Veronica-Electronica

I share a lot of your reservations about AI, but I’m not sure Madonna does. 
She was somewhat of an early adopter I guess with her AI “art” NFTs (lol remember when everyone thought NFTs were a good investment for five minutes?)
https://www.designboom.com/art/madonna-beeple-nft-mother-of-creation-05-11-2022/
Then she allowed Sevdaliza & Grimes to use an AI version of her in their music video for Nothing Lasts Forever.
Even her filtered photos on Instagram are essentially a form of AI avatar. Hell, 10 years ago she shared that bizzare photo of her oversized head photoshopped onto a young girl’s body wearing a Joy Division t shirt. As recently as December she shared AI images of her hugging the pope to her Instagram stories.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/madonna-accused-of-photoshopping-her-face-onto-a-fans-body/news-story/4e30bd4dde57cf0c4190a04dc0f7d333
Gone are the days when record companies were happy to dole out endless cash for visionary designers/photographers/directors for album campaigns and music videos as freely as they used to, especially for “legacy” artists like Madonna. Just look at a selection of Madonna’s cover art for singles over the last 15 or so years, there is very little effort gone into a lot of them as they’re essentially just little pixels on streaming services now. 
Going even further, I wouldn’t be surprised if Madonna one day becomes the first AI avatar pop star, using technology like ABBA used for their Voyage concerts and having completely digital, non-physical presence. She’s already performed live on stage with the Gorillaz holographic avatars 16 years before ABBA’s avatars launched.
Maybe I’ve just watched too much Black Mirror and Westworld. 

I prefer many songs on Music but at as whole Coadf flowed better and the tour was amazing. But the brilliant eras, no need to compare.

Stuart???

This is fantastic 
 

The tone-deaf comment 😂

I wonder how this was not posted here, I was howling at her commentary 😂
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNeKPKcJo/

Tell me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna without telling me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna...

The Prince song “Sister” is 🤮 😆 

Oh totally! Anything similar now wouldn’t have the same impact. 
edited to add: another distinction is that Madonna was the most famous woman in the world at the time of Sex. While Kim Petras has her fan base, it wouldn’t be as shocking as a household name doing it. 

Someone said in the Sex Book thread that they couldn’t imagine any other pop star doing something like Sex now and I immediately thought Kim could! I can see lots of parallels actually, this would be a fun collab. 

Tell me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna without telling me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna...

Tell me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna without telling me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna...

Oh wow that sounds so much more like her now

Oh, yea, fans love Music, but it was always too cold and mechanical for me, but I do love Music/Don’t Tell Me/Impressive Instant/I Deserve It/Gone/American Pie
 
I guess that’s most of the album 

Tell me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna without telling me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna...

Oh totally! Anything similar now wouldn’t have the same impact. 
edited to add: another distinction is that Madonna was the most famous woman in the world at the time of Sex. While Kim Petras has her fan base, it wouldn’t be as shocking as a household name doing it. 

Not that I disagree, but I think a lot of that is on the fans.  I think the fans tend to take certain entertainers way too seriously. 

I agree totally with this. I did edit my second post on the subject to state pretty much the same sentiment regarding Kim not being a household name, but perhaps did so too late!

Exactly.  And yeah Kim isn't as well known as Madonna was when she released the "Sex" book. 
Futhermore, there isn't much more to shock people with, so no matter who, a book like "Sex" would never have the same impact. 

Oh totally! Anything similar now wouldn’t have the same impact. 
edited to add: another distinction is that Madonna was the most famous woman in the world at the time of Sex. While Kim Petras has her fan base, it wouldn’t be as shocking as a household name doing it. 

Oh totally! Anything similar now wouldn’t have the same impact. 
edited to add: another distinction is that Madonna was the most famous woman in the world at the time of Sex. While Kim Petras has her fan base, it wouldn’t be as shocking as a household name doing it. 

The thing is, anything Madonna did in the Sex book is no longer "taboo".  So anyone doing anything similar wouldn't get the same attention or reaction as Madonna did.  It may been something people still look back at and be disgusted with, but that book really helped changed how entertainers expressed themselves, who weren't part of the porn industry and was willing to cross the nudity and sex line.

Someone said in the Sex Book thread that they couldn’t imagine any other pop star doing something like Sex now and I immediately thought Kim could! I can see lots of parallels actually, this would be a fun collab. 

Music was more innovative than Confessions for me, but Confessions is the better album, though I love them both. 

Tell me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna without telling me you haven’t listened to Music by Madonna...