The Official Madonna Thread III

[Vinylfantasy]

Well what songs of Madonna's do you like?

[Vinylfantasy]

Entertainment Weekly on Madonna's New Album

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: Madonnalicious

[Miku]

I like: Hung Up, Jump, Sorry, Frozen, Music, American Pie, Ray of Light, Deeper and Deeper

[Calico]

^In that case I think you'd be best off buying CoaD and GHV2. You'd get all those songs minus American Pie.

[Vinylfantasy]

Originally Posted by Calico

^In that case I think you'd be best off buying CoaD and GHV2. You'd get all those songs minus American Pie.

That's what I'd recommend too.

[prussian blue]

i love frozen~~

[Vinylfantasy]

Madonna’s New Album and Video: Exclusive Rolling Stone Preview

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 heaven 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.

Source: Rolling Stone

*gets chills*

[JimmyKoria]

[random two cents] I want this album to leak all over my carpet already :[ Her new image is really cute too. [/random two cents]

[Kaiouforever]

I want this album to leak on my carpet so bad.

Just like I am going to. xD

SOOOOOO excited for this.

[Miku]

just ordered 3 Madonna albums
Music, Confessions On A Dance Floor and Greatest hits 2

[kinomaniac]

I'm doing the best I can to keep me away from all Madonna related news right now. The anticipation is already killing me and when I read stuff like the Rolling Stones one it just drives me crazy.

I seriously can't wait until April.

[evolutionricky]

I haven't kept up with Madonna news latley. Maybe thats for the best so I will be suprized.

[fanmail]

Ack. I'm staying away from any new leaks until the real album is out. <3

and OMG I had Madge on shuffle today, and this weird track called "Suck My Pxxxy" came on. I was like "...DX...XD...<3" >_<"

[Vinylfantasy]

I've been keeping up with it more attentively recently due to the fundraiser and Filth and Wisdom, but other than that not so much. There are a lot of fans who have nothing better to do than fabricate fake news and post it all over the internet to promote their fansite or claim they have inside connections with Madonna's team and post fake things on forums. It's pretty ridiculous but a lot of Madonna fans are older and not very savvy with this sort of thing and take this "news" in and treat it like it's gold. Anyhoo, that's my little rant for the day. Just use your heads people.

Here is a great piece of news for you all, I think it's one of the best Madonna interviews in recent years. It was conducted by a German weekly magazine "Der Spiegel" and was later translated by a member of MadonnaTribe.

Spiegel Interview Full Interview Translated

Pop-diva Madonna, 49, about her debut as a director with "Filth and Wisdom", about how she deals with fame and about her commitment in saving the nature.

SPIEGEL:
Madonna, concerning your career in music, you´re on top: You just won a Grammy, in March you will be admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and this spring your long awaited album will be released. Talking about the film industry, you haven´t been that succesful. The critics for you as an actress have been devastating, and rather few pepople wanted to see the films you played in. Now you came to Berlin to present your debut in directing with "Filth and Wisdom". Are you a masochist?

Madonna:
You forget, that this time I´m not the actress. I´m sitting here as a director and that´s really a new chapter for me. Actually I feel more comfortable with this role rather than the other.

SPIEGEL:
Why?

Madonna:
Directors are telling stories and that´s close to me. As an actress I´m just a part of an external story and I basically felt uneasy with that the whole time. As a director I can put my view into the story.

SPIEGEL:
Because you generally want to be the boss and in charge of things?

Madonna:
No, it´s not like that. Of course, it´s about control. On the other hand I´m not totally in charge of things as the director, because the result comes from the whole team and co-operation. I had the script written already with someone and dealt with cameramen, actors and technicians. I love it when elements do work out.

SPIEGEL:
But only, when you´ve got the last word, right?

Madonna:
Of course, I´m the one who, at a certain point says: Alright, that´s the way we do it! It is because we are working on my vision. But I couldn´t realize it on my own.

SPIEGEL:
Did your husband, director Guy Ritchie, support you?

