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Madonna goes hip-hop?
Met het aantrekken van producers Timbaland, Justin Timberlake en Pharrell lijkt Madonna de disco dansvloer voor even achter zich te laten. De fans vrezen grote vrezen: zou Madonna dit keer hip-hop gaan? Dat is nog even afwachten, want een officiële releasedatum of titel voor het nieuwe album zijn er nog niet. Wel zijn er inmiddels verschillende clips gelekt van een Pharrell-track genaamd Candy Shop en is er een demo gelekt van Pharrell-track The Beat Goes On.
Verder zijn er speculaties over een tour (niet bevestigd of ontkend), een MTV VMA-optreden (ontkend) en is Madonna bezig met haar filmregiedebuut Filth and Wisdom en een documentaire over de AIDS-wezen in Malawi, waar ook haar adoptiezoontje David vandaan komt.
The Beat Goes On in het Madonna-topic deel 9!
Vorig topic: Madonna #8: Zij krijgt David, wij de DVD!
Handige links:
www.madonna.com
www.madonnatribe.com
www.drownedmadonna.com
www.madonnalicious.nl
www.madonna.nl
[ Bericht 1% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 28-08-2007 14:09:24 ]
Een van de redenen dat ze het ook doet denk ik, net voor haar pensioen weer groot worden in de States om daarna altijd gezien te worden als een legende.
quote:Nou dat zal nog een hele opgave worden hoor...zeker aangezien een andere diva rondt die tijd haar eerste single zal uitbrengen *kuch*avatar*kuch* TBGO is overigens toch niet zo slecht als ik aanvankelijk dacht, maar de productie blijft vrij kaal. Gelukkig is er ook nog TimbalandOp maandag 27 augustus 2007 16:30 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
Madonna + Timbaland + Pharrell = Top van hitlijsten in de USA
Een van de redenen dat ze het ook doet denk ik, net voor haar pensioen weer groot worden in de States om daarna altijd gezien te worden als een legende.
Ik hoop écht dat ze weer als brunette door het leven zal gaan met dit album quote:Hehe wel opvallend dat ze meer cd's verkocht dan Madonna maar haar tour bijna niets opleverde. Misschien had de platenmaatschappij een handje geholpenOp maandag 27 augustus 2007 17:29 schreef JBoy het volgende:
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Nou dat zal nog een hele opgave worden hoor...zeker aangezien een andere diva rondt die tijd haar eerste single zal uitbrengen *kuch*avatar*kuch* TBGO is overigens toch niet zo slecht als ik aanvankelijk dacht, maar de productie blijft vrij kaal. Gelukkig is er ook nog Timbaland
quote:Haar tour heeft het niet zó slecht gedaan als wordt beweert hoor...in vergelijking met TCT natuurlijk welOp maandag 27 augustus 2007 19:10 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
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Hehe wel opvallend dat ze meer cd's verkocht dan Madonna maar haar tour bijna niets opleverde. Misschien had de platenmaatschappij een handje geholpen
Ik kijk trouwens al uit naar het diva gevecht van de eeuw Ik vind beiden erg goed maar de laatste tijd heeft Mimi mijn voorkeur maar ik hoop dat ze het beiden goed doen 
Maarre...terug naar Madge?
Voor Madonna staan er voorlopig nog maar drie releases voor dit jaar op stapel:
TBS OCTOBER 2007
MADONNA "TBD" (2 CD) 2 289404 WB
MADONNA "TBD" (2 CD + MVI) 9 289468 WB
MADONNA Best Of Remixes 2 231356 WB
TBS staat voor To Be Specified. TBD staat voor To Be Determined. Dat laatste betekent dat een release in oktober nog niet vaststaat en dat er ook nog geen zekere titel is. MVI staat voor Music Video Interactive.
Men gaat er eigenlijk van uit dat het hier gaat om Anniversary releases, omdat Madonna vorig jaar 25 jaar in het vak zat. Hoe komt men daarop? Nou ja, het feit dat het dubbel cd's betreft en MVI. Dat is misschien een beetje teveel van het goede voor een nieuw album. Haar nieuwe album zou dan pas begin volgend jaar uitkomen.
Natuurlijk pure speculatie, maar toch.
Ik liet "the beat..." aan mijn moeder horen en ze vond het echt een leuk nummer
Het schijn toch dat Madonna en team niet heel erg gelukkig zijn met het lekken van TBGO. Het liedje was nog verre van definitief en het is niet eens zeker of het nummer op het album terecht komt. Het schijnt ook dat Stuart Price nog veel van deze nummers gaat 'opschonen' of afmixen. En dat moet dus ook nog gebeuren.
Nog zo'n gerucht: ondanks dat Liz Rosenberg het verjaardagsconcert in New York heeft ontkend, schijnen er nog steeds plannen voor te zijn. Ook logisch gedacht, aangezien Liz ook had gezegd dat Madonna niet van plan was te adopteren, en een week later zien we Madonna met David.
[ Bericht 5% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 28-08-2007 20:05:35 ]
Maar uhm, is er nog een reden dat Remixed & Revisited is weggelaten?
Ik reken 'm zelf ook niet écht tot haar echt albums, maar dan de 2 live(bonus)cd's evenmin eigenlijk...
Hm ja, ik heb er even over getwijfeld, maar dan had ik denk ik ook The Holiday Collection erbij moeten betrekken en nog een paar van die obscure dingetjes... En het kwam visueel beter uit in verband met het nieuwe album.
quote:Secret Garden!Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2007 23:49 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
Oh shit.. Dat pianotje op Secret Garden is toch wel belachelijk vet
A petal that isn't torn
A heart that will not harden
A place that I can be born
In my secret garden
A rose without a thorn
A lover without scorn
Van Drownedmadonna.com:-
quote:It Seems that nothing is coming THIS YEAR at this point regarding a Madonna release.
Warner and Madonna started to put something out this year, hence the different comfigs on the schedule. So we should wait the new year for her new album.
Even the Best of Remixes 2 is not happening this year anymore. Its release was decided last April.The remixes album has been in the air since 2004, and Drowned Madonna revealed it 3 years ago. Once again Warner has NO plans this year to release anything special like an Anniversary Box Set. There is a possible release of sort into 2008. So look into the new year.
As usual, we'll keep you updated!
Nou ja, beter een goed uitgewerkt album dan een haastwerkje en aan remixes heb ik toch meestal een hekel...
[ Bericht 80% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 03-09-2007 11:25:05 ]
En ik hoop dat ze in de tussentijd ook met een paar andere DJ's gaat werken.. (zoals Felix
)
Get together is niet zomaar een leuk popliedje, deze jongen maakt er een prachtig gevoelig nummer van.
quote:Februari dus. Ik ben benieuwd!Finally something that looks more certain about the release of Madonna's new album. After weeks of speculation about tentative release dates, in an interview to Italian music magazine Musica & Dischi, the man in charge of Warner Music Italy, Massimo Giuliano, not only says that Warner artists had a great year in Italy in 2007 (Confessions Tour was a huge commercial hit) but mentions that Madonna's new album is expected for a February 2008 release.
As previously reported Giuliano confirms that this album is one of the last two records Madonna owes to Warner to end her current contract with them. So apparently February 2008 is actually the month to be looking for!
Ben heel erg benieuwd
'Madonna sluit contract van 120 miljoen dollar' (2)
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LOS ANGELES (ANP) - Popster Madonna gaat een nieuw contract tekenen bij muziekproducent Live Nation. Dat meldde de Wall Street Journal woensdag. De 49-jarige superster zou 120 miljoen dollar krijgen in ruil voor de distributierechten van drie nieuwe albums, de promotie van haar concerten en de verkoop van alle Madonna-parafernalia.
Het nieuwe contract is voor een periode van tien jaar. Het zou het einde betekenen van jarenlange samenwerking met haar huidige platenlabel Warner Bros. Het bedrijf heeft al haar muziek uitgebracht vanaf haar eerste album uit 1983. Zowel Live Nation als Warner Bros. weigerden te reageren op het bericht.
Het contract zou Madonna's status als best betaalde vrouwelijke zangeres bevestigen. Het Amerikaanse blad Forbes schatte haar vermogen recent op 325 miljoen dollar. Zij is daarmee de op drie na rijkste vrouw in de entertainmentwereld. Boven haar staan nog talkshowkoningin Oprah Winfrey, schrijfster J.K. Rowling en lifestylegoeroe Martha Stewart.
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Madonna said to be near $120 million record deal with Live Nation
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By ALEX VEIGA=
AP Business Writer=
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Madonna intends to sign a $120 million (ñ85 million) recording and touring deal with live entertainment promoter Live Nation Inc. and leave her longtime record label at Warner Music Group Corp., a person familiar with the contract negotiations said.
The pop superstar's management informed Warner last week that she would accept Live Nation's offer after the record company refused to match the deal, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because of the confidential nature of the matter.
Warner Music and Live Nation declined to comment. A call to Madonna's publicist was not immediately returned.
Under terms of the proposed deal, Madonna, 49, would receive a signing bonus of about $18 million (ñ13 million) and an advance of about $17 million (ñ12 million) for each of three albums, the person said. A portion of the compensation would involve stock, the person said.
Madonna could also benefit significantly from the touring component of the deal, which gives Live Nation the exclusive right to promote her tours, the person said.
Madonna first signed with Warner Music Group subsidiary Warner Bros. Records in 1984. Her last contract with the New York-based company calls for her to deliver one more studio album and a greatest hits record.
Madonna, Live Nation eye rich pact-report
LOS ANGELES, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $120 million deal with concert promotion firm Live Nation Inc. <LYV.N>, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
The pact would give Madonna a mix of cash and stock in exchange for the rights to sell three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license her name, the paper said.
Madonna, 49, has recorded for the Warner Music Group Corp. <WMG.N>-owned label her entire career, stretching back to her 1983 self-titled debut album.
A Live Nation spokesman declined comment. Publicists for both Warner Music and Madonna did not immediately reply to requests for comment
Misschien is ze daarom ook wel in New York.
quote:Madonna Joins Forces With Live Nation in Revolutionary Global Music Partnership
Tuesday October 16, 12:55 pm ET
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Live Nation's President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Rapino officially confirmed today that Madonna has entered into an unprecedented global partnership with Live Nation and will become the founding artist in its Artist Nation division.
"The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a business woman, I have to move with that shift," commented Madonna. "For the first time in my career, the way that my music can reach my fans is unlimited. I've never wanted to think in a limited way and with this new partnership, the possibilities are endless. Who knows how my albums will be distributed in the future? That's what's exciting about this deal -- everything is possible. Live Nation has offered me a true partnership and after 25 years in the business, I feel that I deserve that."
"Madonna is a true icon and maverick as an artist and in business," stated Mr. Rapino. "Our partnership is a defining moment in music history. I am thrilled that Madonna, who is also now a shareholder in our company, has joined with us to create a new business model for our industry. Bringing all the varied elements of Madonna's stunning music career into the Artist Nation and Live Nation family, moves her future and the future of our company into a unique and extraordinary place."
The first-of-its-kind partnership between Madonna and Live Nation encompasses all of Madonna's future music and music-related businesses, including the exploitation of the Madonna brand, new studio albums, touring, merchandising, fan club/web site, DVD's, music-related television and film projects and associated sponsorship agreements. This unique new business model will address all of Madonna's music ventures as a total entity for the first time in her career.
Arthur Fogel, Chairman of Live Nation's Global Music Division and Chief Executive Officer of Global Touring, who has produced the artist's last three worldwide tours with the company which generated close to $500 million in the last six years commented, "Madonna is without a doubt one of the most fiercely original artists in history. It is a great opportunity for Live Nation and Artist Nation to build upon our years of success with Madonna as a touring artist."
Artist Nation was created to partner with artists to manage their diverse rights, grow their fan bases and provide a direct connection to fans through the global distribution platform and marketing proficiencies that have made Live Nation the world's largest live music company. Headed by the division's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Cohl, Artist Nation has significant infrastructure in place to execute additional revenue streams including recorded music, merchandise, studios, media rights, digital rights, fan club/website and sponsorship divisions.
Joining with Artist Nation to work with Madonna will be Live Nation's unmatched global distribution platform and artist-to-fan-reach, including over 80 offices in l8 countries, over 200 national and local sponsorship personnel, over l60 venues, access to over 35 million fans that attend well over l0,000 shows that Live Nation produces, promotes and/or hosts each year for over l,000 artists including fan access via Live Nation's growing database of over 25 million fans.
