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December 19, 2014MADONNA RELEASES SIX SONGS FROM NEW 'REBEL HEART' ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOWFull Album Scheduled for Release in March
Pre-order the album on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/RebelHeart
December 20, 2014. For immediate release....New York, NY.....Madonna has just released six songs from her new studio album 'Rebel Heart'. The six songs are currently available for purchase now via preorder at iTunes and other music outlets with purchase of the album and a la carte as well. The music will also be available on all streaming services. Additional music will be released on Feb. 9th. The full album of "Rebel Heart" on Interscope Records is scheduled to be released the first week in March 2015.
Song titles that are currently available from the new album are Living For Love, Devil Pray, Ghosttown, Unapologetic Bitch, Illuminati and Bitch I'm Madonna which was recorded with Nicki Minaj. Producers include Madonna, Diplo, Kanye West, Billboard, was recorded in NY, LA and London.
The decision to release the songs much earlier than anticipated was due to the leaking of several work-in-progress demos earlier this week.
"I was hoping to release my new single 'Living For Love' on Valentine's Day with the rest of the album coming in the Spring. I would prefer my fans to hear completed versions of some of the songs instead of the incomplete tracks that are circulating. Please consider these six songs as an early Christmas gift," commented Madonna.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
less waiting hesitating and anticipating, more... trepidating
― prolego, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
All six of those "Christmas gifts" are awful, so, uh, thanks?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
This seems like a huge mistake from a PR/marketing standpoint
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 21 December 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, it's pretty shitty to have so many demos leaked so shortly before the songs were due to be released, i feel like what they did is one of the better possible responses to a situation they didn't create or ask for.
― some dude, Sunday, 21 December 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
By the time the actual album comes out no ones going to give a shit about this album
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 21 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Though tbh this mag generate a shit ton of preorders so
yeah it being done as an album pre-order (as opposed to just an EP released before the album) seems shrewd.
also, to be cynical -- this album is probably going to be terrible and have no hits and no reach beyond her hardcore fanbase and be a footnote to a very profitable tour just like her last album, so it all feels to me like a question of whether they're maneuvering to make the best of that inevitable situation.
― some dude, Sunday, 21 December 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
It's so strange, she can afford any writer/producer she wants, and plenty of people have a way with hooks and dance music and whatnot. I can only assume she is as awful as she want to be and exactly as she wants to be.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 December 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
now there's a press release
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
Does Lourdes have any interest in making music? Because she's probably got a better ear for it than her mother at this point.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
"Hey mom, you should make an EDM album. There are some kids at school who can make you some sick beats. You could call it 'Good Drop, Bad Drop.'"
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
"You could appear on the cover in an S&M styled cop uniform with, like, a ball gag, holding up a sign that says #ICANBREATHE. Everyone will be talking about it."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
this is totally rocco's influence.
― prolego, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
"You could totally turn Eric Garner's death throes into 'the I Can't Breathe' dance and rock that shit on an international tour."
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
People will talk.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ox2rAuhE4
― prolego, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
I like Living for Love and not much else.
― Greer, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
living for love - total banger crippled by, once again, the stiffness and rigidity of madonna's voice these daysdevil pray - prolego was right on the other thread, this is really good. drug refs should be cringe but somehow workghosttown - boringunapologetic bitch - clipped voice actually works, not sure cod-reggae/stefani cast-offs are a good look for her thoughilluminati - i think this is so odd that it might actually workbitch i'm madonna - no
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 December 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm sort of discouraged Bitch I'm Madonna made it to the album, I thought she might nix it at demo stage.
― cpl593H, Monday, 22 December 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
The line about doing X in "Devil Pray" is sung so coyly that I'm ready to think she's never touched the stuff, but so far, yeah, it's the strongest and weirdest tune.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 December 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
Given the trajectory of her career I would have found it faintly astonishing if she hadn't touched the stuff in the 80s or 90s but yeah probably not in the molly era.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 December 2014 12:53 (nine years ago) link
Isn't her line that she's tried everything at least once, but is too much of a control freak to take drugs?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 December 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
so, as has happened before, will this album kill diplos career ?
― mark e, Monday, 22 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Pareles likes: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/arts/music/madonna-6-songs-offers-preview-of-rebel-heart-album.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
surprised by that ^^ cause i heard "living for love" yesterday and wasn't impressed. maybe it's a grower? her superbowl halftime travesty aside, to my ears madonna has sounded like her heart's not in making music for the last half-dozen years or so. going through motions cause she doesn't know what else to do. not bad, or sad, just meh.
― Pontius Pilates (m coleman), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
look I'm the same age as her and totally relate. it's like a middle-aged thing.
― Pontius Pilates (m coleman), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
This seems like a huge mistake from a PR/marketing standpoint― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The "huge mistake" is that she didn't retire at some point after Music and before American Life.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I won't make an effort to hear this album, but eventually I'll hear some songs, and I'll probably really like one or two. I always do.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
MOJO! available on the 27th.
http://scontent-a.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfp1/t51.2885-15/e15/10632073_391823004312549_846959512_n.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Wait, isn't Mojo a mag for old farts...oh, I see.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
tbf it's got the highest circulation figures out of all the british music mags so it's a better move than chasing the youf in... nme (?)