Madonna:
He gave me good advice beforehand. He said: You have to be sure, where you wanna lead things. If you´re nervous and if that is obvious to the others, you will blew it.

SPIEGEL:
People don´t really think that you have self doubt. Or is Madonna´s ego more fragile than one might think? When was the last time you were nervous?

Madonna:
That´s what makes me a good actress, right? Believe me, I´m nervous very often, when things are new to me and I want to make a good impression. And believe me how nervous I have been when the shooting for this movie began. I was afraid, that all those professionals, who had worked with famous directors before, wouldn´t take me seriously.

SPIEGEL:
And did it work out?

Madonna:
The first day of shooting was very hard. Of course an experienced cameraman is not expecting me to tell him where to place the equipment. I really had to take care of to be taken seriously.

SPIEGEL:
From your work experience in the studio you must have gotten used to to be told by others?

Madonna:
Yes, it´s kind of the same thing. But I´m not a dictator. I really like to listen to the cameraman´s advice, when he proposes a different angle to me, and so I take it seriously when Justin Timberlake tells me in the studio, that the song might sound different.

SPIEGEL:
How do you cope with criticism? Isn´t it sometimes risky, to tell you, the star, that one of your ideas might not be that good after all?

Madonna:
That depends on the individual case. If anyone has a better idea than me, I don´t have a problem to accept that. But, for example when directing a scene, and I´m convinced of my vision and the way I want things to go, then that´s it.

SPIEGEL:
In the story, that you directed, young people are struggling to fulfill their dreams of a career. This looks a lot like as if it has been influenced by your personal career.

Madonna:
Yes, I wanted to write a script, that has a strong relation to my personal life. If you want to tell a good story, then you should talk about things first, that you really know about. Like thirty years ago a came from Michigan to New York. As a child I took dancing lessons, and dreamt of a career as a ballerina and then faced the naked truth of New York. As one the crowd of dancers, with the same visions and the same poverty. We all were hungry and needed a job.

SPIEGEL:
In your film an up-and-coming ballerina has to learn, that she oughta sell her beautiful body. Did that count for you, too, as a young Madonna?

Madonna:
Well, that´s a bit of an exaggeration talking about my wisdom. It´s an alteration of the maxim: Whatever the cost, I will achieve it. On the other hand, that´s true.

SPIEGEL:
What is more difficult, becoming famous or staying famous?

Madonna:
Oh, it´s a lot more difficult to stay on top. It´s easy to enter a club, but rather difficult to survive in there.

SPIEGEL:
Talking about nowadays; is it more difficult being famous in the complete digital world with Internet and camera phones, than in the eighties when you started your career?

Madonna:
That´s just a myth. It was always exhausting to be famous. A lot of artists -both in the film business and music industry- suffered from their fame, Marilyn Monroe for example. It´s brutal, if you´re constantly looked at, being reviewed and judged. When you walk on the streets with your children, when it is reported about and five people aim their camera phones at you, then that is surreal. And I don´t really mean me, rather Princess Diana or Britney Spears.

SPIEGEL:
So what´s your master plan to survive in this world?

Madonna:
There is no secret. The thing is, that there are people with survival techniques, that enable them to survive rough times. Not everyone is made for a public life. And believe me, it is hard not to let get all those nonsense to you, that people spread. Sometimes I feel like an animal being hunted. It is helpful to have a good self confidence before you become famous. And it is not helpful to be surrounded by people, who treat you like the demigod, and who don´t keep in mind the difference between illusion and reality.

SPIEGEL:
You shot the film in London, where you live most of the time; alongside with the press brochure, you worship European directors such as Federico Fellini. Have you become more of a European, than an American?

Madonna:
No, I have always been fascinated by Europe. Already as a teen, I developed a certain kind of obsession for art of the ancient world. For one year I attended the University of Michigan, where there has been a film club, that weekly showed European films. I was deeply impressed by the old Italian and French films. Actually, I don´t have a favourite film or director, but Godard deeply influenced me shooting my film.

