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I don’t even like Madonna but yes she will always be relevant simply for being MADONNA. There is no doubt that she is a legend. also just cuz someone ages doesn’t mean they still can’t make art

Should Gaga be expected to stop trying when she’s in her 60s too?

Or she just does what she loves. She'll always be relevant through the art of all the pop stars she inspired and influenced, and that includes Gaga.

Madonna has drafted in a star-studded cast for the huge video which will launch her comeback. Kate Moss and film stars Gwendoline Christie and Benedict Cumberbatch were all recruited. Alongside the big-name cameos, her crew shot a car crash, wild warehouse rave and a massive dance scene, with extras suspended from the ceiling on wires. Madonna, hired the entire studio and shot across six stages, with a hundreds-strong crew. “She had her own trailer which was heated at 28C at all times. “Fans can expect to see it in the coming weeks.” https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/38471976/madonna-celebs-epic-comeback-video/

Why does it feel so random that you started a thread for a mid show that even you don’t sound at all excited about? lol

This sounds like the thoughts of someone who hasn't had their frontal lobe fully developed. Lol

Lord forbid a musician releases music regularly. I know thats a wild concept in this fan base. I'm kind of hyped for this music video. I feel like she's not put this kind of effort in for years at this point. That alone has me interested.

You may remember the backlash to dynamic pricing when concert ticket vendor Ticketmaster was accused of hiking the price of high-demand tickets for the Oasis reunion tour, prompting intervention from the UK government and new rules to prevent the resale of tickets for live events above the original cost. Of course, the issue there was scaling prices up when demand surged, whereas Sony's test appears to be examining the impact of discounts and a customer's prior purchase history. X Basically, they're not increasing the prices (which is how they're circumventing current dynamic pricing laws) but customers who buy games more regularly will have worse discounts. For example: AC: Unity is usually £24.99 but you may see it on sale for £3.74 and think "wow, what a deal". So you log into your account to purchase it but because your account has a purchase history, suddenly that price jumps to £9.99. How f*cking stupid is that Meanwhile, a service like Steam will stop you at the checkout screen to warn you that you could save money by buying a product a different way. Sony can join Nintendo and Microsoft in the bin.

You guys really don't understand the power of Dwasiana, I was rooting for my girl since the beginning, never doubted my little girl, she is my daughter, I raised that bitch, and now she is the most successful song of all time period

you really put Joanne 6 feet under

the first pic is giving

She is still trying to stay relevant?

Replay has surpassed 100m Spotify streams

Chappel Roan if an adoring fan screamed at her

Bloodpop you've got a big storm coming

Wow, never seen her so confident on stage!

*now entering the ARTPOP-Jomatica Vortex* “just graph is the new stats”

I think Chriminica is lower than Joannica

Vanish is an absolutely gorgeous song and I love it dearly but Speechless is her best ballad IMO. An absolute classic.

yeah, but be kind to Joanne, its not that low

5ft2 under*

I did NOT spend countless nights in high school sobbing trying to reconcile my relationship with my father and being gay to not support Speechless. Vanish Into You is TOO recent for me to choose it, but its iconic performances, and the fact that me and my besties sing it to each other after a night of too many whiskies make it likely that she'll take Speechless' crown in the future. Truly though, both songs are the epitome of this timeless quote of hers: "If you f*cking rip my hairbow and my wig off my f*cking head, my shoes, my bra, every single thing on my body, and you throw me on a piano with a microphone, I will f*cking make you cry."

No hard numbers or stats, just graph

deplorable, laughable, and embarrassing. so essentially, punishing people for supporting art, fun, and immersion? WILD

Out of all the Chromatica tracks, I know this one will get it's "Judas" moment in near future. One of the top comments from tiktok was asking if "Replay" was from TOTAL MAYHEM.

Not only should Joanne never be that low, but it's on the level on Mayhem

You'll wish your fave is still as relevant as Madonna in her late 60s. Get offline and touch some grass.

