Popstars don't exist to be role models and the chances are kids are subject to all of that kind of language and more in the playground anyway. Nicki Minaj is not going to taint any poor innocent children.

Popstars don't exist to be role models and the chances are kids are subject to all of that kind of language and more in the playground anyway. Nicki Minaj is not going to taint any poor innocent children.

 

They may not exist to be role models but at the end of the day you have missed the entire point I was making that kids will listen to all the bad language and think its a cool thing to do. Artists are in a unique position where they can have an immense amount of impact on young people's views of the world and what is considered "the so called norm". While I agree that they might also be subject to that kind of thing in the playground too, where do you think it comes from in the first place? Also, it doesnt make it right for a music artist to reinforce those negative messages through their own music.

Edited February 17, 201213 yr by slowdown73

Interview with Martin Solveig

You are one of the composers and producers of the new Madonna album "MDNA", to be released on March 26.

How did this collaboration start?

 

Martin Solveig : I got a phone call from her manager, here in my studio. He called me in a very easy way. All the first contacts happened in a simple mood. This made me quite surprised. Madonna is not someone who puts some impossible hierarchy ranks in her team. She has a small team made of people who are with her all the time, and she has a very easy way to communicate with them. We met, we talked about music, and about cinema, too. We realised that we had very similar tastes about songs, about pop music, about a lot of things. All this happened very fast and in a pretty cool mood.

 

I think it all started thanks to your song "Hello" from your latest album "Smash" that was published last June. It was a hit in the U.S.

 

Yes, Madonna got to know me thanks to this song... She listened to my albums and she picked up other tracks like "Sunday" or "Boys And Girls" - which had some influence on "Give Me All Your Luvin".

She told me "I'd like you to make me something a little like that". She wanted something that she calls "surf", like some electronic Beach Boys, she loves this idea.

 

At the beginning Madonna asked you to work on one song only, the lead single...

 

Well yes. I know that there were some dozens of producers in the cauldron. Madonna wanted to work with two or three people only, to give the album a general sense of consistency. With me, we got on the same vibe and I had the chance to start at full throttle. And in the studio, everything went super smooth and all of a sudden we ended up recording six tracks, a little less than the half of the album which is made of 15 songs.

 

Was it difficult for you to get over the fact that you were working with a Pop music icon?

 

I realized that on a second thought, what impressed me the most with Madonna was not the icon from the 80's but her ability to keep up with the present time, to pass through the decades, and to always be there and be really herself all the time.

I have to say that my favourite bits of the entire Madonna discography are those she made with Mirwais and Stuart Price. And those are from the 2000s. Even if I adored "Ray Of Light" produced by William Orbit

 

Did you also cross paths with William Orbit?

 

It was a pretty crazy encounter. We really laughed in the studio. We worked together for a while. Him in his studio, me in mine but in the same building. Madonna was moving from one room to another. We shared a lot. William and myself, we are quite the opposite one another. Overall... William is British, I'm French. He is big, I'm small. He's very messy, I'm pretty organized.

Madonna is a sort of counterpart of her producers. She was super sweet with him. With me, she was quite touch and straightforward. She is someone who pushes peple and I think that she allows them to give their best.

 

How was she during the process?

 

She makes you forget that she is Madonna very quickly. She is very natural. We were there to make an album and therefore we started working fast and we went fast to the core of the project. She wanted to make people dance, and she was looking to transposing this in catchy songs, messages, to make simple things full of energy.

 

Did she ask you for something specific? Did she give you any guideline?

 

She wanted some smiling! She wanted to work on the smiley side. With William, she was more introspective. To me, she used to say: "What we need is that people smile when they listen to your songs. This is what I like in your work. In general, when people listen to your songs, they get positive vibes". She feels that this is something missing in today's scene a bit and that this is what people need...

 

She felt that you had "a different sound"... Is that true?

 

Yes. You always have a little signature style. The idea was to keep it intact. After all, it is clearly there in the first single. A lot of people called me when the single was out to tell me "there's no doubt, it's you who produced this song:" It's very flattering. I don't even realizeall that completely...

 

From Chartsinfrance.net

I'm actually more excited about the album than I thought I would be. It sounds like she has worked with some interesting producers and the tracks could be quite upbeat and dancey.

