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[ILLBFIRE]

Madonna Starts Recording 12th Studio Album

In the immortal words of Veruca Salt: Give it to me now!!!!!

 

[zunkian]

I heard and read she's currently working with Martin Solveig, a fresh and upcoming DJ!!!

Check out Absolute Madonna and Madonna Tribe for news!!!!

Just one thing I wish she wouldn't dare do, collaborate with Lady Gaga!!! And please no Gaga sound-a-like!!!!

 

[miaedu]

Readers Poll: The Queen of Pop


1. Madonna

To say that Madonna won this poll in a landslide would be like saying that she was a kind of popular pop singer in the 1980s. It wouldn't even begin to explain the scope of the situation. She received five times as many votes as Lady Gaga, who landed in second place by a very comfortable margin. The only persistent criticism that Gaga has dealt with in recent years is that she's too much like Madonna. It's a hard shadow to escape. Madonna is a musical icon without peer. Her run of hits over the past 30 years is simply astounding, and when she hits the road, tickets sell like it's a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. Sure, her last few albums didn't match up to the classics. Nobody cares. She's Madonna. Lady Gaga has accomplished more in recent years than any artist of her era, but she's still got a long climb until she reaches Madonna level. It's very likely that no other artist will ever reach it though. Her manager Guy Oseary recently tweeted that she's started recording her 12th studio album, so clearly she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

2. Lady Gaga
3. Britney Spears
4. Tina Turner
5. Beyoncé
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Katy Perry
8. Cher
9. Elton John
10. Mariah Carey

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-queen-of-pop-20110706/1-madonna-0325148

 

[FanofFiction]

That's awesome! Madonna by a landslide! But at the same time, the poll results are a little questionable... I hate her, but Mariah should have easily been in the top five. Cher; also should have ranked higher. Katy Perry? Overrated. At least they got the top spot correct.

 

[miaedu]

Apparently, this is Madonna's first-ever on-air performance on Philly's "Dancin' on Air" TV show. The year is 1982 and the song is Everybody.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqY1EitLZQ&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Readers Poll: The Queen of Pop


1. Madonna

To say that Madonna won this poll in a landslide would be like saying that she was a kind of popular pop singer in the 1980s. It wouldn't even begin to explain the scope of the situation. She received five times as many votes as Lady Gaga, who landed in second place by a very comfortable margin. The only persistent criticism that Gaga has dealt with in recent years is that she's too much like Madonna. It's a hard shadow to escape. Madonna is a musical icon without peer. Her run of hits over the past 30 years is simply astounding, and when she hits the road, tickets sell like it's a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. Sure, her last few albums didn't match up to the classics. Nobody cares. She's Madonna. Lady Gaga has accomplished more in recent years than any artist of her era, but she's still got a long climb until she reaches Madonna level. It's very likely that no other artist will ever reach it though. Her manager Guy Oseary recently tweeted that she's started recording her 12th studio album, so clearly she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

 

[trinket]

Always liked "Beautiful Stranger" (Wikipedia entry) back in the day - nice mix of modern and retro sounds I thought and a little different from what was heard on the radio at the time. And I thought this Victor Calderone remix was a very nice alternate interpretation of it.




And while we're at it, a few other interpretations of it:






This instrumental is beautiful:




And of course live:

 

[ILLBFIRE]

I wonder what kind of sound Madonna is going to come out with??

 

[zunkian]

^Agree with you huntneo! Would love her to return to another ROL kind of album. But with her working currently with Martin Solveig, it would be like COADF sort of.
Just listen to Martin Solveig's track with Dragonette titled Hello. That sort of sound would be a hint already in Madonna's upcoming album.
But whatever the queen of pop comes up with, I'll surely support it! But if she does a Gaga like sound, I might not be happy with it
Here's hoping she won't dare!

 

[EthanStorm]

I hope she goes the Confessions route. She was really onto something there

 

[KrisHawkXXX]

Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

I know Madonna has tried many angels to try and see what works and what doesn't work, but what if Madonna recorded an album writing songs about her life and world views while being influenced by LSD and MDMA?

For one she could easily use LSD and produce some rock, hip-hop, dance, or a combination of various sounds with the theme of rainbows (seeing colors and seeing differences.) A person tripping would see how various genres come from seeing different perspectives and ways of thinking.

I'm for the idea above but am equally for...

a sequel to confessions...

