#madonna — Public Fediverse posts
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On the 10th of September 1998: 15th MTV Video Music Awards: #Madonna & #WillSmith win.
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On the 10th of September 1998: 15th MTV Video Music Awards: #Madonna & #WillSmith win.
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On the 10th of September 1998: 15th MTV Video Music Awards: #Madonna & #WillSmith win.
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On the 10th of September 1998: 15th MTV Video Music Awards: #Madonna & #WillSmith win.
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On the 10th of September 1998: 15th MTV Video Music Awards: #Madonna & #WillSmith win.
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#BestOf #Madonna
1) Like a prayer
2) Hung up
3) Rain
4) La isla bonita
5) Like a virgin
6) The power of good-bye
7) Cherish
8) Don't cry for me Argentina
9) Open your heart
10) Secret
11) Frozen
12) Borderline
13) Live to tell
14) Ghosttown
15) Express yourself
16) Holiday
17) Ray of light
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#BestOf #Madonna
1) Like a prayer
2) Hung up
3) Rain
4) La isla bonita
5) Like a virgin
6) The power of good-bye
7) Cherish
8) Don't cry for me Argentina
9) Open your heart
10) Secret
11) Frozen
12) Borderline
13) Live to tell
14) Ghosttown
15) Express yourself
16) Holiday
17) Ray of light
Madonna - Like A Prayer (Offic... -
#BestOf #Madonna
1) Like a prayer
2) Hung up
3) Rain
4) La isla bonita
5) Like a virgin
6) The power of good-bye
7) Cherish
8) Don't cry for me Argentina
9) Open your heart
10) Secret
11) Frozen
12) Borderline
13) Live to tell
14) Ghosttown
15) Express yourself
16) Holiday
17) Ray of light
Madonna - Like A Prayer (Offic... -
#BestOf #Madonna
1) Like a prayer
2) Hung up
3) Rain
4) La isla bonita
5) Like a virgin
6) The power of good-bye
7) Cherish
8) Don't cry for me Argentina
9) Open your heart
10) Secret
11) Frozen
12) Borderline
13) Live to tell
14) Ghosttown
15) Express yourself
16) Holiday
17) Ray of light
Madonna - Like A Prayer (Offic... -
"Take a Bow" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her sixth studio album, #BedtimeStories (1994). It was released as the album's second #single on December 6, 1994, by #MaverickRecords. It is a midtempo #popBallad written and produced by Madonna and #Babyface. Following the sexually explicit persona portrayed by Madonna on her previous 1992 album, #Erotica, she wanted to tone down her image for #BedtimeStories. Experimenting with a new musical direction.
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"Take a Bow" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her sixth studio album, #BedtimeStories (1994). It was released as the album's second #single on December 6, 1994, by #MaverickRecords. It is a midtempo #popBallad written and produced by Madonna and #Babyface. Following the sexually explicit persona portrayed by Madonna on her previous 1992 album, #Erotica, she wanted to tone down her image for #BedtimeStories. Experimenting with a new musical direction.
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"Take a Bow" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her sixth studio album, #BedtimeStories (1994). It was released as the album's second #single on December 6, 1994, by #MaverickRecords. It is a midtempo #popBallad written and produced by Madonna and #Babyface. Following the sexually explicit persona portrayed by Madonna on her previous 1992 album, #Erotica, she wanted to tone down her image for #BedtimeStories. Experimenting with a new musical direction.
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"Take a Bow" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her sixth studio album, #BedtimeStories (1994). It was released as the album's second #single on December 6, 1994, by #MaverickRecords. It is a midtempo #popBallad written and produced by Madonna and #Babyface. Following the sexually explicit persona portrayed by Madonna on her previous 1992 album, #Erotica, she wanted to tone down her image for #BedtimeStories. Experimenting with a new musical direction.
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"Take a Bow" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her sixth studio album, #BedtimeStories (1994). It was released as the album's second #single on December 6, 1994, by #MaverickRecords. It is a midtempo #popBallad written and produced by Madonna and #Babyface. Following the sexually explicit persona portrayed by Madonna on her previous 1992 album, #Erotica, she wanted to tone down her image for #BedtimeStories. Experimenting with a new musical direction.
