trying to remember how much pop house was still getting on the radio when erotica hit, it was definitely all over the radio circa 90 when 'vogue' blew up (and credit madonna for being a factor in that moment happening), wondering if maybe the moment passing (on radio, the moment never passed in my heart) was a secret factor in erotica underperforming. when did cece peniston hit? totally want to dj a night of house of style bumper music.
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I remember seeing her do a rubbish performance of it at The Brits I think, it soured me unfairly.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
CeCe Peniston was '93 IIRC
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
and after two consecutive top fives, one of which became her longest-running #1 ever, she thought she could release an "experimental" single and get it into the top forty.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Peniston's "Finally" was very late '91 and early '92
what i remember most about the first time i heard bedtime story was being happy that madonna was into bjork and that bjork was cool/smart enough to give madonna a song.
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
crystalwatersvevo going on in my other tab
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember how much pop house was still getting on the radio when erotica hit, it was definitely all over the radio circa 90 when 'vogue' blew up
"Vogue" was the height of the Late 80s/Early 90s Dance and Pop Songs with that Latin-ish Thing of Going Up and Down an Octave with the Same Chord era.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think in large part due to "Bedtime Story," 1994 is kind of the mental demarcation in my head between old-Madonna and nu-Madonna. Erotica seemed to me like the early part of her career taken to its absolute extreme, and Bedtime Stories seemed like a complete and total fresh start. I still don't like much of that album, but "Bedtime Story" is all-time.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
i mentally divide her career into pre-evita and post-evita
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
That makes just as much sense. Bedtime Stories was pre-voice training, but I think it's also the thing that freed her up to go after something like Evita.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Erotica and even Bedtime Stories felt like an extension of the fantasy-life Dita persona in the Sex book. Ray of Light felt like leaving the 80s behind (more successfully than U2 did at the time).
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Rain" seems like one of those tracks that was all over when it came out but has since completely disappeared from the radio or Muzak or any of that. It is one of my favorites and I have v fond memories of watching donna rouge dump a glass of water on his head during the key change while singing it at karaoke at a country/western gay bar in LA (and then getting yelled at by the mc)
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KXWRspO.jpg
37. "TRUE BLUE" from True Blue (1986) [12 votes, 240 points, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
argh! hang on..
Bedtime Stories had an absolute rave 9/10 review in the NME accompanied by an amazing cartoon of her in bed with the Big Bad Wolf.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PAYXM4F.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
when all is said and done i have to say both videos for 'true blue' kinda suck
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
think the bridge lifts it above the generic pastiche charge thrown at it
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'd love to hear an arrangement of this song done Supremes style.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
there's more than one "True Blue" video? I only vaguely remember one with her wandering through a thrift store maybe?
whatever it was, it did suck
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
love the song though, kind of hate "Cherish" for being a rehash of the style
There's hers, and there's the one that won an MTV contest.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
More like true poo
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
man i think they spent twenty minutes working on the official (and pretty much not seen in america when true blue was a hit) video. debi mazar looks crazy young.
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Cherish" at least has the v beautiful "don't underestimate my point of view" bit.
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
haha I'm thinking of the fan video
it was terrible
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
the video is easily her most dated, but
http://24.media.tumblr.com/99d09e7b7b910bda7d66ce1c12e4720c/tumblr_mizt4sC72b1rl00x0o1_400.gif
<3
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
'true blue's fifties pastiche, 'cherish' is sixties pastiche (like a surprising amount of her catalog)
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
magical wink!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I don't even remember the incredibly blue "official" video
okay no one who has recently seen the "Dear Jessie" video could say this
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
DJP you are a rad dude but man I think you and I have directly inverse Madonna interests
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
haha apparently!
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not sure even madonna has seen the 'dear jessie' video, that thing was strictly uk, i think 'keep it together' was too funky for them (which reminds me i need to add 'too funky' to my house of style list).
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, yeah!
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
"Cherish" >>>>> "True Blue"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
peak of my tyra love (well, there was this one gq cover).
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Last one for today coming up...
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DczbBaO.jpg
36. "GET TOGETHER" from Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [11 votes, 246 points, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
too low!
her best 00s song
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
"True Blue" my #1
― Euler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
our first 2000s song
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I love both videos, especially the MTV contest winner
I sometimes think everything I ever learned about girls, I learned from Madonna
pretty shameless rip of the Deep Dish-EBTG collaboration but love it anyway
I'd be inclined to agree.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I underrate the Confessions material, I think; I always forget this song exists but whenever I hear it I love it
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Die Another Day was #46.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
although I still maintain that her best 00s single is "What It Feels Like For a Girl"
whoops xpost
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
my least fave confessions single but only cuz i'm really really really crazy about all the other confessions singles
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link