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Here's the Chinese punching puppet from the "Erotica" video...
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/292104...-1/s-l1000.jpg https://auctionimages.s3.amazonaws.c...3/22191336.jpg “This amazing punching puppet is modeled after the Chinese hopping ghost. These ghosts are afraid of brooms, long-grained rice, eight sided Taoist mirrors, chicken blood, death blessings that quiet or settle unstable spirit, and the sound of bells.” "A Hopping Ghost is an undecayed corpse whose main soul, the PO, has not yet left for the other world.If it can inhabit a corpse it can move about – hop. Ghosts hop because they are so YIN. That is, they have so little mobile energy left that they can’t even bend their knees one of the signs – in human beings – of the ability to move. When they come in contact with even more YIN they over loaded and hop around. Being light and bodyless they can sometimes fly. They smell horribly. They are armed with long, long fingernails that can tear. They sleep in coffins or graves and fear sunlight’s strong YANG energy. If you chance upon such a pest DON”T BREATHE. The sound of breathing allows them to detect us. Paste a Taoist warning on their bodies to stop them. But if you are serious about getting rid of them burning their coffin with them in it is the major method. Watch out for them grabbing your neck. Definitely an unpleasant experience. Oh, by the way, this is the traditional reasons Asian bridge zigzag because ghosts hate to cross running water (like in almost every culture in the world) and twisty bridges are the toughest. Also the doorways of temple have step-overs to prevent the entrance of spirit who can’t hop that high. Now, aren’t you glad you read all this?" ---- Concerning Chinese Hopping Ghosts Study Conducted in Taiwan by Suzanne Thomas The Chinese honor their dead out of both respect and fear. And for good reason. An unsatisfied soul could become a ghost and make life unbearable. Whether or not the Chinese truly believe in ghosts, they occupy a large part of their imagination, and the hopping ghost (with its recent star appearances on the Hong Kong move scene) is the most popular. Q: What is a hopping Ghost? A: Scientifically speaking, it's an undecayed corpse whose main soul, the po, has not yet left for the other world. Now, a po on the loose in the mortal world is bad news. It turns into an evil spirit. And a po with a corpse to occupy is even worse. It becomes a hopping ghost. Q: What makes a hopping ghost hop? A: Many things, but mostly when a homesick corpse, not wanting to be buried in an unfamiliar village, hops home, po and all. In documented cases, the hopping corpse is often accompanied by an entourage of monks, Taoist priests, and mourners. Yin shock makes ghosts hop, too. The yin, as opposed to the yang, is dark, mysterious, and usually out to make trouble. (Cats and the moon are characteristically yin.) Should a fresh corpse somehow come into direct contact with a yin sort of energy, then it reacts, often becoming charged with superhuman powers. And it hops. Q: How do you know when you've chanced upon a hopping ghost? A: It's not terribly difficult to tell. Despite the corpse's superhuman energy, rigor mortis does set in, and the joints get stiff enough that it is forced to hop stiffly. According to some reports they have resorted to flying. As for appearances, a hopping corpse usually wears Qing Dynasty burial clothes. As these went out of fashion a hundred or so years ago, the corpses stick out like a sore thumb. And they don't worry too much about personal hygiene either. One hopping ghost stunk so badly that one whiff killed a relative and knocked another out cold. Some hopping ghosts are uglier than others. Some have tounges that hang down to their chest or eyeballs that aren't too firmly attached to their sockets. But all hopping ghosts have unusually long fingernails that are their most lethal weapon (especially being on the end of stiff outstretched arms). Hopping ghosts keep best in coffins or caves. They're not much for sunbathing. In fact, the sun's first rays are enough to stop a hopping ghost dead in its tracks. Q: What should I do if I run into a hopping ghost? A: Don't breathe. Hopping ghosts detect humans by smelling their breath. The old clove-of-garlic-keeps-the-ghost-away trick will not work here. You could try pasting a yellow and red Chinese death blessing on its forehead. This will quiet many unsettled souls. In the event that you don't have the above handy, just whip out any eight-sided Taoist mirror, a straw broom, long-grained rice, or just a few drops of fresh chicken blood. In a few seconds the corpse will be hopping scared. Q: Just how dangerous are hopping ghosts? A: Well, lethal. Normally the hopping ghosts hops forward until it has gouged the victim's neck and choked him/her to death. This is not a pleasant way to go. In one other case, the hopping corpse preferred to plop down on sleeping people's heads thereby smothering an entire hotel full of guests. Q: What can I do to get rid of pesky hopping ghosts? A: There's only one way to do it, and that is to burn them, coffin and all. |
The Immaculate Collection is at #17 on the USA album chart. Not bad for a 27 year old album...