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🕺 ■ Avicii y las 5 canciones que quizá no sabías que llevaban su firma ■
https://los40.com/2026/09/08/avicii-y-las-5-canciones-que-quiza-no-sabias-que-llevaban-su-firma/?int=MASTODON_WORLD#los40dance #avicii #madonna #mikeposner #canciones #davidguetta #santana #coldplay #musicaelectronica
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🕺 ■ Avicii y las 5 canciones que quizá no sabías que llevaban su firma ■
https://los40.com/2026/09/08/avicii-y-las-5-canciones-que-quiza-no-sabias-que-llevaban-su-firma/?int=MASTODON_WORLD#los40dance #avicii #madonna #mikeposner #canciones #davidguetta #santana #coldplay #musicaelectronica
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Make room on the coffee table for a new tome on Madonna’s full and massive discography
Unless you’ve been hiding under a (very large and heavy) rock recently, you’d have come across a heck of a lot of Madonna posts online these past few weeks. The artist’s latest album Confessions II has been promoted left, right and centre and see her gracing the top of the charts just about everywhere around the globe.
But what about the backstory of each track – and the stories behind all of the artist’s other hits? If you care to dive deep, you’ll be happy to know a book is soon to be released titled Madonna: All The Songs – The Story Behind Every Track, by French author and muso, Benoît Clerc.
The massive tome is due to be released in October 2026 and looks like it could be one of the most substantial Madonna reference books yet published.
Published by Octopus Publishing Group, the 624-page hardback takes the same approach Clerc has used in his previous All The Songs books on artists including David Bowie, Queen, Prince, and ABBA. Each of these has concentrated on the music and lyrics of the artists’ ouvres – as opposed to serving as conventional biographies – and so too will the book about Madonna’s output.
All the obvious (landmark) songs will be in there – such as “Like a Virgin”, “Material Girl”, “Vogue”, “Ray of Light”, “Music”, and “Hung Up”, while Clerc will also go into considerable depth with songs that weren’t singles, too. Album tracks, B-sides and rarities that perhaps even the most ardent fans haven’t read much about. Plus there are some beautiful portraits of the artist that not even this writer and avid fan has seen.
The book will examine the inspiration behind individual songs; the writing and recording processes; the musicians and producers involved; and of course Madonna’s input to each track. The intention is to put each song into its wider creative and historical context rather than simply recounting Madonna’s life. For example, the reader will be able to jump from a huge cultural moment such as Like a Prayer or Vogue to lesser-known fan favourites like, say, “Supernatural” and “Ain’t No Big Deal” from eariler recording sessions, or “Cyber-Raga” and “Time Stood Still” from latter albums.
The ‘All The Songs’ series has a reputation for being extremely detailed, so you can expect this one to be sitting on coffee table, ready for regular referencing, for months and months to come.
‘Madonna: All The Songs – The Story Behind Every Track’ will run to 624 pages and will be published in lavishly designed, large-format hardback. Look for it with the Material Girl still on the cover, RRP $115.00, with an ebook also being made available, RRP $69.00, through Hachette from October 13, 2026.
It’s in your eyes… Andy Warhol’s favouritism for Debbie Harry
In the company of muses and gods: an interview with rock poet Patti Smith from the Cream archives
An interview with Belinda Carlisle: new shows added to her 2027 tour of Oz
It’s just like riding a bike! All things cycling as we already prep for the Tour de France 2027
Why the 90s Movie ‘The Craft’ Still Resonates with Millennial Women
Say hello to Sanpellegrino Ciao! And enjoy a sprightly taste of Sicily
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CHIARA CIVELLO
last quarter moon
suédée par Jack Durieux
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.#madonna #chiaracivello #lastquartermoon #チヴェッロ #pochettededisque #pochettehommage
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119 Collage Madonna Art mix 02-2020
Canvas print 60 x 40
©Drakre52 morphingart
Eigen digitaal werk met gebruik makend van Morphing.