"I've been fortunate enough to work with Madonna for half my life. She has always encouraged me and set a great example for me to push the boundaries to reach our full potential. This partnership exemplifies just that," commented Madonna's co-manager Guy Oseary.
Angela Becker, Madonna's co-manager added, "The partnership and vision for the future that Artist Nation along with Live Nation presented to us assured me that this is the ideal home for Madonna. It is with great trust and optimism that we collectively move ahead together."
In regard to Madonna's relationship with her current label, the artist commented, "My time with Warner Bros. Records has been great. I appreciate their hard work and value the many relationships I have developed over the years with the label in the U.S. and around the world. I have an album coming out with them next year and I'm excited about it. We still have work to do together."
ABOUT MADONNA:
The multi-Grammy Award winning artist, songwriter, children's book author, producer and video visionary with an unrivaled reputation for astonishing stage spectacles, has made music history many times over, logging an incredible 12 number one pop singles and 35 number one dance singles in the U.S. alone. Her 2006 "Confessions" tour generated almost $200 million, making it the highest grossing concert tour of all time by a female artist. Over the last 25 years, Madonna's collective record sales number over 200 million albums worldwide. Her last album, Confessions On A Dance Floor debuted at number one in 29 countries and sold almost 8 million copies worldwide. Her last concert DVD The Confessions Tour -- Live from London, sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide.
ABOUT LIVE NATION:
Live Nation is the future of the music business. With the most live concerts, music venues and festivals in the world and the most comprehensive concert search engine on the web, Live Nation is revolutionizing the music industry: onstage and online.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Live Nation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol "LYV." Additional information about the company can be found at http://www.livenation.com under the "About Us" section
Meer details over de Live Nation-deal:
quote:You can listen to the Live Nation schedules conference call today to discuss groundbreaking partnership with Madonna and Artist Nation Division. Click here. It last 2 hours.
Listening to the conference, you can find out more detail on the agreement, such as:
1. New Madonna tour within 2 years
2. The first Madonna album released via Live Nation within 2 years or 3 years maximum
Although they say in the beginning that Madonna would tour within 2 years, in a latter question asking if she will tour after the release of her new album next year, they said that if you look at Madonna’s tour history, she toured in 2001, 2004 and 2006 and each tour followed the release of a new album, hinting that she’ll probably tour after the release of her next album.
They also said that they expect her to tour 4 times within the 10 year period.
quote:Bron: Entertainment Weekly/Hollywood InsiderOn Warners’ end, publicist Liz Rosenberg says that the 49 year-old icon’s next record (which may feature songs from recent studio sessions with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake) could drop in March 2008, with yet another greatest hits package slated for later next year or early 2009. Rosenberg adds: "We intend to work our asses off to make them both huge successes."
Hm, daar had ik nog niet bij stil gestaan. Liz Rosenberg werkt voor Warners. Geen Liz meer voor Madonna...
quote:21 October - Danja hints at Madonna's new sound
In the new issue of People Magazine;
Timbaland's right hand Nate "Danja" Hills previewed his production on upcoming releases, including Madonna's new album, which he described as: "The songs are crazy. It's harder with a hip-hop influence but you can still dance to it."
Danja recently scored high with Britney's new single 'Gimme More' and he's currently producing several other artists too, meaning that the Timbaland-Danja sound is going to be prominent in 2008 as well.
quote:Van Madonnalicious.comNew album news
Posted: 25 October 2007
madonnalicious has some exciting news about Madonna's new album:
* It has a tentative release date in the US of Tuesday 11 March
* It has a working title of Connextion - although this will be changed for release
* It currently contains 12 tracks
* The Beat Goes On track that was leaked a few months ago actually is the finished product for the album
* Another song is a ballad, much like the tone of Promise To Try but is more about a rebirth than death
* There is another song with a strong techno 'thump' with just Madonna singing, no other musical sound and it works pretty well, almost haunting and stays with you
quote:MadonnaTribe have received some updated info about the 2008 Tour that Madonna and her team have been working on since they were touring with the "Confessions" show last year - and that this site reported about first right after the last concert in Japan in September 2006.
From what we hear, the 2008 Tour project is alive and kicking - the time span they are working on at the moment to set tentative dates and arrange deals with the venues is basically the one of a Summer tour.
But - as the aim is to bring the tour to as many countries as possible - they are working on a scheme which includes a reduced number of concerts to take place in a single city, focusing on those who offer the best performance from a production/cost/ticketing point of view, and obviously the word "stadiums" comes to mind.
Also, there is a chance that we'll have to deal with itineraries significantly different from the ones of Madonna's two most recent tours - meaning that there's a chance that the tour will start in Europe this time around and not in California like Reinvention and Confessions did.
From what we hear plans to celebrate Madonna's 50 year birthday with a special event are still going on, although it is not sure if the much talked about Central Park concert in New York City will happen.
It also seems that the "birthday concert" is being taken into consideration for TV broadcasting and DVD recording this time again, like it happened with the Confessions Tour.
Plans are still yet to be final so we have to take all of the above with a grain of salt as things can change significantly in the next months, but the thing that excites us the most is to learn that - as of today - the tour celebrating Madonna's 25 Years in music business is a go!
Met natuurlijk de volledige RIT op DVD en een fatsoenlijke versie van Blond Ambition met een uitgebreide "In bed with Madonna" toevoeging.
Waar zijn die gristenen nu?
quote:geen panier, hier zijn de reli-rukkers alOp woensdag 7 november 2007 20:03 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Dat zou leuk zijn, al vraag ik me af of Warner veel invloed heeft op de concertreleases van Madonna.
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Waar zijn die gristenen nu?
De eerste (fake?) downloads zijn er al van het nieuwe album. Schijnt "Candy Shop" te gaan heten.
[ Bericht 8% gewijzigd door HuubTuub op 10-11-2007 09:56:22 ]
hoe dan ook ik zie dat hele gedoe met Timbaland en Pharrel niet zitten. In the beat goes on kun je haar zo vervangen door Nelly Furtado.. ik vind het wel erg makkelijk allemaal. "Timbaland en R&B is de trend dus doe ik het ook".
maar goed we zien wel
.quote:inderdaad. Ze loopt nu een beetje achter de feiten aan met producers die overal al geweest zijn met dezelfde saaie klanken.Op vrijdag 9 november 2007 15:28 schreef Prego het volgende:
ik hoorde weer van iemand dat ze dat hele R&B gedoe laat zitten en doorgaat op de dance..
hoe dan ook ik zie dat hele gedoe met Timbaland en Pharrel niet zitten. In the beat goes on kun je haar zo vervangen door Nelly Furtado.. ik vind het wel erg makkelijk allemaal. "Timbaland en R&B is de trend dus doe ik het ook".
maar goed we zien wel
Hopelijk schat ik het allemaal verkeerd in en is het wel een top album, maar I have there a hard head in.
1. 4 Minutes To Save The World (duet met Justin Timberlake!)
Een up-beat nummer met hip hop-invloeden.
2. Dance Tonight (duet met Justin Timberlake!)
In de trant van Rock Your Body, dus met veel handenklap en mid-tempo
3. Across The Sky (achtergrondzang Justin Timberlake)
Rustig akoestisch nummer a la Power Of Goodbye met hele hoge noten
4. Even The Devil Woulnd't Recognize You (achtergrondzang Justin Timberlake)
Ballad in de trant van Cry Me A River.
5. Miles Away (achtergrondzang Justin Timberlake)
Up-tempo HIT met akoestische gitaren a la Love Profusion, maar dan veel beter!
Bron: Madonnatribe.com
4 Minutes to Save the World klinkt een beetje gevaarlijk, maar als fan ben ik natuurlijk bereid haar het voordeel van de twijfel te geven. 
Op Drownedmadonna.com
Pharell Williams spreekt over de tracks die hij met Madonna heeft gedaan. Lekker cryptisch allemaal:-
quote:Intussen is Madonna zelf volgens de geruchten vast van plan van dit nieuwe album een succes te maken, met een fris creatief team: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.
quote:Maar het mooiste nieuws is naar mijn idee nog dit: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?!!?
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!
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
moet gebruiken of 
Enige positive vind ik dat Timbaland eraan meewerkt. Pharrell is echt niks de laatste jaren
Ook hoop ik dat er een paar dj's aan meewerken zoals bijvoorbeeld Felix Da Housecat .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
Over Across the Sky:
quote:En over Give it to Me: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.
quote:En over de fotosessie voor haar nieuwe album: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!
quote: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.
quote:Bron: Madonnatribe.comMadonnaTribe 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.
quote:En terecht!Op donderdag 13 december 2007 18:06 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Madonna heeft een plekje gekregen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
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 ]
En 2008 wordt weer een echt Madonna-jaar! Een nieuw allbum en een tour!
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!
Het klinkt als een grote hit voor in de VS
[ Bericht 13% gewijzigd door Erotica_ op 17-12-2007 08:07:20 ]
quote: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.
En ik denk niet dat Timbaland nog wacht tot november voor een nieuw album, binnenkort komt de laatste single al uit van deze album. Klinkt een beetje verdacht deze nieuwsbericht
En als er een single in januari, februari uitkomt denk ik niet dat ze met de album gaan wachten tot april.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE673lfDAzw
(Fanmade, dat wel)
quote:Oooooh, bijna! BIJNA!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.
quote:En gelukkig hebben we de foto's nog: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.
Wat een kitsch.
wtf my sugar is raaww
Van het MGroove Forum:
quote:Some info about the album photoshoot: Think bricks, graffiti and jeans.
Very Blond on album cover. Hair is straight. Lots of Jewelry.. (think Into the Groove)
Promo performances and video look: Blond in the 1st single video. Think Beautiful Stranger for hair style...loose curls. "Block Party" theme.
Album name info: One of the first working titles was "subculture Lady"...then "give it to me", "UrbanBeat Queen" and lastly Madonna is very interested in "Block Party"
Madonna will (most likely) premiere her new single next week while in LA. Most likely doing a radio interview. A press release is expected very soon. It has been reported several radio stations have already received the single.
Also, as litfuser stated...album is supposedly coming out Feb. 29 (friday for Italy) which would be a March 4th release for the US.
I gathered this info from Fanzine and their member: besolino
this info comes from someone who is working with D&G on the style team.
Thank you.
quote:Behalve dat ze de titel van het nummer verkeerd hebben, lijkt het me wel een leuke sound. Het was het tofste nummer van Timbalands laatste album Shock Value.After the exclusive report of the new album listening party which took place on December 3, 2007 at Warner Bros. offices in New York, and all the other exclusive news about Madonna's upcoming album tentatively called "Give It To Me," we were snowed under our readers letters requesting the lyrics of the first single "4 Minutes To Save The World" and it's sound.
We didn't want to ruin the surprise, so we waited to add more details. But now we decided to add just a few info about the sound.
We at Drownded Madonna think that "4 Minutes To Save The World" is very Timbaland sounding with "The Way We Are" vibe. Its power is the beat, which is awesome. A completely new sond for Madonna that will blow you away!
Over M's look:
quote:Bron: Drownedmadonna.comHere's an interesting excerpt from a WWD.com article about Chanel’s couture show:
Madonna’s stylist, who goes by the name of B., was also in the audience. Having just wrapped up working on Madonna’s next album cover, shot by Steven Klein, the trendsetter said she was returning to London the next day to style a music video featuring Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. “Madonna’s look is going to be more edgy, more fresh—with no more disco,” she said.
Special thanks to MadDorian.
N i e u w bericht, meer informatie
LOS ANGELES (ANP/DPA) - Madonna mag zich de bestverdienende vrouwelijke muzikant ter wereld noemen. Dat blijkt uit de eerste Cash Queens of Music-lijst van het Amerikaanse tijdschrift Forbes. De 49-jarige Koningin van de Popmuziek, zoals haar bijnaam luidt, verdiende tussen juni 2006 en juni 2007 bijna 72 miljoen dollar (48 miljoen euro). Haar Confessions-tournee was de meest lucratieve concertenreeks die een vrouwelijke artiest ooit heeft gegeven.
Op de tweede plaats staat de 65-jarige Barbra Streisand, met een jaarinkomen van 60 miljoen dollar (40 miljoen euro). Kaarten voor haar afscheidstournee kostten gemiddeld 300 dollar en waren daarmee de duurste van het afgelopen seizoen. Céline Dion bekleedt de laatste plaats op het erepodium: op haar salarisstrookje van het afgelopen jaar staat een bedrag van 45 miljoen dollar (30 miljoen euro).
