Madonna Scores Historic 71st Top 40 U.K. Single
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6487504/madonna-scores-historic-71st-top-40-uk-single?utm_source=twitter
Madonna extends her own record for the most top 40 singles in the U.K. by a woman.
Madonna scores her 71st top 40 single on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, as "Living For Love" debuts at No. 26 on the list dated March 1.
The achievement extends her own record for the most top 40 hits by a woman in U.K. chart history.
As earlier reported, "Living For Love" was commercially issued in the U.K. on the same day as she took the stage on the Brit Awards (Feb. 25). On the show, the diva took a tumble after a wardrobe malfunction sent her falling backwards down a set of steps. She recently told talk show host Jonathan Ross that it was a "nightmare" and she suffered a "little bit of whiplash."
The song's arrival on the U.K. chart was powered by only three full days of sales, as the tracking week ends at midnight on Saturday.
Madonna last visited the top 40 with 2012's "Give Me All Your Luvin," featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. Madonna's first top 40 hit was "Holiday," in 1984.
Madonna also returns to the top 40 of the Official U.K. Albums Chart with her Celebration greatest hits album, re-entering at No. 38.
Madonna's music has been the soundtrack to my life for years. Luving this era despite everything that has gone wrong for her and for now Rebel Heart is my favorite Madonna album. I find it hard to really compare her albums cos' they are different eras with different sound and lyrical message. But really my favorite M album changes all the time depending on what I'm going through and what is happening in my life.
I saw the Sniffles dance popularized by the japanese duo Aya and Bambi (Madonna's back-up dancers at the Brit's who are also...I heard...engaged or married) in YouTube. So Madonna did the Sniffles which is quite similar to voguing (during the dance break). Nice one M. You continue to introduce to us underground dance moves and thanks for continuing to support the LGBT community.
I saw the Sniffles dance popularized by the japanese duo Aya and Bambi (Madonna's back-up dancers at the Brit's who are also...I heard...engaged or married) in YouTube. So Madonna did the Sniffles which is quite similar to voguing (during the dance break). Nice one M. You continue to introduce to us underground dance moves and thanks for continuing to support the LGBT community.
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling · 16m16 minutes ago
Are you the sort of person who gloats when they see a woman fall, or the kind that celebrates a magnificent recovery? #TeamMadonna
Minnie Driver â€@driverminnie 3 hours ago
Madonna is superhuman http://gu.com/p/4668p/stw ...we can't even say 'women like Madonna' because, there is none like her.
'Rebel Heart' review: Madonna's latest is intensely personal
New York Daily News (Jim Farber)
Imagine a world where Madonna hates being photographed, where she considers quitting her career and admits to suffering haunting demands that she “act like the other girls.â€
It’s the same world where pigs fly and figure skaters crowd the deepest recesses of hell.
Yet, somehow, that’s the world occupying significant parts of Madonna’s revelatory new album, “Rebel Heart.â€
More credibly than any previous work, Madonna’s latest pulls back the curtain on her life, letting us see her hurt and yearning.
It also finds her licking her wounds over a breakup with a far less powerful boy toy — presumably the decades-her-junior dancer Brahim Zaibat, who she saw for three years, ending in 2013.
Maddy has said that she chose the album’s title to express two sides of her character: the defiant warrior and the aching lover.
While a decent portion of harder, bitchier odes do turn up, the album as a whole presents the softest, most sincere portrait of the star we’ve ever had. In the process, “Rebel Heart†coheres, offering a swift rebuke to whoever prematurely dribbled out its tracks in a dizzying variety of leaks.
Along the way, the long, 19-song album offers its share of groaners, missteps and songs more indebted to trendy production than solid craft. But its best moments boast some of the most finely structured pop melodies of Madonna’s 32-year career.
The slam-dunk opener, “Living for Love,†stands with her great gospel-soul songs of the past: “Like a Prayer†and “Express Yourself.†Of the ballads, “Ghosttown†rates with her best: “Live to Tell†and “Crazy for You.â€
The way the producers recorded Madonna both bolsters the melodies and lends her depth. They’ve honeyed her voice: Madonna hasn’t sounded this rich since the sumptuous “Evita†soundtrack. In “Ghosttown,†her deep tone has some of the autumnal ache of Karen Carpenter.
All this isn’t to say Madonna doesn’t chirp, sneer and bray in places. In “Holy Water,†she’s in late-period Joan Crawford mode, putting down all comers with an unseemly pride. Then, in “Bitch I’m Madonna,†she nicks a slogan from someone far beneath her, referencing Ms. Spears’ old “It’s Britney, Bitch†line.
Madonna’s harder side finds a focus in “Unapologetic Bitch,†where she plays a spurned sugar mama. She revels in banishing an entitled young stud back to his impoverished past, a mirror, most likely, of the breakup with Zaibat.
The same scenario reels through two other songs: “HeartBreakCity†and “Living for Love,†though in the latter, the loss becomes a spur to celebrate a love that may yet come.