Getting so excited now :D

From Universal Music Italia and Madonnatribe

 

Recorded between New York and Los Angeles, MDNA has been written and produced by Madonna together with her longtime "Ray of Light" collaborato William Orbit, Martin Solveig, The Demolition Crew, Benny and Alle Benassi, and Hardy "Indiigo" Muanza.

 

As you already know the album will be released as a Standard version with 12 tracks, and a Deluxe package in double CD with the standard album plus four more unreleased songs and the Party Rock Remix of "Give Me All Your Luvin'" feat. LMFAO and Nicki Minaj.

 

On the author side, brand new information are coming in from Universal Music Italia: you already knew from our report that Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. are featured on the lead single and on the album as well with one more song each. Nicki contributed to "I Don't Give A" and "M.I.A." is featured in "B-day song".

 

Also featured in the album are LMFAO, Mika - who has been rumoured to be on the verge of collaborating with Madonna for a long time and finally does it on MDNA sharing the writing credits of one new song, "Girls on Film" author Klas Ahlund and last but not least brother in law and "Dont Tell Me", "Jump" and "Devil Wouldnt Recognize Me" co-writer Joe Henry.

 

MDNA will be released worldwide on March 26. Are you ready?

 

Orbit to work with Madonna on extra acoustic versions of their songs

 

Today was William Orbit's turn to talk a bit about what we should expect from Madonna's MDNA, and they were definetly much more than some simple insights that he shared...

 

So far we knew what co-producers Martin Solveig and Benny Benassi had to say on their tracks and we also heard that the songs Madonna worked on together with Orbit were going to have a rather different vibe.

 

Live on the BBC World Services tonight William eplained that he contributed six songs to MDNA but that's not it. Click here to listen to a recording of the broadcast - jump to min. 19 for the MDNA bit.

 

"Youve been kind of busy lately with Madonna. Was it six tracks on MDNA, the latest album which is about to come out? Six tracks is that you worked on?" BBC's Mark Coles asked him.

 

"It was six last time I counted, but we keep adding special tracks", he said. "You keep adding or she keeps adding?" Coles asked him, and he replied, laughing "Well she's driving the train, and I go along happily!"

 

William revealed that he's in touch with Madonna at this very moment, he was actually on his BlackBerry before the broadcast started and they plan to work together tonight, him in London and her in New York. "Deadlines, you know..." he explained.

"What she's decided to do is extra acoustic versions. There' some pretty hard rocking tracks, there is a very different... eclectic variation of styles but mostly pretty savage actually" - he said "the singles that did come out aren't necessarily representative..."

 

This may sound surprising, but it's not. MadonnaTribe can report that Madonna and William Orbit have been planning to work on this since a while.

The last time we heard about it there was no final decision on how these extra tracks were going to be used, but for sure they found a great way to let us all enjoy them soon...

 

As you see, MDNA still has a lot to reveal!

It's pretty obvious they've tried to phase Solveig out of the album as much as possible. I'm not complaining though. More Orbit can only be a good thing (probably). Glad to see Joe Henry has a co-write too, his work with Madonna is always pretty fabulous.

 

Rumour

Masterpiece is going to be another single from MDNA album? BBC Radio 2 on their site put unconfirmed information about new single on April 2nd, 2012.

 

Source: BBC Radio 2

Popjustice have the album, so expect an article in the next couple of days, they usually do that!

Guess Who's Got Record of the Week on Radio 2 (the most listened to Radio station in the UK) , yes its Madonna !!!

I've got to say I think its a Crackin Song! Worthy of being a single, would have been the first choice! Particularly after all the promo for W.E.