#drakre52 #morphing #art #madonna
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119 Collage Madonna Art mix 02-2020
Canvas print 60 x 40
©Drakre52 morphingart
Eigen digitaal werk met gebruik makend van Morphing.
#drakre52 #morphing #art #madonna
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119 Collage Madonna Art mix 02-2020
Canvas print 60 x 40
©Drakre52 morphingart
Eigen digitaal werk met gebruik makend van Morphing.
#drakre52 #morphing #art #madonna
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Dolly Parton’s Favorite Oak-Grilled Filet Mignon at Gold Rush Steakhouse in California https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/22960/ #AlexMadonna #Dolly #DollyParton #Madonna #MadonnaInn #Parton #SteakHouse #SteakHouses #SteakRestaurant #SteakRestaurants #Steakhouse #Steakhouses
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🧿 𝑷𝒆𝒑𝒔𝒊, ¿𝑫𝒐́𝒏𝒅𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂́ 𝒎𝒊 𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒐́𝒏? 🧿
Lo de Pepsi y el avión militar no fue solo una anécdota absurda de los años 90.
Fue uno de esos momentos en los que una gran multinacional descubrió, demasiado tarde, que un chiste publicitario podía acabar convertido en una batalla legal muy seria.Todo empezó en 1996, en plena guerra comercial entre Pepsi y Coca-Cola.
Pepsi llevaba décadas intentando construir una imagen más joven, más rebelde y más moderna que su rival.
La marca quería que sus anuncios parecieran videoclips, películas o pequeños espectáculos de cultura pop.
Y dentro de esa estrategia nació la campaña “Pepsi Stuff”.La idea era sencilla: comprabas productos Pepsi, acumulabas puntos y luego podías canjearlos por premios.
Había camisetas, gafas de sol, chaquetas… merchandising típico de los 90.
El problema llegó con un anuncio de televisión que decidió exagerar la broma demasiado.En el spot aparecía un adolescente llegando al instituto con distintos accesorios de Pepsi.
Primero una camiseta.
Luego unas gafas.
Después una chaqueta de cuero.
Y finalmente, en el remate humorístico del anuncio, el chico aterrizaba frente al colegio pilotando un avión de combate AV-8 Harrier II.Debajo aparecía el texto:
“Harrier Fighter — 7.000.000 Pepsi Points”.Pepsi pensó que era tan ridículo que nadie lo tomaría en serio.
Pero ahí apareció John Leonard.Leonard tenía solo 20 años, pero entendió algo que a la empresa se le había escapado: las bases legales de la promoción permitían comprar puntos adicionales por 10 centavos cada uno.
Y en ningún sitio se decía expresamente que el avión fuese una broma.Así que hizo cuentas.
Comprar 7 millones de puntos costaba unos 700.000 dólares.
El problema era conseguir semejante cantidad.
Pero Leonard no era un adolescente improvisando en un garaje.
Convenció a varios inversores, entre ellos un empresario llamado Michael Hoffman, que quedó fascinado por el vacío legal.El plan era brillante por lo simple que resultaba.
Leonard reunió 15 puntos reales de Pepsi —porque las normas exigían al menos algunos originales— y envió junto a ellos un cheque por 700.008,50 dólares para comprar el resto.
Legalmente estaba intentando aceptar una oferta comercial exactamente como aparecía en la promoción.
Y entonces Pepsi entró en pánico.
La empresa respondió devolviendo el cheque y afirmando que el anuncio era “obviamente humorístico”.
Pero Leonard no se echó atrás.
Demandó a Pepsi por incumplimiento de contrato.Aquello convirtió una campaña publicitaria en un caso jurídico histórico.
El juicio, Leonard v. Pepsico, terminó llegando a un tribunal federal de Nueva York en 1999.
Y lo fascinante es que durante el proceso no se discutía si Pepsi tenía un avión o no.
La cuestión real era otra:¿Puede un anuncio televisivo considerarse una oferta contractual válida?
La jueza Kimba Wood concluyó que no.
Dictaminó que ninguna persona razonable podría creer seriamente que una empresa de refrescos estaba ofreciendo un avión militar valorado en decenas de millones de dólares.Y ahí Pepsi ganó.
