Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Queen Leaves London For NYC Friday Jan 29/10!
Ready to head back to the States, Madonna was spotted catching a flight from London’s Heathrow Airport en route to New York City on Friday (January 29).Prior to jetting off, the Material Girl spent the previous evening enjoying an intimate meal with friends at Locanda Locatelli restaurant.Meanwhile, Madge was just recently named to a decade’s best list for her MTV Video Music Awards liplock with Britney Spears in 2003.On the Best Kiss of the Decade poll, Tobey Maguire puckering up with Kirsten Dunst in “Spider-Man” came in second while Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Brokeback Mountain” action was named third.
Madonna On Slant's Best Of Singles List..
36. Madonna, “Hung Up”“Hung Up” employs a ticking clock to represent fear of wasted time, but Madonna isn’t singing about aging or saving the world—she’s talking about love. It had been years since Madge sounded this vapid. With its pitched-upward vocals, infectious arpeggio sample from ABBA’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight),” and the bridge’s unironic, archetypical key change, the track decidedly points to the past, and it proved that, 20 years into her career, Madonna was still the one and only Dancing Queen. SC
33. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me”Madonna’s Y2K-era dalliances with electronica could oftentimes verge on the theoretical, so it’s a tad ironic that the one hit from her Orbit-Mirwais daze that still packs fully loaded pistols is also the most engrossed in chemistry-set beat science. “Don’t Tell Me” is first and foremost a concoction: two parts corn pone, one part glitch, with reliable disco strings to serve as the catalyst. What seals the deal, though, is that lyrically Madonna’s on board too. Tell the peanut butter of acoustic guitars to stay away from the chocolate of digital bass drones, but don’t tell Madonna she can’t eat both and spit back manna. EH
25. Madonna, “Music”From its generic title to Madonna’s anonymous vocal performance, “Music” is a blank slate of a song. To wit, the song has had almost as many makeovers as Madonna herself. Okay, so not quite that many, but each of the performer’s tours during the last decade has featured a new incarnation of the song: Kraftwerk-inspired electronica, ’70s disco, and most recently, ’80s hip-hop (the next logical embodiment would be ’90s house). If music truly is a universal language, then “Music”—in all of its meta reinventions and retro dialects—might be the best piece of evidence we have that music really does make the people come together. SC
Slant: Best of the Aughts: Singles
33. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me”Madonna’s Y2K-era dalliances with electronica could oftentimes verge on the theoretical, so it’s a tad ironic that the one hit from her Orbit-Mirwais daze that still packs fully loaded pistols is also the most engrossed in chemistry-set beat science. “Don’t Tell Me” is first and foremost a concoction: two parts corn pone, one part glitch, with reliable disco strings to serve as the catalyst. What seals the deal, though, is that lyrically Madonna’s on board too. Tell the peanut butter of acoustic guitars to stay away from the chocolate of digital bass drones, but don’t tell Madonna she can’t eat both and spit back manna. EH
25. Madonna, “Music”From its generic title to Madonna’s anonymous vocal performance, “Music” is a blank slate of a song. To wit, the song has had almost as many makeovers as Madonna herself. Okay, so not quite that many, but each of the performer’s tours during the last decade has featured a new incarnation of the song: Kraftwerk-inspired electronica, ’70s disco, and most recently, ’80s hip-hop (the next logical embodiment would be ’90s house). If music truly is a universal language, then “Music”—in all of its meta reinventions and retro dialects—might be the best piece of evidence we have that music really does make the people come together. SC
Slant: Best of the Aughts: Singles
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Madonna Will Perform At "Haiti" Telethon!
News is just in that Madonna WILL perform a well known classic on the upcoming " Hope For Haiti" Telethon this Friday. ...Stay tuned for more details as they'll become available.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Sticky and Sweet DVD/CD and Revolver Maxi Single Available For Pre-Order On Amazon.com!
