Madonna #9: The Beat Goes On

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Op Drownedmadonna.com

Update!

Pharell Williams spreekt over de tracks die hij met Madonna heeft gedaan. Lekker cryptisch allemaal:-

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From BANG Media International via Monsters and Critics:

Madonna’s new song with Pharrell Williams is so "hot" it will "make the music speakers bleed".

The ’Hung Up’ singer has been in the studio with hit producer Pharrell creating tracks for her upcoming album, and he claims their collaboration will take the music industry by storm.

Speaking at the launch of his new shop Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream in New York on Wednesday (28.11.07), Pharrell said: "It was crazy. I don’t want to say too much. I’d rather wait for you to hear it. It’s awesome though. It makes the speakers bleed. It’s hot!"

Earlier this month, it was reported Pharrell had been recording with the 49-year-old singer at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles.

The pair reportedly bumped into Kanye West, who was working with Michael Jackson in a studio next-door, inspiring the hip-hop star to rap on one of Madonna’s new songs.

Last month, Madonna signed a $120 million, 10-year record deal with Live Nation Inc. and plans to release her first studio album with the label early next year.

Also set to feature on the hotly-anticipated LP are star producer Timbaland and ’SexyBack’ singer Justin Timberlake.

Intussen is Madonna zelf volgens de geruchten vast van plan van dit nieuwe album een succes te maken, met een fris creatief team:

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EXCLUSIVE - Here are some of the latest news Drowned Madonna has heard and is allowed to report.

Madonna has been in Los Angeles to discuss details with Execs at Live Nation at their Los Angeles office.

As you know, Madonna is now in New York and today, Sunday December 2, she will attend the private screening of Guy Ritchie "Revolver".

Next days, probably on Monday, Madonna will go to Warner Brothers offices to discuss her new album.

Madonna is shopping around for video directors and choreographers for her first single! She is looking for NEW people to choreograph for her and she also would like to pair with a new director... BRAND new. But she wants only top A LISTERS video directors.

Madonna want a great video for her new single. The budget for the video is huge!

Choreographer and directors will send their reels to Madonna next week. Then, Madonna will narrow down to a few. Whoever will get call to talk to Madonna, will have to fly to New York City and listen to the single in presence of Madonna at the Warner Bros. offices and discuss about the video. Security is VERY tight!

Aren't you excited?!!?

Maar het mooiste nieuws is naar mijn idee nog dit:



Dit is een screencap van een mail die mensen kregen die lid zijn van de online nieuwsbrief van Live Nation. Dat is de concert promotor en binnenkort ook zakelijk belangenbehartiger van Madonna. Ze spreken over "next year's Madonna Tour". Dat betekent dat men in ieder geval aan het plannen is voor volgend jaar. Yay!

Het nieuwe album van Madonna is AF!!

Gisteren hebben de bobo's van Warner Music de kans gehad tien van de dertien tracks van Madonna's nieuwe album op een exclusieve album listening party, die volledig in candy thema was aangekleed: champagne en snoep voor iedereen, de stoelen in zuustrok rood en wit. Verder hingen er aan de muren allemaal foto's van de Re-Invention Tour, plus een poster die mogelijk de cover voorstelde van de Lissabon-dvd van de tour uit 2004 die dus nooit is uitgekomen. Curieus...

Madonna woonde samen met Liz Rosenberg en Ingrid Casares het luisterfeestje bij.

Wat details over het album:

Het album gaat mogelijk Give It To Me heten, althans: dat vertelde Madonna. Er staat ook een nummer op het album met dezelfde titel.

Madonna liet tien nummers horen, maar ze zei dat er dertien tracks op het album komen.

Het is nog niet bekend welk nummer de eerste single zal worden. Madonna is zelf helemaal weg van Candyshop, maar het zou ook zomaar 4 Minutes To Save The World kunnen worden, welke een betere reactie kreeg van de aanwezigen.

4 Minutes To Save The World is een meer dansbare Hey You. Lyrics zijn ongeveer: "Hey girl, save the world..."

Ook The Beat Goes On verschijnt op het album, maar het liedje schijnt nogal een metamorfose ondergaan te hebben. Het klinkt in ieder geval niet meer zoals de demo die al vroeg gelekt is. Kanye West doet mee. Madonna was er vrij duidelijk in: dit wordt geen single en ze deed zelfs een beetje alsof het liedje een beetje als grap bedoeld was.