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This video is fab. It shows Madonna working on her MDNA tour and puts paid to the rumour that she doesn't have any creative input in anything she does.
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According to an article in the Portuguese media, Madonna is gathering ideas for her new album. The direction is going to be African rhythms mixed with contemporary dance. Craig Kostich the head of dance music at Warner Brothers Records did some remixes for her is supposedly involved.
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March 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the "Ray Of Light" album. Looking forward to celebrating this award winning stunning record.
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Like A Virgin's 33 anniversary is upon us!
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So today marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the biggest and most successful album's of the 80's.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....0MQ@@._V1_.jpg From Billboard: Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ at 33: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review On her self-titled 1983 debut, Madonna sang perky little tunes about going on vacation (“Holiday”) and falling in and out of love (“Lucky Star” and “Borderline”). These were ideas grandma and grandpa could get behind, and yet the 20-something Michigan native caused a minor sensation, setting the stage for a total pop-culture takeover. Clearly, music was only one of her weapons. While Madonna offered Middle American mallrats a taste of underground NYC dance culture, what really got people talking was the singer herself. This spunky, self-assured club kid with the belly shirts and rubber bracelets liked being a topic of conversation, and with her second album, Like a Virgin, she endeavored to keep her name on everyone’s lips. Released 33 years ago today (Nov. 12, 1984), Like a Virgin is sometimes thought of as Madonna’s artistic coming-out party, the moment she swapped frivolous bubblegum for more thoughtful examinations of female sexuality. Such praise stems mostly from what we now know about Madonna. However, for all its merits -- and it has many -- Like a Virgin isn’t exactly The Feminine Mystique set to music. In fact, it’s not all that different from its predecessor. As with her first record, Madonna went into Like a Virgin wrestling Warner Bros. for more artistic control. After her negative experiences working with Reggie Lucas, she wanted to handle more of the production herself, and she found a winning collaborator in Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, who’d just worked on David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. The first single, of course, is “Like a Virgin,” Madonna’s first No. 1 pop hit. It’s here that she most explicitly tackles sexual politics and explores that whole virgin-wh * re thing so central to her image. The other is “Material Girl,” a winking gold-digger anthem that can be taken a couple of different ways. The remaining eight songs range from explosive dance tunes (Into The Groove) to filler tracks (Shoo Bee Doo), but that was all it took to propel Madonna onto the same plain as Prince, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. Read on to get our track-by-track take on this ‘80s landmark, an album that had young girls everywhere rocking lace tutus and fingerless gloves and bopping along to a cultural figure who could no longer be ignored. “Material Girl”: Like so many ‘80s pop classics, this one is inextricably linked to its video, which features a pretty-in-pink Madonna paying homage to Marilyn Monroe. It’s also more clever than most people realize. She’s either making a sarcastic statement about the decade’s rampant materialism or promoting the kind of “I got mine, bitches” feminism that’s always been her guiding light. Either way, “Material Girl” is a stylish sign-of-the-times synth-funk jam she totally owned. “Angel”: Madonna never made an “Angel” video, so there are no candy-colored MTV memories to taint this underrated single, which she co-wrote with ex-boyfriend Steve Bray. It plays like a straightforward dance-pop love song, but when this lapsed Catholic starts singing about angels, you know there’s some religious subtext. The laughter up front and midway through is a reminder that Madonna is no wretch incapable of saving herself. When heaven sends her an angel, it’s game respecting game. “Like a Virgin”: Ask a hundred people what this song is about, and you’ll get a hundred interpretations -- none as hilariously