gonna dress u up

I NEED THAT TO HAPPEN SO BAD to see her for the first time!

Long break again...
 

Greatest hits album and big arena tour in all of her glory with a few new singles. (And what I'd give to see her perform for a benefit show in the next year.)

this is not her best and she wasn't happy with the photo that ended up on the cover (on which they altered her teeth)  but I just love this photo of hers , very Marylin-like both in the look and in her gaze
 

 

Piece of art

i so love her Haircut from the 90 ties

i want to share this Megamix, i think is pretty well, and the video is awesome too
 

interesting question, i started with their hits, then, the first album i heard was True Blue and Madame X (Just because it was the new one and i was interested on how madonna sounds now), after listening some hits, Jimmy Jimmy was the first "new song" i heard by accident ).
But if i have to recommend someone where to start, i'll choose Like A Prayer, that album is a masterpiece. then you can listen to any 80s album she had, and, finally, listen to Erotica, is a completely different album from the previous ones, with that House/Dance sound, and i think it maybe interesting for a new fan (Me )
and the other option is just listen to her discography chronologically

i want to share this Megamix, i think is pretty well, and the video is awesome too
 

Yes let's! "Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for coming to our show. The night is young...and the show has just begun"....
 

What four albums of Madonna's would you tell a new Madonna fan to listen to first? I think The Guardian nails it with the first three ("Like A Prayer","Ray Of Light", and "Music"), but, I'd replace "Madame X" with "Confessions".
Madonna: where to start in her back catalogue
The album to start with
Like a Prayer (1989)
Madonna’s 1980s hits such as Holiday, Into the Groove and Like a Virgin are brilliantly captured on The Immaculate Collection (1990). If you want a deeper exploration of her musical psyche and kinetic songwriting though, I’d advise listening to the post-True Blue albums. In the late 80s, having conquered the charts with 19 hit singles, she was ready to challenge herself with more personal lyrics and a richly collaborative approach with her producers and musicians. Dubbed her “divorce album”, 1989’s Like a Prayer was recorded at the worst point in Madonna’s marriage to Sean Penn, as the giddy pace and crashing glass of Till Death Do Us Part testifies.
As well as capturing the emotional chaos of her marriage, Madonna delved into her Catholic girlhood and family dynamics with some Freudian pop songwriting. Producer Pat Leonard was the yang to Madonna’s yin, his deeply melodic music providing the ballast for her vivid lyrics. The standout song here is easily the iconic title track, with its fiery gospel choir, Guy Pratt’s runaway bass line and the lyrical celebration of the sacred and profane. Also lovely is the tender piano ballad Promise to Try (in memory of her mother), and Express Yourself – a funky, feminist call to arms that she wrote with Stephen Bray, stepping out, as he put it “like Daenerys in Game of Thrones, emerging from the fire”.
The three to check out next
Ray of Light (1998)
Recorded in her late 30s, after the birth of her daughter Lourdes, 1998’s Ray of Light marks out Madonna’s maturity as an artist. Study of Kabbalah and yogic philosophy had taken her down an experimental path, and William Orbit’s trippy, electronic production created the space for questing lyrics about the death of the ego and personal transformation. Singing a set of robust, theatrical songs for the Evita movie soundtrack two years earlier had made Madonna’s voice stronger and more expressive – especially for the techno-driven title track, in which Orbit made her sing a semitone above her comfort zone.
This record is a triumph, more of a concept album than a collection of songs. It’s not just Orbit’s icy production that makes it so rewarding, but Pat Leonard’s dramatic arrangements for tracks like Frozen and Nothing Really Matters (the latter featuring glorious backing vocals by Donna De Lory and Niki Haris). There is a sense of personal revelation in the chilling final track Mer Girl, where Madonna creates a poetic, nightmarish vision of her dead mother buried beneath the earth.
The album won her four Grammys, and conclusively proved her worth as a musician and executive producer, willing to take artistic risks. On the track Nothing Really Matters, for instance, Orbit wanted to get rid of co-producer Marius De Vries’ strange, strangled intro. “Sounds like a broken DAT,” he protested. Madonna, who had the casting vote, kept the noise in, adding another layer to the album’s futuristic, otherworldly sound.
Music (2000)
Driven by producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï’s fractured disco and acid bass, the opening track is classic party Madonna. “Music makes the people come together / Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel.” What a fantastic line – and, sung in that choppy, insouciant way, one of most memorable in 2000s pop. On this album, Madonna explores what love and music mean to her, moving easily from the sinuous country grooves of Don’t Tell Me to the space age ambience of What It Feels Like For a Girl (complete with Charlotte Gainsbourg’s soft spoken-word intro). What’s most striking now is the track Paradise (Not for Me). Somewhat overlooked at the time of the album’s release, with its pitch-shifting chanson, trip-hop bedroom pop and melting strings, it’s very of this pop moment.
Madame X (2019)
Madonna went a little off the boil after 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor with a few albums (Hard Candy, MDNA, Rebel Heart) where she seemed less engaged, less excited. With last year’s Madame X, she rediscovered her mojo. Reflecting on her new life in Lisbon, this album is about exile and liberation, incorporating everything from reggaeton, mournful Portuguese fado and devotional Moroccan Ganawa to trap-inspired hip-hop. Dark Ballet (produced by Mirwais) has a rococo brilliance, while I Don’t Search I Find is an almost mystical return to the dancefloor. And Batuka, performed with the mighty Orquestra Batukadeiras, has a dark, percussive female power. When you think about where Madonna began, with the heady New York beat box sound of 1982’s Everybody, hers has been an amazing journey. 

