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I think this was the one performance of the song I really enjoyed, but even hearing this it’s understandable why she’s never brought it out on tour.
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I'm Going To Tell You A Secret is gone off Spotify in Ireland... just when I wanted to listen to that tours version of Vogue in the middle of a cleaning spree.
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This first demo of Has To Be is still absolutely stunning. Big Something To Remember vibes.
She sort of nails the force in the chorus but yeah the song is famously a struggle for her to sing, you can tell she’s in her head about it the whole time.
Her live performance voice juxtaposed against her "studio voice" really showed when she performed The Power of Goodbye. I feel like she often tends to sing softer and more reserved in the studio, where she has an ideal environment. But maybe replicating that in a live setting is harder, so she defaults to a more forceful sound. The difference between how she sang Hung Up in the studio and how she sang it live is something else I think of.
Seriously. It's such mellow after-hours George-Michael-in-the-90s realness.
The percussion work William added to Frozen is so brilliant. I don't have the vernacular to explain it but the drums and building and collapsing rhythmic sections are mind bending. The drumroll that breaks up the different sections is so satisfying. When it rattles in at around 4:08 leading into the grand finale a chill goes up my spine every fucking time.
Also not enough credit is given to the double chorus at the end clearing my teenage acne. It's genius how the song grows and dies back and the chorus doesn't quite take you all the way until the end, where it swoops in one more time after keeeeey and that's all it takes to feel that total face melting rush.
The song is just... Masterfully constructed. She did that.
Also not enough credit is given to the double chorus at the end clearing my teenage acne. It's genius how the song grows and dies back and the chorus doesn't quite take you all the way until the end, where it swoops in one more time after keeeeey and that's all it takes to feel that total face melting rush.
The song is just... Masterfully constructed. She did that.
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She was kind of a holy terror during the Hard Candy promo circuit and I’m completely fascinated by it. It’s at once incredibly uncomfortable to listen to and electrifying to watch her face as she toys with the interviewer here.
“What can we do to save the world?”
“...stop asking stupid questions?” (:
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How funny, I was watching a bunch of promo interviews from Hard Candy last night. I’m guessing this is the one where she basically calls L.A. Reid stupid for trying to pit her and Mariah against each other nn
As a gay entertainment journalist, I can’t imagine any greater honor than having my interview skills ripped to shreds by Madonna to my face.
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Ha, I just got to that part. “A man without a reason shouldn’t be listened to” is up there with her comment about that biopic script as one of the most withering things I’ve ever heard Madonna say. Legend tingz
I think he was even lucky that Madonna seemed fairly endeared by him, in spite of the awkward moments in his interview. There are interviews where she’s simply very cold when she’s rubbed the wrong way.
What was the movie and musical she was mentioning here in 12:55? Did it get shelved?
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They were both films. The one where she played a violin teacher was a biopic called Music of the Heart, and role ended up going to Meryl Streep after Madonna left the film. The musical was Chicago.
I don't know why but 1998 Madonna always reminds me of Season 1 Carrie Bradshaw.
Why did both not push through?
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Chicago fell through because production was simply taking too long so she left. There were constant changes in casting, script writers, and directors, and Harvey Weinstein kept coming in with very bizarre creative choices, like a cameo from Britney Spears, Janet Jackson doing a song for the film, etc. Basically trying to turn it into Moulin Rouge!
Anyway, M was attached for just over a decade, and was supposedly chosen by Bob Fosse himself for a role in it way back in 1987... and then he died. And for the other one, she just didn’t get along with Wes Craven, who was directing the film. She learned violin for the part, though – fun fact.
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I’ve said it before but I can’t imagine Madonna as the lead in Music of the Heart at all.
I can't either. But it would have been interesting.
Plus she could have shared scenes with Gloria Estefan!