The Sticky & Sweet Tour CD/DVDAudio CD (March 30, 2010)Number of Discs: 2Format: Dual DiscLabel: Warner Bros.ASIN: B002ZFQD04Link
Revolver Mixes (Import) (listed as Revolution)Audio CD (February 2, 2010)Number of Discs: 1Format: Single, ImportLabel: Warner MusicASIN: B0030HG3LULink
Tracklisting1. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Remix (feat. Lil Wayne) 3:252. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Remix) 3:103. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Club Remix) 5:234. Revolver (Paul Van Dyk Remix) 8:365. Revolver (Paul Van Dyk Dub) 8:366. Revolver (Tracy Young’s Shoot To Kill Remix) 9:307. Celebration (Feat. Akon) 03:548. Celebration (Felguk Love Remix) 6:38
Revolver Mixes (Import) (listed as Revolution)Audio CD (February 2, 2010)Number of Discs: 1Format: Single, ImportLabel: Warner MusicASIN: B0030HG3LULink
Tracklisting1. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Remix (feat. Lil Wayne) 3:252. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Remix) 3:103. Revolver (Madonna Vs. David Guetta One Love Club Remix) 5:234. Revolver (Paul Van Dyk Remix) 8:365. Revolver (Paul Van Dyk Dub) 8:366. Revolver (Tracy Young’s Shoot To Kill Remix) 9:307. Celebration (Feat. Akon) 03:548. Celebration (Felguk Love Remix) 6:38
Monday, January 18, 2010
Madonna "Glee" Episode News!
Wanna know the best time to hit up a TV producer for spoilers? Take it from me, it’s when they smell a Golden Globe coming. Read on and feast on the scoopapalooza Ryan Murphy gave me just minutes before Glee’s big victory last night… The upcoming Madonna episode deserves to be called “very special.” “It’s big… huge. We’re shooting it now. It’s got like 10 numbers in it, and the production value is very big. We adore her and worship her, so when I’m directing, I’m always like, ‘Do it for Madonna.’” (Ed. note: Murphy wouldn’t say which Madge tune Jane Lynch’s Sue would be doing, but I can confirm that it’s “Vogue.”)
Source: EW
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Jesus Luz Pays Homage To The Queen!
In The New "Interview" Magazine Jesus pays Tribute to Madonna in Various Poses!
The Interview is cool too!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Material.Boy Trailer.
A load of garabage, but it's very telling how everyone want to get close to the Queen!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Madonna's Statement Following Earthquake In Haiti.
madonna.com
January 14, 2010
Madonna Statement Following Earthquake In Haiti
“My prayers are with the people of Haiti. I can’t imagine the terrible pain and suffering they are experiencing. Sadly the depths of the tragedy are just becoming known and the need for our support grows more urgent with every passing moment. I have given a donation of $250,000 to assist Haiti’s earthquake victims through Partner’s in Health (www.phi.org) one of Haiti’s leading health care providers. I urge all of my friends and fans around the world to join me collectively to match my contribution or give in any way you can. We must act now. Thank you for your support”
Madonna
January 14, 2010
Madonna Statement Following Earthquake In Haiti
“My prayers are with the people of Haiti. I can’t imagine the terrible pain and suffering they are experiencing. Sadly the depths of the tragedy are just becoming known and the need for our support grows more urgent with every passing moment. I have given a donation of $250,000 to assist Haiti’s earthquake victims through Partner’s in Health (www.phi.org) one of Haiti’s leading health care providers. I urge all of my friends and fans around the world to join me collectively to match my contribution or give in any way you can. We must act now. Thank you for your support”
Madonna
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
"Sticky & Sweet" Concert To Be Released On DVD, Blu-Ray And CD March 30th!
Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Concert To Be Released March 30th On DVD, Blu-Ray And CDLOS ANGELES, CA — January 12, 2010 — Madonna’s most recent stage extravaganza, the “Sticky & Sweet” concert, will be released on March 30th, it was announced today by Live Nation, the world’s largest live music company. “Sticky & Sweet”, which was produced by Live Nation, was the most successful tour by a solo artist in history and was seen by over 3.5 million fans in 32 countries around the world. The show, which will be distributed by Warner Bros Records, will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and CD and will include many of the Material Girl’s hits from the course of her unprecedented career including, “4 Minutes,” “Like a Prayer,” “Hung Up” and “Ray of Light”. Filmed in Buenos Aires, over four days to a crowd exceeding 256,000 fans, the concert also includes a show stopping moment when Madonna performs a historic “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” to a thunderous audience response from her Argentine fans. Also included are several hits from the multi-Grammy winner’s most recent CD “Hard Candy” which debuted at No. 1 in 37 countries. The DVD also includes 30 minutes of exclusive footage filmed behind the scenes during the course of the tour. “Part concert, part block party and all fun, there is still only one Madonna,” raved the Oakland Press in their review of the “Sticky & Sweet” Tour. “A night of triumph and defiance… A two hour multi-media juggernaut,” glowed the LA Times. “Our lady of perpetual motion…This may be the best tour she’s ever stitched together,” claimed the NY Post.
Source: Madonna.com
http://www.madonna.com/
"Revolver" #1 In Canada!
Madonna's new single "Revolver" tops the Canadian Top 20 Single Sales chart collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen SoundScan from a national sample of retail store and mass merchants' reports. "Revolver" entered straight to #1 in the week ending on January 7th, 2010.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Madonna's School Coming Up Fast In Malawi!
Lilongwe (Malawi), Jan 10, 2010The white placard is rather nondescript, but it marks a unique construction site on the rolling meadows outside Malawian capital Lilongwe – a school being built by pop star Madonna who has adopted two children from the country.
The small southern African state, with a population of 13.5 million, had first seen an influx of tabloid journalists jetting into its small airport in 2006, when Madonna adopted a Malawian boy, David Banda. She already has two biological children, Lourdes and Rocco.
Last year, she adopted another Malawian child, a girl this time, Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James. But both times she had run into initial legal troubles, as both the children had one living parent, despite being brought up in an orphanage.
There is a Malawian provision that the future parent had to live in the country for a period of time. However, most of the laws were waived, with the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in her favour. As a thanksgiving, Madonna started a charity organisation, Raising Malawi, for the development of children.
In fact, Malawi has a large population of orphans, estimated to be around two million. Nearly one-fourth have one or both parents who have perished from AIDS.
Madonna and her four children had come down to Malawi for the ground-breaking ceremony for the $15-million school in October 2009. The hostel will be for 500 girls selected from all districts of the country, which has a GDP per capita of just $541.
The site for the school is just off the road from Kamuzu international airport to Lilongwe.
When a visiting IANS correspondent went to the site, a dirt road led along the white board which is just written with the words – “Project Site for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls”. The road was clearly being used by heavy construction equipment making their way to the actual construction site.
The rolling greens was scarred by strips of red earth, with a yellow bulldozer at work, piling soil on to the back of waiting white trucks. There were around four to five trucks waiting or moving around, though there were no physical structures yet.
The academy is set to be operational in two years. Incidentally, the orphanages from where the children had been adopted have also benefited from the increased attention, receiving lots of foreign funding.
Most Malawians are quite positive about Madonna’s adoption. According to Kush Mittal, an Indian businessman living in Lilongwe, there was not much opposition to the American pop star taking two Malawian children into her family, though there were dissenting voices. “It was generally thought that the children would get a better life,” Mittal told IANS.
Thirty-year-old Nero Banda, who worked in the hospitality industry, also had no qualms about Madonna’s adoption. “We appreciate it. They (children) would have remained poor here. But now, it will be different,” he said, gesticulating with his hand.
“The people who were criticising were the rich people whose children were going to foreign schools,” he added.