Pero aunque vencieran en los tribunales, la compañía quedó bastante avergonzada.
Porque el caso había demostrado que su promoción estaba redactada de forma descuidada.Después del juicio modificaron el anuncio.
Cambiaron la cifra del Harrier a 700 millones de puntos y añadieron algo que antes no existía:
“Just kidding”.
“Es una broma”.Básicamente tuvieron que explicar oficialmente el chiste porque un estudiante universitario estuvo peligrosamente cerca de convertirlo en un problema real.
Lo más curioso es que, aunque todo parezca una locura, el avión jamás habría terminado en manos de Leonard incluso si hubiese ganado.
El Harrier no es un coche deportivo ni una avioneta privada.
Es un avión de ataque militar con sistemas de combate, radar y tecnología restringida.
El gobierno estadounidense jamás habría permitido entregar un aparato operativo a un civil.Además, el anuncio mostraba al joven aterrizando verticalmente en el patio del instituto, algo que en la vida real habría sido un desastre absoluto.
Los motores de un Harrier generan una potencia brutal.
El calor y la presión habrían destrozado el suelo y reventado ventanas alrededor.Pero el caso se hizo tan famoso porque tocaba algo muy humano:
la sensación de que una gran empresa había prometido algo y luego intentaba escabullirse diciendo que era “solo humor”.Décadas después, Netflix convirtió toda la historia en el documental “Pepsi, ¿dónde está mi avión?”, y ahí mucha gente descubrió que John Leonard nunca fue un oportunista caricaturesco.
De hecho, hoy trabaja como guardabosques en Alaska, en el Parque Nacional Denali, viviendo una vida bastante tranquila y alejada del mundo corporativo.
Y lo más llamativo es que tanto él como antiguos ejecutivos de Pepsi hablan ahora del asunto con bastante sentido del humor.Pero el caso del Harrier solo fue una pieza más dentro de la guerra salvaje entre Pepsi y Coca-Cola.
Porque durante décadas ambas compañías protagonizaron probablemente la rivalidad comercial más agresiva del planeta.
Uno de los movimientos más importantes fue el famoso “Pepsi Challenge” de 1975.
Pepsi instalaba puestos en centros comerciales y hacía pruebas a ciegas.
La gente probaba dos vasos sin saber cuál era cuál.
Y muchísimos elegían Pepsi.¿Por qué?
Porque Pepsi es ligeramente más dulce que Coca-Cola.
En un simple sorbo rápido, el cerebro suele reaccionar mejor al sabor más dulce.Aquello fue un golpe psicológico enorme para Coca-Cola.
Tanto que en 1985 la empresa cometió uno de los mayores errores de marketing de todos los tiempos: lanzó la “New Coke”, una fórmula más dulce diseñada para competir directamente con Pepsi.
El público la odió.
Y no porque supiera mal necesariamente, sino porque Coca-Cola había tocado algo emocional.
La marca estaba ligada a recuerdos, costumbres y nostalgia.
La gente sintió que les habían cambiado parte de su identidad cultural.La reacción fue tan brutal que Coca-Cola tuvo que recuperar la fórmula clásica solo tres meses después.
Y ahí se entendió algo importantísimo:
la gente no compra solo sabor.
Compra recuerdos, símbolos y emociones.Pepsi, mientras tanto, apostó por otro camino: las celebridades.
Y ahí fue donde empezó a gastar cifras completamente desorbitadas.
En 1984 firmaron con Michael Jackson el contrato publicitario más caro jamás visto hasta entonces: 5 millones de dólares.
Pero el rodaje terminó mal.
Durante una grabación, los fuegos artificiales explotaron antes de tiempo y el pelo de Michael se incendió delante de las cámaras.
Sufrió quemaduras importantes en el cuero cabelludo.Pepsi acabó pagándole una indemnización de 1,5 millones de dólares, que él donó a un centro médico especializado en quemaduras.
Años después llegó Madonna.
Le pagaron otros 5 millones para usar “Like a Prayer” en un anuncio elegante y aparentemente inocente.
Pero cuando salió el videoclip oficial, lleno de cruces ardiendo y referencias religiosas, estalló el escándalo.El Vaticano pidió boicots.
