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Like many people, I was a very, very casual Charli xcx listener until Brat. I love the album and it’s one of the few new albums I can listen to in its entirety ; on the surface it’s a lot of bangers but her lyrics are pretty interesting, revealing and funny. She’s been in this business for a while, straddling songwriting, producing and attempts to go more commercial pop vixen before Brat. It seems listeners have caught up with her as well as this successful IDGAF era. If anything, I’m buying what she’s selling as far as this album being confessional in many ways. I would love to hear a collab w Madonna.

Honestly so was yours because raising your family doesn't prevent you from arguing on a pop culture forum

Sabrina served in vintage Bob Mackie - the Madonna 1991 Oscars dress, apparently sent by ours truly.

Do we understand that, at more than five years since her last album, the most exciting thing for us is to wait for the first of october and see the tracklist of an anniversary limited edition of a 30 years old album so we could check if maybe we will really get one or - but only if we are very very lucky - two old unreleased songs ...

THE MODERATORS:

Let's wrap these lot up this year.
Holiday - Sep 7, 1983  True Blue - Sep 29, 1986 (WW)Oct 9, 1986 (US)  Die Another Day - Oct 22, 2002 Oh Father - Oct 24, 1989 (US) / Dec 24, 1995 (EU) You Must Love Me - Oct 29, 1996 Like A Virgin - Oct 31, 1984 Open Your Heart - Nov 12, 1986 The Look Of Love - Nov 25, 1987

I think the announcement and preorders going live for LAV40 on her birthday was the last shot here. It would have been a perfect time to market the announcement of the first landmark deluxe set. Sadly, and this is just my opinion, I don’t believe anything of merit is coming now. It’s 12 weeks until the official 40th anniversary of the album. Surely to god, preorders would be out by now. And like some have pointed out, it has been three years since the press release announcing the deal. I am starting to think the only things we will get now are the silver vinyls. 
 
It baffles me that an artist like Madonna who has so many iconic albums, music videos, live performances and tours, has never been celebrated to the degree it should have been. This anniversary of 40 years is MASSIVE. She’s a living legend. An icon. Yet we’ve had nothing! This deal could have milked the fans. Things like The Virgin Tour and Blond Ambition, which are legendary and iconic have not been reissued since their original releases. It’s a crime! I feel like we were promised so much and have received very little in the grand scheme of things. 

What???? Inserting images of Deadpool and Wolverine into the original Like a Prayer video would be atrocious (and this is coming from someone who is a fan of both Madonna and Marvel). And without the negatives, you can't make Like a Prayer HD.

While we wait, I found the old Bruce Baron interview/notes:
1994 BRING IT Registered at Library Of Congress, demo cassette on file PAU-1-889-252 Written by Madonna, Pettibone. Bruce Baron recently listened to this track at the Washington DC Library Of Congress, and he writes: This is a completely unreleased song from the discarded Shep Pettibone productions for what became the "Bedtime Stories" album. It was submitted on the same tape as "Love Won't Wait", "Somethings Coming Over Me", and "I Will Always Have You" This song did not evolve into anything found on the released album. It's NOT very catchy, and needs more development. The lyrics are strings of cliche phrases about an obsessed person. A main lyric reads; "I know you're love is bad for me, but I won't give up until you bring it to me" The musical arrangement sounds very similar to what was done on "Bye Bye Baby" a few years before on "Erotica". There are also some breathing noises. The recording of this song on file at the copyright office has some damage on this track. I don't know if it's on the copy itself or the original master from which it came. We could easily live without it, since it is not very good. 
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1994 I WILL AWAYS HAVE YOU Early Madonna and Shep Pettibone production of what later became "Inside Of Me". Registered at Library Of Congress cassette on file PAU-1-889-251. This is probably the best of the abandoned Shep Pettibone co-productions from the "Bedtime Stories" album. This song later evolved into "Inside Of Me" which was used on the album. Once again Shep does not get credit on the album, but he does in the Warner-Chappell Publishing Co database. This early version is rather different from the version that we know of as "Inside Of Me". In the released version Madonna sings against a R&B downbeat in a soft, quiet lullaby type voice that gives the song a tender quality. On the demo the song is performed like a mid-tempo power ballad in the style of "Crazy For You", and "You'll See" using a strong clear vocal. I think that it is better than "I'll Remember" done with Pat Leonard a few years before. With a little polishing "I Will Always Have You" could have easily been an American top 5 hit single. The melody line is substantially different from "Inside Of Me", but there are often similarities. Many of the same lyrics are switched around. The words "inside of me" are hardly used, and Madonna adds "like an angel" after the part where she sings "standing over me" in a verse found in the released version. The released song's theme is all about Madonna cherishing the memory of a loved one, but in this demo she also wants the object of the song to "remember me". 

