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

yeah i don't hate it like i used to but it's never been of any real value to me. same goes for "Ray Of Light," while we're talking about the big latter day hits, kind of hoping that one gets totally snubbed in the poll results.

http://img.over-blog.com/420x537/1/52/29/59/Photos_25/Madonna-s_1994_Handwritten_Letter_to_David_Letterman_1.jpg

I watched the Letterman thing with her greasy-haired guitarist at the time but thought it a publicity stunt in advance of her tour. She got flak for her electric work on "Candy Perfume Girl" that tour but it didn't bother me; the live arrangement was more unbuttoned.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:00 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean everything madonna does or thinks is filtered into her public persona, but is it really a 'publicity stunt' if a musician picks up a new instrument?

It sort of is when someone not perceived to be a musician like Madonna does!

Also: symmetry. She's giving a guitar a WTF look on the cover.

ehhh in a world where Lil Wayne walks around with a guitar in public and occasionally fumbling at it with oven mitts for 6 years straight, i'm not gonna doubt the sincerity of any star who actually bothered to take lessons and write an album on guitar

everyone asleep? good. i suddenly can't get "did you do it?" out of my head and i'm concerned there's something wrong with me.

Madonna just picked the strangest possible producer to accompany her acoustic reflections.

― steeny HOOSer (some dude), Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:03 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm it was a bizarre contribution but it probably served to enhance the acoustic fumblings - mirwais' stop-start glitchiness were an oddly complementary frame for her rudimentary (and, listening back, unusually close-miced) guitar pluckings - the entire thing gives off this air of mechanical brokenness. it's the furthest thing from a "hi i am doing Real Honest Acoustic Music now" move because it sounds like it's refracted through so much smoke & mirrors

also that letterman letter <3

mirwais' stop-start glitchiness were an oddly complementary frame for her rudimentary (and, listening back, unusually close-miced) guitar pluckings

otm

Now that the Springsteen poll is actually (slowly) taking place, I should probably expand the voting by at least a day. Instead of tonight at midnight EST, it now ends exactly 24 hours later. Basically, if you haven't voted by the time Friday becomes Saturday wherever you live, you either need to send it right then or before I wake up on Saturday morning.

I need the weekend to make images!

How many ballots so far?

Just pulled the trigger. No point in pretending I'm going to cut any more Erotica songs from my ballot.

xp 34 when Eric H. submitted his.

wow lots of ballots, v exciting!

will submit before deadline, promise!

Done.

I still need to do albums/remixes/videos

Yeah, I still have quite a few ballots I haven't plugged into the spreadsheets yet, so I don't know how the subpolls are shaping up. At last check, they were getting a reasonable amount of participation.

it's probably far too late to make much difference, but ray of light had some great remixes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI5jcOQxwuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmieKxlCcCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49E-Q3iBYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tupRZROTGh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI-WD8C0zLo

the "Ray of Light" remixes >>>> the album version (sounds embalmed)

Can't abide by Club 69

Just whittled my ballot down to the absolute essential, cannot-live-without tracks and was surprised to find that I only had 15. So, 5 more slots to play with and then my ballot will be submitted!

Early spring '01 soundtracked to Tracy Young remixes of "Don't Tell Me."

also more handwritten madonna stuff - draft erotica lyrics

http://i47.tinypic.com/34focwi.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pzFi71gD8Wg/UIWoAorv6HI/AAAAAAAAGhU/63TCXWsQ2dk/s1600/youthrillme4.jpg
http://p2.la-img.com/207/953/428754_1_l.jpg
http://cbswdok2.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_1187.jpg?w=620

i'd love for all her notes to be released one day

aagh amazing

i gotta be real, i don't know how to fill out a ballot

but i will find out

surm you are not getting away with not voting

i abstained from voting for videos because i actually don't think of madonna as a videos artist - i didn't really grow up in a house where music videos were played so i think the first madonna video i saw was, like, "beautiful stranger" or something

<3 her handwriting, esp her g's

^^^^ this a hundred times. She was always to me a radio presence.

I'm sorry to say that my ballot ended up a lot more conventional than I'd wished. Only 3 weren't singles, and I wouldn't be surprised if 1 of those is slated to be a single soon.

Weighting by album:

5 - Erotica (not even being strategic here; could've easily pushed this to 6 or 7)
2 - TB, LAP, BS, COADF
1 - others
0 - AL, HC

Videos was def next hardest to make cuts after songs. Remixes/albums pretty easy for me.

sending ballot in a couple hours

I sat down to make my ballot last night and this turned out to be the hardest artist poll yet for me. I have it narrowed down to about 25 right now, will hopefully finalize it when I get home but that 24 hour deadline extension is tempting: my #1 has changed like 5 times since I started thinking about this, so I might need some more time!

surm you are not getting away with not voting

― lex pretend, Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i won't let you down!

vote like the wind, surm!

Voted, mostly an obv 80s nostalgia ballot, crazy hours at work cut short my listening plans for this

Sorry, good ppl :\

really glad JF extended the deadline! Friday's like the only day this week i'm not super busy and i've felt faintly ridiculous thinking "oh man, i like earning overtime but i'm not gonna have enough time to listen to Madonna this week!"

wait when is the extension? i have some reports to go through at work and i'm feeling conflicted about whether or not madonna takes precedence

Now that the Springsteen poll is actually (slowly) taking place, I should probably expand the voting by at least a day. Instead of tonight at midnight EST, it now ends exactly 24 hours later. Basically, if you haven't voted by the time Friday becomes Saturday wherever you live, you either need to send it right then or before I wake up on Saturday morning.

I need the weekend to make images!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:49 AM (5 hours ago)

"I need the weekend to make images!" would be a good self-conscious latter day Madonna lyric

thx yo!

Timing's going to be perfect for the Miles poll to start next week; I should be wrapping up the worst of the current work deadlines over the weekend.

I would accept a Madonna book called "Journals" as a xmas gift.

should we be voting for her top 5 movies also? "Truth or Dare" #1

Desperately Seeking Susan 4eva

when the rollout's done maybe I can do a movie sub-poll

Madonna released at least one single every year between 1982 and 2003
I thought she didn't release anything new in 1991, although "Rescue Me" might have been that year's crossover. i thought it was late-1990.

Sent!

Feels like buying a lottery ticket.