vulgar as Quentin Tarantino’s in Reservoir Dogs, but each as valid. “Like a Virgin”, sits atop a bassline like the one heard in “Billie Jean” -- another complex song about purity and sex -- Madonna is coquettish yet knowing. “Like a Virgin” is about reconnecting with lost innocence through the act of lovemaking, a counterintuitive idea that was bound to confuse people. It didn’t exactly clarify things when she wore a wedding dress and humped the floor while performing the song at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. "Like A Virgin" received positive reviews from contemporary as well as past critics, who frequently hailed it as one of the defining songs for her. It became her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, while reaching the top of the charts in Australia, Canada and Japan, and the top-ten of other countries. “Over and Over”: The interplay between the shiny synths and clean, jangly guitar is reminiscent of what Prince was doing at the time, though the lyrics are pure Madonna. “You try to criticize my drive / If I lose I don't feel paralyzed,” she sings, managing to inject some of her go-getter personality into even a fairly skippable filler track. “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”: Originally a hit for Rose Royce in 1978, this ballad breaks the run of up-tempo tracks and puts the focus on raw emotion. Never known as a powerhouse vocalist, Madonna gives the soul-diva thing her best shot, and she powers through like she always does, making the most of her voice and even affecting some growls toward the end, right before she breaks down crying. "Into The Groove" (Only on the 1985 re-issue edition) As the album's fourth single. Madonna wrote the track for her friend, Mark Kamins, Madonna later decided to use it as the soundtrack of her film Desperately Seeking Susan. The song was appreciated by contemporary music critics as well as authors. The song was a commercial success, reaching the top of the charts in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom, where it was Madonna's first number-one single. In the United States, the song was only available as the B-side of the 12-inch single of "Angel", therefore it was ineligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 according to the rules at the time. By the end of the 1980s, "Into the Groove" was honored by Billboard magazine as the Dance Single of the Decade. “Dress You Up”: Dress You Up was released on July 31, 1985 as the album's final single. The song was the last track to be added to the album. Fashion was obviously a big part of Madonna’s appeal, and here, she proves that clothing can be a good metaphor for sex. Flirtatious lyrics like “silky touch” and “velvet kisses” are are laid on thick, but Rodgers skims away the cheese with his funky guitar tangles and that melodic solo, which could have come from Purple Rain. “Pretender”: Even when she gets snookered, Madonna is no sucker. “I know all about your kind,” she tells the finagler that inspired this brisk synth-pop groover. Yeah, she went back to his place, let things move too fast, and set herself up for heartbreak, but there’s a sense she saw it all coming. “Stay”: The final track on the album. The coolest part comes at 2:15, when Madonna gets into the “scoop, scoop, scoop, scoodooly be-bop” spirit and makes like a Shangri-La with some spoken-word vocals: “Don’t’ be afraid / It’s gonna be alright.” and she was most definitely right. As she became the most successful female artist in the world and still is to this very day. After its release, Like a Virgin received mixed reviews from the critics, but was a commercial success. It became Madonna's first number one album on the Billboard 200, while reaching the top of the charts in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it diamond for shipment of ten million copies across the United States. Worldwide it has sold 21 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. To promote the album, she embarked on The Virgin Tour, which had shows in cities of North America only. Like a Virgin has attained significance as a cultural artifact of the 1980s. Madonna proved that she was not a one-hit wonder and was able to provide herself with a permanent footing in the music world. Her songs became a lightning rod for both criticism by conservatives and imitation by the younger female population, especially "Material Girl" and "Like a Virgin". According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment." |
Sainsburys limited edition clear vinyl:
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EXCLUSIVE: Madonna Guest of Letterman for a Netflix Special.
