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

I didn't vote as I only own madonna albums up until like a prayer and probably would only have voted for the singles anyway and that probably wasn't what was wanted but I am looking forward to the results.

how in the world can you look at a Madonna poll and think no one wants to see any singles in the countdown

I didn't mean that. I just know that people like deep cuts and bsides and they would get pushed out by singles. and lets be honest most of my ballot woulda been 80s songs.

And I failed Tim F's test

i think i voted one non single

she has a big catalogue and i think a lot of her singles are surprisingly subtle, like drowned world feels like a deep cut that is actually a big single

otm

Kicking this off tomorrow, btw.

and "Drowned World" was a single in the UK iirc

a top 10 single and all

but yeah as has been discussed you could probably fill out an entire ballot of "madonna songs that feel like deep cuts but were actually singles" and it'd be a good ballot too

wow i just checked and "burning up" really didn't chart anywhere except the us dance charts and in australia?????

yeah, everyone slept on that song

she doesn't really have many b-sides does she? only "supernatural" and "has to be" spring to mind from memory

crazy how "vogue" was initially a b-side for "keep it together" though before her label spotted its potential.

"Keep It Together" = classic "deep single."

well its too late now but I shall enjoy the results anyway! At least its coming before the 70s poll results so I can have time to keep up with reading madonna results thread.

xp oh yeah definitely, i'd take it over anything on LAP bar the title track. at least she attempted to immortalize it by making it blond ambition's closer.

I meant to say thankyou to DJP for compiling the Spotify playlist

so thank you :)

can't BELIEVE I almost left Lucky Star off my ballot
what the hell srsly

I think we need to have a sleepover and watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZlj7_ohess

"Justify My Love" has got to be the ultimate deep single; it is so sparse and minimal and so UN-POPLIKE

srsly. only madonna in 1990 could have got something like that to #1

I feel like hitting #1 and being truly omnipresent when it was released keeps "Justify My Love" from being a "deep cut single"

lolsome tru fact: JML is the only Madonna song my dad likes

if you watched MTV often in 1990/1991 there was nothing secret about Justify My Love. i was 10 and kids were talking about it at school.

"this used to be my playground" feels like a deep cut single even though it went top 10 worldwide a/c to wikipedia

i can't even imagine playing my parents "justify my love"

omg DJP, lol

I want to walk in on Mom giving Dad a good spanky.

you really don't

I did eat KFC extra crispy with my parents once, and it was finger lickin' good.

I actually watched Truth or Dare with my mother. THAT was awkward.

xpost I hope you were all wearing your raincoats.

the only music I ever self-censored around my parents was Eazy-E's album, mostly because I really really really wanted them to like what I listened to so I could control the music on our yearly car rides between MN and OH

My dad really got into The Cure circa Faith and most of the dance music I was listening to, especially The Prodigy and 808 State; my mom liked Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. They both loved Seal. I think my mom rolled her eyes at JML but my dad stole my CD single and played the song for about a week (I don't think I ever got around to playing Fear of a Black Planet for him).

never mind KFC after Truth or Dare I could never look at Evian bottles the same way again

nightline did a special on 'justify my love', that and snl (they watched it on waynes world predictably) were the only times shown on tv at the time i can think of, she sold it stand alone (not even a 'making of thriller' tack on to justify the purchase, just a four minute music video)(would've killed to have seen a 'making of justify my love' mind you), sold a shitload. despite having been nearly impossible to see on tv when wayne's world did their parody within a month w/ madonna everyone knew the video enough to get the jokes.

"...is that Prince?"

what's crazy is that mtv had hyped that video for weeks beforehand and then decided to ban it at the last second. i think they're reasoning was actual the 'anti-semitism' charge nobody remembers.

At the time it seemed to me to be the most impossibly adult thing ever.

It was the first VHS single, wasn't it?

did Ted Koppel recite the lyrics?

xpost I thought Thriller was the first

fun fact: Lenny Kravitz wrote, produced, and did bg vocals ("hoh oh-ohhhh"/"yeah yeaaahhhh"/etc)

The Human League did it first, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#VHS_single

On December 3, 1990, ABC's Nightline played the video in its entirety, then interviewed Madonna live about the video's sexual content and censorship. When asked whether she stood to make more money selling the video than airing it on MTV, she appeared impatient and answered, "Yeah, so? Lucky me."[18]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yvKGQl6A4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtMgR6tmwg

What an interview! Sadly, we're still having the same arguments 23 years later.

she comes off nervous (way more nervous than she ever was w/ loder) but huge kudos for calling out mtv on their bullshit for showing the 'wild thing' video (even if my 13 yr old self thanked god for it), calling out the networks for refusing to run condom ads, and (never can be done enough) calling out american parents for being lazy. crazy time capsule stuff going on in that interview w/ culture wars, second wave feminism v. third wave feminism

when i was a kid mtv europe seemed to only show durex ads. i miss mtv europe, it always seemed so polymorphously pan-europa, like there was this suggestion that everyone had been cast after sleeping with some executive at a party in jeanpaul gaultiers house, or at least it seems super fabulous like this at the time, and i also miss the clocks for different time zones. when they regionalised that was the moment it got boring for me. SIDENOTE.

quite curious to see where these singles place: "Papa Don't Preach," "True Blue," and "Ray of Light" i.e. seemed iconic at the time

"ray of light" seemed like a twofer for some rock critics, got to show that see they do like pop music and also see they're not afraid of techno (when there's a SONG you can HUM for a CHANGE amirite). i'm fine w/ it (i like several rol tracks, including all the other singles, a good bit more), suspect it won't place that high? could be some real narcissistic 'everyone shares my take' thought process there but yknow what? four tunnel of love tracks in the top twenty. i'm gonna ride this feeling and see where it takes me.

not so fond of "Ray of Light" myself -- she sounds like she's singing from a wind tunnel in outer space, which I guess is the point.

it's that sound of someone not even aiming for the high notes they used to hit w/o thinking twice, cf bono

tbf during her Oprah appearance she does (and she looks great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AX55nr-Hxw