I love seeing Madonna perform at concerts like this. The focus is greatly on the music and the interaction with the crowd, a lot of whom won't have necessarily been there just for Madonna. It's always great to see 'Ray of Light' performed and I adore the chanting towards the end of 'Music', Madonna's great at encouraging the audience to sing along to the hooks.

'Open Your Heart' was used as the lip-sync song on today's episode of Drag Race All Stars :wub:

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Happy birthday to Madonna + me! :D

Happy birthday to our legendary queen (and happy birthday to Madonna too! :cheer:)

This underrated VMAs moment recently turned 25:

 

Rolling Stone have updated their list of 500 Best Albums and Madonna appears three times:

 

331. Madonna, 'Like a Prayer'

“I like the challenge of merging art and commerce,” Madonna told Rolling Stone. After dominating Eighties pop without always getting the critical respect she deserved, Madonna finally won artistic recognition with her most personal set of songs, including “Till Death Do Us Part” and “Oh Father.” And she nailed the commerce side with “Express Yourself” and the title track, the video of which had the Vatican talking about blasphemy. “I pray when I’m in trouble or when I’m happy,” she said. “When I feel any sort of extreme.” Like a Prayer fused all of her extremes brilliantly.

 

222. Madonna, 'Ray Of Light'

For her first post-motherhood disc, Madonna and producer William Orbit showed the world that electronica didn’t have to be cold. Songs like the title track and “Nothing Really Matters” are beat-driven but restrained — filled with warmth and wonder. Ray also features her best singing ever. “A ray of light to me is hope,” Madonna said, describing her inspiration in making the album. “We are zooming forward, but that doesn’t mean you can lose touch with the spiritual side of things.”

 

138. Madonna, 'The Immaculate Collection'

Like the 1987 remix album, You Can Dance, this is a perfect Madonna CD: nothing but good songs. You get timeless pop such as “Holiday,” provocations like “Papa Don’t Preach,” dance classics like “Into the Groove,” and a new Lenny Kravitz-co-produced sex jam, “Justify My Love,” which samples Public Enemy.

 

How We Made the List and Who Voted

When we first did the RS 500 in 2003, people were talking about the “death of the album.” The album —and especially the album release — is more relevant than ever (Votes for greatest hits albums were allowed, mainly because a well-made compilation can be just as coherent and significant as an LP, and because many hugely important artists recorded their best work before the album had arrived as a prominent format).

 

Of course, it could still be argued that embarking on a project like this is increasingly difficult in an era of streaming and fragmented taste. But that was part of what made rebooting the RS 500 fascinating and fun; 86 of the albums on the list are from this century, and 154 are new additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 versions. The classics are still the classics, but the canon keeps getting bigger and better.

'Ray of Light' has moved up from #367 to #222 and 'The Immaculate Collection' up #184 to #138, whilst 'Like a Prayer' is down #239 to #331.

 

'Confessions' deserves an appearance too but not surprised to see those three make it, very worthy entries!

Happy 15th birthday to David!

 

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David seems so much older than 15! Such a talented young guy too. Happy Birthday!

Madonna “refused to work with David Guetta” after he revealed his star sign

 

David Guetta has claimed that Madonna refused to work with him after he revealed his star sign to the singer.

 

The DJ and producer told the McFly et Carlito YouTube channel that Madonna had been keen to work with him after he won a Grammy in 2011 for his remix of her song ‘Revolver’.

 

Reflecting on a subsequent meeting between the pair, he said: “She tells me that she loves this remix and she suggests that I produce her next album. I arrive for lunch. We talk about everything – the music, what she wants to do with the album. Super nice. It’s just her and me. Very relaxed, very cool. We have lunch. It’s happening. Very good and you wonder when we start working together.”

 

But things then took a turn for the worse after Guetta revealed that he is a Scorpio.

 

“Suddenly, she makes a face and she says to me, ‘I’m sorry, we’re not going to be able to work together. It was a pleasure to know you. Goodbye!’” he said.

 

This story is.. a story

She probably did this she is that crazy.

The Guardian have released an interview with Mirwais and there's a lot of talk about Madonna. Some snippets:

 

A cult musician in France since the late 70s, and cited as an influence by the likes of Air and Daft Punk, Ahmadzaï was plucked from the sidelines by Madonna in 1999. He helped coax out her most experimental era, bolting his brand of heavily filtered, minimalist electrofunk on to the superstar’s 11m-selling album Music. His sonic fingerprints were all over two singles that immediately slotted into the already heaving Madge canon: the delicious electro-bounce of the title track and thigh-slapping country curio Don’t Tell Me.

 

Three years later came the politically-minded American Life, a divisive flop, before Ahmadzaï seemed to disappear into the pop wilderness. However, the pair reunited for last year’s album Madame X. How did she coax him back?

 

“Very simple – she called me,” he says. “It was after Donald Trump’s election and there were so many celebrities who were saying, ‘I’m leaving America [if he wins]’ and none of them left except her,” he says, referring to Madonna’s relocation to Portugal. “That’s why I have to defend her. It’s cool to have the courage of your convictions.”

 

Their early sessions were complicated by a language barrier. “She always says that I couldn’t speak English,” he laughs, “but she speaks with an American accent and very quickly. She’s very impatient – everyone knows that.” After Music’s playful electro came the more left-field folktronica of American Life. It got off to a bad start with the lead single and title track, which featured Madonna rapping in toe-curling style about her yoga classes, coffee-drinking habits and private jet.

 

“Yeah, we had a big debate about the rap,” he sighs. “We did another version where it’s more integrated into the mix. But I like to be provocative, which is why ultimately I didn’t fight her on it.” His voice softens, something it does a lot when discussing Madonna. “She just loves what she does. Even with Madame X, and working with [26-year-old Colombian singer]Maluma, people were like, ‘She shouldn’t do that.’ She just doesn’t care. If the reaction wasn’t good, it was OK.”

 

By the time Madonna executed a storming comeback in 2005 with the Confessions on a Dance Floor album, Ahmadzaï was burnt out. “I was supposed to do a big part of Confessions, but I had to leave,” he says carefully. “I worked on two tracks, but we were meant to do about five or six.” He’s cagey about why he left. “To be honest with you, if it had been today I wouldn’t have. I had some issues to resolve.” Besides, he was never supposed to be an underground producer for hire: “I was an artist before Madonna. This is one of the secrets of our relationship. I’m an artist too, and she knows that.”

Full interview here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/...6-my-generation

'Madonna: Secrets of Her Biggest Hits' aired on Channel 5 the other night:

 

Missed this but may have to catch up on it! :o

I saw the one on Celine and it was full of inaccuracies.

Since I know you're all dying to hear it, Jane McDonald has covered 'Ray of Light' on her new album:

 

What the hell lmao

Jane also covers Another Suitcase In Another Hall on the album (not an Madonna original but still)

Did ANYONE ask for this