― prolego, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
edgy
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
also chance the rapper & mike tyson feature on one of the album tracks. idek.
― prolego, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Madonna should name her next album "Whatever."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
This leaked...again.
― Greer, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
more like bevel shart
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
"This leaked...again."
old age...
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
The more she talks about this the more it makes me think she might actually be putting serious effort into her music instead of just going through the motions to make a promotional tool for her next tour
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
is it just me or is this actually...good?! and not stiffly going through the motions? not all of it obv but this entire era will have been worth it for "joan of arc"
"iconic" is either the best or worst thing ever
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
It's like rain on your wedding day--isn't it iconic?
I like that one too.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
Your love's coming down like, raaaaiiiiiin, on your wedding day
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 04:26 (nine years ago) link
Joan of Arc is incredible. She's obviously trying this time but the "romantic" half beats the "renegade" half hands down.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 09:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/madonna-rebel-heart-album-edit-new-track-list/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
and this demo isn't bad at all: http://mexicoindie.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10-Rebel-Heart-feat.-Avicii.mp3
Joan of Arc could be better, but it's probably the best that 2015 Madonna can be expected to do.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
A big Madonna fan at work thought she was terrible last night. I found the song ordinary (for a while, anyway, then it got hokey towards the end), but I thought she was basically okay, or at least as okay as one can be dancing alongside refugees from the Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene. I felt sorry for her at the end, when she got lifted into the air like Vincent D'Onofrio in The Cell.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
She seemed a bit puffed by the end but I dug the spectacle & she looked amazing!!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Not terrible.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Not bothered.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
cant listen to bitch im madonna or the minaj duet, but this has some of the best stuff ive heard from her in a while. inside out, and autotune baby in particular are seriously good. lots of the album sounds quite of the moment, i could easily imagine several other singers being handed these songs, but her voice somehow lifts them up. i forgot how much i love madonna purely as a singer.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Her first album not to hit #1 in the States since 1998.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
also, is that a hype williams/blunt and copeland sample on autotune baby?
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
whoa @ the yeezus line
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Friday, 20 March 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/118461she is terrible
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 April 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
Queen of second-hand embarrassment at this point.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 10 April 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Who cares, I blame Jimmy Fallon's writers 100% for that shit, that show calls lip sync battles comedy. Her performance of Bitch I'm Madonna was hilarious and awesome
― Leonard Pine, Friday, 10 April 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Q1047/status/587508774459441152
HAHA HIS FACE AFTER
Now that I'm not invested in her music anymore I am endlessly amused by her antics
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 13 April 2015 07:42 (eight years ago) link
Looks like he found a horse radish flavour jelly bean in amongst the cherries and lemons or something
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 13 April 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
maybe she bit him?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 April 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
charliebitme.mov
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 April 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 April 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
this whole promotional cycle has been so excruciating to watch, like she tries to be so effortless but it comes off as so, so desperate and inorganic and just PAINFUL, LIKE UGH GOD STOP WEARING THAT, STOP SAYING "Bitch, I'm Madonna" STOP TRYING TO DO STANDUP
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 April 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
she's ALWAYS been like this though, we're just not used to someone a few years away from a free bus pass doing it. madonna has never been effortless and frequently ott. The Sex Book was about nine thousand times more try hard and gross than anything for this era.
Can't wait for the reaction when she releases a sequel to coincide with her 70th :)
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 13 April 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
yeah but was it as facepalm/out-of-touch as it is now? at least before she was being somewhat transgressive and making really interesting music and now she's being really safe and making very uninteresting music.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
i'm having a hard time not considering this whole project trash
― surm, Monday, 13 April 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
it is trash, she's turned into a john waters character.
