[Daniel.]

I have never listened to Madonna album in full so suggest one

[TomC]

Ray of Light I think. Although it took a while for me to get it.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Originally Posted by Daniel.

I have never listened to Madonna album in full so suggest one

Slay of light definitely

[LaLaLand]

Youtube video

An underrated old-skool classic that I heard on TOTP2 recently!

[Nancy.]

Originally Posted by Daniel.

I have never listened to Madonna album in full so suggest one

Hi Daniel, It depends on your taste. What are you into?

I personally think Erotica, Ray of Light, Music and Confessions On A Dancefloor are her best, but you might not like them.

[Nancy.]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

Youtube video

An underrated old-skool classic that I heard on TOTP2 recently!

This is so underrated but I think that's because she never made a proper video for it. Strange how Madonna herself never sang it since the Virgin Tour. I get the feeling she's embarrassed by it like she is with Cherish and Causing a Commotion. She even said "Sorry" was retarded (or something to that effect)

[Nancy.]

Madonna to be honored by GLAAD for lifetime of LGBTQ advocacy

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...vocacy-n967096

for a lifetime of accelerating acceptance of the LGBTQ community.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer advocacy group announced Tuesday it will present Madonna with its Advocate for Change Award. The 60-year-old singer is the second person and first woman to receive the award that honors a person who, through their work, changed the game for LGBTQ people.

“Madonna always has and always will be the LGBTQ community’s greatest ally and it is only fitting to honor and celebrate our biggest advocate at GLAAD’s biggest event ever,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement shared with NBC News.

“From the HIV crisis to international LGBTQ issues, she fearlessly pushes for a world where LGBTQ people are accepted. Her music and art have been life-saving outlets for LGBTQ people over the years and her affirming words and actions have changed countless hearts and minds," Ellis continued.

While her advocacy for LGBTQ people and issues that impact the community date back to the '80s, in the past decade she has used her platform to speak out against anti-LGBTQ polices and practices in Romania, Malawi and Russia.

"As a matter of principle, I believe in equal rights for all people, no matter what their gender, race, color, religion, or sexual orientation," Madonna wrote in 2010 in response to the imprisonment of two gay men in Malawi. "The world is filled with pain and suffering; therefore, we must support our basic human right to love and be loved."

Madonna will presented with the Advocate for Change Award on May 4 in New York. The GLAAD Media Awards ceremony honors media for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.

[Nancy.]

I love her humour...

[iRyan]

All I need from ha is more avant-garde electronic and trip-hop, she needs to not try so hard to be “current” and go back to her inventive artistry.

[Nancy.]

Madonna's Immaculate Collection is back in the US top 20 again.
Still selling massively since 1990 with more than 30 million copies sold.

[Nancy.]

Speaking of The Immaculate Collection, have a look at this from 91.

Youtube video

Those guys are really going for it.

[Ross.]

When is she giving us another Vogue

[Nancy.]

Originally Posted by Ross.

When is she giving us another Vogue

We'd all love that, but it's not gonna happen. We've got more chance of another BIM than Vogue.

[Nancy.]

Linda Perry has been desperately trying to work with Madonna for over 20 years but the Queen of music obviously isn't interested and leaves MOR songwriters like Linda and Diane to work with MOR artists.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

What is MOR

[Nancy.]

Originally Posted by Sullen Girl

What is MOR

Middle of the road.

[Nancy.]

[Nancy.]

Madonna's team to "unlist duplicates" on Youtube!




About time!!!

[Nancy.]

So as it's the 30th Anniversary of Like A Prayer on the 21st of March, he's a little reminder on why it's
"The Most Important Album Ever Made By A Female Artist"...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...be6G4aJcXE8R8g



On March 21'st 1989, Madonna released what is not only her best album to date, but also what could be the most important release ever by a female artist. That’s not to say that Like a Prayer is the best album ever by a female artist, but it’s pretty close. After six years of being considered pop fluff and a disco dolly, Madonna was finally taken seriously by most music critics in 1989. Still, Like a Prayer deserved even more than bewildering critical acclaim.

If Madonna and misogyny weren’t practically synonyms, Like a Prayer would have not only won several Grammys in 1990 (it didn’t even earn any major nominations), but it would be widely praised for its songwriting and production 30 years later. If a man delivered the same type of vocals Madonna did on Like a Prayer, critics would note that his voice isn’t technically perfect, but distinct, melodic, and full of emotion. When it comes to Madonna, who certainly could never hit the notes of Aretha Franklin or Whitney Houston, it’s just easier for people to say that she “can’t sing.”

