Yeah, so this is definitely what I've done! It changes the track's standing a bit; I'll update everyone on said changes after the last elimination of the day, which is coming momentarily.
We also hesitated. And had a fuzzy dream. I visited New York for the first time last year, and this song was all I could think about. Which is especially annoying, because it is terrible.
Yeah, "I Love New York" being the first standard "Confessions on a Dance Floor" track to leave is perfectly understandable and acceptable. I'm pretty sure it's my least favourite song from that album, too.
I'm not a huge fan of Confessions overall, truth be told. If I was ranking her albums, everything from True Blue to Music inclusive and Hard Candy would be ahead of it, maybe American Life too (which I've grown to appreciate more over the years)
160 SCORE: 6.694 2015 PLACEMENT: DOWN 21 - 139 of 210 (6.568) HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 3 (@nanafan @Bleu Noir @Digital Ghost) LOWEST SCORE: 2.5 x 1 (@Ramalama) MY SCORE: 5/10 So I think this has maybe flown under the radar a little in terms of chat in the thread, but I'm afraid its time in the spotlight is done. It acted as the sole bit of new material from You Can Dance, an EP consisting of extended mixes and remixes from Madonna's first three albums. I like it, but I also think that it suffers from the same issues I have with the Who's That Girl songs where it just felt like her sound was starting to feel a little played out by that point, so the change up in sound on the next album isn't that much of a surprise. It just doesn't stand up against the rest of her output of the time, which of course was that singles run from True Blue. Curtis Hudson, the original writer of the track, had this to say of it in 2012: “During the time right after Holiday, when we’d go to her place and write, I presented Spotlight. I gave her a complete song, Spotlight. I had actually written it in case Warner Bros. asked her for another Holiday. She said she loved it and felt spiritual about it. But she didn’t use it or contact me again about it. It sort of popped up out of nowhere when she was getting ready to do You Can Dance. Her lawyer contacted our manager and said we needed to talk. We went over and met with him. She and Stephen Bray had already done the song; but I hadn’t even heard the version they had done.They took the demo I had given her and worked it into a different song. They gave me credit since I had the original song copyrighted. I would’ve collaborated and made changes. But I was told, ‘Well, she’s too busy. She’s overseas doing a movie.’ I was okay with it, though, because they gave me credit. But the original song had a certain magic, and the changes took that essence away. The original Spotlight was another Holiday—the rhythm, the basic groove. I think they were trying to get away from that sound. Sometimes artists don’t want their sound to be identified with specific writers.” I'll admit: I don't really hear the similarities in the finished version, so I'm curious to know what the original version sounded like. The difference between the two is compounded by the fact that "Holiday" is right after "Spotlight" on the You Can Dance tracklisting and... the former eats the latter up in terms of bopping potential, to be honest. Despite it being brand new Madonna material, the song was only officially released as a single in Japan, where it kinda smashed and peaked at No.3 on the Oricon International Singles Chart. It was most likely down to the fact that Mitsubishi had secured Madonna for a run of commercials that aired around the same time, with "Spotlight" featuring in the last run. I've included a bunch of the commercials below for anyone looking for a bit of capitalist nostalgia from when it was fairly common for artists to do these sort of things. She did loads of them! Queen of selling out!