and no I guess it wasn't as out of touch before because she was in many respects avant-garde whereas now she's just trailing and yeah, the music sucks. but there have been many, many, many facepalm moments in her career. the tragedy is that even her critics used to sound secretly intimidated and outraged by her whereas now it's mainly, Shady Pines ma
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 13 April 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
The more I consider all of this the more I feel like this whole promo cycle is the nadir of her entire career, going beyond simply dull into full-out Joan Crawford desperation trainwreck. The Fallon stand-up set I think is really the lowest of the low of anything she's ever done. Like, of course her last 2 or 3 albums were equally blah but there seems to be something so much more painful about this current thing ("Bitch, I'm Madonna" as some triumphant proclamation of authority that she lost idk 15 years ago, making out with Drake in the most awkward way possible, THAT STANDUP SET, the edginess she chases so hard but has no idea how to capture); she's doing "whatever she wants" and not enough ppl are telling her (or are able to tell her) no or steering her in the right direction and she's making very bad and very sloppy choices and she's not aware of any of it and it's Valerie Cherish-level deluded and painful to watch except that it's real. It's really sad when your shtick is edginess but you truly have absolutely no clue what edgy even is anymore, and also on top of it you're making music that sounds really fucking bland.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
I tried to listen to the album and got 3 or 4 songs in and it was too awful and I just couldn't. Is it worth sticking through the whole thing?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
And the album is actually not bad.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
"Devil Pray" and "Unapologetic Bitch" work. So does "Ghosttown" now that I actually heard it on the radio.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
Hey, she's being more true to herself than if she did Standards Vol. 1 or just stopped going out in public.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Needs a new self then
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link
I should be more embarrassed than I am but I just still really enjoy the bravado. Like, she just floors it, pedal to the metal while you're like"heyyyy um this is kinda weird & you are embarrass---" and she's already 100 miles down the freeway standing up in the convertible with her top off
like, even if i don't love the new look entirely (girl, since when did you start dancing with yr mouth open like that, come ON) -- it's not like I can say "that's fake, that's not Madonna". That's what I really like. She commits. Even to awkardness.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Committing to bad things isn't rly a virtue
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
i guess I also don't find it as heinously bad as u guys
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
Nah I just meant in general, anything that upsets Drake is Ok by me
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
i'd be cool with it if this felt like "whatever she wants" as opposed to her seeming immensely awkward and inwardly grim, like she knows there's only so many of these left and the gloss is off the rose. it's not because of her age, she' s just deeply irrelevant and flailing and there's an understanding all round that's the case, seems like.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Same here. The MDNA promo cycle/album was far worse.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Album maybe but promo cycle? This feels way more flailing and desperate
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
agree with vegemitegrrl, i couldn't say i'm actively on board with her antics but i'm less embarrassed than i have been in, like, a decade. it feels less desperate than it has in some time, she's come across well in her interviews and there seems to be a degree of embracing her role as pop's batty old aunt
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 07:53 (eight years ago) link
also the thing with promo cycles is that you really can tune the worst bits out, i've still no idea what this standup thing you're referring to is but i've no intention of finding out and would not have gone out of my way to watch in the first place
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 07:54 (eight years ago) link
it's this right here, look, you don't even have to go out of your way, just click it, i implore you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFSQX6DMas
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
it'll confirm everything you already hate about all the comedy you've never seen
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
lol that is the first time i've seen that and she is about 1000000 times more interesting and funny and genuine than 90% of the standup comedians i've seen
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
like, i'd rather watch her ramble goofily about younger men and her artwork than whatever poisonous shit her erstwhile friend sandra bernhard is doing these days
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
not a high bar, admittedly
but yeah i'm with VG and lex (and maura elsewhere) that the "lol, old" jokes are basically older than madonna herself at this point
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
There's no precedent for a woman Madonna's age still scoring #2 albums and interested in recording pop music, so while the albums will continue to be of mixed value at best the gross shit I've seen on my FB feed regarding the Drake kiss makes me want to place "Devil Pray" on the same level as "Deeper and Deeper" or "Into the Groove" and throw Drake off a building.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
her standup was like watching a precocious kid perform for a bunch of adults at a party, i thought it was corny & awkward & kinda cute in a weird way
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
xpost alfred otm
twitter reactions to madge/drake really bummed me out
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
i'm not watching the standup thing, c'mon
the thing is, it is very old news that madonna has Lost It in terms of being a cutting-edge relevant-to-the-youth pop icon - although never forget that she had that longer than anyone else in pop history. now is an odd time to make the desperate/flailing/awkward criticisms though, because now is the first time in a while that she's looked like she's INTO her role as pop star, whatever it involves. awkward and embarrassing applied to the hard candy and mdna eras but at least it looks like she's having fun these days. and yeah as alfred said the album is more than salvageable.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
also not all of her choices on the album work but it is really very far from safe and bland, it's all over the place and kind of loopy.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
at least it looks like she's having fun these days
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
well experience is subjective blah blah blah but the step up in commitment compared to her past two albums is pretty obvious to me
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
There's no precedent for a woman Madonna's age still scoring #2 albums and interested in recording pop music,
Didn't Cher's album a couple years back do well?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
xp that "step up in commitment" at every public event is reading much more to me as "oh god what the fuck am i even doing here" but maybe that has something to do with the relative inelasticity of her face these daysbtw, i have a LOT of good faith love for Madge and the same twenty to thirty years of listening that all you have; i bear her no ill will. and it's heartening to see the playing field leveled so that women in their fifties and sixties can tour and release in the same way that men in pop can and do. but the material is poor and the presentation is confusing.tbh i tried listening to the album and i genuinely don't remember any of it. i'll put it on again now.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Madonna is singing about sniffing glue on a whirly-reel style brostep track; I seem to recall this being a point at which I gave up on a prior listen
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
I think Madonna has another classic album in her. Remember Ray of Light came off Evita. Evita! Also, the video for Ghost Town is fantastic.
― Leonard Pine, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
more like Mayawna
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link