Andere liedjes op het album zijn Miles Away en The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You. Miles Away schijnt mooi te zijn: zowel dansbaar als akoestisch, met harmonieuze vocalen van Madonna. Ze schijnt erg goed te klinken in dit nummer. The Devil Wouldn\t Recognize You zat al een tijd in de koker bij Madonna en zou eerst in een door haar geschreven musical gebruikt worden. Dat feest ging niet door, maar het liedje zou daarna tijdens haar Re-Invention Tour gebruikt worden. Gebeurde ook niet, maar binnenkort dus op M's nieuwe album.

Er zaten ook tracks bij waarvan Madonna de titel niet noemde. De hooks van deze liedjes gaan als volgt: "She's Not Me", "Feel It In My Heartbeat" en "Dance Tonight".

Er is ook een liedje dat door Madonna zelf beschreven werd als een "psychological mindfuck". Met vragen zoals, "who is the master or the slave" en "if you're walking the dog or the dogs are walking you".

Het album is een paar dagen geleden afgemixt.

Madonna zei dat de albumrelease waarschijnlijk de laatste week van april 2008 zal plaatshebben.

BRON: Drownedmadonna.com

Ach, ik wacht het allemaal wel af. Van de dertien tracks hebben we nu in ieder geval al acht titels:

Candyshop
The Beat Goes On
Give It To Me
4 Minutes To Save The World
(Even?) The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Miles Away
Across The Sky
Dance Tonight

Het Madonna nieuws blijft maar komen. Dit keer van Madonnatribe.com:

Over Across the Sky:

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MadonnaTribe has received more info about one of the songs on Madonna's new album. One of the Five Songs we first reported on November 18 from the Timberlake/Timbaland session is a nice, mid-tempo love song with classic "Madonna lyrics" and a theme concept that loosely reminds of the idea behind the song "Like a Virgin".

Across The Sky, tells the story of a woman who is quite disenchanted by love, a woman who knows deception, a woman who lied and has been lied to quite a lot in her life. A woman who admits she is not a saint but that finally fells like a new person now that she has found a new love in her life and she is ready to travel "across the sky" with her man, poetically holding his hands in hers.

Musically the songs contains a lot of acustic guitars and has a very catchy chorus. Justin Timberlake is "oooing" on backing vocals. Apparently the song would be perfect for a third single release from the album.

Fans who might be worried that Madonna has been looking for much new musical directions with this album must be reassured that she has re-invented and adapted that genre to her own unique style.

En over Give it to Me:

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MadonnaTribe sources can bring more exclusive news about the title track of Madonna's new album. Give It To Me is a song produced by Pharrell Williams, and it's a very catchy uptempo track that reminds of early Madonna tracks from the "pre-Madonna era" such as "Love on the run". The fans who were worried that this album would be too hip-hop would be happy to know that it's very 80's in its structure and it's pure Madonna. A person who apparently heard the song said it sounds quite "cartoonish".

The "Give It To Me" phrase has nothing to do with a supposed "sexual content" as rumoured on a few Madonna forums, but it's said in the sense of "I'll handle the situation for you".

A male voice is also singing backing vocals on part of the second verse and Madonna reprises a couple of lyrics from "The Beat Goes On" on this one.

The break is very strange, the song basically stops suddenly while Madonna says "Don't Stop It" the male voice, probably Pharell himself says "to the left, to the right".

This song would also make a great single!

En over de fotosessie voor haar nieuwe album:

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MadonnaTribe has heard, and can finally report, some concrete exclusive info about the photoshoot Madonna will be doing for the cover of her new album. The Queen of Pop will be shooting the album cover on December 22nd in the United Kingdom.

She will be following again tradition, as the photographer is again Steven Klein. The album design will be once again in charge of designer Giovanni Bianco.

Stay tuned for further details.

Meer details over 4 Minutes to Save the World en Dance Tonight:

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MadonnaTribe sources can bring more exclusive news about two tracks of Madonna's new album.
Of the lot of songs produced by Timbaland and Justin Timbelake that MTribe reported about shortly after they had their final mixing in Hit Studios Miami in November, "4 Minutes To Save The World" is possibly the one with a stronger "classic" Timbaland vibe.
If there's actually some "hip hop" or "urban" vibe in Madonna's new album, we've been told that "4 Minutes" is probably the track where you can feel it the most. The song has an instantly catchy vibe, with percussion layers and hypnotic synthetized strings. While in other songs of the album Justin can be heard on backing vocals - as exclusively reported on this site in mid-November - "4 Minutes To Save The World" is actually a duet as in this song's verse Madonna and Justin basically sing one line each or better answer one to another on a back and forth basis.

