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

AND IF YOU DO VOTE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A SPANKING

i'm sure i've told ilx the story of how "secret" almost got me suspended from school before

'crazy for you' is ultra classic, veg otm

Feeling a bit shamed into voting, will vote ...

come on josh! do you believe in polls? cause i got something to say about it!

Don't vote for second best, baby, put your poll to the test.

he's so tired of boring polls and losing at this game before

Because I'm craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy for pollllllllllllllllllls

Beautiful faces no cares in this world
Where a girl loves a boy and a boy

loves

a POLL

Wanting
Needing
Voting

"crazy for you" is amazing, "la isla bonita" is fun bullshit, "material girl" is almost total bullshit

(this reminds me that "Where Life Begins" is probably the most underrated song on Erotica perhaps due to its subject matter)

"where life begins" is awesome but i didn't vote for it

oh wait i forgot to say "cherish" is sooooo great and i voted for it so sorry djp

i really like "Material Girl," and i think my affection for it over the years has been stoked by Madonna's disdain for it

when i say "almost total bullshit" i definitely mean i still like it

some dudes romance, some dudes slow dance, that's alright with me

so what's the worst song on Erotica? I suppose it's "Why's It So Hard" but I love that house sound.

ya the 'i want you' cover is rly good

― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:57 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep, a whole album that sounded like the space between this and "Bedtime Story" (and just generally exploiting that brief window of post-Post International Language of Megatron vibes) would have been great.

Yeah "Why's It So Hard" and "In This Life" would be the first to go for me but I still love them (spoken word bit in "In This Life" excepted).

Obviously no-one would notice "Did You Do It" (or whatever it's called precisely) being culled. I had an Erotica cassette in the mid 90s and it wasn't even on there.

Yep. Why's it So Hard, for me.

Lucky Star (new mix)
Borderline (new mix)
Into the Groove (8:31)
Material Girl (extended)
Dress You Up (12“)

Obviously no-one would notice "Did You Do It" (or whatever it's called precisely) being culled. I had an Erotica cassette in the mid 90s and it wasn't even on there.

it was the clean cassette!

yep, a whole album that sounded like the space between this and "Bedtime Story" (and just generally exploiting that brief window of post-Post International Language of Megatron vibes) would have been great.

Madge would reply: "That's what I did on Ray of Light."

"Where Life Begins" is too ridiculous imo, more puns about eating pussy than in Lil Wayne's entire discography

and yet it's not a dining room conversation, idgi

the closing one-two of "in this life" and "secret garden" is unfuckwithable

i know yall queered it upthread but fwiw 'waiting' is brutally otm enough for me to actually often skip it [submits post, avoids mirror]

the uncanny thing that amazes me every single time is how on earth is 'deeper and deeper' only 5:33 long, i listen and i swear to god it's an epic journey at least three times that

"in this life" is so amazing and devastating, don't think she's ever sounded so numb and angry

More songwriting insight:

According to Pettibone in his article "Erotica Diaries", he said that he produced a tape for Madonna listen to, and went to Chicago, where she was filming A League Of Their Own. She listened to the songs, and liked all of them.[5] After the filming was complete, Madonna met with Pettibone in New York to begin recording the album, on November 13, 1991.[5] Pettibone said, "'Deeper and Deeper', 'Erotica', 'Rain' and 'Thief of Hearts' made up the first batch of songs we worked on together. I did the music and she wrote the words. Sometimes I'd give her some ideas lyrically and she'd go: 'Oh, that's good,' or "That sucks.' I remember when I gave her some ideas lyrically for 'Vogue' and she said, very curtly, 'That's what I do.'"[5] "Deeper and Deeper" was not working for Madonna. Pettibone commented, "We tried different bridges and changes, but nothing worked. In the end, Madonna wanted the middle of the song to have a flamenco guitar strumming big-time."[5

' I remember when I gave her some ideas lyrically for 'Vogue' and she said, very curtly, 'That's what I do

awesome

this feeling inside i can't explain BUT MY LOVE IS ALIVE AND I'M NEVER GONNA HIDE IT AGAIN
*flamenco guitar*

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all music eva

"I didn't like the idea of taking a Philly house song and putting La Isla Bonita in the middle of it. But that's what she wanted, so that's what she got."

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31BD479QEGL.jpg

What happened to my phone call?

this is a p cool remix of White Heat, imo

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

i'll take "material girl" over "true blue". don't need no malt shop madonna.

this feeling inside i can't explain BUT MY LOVE IS ALIVE AND I'M NEVER GONNA HIDE IT AGAIN
*flamenco guitar*

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all music eva

― prolego, Friday, 22 February 2013 12:33 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is ridiculously OTM however it is also necessary to stress how that echoey pause after "AGAIN!" always feels like the falling off a cliff to me, like you've just exploded from too much joy and now might actually be dead, and then you get *flamenco guitar* and it's like no, we haven't fallen off the edge of the world, we've just fallen through the other side of the mirror.

plus it always reminds me of the mtv true blue contest. ugh. 5 million horrible homemade true blue videos played for a year straight. felt like it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloMBY5cjAk

yep, a whole album that sounded like the space between this and "Bedtime Story" (and just generally exploiting that brief window of post-Post International Language of Megatron vibes) would have been great.

Madge would reply: "That's what I did on Ray of Light."

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Madge would be guilty of a lack of distinction in that case. Ray of Light is way to pristine for this.

too pristine.

and chose the wrong producer

I've wondered whether she could have matched or surpassed Orbit just working with Patrick Leonard and Rick Nowels; and my brain reels at the thought that Wendy Melvoin co-wrote "Candy Perfume Girl." Garbage-gy guitar pop in '98 done by Madonna might have worked.

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

La Isla Bonita is awesome I will FITE you horseshoe

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:12 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

and I will fite you too, Scott Seward. True Blue is THEBEST.

material girl is really pretty shite. so damn ungainly and awkward. i remember hearing a thing about how awkward her costuming was in the shot where she flips her head back and is being held with her feet above her head and that description rhymes so well with how i feel about this clunky thing. its a really terrible cyndi lauper song actually. like silly in that way but without all the things that cyndi does to make up for it. its so boring the extend to which its a song that needs her mythology and it always puzzles me looking at her chronology that she was that big already.

also who wrote that pretty line upthread about holiday. how slowly it works on you, turning from optimism to something much more bittersweet. it would be so nice. what a killer. its also her best actual disco song. the end of the summer, forcing everything unfolded into a rucksack. just so much is contained in that line "if we took a holiday." and this is the other charm of her first album, the small and the big dreams intertwined, blonde ambition and scraping a living in the city.

true blue isn't the best anything! i like la isla bonita fine though. always have. true blue is just gahhhhhh. gag me with a spoon.

"true blue" is kind of a pointless pastiche yep

scott, scott. trust me, once you act out all the words in dance sign-langugae it all makes sense. IT'S SO GREAT

true blue would have been like the 8th best debbie gibson song on deb's debut.