This thing with gaga is getting sooo boring...

Still from the Oasery tweet session:

She has NO ill will towards gaga. It's nonsense She was listening to the Tony Bennett duet album last week and appreciating it

 

 

Could we please move on ?

from that session:

initially it was considered to be a double album. Half Rebel + half Heart.

Great stuff finally he's answering questions

February for the video release seems a bit far away for a song that's already out in some countries.

 

Good to hear his favourite is 'Ghosttown' - a must for second single!

Just decided to listen to the 5 tracks on Spotify, absolutely loving Bitch I'm Madonna, one of the best things I've heard from her in ages. Love her doing aggressive dance music, the zip outro is genius, would love to see her go down this sort of route (but with a bit more of a structure to the songs) more.

Her demos are STILL leaking. It can't be her team responsible for those now, that's for sure :lol:

New demos ??? really ? It seemd such a quiet day, today...

another Madonna - Gaga :

http://instagram.com/p/xMzvmOmEQS/

 

btw, if she's dissing some1, she should be Rihanna, btw...

"You can walk the walk, even talk the talk"

Which Rihanna album contained We found Love and You da one ? :angel:

I was wondering when the controversy would start wrestling its way through:

 

Madonna criticised for Rebel Hearts promotional images

By Tasha Hegarty

Saturday, Jan 3 2015

 

Madonna has been criticised for using photoshopped images of Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Bob Marley to promote her new album.

 

Pictures of the iconic figures were photoshopped to mirror the album artwork for Madonna's Rebel Heart.

 

Some commentators have complained about Madonna seemingly using the civil rights movement to sell her album.

 

"No, Madonna, just no," replied one commentator, while another said: "Use a civil rights figure to sell your album? Classy!"

 

The 56-year-old singer, who used similar images featuring John Lennon and Christ the Redeemer, denied that she was comparing herself with the iconic figures.

 

She posted on her Facebook page: "I'm sorry. I'm not comparing myself to anyone. I'm admiring and acknowledging their Rebel Hearts."

 

"This is neither a crime or an insult or racist!" she added.

 

Songs from Madonna's upcoming album were recently leaked online.

 

Describing the leak as "artistic rape", Madonna urged fans not to listen to 14 leaked album songs.

 

Rebel Heart is available to pre-order from iTunes before its release on March 10.

(Source: Digital Spy)

Well now we have the controversy is properly here, it feels like a new Madonna era now <3

Madonna posted on her Instagram "Being Destructive isn't brave......you couldn't say it to my face.. #joanofarc ❤️#rebelheart" which presumably a lyric.

Oh god she just posted one of Princess Diana! Here comes more of a storm :P

Madonna's took to Facebook to defend the images:

 

"I'm sorry

I'm not comparing my self to anyone

I'm admiring and acknowledging there Rebel Hearts

This is niether a crime or an insult or racist!

I also did it with Michael jaclson and frida khalo and marilyn monroe

Am I saying I am them

NO

I'm saying they are Rebel Hearts too.

And

I didn't do it

My fans did

And I just re posted those photos

My fans aren't racist either

If they put me in the same category as these other people

Thank you. I'm very flattered and I hope one day to live up to 1 100th of what those people accomplished." - Madonna

Kind of missing the point but Madonna's grammar and spelling is atrocious! "There" instead of "their" for instance! :P She's usually a clever woman but not so much on a computer.

http://i60.tinypic.com/i6cf13.jpg

Can't cope with this :lol:

 

http://scontent-a.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/1530697_332483633627155_2093625714_a.jpg

^ Amazing!

^ FAB! :lol:

 

Madonna's revealed to be appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://guardianlv.com/2015/01/jimmy-fallon...n-tonight-show/

 

Also, the album is now available to pre-order from Amazon.

Best album since Ray of Light? Are they forgetting Confessions? Best Madge album and tour of the 00's.

It'll be her best album since MDNA :smoke:

It'll be her best album since MDNA :smoke:

My cat's debut album would be better than MDNA so it's not a very big accomplishment.