De overige namen in de top tien zijn Shakira (38 miljoen dollar), Beyoncé (27 miljoen), Gwen Stefani (26 miljoen), Christina Aguilera (20 miljoen), Faith Hill (19 miljoen), The Dixie Chicks (18 miljoen) en Mariah Carey (13 miljoen).
Over het album:
quote:MadonnaTribe has heard more news about Madonna's long awaited new album. The Queen Of Pop's new record will contain a song titled Ring My Bell, which is NOT a cover of the popular 1979 disco song by Anita Ward but a totally new and original track.
In more new album related news, after the first single "4 minutes to save the world", which is a song with a strong urban vibe, Give It To Me, a classic Madonna pop song, is being considered for the second single release at this stage.
quote:Men gaat er nu van uit dat Across the Sky die volgens de geruchten eerder geschrapt werd een bonustrack wordt.MadonnaTribe has heard more about the final number of tracks of Madonna's new album.
In November 2007 we reported 13 tracks were selected to be included in the album.
Latest reports inform us that the final version of the standard album will now contain 12 tracks.
quote:Over de video, die inmiddels is opgenomen:Many years after recording "Who's That Girl" and the full Spanish versions of her hits "You'll See" (Veras) and "What it feels like for a girl" (Lo que Siente La Mujer), Madonna is digging back her love for Latin culture as she will be singing again frases in Spanish in one of her new songs.
We heard reports that in a track to be featured on her new album, the Queen Of Pop is going to explains the English meaning of Spanish frases such as "te quiero" (I Love you), "callarte" (shut up), "besame" (kiss me), and many more.
Spanish guitars are also present in the song that is reportedly produced by Pharrel and has a nice urban feel.
quote:En gisteren had Madonna een feestje samen met Gucci voor Unicef:The MadonnaTribe team would like to apologise with the site's readers for providing an unaccurate information about the director of Madonna's new video.
"4 Minutes To Save The World" has not been directed by longtime Madonna collaborator Jonas Akerlund as we previously reported, but by French duo Jonas and Francois. Sorry for the mix up.
Naja, het nadeel van een samenwerking met Timbaland
quote:Als je de gelekte remix-clipjes beluistert valt dat eigenlijk best mee. Maar het is wel signature Timbaland ja...Op vrijdag 8 februari 2008 22:37 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
Dit nummer lijkt trouwens verdacht veel op 4MTSTW: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cafyxuOcfV0
Naja, het nadeel van een samenwerking met Timbaland
quote:En dit is wat Justin Timberlake zegt over de sound van het nieuwe album:Madonna
Title TBC
Warner Bros, 28 April
It doesn't have a title yet, but the direction of Madonna's new album, her last major release before she turns 50, seems clear: the Barbour-wearing Queen of Pop is hitting the street.
Two of the three tracks we heard in an exclusive playback boast productions from the biggest beatmakers in hip hop.
Timbaland evidently reserves his best work for the highest-paying customers because lead single "4 Minutes to Save the World" is a mighty effort, powered by superhero horns, ticking clocks and Justin Timberlake's falsetto. On "Candy Shop", a sticky clutch of not-so-subtle innuendos ('Come into my store/ I've got candy galore') is traded over a snappy Pharrell Williams beat. "Give it to Me" slinks into more familiar dance-pop territory, but the chatter behind this album suggests that R&B and hip hop will be its main flavours.
Not a revolutionary move from Madonna, but at least she's working with the right people.
quote:Justin Timberlake was interviewed in today's Hollywood Daily People issue. They of course asked him a few questions about working with Madonna and here's what he had to say:
You worked on Madonna's new album with Timbaland. In what direction did you take her?
Basically, our job was to reinvent her sound. My thing was producing her vocals - really experimenting with rhythm. Everything she does with rhythm is straightforward. What I do is more staccato and R&B. So the challenge for me was writing songs, then saying, "How can I make this sound more like Madonna?" I'm a big fan of her first album. So my mission was to write a modern-day "Holiday." I wrote a cool house record for her called "Miles Away" that I think is a smash! She sounds great on it.
So is it an R&B Madonna?
It's an R&B/pop/dance record, but it´s still Madonna. Her voice still sounds like she's 18 year old! It trips me out that she's 49. She´s always been rough and tough. Her last couple of records, she's like, "Rrrrrrr!"
How did she react to your ideas?
A couple of times I pushed her in a direction where it took a minute before we saw eye to eye. Her approach was, "Well, I just haven't done that." And I was like, "Yeah, that´s why you should do it."
So did you teach Madonna how to beatbox?
[Laughs] No, no. We left that to me and Tim.
ze is begonnen met het aanpassen van haar bijna 50 jarige looks. Ik weet niet wat ze gedaan heeft maar het ziet er niet uit.
video
Hier meer
quote:Lourdes ook niet, dat kind heeft meer snorhaar dan d'r vaderOp donderdag 14 februari 2008 18:34 schreef HuubTuub het volgende:
maar het ziet er niet uit.
het begin van 4mtstw is al uitgelekt toch? of is het alweer een fake?
quote:WTFOp donderdag 14 februari 2008 18:34 schreef HuubTuub het volgende:
oh my gosh... oh my gosh...
ze is begonnen met het aanpassen van haar bijna 50 jarige looks. Ik weet niet wat ze gedaan heeft maar het ziet er niet uit.
video
Die wangen...
kijk maar naar dit recent intreview met Cher
quote:Twee clips van remixen en een videoclip van een optreden van Timbaland.Op donderdag 14 februari 2008 20:15 schreef Prego het volgende:
het begin van 4mtstw is al uitgelekt toch? of is het alweer een fake?
quote:More details are emerging about Madonna's new album. Nate "Danja" Hills and Timbaland, who co-produced Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds, are co-producing some tracks on Madonna's yet-to-be titled album and Danja tells EW.com that the pop queen's next effort is "very up-tempo, upbeat and urban — it's a Virginia-based sound." Madge was joined in the studio by another influential Virginian, Pharrell Williams, but Danja emphasizes that the album's urban edge doesn't mean the 49-year-old star has lost her pop cred.
"It's everything rolled into one," he says. "It'll be a classic album." As previously reported here, Timbaland and Timberlake will appear in the video for Madonna's first single, "4 Minutes to Save the World." The album is slated for an April debut. The single drops in March.
Source: EW.com
From Rolling Stone's Rock N Roll Daily:
Madonna has managed to keep most details about her still-untitled follow-up to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor (due April 29th) under wraps, but Rolling Stone got an early listen to five tracks today and some behind-the-scenes info from producer Nate "Danja" Hills.
Fans who worried that Madonna might be losing inspiration as she approaches fifty need not be concerned. The new album takes a few steps away from the hyper-polished future disco of Confessions toward a more urban-oriented, thumpy funk, featuring production by Timbaland and Pharrell, as well as collaborations with Justin Timberlake. Danja says he worked on the album in London, and that Madonna indicated “she just wanted uptempo, dance, club [sounds] and everything to have a hip-hop underlining.” He adds that Madonna was easy-going and frequently in the studio putting in long hours alongside himself, Timbaland and Timberlake: “She would come in and sit in her chair in the corner and just vibe with us.”
The record’s first single is "4 Minutes to Save the World," the track Timbaland partially debuted during a Philadelphia Christmas concert in December. "4 Minutes" has a bit of a marching band aesthetic as blasting brass play a scale-like riff, a hard, clanging beat enters and Madonna sings that the "road to hell is paved with good intentions." Timberlake and Madonna trade verses, and he appears on the chorus, doing his best Michael Jackson impression while quickly crooning, "We've only got four minutes to save the world." The track ends after a brief breakdown where everything drops out but one of Tim's signature Bhangra beats, some stabs of brass and Madonna’s urgent tick-tock’s. It's a loud, busy, energetic track that is apparently getting an equally adventurous video: As previously reported, the clip (which is still being completed) is directed by hot French duo Jonas & François (Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.”). Timbaland makes an appearance, and Madonna and Timberlake play superheroes tackling physical obstacles.The clip features choreography by Jamie King, who worked on Madonna's Confessions, Re-Invention and Drowned World tours as well as her video for Confessions' "Sorry."
The Pharrell-produced "Candy Store" opens with a big beat and Madonna’s invitation to "Come on in to my store, I got candy galore." The track is pretty bare on the verses, but there's a flash of brassy soul on the chorus when harmonies join Madonna singing, "I'll be your one stop (one stop) candy shop." The track is punctuated with throbbing breaks filled with hypnotic synths, and Pharrell jumps on the mike for a brief rhyme.
The most lyrical of the five songs is "Miles Away," a wistful tune about a long-distance relationship with a melody that resembles Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds, an album Danja says Madonna admired. "We would come up with a track and him and Madonna would come and do lyrics and melody together," Danja explains. The song opens with a quickly strummed acoustic guitar, then a stuttering beat drops in and the track slowly swells until it’s filled with atmospheric synths. "You always seem to have the biggest heart when we're 6,000 miles apart." Madonna sings grandly, lamenting, "I guess we're at our best when we're miles away." The song has a more airy aesthetic compared to the heavy beats on other tracks, which reflects its more emotional lyrics.
The track that sounds most like a more urban, edgy continuation of Confessions is the excellent "Give It to Me," which bumps along to a thick synth tone Danja employed on Britney Spears' Blackout. It's an aggressive, clubby track with a raw, house-y beat that’s ripe for remixing, and Madonna sings, "When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on." It ends after a fast, killer breakdown where she chants "Get stupid" over a xylophone chime as the beat builds into a frenzy and she proclaims, "Give it to me / No one's gonna stop me now."
The dance floor theme returns again on "Heartbeat," which boasts a thumping hip-hop beat with a sandpaper shuffle and twinkling Eighties-reminiscent synths. Madonna opens up her voice more, singing, "Can't you see when I dance I feel free / Which makes me feel like the only one the light shines on." The song features a brief rap breakdown that recalls Nelly Furtado's chanty "Promiscuous" ("See my booty get down," Madonna speak-sings), but returns to its clubby roots in the end.
EN
Now that you heard it from the Music Bible itself, let's get back to where you heard it first. It was more than one year ago - January 2007 - and on MadonnaTribe you read some exciting new info about a new Madonna album that will be soon in the making as we happily broke the news about Madonna recording materials with producer Pharrell Williams, to make an hip-hop influenced album, that would put her in the American mainstream for a change.
Nine months later - November 18 - and M-Tribe had a chance to report the first detailed info about six tracks from the new album recording sessions. It was then when you first heard about a song called "4 Minutes to save the World" - an upbeat and very catchy hip-hop Madonna/Justin Timberlake duet, and the beautiful "Miles Away" - a song that has "hit" written all over it, full of acoustic guitars, uptempo and with Justin on backing vocals again (the song structure may recall "Love Profusion", but it's much better, we had the chance to report at the time).
Rolling Stone talks about five songs from their exclusive first listen, but you actually heard more about the Madonna/Timbaland/Timberlake collaborations in the new album as M-Tribe had the chance to report insider's talks about "Dance Tonight", a cool disco track inspired by the classic of the late 70's and early 80's, an amazing ballad called "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You", and "Across The Sky", another very cool song that eventually did not make the final cut of the album - and yes, those are all M/T/T's babies.
We also told you how "Give it to me" - a cool uptempo hit produced by Pharrell Williams - sounds like, and reported that this very catchy uptempo song reminds of early Madonna tracks from the "pre-Madonna era" such as "Love on the run". The song's break is very strange, stopping suddenly while Madonna says "Don't Stop It" and the male voice, probably Pharell himself says "to the left, to the right".
MadonnaTribe also reported news we heard about Madonna's new record containing a song titled "Ring My Bell", which is not a cover of the popular 1979 disco song by Anita Ward but a totally new and original track.
You also heard here that the new album will also have another unexpected collaboration, because when Madonna was putting the finishing touches to her CD at RecordPlant studios in L.A. Kanye West was recording his own stuff in the next room: a fortunate coincidence that brought the rapper to temporarely switch from the King to the Queen of Pop... and you'll find out how cool it works when you'll listen to the brand new "Beat Goes On".
Speaking of surprises, you may have spotted here the news about Madonna digging back her love for Latin culture as she will be singing again phrases in Spanish in one of her new album tracks, going to give Spanish lessons and explaining the English meaning of Spanish phrases such as "te quiero" (I Love you), "callate" (shut up), "besame" (kiss me), and many more.
