to photograph Madonna for the official American Life shoot, which French designers M/M (Paris) then converted into its Guerrillero Heroico-esque album cover and booklet. Much was made of her rare return to her brunette roots — something she’s suggested signifies a “more grounded” state of mind — and of course her black beret and fatigues. Some immediately saw Che Guevara, others Patty Hearst; stylist Arianne Phillips has said she was inspired by both, additionally citing the Black Panthers.  
    Phillips’ “insurrectionist chic” look was carried over to the video, shot in Los Angeles over a few days in early February. Seemingly not put off by the fashion-world skewering, Jeremy Scott cameos in the video as the show’s designer, and, according to Åkerlund, made the camouflage looks that are sent down the runway. The director also remembers the set being the first he’d been on where everyone had to check their phones; peer-to-peer file sharing was the big thing keeping the industry up at night, and Madonna had watched Music leak in its entirety on Napster in 2000. (Her camp would later upload fake American Life tracks to discourage piracy, including one where she asked, “What the f–k do you think you’re doing?”)
    Immediately following the shoot, a statement was issued that Madonna’s upcoming video would “[depict] the catastrophic repercussions and horrors of war.” When accusations of ‘un-Americanism’ started to build in response, she issued a first-person statement: “I feel lucky to be an American citizen for many reasons — one of which is the right to express myself freely, especially in my work … I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace.”
    Throughout the rest of February and ultimately March, many different versions of the video — “about ten,” Madonna guessed at one point, including a longer cut with car chases and dialogue — were made, as things progressed both behind the scenes and on the world stage. Though MTV ran a teaser ahead of the February 23 Grammys, there was privately some sort of back-and-forth happening with the network, which was at once objecting to certain images and actively covering any cutting-room developments. During these same weeks, Bush moved from laying the groundwork to invade Iraq — including delivering his famous March 17 ultimatum — to officially beginning the war on March 20.
    With the “American Life” video set to premiere across networks in early April, the timing was less than ideal. One of the bigger questions was how to conclude it, since multiple options had been filmed: “We never really nailed the ending,” Åkerlund explains. The winning one, so to speak, had Madonna throwing a grenade at a Bush lookalike sitting among the fashion-world ones. “Bush” coolly picks the weapon up to reveal that it’s actually a novelty lighter, and uses it to ignite a cigar. (Åkerlund happened to find the lighter the other day, and demonstrates how it works over Zoom.) At first, it wasn’t public knowledge that Madonna would be throwing a grenade at Bush — just that she’d be throwing one, and that its as-yet unknown recipient would “[take] the destruction out of it by turning it into something else.” In her view, it was a tongue-in-cheek way of asking for an alternative to war.
    Åkerlund says that he and Madonna were less antsy about the video’s message — he stresses that they’ve always stood by it, and still do — and more about its delivery, which was reading differently a season removed from their ideation stage. “We’ve been planning the video for months and months,” Madonna said while editing it, “and we didn’t know everything that was going to be happening in the world.” Though Åkerlund suggested in 2016 that it felt insensitive to release the project while parents were sending their kids to war, he says now that the pair was mostly focused on the question “Is this really the best way to prove a point?” He continues: “And it’s the first and only time I’ve seen her go, like, Well, maybe it’s not. Maybe we’re wrong.”
    At the very last minute — late enough that it had already started airing abroad, the Bush detail by that point out of the bag — Madonna withdrew the video, writing on March 31: “Due to the volatile state of the world and out of sensitivity and respect to the armed forces, who I support and pray for, I do not want to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning of this video.” Besides, she’d add in the coming weeks, the public seemed to have already made their minds up about it. Writes Rettenmund in the 2015 update of his book, “Not only was it a total loss on a major creative statement, it was a rare example of Madonna flinching under a barrage of criticism.” Months of hard work notwithstanding, Åkerlund still believes pulling it was the right move: “Those weeks when we were supposed to release the video, it really felt wrong … just the way we did it.”
    Through the remainder of American Life’s rollout, Madonna was careful not to sound apologetic in discussing the scrapped video. Instead, she credited her decision to a too-tense viewing public, one that she sometimes implied lacked the intellectual maturity to understand her intentions: “I think that what people would misconstrue was that I was slagging on President Bush, and I’m not … that I was making light of what’s happening to the soldiers in Iraq, which I’m not … Things are so serious and people are so volatile that they’re not gonna see irony, they’re not gonna see subtlety, they’re not gonna see the message.”
