I'm guessing it was for MDNA too, RedOne was irrelevant by Rebel Heart. In fact, he was pretty much on his way out by the time MDNA came about too, so I don't feel like we lost out on anything. I can see why Madonna wouldn't wanted to avoid the Gaga comparisons too - I can just imagine the headlines!

I'm guessing it was for MDNA too, RedOne was irrelevant by Rebel Heart. In fact, he was pretty much on his way out by the time MDNA came about too, so I don't feel like we lost out on anything. I can see why Madonna wouldn't wanted to avoid the Gaga comparisons too - I can just imagine the headlines!

 

It would’ve generated bad press between her and perhaps make her look a bit like a hypocrite given the way she shaded Gaga during the MDNA era.

 

 

True Blue has been named Slant Magazine's seventh best album of 1986:

 

7. Madonna, True Blue

Sure, some of the production choices on True Blue sound chintzy and dated in comparison to those on Madonna’s other ‘80s releases, but there’s no getting around the fact that five of the album’s nine tracks are among the strongest individual singles of her career. More importantly, though, True Blue was the album on which it became readily apparent that Madonna was more than just a flash-in-the-pan pop star. It’s when she began manipulating her image—and her audience—with a real sense of clarity and purpose and made sure she had quality songs to back up her world-dominating ambition. Keefe

https://www.slantmagazine.com/lists/the-10-...albums-of-1986/

 

They're right, that run of singles is one of the best in pop. :heart:

The True Blue singles run is the stuff of legends :wub:

My Fav album because I adore every song and it holds so many memories !

 

Every song was so different !! Thank god she met Pat Leonard!!

Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert is about to broadcast - possibility that Madonna's 2006 set could be show for the first time!

 

 

5 years ago today...

:drake:

That's Drake post-Madonna kiss.

:lol:!

True Blue was the first time for me she really nailed a whole album!

 

Her early career to me I see as similar to Rihanna like she got bigger and better with each release leading up to the third album what would cement the legend status then from album 3 onwards she just nailed it!

 

The singles run as well were flawless! It’s such a feel good album and is a catalyst for inspiration for so many albums what would be released years after it etc. I can only imagine how much the GP would’ve went crazy for this at the time it was released.

 

That’s one thing I really feel meh over being a Madonna stan. I wasn’t born during the release of 6 of her studio albums and im perhaps also too young to really take in Ray of Light at the time of release too as it’s not the most child friendly album so I didn’t grow up listening to it :lol:

 

She’s my only real idol along with Michael who I wish I was around when they were at their peaks etc.

That’s one thing I really feel meh over being a Madonna stan. I wasn’t born during the release of 6 of her studio albums and im perhaps also too young to really take in Ray of Light at the time of release too as it’s not the most child friendly album so I didn’t grow up listening to it :lol:

I know what you mean. I've loved Madonna's music as far as I can remember, back to the early 00s when the likes of 'Music' and 'Ray of Light' were regularly played on the music channels, but the first era I properly followed was MDNA. I did actually really enjoy that era at the time, despite what longtime followers may think or how the album is received, although I don't think I cared about those things. I can acknowledge now that it was probably the most absent Madonna has been from an album campaign, but it was still fun reading about things and sharing things on here.

 

It would have been incredible to have lived through or be old enough to appreciate the eras of True Blue, Like a Prayer, Ray of Light or Confessions though, most definitely.

How come Madonna is sitting at home but not taking part in One World? Has she not been approached? :unsure:

She has donated 100,000 masks to inmates of prisons.

Where can I watch Evita?

 

Is it on any streaming sites. I’ve just realised I actually don’t think I’ve seen the film and I have nothing better to do :lol:

True Blue has been named Slant Magazine's seventh best album of 1986:

Now Slant have placed Like a Prayer as the third best album of 1989!

 

3. Madonna, Like a Prayer

Upon revisiting Madonna’s Like a Prayer, I made a new discovery: a whirring synth on “Till Death Do Us Part,” a song about the singer’s marriage to Sean Penn, that mimics the sound of a car speeding away as the music fades. Likewise, the album begins with a slamming door—the closing of a chapter, if you will, and the beginning of a new one. The album is decidedly retro, the ultimate genre pastiche of all of Madonna’s early influences: Sly Stone, Simon & Garfunkel, the Association, the Beatles. More significantly, it found her reflecting on marriage and family, subject matter that bonds her musical influences together into a cohesive—and confessional—collection. With her voice left shockingly unpolished here, the album offers some of her most soulful, vulnerable performances. By the late ‘80s, Madonna was already one of the biggest pop stars of all time, but with Like a Prayer, she became one of the most important. Cinquemani

https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-10-...-albums-of-1989

 

One of her best! :heart: Love those little interpretations of production choices, there's so much to uncover.