Yesterday Rolling Stone reported about another track they heard called "Heartbeat", and we've been told that the song is yet another Pharrell production: yes, from what we hear the guy has seven songs out of 12 on the album as it is compiled now (or should we say "up to eight"...) while Timbaland and Timberlake "stop" at five (and by the way, it's "Candy Store" eventually, no shop anymore, even if somehow you already know all about it).
Something else you happened to read first here as well was the news about Steven Klein and Giovanni Bianco teaming up with Madonna again for the photo session and artwork of her new CD, with a photoshoot that took place in London right before Xmas.
And in case you happen not to remember that we got the Jonas directing her new video wrong (oops, not Jonas Akerlund but Jonas & François) well, erm... we don't mind (sorry again, folks!).
Get your voices ready to sing along, because Madonna's new album is incredible.
quote:Op zaterdag 16 februari 2008 10:49 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
"See my booty get down"
Maarre, het komt wel goed
We hebben nu dus een volgende tracklist, in willekeurige volgorde:
1) 4 Minutes to Save the World
2) The Beat Goes On
3) Candy Store
4) Give it to Me
5) Miles Away
6) Heartbeat
7) Ring My Bell
8) Spanish Lessons (het liedje waarin ze gedeeltes in het Spaans zingt)
9) Dance Tonight
10) The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
11) Onbekend
12) Onbekend
13) Bonus: Across the Sky??
Nieuwe album Madonna: dance, club en hiphop
LONDEN - Het nieuwe album van Madonna wordt heel anders dan de voorgangers. Op haar elfde studioalbum, release eind april in de Verenigde Staten, is veel dance, hiphop en clubmuziek te horen.
Dat zei Nate 'Danja' Hills, een van de producenten waar Madonna mee samenwerkte, tegen het muziekblad NME. Ook de beroemde producent Timbaland werkte mee. ,,Madonna vond zijn laatste album geweldig, daarom vroeg ze Timbaland om haar nieuwe plaat mee te produceren'', aldus Danja. ,,Madonna kwam de studio binnen, ging in een stoel zitten en chillde met ons. Ze is een heel makkelijk en cool persoon.''
quote:Ik vraag me af of dat al voor het album is of misschien toch over Filth and Wisdom of wellicht zelfs I Am Because We Are gaat...Op maandag 25 februari 2008 21:51 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Die Daphne Bunskoek... die mag overmorgen Madonna interviewen! WOW!
EDIT: Nieuwe album dus!
quote:Our friends Kimmy and Hans from fellow fansite MadonnaUnderground inform us that Warner Music Netherlands confirmed Daphne Bunskoek of RTL Boulevard has been invited to interview Madonna in Los Angeles, because of M's new album.
As previously reported the interview will take place tomorrow.
Veronica (Dutch magazine and TV channel) will also be interviewing Madonna, which makes Holland a very lucky country with two interviews! Dutch TV station RTL also has something exciting planned.
Thanks to Kimmy & Hans from Madonna Underground
[ Bericht 43% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 26-02-2008 13:22:21 ]
Madonna was erg mooi, maar wel gereserveerd. De interviewer voor Daphne was eruit gegooid na 5 minuten, omdat deze domme vragen stelde. Daphne kreeg 15 minuten en het ging vooral over het album. Andere vragen werden nauwelijks beantwoord. Madonna had het vooral over de CD en de toekomst bij Live Nation. Vragen over Britney werden flink afgestraft, dus Daphne heeft deze meteen geskipped!
Daphne heeft de nieuwe CD gehoord en die moet helemaal fantastisch zijn. Timbaland, Timberlake en toch het Madonna-sausje eroverheen... een topprestatie en vakmanschap zoals we van haar gewend zijn, waren de woorden van Daphne!
Half april wordt het interview uitgezonden op RTL4.
HIER kun je Daphne's reactie op het interview nog even anhören.
[ Bericht 50% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 28-02-2008 11:21:43 ]
Voor als het plaatje dadelijk verdwenen is:
MADONNA
"Hard Candy"
April 29, 2008
Album track listing:
1. Candy Store
2. 4 Minutes
3. Give it 2 Me
4. Heartbeat
5. Miles Away
6. She's Not Me
7. Incredible
8. Beat Goes On
9. Dance Tonight
10. Spanish Lesson
11. Devil
12. Voices
http://www.mix1065.com.au/misc/unfiledarticles.asp?articleid=7606
Dazed & Confused April 2008 : Madonna by Steven Klein
Candy Store - This is the same exact as the version which leaked months and months ago. (And we briefly talked about this on our community several weeks ago).
4 Minutes - Very high energy, back and forth between Madonna and Justin Timberlake the whole song. Timbaland speaks throughout, but does not rap nor sing on the track. The song ends with a breakdown and Timbaland's voice. The horn/trumpet sound we hear in the jingle ball clip lasts throughout the entire song. The song ends in kind of a breakdown. Madonna's final words are "tick tock tick tock tick tock" then the beat changes and the horns stop as it goes into a breakdown, with a few more "tick tocks" and Timbaland saying, ''uh , yeah... we only got four minutes'', beats stop, now silence... "to save the world" add Timbaland.
Give It 2 Me - Funky, dancey track, this time by Pharrell Williams, who is heard on the track.
Heartbeat - Has an 80's feel, totally catchy. Think "Future Lovers" only better! The chorus reflects one of the true Madonna/Pop moments on the album.
Miles Away - Melodic, haunting, while still catering to the target audience of this album. One of the best songs.
She's Not Me - Hip-Hop, cool, fresh, sexy and EDGY. Madonna sings to a partner about another girl and how this girl just can't measure up to Madonna. She tells him, "she can love you in the shower" but "she doesn't have my name".
Incredible - A sleeper track, this one is subtle at first, but its groovy beats can make it grow into a fan favorite.
Beat Goes On - Completely different, less melody and more beat driven than the demo that was leaked. As we already revealed on December 4, Kanye West raps rather long verse at the end.
Dance Tonight - This is a fun one. Totally old school, Madonna and Justin duet. Simple wood block beat throughout. "Inspirational" Hey You-ish bits in the chorus about not needing to be rich, famous and beautiful to be understood, with dance/club driven verses and bridge.
Spanish Lesson - In this filler Madonna speaks in various languages and keeps with the urban theme.
Devil - Previously known to fans as "Even the Devil Wouldn't Recognize You", it's neither a ballad nor a dance song. Could more fittingly be compared to the being the "Isaac" of the album. Fate, angels, stars, disguises and lies make up this cool, dark track that will have you "keep on comin' back for more" as one lyric goes.
Voices - Madonna stays with her recent theme of keeping the more wordy, reflective songs for her last track with this one. Probably the most lyrically deep song on the album, the song poses a range of trippy questions to the listener/subject and it has a bit of a slower tempo while still keeping a hot hip hop beat.
Klinkt geweldig
Maar nog niet veel meer dan dat voor mij.. als nieuw Timbaland-nummer omarm ik het direct "jeui, weer een geweldige plaat!", maar een nieuwe Madonna-single doet me meestal meer..
Bij Hung Up en American Life heb ik weken lang een 20-seconden-fragmentje op repeat gehad omdat ik het zo geweldig vond.. nu heb ik het na 2 keer wel gehoord en denk "oke, leuk, ik hoor 'm nog wel eens als de HQ-versie uit is..."
Madonna als trendvolger i.p.v. trendsetter met haar nieuwe album.
quote:Wat is daar mis mee? Als het maar lekker klinkt! Ze hoeft niet continue te pieken... lekker go with the flow!Op zaterdag 1 maart 2008 09:34 schreef HuubTuub het volgende:
Madonna als trendvolger i.p.v. trendsetter met haar nieuwe album.
Er staat geen Madonna nummer, iets wat een nieuwe single of album wel altijd was.
en dat vind ik
En wellicht dat het hele album toch anders uitpakt, hoewel ik vrees voor het ergste.
Wat meer albumnieuws ook, van madonnatribe.com:-
quote:Het schijnt dat de radio premiere van 4 Minutes 17 maart is! Woei!The excitement over Madonna's new album is growing more and more, and more album trivia and tidbits are just in to tease us fans eager to bite Madonna's Hard Candy". We've learned that...
"Heartbeat" does indeed start with the sound of a heart beating (and wouldn't it be very cool if this one turns out to be the sound of Madonna's own heart?).
The vocoder is back in the final section of the song"Give It To Me" that ends with the wind blowing.
"Incredible" is the longest song on the album, with a running time of over 6 minutes! "Devil" starts with a melancholic piano solo and that the last thing you'll hear when the album ends is the sound of a bell stroken at the end of "Voices".
"This album is incredibly rich from a musical point of view", a source tells Madonna Tribe. "You can barely find a song with a traditional verse-chorus structure, most of the tracks have a more complex set-up with bridges, alternate verses and pre-choruses."
"And the best part is that Madonna is actually singing on most of them, with a magnificent, prominent voice.
From what we hear - just to mention one song - Madonna performs four different melodies in "Voices" - no matter if this is one of the album's shortest tracks, and she sings them one right after another in an amazing sequence of music and lyrics.
quote:Het was best schattig te zien dat ze geroerd en zenuwachtig was. Enorme speech ook. Wow. Iggy ook!Popster Madonna is maandag opgenomen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Artiest Justin Timberlake overhandigde haar tijdens een galaceremonie in New York de begeerde muziektrofee.
De 49-jarige muzieklegende liet geroerd weten dat ze het alleen nooit zover had kunnen brengen, ,,Ik heb steeds het geluk dat ik mensen om me heen heb die in mij geloven''.
Ook folkzanger Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, de Britse popband The Dave Clark Five en de groep The Ventures mogen zich nu scharen in de rij beroemde artiesten. Die komen 25 jaar na het uitbrengen van hun eerste single in aanmerking voor de eer. Zij worden opgenomen in een tentoonstelling van het Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-museum in Cleveland (Ohio).
(ANP)
Single cover?
Zoals uit dit clipje blijkt, is de échte versie veel langzamer dan die radiolek.
17 maart is de Nederlandse officiële radiopremière op Radio 538 bij 'Evers Staat Op'. Dan wordt volgens Warner ook het eerst deel van Daphne's interview met Madonna tijdens RTL Boulevard uitgezonden (hoewel Daphne zelf het gisteren nog over half april had...)
De single is pas te downloaden vanaf 25 maart, maar vanaf morgen kun je de ringtone downloaden.
quote:Alle 50 Goed!Op vrijdag 14 maart 2008 19:41 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
wtf.. Lijkt wel zo'n Nederlandse productie
Andere foto uit dezelfde serie:
[ Bericht 4% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 14-03-2008 19:59:36 ]
quote:
. Dat dacht ik dus ook. Maargoed Madonna en camp horen bijelkaar.quote:Precies, en dit is waarschijnlijk het laatste album waar op ze zo nog op de foto kan; ik zie haar dit echt niet over 4 jaar nog een keer doen, zonder er uit te gaan zien als Mareike van Helwege...Op zaterdag 15 maart 2008 01:18 schreef Dragonwizard het volgende:
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quote:Mwua.. Dat zeiden ze 10 jaar geleden ook.Op zaterdag 15 maart 2008 12:30 schreef Numbie het volgende:
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Precies, en dit is waarschijnlijk het laatste album waar op ze zo nog op de foto kan; ik zie haar dit echt niet over 4 jaar nog een keer doen, zonder er uit te gaan zien als Mareike van Helwege...
quote:Nee echtOp vrijdag 14 maart 2008 19:58 schreef Numbie het volgende:
En toch ziet ze er oud uit op de een of andere manier...
Ik vond haar vroeger wel lekker maar hoe jonger ze er nu uit probeert te zien hoe ouder ze lijkt. Haar buikje
quote:Inderdaad. And look at her now.Op zaterdag 15 maart 2008 12:38 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
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Mwua.. Dat zeiden ze 10 jaar geleden ook.
Overigens, hoewel ik het nog steeds niet echt mijn meest favoriete albumhoes vind, steekt het wel beter in elkaar als je ook de achterkant erbij ziet...
quote:Hij doet me denken aan die hele goedkope Mecado-verzamelaars van rond 1997 en soortgelijke producties. En dat is geen compliment. Het artwork past naadloos in het volgende rijtje:Op vrijdag 14 maart 2008 17:57 schreef CrazyDutchPunk het volgende:
People Magazine heeft de album cover!!
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Ik ben zeker geen Madonna-haatster maar vind dit gewoon een misstap. Ook de hierboven gepostte achterkant vind ik niet alles.
