Don't go for second best, baby. Put your ILM ARTIST POLL #31: MADONNA to the test.

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34. "DON'T TELL ME" from Music (2000) [15 votes, 284 points]

i love how surprising these results are so far? maybe they were bound to be

"Don't Tell Me" astonished me at the time - the second single was crazier than the first.

Heard the Tracy Young remixes at the gay clubs all the time.

feel like 'justify my love' does something similar much better to my ears

Absolutely. I voted for both, but Justify is so obviously the one with a touch of genius.

I kinda wish they'd kept "Erotica" as the "You Thrill Me" demo.

It has a beautiful melody and it would have sounded less similar to "Justify My Love".

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33. "MATERIAL GIRL" from Like a Virgin (1984) [14 votes, 307 points, 1 first place vote]

xp OTM. And it totally sums up the pained doomed queer romance angle of the album.

lol at "Material Girl" being so low

seems pretty high based on the comments in the voting thread. just missed my ballot.

yeah that's kinda where i expected it to be

"Don't Tell Me" too low imo

lol at "Material Girl" being so low

Ya I didn't vote for it but at least expected it to be in the top 15

in my top 15. love the yelps, the pitch of her voice

regardless of the shit-talking on the other thread, you would expect the song whose title is most-often used to refer to Madonna in the press to place higher that the 30s

fun karaoke number

I guess "Where Life Begins" isn't going to place.

I have positive memories of the Material Girl video from my youth, but the song itself has aged pretty poorly. As was mentioned in the voting thread, it did more damage to her career in the short-term than was expected. What a horrible nickname to have to carry around..."material girl". But even the song itself is cornball, not in way that's just associated with it coming from 1984, but an ageless type of cornball. Given the opportunity to do things over, I imagine she'd have passed on this one.

"Don't Tell Me" deserves to place in a thread about songs written that earned some other struggling songwriter a pile of money.

Ah, not sure how I feel about Material Girl being so low. It too is touched by genius, but it's also hackwork (outstanding hackwork); it's iconic, but by reference more than originality; and while it's a Madonna, it's not the one she turned out to be. And it's a pop classic, but kinda squeaky.

I tied myself in knots over it, and finally I left it off.

I dunno if she suffered in the short term. In fact, it's a shrewd move! What better way to prepare the audience for your Serious Work ahead than by having ditties like "Material Girl" to rebel against?

fun karaoke number

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), vendredi 8 mars 2013 16:13 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love Chic's performance on this and "Like a Virgin" tbh

Good point. xp

and while it's a Madonna, it's not the one she turned out to be

otm

twenty five years later she finally accepted the moniker with a macy's clothing line under the name, and a put her name on a ton of products to support its truth - shoes, vodka, perfume and most horrifically the hard candy gyms

*also put her name

I don't think I'll ever be able to hear this song anymore without thinking about balls' story from the noms thread:

2) still fourth grade, talent show, i 'perform' 'material girl' by having a rabbit hand puppet lipsync the song while i stand in my suit, expressionless, lipsyncing the 'liv-ing in a material world' backing part.

I missed that story. HA!

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32. "MUSIC" from Music (2000) [16 votes, 309 points]

amazing

It's a pretty good, interesting track, less dated and vacant, and more tuneful, than I thought it might be; then I remembered the horrible Ali G video and never even considered voting for it.

"Don't Tell Me" too low imo

― some dude, Friday, March 8, 2013

sent my ballot in too late but this was my #1. based on totals so far it looks like the only difference that would have made would have been to place it ahead of Music at 32 so I'm afraid it wouldn't have changed much. hoping the same is true for my #2.

oh i would've been happy if "Don't" had just placed above "Music," that's the real injustice here

amazing

― prolego, Friday, March 8, 2013 1

^^ good album track

"Music" is only 32?! What the fuck, people, have you even heard this song??

This track is so BIG and MAXIMAL and EXPLOSIVE and multi-layered and fun!!

"amazing" is what "beautiful stranger" should have sounded like the first time round

"Runaway Lover" is another good'un.

"Music" is only 32?! What the fuck, people, have you even heard this song??

yup, that's how it got to #32

"Music" is the rare dumb song that succeeds as more than kitsch. It's weirdly cool despite all its not-cool stuff.

It's not heresy to suggest she might have 31 better songs, she's Madonna.

I mean I guess but idk "Music" to me is her most well-executed OTT mega dance floor banger and manages to transcend tacky kitsch

when I was little I used to think that "music made the boys run free and the rebel"

i'm sure its not rebel btw, isnt it "rabble," that makes way more sense right. i mean like "sense"

I think "Music" is fine but if I was just ranking Madonna singles, ignoring album tracks, I don't know if I'd put it much higher that #32

wtf why can't I type today

It certainly made fans of Madonna the club goddess relieved in 2000, and rode a wave of ROL good will.

tiarnan wouldn't it be such a clever and delightful use of syllepsis if it was actually "music makes the boys run free and rebel"?

It's actually "music makes the bass referee in the treble"

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31. "LIKE A VIRGIN" from Like a Virgin (1984) [17 votes, 334 points, 1 first place vote]