zephyr in the sky at night

It's the missing nail for me 

papped in London  with Akeem Morris at a studio

Very interesting videos of a filmmaker commenting on Frozen video and the behind the scenes. It's more focus in the technical aspects, which is nice..
 
 

Happy 600th page of meltdowns!

https://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/
Here is what is included on Celebration.
There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.
    BURNING UP
    HOLIDAY
    MATERIAL GIRL
    INTO THE GROOVE
    LIVE TO TELL
    PAPA DON’T PREACH
    LA ISLA BONITA
    WHO’S THAT GIRL
    LIKE A PRAYER
    JUSTIFY MY LOVE
    TAKE A BOW
    FROZEN
    BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
    MUSIC – MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.
    DIE ANOTHER DAY – MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.
    HOLLYWOOD – MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”‘s fade out is audible.
Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.
Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.
    SECRET (Edit)
    RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)
    SORRY (Single Edit)
    4 MINUTES (Edit)
    MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)
…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:
    HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)
Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.
    BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
And now we pause to ask ourselves why.
The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.
    CELEBRATION
    REVOLVER
One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.
    LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX
    Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“‘s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7” version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.
As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:
    EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT
    This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.
    DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO
    What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.
    EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.
    The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.
CHERISH – FAKE EDIT
    The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.
EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit
    The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.
DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit
    The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.
Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.
I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.

Back to the new release "Causing A Commotion", would be cool to have an official Madonna YouTube upload of this performance:
Which was the one used for videography specials and so since there wasn't a proper official video for the song, right?
PURE ENERGY.
Creative director, go give us something and update the HD Video playlist, left without any updates since "Don't Tell Me" in November last year, do that challenge.

Eventually, this thread will be relevant at some point.  LOL! 
But yeah, I'm really hoping she's gonna head in the studio soon and start work on a new album. WE NEED ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alrighty...
August 23rd
Causing a Commotion
Silver Screen Single Mix Silver Screen Mix Dub Movie House Mix

I don’t think this is necessarily true. We really have no way of knowing how Madonna will be perceived 100 years from now as recorded music hasn’t been around that long. As it stands, people still listen to music that is 70 or more years old. Old music gets featured in new movies and tv shows all the time. Considering Madonna’s influence is similar to The Beatles or Elvis I don’t think she’ll be forgotten quickly at all.
We also don’t know how technology will allow interest in her to be revitalized. I mean look at the ABBA hologram tour. I think young people will always take interest in the past.

I agree. It's like her label or management or whatever has no clue how to treat her like a normal functioning artist in the year 2024. They need to start acting like she’s a new artist they're trying to break in because rn they don't seem to have any plan!

I’m curious, for years now I see fans get excited for potential releases and surprises on her birthday. But I feel like more often or not she doesn’t do that… does anyone know off hand or have a list of all the announcements she’s made for projects or releases that have actually come out on her birthday?
Perhaps I’m forgetting some big ones or just uninformed, but I feel like it’s kinda rare. Yet everyone expects something each year and then gets disappointed. So was just wondering - thanks!

They announced the new deal with Warner on her birthday, 16th August 2021. Inside the Groove also hinted on his Twitter account that he thought something connected to the reissues could be announced on her birthday. 

Sorry but if you watch the interview she is literally just repeating the info we already know. It was filmed / directed by Jonas in Mexico. We already knew that. There is a plan to release it. No shit. When she said “usually on Epix” she was just talking about past concert releases (MDNa was on Epix.) Epix doesn’t even exist anymore, it became MGM+. Another Drowned Madonna “exclusive” 

I guess guy was hinting the stream release 
 
 

Was a great tour and ended on a perfect high note.
Onto the next.

I’d give my Leg to Jamie Spears to hear her sing I’ll Remember just once 

Maybe the video is coming...

Over... for now? 
 

I simply wanna thank you for the three seconds of joy I lived till I processed that, yeah, I also think that, for what she's been till now, she would hardly say "my bibles" or "powerful ballads", but mostly that it was TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! But thank you, really, it's been enchanting   
 

OK but where's that new interview available then?
"It's time to take inspiration from my bibles" sounds so much like a stan fever dream and nothing like her.

I’m curious, for years now I see fans get excited for potential releases and surprises on her birthday. But I feel like more often or not she doesn’t do that… does anyone know off hand or have a list of all the announcements she’s made for projects or releases that have actually come out on her birthday?
Perhaps I’m forgetting some big ones or just uninformed, but I feel like it’s kinda rare. Yet everyone expects something each year and then gets disappointed. So was just wondering - thanks!

I like the cover here. 

At first, I struggled to accept Hard Candy, but I have to admit that over time, I’ve come to appreciate it. It’s not her best album, but it’s not the worst either. American Life has some good songs, but like Music, it’s too noisy for my taste (they’re not bad albums, and I like them; they’re just different......)

gladly, considering the backlash Perry is receiving regarding her new album being produced by Dr. Luke (and the total flop the lead single was)

The Choir version is amazing
If Madonna had put a choir like that on one of her tours and closed the concert with a version like that, I would have cried