SPIEGEL:
Ecological awareness ist quite fashionable nowadays. You obviously seem to be a fan of Ex-Vice-President and "eco-preacher" Al Gore. Do you still fly on privat jet?

Madonna:
I´m excited about Al Gore´s film about the climatic disaster. Because all lamenting about art and creativity is really ridiculous, if we have to live on a busted planet. And: Yes, I did change my life, and I hope you did too!

SPIEGEL:
Do you follow the campaign trail in America?

Madonna:
That´s exactly what I do: observing! If you now want to know, who I will vote for, my answer is: no idea! I haven´t really made up my mind. But if you do want a statement: I´m absolutely no fan of George W. Bush!

SPIEGEL:
You´re turning 50 on August, 16th. Is there going to be a big, or a rather small party?

Madonna:
A party obviously.

SPIEGEL:
Rumour has it, there´s going to be a big celebration.

Madonna:
I used to throw big parties.

SPIEGEL:
Reportedly, there will be a concert at the Central Park in New York. That´s what has been written in English tabloid magazines.

Madonna:
That´s just nonsense that you shouldn´t believe.

SPIEGEL:
Did you ever perform a search on google about yourself?

Madonna:
I´m not mad. I use the Internet only as a dictionary.

SPIEGEL:
And what was the thing you searched last for?

Madonna:
Something about the writer Rudyard Kipling. I wanted to know, if he has been a Nazi. In lot of first copies of his books there was the swastika symbol shown. But I found out, that he spend a lot of time in India and that the swastika sign in that country is an old symbol of luck.

Interview by Christoph Dallach
Translation by DJ Cooky

Source: MadonnaTribe

[Vinylfantasy]

Here's the latest mix from Cleo Nasser, this time she did Keep The Trance.

Keep The Trance (CLEOpatra's TranScending The House Power Mix)

It's really just the same old thing from Cleo, not terrible but not stellar either.

[Cyria]

Thanks for the long interview, and for that Cleo remix! I remember liking the ones you uploaded before.

[Vinylfantasy]

A friend of mine wanted me to make him a new Madonna wallpaper, figured I'd share here as well. It's a Mac resolution one so just beware, it's HUGE.

[kinomaniac]

I was really needing a new wallpaper, and this one is just what I was looking for.
Thanks Steven. I'll read that interview now.

[Aggar]

Ohhhhh , Vinyl , I'm in love with Keep The Trance (CLEOpatra's TranScending The House Power Mix)
thanks for the song

[Vinylfantasy]

Keep in mind that this is NOT an official news and it's not necessarily 100 % true.

French radio NRJ announces 4MTSTW radio release date

Keep in mind that this is NOT an official news and it's not necessarily 100 % true.

French website Madonna-Connexion.com received a mail from NRJ stating that:

"The date for the radio premiere of 4MTSTW is planned for the last week of March, but everything can still change." (Remi Demange, head of NRJ's music programming)

Source: Madonna Connexion

New interview with Danja



Are you still working on Madonna's album?
Actually Madonna is finished. Me and Tim did four or five [songs] together. He also did three more with a new producer, Hannon, out of Virginia. Then Pharrell did the rest. So it’s like a Virginia-produced album. I’m actually kind of proud of that. Even though me and Tim and Pharrell didn’t work together, just for us to completely conquer an artist such as Madonna ... I’m good. Either way, whether we got a single or [Pharrell] got a single, Virginia got a [Madonna] single.

What was the vibe like?
She was cool. She had a dark sense of humor that I can’t explain. She might just say something crazy that you might feel is out of line. But it’s not. It’s just her sense of humor. She was in the studio chilling with us, being open and the whole nine. With any session when you don’t know somebody, the first session is the hardest. You gotta break the ice, but after that initial session, it was all good.

Source

So that means:

-4-5 tracks produced by Danja and Timbaland
-3 tracks produced by Timbaland and Hannon Lane
-5 tracks produced by Pharrell