On the other hand, we've been told that "Dance Tonight" sounds like the funkiest song of the lot. You could say it's a dance track from the beginning to the end - there's dance in the title, dance in the theme, dance in the lyrics, and dance in the instrumentation.
It has a captivating late 70's - early 80's disco sound - fingered bass, claps, triangle - recalling songs that made the history of dance as we know it and groups like Kool & The Gang, Skyy, Delegation, even a bit of the early Michael Jackson and huge references to the signature sound of Narada Michael Walden and to the origins of disco-rappping.
To compare it to another Madonna songs the most similar thing that comes to mind is "Don't Stop" or maybe "Your Honesty" from the Bedtime Stories sessions.

Lyrics-wise "Dance Tonight" also shares the same idea of fun of Don't Stop reprising the classic Madonna theme of letting yourself go and be guided by music, and doing positive things while you dance the night away.

Bron: Madonnatribe.com

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Op donderdag 13 december 2007 18:06 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Madonna heeft een plekje gekregen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

En terecht! 2008 begint sowieso goed voor Madonna. De adoptie van David is nu ook goedgekeurd.

[ Bericht 16% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 13-12-2007 19:02:05 ]

Videoshoot in januari, het zal mij benieuwen. Ik hoop dat ze er eens wat creativiteit instopt.

Apart trouwens dat Across the Sky ineens niet meer op het album verschijnt, aangezien men het op Tribe had over een heel pakkend liedje dat wel eens de derde single zou kunnen worden. Nou ja, we hebben het natuurlijk niet gehoord, dus echt erover oordelen kunnen we niet. De titel klonk wel interessant...

We zullen zien!

Ik ben niet zo'n fan van Timbalands "toevoegingen", maar ik denk dat ik het wel tof kan gaan vinden.

Het is even afwachten inderdaad... Tot 22 april zeg maar, volgens Drownedmadonna.com:-

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Our collaborator Enrique has received the sheet with all the 2008 scheduled releases for Spain.

The tentative release date for Madonna new album in Spain is April 22nd which fits what Drowned Madonna exclusively revealed about the release date. The album will also be available in USB format.

The document also lists a new Madonna Collection - including all her singles, rareties and new songs - to be released November 25.

Finally a new Timbaland album is due november the 4th and according to the document it will include a collaboration with Madonna as well as other artists like Dido, Linkin Park, Cher, Kenya West, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Akon and Mary J Blige.

Other big releases for the year 2008 are new Cds from Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Fergie, Janet Jackson and also about latin artists Paulina Rubio, Alejandro Sanz and Shakira.

Drownedmadonna goochelt wel vaker met namen. In één bericht Timbaland, Timbeland en Timberland.

Dit gaat niet te lang duren vrees ik, maar hier een muzikaal loopje van 4 Minutes to Save The World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE673lfDAzw

(Fanmade, dat wel)

Spannend single nieuws van Madonnatribe:-

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M-Tribe friend and Community member Mike from Madonna Download reports today that radio stations in the US recieved the heads up for Madonna's new single.

Madonna is reportedly expected to be in Los Angeles next week, and it is understood that at the same time her single will hit the radio, although nothing has been confirmed or officially announced yet.
M-Tribe reader Gary also reports that raido dee-jays have been hyping the new release saying that the new single, featuring Timbaland and Justin Timberlake is expected to hit the waves "any day now".

Thanks to Mike and Gary.

Oooooh, bijna! BIJNA!

Madonna listening party:

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It's not every day that Warner Bros. Records gets a visit from the Material Girl herself. Well we didn't exactly roll out a red carpet - but we did build a plastic brick path inspired by the Candyland game that Miss M. happily strolled down on the way to our conference room which was completely transformed into a palatial pink and white candy emporium. All we knew was there was a song on her upcoming CD that mentions a candy shop - henceforth our theme. And of course, Madonna's love for candy - especially hot tamales is pretty well known. This was strictly for the Warner Bros. Records employees - no press, no photographers, no cell phones. Madonna, always the perfect hostess screamed out different song choices to our resident dj by numbers. "Jesse, play no. 5 next" and so on. We were treated to l0 songs with comments by the artist on some of her collaborators Pharrell, Justin, Timbaland, an appearance by Kanye West, etc.
Every song was a knock out with two apparant favorites being Four Minutes to Save The World and Candy Shop or Candy Store (not decided)...Madonna mentioned she was a little nervous as it was the first official playing of the music. Thankfully it was a room filled with Madonna fans who cheered after every song was played. Champagne and soda and lots of candy later, we all agreed that we felt blessed that we worked at Warner Bros. Records.

En gelukkig hebben we de foto's nog:













Wat een kitsch.