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Rebel Heart ● 13th Studio Album

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^Yeah, I'd say so.

 

According to MediaTraffic, Rebel Heart was the 38th best selling album worldwide, selling 875k.

 

In 2012, MDNA was the 21st best selling album, selling 1.6m. Bit of a contrast there.

 

Only 875k worldwide? That's pretty poor when you consider some of her earlier albums such as like a prayer, music, confessions and a quite a few others sold more than that in the UK market alone. Madonna's really in decline!!

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Only 875k worldwide? That's pretty poor when you consider some of her earlier albums such as like a prayer, music, confessions and a quite a few others sold more than that in the UK market alone. Madonna's really in decline!!

A bit late to this one ;o She's been in steady decline since 'Hard Candy' begun... The tours are still really popular but her album sales have been atrocious for years now.

She's basically been in decline since she stopped doing what people loved her for... i.e. being innovative (or at least working with innovative people) and instead switched to working with sounds that are already popular. She should go back to ripping off styles of up and coming indie acts!
She's basically been in decline since she stopped doing what people loved her for... i.e. being innovative (or at least working with innovative people) and instead switched to working with sounds that are already popular. She should go back to ripping off styles of up and coming indie acts!

So true. 'Rebel Heart' was actually a move back to vintage Madonna but it was coupled with the "trying to be on trend" stuff so the end result was a bit of a mess. I mean, I love the recent 2 albums and they're incredibly fun but as a complete album package, they do not compare.

This album deserves so much better, can't believe the awful (bar a few tracks) MDNA & Hard Candy, sold more than this. I only own the standard edition and there are so many brilliant songs here, "Living For Love" was a brilliant lead single and definitely ranks as one of her best. "Ghosttown" and "Devil Pray" are amazing, especially the latter which deserves a single release, although it wouldn't do much.

 

But yeah on the whole, there are some brilliance to be had here = "Living For Love", "Ghosttown", "Devil Pray", "Joan Of Arc", "Iconic" (which should have been released instead of "BIM", "Heartbreakcity", "Hold Tight" & "Wash All Over Me".

 

There are a few missteps such as "Bitch I'm Madonna" which is easily the worst track, "Body Shop" & "Unapologetic Bitch".

I really hope Madonna can come back with another hit song / album at some point and that's not just it now regarding any support she's going to get.

I doubt she ever will now but I'm not fussed, she's had her time and THEN SOME. I can see a successful greatest hits being released as a final project but that's about it. I think her legacy has long outlasted her chart performance now, she's done her bit anything extra now is a bonus.

 

I agree with Acidburn too, the highlights on this album are aplenty :wub:

I really want her to make just one more statement album. I stand by what I said earlier, she excels at taking indie/leftfield sounds and making great pop music out of them, surely there must be loads of trendy alt-pop groups that would literally KILL to work with her.

 

Madonna & Grimes please!

Actually, scrap that idea, I'd end up wanting it to be just Grimes instead so that would work out badly.

 

But the principle applies!

I really hope Madonna can come back with another hit song / album at some point and that's not just it now regarding any support she's going to get.

 

I just can't see how it would happen. :(

 

Unless a sudden craze develops years from now for heritage acts and they become in vogue again, but that's nigh on impossible.

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She's basically been in decline since she stopped doing what people loved her for... i.e. being innovative (or at least working with innovative people) and instead switched to working with sounds that are already popular. She should go back to ripping off styles of up and coming indie acts!

 

That's little to do with it as in the 1990s she jumped on the R&B/Adult Contemporary bandwagon and she scored several hits. Then the electronica transition was also convenient for her but then people stopped loving her with American Life when she was no longer doing relatable pop music. She rectified that with COADF and HC was pretty successful considering the circumstances but to me after she left Warner she's been mostly repeating herself (Going back to William Orbit? Another single featuring Nicki Minaj?) and she stopped working with just a handful people and it became A&R'ing songs from other songwriters which is so not what she used to be for 25 years...

 

Then again she is pushing 60 so nothing she does is likely to get much attention, only a select few fans would be pleased if she "went indie", like how she went back to William Orbit and how she stopped reinventing her hits and is only doing album versions on tour. I guess that's how business works now, can be compared to never-ending franchise films, safe and predictable.

Album versions on tour ? I don't agree with this !
Album versions on tour ? I don't agree with this !

 

On Sticky & Sweet Tour almost nothing sounded like album version, then on MDNA Tour we had Papa Don't Preach, Express Yourself, Vogue, Human Nature & Like A Prayer that sound like album/The Immaculate Collection versions and on Rebel Heart Tour nothing really strayed off its familiar arrangement except Dress You Up and the acoustic songs. Music starts out as a torch song but then it's literally the album version playing, such a disappointment... :(

True Blue

Who's that girl

80s medley

La Isla bonita

Living for love

Music

Holiday

Bitch I'm Madonna

 

The above were not album versions

She can't win can she cod lots of people moan when she reinvents her classics !!!

Yeah I think there was a good mix of album version and reinvented versions. I know I would personally prefer versions more like the album versions that TOTAL reinventions. I get so used to the "normal" versions I always find new versions slightly odd. Or something like 'Lucky Star'/'Hung Up' at the Confessions tour which is the original versions but blended together and then extended.
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I know lol but def her vocals , i really like it.
Yeah, definitely her on the track. I find it catchy but, ultimately, it's not what I want from Madonna. I find Avicii's sound generally very dated and empty, even if it is catchy.
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