Phonomezer
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Superstar has gone from MEH to AMAYMAY.
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Madonna's MDNA |OT| Her exquisite oyster display and reductive garnishing
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Rocket Punch
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Guy should be flattered with this record. His influence is all over the place.
Phonomezer
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I like Gang Bang a lot, it's different and tongue-in-cheek.
Not sure it will get the single treatment, but sure it will get remixed anyway and there is a lot there to work with.
Rocket Punch
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Phonomezer
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She really upper her photoshop game this era. I like it! A far cry from the Hard Candy photoshoots.
Phonomezer
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It'd be like filling the Grand Canyon with cement.
Buckethead
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lmao
Nemesis_
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Beautiful Killer is still not impressing me.
Superstar is doing really well on my own personal chart though. It's just such a simple and uplifting track. For some reason I draw comparisons to Miles Away from Hard Candy though overall Superstar is a better produced track. Much better.
Superstar is doing really well on my own personal chart though. It's just such a simple and uplifting track. For some reason I draw comparisons to Miles Away from Hard Candy though overall Superstar is a better produced track. Much better.
Phonomezer
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Rocket Punch
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Phonomezer
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Souldriver
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even though everyone is gushing over how amazing the second half of Love Spent is, I personally think that the chorus playing at 1m35 is pretty damn awesome. the first half of the song definitely deserved to be a song on itself.
Love spent is basically two amazing songs clumsily pasted together.
Love spent is basically two amazing songs clumsily pasted together.
Crumpet Trumpet
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Yeah, I prefer the first half too. :x
I'm Addicted has a similar problem too where the second half of the song is seriously superior
Phonomezer
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The second chorus in Love Spent is EUPHORIC. I hope the live version sounds like that 
I wouldn't mind the acoustic version, however.
I wouldn't mind the acoustic version, however.Phonomezer
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Eurgh, Girl Gone Wild is about to re-enter my MDNA TOP 5.
Nemesis_
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My feelings about this album are notably schizophrenic
One thing is absolute though - MIA and Minaj can fuck right off. I don't know why anyone thought they needed to collaborate. It's not like Madonna needs to stay relevant by getting these people on board =/
I like the second half of Love Spent. I hate the first half. =/
For those that may have missed it. Madonna introduces Avicii at UMF. Avicii remixes Girl Gone Wild.
i just watched the girl gone wild video and it's so bloody awful
i mean i know that alejandro was about 80% 'tribute' to madonna
but that doesn't make it a good idea for madonna to just shamelessly and reductively rip it off
and the cinematography is fucking dire to boot
WHAT ARE YOU DOING MADGE
i mean i know that alejandro was about 80% 'tribute' to madonna
but that doesn't make it a good idea for madonna to just shamelessly and reductively rip it off
and the cinematography is fucking dire to boot
WHAT ARE YOU DOING MADGE
Nemesis_
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She's released MDNA and toured just to take the spotlight away from Gaga. That's my theory at least with all the LACK OF PROMOTION.
>_>
Phonomezer
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Pretty sure The Madonna Tour was announced before ITS latest outing, or at least we already knew about it.
I don't think anyone else was pimping their singles on twitter and facebook ("Written by X") on the day Madonna released the GMAYL video, other than YOU KNOW WHO.
Also the recent tweets about #thenextalbumisthebestalbum on the day MDNA is released in the US.
How embarrassing. I wonder if it still cries at interviewers when compared to MADONNA.
Ken Masters
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I'm looking forward to hearing this album tomorrow but also nervous because I feel it's going to be weak based on what I've heard
lyrics aren't something that isn't usually too important in pop songs, but when they stand out as being so terribly cliche (even by pop song standards) then it's a problem
lyrics aren't something that isn't usually too important in pop songs, but when they stand out as being so terribly cliche (even by pop song standards) then it's a problem
Phonomezer
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The lyrics are better than those found in Hard Candy, then again, the only way is up.
Some of her best lyrics since Music, imo, but I think at this point she has covered most bases and may be running out of things to sing about. I think she should move on to things we want to hear about; room service at the Four Seasons and abusing the makeup girls.
However, I'm ON THE FENCE about whether or not Love Spent is a better DIVORCE SONG than Till Death Do Us Part from Like a Prayer.
Some of her best lyrics since Music, imo, but I think at this point she has covered most bases and may be running out of things to sing about. I think she should move on to things we want to hear about; room service at the Four Seasons and abusing the makeup girls.
However, I'm ON THE FENCE about whether or not Love Spent is a better DIVORCE SONG than Till Death Do Us Part from Like a Prayer.
Soulscribe
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I feel like most of Madonna's songs would resonate with me more if a better vocalist was singing them. Girl Gone Wild is pretty decent but her voice is so painfully second-rate that it takes away from the heat of the song. Hell, even Britney could have done cooler things with the sound of the track with her "my-hymen-just-busted" groan of a voice.
Confessions was a wonderfully produced album but the only thing that held me back was her boringly monotone voice. Just doesn't sound good in my ears. Well that and some of the lyrics. I can't listen to that New York song without feeling awkward. That said, her voice sounds great in Masterpiece, which is why it's the only song on the album I might be listening to a week or two down the road.
The wait for Gaga's next album will be long
Confessions was a wonderfully produced album but the only thing that held me back was her boringly monotone voice. Just doesn't sound good in my ears. Well that and some of the lyrics. I can't listen to that New York song without feeling awkward. That said, her voice sounds great in Masterpiece, which is why it's the only song on the album I might be listening to a week or two down the road.