[ Bericht 3% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 17-03-2008 08:38:42 ]
nog 1 operatie en ze heeft geen gezicht meer
quote:Ik denk eerder dat er iemand enorm blij was dat die eindelijk photoshop had.Op maandag 17 maart 2008 13:54 schreef Prego het volgende:
Madonna op dat hoesje van 4 minutes:
nog 1 operatie en ze heeft geen gezicht meer
De cover van Q
En wat nieuws omtrent een eventuele tour:
quote:Bron: drownedmadonna.com[Rumours] Tour Rumours going round Live Nation!
Category: Live Performances & Tours.
Nothing is definitive or confirmed, but just a RUMOUR going round Live Nation. So keep it in mind!! But we think it's important to report what are the inside RUMOURS going round Live Nation right now:
Reports are coming in that Live Nation are putting the final touches to a sponsorship deal for Madonna's 2008/2009 world tour. An insider said "We are hoping to have tickets go sale for all locations around May 2nd with pre-sale tickets going on sale on the 1st". They also said the tour will be huge with Madonna going to loads of far-out places. Tickets are expected to be highly priced with front row sections being charged a premium. Nothing has been officially announced yet but a press release will be issued as soon as the sponsorship deal is completed.
quote:Dont like it. Ze is te veel opgedroogd tegenwoordig, nauwelijks vrouwelijke vormen!.Op zondag 16 maart 2008 10:31 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
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Inderdaad. And look at her now.
Overigens, hoewel ik het nog steeds niet echt mijn meest favoriete albumhoes vind, steekt het wel beter in elkaar als je ook de achterkant erbij ziet...
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Maar ja sowieso is Madonna passe
ik wacht met smart op het album van true Entertainer Michael Jackson en voordat mensen gaan lullen, zelfs met zijn Thriller 25 year edition is het hem gelukt op nummer 2 in albumlijst binnen te komen.ik kan niet wachten tot de hele versie te beluisteren is !
quote:Op vrijdag 21 maart 2008 22:19 schreef samjustme het volgende:
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Dont like it. Ze is te veel opgedroogd tegenwoordig, nauwelijks vrouwelijke vormen!.
Maar ja sowieso is Madonna passe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiJZlRtLua4&feature=related
hilarisch!
quote:News is just in to MadonnaTribe that the approved international commercial singles for Madonna's "4 Minutes" are as follows:
UK 2-track CD (slimline jewelcase)
Code: 2-471292 0-5439-19939-5-3
01. 4 Minutes (Album Version)
02. 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix)
International 2 track CD (babypak)
Code: 2-471356 0-5439-19939-4-6
01. 4 Minutes (Album Version)
02. 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix)
International Maxi CD (slimline jewelcase)
Code: 2-471420 0-9362-49868-2-9
01. 4 Minutes (Album Version)
02. 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix)
03. 4 Minutes (Junkie XL Remix)
International Digital Maxi
Code: 6-471420 0-9362-49868-1-2
01. 4 Minutes (Album Version)
02. 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix)
03. 4 Minutes (Junkie XL Remix)
quote:Bron: madonnatribe.comFollowing the track listing of the European physical/digital singles of the "4 minutes" release we exclusively posted yesterday, here's the detailed info about the U.S. commercial singles scheduled for release next month.
M-collectors will be happy to know that a double vinyl, a Maxi Cd and the first ever US 12" picture disc are on the way on April 29.
Here are all the details we are happy to post on MadonnaTribe.com as an exclusive preview:
2-Disc vinyl 12" single: Special Jacket
Code: 0-463228 0-9362-49870-9-3
A1. Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix 5:39
A2. Peter Saves Paris Remix 8:37
B1 Tracy Young House Mix 7:55
B2. Junkie XL Dirty Dub 4:52
C1. Album Version 4:05
C2. Rebirth Remix 7:57
D1. Junkie XL Remix 6:16
1-Disc vinyl 12" single: Picture Disc, Clear Plastic Sleeve 0-510652
Code: 0-9362-49860-1-0
A1. Radio Edit 3:10
A2. Bob Sinclar Space Funk Edit 4:57
B1. Junkie XL Remix Edit 4:39
B2. Tracy Young House Radio 3:33
CD Maxi: Folder/Inlay
Code: 2-463036 0-9362-49871-2-3
1. Bob Sinclar Space Funk Remix 5:39
2. Junkie XL Remix 6:16
3. Tracy Young House Mix 7:55
4. Peter Saves Paris Remix 8:37
5. Rebirth Remix 7:57
6. Junkie XL Dirty Dub 4:52
Thanks to Warner Music Group
Ben benieuwd wat die gaat doen hier.
’Attitude Fashion Director Luke Day is not a drag queen but appears as Madonna in this month’s issue of Dazed & Confused. Attitude Associate Editor Matthew Todd is also not a drag queen but spent nearly two hours 1-on-1 with Madonna for our exclusive interview two years ago. Here they review the most hotly anticipated release of the year.
MILES AWAY
L: Absolutely genius. Got to be huge. It’s got the great hand-clapping bit in the middle but it’s not a stomper.
M: Sort of delicate... picks you up and wafts you away on a pillow of windswept tears. (laughter) ’Were always at our best when we’re miles away’.
L: So far away...
M: So far away...
L: Let’s cry now. You would not be able to not clap along to this in a concert. Unexpectedly warming…
M: …which is a very Madonna thing to do. It sounds resigned. It makes you want to have a boyfriend so you can reject him so you can sing this song. (Cackle).
SHE’S NOT ME
L: J’adore this! I’m better than the competition. It’s so drag.
M: Is this the campest thing she’s ever done? ’She’s started dressing like me, talking like me and freakin’ me out. She started reading my books and stealing my looks and lingerie, what’s that about?’.
L: (Laughs) I want to dance to this now.
M: It reminds me of Thief of Hearts.
L: Disco funk. And there’s football whistles.
M: And double hand claps.
L: Any song where she repeats a word three times - like ’she was stealing, stealing, stealing’ gets me.
BEAT GOES ON
L: This is unrecognisable from the leak! It’s one of the highlights. Total 80s disco. Xylophones, full on synths. Sort of thing you’d hear at Horse Meat Disco, an ’everybody get up and dance’ record.
M: Very 80s but not in a modern electro pop way. You think you’re listening to a Shalamar record and then Kanye West comes in.
L: It’s got a Taana Gardner feel to it.
M: It’s the point where she turns on the fun turbo boosters. This is the Candy. It’s too too good...
L: LOVE. IT. Especially Pharrell’s Beep, beeps.
M: It’s gonna be played in every disco in the world for 12 - 200 year olds. Could be an instant classic.
[ Bericht 26% gewijzigd door Hapertje op 27-03-2008 08:36:21 ]
EDIT: is al gelukt!
En een teaser ad voor M's nieuwe CD op YouTube.
quote:Whaaaa.. Geniaal!!Op donderdag 27 maart 2008 18:45 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
En een teaser ad voor M's nieuwe CD op YouTube.
De remixen van Junkie XL
Jammer... ik had er hoge verwachtingen van na DWDD!
quote:eensch, helemaal niets nieuws onder de zon
Madonna heeft zojuist in een interview met Amerikaanse radiostation Z100 gezegd dat ze na wat promo optredens in april en mei een grotere wereldtour wil doen aan het eind van de zomer en in de herfst, maar dat het nog niet helemaal rond is.
Verder zei ze dat ze geen liedjes als Like A Virgin en Holiday wil zingen, tenzij iemand 30 miljoen dollar betaalt...
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 27-03-2008 22:19:19 ]
Wohaaaaroaaaaaaar!
quote:
quote:viva la photoshop, ze lijkt nu veel op een aziaat, door al dat faceliften zijn haar ogen steeds schuiner gaan staan.
3o miljoen om like a virgin te gaan zingen...wat een hoer, wel een dure, LOL
Screencaps van de nieuwe video 4 Minutes, met dank aan Drownedmadonna.com:
Meer HIERRRRR
[ Bericht 12% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 01-04-2008 11:52:13 ]
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quote:Nice! Ze ziet er (zo) nog goed uit hoorOp dinsdag 1 april 2008 11:38 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Screencaps van de nieuwe video 4 Minutes, met dank aan Drownedmadonna.com:
*knip*
Jammer van het cheapo albumhoes artwork, als dat de echte is. Dan had ik inderdaad liever die van Steven Klein met zwarte achtergrond gezien met een strakke titellijst achterop, maar dat zal wel niet de door haar gewenste sfeer weergeven.
Maar het ziet er wel goed uit
[ Bericht 22% gewijzigd door Hapertje op 02-04-2008 05:17:17 ]
Overigens:
Door Jonas en Francois op hun Myspace geplaatst.
Spannend![ Bericht 52% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 02-04-2008 10:38:30 ]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1432250020945381166
Hard Candy wipes the wall with competition!
Full 'Hard Candy' review from The Attitude!!!
1. Candy Shop
M: Ok, this was leaked and divided people.
L: The lyrics are ridiculous! I love it!
M: Some journos will probably slate it, but it's a statement and sounds much better in the context of the album. It's like an entree. It's her saying "so what if I'm 50. I still like to fuck - so fuck you!"
L: The whole album says I like to fuck, dirty bitch...!
M: The bass is bigger, but it's essentially the same as what was leaked.
L: You can so see the gays dancing to this. They are SO sticky and sweet.
2. 4 Minutes
M: This is out know so everyone knows it. We're running out of time to stop global warming.
L: I'm not sure if it's global warming. It's kind of about us saving ourselves., looking after ourselves.
M: I hope people actually pay attention. This kind of track is the point of Madonna.
L: Ok, now we're super excited because we're going into unknown territory...
3. Give It To Me
M: This is the next single. It starts bouncily, like a circus song, like the intro to The Girlie Show and becomes this ridiculously catchy sing-song.
L: It's almost like Sugababes Push The Button.
M: Really fun and playful. It's her ultimate theme song.
L: It's SO not what you expect, it's almost comedy but it's fantastic. It'll have some amazing remixes. I love the techno at the end. I can see stroke lights!
4. Heartbeat
M: Some reviewers have said this is the big 80s pop song but I'm not sure. It's a great album track.
L: It's calmer. It won't give you a heart attack at 8 in the morning on the way to work like Hung Up would.
M: A cool, solid song with a sweet, catchy hook...
L:...and a "See my booty get down" interlude where Pharrell goes "Woof woof"!
M: Is it? People need to woof more on pop records.
5. Miles Away
L: Oh. My. God. I LOVE this one. It's amaaaaaaaazing. Power of Goodbye...
K: ...meets Nothing Fails meets Love Profusion. It's ethereal, whimsical, guitar-heavy, mid tempo...about not being able to express yourself when you're together. It's sad and sweet and lovely.
L: Absolutely genius. Got to be huge. It’s got the great hand-clapping bit in the middle but it’s not a stomper.
M: Sort of delicate... picks you up and wafts you away on a pillow of windswept tears. (laughter) ’Were always at our best when we’re miles away’.
L: So far away...
M: So far away...
L: Let’s cry now. You would not be able to not clap along to this in a concert. Unexpectedly warming…
M: …which is a very Madonna thing to do. It sounds resigned. It makes you want to have a boyfriend so you can reject him so you can sing this song. (Cackle).
6. She's Not Me
L: J’adore this! I’m better than the competition. It’s so drag.
M: Is this the campest thing she’s ever done? ’She’s started dressing like me, talking like me and freakin’ me out. She started reading my books and stealing my looks and lingerie, what’s that about?’.
L: (Laughs) I want to dance to this now.
M: It reminds me of Thief of Hearts.
L: Disco funk. And there’s football whistles.
M: And double hand claps.
L: Any song where she repeats a word three times - like ’she was stealing, stealing, stealing’ gets me.
7. Incredible
M: This is the first one we don't really love.
L: It's not an instant melody but it could be a grower. Need to hear it again.
8. Beat Goes On
L: This is unrecognisable from the leak! It’s one of the highlights. Total 80s disco. Xylophones, full on synths. Sort of thing you’d hear at Horse Meat Disco, an ’everybody get up and dance’ record.
M: Very 80s but not in a modern electro pop way. You think you’re listening to a Shalamar record and then Kanye West comes in.
L: It’s got a Taana Gardner feel to it.
M: It’s the point where she turns on the fun turbo boosters. This is the Candy. It’s too too good...
L: LOVE. IT. Especially Pharrell’s Beep, beeps.
M: It’s gonna be played in every disco in the world for 12 - 200 year olds. Could be an instant classic.
9. Dance Tonight
M: Starts off slow and almost sulkily. She's growling.
L: Justin says "Madonna, I'm gonna take you to the club." You're expecting something calmer and then it gears up into this big 80s groove.
