Stefo

Great music and lyrics. "You cannot keep the promises you made. Our happiness was free. The end of love, the end of the dream" ...100% with you on this: the middle 8 is the real good part of the track imo, I always felt the song was like all meant to get to it, like that was the main value of the track.
And yes, she's almost not writing middle 8s anymore, like many other artists, and that's exactly what we mean when we say it's a pity the super short length of today pop tracks do not often give space to the themes to be explored and evolve.

Me personally I'd have been very happy with BS Untold chapter e.p with even 1 unheard demo.
Something UNHEARD BEFORE my gosh, even 3 minutes! Rhino / Warner have the means to CHOSE something's not out there and make fans happier. They have ARCHIVES.

Lovely to wake up to see:

Great music and lyrics. "You cannot keep the promises you made. Our happiness was free. The end of love, the end of the dream" ...100% with you on this: the middle 8 is the real good part of the track imo, I always felt the song was like all meant to get to it, like that was the main value of the track.
And yes, she's almost not writing middle 8s anymore, like many other artists, and that's exactly what we mean when we say it's a pity the super short length of today pop tracks do not often give space to the themes to be explored and evolve.

Great music and lyrics. "You cannot keep the promises you made. Our happiness was free. The end of love, the end of the dream" ...100% with you on this: the middle 8 is the real good part of the track imo, I always felt the song was like all meant to get to it, like that was the main value of the track.
And yes, she's almost not writing middle 8s anymore, like many other artists, and that's exactly what we mean when we say it's a pity the super short length of today pop tracks do not often give space to the themes to be explored and evolve.

Yes, that’s why is my fav ROL demo (along with Subsitute For Love). Also her vocals are amazing!
She actually wrote a beautiful old school middle 8 on Beautiful Scars that was butchered in the final version (still a Rick song, and he hates the final version).

Can we take a moment to appreciate how gorgeous the middle 8 is on "Gone Gone Gone"? So old school Madonna middle 8, she doesn't really write them like that anymore:

i didn't take a listen of GGG before, and the demo is just so bad, wish it just remained unreleased

#1 on iTunes Spain - not meaning much these days but always cool to see:

Super rare 1998 pic

I hate being a debby downer but if an AI remaster of the same demo (which we got in WAV too, btw) that we have since the early 2000s is what is supposed to make me excited, then we are not in the same boat.
Anyways moving on, just sharing my two cents.

Me thinking it was some unreleased version we'd actually never heard.
Fool

OMG just heard the full and that remastering job is atrocious! All of its bass has been almost completely removed, treble amplified and it sounds so heavily limited/compressed 🤪. Definetely made with some AI remastering software cause this ain't it.. Thank god for the WAV leak.

Listen here -

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1990 Blond Ambition Tour Wardrobe Archive :

Well he should've pushed her even harder on those Living For Love vocals

https://www.q13fox.com/video/1670450 (around the 4:52 mark)
I stumbled on this Fox Interview with Toby Gad, a prominent song writer for many artists including M. His portfolio includes 11 co-written songs on the RH album:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_written_by_Toby_Gad
Best Night
BIM
S.E.X.
Hold Tight
Illuminati
Joan of Arc <3
Veni Vidi Vici
Unapologetic Bitch
Living for Love
Graffiti Heart
Iconic
From his narrative, it's interesting to know the many ways she handles being opposed/vexed with inconvenience. Having a clear vision/direction and always leaning to man the wheel (per Abel Tesfaye/The Weeknd's recognition) and being a control freak implicates that these are what would it take to survive the music industry for 4 decades and counting. She's always been this Devil Wears Miu Miu Diva: from setting the mood in the room she'll be working in (lighting incense candles) to classy protocols of evicting unwanted persons (M going to the bathroom then have the assistant handle the shooing).
Eventually, with the principles of Toby for M's [musical quality] sake, they've spent 5 weeks collaborating after resisting M's defiance to re-record vocals for a more passionate delivery. And I think it really paid off. RH is one of my fav album of hers.
She needs more people like him in her future projects. No more Sycophants. I know she values collaborations and had always acknowledged that [all] of her work are fruits of collaboration. But yeah sometimes as stubborn as she is, people would yield to her bidding from exhaustion.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/songwriter-toby-gad-on-how-madonna-reacted-when-he-said-fuck-you-during-rebel-heart-sessions-3779587

The boyfriend is looking good
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Melodic, melodic, melodic...ah

The exciting part is always that we have no idea what direction she may go musically still even within the confessions vibe, MX is a testament to that. I hope she is feeling melodic

Well, some people are still convinced that Madonna sings on Lies In Your Eyes, so nothing is impossible. 🙄

So good

Well .. Faz Gostoso with Anitta was bop.
Crave with Swae Lee was closest to whatever is charting in US (hip hop ballad).
Future with Quavo was not bad at all