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Love this. Was a big fan of Muna's first 2 albums but not so much the last one. Haven't gotten around to listening to Katie's solo album yet, must give it a spin this week...

A nice thought to remind everyone of World Aids Day, but honestly, the audio sounds dreadful - almost AI - and the video edit is lifeless and rips any emotion out of the performance. General public who click on this won't make it past the first minute. It's so far from the quality output she once gave us. Her heart is in the right place, at least we have that to be grateful for...

I guess record label used to pay for photographers. Now she's paying them herself.

There's 6 whole months of tension to create and then this vague product will vanish the week before release with no explanation! At best, it could end up being the dreadful The Party's Right Here radio recording from Texas that came out on CD last year...

Not the case. It was also posted on the new app Bluesky, so I don't believe it was an accidental posting.... https://bsky.app/profile/madonnachat.bsky.social/post/3l7f3nua4yf2t

Not really the place for it. But also, not really sure what you are suggesting about Guy. The list of winners is hardly the creme de la creme of music, so who knows what the actual criteria for winning is... 2024 Artist & Manager Awards Artist & Manager Partnership: Pet Shop Boys & Angela Becker (Becker Brown) Artist & Manager Team of the Year: Chase & Status & Sophie Kennard (Frame Artists) Icon: Paloma Faith Managers’ Manager: Riverman Management Pioneer: SOPHIE (posthumous award) Originator: Cymande Fan Champion: Yungblud & Special Projects Music Breakthrough Artist: Barry Can’t Swim Breakthrough Manager: Victoria de Juniac (VictoriaBDJ Management) Secret Weapon: Hope James (Atlas Artists) Writer / Producer Manager: Ant Hippsley (Milk & Honey) Team Achievement: Finesse Foreva

I believe she said at the time of release that the song's title was inspired by the book The Drowned World, by JG Ballard. With regards to David Collins, after he passed away, Madonna wrote the foreword to the book of his work called ABC DCS (David Collins Studio) which I happen to have a copy of. It's a long 4 page foreword (almost like an obituary) which touchingly tells how they became friends during recording of the Evita soundtrack and what he meant to her and her family during the London years. In one section she writes: "Here is something most people do not know about David: He had impeccable taste in music and could have been a record producer or a songwriter had he focused on that instead of art and design. He was always recommending great playlists and DJs, and often wrote lyrics or poems and sent them my way to be considered for songs I was working on. They were often bittersweet and full of melancholy. It was obvious that David had his share of heartbreak. Who hasn't? He was a romantic at heart and the way he wore his heart on his sleeve always touched me. Occasionally, I would incorporate his lyrics into a song I was writing and even though I was tempted to take credit for his genius wordplay, I could not, because that is not the kind of girl Muriel is..."

I think Rocket Man was extremely successful and Elton (who is alive) was heavily involved as well (though not directing). It did wonders for his streaming catalogue and his Greatest Hits album has been in the UK top 20 for 5 years now. As always, when Madonna tries to do it, she's referred to as being arrogant or poor at directing. But she just wants to tell her story. It may not have had a tragic ending, but it sure had a tragic beginning. I for one would be very interested to see a movie of her life up as far as Like A Virgin taking off. Her childhood and the 5 years living in NYC before fame are at the heart of her story. The rest has been well documented over the years. And she hasn't been shy about discussing her life in general. Is she could focus a 2 hour movie on pre-stardom, I think she'd have a great and fascinating movie in her hands. The difficulty is trying to cram more stuff in.

Seems like this is very much still a long way off being made if it's still being tossed about as a tv series vs film. Why the hell did she put everyone through 3 months of bootcamp??? Maybe the film studios thought she might forget about it once she went out on tour. Julia Garner will be too old to even do Vogue by the time this gets off the ground... and as for hanging around with Steven Klein for divine inspiration is giving me Secret Project Revolution vibes... I think we're in for another 4 years of edging....

Nice to have the OYH single mixes in one place, but having listened to them all again today, the original album version remains superior to me.

Be gone 40 Year Anniversary of LAV! They're really flinging them at us now, maybe the end is in sight after all....

None of this has anything to do with the subject matter of the thread...

There is no corner of the general public where she is not primarily considered an 80s/90s act. Only in fan forums and her own mind is she considered any way 'current'... that's not a diss, just a reality. Another reality that we haven't really discussed much, is that at 66 years old, she probably only has one more shot at a commercial album before she hits 70. By then, she'll have slowed down to a snail's pace.

- B-Day Song - Some Girls They both give me the rage. As far as tour mixes go, the most annoying would be: - Hung Up - MDNA tour (just shows you how much the song relies on the ABBA sample to be good) - Holiday - Rebel Heart tour (a limp way to finish a show, needed way more oomph)

I wonder where she'll move to this time...