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

Someone needs to write a 33 1/3 on Erotica.

tim finney or jbr imo

I vote Tim

^^^

no offense to jbr

I've pitched a LAP book.

for a long time i wanted to pitch a 33 1/3 on The Whitey Album

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Would've loved to read that. *sigh*

I should pitch an Erotica book! Or maybe I'll just write it anyway and hand-publish, every copy comes with a free bottle of amyl.

Sold!

The 33 and 1/3 book I want jbr to write is on Rickie Lee Jones' The Magazine (though lol at the idea of this ever getting the green light).

Alfred I would TOTALLY read your LAP book --- I just went back and read those Stylus pieces you linked upthread. So great! Not to blow smoke but I love the way your passion for her music comes through. MOAR PLEEZE

*blush*

<3

goodness god is the "Open Your Heart" video awesome

it's pretty ridiculous that she has 4th singles of the caliber of "Open Your Heart" and "Lucky Star" and "Human Nature"

OH NO. As I compiled my top 5 videos I knew there was one I was forgetting. I knew it.
goddammit.

yeah it's incredible. the little boy dancing in front of the mirror is all-time.

If you're voting for videos and failing to vote for What It Feels Like For a Girl, know that I hate you.

yeah it's incredible. the little boy dancing in front of the mirror is all-time.

showing leg!

xpost THAT I CAN LIVE WITH

omg how can you have seen it and not think it's the greatest fucking thing in the world.

YEAH WELL I FUCKING FORGOT TO VOTE FOR THAT ONE TOO DIDN'T I AND I'M TIRED OF APOLOGIZING FOR MY STUPIDITY

*cries*

I should hug you, because I'm an excellent friend, but...nope.

I don't want your pity.

silly sub poll on ILE for those who are silly at heart: Justify My Love: Madonna's Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Husbands et al (A silly poll)

tim i am actually seriously hoping you write a book about version 2.0 but i guess erotica would be okay too

not enough discussion of r&b masterpiece "secret" itt imo

the secret appears to be funky funky funky guitar

the boys in school used to make fun of me bc i listened to secret

i brought it in once, to a pizza party, on tape

and nick maritis like "yeah! put it on" so i did

and then he called me gay

Some days I think it's her best song. Today it's only about fourth or fifth.

Was Dallas Austin involved? It's very CrazySexyCool.

i'm almost poz he was involved

no?

he coproduced and cowrote it.

mmhmm

album is just so easy to listen to

It occurred to me today that once you get past "Secret" every song on that album is better than the one before it.

As in, "Secret" is great and "I'd Rather Be Your Lover" is probably the worst song on the album, and from there it gradually ascends to "Take A Bow".

madonna and babyface were a match made in heaven

but now it's time to listen to something to remember

"Don't Stop" is the only thing that actively grates from Bedtime Stories. I replaced it with "Your Honesty" on my iTunes version of the album, a track that she strangely left on the cutting room floor in the album sessions, and only later resurfaced on Remixed & Revisited. It's not spectacular but it's much better. And she sings some French on in so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w92At03mDL8

*on it

As in, "Secret" is great and "I'd Rather Be Your Lover" is probably the worst song on the album, and from there it gradually ascends to "Take A Bow".

I don't necessarily agree with this (although I do think "Take a Bow" is probably the best song on the record), but as I said upthread there definitely seems to be a thematic build of self-assassination from "Forbidden Love" onwards almost which I love.

has this already been posted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTaXtWWR16A

yeah vogue also kindof sucks and the video is gross

― plax (ico), Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:37 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't know what to say about this

I need to be very dim for a moment and ask a clarification question re plax's post upthread.
re: Vogue = cultural imperialism.
can someone or plax explain this to me more? I'm not sure I really get what the argument against it is.

smart ppl, elaborate plz!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:35 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was more a feeling than anything else. it wasn't just performance; it was dominance. besides being a perfectly produced dance track, vogue established madonna as a dictator of taste.

In "Don't Stop"'s defense, she sings LA-DEE-DA-DEE.

"Don't Stop" is the Bedtime Stories pick for my deep cuts playlist, really dig that one, although i like the whole album a lot

"Vogue" was certainly the peak of her imperial phase.

can we debate what WAS Madonna's imperial phase? Did she boast several?

I'd say 1984-1987 and 1989-91, with 1998-2000 a mild comeback followed by several reminders of fading greatness ("Hung Up").

i think later she was just imperious

also, who has had more imperial phases than madonna?