 

A LIST

Avalanche City - Love Love Love

Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care Of Our Own

Coldplay - Charlie Brown

Emili Sande - Next To Me

Goyte - Somebody That I Used To Know

Jamie Harman - Girlwise

Katie Melua - Better Than A Dream

Lionel Richie & Shania Twain - Endless Love

Marcus Collins - Seven Nation Army

Paul Carrack - Good Feelin' About It

 

 

B LIST

NEW JAMES MORRISON - ONE LIFE

Jody Marie - I Got You

Lady Antebellum - Dancin' Away With My Heart

Nickelback - Lullaby

Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Dream On

Paul Weller - That Dangerous Age

NEW ROBIN THICKE - LOVE AFTER WAR

Band Perry - If I Die Young

Brilliant Things - Pointless

Musgraves - Last Of Me

Will Young - Losing Myself

 

C LIST

Glen Campbell - It's Your Amazing Grace

NEW JASON MRAZ - I WON'T GIVE UP

Michael Kiwanuka - I'm Getting Ready

Phantom Limb - Gravy Train

Rebecca Ferguson - Too Good To Lose

Red Sky July - Loving You's Easy

Shins - Simple Song

 

RECORD OF THE WEEK MADONNA - MASTERPIECE

 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK LIONEL RICHIE - TUSKEGEE

Edited March 1, 201213 yr by thtr

Never mind Madge, Katie Melua has a new single out? :o

Final tracklist and production credits:

 

01 Girl Gone Wild (Benassi)

02 Gang Bang (Demolition Crew) (Mika co-write)

03 I'm Addicted (Benassi, Demolition Crew)

04 Turn Up The Radio (Solveig)

05 Give Me All Your Luvin' (Solveig)

06 Some Girls (Orbit)

07 Superstar (Indiigo)

08 I Don't Give A (ft Nicki Minaj) (Solveig)

09 I'm A Sinner (Orbit)

10 Love Spent (Orbit)

11 Masterpiece (Orbit)

12 Free Falling (Orbit) (Joe Henry co-write)

 

Deluxe:

13 Beautiful Killer (Solveig)

14 I Fucked Up (Solveig)

15 B-Day Song (ft M.I.A) (Solveig)

16 Best Friend (Benassi)

 

PopJustice just tweeted "THE MADONNA ALBUM IS F****** GREAT" :w00t:

http://www.popjustice.com/

Edited March 1, 201213 yr by thtr

Popjustice tweet:

 

I AM LISTENING TO THE MADONNA ALBUM

 

After an hour:

 

THE MADONNA ALBUM IS **** GREAT

 

People!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25 more days to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a pleasing sign, Popjustice rarely like anything not by obscure overrated Swedish pop artists :o

That's good 2 hear!.

FIRST EVER REVIEW FROM ATTITUDE MAGAZINE

Teaming up with producers Martin Solveig, Benny Benassi, The Demolition Crew and old hand William Orbit, MDNA is a dose of what she does best. While that may seem like just dance music, there is more to Madonna’s oeuvre than that.

 

Girls Gone Wild, the biggest pop stomper on the album, kicks off with a reference to Act of Contrition from Like a Prayer. The production might sound like she¹s been listening to a fair bit of Rihanna, but who’s counting. Madonna brings her own authority, creating the kind of anthemic party song that she does best, the kind where everyone from your three-year-old niece to your 60-year-old mother gets up on the dancefloor. Much of MDNA is about having fun, but despite that, this is a dark album. If Like a Prayer was her divorce record and Hard Candy suffered, one senses, from being put together as her relationship with Guy Ritchie was falling apart, then MDNA is a f*** you ­ to her marriage, the life that came with it, and partly to herself for losing her identity in a partnership. She’s out to recapture who she is, and she has demons to slay.

 

The strangely titled Gang Bang sees her singing in a weird theatrical drawl about taking revenge on a lover who ruined her life. ‘Shot you dead, shot my lover in the head…I’m going straight to hell…I’ve got a lot of friends there’, she deadpans before yelling, ‘Drive bitch, die bitch!’.  It’s kind of stupid, kind of amazing, kind of funny and kind of f***ed up ­ but gives the album one vital ingredient to Madonna¹s success that all contenders, apart from Lady Gaga, have never clued up on: drama.

 

 

 

The Solveig-produced I Don¹t Give A..., is one of the album¹s tour-de-force moments. Beginning by recounting a typical day, it becomes intensely honest, and is, as is her way, a telling-off of her critics. Love her or loathe her, Madonna has made her name by raising a middle finger to, well, just about everyone. ‘Wake up, this is your life, children on your own, gotta plan on the phone, meet the press, buy a dress, do all this to impress…do ten things at once and if you don¹t like it I don¹t give a….’ It’s here that she makes specific reference to her ex-husband. ‘I tried to be the perfect wife…I diminished myself…it swallowed me…if I was a failure then I don’t give a…’. The track builds to a genius, choral, almost Tim Burton-esque conclusion.