The music in “Living for Love†implicitly references the past, but in other passages Madonna invokes it directly. The lyrics to “Veni Vidi Vici†offer a virtual career retrospective. The title track brings an even broader life assessment — looking back at her attempts to fit in as a youth, as well as her years of acting out with provocative gestures for their own sake. Never before has Madonna copped to the latter motivation in a song. In the end, she accepts the consequences, and embraces the bravery, of her character fully enough to create her own answer to “My Way.â€
The beauty of the song’s melody helps ease its self-involvement. As a lyricist, Madonna has always had trouble making her personal songs universal.
On the other hand, her persona has such cultural resonance at this point, it has become part of all pop fans. Her name is a metaphor for strength and endurance. That makes her potent enough to admit where she’s weak in “Joan Of Arc.†Here, she says that each critique drives her to private tears. In “Wash All Over Me,†she ponders either running from, or accepting the end of, her career.
It’s hard to imagine Madonna expressing things like this before, let alone making them ring true. That’s “Rebel Heart’s†peak feature: It presents a 56-year-old woman who, in the best possible sense, sounds her age.
Can Ijust say how I adore this album?!It gets better and better with every listen.There is sass, there is class.There's rebellion, and heartbreak; attitude and sensitivity; intelligence and emotion.Madonna gets it. She just gets it.Too bad not everyone does.They will though. In the endPeople appreciated Erotica 20 years after its release.Thank you for another brilliant album!
http://news.madonnatribe.com/en/2015/ghosttown-is-the-second-single-from-rebel-heart/
Ghosttown is the second single from Rebel Heart
BY MADONNATRIBE · FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Hardly a news, as the album stickers we showed you a few weeks ago were certainly a strong hint and we were also among those who were told, and reported that the beautiful Ghosttown was strongly considered as the follow-up to Living For Love in the new era.
At the taping of the Madonna special episode last night Jonathan Ross gavethe heartfelt ballad co-penned by his guest together with Jason Evigan, Sean Douglas and Evan Bogart the official seal when he announced it as the second single from the Rebel Heart album.
And speaking of single, MadonnaTribe can exclusively report that Ghosttown is going receive a video treatment, but the clip won’t probably be ready before the beginning of the month of April. On the other hand, chances are that the song will impact radio much sooner than that!
I don't understand why so many of these reviews treat "Holy Water" and "S.E.X." as being done to be "shocking". It seems pretty evident to me that both of these songs are meant to be more fun and sassy (ala " Body Shop") than an attempt to scandalize suburban mothers. Not every song she does needs to be a Serious Artistic Statement. Can't the lady just be silly and have some fun? That, to me, is the point of the "Rebel" aspect of the album. I appreciate the ballads and the serious side of her too, but personally I've bounced around to and enjoy these two songs more than the title track or "Messiah" ( don't kill me, I like that song too). But I like upbeat music, and both these songs are just FUN to me. Life's too short to take everything so seriously all the time. I guess I just don't see why so few reviewers are willing to see the humor and frivolity in so much of her work.
"I have a plan..." Of course what happened at the Brits was not THAT plan. It was unfortunate that it had to happen...but it happened and it showed us how we should handle things like this one.
I admire her for just about everything (I'm stanning here forgive me) and this will be included in a file that can be retrieved in the future to serve as proof why she deserves to be called THE Queen and described as LEGENDARY.
Right now...she will be ridiculed...of course. She's Madonna. How can a hater's FB, InstaG, Twitter account get the self-esteem-boosting likes if one will not make fun of her and this incident?
How they react will be a reflection of their personality, not Madonna's. Madonna chose to get up and continued performing (which blended well with the song's narrative). Fight or Flight? Fight! So should we.
Yes @playpause. I'm over it. I have to show my support to her first before I shrug it off. I'm not going to pretend that it didn't happen and that I was not shaken the first time I saw it.
Kathie Lee and Hoda supported MADONNA
They applauded how she got right back up and continued like a pro.
They read MADONNA's full statement from Instagram.
Kathie Lee said "don't say her age.....they always say a woman's age before they talk about her...they never do that to a man"
She also said "Madonna was singing her latest HIT "living for love"
They also quoted Cher and Liza....
Yes @playpause. I'm over it. I have to show my support to her first before I shrug it off. I'm not going to pretend that it didn't happen and that I was not shaken the first time I saw it.
Whoopie Goldberg [The View] said to the haters about her age "If you can't do what she does then shut up."
https://twitter.com/TheView/status/570978243337007104
Whoopie also made it clear that Madonna was Pulled back and that she did not fall because of a misstep etc.
THE VIEW WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF MADONNA!
They all told the haters to SHUT UP!!!
That she can wear and do whatever she wants!!! she is MADONNA!
If they had a body like MADONNA they would be naked everywhere!
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Cher â€@cher 6h6 hours ago
Heard Madonna Fell On Stage This is Something WE ALL DREAD “MADGE, I GIVE U PROPS,U R a CHAMP 4 FINISHING YOUR SONGI HOPE U R UNHURT
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Sicario â€@emmdee22 6h6 hours ago
@cher Luckily, she was wearing her Life Alert Bracelet and help arrived within minutes.
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Cher â€@cher 6h6 hours ago
@emmdee22 FUNNY,BUT MEAN WORST PART…IM AT LEAST 100 YRS OLDER THAN MADGE