    Still needing to deliver a visual, likely so that the single (released in the U.S. on April 8) would have a chance, Åkerlund edited together yet another version — this one almost bizarrely inoffensive, the original concept virtually non-existent. Released as the official “American Life” video in mid-April, Madonna performs the song in front of a number of flags, from Sweden’s to the Stars and Stripes. “That whole thing was like, What do we do now?” the director explains. He doesn’t remember there being much intention behind the choice of flags or their placement, just that he felt lucky to already have them on hand: “We needed [the official video] fast … and we didn’t want to lose the momentum, so I remember doing that video in a day or two.” Åkerlund admits that it isn’t terribly impressive on its own, and probably only flew at the time with the context of the pulled video behind it.  
    In some circles, the biggest offense in this story was that Madonna had walked the original back. Rettenmund argues in his book that she’d replaced “her most daring video” with “one of her worst,” adding now that the official version unfortunately “lends credence to the idea that Madonna’s political revolutionary phase was not grounded and well-conceived.” In one April 2003 essay, writer Heather Havrilesky voiced frustration that even America’s staunchest pop-culture provocateurs were faltering at such a heated moment: “It’s a particularly bitter irony that the disaffected, reality-averse culture [Madonna] savages so well in ‘American Life’ seems to have persuaded her to shelve the video indefinitely.” (Various stations around the world opted to play the original anyway, with some openly flouting the withdrawal.)
    But there was also that other thing that had happened in March: A week before the invasion, the Chicks’ Natalie Maines kicked off the group’s world tour by declaring that they were ashamed Bush was from their home state of Texas. Becoming the subject of national scorn practically overnight, country radio stations ceased playing their music and former fans destroyed CDs in the street. The Chicks weren’t the only other Bush-critical American celebrities — it’s worth noting that the president also had his share of international celebrity critics, including George Michael, who’d ruffled feathers of his own with his 2002 “Shoot the Dog” video — but domestic country listeners overwhelmingly supported Bush at the time.  
    “You know, it’s ironic we’re fighting for democracy in Iraq because we ultimately aren’t celebrating democracy here,” Madonna said. “Anybody who has anything to say — against the war or against the president or whatever — is punished, and that’s not democracy.” Naturally, she was asked whether she’d been looking to avoid a similar fate as the Chicks in scrapping her video. “I give you my honest-to-God promise that that is not the reason,” she insisted. While she’d paid attention to their (temporary) fall from grace, she maintained that she was worried about that kind of ire being directed not at herself but at her family. She implied that it might’ve been hard on Ritchie’s career, and at one point specified, “I didn’t want people throwing rocks at my children on the way to school … If you’re one person on your own and you have no responsibility for people around you then that’s one thing, but I had to think about the bigger picture.” (Whether these fears were based on any credible threats she’d received, as has long been rumored on fan forums, it’s hard to say.)
    The track itself may not have been destined for anything other than infamy, considered as it is by many to be among Madonna’s worst, or at the very least her most inaccessible. From its choppy sound, to its expletives, to its inelegant rap — “I’m drinking a soy latte, I get a double shoté/ It goes right through my body, and you know I’m satisfied” — it didn’t exactly scream radio smash. In the end, the single peaked at No. 37 in the last week of April, staying on the Hot 100 a total of eight weeks. And while Madonna continued to promote it through the rest of the spring, and would eventually perform it on 2004’s Re-Invention Tour, there was an ensuing stint where it was unclear how she felt about it herself: In 2009, for instance, she left it off her greatest-hits compilation, Celebration, where “Hollywood” and “Die Another Day” were American Life’s only reps.
    But perhaps it was more so the video’s message — and especially who it was coming from — that had rubbed Americans the wrong way. “Madonna having anything to say about the war was an irritant,” Rettenmund says, “and the fact that she was criticizing high fashion and the way in which elites ignore global strife struck people as disingenuous; they did not want the lady who showed her boobs to present herself, albeit in fantasy form, tossing a grenade at a wartime president.” It doesn’t feel insignificant that the single performed far better outside of the U.S.: It was a No. 1 hit in Canada and multiple European countries, and made the top 10 just about everywhere else, even if it didn’t always stay for long.  
    In any case, the hiccup didn’t bode well for American Life as a whole. Released on April 21, it sold 241,000 U.S. copies in its first week — not nothing, but a huge drop on the heels of Music. By the summer, Madonna was back to her blond ambition, hanging up her guerrilla-revolutionary guise until her tour. To promote the album’s second single, “Hollywood” — its message not unlike that of “American Life,” though with a comparatively accessible sound — she and Jean-Baptiste Mondino (another frequent collaborator) reunited for a video that funneled ideas like conformity and cognitive dissonance through the work of fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, leaving the war behind. Despite their efforts, the single completely missed the Hot 100. 