So, my input error means that "Supernatural" actually fell at No.165, pushing everything above that up one spot, and obviously broke its tie with "I Love New York". Apologies, but I'm only human. I've put the tracks effected in bold. In terms of the weekend's eliminations, I'm indisposed for a lot of tomorrow so if I don't do tomorrow's elimination, I'll do two on Sunday. BYE! 160. Spotlight - 6.694 161. I Love New York - 6.652 162. Messiah - 6.639 163. Love Song - 6.621 163. I'd Rather Be Your Lover - 6.621 165. Supernatural - 6.615 166. Candy Shop - 6.588 167. Wash All Over Me - 6.561 168. HeartBreakCity - 6.558 169. Bitch I'm Loca (Feat. Maluma) - 6.548 170. Your Honesty - 6.524 171. Beautiful Scars - 6.461 172. Something To Remember - 6.458 173. Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 6.448 174. Over And Over - 6.433 175. Another Suitcase In Another Hall - 6.409 176. Stay - 6.367 177. Don't Stop - 6.339 178. Girl Gone Wild - 6.324 179. I Know It - 6.267 180. Act Of Contrition - 6.245 181. Fighting Spirit - 6.227 182. I Don't Give A (Feat. Nicki Minaj) - 6.203 183. It's So Cool - 6.191 184. Illuminati - 6.167 185. Funana - 6.161 186. Dance 2Night - 6.152 187. Borrowed Time - 6.118 187. History - 6.118 189. Sooner Or Later - 6.109 189. One More Chance - 6.109 191. Back That Up To The Beat - 6.076 192. Let Down Your Guard - 6.036 193. Killers Who Are Partying - 6.015 194. I'm A Sinner - 6.012 195. I Fucked Up - 5.964 196 - Some Girls - 5.933 197. He's A Man - 5.924 198. Give Me All Your Luvin' (Feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.) - 5.921 199. Buenos Aires - 5.894 200. Super Pop - 5.848 201. Revolver (Feat. Lil Wayne) - 5.827 202. Can't Stop - 5.776 203. Ain't No Big Deal - 5.736 204. Turn Up The Radio - 5.727 205. Best Friend - 5.721 206. Graffiti Heart - 5.697 207. Hanky Panky - 5.691 208. Love Makes The World Go Round - 5.679 209. Back In Business - 5.67 210. Pretender - 5.661 211. Lament - 5.615 212. Cyber-Raga - 5.603 213. Incredible - 5.545 214. Jimmy Jimmy - 5.521 215. Now I'm Following You - 5.497 216. Ring My Bell - 5.424 217. S.E.X. - 5.373 218. Spanish Lesson - 4.997 219. Shoo-Bee-Doo - 4.948 220. More - 4.852 221. What Can You Lose - 4.436 222. Superstar - 4.391 223. Auto-Tune Baby - 4.121 224. Cry Baby - 3.367 225. I'm Going Bananas - 3.327 226. B-Day Song (Feat. M.I.A.) - 3.000 227. Hey You - 2.976
I remember being a little gayling in 1987 and seeing an ad for the not-released-yet You Can Dance album and running to my record store and showing the clerk the ad and being disappointed that the album was not going to be released for another few weeks.
I LOVE those ads, never saw most of them before. I wonder how much she got paid. Reminds me of Bill Murray in Lost In Translation.
"Spotlight" is one of Madonna's most inessential songs, and I would easily clump it together with "Ain't No Big Deal" and "Can't Stop" in terms of being so unremarkable and sounding like a re-tread of her more popular songs from the 80's. Therefore, I'm a bit surprised it managed to go this far and surpass many superior songs. It is a very nice song, though.
Spotlight is cute and very boppable, but I imagine it’s something she forgot about the second she finished recording it.
The production does some serious heavy lifting on I Love New York, but whew if that explosion near the end doesn't even slightly adjust your wig you're dead inside. The demo is fascinating, too - there's something very 60's about it and I'm In Love With Love that could have led to at least a cute rocky side project. Spotlight is inessential, but I think it speaks to her absolute chokehold on pop music in the 80s that even the less interesting songs from that time still bop a tad.
I've been using Supernatural so much this week. My 7.5 is accurate but I kind of wish I'd given this Theremin bop a 10 dd Judging by your avi, you probably twerk to Frosti.
Oh no, I love Spotlight. One of my favourite early Madonna tracks. I really didn’t think it would go yet
Can we bring back thread tags only for Bjork's threads please? I think about "do-si-do'ing to cvalda" every third day of my life.
