READ – William Orbit ‘Discusses’ Madonna And MDNA – Original ‘Ray Of Light’ Rocks.
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GREAT STUFF ON WHY ‘MDNA’ FELT RUSHED AND UNDER PRODUCED……
Producer William Orbit, who worked with everybody in the 80′s (Cocteau Twins! Sting!) and co-created the Ray of Light album with Madge, posted an audio recording of his original, guitar-centric cut of that album’s title track to YouTube last week. A discussion of Madonna broke out on Orbit’s Facebook page, with one fan noting that the promotional strategy for Madonna’s new record, MDMA, seemed strangely … nonexistent.
Orbit then posted this long, illuminating, and rather sad statement:
I appreciate your analysis of the album release ‘strategy’ @Madonna Express Yourself. I wasn’t involved in its formulation in any way myself. All I will say is that certain thoughts about it that I see expressed online by committed fans such as yourself, were blindingly obvious to me from the very get go, well before the release. But I’m no Jimmy Iovine, with the ability to advocate my convictions forcefully, and as co-producer, co-writer etc am aware that it is not in my ‘job spec’.
But you won’t see me exactly jumping up and down with delight over the way that things have panned out. We were very pushed for time, due to a rather interesting and shall we just say, ‘traditional’ method of recording that the esteemed engineer Demo was partial to, and various pressing commitments that took up the artists limited time, such as perfume ranges and teen fashion contests and other such endeavours which are beyond my own limited understanding of pop star agendas.
Will ‘Queen’ Follow The Lead Of Queen ‘Madonna’ And Speak Out For Gay Rights In Russia?
THIS SHALL BE MY LAST POST ON QUEEN. I FEEL ADAM IS GOING TO LOSE MOMENTUM ON HIS OWN ALBUM MAKING MONEY FOR BRIAN TAYLOR. I FIND THE BAND QUEEN POLITICALLY GROTESQUE. I FIND THEIR MUSIC STADIUM DUMB. BUT AT THEIR HEIGHT OF ‘FAME’ I WAS A PUNK, SO OF COURSE I LOATHED THEIR VACOUS, EMPTY BRAND OF MUSIC. SO I AM JUST GOING TO IGNORE THEIR SHOWS IN RUSSIA. UNLESS THEY ACTUALLY DO SUPPORT PROTECTION FOR RUSSIAN GAY PEOPLE. LIKE THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
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Just off the top of my head, NO. Queen do very little politically, and never have. FFS they performed at Sun City and this song was basically every other artist in the world saying to them ‘GET SOME BALLS AND CLASS QUEEN’…………..
But that has never happened. And in Taylors own words……….
Queen played a run of shows at Sun City, the entertainment complex located in Bophutswana, one of 10 South African Bantustans: tracts of low-quality land supposedly enshrined as independent black homelands that were in fact one of the struts of the apartheid regime. They amounted to parched rural ghettoes; the fact that the Sun City complex – a casino-and-golf resort, akin to an Afrikaner’s Las Vegas – was located in one of them only underlined their cynically conceived place in the apartheid scheme.
“We’ve thought a lot about the morals of it a lot,” claimed Brian May at the time, long alleged to be one of the cleverest men in rock, “and it is something we’ve decided to do. The band is not political – we play to anybody who wants to come and listen.”
“Throughout our career we’ve been a very non-political group,” said bassist John Deacon (aka The Other One). “We enjoy going to new places. We’ve toured America and Europe so many times that it’s nice to go somewhere different … I know there can be a bit of fuss, but apparently we’re very popular down there … Basically, we want to play wherever fans want to see us.”
MADONNA’S ‘E’ ALBUM SALES FALL 88% IN SECOND WEEK.
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After topping the Billboard 200 last week with her latest album MDNA,Madonna is on course to suffer the biggest second-week sales drop in history. According to Forbes, MDNA is set to shift “roughly” 46,000 copies second week, giving it somewhere around a record-breaking 88% drop in sales.
MDNA debut atop the Billboard 200 last week with 359k, but Madge cheated her way to No. 1 by offering the album for free as part of a concert ticket bundle for her upcoming tour. Billboard report that about 185k of MDNA’s first-week sales total came from the ticket deal, making MDNA’s real album sales about 179k, which would’ve seen Lionel Ritchie debut at No. 1 with his new album Tuskegee, which sold 199k.
This whole cheat-first-week-then-suffer-a-sales-drop thing is so ironically Lady GaGa, isn’t it?
Madonna ‘Girls Gone Wild’ from Hani AlYousif on Vimeo.
St Petersberg Has A Vibrant Gay Scene – Just Don’t Talk About It.
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I think in many countries now, but especially Russia, whilst being gay may not be illegal, it is still frowned upon and closeted. You are expected to not rub peoples noses in your sexuality or discuss it. Which is just being closeted by straight society. Which is seemingly what they want. their homosexuals quiet, married, raising children and leading heteronormative lives.
Perhaps what’s most surprising amid the homophobic rhetoric and the new law targeting the “promotion” of gay lifestyles is the fact that St. Petersburg’s gay scene has never been more visible or felt less threatened than it does today.
Like many aspects of Russian civil society that tentatively grew up in the early 1990s, the gay and lesbian movement characterized itself by keeping its head down, not upsetting the authorities and trying hard to avoid creating trouble, a strategy most unlike that used by other, more provocative European gay rights movements. Many gay people in Russia still consider the mere existence of a gay rights movement a nuisance that will simply serve to turn an intolerant society’s attention toward a group of people that the average Russian rarely sees or even thinks about.
While gay rights groups have become far more vocal in recent years, it’s still no exaggeration to say that the political side of the gay scene remains small and rarely visible, even as political protest seems to be returning to St. Petersburg.
Madonna Takes On Russia Over Their Anti Gay Legislation – Will ‘Queen’ Do Anything Similar?
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I knew if anyone had the balls to do this, is was Madge. new album may be underproduced to me, but her commitment to the gay community is unquestionable and unwavering. Love her.
And I have to challenge the member of rock band ‘QUEEN’ they play in Russia very shortly to do something about gay life in Russia. I mean the old, hagged members of QUEEN, not Adam lambert who is just hired for 3 gigs. Throughout there career QUEEN have been politically questionable from the start. And playing in Sin City stunk. So now I demand they actually do something for gay people in the world rather than just taking the money. And now, I hold my breath.
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