AN ALL OUT RAVE ALBUM! Madonna candy-flipping and dancing to MDMA with photo shoots of a dance floor similar to confessions but with glow necklaces, laser shows with light up gloves, Madonna under black lights in sexy poses... Imagine how much people would love Madonna if she reinvented herself this way. In my area the rave scene is picking up fast and DubStep and electro hard style may just be what Madonna needs to make a new comeback album to surpass any other studio work she's done.

Madonna would have platinum blonde hair but would glow beautifully under a blacklight during a music video.

Imagine remixes done by Deadmau5 Joel Zimmerman himself!

 

[pausanias_usa]

Re: Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

I'm not a big Madonna fan (at all) BUT I found RAY OF LIGHT to be nicely trippy 8').

 

[StationToStation]

Re: Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

Hmmm interesting concept but she is over 50 now. Raves so 90s too, but they are coming back. Maybe Madonna should go totally pop again

 

[KrisHawkXXX]

Re: Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

Hmmm interesting concept but she is over 50 now. Raves so 90s too, but they are coming back. Maybe Madonna should go totally pop again

Didn't say pop I meant electro and dubstep and record/write while candy-flipping.

 

[StationToStation]

Re: Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

You Madonna on LSD and x lol

 

[KrisHawkXXX]

Re: Idea for Madonna: Psychedelic Music

haha I'd eat that bitch's pussy like she's never been stimulated before i'd LOVE to roll with Madonna! I'd marry that woman and never need another man again

 

[TrailofTears]

Love, love, love this woman. Ray of Light is my favorite album of hers, if not my favorite album of all-time.

 

[trinket]

Orbit made ROL a fucking masterpiece, and out of everything I've heard from him...it's as if he put his best work into that album. You are spot on about his use of synths, the blending, and everything! Dude was on top of his game with this album...and I really wish he and Madonna would come together to do a part 2. lol I can only dream.

I also agree that ROL is best heard through a good pair of headphones. There's so many surprises and little buzzes, beeps, and all kinds of noises that are barely audible but vital elements of the songs. It's all so beautiful.

Huntneo, just wanted to quote this post that you wrote in this thread in reply to me back in June. I've been listening to "Ray of Light" all week (on good headphones!) and we're on the same page about all those masterful little details. Whereas some producers might go, "Oh, synth-snare drum fill here" and cut-and-paste it in, only tweaking a little if at all and moving on, all those sounds and textures from Orbit sound so lovingly and carefully crafted, always nuanced in detail. I think he spent a long time creating them and working them out. I know it seems an apparent contraction to call synth sounds "organic", but I consider them organic in terms of him very musically and carefully and sensitively drizzling them throughout "Ray of Light" - they always support and help the song instead of crying out, "Hey look at me, look at this sound" and you can tell there's a very musical soul behind them.

To be fair, I doubt they were all conceived during "Ray of Light"'s creation/sessions - I've heard his working process is constantly developing a library of sounds and electronic manipulations that continue to evolve and the library added to over time, and he can apply them as small touches to whatever project he's working on. So they were part of a toolbox, but if you picture a literal carpenter's toolbox or something, he's going to have his nails, screws, hammer, pieces of wood standing by, and craft something relevant for the project at hand.

Take the amazing "Frozen" for example - below. That percussion effect that enters at 0:17 has trademarks of metal percussion (agogo bells or something) along with the attack of a drum sound (like a timbale) - an interesting sort of mix. And when Madonna starts singing at 0:36, listen to the descending synth-bells effect quietly happening behind her. Of course, that drum sample breaks it up around 0:52 or so, and after that there's a synth throbbing sound you can hear that is sort of anticipating the change at 1:10.

One of my favorite moments is 2:10 to 2:13, with that synth-drum pattern that starts off 2:09 to 2:11, you think you know where it's going and the tempo it's at, but at 2:11 it sort of fades away and immediately re-emerges with a slightly modified sound, a crescendo into the riff (starting from nothing), and some interesting stereo imaging that actually makes it sound at 2:13 like it's breaking up and falling away into left and right sides. I know it's only 3 seconds and maybe casual listeners on, say, the radio might say, "Oh, that's a drum thing, neat", if they're even paying that much attention, but this album holds up so well for really detailed listening with all sorts of nuanced items that scream out how actually carefully they were conceived and placed into the soundscape of the song.

 

[miaedu]

Who says Madonna fans don't have a sense of humor:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIK2y_NA32M[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON42OHZbaJM&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[FanofFiction]

Haha! Funny!