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

i will say, and this is maybe perverse, but i did find myself liking it more after i heard the curtiss maldoon track it bites pretty shamelessly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyCURI6PiaI

tbh though that's just 'the older i get, the more i find myself sympathizing w/ hippies', if i think of 'ray of light' as madonna offering a similar vibe for her now middle aged wannabes i can feel that, 'and i feel like i just got home' makes way more sense, is way more perfectly specifically joyous in the soccer mom context than in the celestial child of the universe in the brotherhood of man context.

xpost lol and there's oprah to provide the context

well, she gives them songwriting credit

"Ray Of Light" imo has aged terribly, i'm sure "Frozen" and maybe even some deep cuts/minor hits off that album will do better. would love if it missed the top 50 entirely.

I really should think "Nothing Really Matters" is worse than it is, but you don't even have to look at the credits to hear how it's a Patrick Leonard co-write.

god that sounds awesome, the fuck am i talking about 'ray of light' is awesome

lol otm

the Oprah performance is a good argument -- if someone wants to make it -- for how the opera helped.

I love how in that Oprah link you can tell that the echo is bothering her sometimes

also yeah, she couldn't have done those long-ass phrases near the end without the voice lessons

was tempted to write "the Oprah lessons"

the swoops and bleeps (and lol at that EKG meter graphics) designed to make her audience know that THIS IS DANCE MUSIC Y'ALL were dated even in '98 though.

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1G3FI_Wa0E

aww <3

i miss mtv europe

Haha wow, they must have regionalised about a week after we got MTV, I had totally forgotten it ever existed. There were still echoes I suppose, like when the MTV Europe awards would be all US/UK acts, and then Jovanotti shows up like he's a megastar

Ray Of Light is awesome

mtv uk started after britpop basically as the uk and rest of europe certainly was quite different. but the 1st few years of mtv when cable hit here (94) was mtv europe and it really was hugely different. Stuff like Whale was on constantly, dEUS, and tricky.

'and i feel like i just got home' makes way more sense, is way more perfectly specifically joyous in the soccer mom context

why i voted for it (low)

"do you want me to promote one of my up-and-coming button-pushing products"

ha i'd never heard that line in the hippie new age sense, it's always been a bizarre flash of the mundane (and the ecstatic therein) on the album. play it when you get home from work, return to the sanctuary

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

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn) wrote this at 2013-03-07 03:12:14.201

I never liked any of these very much, compared to their contemporaries. When reviewing songs for this poll though, I rated Papa Don't.Preach very highly. Hope it's reflected in the poll results.

The other two I still don'tcare for.

Don't go for second best, baby. Put your ILM ARTIST POLL #31: MADONNA to the test.

so Madonna is officially pop music's first billionaire

nah she ain't - http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/03/28/why-madonna-isnt-on-the-forbes-billionaires-list/

makes sense but would not have predicted roger waters was the second highest earning musician last year (dre first obv).

haha oh nm

In advance I want to apologize for the fellow gays who will comment on that article and rip the asshole to shreds for "hating on" Madonna.

i thought it would be mccartney is why i googled it. take that were #5 top earner last year fwiw.

i'm almost certain sure she's a billionaire - that forbes estimate fails to account for her private investments, assets, royalties and her art collection that's worth hundreds of millions alone.

not that they're "hating" per se but i think there's been bad blood in the past with madonna refusing to release her private financial details to them (you can imagine what she's like) + other sources going out and calling her a billionaire first when forbes like to consider themselves the sole authority on this sort of thing mustn't have sat well with them.

we probably won't find out everything till she dies

i def think if she hadn't have managed to become a singer she would have ended up being a ceo of a huge corporation

she'd have been a dancer

nothing pains me more than bono being the world's richest musician, just cause he bought up shares of facebook ten years ago

he also did the 1st and 5th highest grossing tours of all time, so not JUST because of that obviously

Nah, Bono's earned it. According to Flanagan's book U2 tours were barely profitable until the mid-90s - they sunk so much money into the visuals, or whatever the hell they did pre-Achtung Baby, that they had to sell every ticket to pretty much break even.

On a related note, was it Madonna who raised the bar on ticket prices? I dimly recall top-act prices virtually trebling overnight at some point, and have a feeling she was the first to realise the Market could take it.

It was the fucking Eagles who were first with $100 tickets.

Actually looked into seeing Waters last year, but tickets were $400. Interestingly, according to Mojo, Pink Floyd barely broke even on their 1994 tours because they didn't want to charge more than $40/ticket, but they had insane expenses.

sorry, just bumping so I can relive the magic :)

I can keep up with you