MADONNA/REBEL HEART and More — Page 8

Sorry Matt, i totally forgot saying that. I have to take that back, i will admit that was wrong. As much as i loved the album i think return to form is a bit strong, i think ts one of her best dance albums though

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Jay Lerner-Z, Currently the tickets are on sale, but you have to have a code either through fan, club or credit card (Citi Card). On March 9, the tickets are released so the general public can purchase without the previous mentioned codes or credit card. The only thing that I hope is different is that the so-called lower priced nosebleed sections are actually the advertised $40. Currently, they are listed with fees for $100. They are being currently promoted higher with some useless $20 pass, at least for the Miami concert.

Updated On: 3/5/15 at 06:18 PM

Ah, thanks Art and S&D - it seems only the VIP tickets are on sale to non-fanclub members like me, or "special ticket offers" as ticketmaster called them. So all the grayed out seats aren't necessarily sold...good.

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FULL DISCLOSURE: I've only heard the tracks available on Spotify because I don't have a "Madonna albums" line item on my unemployment benefits budget. So, I can forget about full albums let alone $400 concert tickets.

But, anyway, beyond the wonderful gospel-house explosion of "Living for Love", a surprisingly tender and effectively vulnerable "Joan of Arc", and a pretty... tolerable "Ghosttown", I'm kind of shocked at how bad everything else is. And I don't just mean the appalling lyrics. I honestly think part of the problem is the producers she's chosen to work with. So many of them - despite their credits - are primarily and essentially edc producers - more concerned with a beat or a sound effect than with songwriting and songcraft or production of the human voice. I don't think this has served her well here at all. In that Pitchfork interview she was asked who in today's pop music scene is stimulating her and she basically said "no one", but then said that although he's not really pop, she loves what James Blake is doing. Well, yeah, James Blake is ****ing amazing. If only she'd been able to convince someone like James Blake (a great producer, yes, but a just as talented musician) to work with her, things might have been better. I'm still looking forward to hearing the remaining tracks, but, man, is most of what I've heard thus far monumentally disappointing. Makes MDNA seem so much better and I can't believe I'm saying that.

BTW, although I haven't heard "Body Shop" yet, and so can't comment on the accuracy of it, this quote from the EW 'review' made me genuinely L-O-L:

“Body Shop” has the most natural vocals on the album; Madonna sounds like an actual human woman instead of Siri singing Fifty Shades of Grey on low batteries. The funny, creative, outrageous Madonna we’ve known is still in here somewhere. It just takes a lot of patience to find her.

Updated On: 3/5/15 at 07:56 PM

Ha ha

The matador hat.

Oh, yeahhhhhh! I totally forgot about that.

From today's NYTimes interview:

Her response, as always, is perseverance. “Because I’ve been marginalized as a female in a male-dominated world, and we’re in a sexist industry or a sexist world, I’ve always had to push against something or resist against something,” she said. “I don’t think I’ve ever been relaxed, if you know what I’m saying. So because I’ve never been relaxed, I’m not going, oh, it used to be so easy. For me, it’s always been hard from Day 1.”

Yes. I know what she means.

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Good lord she got a good review in the Daily Fail, hell must be freezing over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2982033/Why-Madge-high-fall-No-stumbles-Queen-Pop-s-latest-album-Rebel-Heart-writes-Adrian-Thrills.html

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^ me too.

This is a cool quote from NY Times.

"We’re all digital, we’re all vulnerable and everything’s instant — so instant. Instant success and instant failure. Instant discovery, instant destruction, instant construction. It’s as splendid and wonderful as it is devastating. Honestly, to me it’s the death of being an artist in many ways.” — Madonna




New York Times Interview- Rebel Heart

This album is mostly pretty obvious and predictable, but maybe that's due to her return to form? Maybe it would be less obvious if she returned to the producers who helped her to create classics?

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/ct-madonna-rebel-heart-review-new-madonna-album-20150306-column.html


CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE- Rebel Heart

It's not like you have posted anything you haven't posted before on the subject.

I am glad you take personal responsibility for the awfulness of MaDoNnA. It's what you wanted from her at the time.

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