Pepsi retiró la campaña inmediatamente.
Madonna se quedó el dinero.
Y probablemente aprendieron que contratar estrellas gigantes también significa heredar sus polémicas.
Luego llegaron Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Pink, Cindy Crawford, David Beckham, Shaquille O’Neal…
Pepsi quería parecer moderna constantemente.
Coca-Cola buscaba parecer eterna.Esa diferencia explica casi toda su rivalidad.
Y luego está una de las historias más surrealistas de todas:
el momento en que Pepsi tuvo una flota militar soviética.Sí, ocurrió de verdad.
Durante la Guerra Fría, Pepsi logró entrar en la URSS, convirtiéndose en uno de los primeros productos estadounidenses vendidos allí.
El problema era que el rublo soviético no podía intercambiarse libremente por dólares.Así que hicieron trueques.
Al principio, Pepsi recibía vodka Stolichnaya como pago.
Pero el negocio creció tanto que el vodka ya no bastaba para compensar la deuda.
Entonces la Unión Soviética ofreció algo completamente absurdo:
submarinos, destructores y barcos militares antiguos.Durante unos días, Pepsi técnicamente tuvo una de las mayores flotas navales del mundo.
Por supuesto, no iban a bombardear a Coca-Cola con submarinos soviéticos.
Los barcos fueron vendidos rápidamente como chatarra a una empresa noruega para reciclar el metal.Pero la imagen quedó para la historia:
una marca de refrescos “desarmando” indirectamente a la URSS.Y quizá lo más increíble de toda esta historia es que muchas de las campañas de Pepsi funcionaban precisamente porque parecían excesivas, ridículas y gigantescas.
Hasta que un día alguien decidió leer la letra pequeña.
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Just Awesome & Soooo #Queer #pride #lgbtqia ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎
#Spotify #Playlist Magic Rainbow HIT songs! 🏳️🌈🥰
#CharlieXCX #oliviarodrigo #Madonna #DuaLipa
#Abba #kylieminogue #AdamLambert #save
#NowPlaying #NewMusicFriday #Music #Musica
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"I'll Remember" is a song by American singer #Madonna for the 1994 film #WithHonors. It was released by #Maverick and #WarnerBrosRecords on March 8, 1994, as the #leadSingle from the film's soundtrack album. It was a radical change in image and style for Madonna, who had received huge backlash due to the release of her book #Sex, the studio album #Erotica and the film #BodyOfEvidence.
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That Madonna and Kylie collab is out and it’s pretty fab, but wait, did Madonna just throw shade at Pepsi at the end of the video?
Loving the new Madonna X Kylie collab, Love Sensation. I’m happy it came out sooner than some time in the near future. They say tomorrow is now really in this hyper-real world. And something had to come from all that talk about a duet between two of the world’s greatest pop sensations. And I will call it a duet because duets don’t have to be mushy and slow and this track is less of a collab and more of an event. It had to come out now. After all, hype is futile without followup, and in today’s InstaWorld that means it ought to have been out yesterday. For devotees in the LGBTQIA communities, the song ought to feel instantly likeable, perhaps even a little familiar – hope and devotion can do those things to your mind. Before you know it, you’d imagine the song was pretty much written for you. And that intent, the natural chemistry, the familial connections, the doing away with too much trickery, that better clarity in vocals, the chiller beats per minute, and that universal message connects instantly with the audience it’s intended to gift. The others will catch on by summer’s peak.
I don’t mind the video. A bit slapped-together-at-an-Amsterdam-promo-gig and with words all over the place having the nerve to think they’re in a lyric video – but, hey, if hideous fonts helps brat artists go viral, hopefully a few lovelier fonted words like these will help teach the folks how pretty language used to before it went #awol and before we let the machines do all the talking.
But something stuck with me after I watched the clip. Not just the naughty earworm that crawled out of the catchy-as-heck song. Not the flashing graphics that for all I know might have read, “You must love Madonna and Kylie or you will perish in hell” (for all I know). And not just the joy of finally seeing two brilliant pop artists coming together to bring their learn-ed all to the contemporary pop scene. It was a little joke Madonna makes at the end when she orders “Coke and ice” on her cellphone.