M: "You don't have to be beautiful, rich or famous!"
L: Really sexy, really retro, really funk. It's another "you can do this too" track.
M: It's a love in.
L: The whole album's a love in. Any song that has the lyrics "til the break of dawn" gets my vote.
M: The kind of thing you wanna put on at 4am when it's only your best friends and your boyfriend still at the party. It reminded me of If you Wanna Have Some Fun on the Spice Girls third album, which always reminded me of Stephen Bray.
L: We both absolutely loved this, right? One of the best on the album, definitely.
10. Spanish Lesson
L: Not our favourite.
M: It's an album track where she explains some Spanish words and phrases.
11. Devil Wouldn't Recognise You
M: She told me this was a good song.
L: ...and she was right. Very Cry Me A River.
M: But more epic, cinematic. It's like Bad Girl 2. There's sirens, there's rain. Very dark. Like an episode of ER. I can imagine Christopher Walken back with a devil's tail.
L: Amazing Timbaland production. Brilliant track.
12. Voices
L: The last track. Her traditional philsophy one.
M: It starts with Justin saying "Who is the master and who is the slave?". She asks "are you walking the dog, or is the dog walking you?"
L: Ends with the strings, the orchestra, and a ship bell. It's really dark and mysterious.
M: It's produced by Danja. Really sweeping, big way to end the album.
L: Almost Massive Attack-y. Great way to finish.
VEREDICT
M: Love it!
L: Wipes the wall with the competition!
M: Someone at the top of their game showing off...full of meaty disco tracks.
L: Full of 'em! It's not brainless vocoder pop and it's not Nelly Furtado...
M: ...like people thought it would be. The title totally makes sense. It's got a real optimism about it like True Blue has but with a mix of some of the drama of Like A Prayer. It's the kind of album that people who prefer early Madonna will love.
L: Feels like the earlier records with a nod to the latter.
M: It hangs together like a real collection. It's proper full-on melodramatic pop. You will not be able to sit down listening to this record. Singles?
L: Give It To Me, Miles Away, Beat Goes On, Dance Tonight. It's like a greatest hits album. Pop record of the year, for sure.
M: How many points?
L: Hmm, 4 and a half, 4 and three quarters or Five?
M: Fuck it. Five!
[ Bericht 1% gewijzigd door Hapertje op 03-04-2008 07:58:31 ]
En ik kreeg kippenvel van die 'recensie'!
Ze gaat trouwens lekker in Amerika, van 68 naar nummer 3 op de Billboard Hot 100. Dat is een enorme sprong zeg. Ze heeft nu Elvis verslagen wat betreft de meeste top 10 hits. Nu nog Mariah van haar troontje afstoten, hup naar nummer 1!
[ Bericht 47% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 03-04-2008 11:21:14 ]
quote:Op donderdag 3 april 2008 14:04 schreef Dragonwizard het volgende:
Volgens mij krijg je al kippenvel van Madonna' scheet
! Valt wel mee. Maar ik geniet wel van dit soort fanmonenten, zo nét tegen een grote release aan. quote:Op donderdag 3 april 2008 11:14 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Nu nog Mariah van haar troontje afstoten, hup naar nummer 1!
quote:JAZEKER... WEG MET MARIAH!
quote:
We'll see Intussen is de video op iTunes uitgebracht. Ben benieuwd!
quote:iTunes Nederlands doet nog niet aan muziekclips.Op donderdag 3 april 2008 20:05 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen waarom er op de Nederlandse iTunes geen videodownload optie is?
. Aparte videoclip, wel grappig . Hulde aan belichting en makeup artist. Ik vind het liedje trouwens wel erg vlak, maar dat komt omdat JT praktisch alles doet.
[ Bericht 41% gewijzigd door Dragonwizard op 03-04-2008 22:04:07 ]
zou mij niet verbazen als ze morgen de halve clip uitzenden... lol.quote:Ik snap wat je bedoelt. Er mist iets van een climax, iets wat je in bijvoorbeeld Hung Up wél had. Leuk nummer voor in de clubs dit en ja, ik dans er graag op, maar inderdaad: vlak.Op donderdag 3 april 2008 21:25 schreef Dragonwizard het volgende:
Ik vind het liedje trouwens wel erg vlak, maar dat komt omdat JT praktisch alles doet.
Perez Hilton heeft de video trouwens wel geplaatst. Ik vind hem heet!
Maar Miles Away klinkt mega!!!
People.com met een Hard Candy-preview:
quote:"Workin' up a sweat/ that's what music's for," Madonna sings on "Heartbeat," the pumped-up fourth song on Hard Candy, her latest album, due April 29. Indeed, the pop diva makes good on her promise – singing her way through an hour of Euro-flavored dance tracks infused with retro, house beats. PEOPLE.com took an advanced listen – and can reveal five fast facts about Madonna's latest.
• On "Spanish Lesson," produced by the Neptunes, Madonna does, in fact, go bilingual, offering liberal translations of phrases like, "Entiendo," which she says means, "I get it," over a funked-up flemenco guitar riff. (Literal translation: "I understand.")
• Kanye West offers a fast-paced rap on "Beat Goes On," the eighth track, breathlessly rapping, "I think I'm going to try something new."
• The singer indulges her choral side on the album-closer "Voices," which features production by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nate "Danjahandz" Hills. The song builds to a dark, cinematic crescendo, as the album closes with one lone tone.
• Madonna sings, "You always have the biggest heart/ though we're 6,000 miles apart," on "Miles Away," a direct allusion to living and working far away from hubby Guy Richie.
• Madonna really wants you to dance: Two songs – opening track "Candy Store" and "Beat Goes On" – feature overt calls to action. "Gotta get up off your seat," she sings on the latter, bolstered by the Neptunes's production and West's rapping.
quote:Nee hoor... de Mega top 50! Kijk maar op teletekst pagina 291!Op zondag 6 april 2008 16:23 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Bedoel je niet Download Top 50?
People.com met een Hard Candy-preview:
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Hier heb hier een leak van Give It To Me, slecht 49 seconde en een slechte kwaliteit maar als het de definitieve verise is: hebbuh hebbuh
Spanish Lesson moet wel een heel raar liedje zijn. Ik lees in veel previews en reviews dat mensen er niet zo gecharmeerd van zijn, of het op z'n minst raar vinden. Zelfs Madonna vertelde in een interview met GMTV dat ze het eerst niet zo leuk vond en later pas écht cool vond. Hmmm...
Het maakt me wel weer erg benieuwd naar Hard Candy.
quote:BronAlbum Review: Madonna "Hard Candy"
ArjanWrites.com guest blogger Marc Andrews was invited to an exclusive listening session at Warner Music in Sydney on Friday to hear Madonna's entire new album "Hard Candy." He wrote up a review of the entertainer's much anticipated new album exclusively for ArjanWrites.com. A big thanks to Marc for sharing his candid thoughts about the album. "It’s a bit like sticking your hand blindly into the candy jar and coming up with trick after trick when you keep hoping for a treat," he writes about part of the album. Read on for the entire review.
Invariably expectations for a new Madonna album are always high. More often than not they’ve been judiciously met and quite often surpassed (2003’s "American Life" notwithstanding). 1989’s still radiant "Like A Prayer" finally won over the rock media and nearly a decade later Ray of Light grabbed back a legion of lapsed Madonna admirers, caught up in the intervening downward spiral of Sex, musicals and bad movies.
Now a decade on from that Grammy-winning triumph and Madonna is due another pop-time-capsule-of-an-album. With 2005’s glossy disco-esque "Confessions On A Dance Floor" she cannily plundered the best of the '70s to arrive at something whose unrelenting shimmery beats and dazzling euro-dance hooks rivalled her first two early 80s albums, "Madonna" and "Like A Virgin." It sold well all around the world, with the exception of her birth-home, the US of A.
That’s why her new album, "Hard Candy," released later this month, is so very clearly targeted at righting that regretful wrong and putting Madonna back on top of the pop charts and radio formats from Hollywood to Houston and all stops in between.
In Madonna’s now 25-year, Hall of Fame-awarded, recording career, the album that "Hard Candy" most resembles in context is 1994’s "Bedtime Story." That was Madonna’s sticky valentine to the hot black producers of the time after 1992’s icy house-brewed "Erotica" left her high and, well, dry. This time round though, there’s no trace of Babyface (producer of Bedtime’s 1995’s US #1 "Take A Bow"), or Dallas Austin (Bedtime’s underrated lead single Secret), but in their place Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and posse.
Strangely, album opener "Candy Shop," (almost identical to the version that leaked online a year ago), is one of the album's weaker tracks and doesn’t bode well for the rest of the 12-track set. Still, any song with Madonna making smutty double entendres out of lyrics as knowingly silly as "I got Turkish delights" can’t be taken too seriously.
On track two the big guns (or should that be "gums"?) are wheeled out. While "4 Minutes" is a virtual join-the-dots exercise in how to make an American hit, circa 2008, it’s undoubtedly a grower. With so many busy elements (those blaring horns, the cutesy banter trading with guest star Justin Timberlake – relegated to a "featuring" role in the credits – and Timbaland hovering close by) "4 Minutes" succeeds on a number of levels. It's not Madonna’s greatest single ever, and one that will no doubt age very dis-gracefully, but the best track to right US chart wrongs. Want proof? This week "4 Minutes" soared to #3, handing Madonna the honour of now being the artist with the most top ten hits in the US – edging past Elvis Presley. Tick-tock, tick-tock indeed!
Thankfully, the record's tasty triple selection of tracks 3-5 are all prime examples of what Madonna does best – memorable pop with great choruses that’ll ricochet globally for months to come. If you’re looking for singles #2, #3 and #4, here’s your one-stop Candy shop.
"Give It To Me" is Confession’s "Get Together" cleverly remodeled in the winning electro-funk style of her classic 1983 breakthrough single "Holiday." Pharrell Williams must have been itching for years to upgrade that particular Madonna standard and may well have just managed too. We’re guessing a sure shot heir to "4 Minutes."
That’s followed by "Heartbeat," the most "traditional" Madonna song here. Not only is it yet another ode to getting down – "when I dance I feel free" – in the finest Into The Groove tradition, but boasts a chorus as sweet as, well, candy. Fans have been waiting decades for Madonna to utter a line as club-friendly as ITG’s "only when I'm dancing can I feel this free" and Heartbeat’s "see my booty get down" is a fitting, albeit bootylicious, successor.
Finishing off the delicious trifecta is "Miles Away" – sweet urban pop with an undercurrent of melancholy and unmistakable echoes of Nelly Furtado’s "Say It Right." It’s a poignant tale of being far from the one you love and hints at what might be going on in Madonna’s private life. For someone who’s long crafted her musical art from personal experiences, "Hard Candy" is almost devoid of that usual frankness and "Miles Away" might be the only crack in the façade we’re allowed to view this time around. Or perhaps she left that all for the punchy cover shot?!
Next up is "She’s Not Me" – a snippy, bitchy, catchy disco groover that appears to be the Queen of Pop taking direct aim at her competition. Yet with so much early promise it’s tragically let down with an unfortunately bombastic middle section. From then on it just gets messy as spooky, swirling noises throb relentlessly throughout, giving the impression Pharrell fell asleep on the mixing board while the track was still running.
That’s the biggest complaint for the rest of the album – so many of the songs have great potential, yet end too raw and unfinished. From the middle onwards "Hard Candy" is definitely more miss than hit. It’s a bit like sticking your hand blindly into the candy jar and coming up with trick after trick when you keep hoping for a treat.
Of "Incredible" the less said the better. Suffice to say it in no way lives up to its name. “Sex with you is incredible” is one of the few remarkable lines uttered during this quite unremarkable track.
"Beat Goes On" is significantly different to the version that also leaked last year. It’s yet another tribute to dancing, with more of an early 80s vibe, and at first seems like the perfect blend of old skool Madonna with new skool grooves. After a curt Kanye West rap in which he mentions "doing F," whatever that may be, things once again dissolve into a meandering mess. The chorus is brazenly forgotten about, spoiling what could easily have been another Madonna classic. On and on it does indeed go.
"Hard Candy" is redeemed at this point by "Dance 2night" – with the Timbaland/Timberlake duo close by once more. Harking back to mid-80s Janet Jackson with its jaunty freestyle R&B approach, it sports a brain-hugging chorus that could easily have been stolen from some boy band archive. Hmmm, now who could be responsible for that?
