Tuesday, January 25, 2011

“The Power of Madonna” Megamix by DJ Bill Bennett

Tracklist:

1. Revolver 2. 4 Minutes 3. Frozen 4. Erotica 5. Like A Prayer 6. What It Feels Like For A Girl 7. Heartbeat 9. Miles Away 9. Hung Up 10. Celebration

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Exclusive Preview Of W.E. At The Berlin Film Festival!

Madonna is to give a sneak preview of her latest film project during the Berlin Film Festival next month, organizers said Thursday, confirming media reports.

Madonna and actress is to show excerpts from her project, entitled W.E., about the relationship between British king Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson during the 1930s, German tabloid newspaper B.Z. reported.


The private screening will reportedly take place on the first weekend of the Berlinale festival. The full film is not to be shown until the Cannes film festival in May.
The invitation has been sent out only to a few, carefully selected distributors and cinemas.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Madonna Related Clips From New Basquiat Film!



Various Madonna-related clips from Tamra Davis’s excellent 2010 documentary film Jean-Michael Basquiat: The Radiant Child.

Madonna Painting On Dosplay In Macclesfield!

A controversial painting of Madonna and her former husband Guy Ritchie, worth £35,000, is hanging in Macclesfield’s newest exhibition space, the Gateway Gallery.Collector Martin Regan, 48, of Alderley Edge, snapped up the painting by Scottish artist Mark Howson, called "A Portrait Of Marriage" and will display it in his Prestbury Road gallery, which opens on Friday.

He said: "This is a very exclusive gallery selling things for up to £100,000."When it came up for sale in May 2009 there was a lot of interest in it because Madonna collects Howson’s work and everyone thought she might buy it, but she didn’t, I did."Dad-of-four Martin added: "It polarises people, some people really like it and some don’t."I think it’s a powerful painting by a world-class artist."He added: "

The Madonna painting will interest a lot of people who should come and see it and take a look around."Gateway Gallery, opens with a private exhibition tomorrow, January 20, and opens to the public on Friday, January 21.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Slant Magazine's Top 100 Singles Of The 90's!


42. Madonna, “Secret.” Despite the common misconception that she often sings about sex, Madonna’s songs aren’t always sexy. “Secret” is perhaps the finest exception to that rule. As it slinks along a simple R&B backbeat and an unfussy acoustic guitar figure, “Secret” is also one of the most organic-sounding singles of Madonna’s career, taking its sweet time to get where it’s going and not giving up too much along the way. The arrangement gets off on being withholding, and, at least for one glorious single, so does Madonna: When she sings, “You knew all along/What I never wanted to say,” she sounds positively rapturous. JK

36. Madonna, “Deeper and Deeper.” Among Madonna’s finest achievements, the angsty pop anthem “Deeper and Deeper” is both an acute distillation of Erotica’s smut-glam decadence and the singer’s lifelong blond ambition. The song, like its video, practically plays out as an autobiography of the singer’s life: Atop sambalicious disco, Madonna delivers a burning, poignant fairy tale of yearning and escape in which she plays both Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Armond White once praised Madonna for how she took “outsider art inside herself”—which is to say, justified it by personalizing it. The uncontrolled, fierce tension of the song derives from the feeling that Madonna is taking a plunge into some hedonistic abyss of her own liberated, uninhibited making. EG

34. Madonna, “Erotica.” Madonna accepts the burden of her throaty, spent-from-touring voice, which makes Erotica’s taunting, aggressive lyrics—an elaborate exploration of sex, from seduction to disease—feel unmistakably honest. The title track, whose opening put-a-record-on scratchiness mirrors that of Madonna’s most divisive instrument, is the singer’s invitation to the dance, a slithering, sinister snake rising from a gaudily ornate chalice. The beats are, by design, hypnotic—at once alluring and devious. With “Erotica,” Madonna promises to get you off, but not without giving you something. EG

16. Madonna, “Ray of Light.” Once the Material Girl made it her mission to bring electronica to the masses, she could have named her collaborator. Her decision to work with William Orbit shows that, for all the flack she’s faced for “appropriation,” her interest in underground dance music is deep and not wholly commercial. Madonna discovered techno just as she turned 40 and took up Kabbalah, and listening to “Ray of Light,” it’s easy to imagine Madonna finding in rave culture not just a new image, but a way of expressing her spiritual awakening. The beat is restless and Madonna sings breathlessly, but she exudes contentment: “I feel like I just got home!” Her emotional warmth is what establishes the song as a standout single even in a catalogue as replete with classics as Madonna’s. MC

10. Madonna, “Vogue.” Much has been written (specifically on this site) about the cultural impact of the appropriation of queer and nonwhite motifs in Madonna’s “Vogue,” so I’ll focus instead on the song’s musical archaeology and influence. Lest I completely ignore its substance, Madonna’s message is clear (”Beauty is where you find it”), but the track’s origins are part and parcel with its star’s mining of gay club trends and Old Hollywood: Inspired by the Salsoul Orchestra’s “Ooh, I Love It (Love Break)” by way of Danny Krivit’s remix of MFSB’s “Love Is the Message,” the song has a family tree that even includes producer/DJ Shep Pettibone’s remix of Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” and serves as a sort of musical map of disco. Pettibone recorded “Vogue” with Madonna as a B-side for her single “Keep It Together,” making its impact all the more impressive (it would go on to inspire a glut of pop-house copycats) and begging the question: If disco died a decade earlier, what the fuck was this big, gay, fuscia drag-queen boa of a dance song sitting on top of the charts for a month for? SC

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Rasta Baby!


Avril Lavigne Want To Do It Like Madonna!

Avril Lavigne has revealed that she hopes to emulate Madonna’s music career.


The singer, who is gearing up for the release of her fourth studio album Goodbye Lullaby, told the Daily Record that she wants to follow a similar path to Madonna, who has released 11 albums in her 27-year career.


“I definitely can see myself still being out there in 20 years’ time.I want to be around the way Madonna has done it. She’s had her life but still maintained her career throughout.Well, it’s like you go away and you come back. I put out a record, I’m around doing a million things and then I shut up and go away.I think it’s good to change but it’s better if it’s a natural progression rather than being forced.”