 

This strongest, most immediate section of MDNA continues with Turn Up the Radio, which begins like a delicate ballad as she pleads with the listener to stop for a moment, to get away from the world through music. It may sound trite but there¹s urgency in its simplicity. It transforms into the album’s most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own and fans will be happy to have a dancefloor filler that will shake the clubs and would happily find a slot on the next series of Glee.

 

One of the later highlights is Superstar, surely the sweetest song Madonna has released since Cherish. It twirls along, an open-top summer anthem, serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus. It¹s simple and pretty and a perfect song to sing on her summer concerts ­ and should definitely be a single.

 

MDNA ends, as recent Madonna albums do, with deep melancholia, from the Orbit-produced Falling Free, one of the saddest songs she’s ever written, through to the confessional I f***ed Up on the Deluxe Edition, accompanied by Beautiful Killer, a fun, 80s-sounding, strings-laced tribute to French actor Alain Delon.

 

Overall, this might not have the serious pop intensity of Confessions, it’s not as drastically new or experimental as music critics might like, but it’s fun, f***ed up, dancey and full of drama. It’s what her fans have been waiting for: a wallop enough of an album to put her back up there, at checkmate against Lady Gaga, who, despite her brilliance, doesn’t quite give you songs that are as easy to disco dance to as some of these are. Is Madonna still ‘the Queen’ as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it’s hard to argue against.

 

[Note to Monsters: Lady Gaga is frikkin’ amazing, too. Don¹t kill us.]

 

4 STARS ****

 

MDNA is released on March 26 on Interscope

FROM ANOTHER GUY WHO ATTENDED THE LISTENING PARTY:

 

(Note: according to him Lola sings back-up on Superstar)

 

Sergio Kletnoy on MDNA

 

On MDNA

First things first:

#MDNA is exactly what you think it is, a massive-boombastic-in-your-face-electric-don't-give-a-****-full-of-energy album.

#MDNA is Madonna's ****-you to everyone who says she's past her prime, an emotional rollercoaster that takes u 2 the club & back 2 reality.

#MDNA is not revolutionary, it's not new but it's now, it's current w/classic Madonna hooks, great & cheesy lyrics & it made me want 2 dance.

 

For me, #MDNA as a full album is better than HardCandy or COTDF, apart from Hung Up of course which is in my top 5...Most of the songs would fit perfectly on the radio, by the way they sound, energy, fun and amazing hooks...

 

The album is pop music at it's best... It has something for everyone, it's classic Madonna, it's current and it's fun. I LOVED it, it's Madonna going back to her roots of real dance music...

 

The flow of the album was like a huge rollercoaster, it went up it went down it made u want to get off & then right b4 it sucked u back in.

 

Deluxe version with the bonus songs is so much better, my 2 fave songs were on the the deluxe...

 

Throughout the entire album I just couldn't help but think that this is the most commercial Madonna album, full of hooks, energy and love. It was a major **** u to everyone who talks shit, It was fun, uptempo, full of energy and Nicki saying Madonna is the Queen.

 

Let's get 1 thing straight, Madonna sounds great, but u r not buying this album 4 vocals, she is having a blast & u can feel it all over. Madonna sounds like she's having a blast, it has something for everyone, I think that every Madonna fan is going to have a diff fave song.

 

U will go nuts when u hear it... Gang Bang[/b], Love Spent, Beautiful Killer, I **** Up, Superstar, I'm a Sinner is MAJOR! The slower songs are: Love Spent, Masterpiece, Falling Free and even I **** Up (even though it has cursing in it). My 3 favorite tracks? 1. Beautiful Killer... 2. Love Spent... 3. I **** Up.

The album is so much fun, it's a 9 out of 10, if we could lose 1 or 2 songs, it would be a 10... I think most Madonna fans are going to L.U.V it! If you are a Madonna fan you will LOVE it! It is pretty **** kick ass!

It still feels so surreal listening to the album, half of the songs I don't even remember because it all happened so fast... I honestly wish I could have listened to the album all night, it was so damn good, some songs are much better than others...