The wait for Gaga's next album will be long
Rocket Punch
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How can you rip off what you introduce yourself earlier in your career? It just goes to show how shamelessly other acts have appropriated her style to have young people believing Madonna wasn't the originator of these ideas on video 20 years ago. And really for someone who's literally done everything before, is it even possible not to reference yourself at some point?
The GGW video is from beginning to end Madonna referencing herself from the act of contrition intro to the fake "forgive me". It's an FU to critics who are saying she can't do this anymore because she's old. It's also a re-education to new audiences on who did what first and who copied from whom.
The video just like the entire new album is Madonna tracing back to her entire career in sound and image. It's also an interesting commentary on how something that caused a great amount of controversy just years ago is now seen as standard fare for current musical expression. Music is where it is today because she did it first. She's the true mother originator of modern pop musical expression.
It's funny her motives which are quite obvious still escape some people.
EDIT: That Facebook chat with Jimmy Fallon was awful. They only had like 8 dumb questions. Poor showing. Madonna looks great in those Party Rock pants tho.
The GGW video is from beginning to end Madonna referencing herself from the act of contrition intro to the fake "forgive me". It's an FU to critics who are saying she can't do this anymore because she's old. It's also a re-education to new audiences on who did what first and who copied from whom.
The video just like the entire new album is Madonna tracing back to her entire career in sound and image. It's also an interesting commentary on how something that caused a great amount of controversy just years ago is now seen as standard fare for current musical expression. Music is where it is today because she did it first. She's the true mother originator of modern pop musical expression.
It's funny her motives which are quite obvious still escape some people.
EDIT: That Facebook chat with Jimmy Fallon was awful. They only had like 8 dumb questions. Poor showing. Madonna looks great in those Party Rock pants tho.
Phonomezer
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Thank fuck for that.
Soulscribe
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I'm sure Madge's team feels the same way.
Phonomezer
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They probably don't give a shit. Unlike Lady Xerox, who is obviously keeping a close eye on what Madonna is doing in a desperate attempt to (unsuccessfully) foil everything she does.
I do feel for the ugly little thing though, only her 3rd (well second, really) album in and it can't clear 10 million, 6 if you don't buy into the shipment numbers.
Adele: *laughs*
Soulscribe
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"Ugly little thing"? Really? smh
The way Madonna fans react to the Gaga name drop is hilarious. You don't need to shit on someone current and popular (and effin' rad) to convince yourself that Madonna can bring something to the table. She can do that on her own. She's done it for years.
But I'll make sure to remember your post when we end up seeing MDNA's modest sales numbers.
Souldriver
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Could you guys take this bitch fight to the GAP POP thread, so that all this idiocy stays quarantined?
Phonomezer
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Mr. Burns is a CUNT.
Sorry, it's 6am and I've been up all night trying to get this concept art finished for uni, I'm going to be in a foul mood ALL DAY LONG
Souldriver
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Release the hounds.
#MyFavoriteGagaAlbumIs was trending worldwide and she just responded to it, I didnt see no shade
Thats all I am going to say in this thread
Seacrest out
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
IMO some of the strongest moments on this Madonna album are the quieter ones - like parts of 'I Fucked Up' or 'Falling Free'. And her voice sounds really nice. The production on "Love Spent" makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. SO FUCKING AWESOME. I'm actually really enjoying the album, for the most part, after being ready to write it off after the horrible first single.I feel like most of Madonna's songs would resonate with me more if a better vocalist was singing them. Girl Gone Wild is pretty decent but her voice is so painfully second-rate that it takes away from the heat of the song. Hell, even Britney could have done cooler things with the sound of the track with her "my-hymen-just-busted" groan of a voice.
Confessions was a wonderfully produced album but the only thing that held me back was her boringly monotone voice. Just doesn't sound good in my ears. Well that and some of the lyrics. I can't listen to that New York song without feeling awkward. That said, her voice sounds great in Masterpiece, which is why it's the only song on the album I might be listening to a week or two down the road.
The wait for Gaga's next album will be long
I really like Gaga but she really needs to learn some subtlety - she has no idea how to turn down the volume and dial it back. At all. Phonomezer's weird fixation on her career is kinda scary. But fucking LOL at Lady Xerox. Dying.
Rocket Punch
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I heartily agree on this. Gaga knows how to belt out a gay anthem to next year but she has only one volume. Eleven. Even on ballads she doesn't know how to bring it down a notch. BTW can be exhausting to listen to in a single sitting. When I listen to it I can only take 4 or 5 of her songs at a time before I reach for sedatives.
Ollie Pooch
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Rocket Punch
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The peasant version is currently highest at #17. How... tepid.
I will find it amusing but not surprising if The Hunger Games soundtrack ends up snatching the #1 spot away. Everything related to that movie is blow-ing up.
Pre-orders for MDNA hit #1 though, didn't they? Does that count for anything?
Yes, those count for the opening tally. The surge in pre-orders was very short lived though, I'm not sure those were enough to secure a #1 debut.
Phonomezer
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Uh oh
Shirley Manson had some nice things to say about Madonna today
Take note.
Shirley Manson had some nice things to say about Madonna today
Take note.
Phonomezer
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*titter*
Some rehearsal/behind the scenes footage of the Superbowl performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0Dcfo4J1LQ#!
Nemesis_
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People are angry at Madonna for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9Gf5QaB4s
I don't really know why though. >_>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9Gf5QaB4s
I don't really know why though. >_>
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