Now it’s not the statement I’m really questioning here: a classic Coke/coke joke is a classic joke. My pondering was more along the lines of why the statement at all? Call it overanalysing but when it comes to music icons, well, that’s kind of what I do.
So I started asking myself… Was it to sound cool with the kids? Was it possible shade at Pepsi for some odd royalty dispute from yore? Was it payola from a competitive big beverage brand? Was it street-talk hinting that a mix of cocaine and meth might just be where enlightenment’s at? (not tried that combination and probably won’t ever). Was it a woman not having to mind her Ps and Qs (because in a free-speech democracy we shouldn’t have to hold our tongue) and just letting some silly quip slip through her lips in place of silence? As a Leo, I know it’s really difficult to keep your mouth shut, especially when everything that comes out of it is golden. See what I did there?
Anyhoo, the cocaine-was-once-an-ingredient-in-Coke jokes probably began some time in 1930 – a few months after the beverage became completely-cocaine free in 1929 (I’m guessing it took a few years for everybody to get over the Charlie hangover). Like all good jokes, it has longevity and, quite frankly, I think it has purpose. If there’s good reason for the joke’s survival and random injection into the popular vernacular, I’d like to think that it was that any soft drink, with or without the excess sugar, is probably a better stimulant to help you reach a certain (even small) level of conscience or higher consciousness (seriously, because there really is nothing that you can’t do) than, say, coke, ice or a combination of the two.
I’m leaning more towards that than any idea that it fell under a Scattergories list of Stupid Cool-Kid Words, or Jokes To Help Break Those Seconds Of Awkward Silence, and I certainly hope they weren’t three words scribbled on paper and handed over from a PR rep who probably likes her real coke too much.
I’m not sure why I really tried to analyse that one. Just something about it stuck. Like so many of the things Madonna has said since blessing us with her ultra-presence all those decades ago. But I do kind of feel Someone needs to sit this woman down and give her a dose of her own Leo medicine. Or a nice cup of herbal tea and a chat. Or a Tequila cocktail or Coke with ice, even. The point is guaranteed positive public relations is now out of everybody’s hands. Well, kind of in everybody’s hands. Actually, I’m not sure anymore because AI has a pretty big mouth, too. Iconic one-liners might just be bandied about the wrong way if an artist’s delivery is too ambiguous.
What one needs is a good guide or mantra to help practice the marrying of the natural with intention with any desired material result – in this particular case, stream this song, or love me when I’m gone from your phone screen. [He wrote after seeing the video an hour ago and is still thinking and writing about it.]
Point being: genuine intention is good. When that’s in place, everything else follows effortlessly.
Kylie to reissue excellent album ‘X’ for the first time on vinyl, other LPs to follow suit, and yay
Hands in the air for a ‘Romy and Michele’ movie sequel is finally in production
How to Shop for Cannabis Responsibly in New York City in 2026
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#ANTONINOTATI #cocaCola #coke #ConfessionsII #confessionsOnADanceFloor #CREAMMAGAZINE #kylie #kylieMinogue #kylieNewMusic2026 #loveSensation #madonna #madonnaKylieCollab #madonnaKylieDuet #madonnaNewMusic2026 #MUSIC #newYork #newYorkCity #pepsi #pepsiCola #POPCULTURE #popCultureCommentary #popMusic #theColaWars -
Madonna sort l'album le plus abouti depuis 20 ans, conçu comme une suite et un miroir de Confession. C'est réfléchi, bien écrit et réalisé. J'aime beaucoup le résultat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82NDwsWEaEk
#Madonna #Confession #Musique #Music #Pop #Electro #Dancefloor #Dance #Art #Culture
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Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Ms. Rachel and Keke Palmer Among Celebrities Calling for Closure of ICE Detention Center in Dilley, Texas
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🎯 ■ Madonna ayuda al Celta resolviendo el misterio de la camiseta que llevó en un concierto de 1990 ■ "Represento a su equipo en espíritu".