 

I honestly did not mind vocals on GGW, but compared to the rest of the album they did sound a bit flat... She sounds so alive.

 

Madonna sounds amazing! Gang Bang has so much attitude, it feels like an explosion, an atomic bomb, a massive fight between good and evil...Best part of the night, Madonna's publicist dancing to Gang Bang, the joy in her eyes and face was infectious, it was clearly her fave song.

 

Turn Up The Radio Straight up dance/pop record, it's fun, cheesy and current... It's not my fave but I wouldn't turn it off...

 

Honestly, Give Me All Your Luvin is the only song on the album that sticks out like a sore thumb and @mattrett completely agrees...

 

Lola makes a guest appearance on Superstar, it's adorable, fun, with an amazing hook and I wanted to play it over and over and over again.

 

I'm a Sinner - I remember loving it, but honestly don't remember the details because foolishly I did not write my thoughts down...It was mid tempo but I did not write down my thoughts... I was just trying to listen...

 

Love Spent is a beautiful mid-tempo pop record... It's Miles Away meets Nothing Fails meets Love Profussion, it was pretty & warm..

 

Falling Free is an ode to 60's, reminded me of Mer Girl, ambient, pretty, hypnotic and trippy.

 

From deluxe edition:

'Beautiful killer' - it's bad-ass, kick-ass & so **** cool. No wonder it's a tribute to Alain Delon AKA France's James Dean. Hands down, my fave song on the album, it had so much energy, so much swagger, coolness and attitude... 10 stars!

 

Only Madonna can make lyrics like I **** Up sound beautiful and melancholy and yet so full of energy and life.

 

...this is just my opinion, Bday Song was just ok... It did not move me like most of the songs on the album... Honestly, it did not stand out, it was a bit cheesy and if I had it my way, it would be off the album... But it could grow...Didn't love it... It did not stand out to me, the lyrics were a bit childish and if I had it my way it would be the first to go

Edited March 3, 201213 yr by thtr

5 Different Versions of MDNA

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Standard

1 Girl Gone Wild

2 Gang Bang

3 I'm Addicted

4 Turn Up the Radio

5 Give Me All Your Luvin'

6 Some Girls

7 Superstar

8 I Don't Give A

9 I'm a Sinner

10 Love Spent

11 Masterpiece

12 Falling Free

 

Standard - Clean - Walmart Exclusive Version

1 Girl Gone Wild

2 I'm Addicted

3 Turn Up the Radio

4 Give Me All Your Luvin'

5 Some Girls

6 Superstar

7 I Don't Give A

8 I'm a Sinner

9 Love Spent

10 Masterpiece

11 Falling Free

 

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Standard Deluxe 2CD:

Tracklist CD1:

1 Girl Gone Wild

2 Gang Bang

3 I'm Addicted

4 Turn Up the Radio

5 Give Me All Your Luvin'

6 Some Girls

7 Superstar

8 I Don't Give A

9 I'm a Sinner

10 Love Spent

11 Masterpiece

12 Falling Free

 

Tracklist CD2:

13 Beautiful Killer

14 I f***ed Up

15 B-Day Song

16 Best Friend

17 Give Me All Your Luvin'

(Party Rock Remix)

 

Edited Walmart Deluxe 2CD:

Tracklist CD1:

1 Girl Gone Wild

2 I'm Addicted

3 Turn Up the Radio

4 Give Me All Your Luvin'

5 Some Girls

6 Superstar

7 I Don't Give A

8 I'm a Sinner

9 Love Spent

10 Masterpiece

11 Falling Free

 

Tracklist CD2:

12 Beautiful Killer

13 B-Day Song

14 Best Friend

15 Give Me All Your Luvin'

(Party Rock Remix)

16 Give Me All Your Luvin'

(Laidback Luke Remix)

 

iTunes standard deluxe edition will include 18th exclusive track "Love Spent (Acoustic)"

Perez is premiering a 60 second clip of I'm Addicted on his site tomorrow, and then Love Spent the day after and a few others over the next few weeks. I'm pretty nervous to see how they sound because if they're as cheap/un-Madonna as Girl Gone Wild I can probably safely say this album won't be for me.