Track ten, "Spanish Lesson," is mercifully short. Guess what? There are more references to the dance floor, a Spanish guitar tossed in, alongside some plodding beats, and it’s all over so quickly it barely rates a mention. Ho hum.
The closest thing to a ballad on the album is "Devil Wouldn’t Recognise You" where Justin once again makes his presence felt double-tracking Madonna. With echoes of JT’s own "Cry Me A River," it proves to be yet again a decent pop song left wanting under the weight of the “everything including the kitchen sink” production approach.
Finally, "Hard Candy" comes to a haunting end with "Voices." Cue Justin uttering the opening line: “who is the master, who is the slave?” Well, that certainly gives us plenty to ponder! Over a moody, mid-tempo beat "Voices" comes on like a veritable act of contrition for what has essentially been a collection of confessions on a urban dance floor.
Overall "Hard Candy" is patchy, but blessed with a handful of great singles (which is what you’d expect from any Madonna album) that stick close to the winning formula of keeping the most recognisable voice in pop uncluttered and out front. It’s when she’s tossed boxing gloves first into the mix, along with all manner of production pots and pans (a case of too many cooks perhaps?) that "Hard Candy" goes a tad sour.
Expectations-wise, file "Hard Candy" alongside 2000’s inconsistent "Music" album – which suffered coming post-Ray Of Light and delivering a truly killer lead single that promised too much. Likewise, beyond the handful of obvious singles, things start to get somewhat sticky on "Hard Candy."
As it is, it’s a sweet enough treat with just enough for longtime Madonna fans to cherish, or (ahem!) get their teeth into. And for those who suspected Madonna was well past her use-by-date in her 50th year, it’s mostly a timely reminder she’s still got a lot more than just "4 Minutes" to save the world’s charts with.
Marc Andrews is a media and entertainment journalist who writes for MEDIAWEEK magazine (http://www.mediaweek.com.au) and DNA Magazine (dnamagazine.com).
1 Candy Shop (Album Version) 04:15
2 4 Minutes [Featuring Justin Timberlake And Timbaland] (Album Version) 04:04
3 Give It 2 Me (Album Version) 04:47
4 Heartbeat (Album Version) 04:03
5 Miles Away (Album Version) 04:48
6 She's Not Me (Album Version) 06:04
7 Incredible (Album Version) 06:19
8 Beat Goes On [Featuring Kanye West] (Album Version) 04:26
9 Dance 2night (Album Version) 05:03
10 Spanish Lesson (Album Version) 03:37
11 Devil Wouldn't Recognize You (Album Version) 05:08
12 Voices (Album Version) 03:39
56:13 Total
quote:"what are you waiting for nobody's gonna show you how"
quote:SourceExclusive review of Madonna's Hard Candy
Rating: 3/5
As finishing touches were being applied to the East London premiere of Madonna’s latest album, academics specialising in adoption at Liverpool University announced what they called The Madonna Effect – a phenomenon “in which parents in Africa surrender their children for adoption thinking they will enjoy a better life”.
Whatever context is applied to it, you felt like adding that The Madonna Effect – sure to accumulate now that she has set her sights on adopting in India – isn’t restricted to adoption. There’s a Madonna effect for almost everything she does. In the past week alone, the Swiss jewellers Chopard have been besieged with requests for replicas of the £500,000 knuckleduster rings exhibited on the sleeve of Hard Candy.
All of which is worth dwelling on, because how will The Madonna Effect play out when Hard Candy is released? It’s tempting even to theorise that Madonna has made it so that there won’t be much of an Effect.
Seemingly eager to relieve herself from the pressure of being imitated at every turn, Madonna’s 11th studio album finds her deploying a coterie of producers – Timbaland, Danja, Pharrell Williams – who have, in varying combinations, already done the same thing with Nelly Furtado, Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani. Naturally, this being Madonna, she has already filed the riposte before you made the criticism. On She’s Not Me, she makes the point that however any other woman attempts to match her, they don’t have the advantage of being Madonna. So, what’s the song like? Well, it’s like roughly two thirds of Hard Candy – a sequenced avalanche of beats in the sonic centre ground that, in the olden days, used to be occupied by tunes.
Far from being a problem, that’s how some of the most exciting pop music is assembled these days. Madonna’s instinct for a killer tune has pushed producers such as Stuart Price, Mirwais and William Orbit to career peaks. Given time here, Incredible and the Kanye West-assisted Beat Goes On will scrub up alongside some of her best – especially the latter’s nods to Detroit techno at its poppermost.
Justin Timberlake cameos on the new single 4 Minutes and three other songs, including the immediately excellent Miles Away – a collision of acoustic downstrokes and feverishly jaunty rhythm that verges on reggae.
When the songs work, it doesn’t much matter that Madonna is blazing a fourth-hand trail. After 25 years of reinvention, we can surely cut her slack in that department. But on Dance 2Night, She’s Not Me and Give it 2 Me, what surprises is how deferential Madonna is to her collaborators. Even the album’s showstopping ballad, The Devil Wouldn’t Recognise You succumbs to a default mode of vast beats.
By this late stage, you rather feel like you’re in your fifth hour at the Ambassador’s famous party. Great, but is there anything else on offer other than Ferrero sodding Rochers?
Only on the final song, Voices, does Madonna remember that her stock-in-trade is to assimilate the sound of a well-known producer and turn it into something else. Here, the sort of poignant, unresolved chords you might sooner hear on an early Serge Gainsbourg record accord with a more personal lyric, before a grandiloquent finale of bells and pipe organ sends us on our way.
Hard Candy is no disaster, but a little more of that wouldn’t have gone amiss.
quote:SourceMadonna’s Hard and Delicious Candy: My review…
Hard Candy drops on April 28th but I have already been fortunate to have a sneak listen to the record at an exclusive playback in London today. A handful of journos piled into 3 Rooms in Shoreditch to hear it.
The decor was totally fab - giant candy emblazoned with Madge pictures and a lovely little goddie bag featuring all M’s latest pictorials.
So the album. Overall it’s easily as good as Confessions…..if not better. It’s a dancefloor filler from start to finish. At times I’d say there’s a bit too much going on with some of the tracks but it’s a fun album that I reckon could exceed the last album in global success. I only had one little listen but here’s my initial thoughts on the album! And a picture of me and my Madonna branded lolly! I got a D for….Dean! Ha ha.
1. Candy Shop - “Come into my store, we got candy galore,” Madge purrs. It’s a little less frantic as 4 Minutes but a good single if it were to be released - definitely catchy.
2. 4 Minutes - A killer tune that we already know and love.
3. Give it 2 Me - She’s just filmed the video for this track, the second single. It starts off with an Abba twinge and it’s almost circusy. It gets almost techno and rave style towards the end and there’s some enjoyable heavy mechanical voice work towards the end. It’s a definite radio hit.
4. Heartbeat - starts off with the sound of a beating heart. This track sticks in your head - it feels like an ace track from the Bedtime Stories era.
5. Miles Away - An acoustic guitar starts at the beginning. It’s vocally very Madonna and possibly a little Ray Of Lightish! It’s all over the internet on You Tube if you fancy a listen…..
6. She’s Not Me - This song feels very personal - is she yelling and screeching at hubby Guy’s ex Tania Strecker (who Madonna pushed out the way to get Guy) when she squeals: “She’s not me and she never will be!” There’s anger and it’s great.
7. Incredible - It’s very happy as a record. Has a furious ending that goes on and on. It’s fairly dark and gets very NERD-ish towards the end.
8. Beat Goes On - Disco number and very fun. It’s electro with a hip hop edge and has a great orchestral bit. One of my favourite tracks.
9. Dance Tonight - It feels like the ‘Forbidden Love’ track of the album. It’s smooth and sexier than most tracks on the album. Dancy towards the end and feels like proper old school Madge.
10. Spanish Lessons - The gypsy guitar is out and proud. I wanted to walk around the room click my fingers and slamming my feet on the floor.
11. Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You - I really wanted to listen to this one again big time! Stand out track for me - that’s what I wrote down but I was mingling around at the time and have memory loss annoyingly!
12. Voices - “Who is the master and who is the slave,” Madge asks. It’s dramatic with strings and slightly more laid back and chilled. A good end to a fab new album.
quote:SourceHard Candy: UK Album Playback
Madonnalicious was fortunate enough to attend the UK playback for Hard Candy in East London earlier this evening with about 100 other members of the press.
Behind a non-descript door near Spitalfields market, UK press, TV and internet journalists gathered to listen to Madonna's new album. Once checked in at the door, all mobile phones were taken away and champagne handed out in return!
The playback took place in a large loft-type space, with many sofas and comfy chairs, cushions and LCD televisions, on every table there were candy canes and jelly beans - and large lollypops spelling out M-A-D-O-N-N-A H-A-R-D C-A-N-D-Y, many of the journalists snapped up these goodies.
Handouts of the album tracklist were handed out to everyone and then the playback started with the name of each track was displayed on the many LCD screens - and at the end the 4 Minutes video was also played.
As everyone left, they were handed a Hard Candy goodie bag which contained copies of Dazed and Confused, Elle, Q and Vanity Fair (May editions with the Madonna covers), a set of four Hard Candy collectors postcards, candy canes, a Hard Candy lollypop and some Madonna Hard Candy's which would spell out her name and the album title if you dared open the packet!
And the album you ask? For those who were worried Madonna has ventured too far into RnB, fear not - although some songs contain the RnB beat, the way Madonna sings her lyrics over the top tends to make the songs recognisably 'Madonna'.
Far from being just an RnB album, madonnalicious felt a definite early 1980's club disco/electronic vibe to the album, and it felt like Madonna was going back to her beginnings (with a little RnB added on top!).
The second single Give It 2 Me will be an excellent club hit - in it's funky club/disco stomper way - it even contains a very similar bridge/break to Thief of Hearts.
For those fans who previously heard The Beat Goes On - prepare for a surprise - the song is so different madonnalicious even thought the wrong track was being played. Only the chorus (barely) survives, and there are new verses and a new rap by Kanye West.
Other standout tracks include 4 Minutes, Miles Away, She's Not Me, Incredible, Devil Wouldn't Recognise You and Voices.
quote:Madonna playback 'mayhem' (ie not mayhem at all)
We went to a 'Hard Candy' album playback yesterday evening. Playbacks are great because there is booze and food and the music is played quite loud - factors which, when combined, ensure that everything sounds better than it actually is.
These leaflets (click to enlarge) were lying around.
Let's have a look at this again.
"'The album title is a juxtaposition of tough and sweetness.. Kind of like "I'm gonna kick your ass but it's going to make you feel good". And of course, I love candy,' laughed the material girl."
'Laughed the material girl'? What is this, a local TV news report? Christ alive.
Anyway the album's brilliant (see our extensive review) but of course what you really want to know is whether the playback was festooned with loads of 'Hard Candy'-inspired nonsense. The answer is yes. As well as loads of massive 'candy canes' and the like, the entrance featured this 'amazing' (slightly unnerving) picture of the album sleeve, made out of jelly beans.
Let's take a closer look.
Let's take an even closer look.
On second thoughts, let's not.
Bron
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quote:Ah, dat ziet er beter uit dan wat we eerder langs hebben zien komenOp donderdag 10 april 2008 15:36 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
De échte Hard Candy backcover, met dank aan robster:
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[ Bericht 96% gewijzigd door Stukjekaas op 10-04-2008 16:51:52 ]
). Je ziet iets van een metalen voet achter die reep zwarte stof. Óf ze hurkt gewoon lichtjes wat me lichamelijk onmogelijk lijkt. Maar goed, Madonna doet wel vaker rare dingen met haar lichaam:
quote:M-Dolla inderdaad.Op donderdag 10 april 2008 21:03 schreef creno het volgende:
Heeft iemand al kunnen ontcijferen wat er op haar ring staat ? Het lijkt op "Mdolla" maar is dat ook zo ?!?
Oeh, ik wil best wel naar zo'n promo-optreden. Maar goed, ik weet niet...
quote:En HIER kun je wat beelden van Madonna achter de schermen bij de Hall of Fame ceremonie bekijken, samen met Justin en Timbaland in de studio.EXCLUSIVE - DrownedMadonna.com has some great news for Madonna's fans.
Madonna is due to start her world tour on the anniversary of 9/11, DrownedMadonna.com can reveal. The first show will be at London’s Wembley STADIUM on September 11th with a second show on 13th. She wants a big opening for her tour and there’s no where bigger than Wembley Stadium. After London she will go to Paris.
Huge shows are being planned in Australia, Brazil and Argentina to name but a few. There are also plans to travel to Dubai for the first time and a visit to Israel is looking hopeful.
