I'm burning up, burning up for your VOTES! — ILM Artist Poll #31 is Madonna

i love that video

me too. i didn't see it until years after the ROL era had passed and remember being totally confused by her goth hair. ROL the album seemed to have such a strong visual identity and colour scheme and for the video of the lead single to go so totally against that...

Yeah I was psyched about the black hair and that, i dunno, stillness that she has in that video. Plus it felt like at any moment Trent Reznor would appear and it would be the most normal thing in the world

It peaked at #2 in the United States. It became her sixth number-two single in the United States, making Madonna the artist with most number-two hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The others:

Material Girl
Causing a Commotion
Express Yourself
Cherish
I'll Remember

I feel like there is a line where Madonna went from "singer with flawed technique" to "sound effect with vocal training" and the main reason ROL works so well as an album is because it lies directly in the center of that transition.

i always forget how many incredible sonic details there are in ROL's big dancefloor moments - they're almost designed to be like the tracky, immersive bits of the set rather than the peak-time anthemic bits (which is what confessions was shooting for)

the incredible percussion on "skin" >>>>
the dual vocal lines at the end of "nothing really matters" >>>>>>

Surprised that "Confessions" sold as much as it did, given that was well within the download era.

"worldwide" album sales figures tend to be a little bit made up.

William Orbit was really a fantastic producer pre-"American Pie"; I also highly recommend the remix he did of The Cure's "Inbetween Days" which first put me on the Orbit bandwagon back in 1990

also his remix of The Shamen's "Hyperreal" which went on to subsume and overshadow the original mix

also his stuff for ALL SAINTS

"pure shores" is a classic and "black coffee" is even better

burn what he did to barber's adagio for strings tho obv

I don't actually mind that tbh, it's no "American Pie"

omfg i forgot about the moment when "sky fits heaven" brings ALL THE BEATS BACK at once including a DRILL SOUND

Used to really like this album:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Strange_Cargo_III.jpg/220px-Strange_Cargo_III.jpg

I'd never heard this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8wCCwGUSg

Must find room for "The People Behind These Masks" on my ballot.

http://video.adultswim.com/childrens-hospital/the-big-dance.html

probably orbit's biggest pop work outside madonna?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxG2wBmqLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2WP1yNypHo

How high did his Blur stuff chart?

Quite well in the Yoo Kay.

THIEF OF HEARTS

this poll is impossible though

i mean deeper and deeper is even better than thief of hearts, but everybody better be voting for deeper and deeper already

YOU SCREW IT
YOU FAKE IT

Stop bitch! Now sit your ass down!

I'm not in charge, but it would be nice to see this as a two-part poll, with a second poll excluding all the songs that place in this poll.

ooh that would be interesting

Listening Bedtime Stories again. "Survival" and "I'd Rather Be Your Lover" and "Don't Stop" are so inane but still so pretty.

I remember when "Secret" came out with its black and white video clip and replaced Kylie's "Confide In Me" at the top of the charts here and I was like "woah the ladies of pop are taking it ~deep~..."

btw "Human Nature" still pwns

― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:36 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Madonna in 'not as good as Gary Clail' non-shockah.

ugh I have major ballot problems

I just realized I left off Lucky Star and Like A Virgin and I have no room at the inn. I mean, not that those two won't get votes anyway but I don't like ppl surmising that I don't like those songs just bcz they're not on there

I mean what if Madge ever sees my ballot, how do I explain myself

YOU SCREW IT
YOU FAKE IT

bitch

honestly if i did a ballot it would probably be crazy boring because really there's nothing better than lucky star or burning up or into the groove etc.

when i was little the daycamp i went to one summer had a talent show and a bunch of us were going to perform "lucky star" and i loved that song the most and i wanted to be madonna but of course the blonde girl got to be madonna and dress in an oversized sweatshirt and leggings and bangles and i had to be a backup singer. she was a really sweet girl but the sting hasn't gone out of that memory.

lol Alfred

i miss early madonna's ethnic eyebrows

they meant a lot to little me

aw

I feel like I want a lifesize 84-era madonna poster, just as daily inspiration to be awesome

horseshoe otm

Lourdes really looks like her mother in some ways, but I think the eyebrows are the key feature.

http://i.imgur.com/tPeOtna.jpg

I'm not in charge, but it would be nice to see this as a two-part poll, with a second poll excluding all the songs that place in this poll.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:08 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooh that would be interesting

― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:09 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign this idea

yeah I kind of love that idea. Like a Madonna version of March Madness but like, reverse seeding

I'll stop talking now

songs that are terrible: "material girl" "la isla bonita"

"La Isla Bonita" is not terrible, you are

Even better: 2nd poll excludes the top songs from the 1st poll AND the voters from the 1st poll.

i love you Dan but that song is so dumb

material girl is kinda terrible - sort of dead-inside, plodding

La Isla Bonita is awesome I will FITE you horseshoe

it's pretty much nonsensical but that rhythm GETS ME

if you want a super dumb popular Madonna song, you don't need to look any further than "Cherish"