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No one erased the other - if we call keep calm and act like adults there will be no reason to lock the thread.

Oh, what a nice way to start the year by reading your repressed frustrations.

I liked Madame X. Not every album can be a Ray of Light or Confessions.

Is fucking Gaga in this list?

I stopped scrolling at Billie Eliish whispering at #198
FLOP LIST

I can honestly picture her playing this on tour...along with Candy Shop...im sure everyone on here gonna love that lol I don't mind it actually. I enjoyed it when it first came out. What I don't get is this trend with artists releasing the official "sped up" versions...as if people can't press a button and speed or slow songs down on their damn own.
I find most forms of tik tok'ish apps a waste of brain material anyway...and "short" videos...don't get me started lol

It's 2023 - find a new joke. 

Yesterday's update:
Up again to 19.642.809 monthly listeners but down to #258 overall.
- New big peaks:
 > "Like A Prayer" ("Celebration" Version): 250M

New face.

Omg, all I see is, moan, moan, moan, moan, moan. What a pathetic bunch of spoilt, ungrateful brats you are. Just be happy that Madonna is still releasing songs and the youth love it, oh, and I love the artwork, it gives me Princess Leia vibes.

NUMBER 1 on iTunes UK 😮❤️❤️
 

I came on here thinking I’d find a more enthusiastic response to this! I personally think the song is quite brilliant, and that there is a reason it has gone viral. The production is very much suited to the era, but has a timelessness to it. I danced to it for a good 45 minutes on a loop, alternating with the fast version over excellent headphones, and it was a blast! Very hypnotic, like Everybody, or Up Down Suite, but also razor sharp like Music. It’s the most relevant Madonna could be at this point in the culture, and it’s doing well on the basis that it actually resonates organically with the zeitgeist, and not as a result of a marketing ploy. That’s so exciting! 
 
I’m now convinced that the real problem with negativity on this forum is that it is fundamentally always an expression of an inner frustration with not feeling like we older fans belong to the culture that Madonna has her finger on the pulse of. She is authentically modern and contemporary in every way, and yet we all contort ourselves in revulsion at the world as it has become that Madonna very clearly lives wholeheartedly in. As someone else astutely pointed out earlier in this thread, each major generational wave rejects the one before it in many ways, and each one’s influence ripples through time, coming back as an echo. Madonna has literally been the most forward-thinking mainstream legacy artist ever, and that is truly what she represents: Someone who knows that those ripples will continue to ebb and flow with the passage of time, and she’s riding the waves as they come, and until they come no more for her personally. And even then, Madonna’s influence will infiltrate new trends, technologies and mediums that we cannot even imagine today. 
 
On a more personal note, I’m acutely aware that there are things that I am firmly anchored in as a result of life experience and maturity, that have made me less inclined to be malleable. That means that I resist aspects of progress and social evolution. I am not one of those who doesn’t know how to use a new technology or gadget and then refuses to learn, but there are things I’m not that interested in adapting to because I have independent priorities that make me not solely tethered to the culture at large. It’s okay to love Madonna’s legacy and not love the feeling of her being part of a shifting world culture that we don’t understand or want to be a part of. It’s okay to feel like the way things were seems better to us, or at least safer! However, it seems pointless to me to observe Madonna today without seeing her as wholly contemporary. She does not want to only market her past in sacrifice of her creativity. Maybe her creativity isn’t always aimed at her core audience because she has faith that her core audience has always remained open as she has pushed ahead, against barriers and into whatever the ether and zeitgeist can alchemize. I always have to apply this to my assessment of anything contemporary Madonna does, and she’s always surprised me with hindsight! She is truly quite magical if you really think about it. How many times have I initially cringed at something she’s done, or felt I didn’t connect immediately to a song or an album? Too many times to remember, but that also doesn’t negate the fact that there are way more evidently amazing accomplished Madonna masterworks that I did adore immediately along with the masses! 
 
I don’t know where the Madonna road will lead, and that’s kind of exciting and scary all at once, but I am glad that we can still reminisce about how extraordinary it was to be a Madonna fan throughout all the years of legacy-building! I WANT IT ALL! Back That Up deserves its moment!
 
 

he doing that stuff officially for YEARS and its still ugly 

 
 

BACK THAT UP TO THE BEAT BACK THAT UP TO THE BEAT BANG THAT DRUM TO THE BEAT BACK THAT UP TO THE BEAT
DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

Me pretending to be shocked as if we didn't get 39184 hints at a tour already:

So excited tho

This is billboard single chart of 1985
March 30, 1985 
No 02. Madonna-Material girl
No 05. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 09. Madonna-Crazy for you
 
April 6, 1985
No 02. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 03. Madonna-Material girl
No 04. Madonna-Crazy for you
 
April 13, 1985
No 01. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 03. Madonna-Crazy for you
No 05. Madonna-Material girl
 
April 20, 1985
No 01. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 02. Madonna-Crazy for you
No13. Madonna-Material girl
 
April 27, 1985
No 01. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 02. Madonna-Crazy for you
No 23. Madonna-Material girl
 
May 04, 1985
No 01. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 02. Madonna-Crazy for you
No 37. Madonna-Material girl
No 41. Madonna-Angel
 
May 11, 1985
No 01. Madonna-Crazy for you
No 02. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 32. Madonna-Angel
No 50. Madonna-Material girl
 
And most importantly.
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles chart of 1985
No 02. Madonna-Like a virgin
No 09. Madonna-Crazy for you
No 20. USA for Africa-We are the world
No 58. Madonna-Material girl
No 81.Madonna-Angel
No 98.Madonna-Dress you up
 
Madonna's crazy for you had kicked We Are the World's ass.
So. That's the Queen of pop we could call.
And that's the one of reason Why Madonna was named the Artist of the Decade Not MJ by Billboard and MTV and etc. 
;)
 

Well, Madonna did rob one of Michael Jackson's two managers at the time (Freddy Demann) who had left him the previous year and moved to her camp, so there may have been some bad blood on the managerial front rather than the artist side of things. We won in the end though, so whatever happened (maybe nothing), she was better off not being involved on the musical front. She has given far more of herself to Africa in recent years than any of the artists involved in that song.

Well they lost, because we got the marvelous Hey You instead!

Same with the horse accident. Madonna Infinity sounds like the Daily Mail sometimes.

The problem is her spending the next 6 months promoting and remixing that fart and then asking others to fart over the top of the original fart. 

Not when the west bans the platform in the next six months it won’t

so we must prepare for whole month of #soon and wired teasers 

 

I imagine she might do something like this actually. This new mix on Instagram sounds a little bit sped-up which is the new trend with the teenyboppers. If you look at RAYE + 070 Shake's brilliant new song Escapism (gonna be the first #1 in UK after Xmas), they have different speeds of the song on an EP to cater for the various TikTok trends it's being used on. Same with Gaga's Bloody Mary which just charted this week for the first time, 9 years after it was first released based on a sped up TikTok trend.
It's a whole new world out there folks. Mamma's gonna hustle to get her streaming numbers up and you gotta admire that.

Can't even picture in my head how people would spend that much to see her, so basic, flat, mediocre and with no stage presence at all 💀 Beyoncé or Gaga would have deserved this soooo much more instead!