    At this point, it’s something of a side note that “Hollywood” is what the star was performing, alongside Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, when the three kissed onstage at the 2003 VMAs in August — the headline-making moment that, for a lot of people, overwrote anything else Madonna did that year. The performance, which technically commemorated her two decades in music, saw her willingly play the role of elder stateswoman for one of the first times in her career — and to Aguilera, one of the “younger female pop artists” the Times had named as threats to her relevance back in March. 
    Madonna’s subsequent collaboration with Spears that October, “Me Against the Music,” landed her back on the Hot 100 in time for the year’s end, since American Life’s final two singles — “Nothing Fails” and “Love Profusion” — couldn’t crack the chart (no matter that “Love Profusion,” a starry-eyed earworm addressed to Ritchie, was given the album’s tamest video). Rettenmund points out that American Life was mostly a failure according to Madonna’s own hitmaking precedent: It did debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — “something even Ray of Light could not do” — and was later nominated for two Grammys, even if both were for “Die Another Day.” In keeping with many fans’ feelings on the album, the author characterizes American Life as a cool-to-hate project whose red-herring title track had kneecapped it: “No other song on that record has an overtly political slant, and many of the songs are on par with her best work.” 
    Nevertheless, while Madonna has continued to make daring and indeed inflammatory art — and is obviously not known in the cultural imagination for having faded into unobjectionable obscurity — she’s opted not to lead with said art in promoting any of her post-2003 albums, arguably saving the bulk of it for tried-and-true fans most accustomed (and generous) to her M.O. She kicked off 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor with “Hung Up” – a sure-to-please, ABBA-sampling disco track whose video paid tribute to John Travolta’s dance movies – and was rewarded with her first top 10 hit since “Die Another Day.” (To see her flirt with blasphemy and BDSM, two things that cursory listeners likely don’t associate with Confessions, you had to catch the 2006 tour.) Madonna’s most controversial video since “American Life” is undeniably 2019’s gun-control plea, “God Control,” which she and Åkerlund made for a non-single from that year’s Madame X before simply uploading it to YouTube — the advent of the platform having been a godsend for artists who’d often butted heads with MTV’s censors.
    Going by the content that didn’t survive even the original cut of “American Life,” it seems that Madonna actually got off relatively easy in 2003. Depending on which since-leaked version you find online, you might see her throw her grenade indiscriminately at the crowd, or maybe the Bush lookalike cuddling up to a Saddam Hussein one (footage that she incorporated into tour performances of the song — not exactly an act of contrition). Some fashion shows are more gruesome than others, the crowd ranging from complacent to actively amused. And though most cuts incorporate genuine war footage, it varies from blink-and-you-miss-it mushroom clouds and artillery to pretty graphic images pulled from news broadcasts.
    Some might instead read Madonna’s original intentions more charitably two decades later, when recent polling suggests that most Americans think invading Iraq was a mistake. The star, for her part, resumed performing “American Life” in the late 2010s, around which time the album itself was deemed “eerily prescient of Trump-era despair.” (A few months after Trump’s inauguration, she happened to attend the Met Gala with Jeremy Scott, wearing another of his camo designs.) On 2019 and 2020’s Madame X Tour, the song was even punctuated by a new twist: Several dancers in uniform act as pallbearers for a fallen colleague, an American flag draped over the coffin. “I think she returns to that song to double down on why she recorded it,” Rettenmund says of these more recent performances.
    Of course, the same social media era that’s given Madonna a direct line to her fans has also seen several of her projects re-evaluated and/or revived by the general public — most notably 1998’s “Frozen,” which many younger listeners discovered through Sickick’s viral 2021 remix of the song. No matter the cut, uploads of the “American Life” video on YouTube are littered with comments expressing admiration for it. “In a weird way,” Åkerlund says while watching one of them on mute, “we kind of always knew … Give it a beat, and then this video’s going to be seen differently. I never really feared that it wasn’t going to see the daylight.” The director adds that the video’s message is a depressingly timeless one: “There’s always a war. I can look at the execution and think I would have done it differently today or whatever, but that goes with the fashion of things we do. I am still proud of it. I’m proud of everything I’ve done with her.”
    Only time will tell whether the star has plans to perform “American Life” on the Celebration Tour; while we wait to find out, plenty of fans have been praising it as it turns 20, and artists like HAIM have even posted TikToks using its rap. But seeing as Madonna faces her biggest opportunity yet to recapture its narrative — and with the promise of hundreds of thousands of faithful supporters there as witnesses — the song’s odds have perhaps never been better.
    “I think it is to Madonna’s credit that she tried,” says Rettenmund of the 2003 blunder. “And if it is a rare example of her waffling regarding her artistic integrity, it speaks volumes that in 40 years this is the only arguable example that comes to mind.”
    https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/madonna-american-life-video-what-went-wrong-1235300950/
     
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    So I came accross this and it is so interesting and wonderful that I suggest everyone listens:

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