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Madonna heeft het shirt waar de Spaanse voetbalclub Celta de Vigo naar op zoek is. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse zangeres in een bericht op X in reactie op de oproep van de club. De club uit de Primera División had de zangeres gevraagd of ze het shirt waarin ze in 1990 optrad in het...
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Why Madonna is worthy of being the first star to have a bronze statue of her likeness standing on Hollywood Boulevard
This photograph is pertinent in so many ways. Every element of it looks as if it were positioned / posited / mis-en-scened to the Nth degree – as though Ryan Murphy himself had directed and post-produced it. It’s what Hollywood should look like today. Clear-skyed. Glossy. Its vintage sign not faded, just weathered enough to look classic-fabulous. The main attraction 45 degrees south-west of it, Madonna possessing possibly the most famous face in pop culture history.
Madonna has sung for film many a time – won an Oscar for one of them. She hanky-pankied her way up the music ladder but found the film industry’s climb was splintered with more sordidity and caveats than even she could cope with. She just wanted to be up on that big screen and display some good old-fashioned glamour and fun. But even this aspiring actress wouldn’t s#ck certain d1ck to get where the likes of Marilyn and Mae got. Although she did borrow lots from the big dress-up box of Studios Conglomerated, injecting classic Tinseltown looks into her music videos and album covers.
She’s been in some pretty good movies (Evita, Desperately Seeking Susan) and some very bad ones (Body of Evidence, Shanghai Surprise) and a couple of flicks that ought never have even made it outside of the editing suite (Who’s That Girl, and the very early A Certain Sacrifice in which she had an egg fried on her stomach). But you’ll see none of these in those 1001-Movies-You-Must-See-Before-You-Die tomes.
The palm trees on either side of the above picture are perfectly aligned, like backup dancers in one of the icon’s videos, but here she is the main attraction, just left off centre, holding big red scissors and having the final cut – a music industry martinet but the movie industry’s she-looks-good-but-can-she-act? excuse to avoid auditions altogether and just assume she couldn’t give as good as Garbo, Detriech or even Brando. She could, if there were strong enough a director.
Madonna might never have had an all-access pass to the big Hollywood after-party (and who would want one now that the film city’s reputation has a certain tarnish?). She may not be celebrated for her celluloid contributions, or dollied up on promotional posters plastered along the Boulevard, but she does wear the pants when it comes to being in control of her image and reputation. Sometimes that image is made a mockery of on newer media like TikTok and Facetagram (by her own hand, mostly) but when you look at the bigger picture, Madonna is one of the only stars whose name you could mention anywhere in the world – from Tokyo to Tanzania to Toowoomba, Woop Woop and beyond – and the person being vox-popped would be able to immediately picture the star.
So yes, the woman is worthy of being the first pop icon to have a bronze statue erected in honour of her contributions to modern entertainment. Though the crowd gathered around her looks as artificially inseminated as some of the support players in her latter-day music clips, the fact remains that the real audience is still here, still watching her every move, still criticising her any fault (them’s the breaks when you’re this big a star), the fans still waiting with baited breath for the next big record release.
While many a performer has sung about Hollywood with high praise and a touch of cautionary warning – as if making it there were the pinnacle of success but with conditions (from The Kinks’ Celluloid Heroes to Lady Gaga’s The Fame), Madonna ripped the city to shreds in her irony-laden pop-dance track that took its very title from the sign that stands behind her. To her, Hollywood has meant failed (or lack of) auditions, disappointing reviews, horrible talk around town, and dismal dollars at the box office when you compare takings of her total commercial and arthouse oeuvre with the insane amount of bums on seats just one Marvel movie might score.
The fact that this star hasn’t even featured in a film since 2002’s romantic comedy Swept Away, directed by her then-husband Guy Ritchie, and that she barely even bothers to look at scripts today – yet is standing tall in bronze in the middle of acting city – speaks volumes about her popularity and pop cultural prowess. She may blink too much in certain scenes of a film where the actor is required to just stand there and look shocked or in awe at her leading man. She may be too bossy for directors to be able to control onset or off. But when it comes to calling “cut” on her star power and global ubiquity, she’ll be the one making that director’s statement, honey.
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