Chris Evans did a Madonna hour on his Breakfast Show on Radio 2 this morning to "bring some sunshine into our lives": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08cpz59

 

The songs played were:

 

Borderline

Into the Groove

Like a Prayer

Lucky Star

Material Girl

Papa Don't Preach

Vogue

Who's That Girl?

 

I always overlook 'Who's That Girl?' but it doesn't look out of place at all next to those Madonna classics. Such a great, feel-good selection!

Chris loved ghosttown back when released. He always raised it !!!

Chris has good Madonna taste! Radio 2 seem to play a lot of Madonna but Radio 1 is generally my radio station of choice. I might try out some of the Radio 2 programmes; I know Jo Wiley has a slot on there and I like her, plus she seems to be a Madonna fan too!

A fabulous setlist! I love the attention Borderline is getting recently, it's such a classic from her <3

I think it's quite easy to forget, because she's had so many huge hits over such a large timespan, that her early stuff is still pretty classic too. Even though I rank the album perhaps as low as second from bottom (only because her succeeding albums were more complex in sound, lyrics and concept and what not, which is what I know and love and want from Madonna), there is something very special about her debut album. It's all quite raw and doesn't have anything to live up to; there was room to play about with different melodies and technologies.

Kylie and Madonna have been photographed together at the Philipp Plein fashion show:

 

http://i.imgur.com/IT2RX9U.jpg

 

...Kylie Jenner, that is. :P

 

Jeremy Meeks ("world's hottest felon") made his debut at New York's Fashion Week too.

Rocking that eskimo hooker look.

Just discovered this on YouTube:

 

 

Advertisement and outtakes for a Max Factor advert in 1999. I love it! :lol: She's so goofy and funny and just reminds me of what she was like in the early 90s. I love "so if my acting isn't flawless, at least my skin will be", "you said it", "indeed I did, which is a good thing because, if you had said it, you'd be fired".

2 years since the release of Madonna's best post-Confessions video:

 

 

Still love it now. It shows Madonna is still quite capable and creating poignant, stylish, storytelling videos (in fact, her tour backdrops show that too - see the 'Iconic' intro backdrop for the Rebel Heart Tour).

RIP to Glenn O'Brien, who passed away on Friday. He had a big input on Madonna's Sex book as he was assigned the editor role.

 

https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/850428051565531136

2 years since the release of Madonna's best post-Confessions video:

 

 

Still love it now. It shows Madonna is still quite capable and creating poignant, stylish, storytelling videos (in fact, her tour backdrops show that too - see the 'Iconic' intro backdrop for the Rebel Heart Tour).

Incredible video (and song!). Should've been massive.

Definitely a hit-that-never-was, but I can settle for it being her most critically applauded song and video in years. Such a beauty. :heart:

Slant Magazine have revealed Erotica is their #2 album of 1992, following R.E.M's Automatic for the People.

 

No Madonna album was ever met with a louder backlash or was more rampantly misrepresented than this dark masterpiece, so you know it was doing something right. Released on the tail end of AIDS hysteria, Erotica is far from the opus to guiltless sexual fulfillment it—and its even more ridiculed accompanying tome Sex—was made out to be. Though there's no doubt it espouses taking joy in physical pleasure (“Let me remind you in case you don't already know/Dining out can happen down below”), no album seems more empathetically haunted by the act's countless side effects (i.e. “Bad Girl,” “Thief of Hearts,” a purposefully monotonous house cover of Peggy Lee's “Fever”). Underneath Madonna's bondage getup and Shep Pettibone's oversized drum tracks beats a truly pained heart. Henderson

I'm Breathless was also their #5 for albums of 1990:

 

Yes, it technically has “Vogue” on it. And even though we get a kick out of imagining what Elliot Ness would've made of the four-on-the-floor rinse and those performance-enhanced piano chords (we're reasonably certain his limbs would've put out an all points bulletin), that epochal pop-house smash is effectively a bonus track on what was, at the time, maybe the ballsiest move Madonna made at that point. Who else but the queen of pop could fold under her wing both Stephen Sondheim and Shep Pettibone? And though Evita gets all the ink, this caffeinated big-band stomp of an album is where she truly started pushing outside her vocal comfort zone. Not that she had much choice. Loopy from front to back, I'm Breathless is a Disney-approved retro boilermaker, where the lovelorn sincerity of the Oscar-winning “Sooner or Later” and the eager-to-please showmanship of “More” somehow nestle perfectly alongside the naughty S&M electro-swing of “Hanky Panky.” This album will get its due—it's just a question of when. Henderson

Hoping Ray of Light tops their albums of 1998 list!

Madonna was one of the many faces projected onto the Empire State Building last night in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Harper’s Bazaar.

 

http://i.imgur.com/fuoCD87.jpg

Rumours are that Madonna is currently dating model Kevin Sampaio - whom she shares a kiss with in her 'Bitch I'm Madonna' video - and has been for the past year.

 

This video is really special to me. For those of you who might be unfamiliar, Patrick Leonard co-wrote and co-produced the original "Like A Prayer" with Madonna in 1989. It was a number 1 single the same year I was born. Not only is Pat a legendary song producer and writer, he was my father's best friend and I have known him my entire life. My dad David Williams actually played guitar on the original song. It is an incredible honor to work with Pat on this song for so many reasons.

 

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xoxo Dana

 

PS. Fun Fact! We used the original microphone Madonna used to record this one-take.

 

Bit of a bland cover but it's great to see Patrick working on something Madonna-related. Just a shame it's not likely he'll work with Madonna herself again.

From the OCC:

 

3. Rains that made a splash

The Script have a new entry at 26 with Rain, which is the fifth song called Rain to make the Top 40 – although there are plenty of others to contain the word in the title. The highest charting songs called Rain both got to Number 7 – one was Madonna's, from 1993, while 17 years earlier Status Quo had a hit with Rain too. They are both very different songs, FYI.

 

Did someone say MASHUP

 

I think I might have come across that one before. It works really well but I could do with a 4 minute version.

 

Never really appreciated how hot Kylie looks in the 'Shocked' music video! *.*

20 years to the day since the death of Princess Diana. At the MTV VMAs 1997, before introducing Prodigy, Madonna took a moment to address the event and remind people that we are all responsible for one another: