The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

[wilbur33]

How long before Lady Caca starts incorporating a walker into her "act"?

She'll need it after she has to return the wheelchair she stole from Bette Midler.....

[sammyyummy]

I think the GQ Madonna entry above is more insulting to Katy, Kesha and the 800 female artists than Madonna.
As for Madonna, well, does she even fucking care about GQ? Good or bad, they are still talking about M.

[BrianPGH]

A League Of Their Own is on TV right now. Such a great movie and Madonna was fantastic in it.
"This Used To Be My Playground" is my favorite of M.'s ballads. It's wistful, sweeping, nostalgic, and simply gorgeous.

[BrianPGH]

As for Madonna, well, does she even fucking care about GQ? Good or bad, they are still talking about M.

LOL ok!?

That was literally my same thought.

You guys are definitely right. As long as they're still talking about you, what's to worry about? The time to worry is when they forget you exist.

[ILLBFIRE]

I can't wait for the Blu Ray version of the MDNA concert

[BrianPGH]

^ I don't have a blu-ray player yet, but I may have to get one just for the MDNA concert.

[EvilTwinTwo]

This is for "Elton" who's a regular here on the Madonna thread.

Billboard 25 Top Tours from from Nov. 9, 2011, to Nov. 13, 2012

http://www.billboard.com/column/year...08051082.story

1. Madonna (72/72 shows sold out, gross = $228 million)
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (54/72 shows sold out, gross = $199m)
3. Roger Walters (51/72 shows sold out, gross = $186m)
4. Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil (9/183 shows sold out, gross = $147m)
5. Coldplay (56/67 shows sold out, gross = $147m)
6. Lady GaGa (65/65 shows sold out, gross = $124m)
7. Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw (9/23 shows sold out, gross = $96m)
8. Van Halen (9/46 shows sold out, gross = $54m)
9. Jay-Z & Kanye West (15/31 shows sold out, gross = $46.9m)
10. Andre Rieu (2/99 shows sold out, gross = $46.7m)

[FanofFiction]

Wow. Madonna beat out the Boss! Comfortably at that!

No idea who Roger Walters is.

Lady Gaga, 6th place. Surprising actually. I thought she'd be higher up.

Van Halen still tours?

[slipintothefog]

Pretty sure that's supposed to be Roger Waters, who was part of Pink Floyd.

[buffxqui]

FanofFiction are you so out of touch that you actually posted that response. It sure gives no credibility to anything you post that's music related.

[ILLBFIRE]

FanofFiction are you so out of touch that you actually posted that response. It sure gives no credibility to anything you post that's music related.

I don't get it. He posted Madonnas' tour info on a Madonna thread for her fans so how is it not music related?

[ILLBFIRE]

^ I don't have a blu-ray player yet, but I may have to get one just for the MDNA concert.

I know!!! Any info on the release date???

[Callum]

Roger Walters is the leader of Pink Floyd.

Madonna is high because of her catalog and ticket prices.

Anywho, Lady Gaga being low surprised me. Her tickets have rocketed in price from her other tour. Nosebleed shit tickets for the ACC in February here in Toronto start at an even $50.00. I can buy two Bon Jovi tickets for the price of one Lady Gaga ticket. Crazy.

[sammyyummy]

Madonna is the queen.

[FanofFiction]

I guess I apologize for not knowing a guy from a band I never really enjoyed? Not really no.

She needs to add more Canadian dates. She needs to come to Atlantic Canada. She'd sell out here too, so it wouldn't be like she's taking a loss by coming here. One big show in Moncton or Halifax would do it. Everyone from the region would go. Moncton has hosted some huge artists! Surely Madonna could at least consider it...

I'll see her live one day.

[sammyyummy]

whats the total gross of this tour? Billboard listed the gross to cover 72 out of the 80 plus at 230 M

[FanofFiction]

God love you, man. I love that you loved American Life. For me, it just wasn't one of her better albums. But it did have a few great tracks. Your review was great though. I love your insight.

[FanofFiction]

There was a guy that used to review Madonna music videos on youtube. This would have been three years ago or more. He was pretty spot on with my opinions. But listening to other people ramble on about Madonna the way I do is so enlightening. If you ever decide to dissect her videos or more albums, I'd love to hear.

[trinket]

A League Of Their Own is on TV right now. Such a great movie and Madonna was fantastic in it.
"This Used To Be My Playground" is my favorite of M.'s ballads. It's wistful, sweeping, nostalgic, and simply gorgeous.

I am fascinated to see someone who unabashedly cares for that song, lol! I could never particularly stand "This Used To Be My Playground". She looks beautiful in the video no question (love the lighting and soft focus) but I find the song pretty threadbare - like there's not much musical "meat" there; that plodding bassline and gutless "soft-rock ballad" drums don't help it out much, and by the time we hit the 3 minute mark in your link with that string section solo thing (which sounds like it belongs in an entirely different track) I'm always shaking my head like "Oh my god, is this ever bad!", and it further jumps the shark with the "Used to beeeeeeee..." background vocals at 3:30. So I was intrigued to see you describe the elements that you liked about it. It also, to me, hasn't aged very well as a track - it really sounds locked into its era with that gentle synth-piano/keyboard thing which dominates its sound.