For people (especially millennials) to understand how important Like a Prayer is to culture and music, they have to comprehend the repressive environment Madonna’s album arrived to in March of 1989. The late 1980s was ruled by the religious right, who believed AIDS was a curse God gave to the gay community. Women who were outspoken or wore revealing clothes were referred to as sluts, *****s, bit**es, etc. Police brutality among African Americans was still widely accepted without much of a backlash. And interracial dating was still considered a taboo.

With all of this in mind, let’s analyze why Like a Prayer is such a milestone of an album.

The “Like a Prayer” Video

The “Like a Prayer” video has provocative imagery that caused the religious right to wet its pants. However, none of the imagery, which is used for pure symbolism, is blasphemous. Most importantly, “Like a Prayer” is a video that shows the viewer racism, sexism, and police brutality. It urges them to think and overcome it — this is something that wasn’t considered “cool” in 1989. The idea of a “Black Jesus” was also considered blasphemous to some, especially the religious right.

Youtube video

The aftermath of “Like a Prayer” was groundbreaking in that Madonna beat the religious right at their own attempted game of censorship. Their efforts caused Pepsi to drop Madonna as a spokesperson, but they completely failed at hurting Madonna’s success or censoring the video. The “Like a Prayer” single and video hit No. 1 and remain widely loved classics almost 30 years later. Madonna paved the way for other artists to not only challenge the religious right, but win.

The “Like a Prayer” Song

Even if you aren’t convinced that the “Like a Prayer” video is an artistic masterpiece, the song “Like a Prayer” has stood on its own. Not only has Rolling Stone and Billboard praised it as one of the best pop songs of all time, but the song has become a spiritual classic, even for those who aren’t fans of Madonna.

“Like a Prayer” became the highlight of Live 8 in 2005, and it was also one of the highlights of the 2010 Hope for Haiti concert. It was also prominently featured in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl Halftime show. Any live performance of the song is sure to whip the audience into a frenzy.


Express Yourself

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This decade, “Express Yourself” is mostly known as the song that inspired (maybe a little too much) Lady Gaga’s self-empowerment LGBT anthem “Born This Way.” However, as Gay Times Magazine notes, “Express Yourself” has become an empowering anthem for the LGBT community as well. However, in the late 1980s, the song was mostly known as a female empowerment anthem. “Don’t go for second best baby” became a catch phrase for strong women who were sick of being treated like second class citizens from men and other women who still subscribed to the patriarchy.

AIDS Activism

The pamphlet on AIDS Madonna included with each copy of Like a Prayer alone proves that the notion of Madonna being a bad role model and having a bad influence on Generation X (especially women and teenagers) just isn’t true. Madonna educated many about AIDS and safe sex at a time when schools, the media, and religious institutions stayed away from the topic. A move like this in 1989 could have hurt a showbiz career, but Madonna survived and thrived by doing the right thing and, possibly, helping to save lives at the same time.

Pop Music Meets Art

A Rolling Stone review by J.D. Considine from April of 1989 correctly noted that Like a Prayer was “as close to art as pop music gets.” The album touched on topics such as childhood innocence, childhood loss, child abuse, spousal abuse, women’s rights, and spirituality. It mixed all of these themes together to not only make the listener think and dance, but ask questions as well — some of which were risky to ask in 1989. Like a Prayer proved that an artist can mix style and substance in order to break societal and musical barriers. 30 years later, many pop artists, including Madonna herself, are trying to hit all the correct spots Like a Prayer hit, but they just don’t have the same effect.

[Saph]

her best tbf Pray for Spanish Eyes, Oh Father, Promise to Try, Till death do us part, Like a Prayer

[TomC]

I really like Keep It Together

I think I shoudl listen to LAP more, it's very acclaimed but I've preferred Erotica and ROL.

[Nancy.]

[Nancy.]

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by iRyan

All I need from ha is more avant-garde electronic and trip-hop, she needs to not try so hard to be “current” and go back to her inventive artistry.

The tea of this

I miss the trip hop music era

[TomC]

Originally Posted by reece(:

The tea of this

I miss the trip hop music era

Did Madonna have a trip hop era?