Keep in mind that this is a tentative schedule and it's obviously subjected to change.
En een nieuwe, mooie foto:
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Op basis van de snippets zijn de hoogtepunten:
Give It 2 Me, Heartbeat, Miles Away, She's Not Me, Incredible, Beat Goes On, Dance 2Night en Voices.
4 Minutes en Candy Shop klinken voor mij als de zwakkeren, terwijl Devil Wouldn't recognize you en Spanish Lesson groeiers zullen zijn!
Volgens mij een sterk album!
quote:Für Ihre Suchanfrage wurde kein Treffer gefunden. Bitte verändern Sie Ihre Suchangaben und starten Sie die Suchanfrage erneut.Op dinsdag 15 april 2008 22:32 schreef Prego het volgende:
LUISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Als je goed zoekt vind je echter wel wat rips. Ik heb ze even een paar keer beluisterd en hoewel het natuurlijk nog alle kanten op kan gaan heb ik wel clips die me meer doen dan andere. Ik ben wel enorm opgelucht, het is niet allemaal zo 4 Minutes-achtig als ik verwacht had.
Give It 2 Me lijkt me een geweldige track, geweldige singlekeuze ook. Zo zomaar één van mijn favorieten kunnen worden. Miles Away vond ik al erg leuk klinken, ik denk niet dat ik me daar zorgen over hoef te maken. Heartbeat is ook een favoriete clip: een leuke verrassing. Hetzelfde geldt voor She's Not Me en Devil Wouldn't Recognize You en Voices. Vooral die laatste heeft een mooie flow.
Incredible vind ik te rommelig, ik kan weinig met dat clipje. Hetzelfde geldt voor Spanish Lesson, al denk ik dat ik die iets leuker ga vinden.
quote:ik heb alles opgenomen op mp3Op woensdag 16 april 2008 10:19 schreef ZwarteMagika het volgende:
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Für Ihre Suchanfrage wurde kein Treffer gefunden. Bitte verändern Sie Ihre Suchangaben und starten Sie die Suchanfrage erneut.
(PM me maar met je mailadres dan stuur ik je wat toe)@MadGuy: ik heb precies hetzlefde, van Give it to me weet ik nu al dat ik die geweldig ga vinden, voor de rest heb ik wat meer nodig. nog 8 dagen
Ooit wel eens Madonna zien STOFZUIGEN trouwens?
quote:om mezelf maar even te quoten:Op zaterdag 12 april 2008 13:59 schreef Prego het volgende:
ze staat op 06/05 in Olympia in Parijs. kaarten zijn te winnen via de radio (NRJ12), mijn vriend is voorgeselecteerd, ik hoop dat ie wint want hij en een vriend van hem zijn mega-fan!
M'n vriend heeft 2 kaarten gewonnen voor het concert!!!!!! een uur geleden op de radio geweest
ik heb trouwens diverse extracten van Hard Candy gevonden op de site van VH1, wederom: Give It To Me is:
Dit al gezien trouwens?
En hier is een beter plaatje van de achterkant van Hard Candy:
quote:Pre-order hem bij bol.com en dan kun je er zelf ook misschien wel heen!Op donderdag 17 april 2008 18:33 schreef Prego het volgende:
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om mezelf maar even te quoten:
M'n vriend heeft 2 kaarten gewonnen voor het concert!!!!!! een uur geleden op de radio geweest
quote:nee ik hoef er niet per se naar toe. ik heb de confessions tour gezien in Parijs en dat vind ik wel voldende. ik laat liever een plaats vrij voor een echte fan!Op zaterdag 19 april 2008 11:37 schreef Numbie het volgende:
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Pre-order hem bij bol.com en dan kun je er zelf ook misschien wel heen!
Uitslag: de huilies mogen blijven huilen.
quote:Madonna definitief vrijuit na kruisigingsact
AMSTERDAM - De kruisigingsscène die de Amerikaanse popster Madonna uitvoerde tijdens een concert, was niet strafbaar. Het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) hoeft de aangifte van de SGP-jongeren tegen haar niet in behandeling te nemen.
Wenn
Dat heeft het gerechtshof in Amsterdam bepaald, blijkt uit de uitspraak waarover het Reformatorisch Dagblad zaterdag berichtte.
Godlastering
De SGP-jongeren meenden dat Madonna zich tijdens haar optreden in de Amsterdam ArenA in september 2006 schuldig had gemaakt aan godslastering en belediging van christenen. Maar daarvan is volgens het hof geen sprake.
Teleurgesteld
De SGP-jongeren zijn teleurgesteld over de uitspraak, die volgens hen een "vrijbrief" om te kwetsen lijkt te zijn. Ze verzetten zich vooral tegen de act tijdens het nummer Live To Tell, waarin Madonna aan een kruis hing met een doornenkroon op haar hoofd.
De jongerenorganisatie deed daarop aangifte bij het OM. Maar dat besloot niet tot vervolging over te gaan.
Procedure
De jonge SGP'ers begonnen vervolgens een speciale procedure bij het gerechtshof in Amsterdam om het OM alsnog te dwingen Madonna te vervolgen. Het hof heeft dat beklag echter afgewezen.
Madonna zelf heeft altijd ontkend dat de kruisigingsact godslasterlijk was bedoeld. Uit christelijke hoek kwamen destijds meer protesten.
Gemiste kans
De SGP-jongeren vinden het een "gemiste kans" om artikel 147 (verbod op godslastering) van het Wetboek van Strafrecht "niet van de broodnodige jurisprudentie" te voorzien.
Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer van PvdA, SP, VVD, GroenLinks en D66 wil dit artikel overigens uit het wetboek schrappen. Of dat ook daadwerkelijk gaat gebeuren, is nog onduidelijk.
Give It 2 Me is gelekt en het is LEUK!
4 Minutes vind ik helemaal niets aan.
Dit is een album dat je met een hoofdtelefoon op moet afluisteren, net zoals toenertijd met Ray of Light.
quote:Op zondag 20 april 2008 11:00 schreef schatje het volgende:
Op het album staan echt toffe nummers, met name: Dance 2 Night, Spanish Lesson; lekker veel what the fuck enzo, Voices; hier en daar hoorde ik Insomnia van Faithless, Heartbeat en Devil Won't Recognize You.
4 Minutes vind ik helemaal niets aan.
Dit is een album dat je met een hoofdtelefoon op moet afluisteren, net zoals toenertijd met Ray of Light.
Heb jij het album al of baseer je het op de clips?Afgaande op de fragmenten vind ik (zo te zien als enige) Incredible het fijnst klinken!
quote:echt wel!!!!!!!!!!!!
quote:ja echt wel. gave mix van diverse stijlen, Heartbeat is wat ik ervan verwachtte.
Ben nu She's Not me aan het luisteren
beat goes on is bijna binnen...
zalig
quote:Was het bij jou ook die oude demo?
Voorlopig heb ik er niets meer bij, maar wat ik hoor bevalt me erg goed. Ze heeft haar best gedaan zeg, ik had na 4 Minutes echt een zouteloze hiphop album verwacht, maar niets is minder waar!
quote:Ik wacht gespannen af, ik heb gisteren de Ltd. Ed. gereserveerd.Op zondag 20 april 2008 14:48 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Ze heeft haar best gedaan zeg, ik had na 4 Minutes echt een zouteloze hiphop album verwacht, maar niets is minder waar!
quote:de eerste wel, maar de 2e is de echte. ik vind hem maar matig eerlijk gezegd
de tussenstand:
Heartbeat
Incredible
Give It To Me
She's Not Me
Miles Away
Beat Goes On
Miles Away doet me denken aan The Beloved - Sweet Harmony
quote:Doe je goed, ik zie overal nog maar 8 nummers (en niet degene waar jij het over had)..Op zondag 20 april 2008 11:12 schreef schatje het volgende:
Ik heb het album gewoon geplukt van het internet. Alleen klopt het niet helemaal, want als ik Miles Away wil afspelen hoor ik Hey You.
Ben erg benieuwd
quote:er schijnt ergens een halve leak te zijn van Devil, maar goed de helft interesseert me niet.Op zondag 20 april 2008 17:56 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Volgens mij is er ook nog niet meer gelekt dan dat lijstje van Prego. ja behalve 4 Minutes en die demo-versie van Candy Shop, die eigenlijk al de albumversie bleek te zijn.
@Schatje: welke heb jij tot nu toe?
quote:De albumversie van Candy Shop schijnt nog wel iets opgepoetst te zijn..Op zondag 20 april 2008 17:56 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Volgens mij is er ook nog niet meer gelekt dan dat lijstje van Prego. ja behalve 4 Minutes en die demo-versie van Candy Shop, die eigenlijk al de albumversie bleek te zijn.
quote:Ook Spanish Lesson, Dance 2night, Voices, Devil wont recognize you en 4 minutes extended.
Volgens Maartel die ze inmiddels ook geluisterd heeft niet van de echte versie en wat MadGuy zegt, dat er maar 8 gelekt zijn.
Alle nummers retecool... She's Not Me en Miles Away als toppers! Had niet verwacht dat ik dit album nog beter zou vinden dan Confessions, maar alles is zo catchy! Fantastisch!
quote:Die zijn nog niet gelekt.Op zondag 20 april 2008 21:22 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Waar zijn die laatste 4 nummers te vinden?
EDIT: Nu dus wel.
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*zoekt*quote:Op maandag 21 april 2008 11:48 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
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Die zijn nog niet gelekt.
EDIT: Nu dus wel.
kun je me een PM-etje sturen?
Maar is 4 minutes representatief voor het hele album, of is alles net weer anders? (wat ik een beetje hoop)
quote:OMG ja!Op maandag 21 april 2008 20:02 schreef Cracka-ass het volgende:
Elke keer als ik 'Spanish Lesson' hoor moet ik toch een beetje aan Bassie & Adriaan denken.
@ Maartel: Volgens mij bedoelden ze dat het geluid is opgepoetst.
@ Huutuub: gelukkig is 4 Minutes niet écht een voorbode van Hard Candy. De overige nummers zijn veel meer Madonna, maar wel met een Pharrell/Timbaland/Timberlake-sausje, al moet ik zeggen dat ik Pharrell enorm onderschat heb. Als je Confessions tof vond, ga je dit ook leuk vinden.
(wellicht toch maar even rondsnuffelen bij de torrtentjes...hmmm what to do...)
Je merkt dat er enorm veel aandacht aan de producties is besteed. Iets wat tegenwoordig niet meer vanzelfsprekend is bij zowel Pharrell als Timbaland. Maar ze maken beiden hun naam als superproducer op dit album helemaal waar!
Ik vermoed dat ik de komende tijd niet veel anders meer zal luisteren.
quote:Haha dat moet je helemaal zelf weten.Op maandag 21 april 2008 20:40 schreef HuubTuub het volgende:
Confessions, is geweldig!
(wellicht toch maar even rondsnuffelen bij de torrtentjes...hmmm what to do...)
Als je dan toch maar één nummer wilt luisteren zou ik Miles Away doen. Valt wel weer minder in dat Confessions-rijtje, maar is wel overheerlijk. quote:En Hey You, niet te vergeten. Ik vreesde echt het ergste. Maar jeetje, hij heeft zichzelf echt overtroffen.Op maandag 21 april 2008 20:47 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Ik vind echt dat Pharell de konten van Timberlake en Timbaland gekicked heeft! Ik had na de demo's totaal geen vertrouwen in de samenwerking met Pharell, maar damn... die nummers met zijn medewerking zijn hot!
quote:hahahaha ik heb ´m al... je Confessions opmerking was de druppel. Miles Away staat nu op. Die klinkt erg goed. Zometeen alles even op de iPod zetten, dan heb ik wat te luisteren naar het werk morgen en gelukkig moet ik ook nog extra op en neer naar Rotterdam, dan kan ik ´m helemaal luisteren.Op maandag 21 april 2008 20:47 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
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Haha dat moet je helemaal zelf weten.
Ik ben ook zo zwak....
quote:Hij was de laatste tijd niet echt in vorm nee. Maar hij is terug op zijn oude niveau, heerserij.Op maandag 21 april 2008 20:54 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
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En Hey You, niet te vergeten. Ik vreesde echt het ergste. Maar jeetje, hij heeft zichzelf echt overtroffen.
Bij een track als incredible moet ik stiekem een beetje denken aan de oude albums van Kelis. Wmb het beste werk van the Neptunes.
Je laatste bericht kan ik niet lezen want Danny heeft de PM-Optie uitgezet