From Billboard:

 

The Inside Story of How Madonna Turned Her 'Rebel Heart' Leak Into a Global Hit

By Andrew Hampp | January 09, 2015

 

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Illustration by Diego Patino

 

On Dec. 16, Madonna was in her New York apartment when she received word that more than a dozen unfinished demos for her forthcoming album had leaked. Her manager, Guy Oseary, was just returning to his Beverly Hills estate when he got the news. The album, Rebel Heart, was set for a late-April release, and thanks to a meticulous marketing plan and an inspired group of collaborators (including Diplo, Kanye West and Avicii), buzz was strong on the singer's 13th studio full-length.

 

But now, all bets were off. Madonna shot off a fiery post on her Instagram account lambasting the leak as "artistic rape," Oseary got on the phone, and both sprung into action. "I don't recall that phone coming off my ear from 6 a.m. to 6 a.m.," he says.

 

High-profile leaks and other security breaches have been a scourge of the entertainment industry for the past 15 years: from Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2001 and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III in 2007 to Madonna's own "Give Me All Your Luvin'" in 2011 -- which resulted in an unidentified fan's arrest in Spain, although he was later released -- not to mention the hacker group Anonymous' threats to rapper Iggy Azalea in 2014's final weeks. But this Madonna leak was unusually severe, including images and videos as well as music. However, the singer and her team's quick response may have set a new precedent for how the industry can mobilize in an effort to combat them.

 

On the morning of Dec. 17, Steve Berman, vice chairman of Madonna's label distributor Interscope, was on the phone with her and Oseary. "She was in a very angry, upset, emotional place," Berman recalls. He had visited her in New York the week prior to hear some of the album's first finished songs with label president/CEO John Janick. "She told me, 'Steve, I care about my music. I can't have the songs being heard the wrong way.' "

 

Berman was confident that Apple's iTunes could be engaged to turn around an official release of finished Rebel Heart tracks on a dime, even though the digital retailer's servers would effectively shut down for the year on Dec. 19, just two days later. But he faced two major hurdles: pushback from the upper rafters at Universal Music Group ("Should we just wait and do it all at the top of the year?" was the response from one executive) and the availability of iTunes vp content Robert Kondrk, who was already on vacation with his family in Mexico.

 

During the next 48 hours, Kondrk was able to help Apple greenlight a Rebel Heart preorder that would include six instant-gratification songs for download by midnight ET on Dec. 20 -- including "Living for Love," the set's first single, which was initially intended for a Valentine's Day release (and will now be promoted to radio on Feb. 10). However, Madonna had to make sure the six songs were in finished form, so she holed up in her New York studio working on the final mixes into the wee hours of the morning of Dec. 18. "There was no time to call any of the producers -- nothing," says Oseary. "Just her final mastering sessions."

 

The result of Rebel Heart's 48-hour turnaround? The album preorder topped the iTunes charts in more than 40 countries -- including the United States, where three of the six released tracks entered Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart dated Jan. 3, despite just two days of eligibility. To date, the six tracks have sold a combined 131,000 downloads, according to Nielsen Music, with preorders for Rebel Heart at a robust (considering the situation) 50,000 to 60,000, according to industry estimates. "We know that in today's world, having a top 10 album with no promotion is really hard," Oseary says. "It's pretty... exciting isn't the right word, but it's rewarding to see it so well-received."

 

Still, Madonna's work is far from over. There's still at least one more preview track from Rebel Heart on its way before the album's March 10 release (likely due Feb. 8, the night of the Grammy Awards, Oseary says), and an official video for "Living for Love," to be filmed in late January. Plus, there's an ongoing investigation into the source of the leaks (another 14 tracks hit the Internet on Dec. 24), which, given their volume, seem too far-reaching to emanate from a usual suspect like a studio staffer or a backing musician. Neither Oseary nor a UMG representative would confirm that the investigation has resulted in a police report. Oseary's only comment on the matter was, "We are working really hard to solve this crime."