(Devirupa Mitra can be contacted at devirupa.m@ians.in)
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a106345.html
The small southern African state, with a population of 13.5 million, had first seen an influx of tabloid journalists jetting into its small airport in 2006, when Madonna adopted a Malawian boy, David Banda. She already has two biological children, Lourdes and Rocco.
Last year, she adopted another Malawian child, a girl this time, Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James. But both times she had run into initial legal troubles, as both the children had one living parent, despite being brought up in an orphanage.
There is a Malawian provision that the future parent had to live in the country for a period of time. However, most of the laws were waived, with the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in her favour. As a thanksgiving, Madonna started a charity organisation, Raising Malawi, for the development of children.
In fact, Malawi has a large population of orphans, estimated to be around two million. Nearly one-fourth have one or both parents who have perished from AIDS.
Madonna and her four children had come down to Malawi for the ground-breaking ceremony for the $15-million school in October 2009. The hostel will be for 500 girls selected from all districts of the country, which has a GDP per capita of just $541.
The site for the school is just off the road from Kamuzu international airport to Lilongwe.
When a visiting IANS correspondent went to the site, a dirt road led along the white board which is just written with the words – “Project Site for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls”. The road was clearly being used by heavy construction equipment making their way to the actual construction site.
The rolling greens was scarred by strips of red earth, with a yellow bulldozer at work, piling soil on to the back of waiting white trucks. There were around four to five trucks waiting or moving around, though there were no physical structures yet.
The academy is set to be operational in two years. Incidentally, the orphanages from where the children had been adopted have also benefited from the increased attention, receiving lots of foreign funding.
Most Malawians are quite positive about Madonna’s adoption. According to Kush Mittal, an Indian businessman living in Lilongwe, there was not much opposition to the American pop star taking two Malawian children into her family, though there were dissenting voices. “It was generally thought that the children would get a better life,” Mittal told IANS.
Thirty-year-old Nero Banda, who worked in the hospitality industry, also had no qualms about Madonna’s adoption. “We appreciate it. They (children) would have remained poor here. But now, it will be different,” he said, gesticulating with his hand.
“The people who were criticising were the rich people whose children were going to foreign schools,” he added.
(Devirupa Mitra can be contacted at devirupa.m@ians.in)
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a106345.html
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Roma People To Give Madonna A Gold Plaque!
The self-proclaimed king of the Roma said Tuesday he wants to give Madonna a gold plaque to thank the singer for criticizing discrimination against his people.
Madonna performed in Bucharest in August as part of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour, and at the concert said she was “very sad” because of the “discrimination against Romas and Gypsies in general in eastern Europe”.
Self-declared king Florin Cioaba said the Roma wanted to show their appreciation for the US star’s gesture.
“Madonna deserves great credit. She drew the whole world’s attention to discrimination against the Roma,” Cioaba told journalists in the central Romanian town of Sibiu.
The plaque has been ordered from a jeweler in Italy and will be made from 24-carat gold, the Romanian news agency Mediafax reported.
Romania has one of Europe’s largest communities of Roma, an ethnic minority believed to originate from the Indian subcontinent often referred to as Gypsies.
Discrimination against the group in Romania continues: a survey last September found that seven out of 10 Romanians would not want a Roma to be part of their family, and Madonna was jeered by the crowd when she made her remarks at the concert.
Last year Amnesty International criticised the Romanian authorities’ lack of action to tackle discrimination against Roma, a problem it said was “widespread and deeply ingrained in (people’s) minds.”
source: afp
Madonna performed in Bucharest in August as part of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour, and at the concert said she was “very sad” because of the “discrimination against Romas and Gypsies in general in eastern Europe”.
Self-declared king Florin Cioaba said the Roma wanted to show their appreciation for the US star’s gesture.
“Madonna deserves great credit. She drew the whole world’s attention to discrimination against the Roma,” Cioaba told journalists in the central Romanian town of Sibiu.
The plaque has been ordered from a jeweler in Italy and will be made from 24-carat gold, the Romanian news agency Mediafax reported.