i became a fan this year, between january or february, the only madonna songs i knew until then were La Isla Bonita, Like A Virgin, and Material Girl, one day i was bored, so i decided to listen new songs, and i asked to myself, why i don't listen new madonna songs?, and well, now i love madonna , i think the song that made me a fan is Into The Groove, because i always liked the 80s music, and that song is soooo 80s,

i became a fan this year, between january or february, the only madonna songs i knew until then were La Isla Bonita, Like A Virgin, and Material Girl, one day i was bored, so i decided to listen new songs, and i asked to myself, why i don't listen new madonna songs?, and well, now i love madonna , i think the song that made me a fan is Into The Groove, because i always liked the 80s music, and that song is soooo 80s,

i became a fan this year, between january or february, the only madonna songs i knew until then were La Isla Bonita, Like A Virgin, and Material Girl, one day i was bored, so i decided to listen new songs, and i asked to myself, why i don't listen new madonna songs?, and well, now i love madonna , i think the song that made me a fan is Into The Groove, because i always liked the 80s music, and that song is soooo 80s,

80s madonna is definitely my favourite, specially the 82-85, her style, her music her hair! during that years <3 i wish she had had that look during 86-89

How can someone be so cute?!☝️

80s madonna is definitely my favourite, specially the 82-85, her style, her music her hair! during that years <3 i wish she had had that look during 86-89

How can someone be so cute?!☝️

Thanks so much. I loved reading your thoughts. It's not my favorite album but, I love that it's so full of deepness and depth theatrically, lyrically and musically....and for great causes. I don't always agree with Madonna politically, but, I respect her none the same, her compassion, and how she can put her all into everything she does.  I especially loved the videos which were all so well produced. (And I loved all of her wigs during this era too. ?)

I get the whole don’t like looking back mantra that she has - I mean who likes looking back at old home movies and pics of ourselves in our prime ? It’s actually quite depressing ? but she knows that most fans now are the ones that have followed her since the early days and we get very nostalgic about her early and loved eras especially blond ambition and for me - the true blue who’s that girl era - I don’t see this kind of tour ever happening and due to the disaster of the last tour and her body is telling her to slow down , I just don’t see her ever touring again to be honest ?

One of the best concerts I have ever seen in my life was when U2 toured the Joshua Tree album back in 2017 they did all the hits plus the whole Johsua Tree album live. Joshua Tree is an iconic album and hearing all live was one of the best experiences ever. It got me wondering though, i'd love to see Madonna do something like that for one of her big albums like Like a Prayer or Ray of Light or something. When people go to gigs, apart from die-hard fans, most people want to hear the hits. I think if Madonna did this it would be a huge success she's not exactly short on hits, she could do a Best Of set and still have hits left over. I don't think she ever will do something like that but it'll be cool if she did i think tickets would sell like hot-cakes.

lately I can't stop listening to Pray for Spanish Eyes, does anyone else think that song is so beautiful? I love that madonna's raspy voice in the song

This Used To Be My Playground is a MASTERPIECE!!! This was a worldwide Top 5 hit and it seems like she doesn´t care about the song.

lately I can't stop listening to Pray for Spanish Eyes, does anyone else think that song is so beautiful? I love that madonna's raspy voice in the song

could she BE any more beautiful?

My favorite shot