During my listen at the LOC copyright office I observed a sound during the middle break that I don't think that I have heard in any Madonna song - a flute-like instrument solo. 
There is also a finger snap-like sound used throughout the mid-tempo ballad similar to the one used in "Rescue Me", but more subtle. I also need to stress the difference in the melody and arrangement of the chorus. The words "inside of me" are not really a part of it. The main frame is designed around "I Will Always Have You" and is definitely a proper song title for this original demo. The verse lyrics of "I Will Always Have You" are more similar to the released version of "Inside Of Me." I do recall the lyric about being in "the public eye" in both versions. Lets now bow our heads and pray for it's use as a maxi-single bonus track at some point in the future.
1994 SOMETHINGS COMING OVER ME Early version of "Secret" started with Shep Pettibone, later finshed with Dave Hall. Confirmed by Library Of Congress. Cassette on file PAU-1-889-253. Bruce Baron notes that this is not a typo of a song title !! This is the original version of what we now call "Secret". It is the original Madonna/Pettibone demo before she dumped him from the "Bedtime Stories" album. Forget the strum guitar, the semi-R&B arrangement and Madonna humming the hook, and the lyric "my baby's got a secret". They do not exist in this early version. This is a Pettibone co-production and it features a driving drum and bassline, but it is rather generic and typical like a Cathy Dennis track. The released version of "Secret" seems slow and boring compared this early demo of which I enjoyed a great deal. Shep would be justified for being a little pissed of for not being in the album credits for this song. It's about a 50% re-write of the released version (it's actually the other way around). Parts of the verse lyrics and verse melody are the same or similar. The chorus melody and arrangement are totally different: "Somethings Coming Over Me(Over Me)(Over Me)(Over Me)" The bridge is the part that doesn't really work. It's a continuation of the "Erotica" theme. The music breaks and Madonna wails into sexual moaning like Donna Sommer's "Love To Love You Baby". Then Madonna speaks "I see your love coming down, let it wash all over me" Obviously we know what she is talking about? Then the music starts back up into the main hook as the climax. Her vocal is clear and strong. It could easily be used on a vault collection as an item of interest with it's original demo music intact if the parties involved could agree in the future. According to the Warner Chappell database, Shep does get money as a co-author for the released version of "Secret". He just does not appear in the album credits other than the "Thank you for understanding".
I could not find the notes on the others - the way Bruce describes, IWHY and SCOM- both sound like great opportunities!  Bring It - maybe not.

Not even a rotten corpse in the middle could have made this photoshoot look interesting...

We just came back from the movie and it was so good. Loved it from start to finish and Like a Prayer was used so well. Got goosebumps all over...
 
And Hugh Jackman 🤤

Truly a bop of a song. 

It's her way saying "shit I don't remember lyrics"

That’s not what I was referring to.
i am 46 and have never been to a gay Pride and I’m not into drag.
By self-loathing, I meant supporting political leaders who are against rights such as gay marriage, transgender rights, etc.

America is vast and diverse and we should all have the same rights. Period.

Erotic Erotic. Put your vaccines inside of my body.

For God's sake, Trump is out there yelling at every rally that "immigrants poison the blood of the nation".
It doesn't get more nazi than that. 
This is hate speech disguised as opinions.
WAKE UP, people!

How do your friends justify voting for someone who has already announced he's not going to accept the election results if it doesn't favor him?
It baffles me how this person is even allowed to be a candidate, when he incited an insurrection after losing the last time.

If people decide to turn a blind eye on all the nazi, misogynistic and racist propaganda Trump and his cult spew and support him just because they think it will benefit them personally / financially, they are a big part of the problem. Just as the racist antisemitic Germans who supported Hitler were a part of the problem. 

Im very happy to have the singles on streaming. I just didn't realise they would repeat the exact release schedule from 40 yrs ago to finally get them all on

A shot glass? 
no mama
a monacle a replica numbered set of divorce papers Mickey Mouse ears a needle and thread to stich your lips with  a pleather mermaid tail  a candle to light and watch throw tears on … a pillow (Spanish lace cover)  

Do you guys mind if i change my username to Bdonna?

I have no idea what is going on in here, everyone seems to be talking about different things. It's really annoying going on about things that hasn't been confirmed. 

Being angry at or mocking fans for wanting all the old singles on streaming would be the equivalent of being angry in the mid 90s when the original 80s singles were reissued on CD (the Yellow singles). "But I already got them on vinyl!". AND?
What's the point in complaining about that? The more accessible her material is, for old and new generations, the better, right? And streaming is the most accessible format now.
No one is asking for all the old vinyls, cassettes and CDs to BURN in hell, let's also keep them, thank you very much.

hmmmm. I see you Warner.
 I can feel a single disc "Platinum Blond" collection coming on for the GP.
Like A Prayer Vogue Popular Papa Don't Preach 4 Minutes Music Justify My Love Into The Groove Hung Up What else would be eligible then huh?
 
 

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Finally a real edit for me since the one In the promo vinyl is more of a edit mix of it's own instead of a edit of the real mix if it's understandable!