Extract from an interview with Mirwais with French magazine Bon Temps:

 

You met Madonna in 1998. How did she discover your music?

Here's the true story: I had a deal with Naïve [French indie music label], when the French Touch was buoyant, even though I was a little older given the fact that I was 38 at the time. Disco Science came out in 1998. I had a deal with Sony for the rest of the world but I wasn't fond of their US team. I thought they were corny. Director Stéphane Sednaoui shot the Disco Science video and he had also done a Madonna video. So I asked him if he could pass on my maxi to Guy Oseary, the label manager at Maverick, the one Madonna had created at Warner. In the beginning, I was looking for a label in the US for my forthcoming album [Production] and Maverick had launched The Prodigy, among others. Guy Oseary gives the maxi to Madonna, she loves the track and the video. Then, Oseary comes to Paris and wants to meet me. He was staying at the Hôtel Costes with Red Hot Chili Peppers. I go there and he asks for more. So I handed him some other tracks. Then, later, he calls Naïve's boss to ask if I'd be interested in trying to work on things with Madonna. And I said "Of course, why not!"

 

How did the first meeting go?

I go to London for a work session in a recording studio and we hit it off immediately. Our artistic sensibilities are very close. Since then, surprisingly, we never hang out outside of work. But as soon as we're working together, we have an extraordinary relationship musically speaking.

 

How do you work with her?

With Madonna, it's a fifty-fifty collaboration. I like the idea of sharing and, when I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band. Sometimes, I'll send her demos. Some with my own vocals. One of Madonna's strengths is that she has a flair for good tracks, for spotting the songwriting in a demo. A track that wouldn't get any label guy's attention, she gets the feeling, she takes it and makes something out of it. For her last album, she was very much influenced by Portugal and you can hear it on the record. She knows that I cross over a lot of things, we can go anywhere, in all directions.

 

After Music, Madonna called you again for two other albums: American Life and Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Her career had been rekindled by Ray of Light, the album she made with William Orbit. Music confirmed the success: it sold 11 million copies and went number 1 in the US. Then, cherry on top, Music, the song, made her ultra-hip again. So, of course, she was keen on us working together again.

 

(...)

 

Why has Madonna called you back in 2018 for Madame X?

I stopped working for her in 2006. I did only a few tracks on Confessions on a Dance Floor and I introduced Stuart Price to her. I left because I had personal issues I had to deal with. It had nothing to do with her. I had to focus on myself. But our work wasn't over. Our songwriting relationship wasn't over. We kept in touch. We'd e-mail each other often and, whenever she came to Paris, she invited me to her shows. Our relationship feels like she's family.

 

It sounds like you admire Madonna.

Yes, I admire her a lot because she has done everything for 40 years, in a lot of different styles. And above all, she is eager, she experiments. That's the most important thing about her. She took part in the New York scene in the 70s. So yes, she is an inspiration even though she isn't perfect. Moreover, she is post-success: she is beyond success and money. She has had all of this for a long time in her life, so her focus is on creation. The two of us get together straightforwardly to create songs. It's that simple.

 

You agreed to this interview because you wanted to speak of your new album. The former one, Production, is from 2000. Now we're in 2020.

I haven't made an album in 20 years, it's staggering. I was busy with Madonna between 2000 and 2006. It's quite something. In counting, with the last one, there are tracks of mine on 4 Madonna albums. 28 songs. After 2006, I went through depression. And then I started working again.

 

(...)

 

(The Retrofuture, Mirwais' next album, will feature Richard Ashcroft from The Verve and Kylie Minogue. It is slated for the fall of 2020, with another album ready for 2021. Mirwais plans a trilogy.)

 

(...)

 

Why do you give so few interviews?

Nowadays, you have a choice considering the media you'll talk to. Last year, with Madonna's album, I said no to the biggest TV news shows, because I didn't feel like talking. I did a single interview for a Madonna fan webzine. And then for you, Bon temps, because it's a real discussion, not promotion.

will madonna be on his album?

Not heard anything about it. It's common for artists to feature on the other's album when they collaborate but I would have thought it would have been mentioned above.