Romania has one of Europe’s largest communities of Roma, an ethnic minority believed to originate from the Indian subcontinent often referred to as Gypsies.
Discrimination against the group in Romania continues: a survey last September found that seven out of 10 Romanians would not want a Roma to be part of their family, and Madonna was jeered by the crowd when she made her remarks at the concert.
Last year Amnesty International criticised the Romanian authorities’ lack of action to tackle discrimination against Roma, a problem it said was “widespread and deeply ingrained in (people’s) minds.”
source: afp
Vote Madonna In Hello Magazine Grand Finale of 2009!
With each month's finalist confirmed, fans can vote now to determine the year's overall winners at Hello Magazine's Grand Finale 2009, including Most Attractive Woman, Most Attractive Man and Most Elegant Woman.
Voting ends on January 20 at 1 PM GMT, with results to be published on the hellomagazine.com site the following day. Votes can be cast only once every 10 minutes and here are the links to the two categories Madonna is in the finale for:
Most Attractive Woman
Most Elegant Woman
Voting ends on January 20 at 1 PM GMT, with results to be published on the hellomagazine.com site the following day. Votes can be cast only once every 10 minutes and here are the links to the two categories Madonna is in the finale for:
Most Attractive Woman
Most Elegant Woman
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Celebration #7 On Independent's Top albums Of 2009!
1 U2 No Line on the Horizon
2 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
3 Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
4 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
5 Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers
6 F**k Buttons Tarot Sport
7 Madonna Celebration
Michigan’s most famous daughter, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is equal parts Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Parker and Mae West. No surprises that she also sold more than 300 million records worldwide with zeitgeist-zapping pop moments like Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Virgin, Borderline, Erotica, Like a Prayer and Material Girl.
Covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career, Celebration is a breathless and bop-friendly testament of the ab fabness of Madge.
8 Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You
9 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
10 Wilco Wilco
source: independent ireland
2 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
3 Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
4 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
5 Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers
6 F**k Buttons Tarot Sport
7 Madonna Celebration
Michigan’s most famous daughter, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is equal parts Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Parker and Mae West. No surprises that she also sold more than 300 million records worldwide with zeitgeist-zapping pop moments like Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Virgin, Borderline, Erotica, Like a Prayer and Material Girl.
Covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career, Celebration is a breathless and bop-friendly testament of the ab fabness of Madge.
8 Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You
9 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
10 Wilco Wilco
source: independent ireland
Madonna - 2nd Most Charitable Star Of 2009!
#2, Madonna
Charity: Raising Malawi
Annual Impact: $5,540,068
After co-founding Raising Malawi in 2006 to aid the nation’s two million orphans, Madonna has become one of the most hands-on philanthropic celebrities. She had to go through a fair bit of legal wrangling, but the pop star eventually adopted two Malawian children, Mercy and David. Of course, the coverage and controversy sparked by the adoptions generated significant press, as she and the charity were mentioned in over 600 newspaper or magazine articles in the last 24 months. The organization focuses on providing basic needs for children including nutrition, education, health care, and clothing, and to kick-start donations Madonna has vowed to match every dollar donated to the organization out of her own pocket.
Breakdown: TV ($455,568), Print ($4,897,500), Internet ($187,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)
source: thedailybeast
Charity: Raising Malawi
Annual Impact: $5,540,068
After co-founding Raising Malawi in 2006 to aid the nation’s two million orphans, Madonna has become one of the most hands-on philanthropic celebrities. She had to go through a fair bit of legal wrangling, but the pop star eventually adopted two Malawian children, Mercy and David. Of course, the coverage and controversy sparked by the adoptions generated significant press, as she and the charity were mentioned in over 600 newspaper or magazine articles in the last 24 months. The organization focuses on providing basic needs for children including nutrition, education, health care, and clothing, and to kick-start donations Madonna has vowed to match every dollar donated to the organization out of her own pocket.
Breakdown: TV ($455,568), Print ($4,897,500), Internet ($187,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)
source: thedailybeast