Madonna



Stuff like this is so iconic. If I was her, I'd watch these in bed while rubbing one out.

It’s actually really interesting how she has always been framed as a constructed product and a smart business woman. The narrative was essentially that she was talentless but a smart marketing machine. In fact she has always put her vision first. She has been successful first of all because she had ideas, because she was original even if everyone said she was copying others.
 
NEED for a future RSD
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"Gambler" expected December 9.
  1. Gambler (7" Version) - 3:54
  2. Gambler (Extended Dance Mix) - 5:42
  3. Gambler (Instrumental Remix) - 3:54
Looks like it's going to be backdated to 1985, so we'll probably need to search manually or scroll through her discography pages to find it on Friday.
I'm so going to stream the shit out of this. Don't be surprised if Gambler ends up my most streamed song of the year. It will be 1985 again, when the single wouldn't leave my record player.
 
It’s actually really interesting how she has always been framed as a constructed product and a smart business woman. The narrative was essentially that she was talentless but a smart marketing machine. In fact she has always put her vision first. She has been successful first of all because she had ideas, because she was original even if everyone said she was copying others.

99% of successful women in the media are never thought of as the ones in control, most are presumed to have been guided by so-called "powerful men".
 
It's a banger and apparently it's Madonna's last solo written song until... Hey You.

Anyway, it's such a high octane song and has another classic Madonna 80s bridge, so good they use it twice. And I love the subgenre of Madonna songs where she sings about what an unstoppable, irresistible hurricane of willpower she is (see also, Burning Up, Over and Over). The rate at which she churned out perfect pop songs back then was incredible.
 
For those interested or people who didn't know, back in 1996 William Orbit had a half hour radio show on KCRW in Los Angeles every Friday around midnight for three months. He basically played what he wanted and all tracks were mixed, scratched and fused live on air. The show contains many shards and fragments that would later become the base for tracks he would create for Madonna's Ray of Light album.

I've found this three hour version of the recordings, which are a lot of fun to listen to. At the 44:00 mark you can hear a very rough instrumental of what would later turn into Swim for instance. At 55:55 you can hear the "you say" vocal which opens "Drowned World/Substitute For Love", mixed with elements from Shanti. At 58:24 a very rough draft of what later turned into Ray of Light, and so on. I highly recommend having a listen.


This is so cool! Thanks so much for sharing this.
 
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I remember the movie was always rented at my local VHS, and yes they even had A Certain Sacrifice but I was too scared to watch that one dd.
 
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