I guess you expect gaga to retire to a nursing home when she hits 60

Garden of Eden is about her & Adam 🍎

I love Speechless but I hate Joe.. I also find it cute that she outed him as bi, so my hate to him is even stronger because of how MAGA asshole this man is. But Vanish is the ultimate song, it's THE song that defines a career.. shame that it's not a single to actually make it happen and make it define her career and the acclaim worldwide.

Into the night we fly, obviously

this photographer hates everyone

It seems like she had full creative control for Madame X because she made videos for Medellín, Crave, Dark Ballet, Batuka and God Control. She said she used the full budget she got and I liked that.

These photos suck

Your metamorphosis from Moderator to Moder-Hater is amusing but also feels like watching grandma show early signs of dementia

Speechless will always have my heart. VIY is amazing and I love it, but Speechless stands alone in her catalog. It’s a true rock ballad and has echos of the Beatles, Queen, Billy Joel and Elton John all through it. It will always baffle me that it wasn’t released to dominate the airwaves.

Like the merch trucks? Austin had it

I was thinking about this a bit the other day on the one year anniversary, because the album felt so different, not just from the first spin to most recent, but it felt like listening to an album where she actually experienced the idea she executed before it existed … almost like the inverse to chromatica … by that, I guess I just mean, for everything Mayhem is about, to your lucid point, it doesn’t feel like she was actually in those worlds … yes, we only see what we see, but even then, there was a disconnect between how this album articulated the era of hollywood and/or corporate sponsorship (not disparaging), it just felt like she really created an entire world of music experience in Mayhem that she might not have been as immersed in as her prior projects … She quite literally injected The Fame as fame’s nemesis into 21st Century pop concsiousness, TFM was a direct response in relation to her own experience with The Fame’s shadow self in real time, BTW was literally written on the road as she experienced the sheer range of identities within her own global community, ARTPOP (*gestures broadly at the material* lived experience on levels), Joanne almost backed into its own reality, but at its core, regardless of hindsight, the namesake carried the narrative of an artist who’s life and work was suddenly abbreviated, moreover in addition to the generational trauma, the audience is presented with associations between how the album and era itself reflect the artist‘s experience … Chromatica she was in LA and the vibe was honestly a bit of the bedroom DJ (and that carries range of expressions, interpretations, and modes of identity or sonic world-build), even with the detriment, that process is present in the production and performance (the Enigma residency plays into that as well), but Chromatica was like creating something or performing something that became a bit more distant Whereas Mayhem, it didn’t seem to feel like she was expressing what she actually experienced in real time with real people as she was producing from her studio amidst a nearly complete overhaul of her team infrastructure (and sponsorships, and filming, and etc.) … but as she brought it into the world it began to engage with the world it was missing, if that makes sense; so when she performed it with and for people, and brought it to life with literal live performances (SNL springs to mind heavy), sonic reinterpretations, and especially the tour where she is with people and singing into significance what Mayhem means … it’s like, back to The Fame, where she made the lie a truth (SOAM callback) … that the sound would eclipse any visual dissonance … but Mayhem as “willful deprivation of a body part or element resulting in the impairment of a person’s fighting ability,” maybe the deprivation was the experience itself as thematic vision … kind of like The Fame (or ARTPOP as well), how do you make the imagined reality … but, as always, just musing, take the aforementioned with a grain of salt … she could have very well been dodging calls while vanishing into killahs at the garden of eden for the past few years, being the perfect celebrity as one is …

Screamin' for me baby Like you're gonna die

Oh wow, the results...

I may be the only person who loves the melancholy chorus/bridge of "911" as is. Isn't the whole pre chorus section supposed to represent her mind becoming more and more anxious, but she then takes the pill which slowly brings her back into the calmer state again? That's always been my interpretation of the lyric and even the beat. I don't know how else to explain it. @Head Empty @Gorehound @Omegahedron

Well considering that TDD and SOAW are from the MAYHEM sessions (we’ve had lyrics and even snippets of them from basically album release), it’s not like they were recorded more recently and thus aren’t a representation of her future direction.

Idk if I wanna kill Free Woman for the meme or try and make Free Woman win for the meme