https://www.drownedmadonna.com/2017/...tflix-special/ Netflix is going to have a special with David Letterman called “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”. where he interviews celebrities, and Madonna is one of them. :dance: Looks like she'll be sharing some juicy information on her plans for the future regarding the new album and movie. Can't wait. |
"Like A Virgin" becomes Madonna's most streamed album on Spotify
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"Burning Up" is a song written and recorded for her eponymous debut studio album (1983). It was released as the album's second single on March 9, 1983, in some countries as a double-A side single with "Physical Attraction", another song from the album. The song was presented as an early recorded demo by Madonna to Sire Records who green-lighted the recording of the single after the first single "Everybody" became a dance hit. Madonna collaborated with Reggie Lucas, who produced the single while John Benitez provided the guitar riffs and backing vocals. Musically, the song incorporates instrumentation from bass guitar, synthesizers and drums, and the lyrics talk of the singer's lack of shame in declaring her passion for her lover. Released with "Physical Attraction" on the B side, the song was given mixed reviews from contemporary critics and authors, who noted the song's darker, urgent composition while praising its dance beats. The single failed to do well commercially anywhere, except the dance chart in the United States, where it peaked at three, and the Australian charts, where it was a top 20 hit. After a number of live appearances in clubs to promote the single, it was added to the set-list of the 1985 Virgin Tour. An electric guitar version was performed on the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour and the 2015–2016 Rebel Heart Tour. The accompanying music video of the song portrayed Madonna in the classic submissive female positions, while writhing in passion on an empty road, for her lover who appeared to come from her behind on a car. The video ended showing Madonna driving the car instead, thereby concluding that she was always in charge. Many authors noted that the "Burning Up" music video was a beginning of Madonna's depiction of her taking control of a destabilized male sexuality. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...8single%29.png Completely forgot about this, so carrying on.... Sire Records released "Holiday" as the album's third single in September 7, 1983. "Holiday" later appeared remixed on the remix compilation You Can Dance (1987) and the greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection (1990), and in its original form on the greatest hits album Celebration (2009). Madonna worked on the track with John "Jellybean" Benitez and altered its composition by the addition of a piano solo. "Holiday" features instrumentation from guitars, electronic handclaps, a cowbell, and a synthesized string arrangement, while its lyrics speak about the universal sentiment of taking a holiday. Universally acclaimed by critics, the song became Madonna's first mainstream hit single in the United States, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the UK charts. It also became her first top-ten single in several countries, including Australia, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. "Holiday" is one of her best known singles and regarded as a classic. She's performed it on most of her tours and it is generally included as a part of the encore. https://img.discogs.com/HONf_9Fa47QU...-8225.jpeg.jpg |
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"Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest will sit down for an exclusive interview with the "Queen of Pop" herself, MADONNA, on Friday, December 8, on LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN. The global superstar, who is recognized by Guinness World Records as the best-selling female recording artist of all time, will update the hosts about the latest in her life, career, philanthropy, artistry and most recent projects, including her MDNA Skin care line. This marks Madonna's sixth interview on "Live," and her first visit to "Live with Kelly and Ryan." Her last appearance took place on January 11, 2007. Also during the hour, Ripa and Seacrest will make festive holiday wreaths with lifestyle expert Katie Brown, and pop band 98 Degrees will perform a Christmas favorite for the "Live" audience. About "Live with Kelly and Ryan" "Live with Kelly and Ryan" is distributed in national Syndication by Disney|ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution. The show is produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive produced by Michael Gelman, Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. Visit "Live" on the web (KellyandRyan.com), Facebook and Instagram (@LiveKellyandRyan), and Twitter and SnapChat (@LiveKellyRyan)." |
Billboard names Madonna as the Greatest female artist of all time.
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katy perry above beyonce aghhdghgfg
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Pictures of Madonna arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport makes Vogue Magazine:
Madonna Channels an Urban Cowgirl at the Airport: https://www.vogue.com/article/madonn...-airport-style |
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Album and tour in 2018!!!!!!!
She just announced on the Kelly and Ryan show. :dance::dance::dance: |
She confirms it here around 2:58...
"2018, I'm coming back baby and i'm coming for you". :cheer2: |
Madonna's Daughter, Mercy is fantastic on the piano - and she's only 11. D:
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I need a date to get ready for the new bops
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So pleased Madonna said no to the residency.
Everyone in their right mind knows she doesn't NEED to do a residency when she's still popular enough to tour the world. Leave it to the has-beens and tacky circus performers. |
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