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It's a nasty one too! I only have an account there for the media section.
Madonna - 15th Album
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I know, as I said, with the same seven stans from 2006 with six aliases each and a dream posting
Madonnanation is worse dd
Yeah, I also have high hopes for how her vocals are produced/handled on the upcoming album. Because as much as I love Madame X, I have a lot of feelings about the way the lady sounds.
For one, I never bought into the idea that she was singing through gritted teeth on God Control because she was just So AnGrY. I'm happy to be shown some comment from Madonna herself on the topic, but it always sounded like she just felt like recording with her grillz on.
There was also a lot of "she sounds autotuned and pitch corrected and distorted because that's what Mirwais does, that's this thing, go listen to Music and American Life." On those albums it felt intelligently applied, and those moments were contrasted with moments of very stark, naked vocal work. On Madame X it just felt indiscriminate and like it had less to do with accenting the point of the song and more to do with making her sound good. And it keeps the album from sounding like the million-bucks aural experience any Madonna should be.
For one, I never bought into the idea that she was singing through gritted teeth on God Control because she was just So AnGrY. I'm happy to be shown some comment from Madonna herself on the topic, but it always sounded like she just felt like recording with her grillz on.
There was also a lot of "she sounds autotuned and pitch corrected and distorted because that's what Mirwais does, that's this thing, go listen to Music and American Life." On those albums it felt intelligently applied, and those moments were contrasted with moments of very stark, naked vocal work. On Madame X it just felt indiscriminate and like it had less to do with accenting the point of the song and more to do with making her sound good. And it keeps the album from sounding like the million-bucks aural experience any Madonna should be.
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I’m pretty sure she did say this herself dd
Edit, from her Mojo Magazine interview:
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/madonna-interviewed/
She’s said she doesn’t actually enjoy singing with her grillz in because it’s too difficult. She also brought up autotune and said she likes the contrast with more organic sounds. What’s different is the way it’s used more recently is more akin to hip-hop, instead of the way it was being used on previous albums.
I think the vocal production on her more recent collaborations (and on The Celebration Tour) prove she sounds just fine without it, seeing as it’s the same exact vocal producer she’s been working with since Madame X
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She looks SO good.
That place was truly dark. I frequented rarely back in my permanently online days and realised I was in the true pits of hell when a poster would (be allowed to) make continual horrific jokes about Kylie’s cancer.
That's pretty f*cking shit! Awful.
Is that place even still active? I remember it always having page errors and sh-t.
The same person that prouduced her vocals on Madame X.
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People realizing they need to come to terms with the fact that Madame X sounds like that intentionally, whether they liked it or not dd
Lauren remains iconic and unbothered
Lauren remains iconic and unbothered
I think there was a case being made back when the album came out for the muffled vocals being a through line with the stitched lips, which I always thought was kind of tragically beautiful considering the inspiration behind that one cover. I was never offended by that choice of vocal production anyway, even if the aforementioned interpretation is reading too much into it. Let me live in my fantasy!