Thinking about "classic" Madonna ballads, give me the unabashed, heart-on-sleeve "Crazy For You" over "This Used To Be My Playground" any day! How could you not love it? With those retro 80s power-drums, straight-ahead bass line and accessorized in the arrangement/production with that oboe (Madonna's own suggestion) and often nonsensical backing vocals ("Bop, bop, bop, bop, ahhhh-ahhh") that seem to reflect back to older girl-group or Motown background vocal lines, I thought everything came together for that track. It's interesting to me that it is years older than "This Used To Be My Playground" but seems to hold up better - maybe a good melody is more timeless, and the arrangement definitely has those 80s touches (like that highly reverbed drum attack sound) but it's not overwhelmingly thick and textured like a lot of 80s songs were so the leaner production maybe helps it. Any 80s touches on it now sound retro-cool.

[ILLBFIRE]

I just don't want to wait another 2-4 yrs for new music!

[slipintothefog]

I love both Crazy for You and This Used to be My Playground (the former more than the latter), but let's be real, THE hit Madonna ballad is Live to Tell.

[FanofFiction]

I prefer Take A Bow or Rain. Two of my favorites.

[FanofFiction]

Rain is so good! You know it! I may have also shed a tear during a listen or two.

[Sultan]

She really thinks she's royalty or something.

[alphaxxx]

Team Kylie!

[Sultan]

Hmmm... well 30 minutes into the interview and Madonna actually warmed up to the woman. I think she was being really defensive in the beginning.

[pat grimshaw]

Perhaps Madonna didn't like being interviewed by a younger woman whose skirt was so short you could see her underwear.

[Beachguyj]

she is a bitch



and a Hypocrite. She's smokes in many of her famous pictures and Lourdes smokes too.

[RaKroma]

I laughed. I think Madonna was just bored to death with amateurish style and questions asked by the interviewer.

[JustMe5]

She was actually still pretty back then. Now she looks absolutely horrible -- she looks like a middle-aged drag queen caricature of herself.

[refujiunderground]

no surprise. most of these stars are gassed off of their fame. a lot of them forget when they were nobodies struggling to make it to where they're at. they also forget that the higher up the ladder they get, the harder they fall.

[eastofeden]

I don't really think she is a bitch...I like her independent nature and I like that she says what she is feeling versus being phony.

[maxpowr9]

I don't really think she is a bitch...I like her independent nature and I like that she says what she is feeling versus being phony.

Read: bitch.

Sometimes, you need to filter your thoughts before they leave your mouth.

[eastofeden]

Read: bitch.

Sometimes, you need to filter your thoughts before they leave your mouth.

I actually kind of enjoy people who dont' always use their filter. Some people might think 'bitch'...I think 'refreshing'.

[palbert]

Was there ever any doubt?

[jensu846]

this video of Madge is hella old! like her.

[Sultan]

[G-Lexington]

She's "keeping it real". Which, as eden said, is "refreshing". Because she can get away with that shit when we couldn't.

Lex

[swerve]

I actually LIKED the interview...

I've always loved Madonna -- and thought she handled the interview well...

I thought the interviewer was charming!!!

[xbuzzerx]

I dislike arrogance, but I've never known Madonna to be nice. She is known for being successful. And yes, Kylie Minogue comes across as way more accessible and friendly. I would hardly be surprised if she had her moments as well, though.

Has anyone seen that .gif where Mariah Carey basically pushes another woman away from her as she's taking pictures?

Try to remember too Madonna's kinda ungodly intelligent, IQ wise. If she'd been born in other circumstances she might be a weird, brilliant scientist shut-in or Howard Hughes or something. So I think a little bit of "off-ness" to her is to be expected.

[EvilTwinTwo]

Team Kylie!

In a drawer full of knives Madonna is a Santoku, while poor Kylie is a very dull butter knife.

[xbuzzerx]

Also let's not underestimate how much someone you think is super sweet in interviews and in front of the camera may be fantastically fake. Martha Stewart for example.

[Adrock-JD]

She was actually still pretty back then. Now she looks absolutely horrible -- she looks like a middle-aged drag queen caricature of herself.

Isn't that what happens to all of us?

[Ram]

Strong, confident woman? Must be a bitch.

[xbuzzerx]

Strong, confident woman? Must be a bitch.

Yeah I'm not exactly the kind of person to fly out of my way to defend a celebrity but I think judging someone because they don't ooze with fake, effected nicery and bubbly sweetness and saying they must therefore be an aristocratic bitch is the same sort of mindset that gets all into which Real Housewife hates which one and who's a bitch. It's all fake. You don't know these people, lol.

[ravenstar]

In a drawer full of knives Madonna is a Santoku, while poor Kylie is a very dull butter knife.

I'd love to be as successful as that very dull butter knife. Pfft to that.

[pat grimshaw]

A diva oblivious to their audience is as foolish as Maria Antoinette saying 'Let them eat cake'!

[xbuzzerx]

A diva oblivious to their audience is as foolish as Maria Antoinette saying 'Let them eat cake'!

It's not as though Mariah Carey OR Madonna are 20th generation rich people or royalty. They both came from really modest backgrounds within their living memory.

[FanofFiction]

My 4000th post! Dedicated to the queen!

[sammyyummy]

luz is unconventionally hot