Classic Madonna Thread

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:35pm

Can we talk about/celebrate/appreciate when Madonna was actually doing interesting, provocative things? For me, it was between 1984 and 2003. What Madonna songs/looks/videos do you love?

debi mazar <3
~no matter where i go, you're the one for me, baby, this i know~

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:39pm

Underrated Madonna:

"Gambler" from the VISION QUEST soundtrack.

"Burning Up"

"Causing A Commotion" from WHO'S THAT GIRL?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:51pm

Burning Up is just a hot effing song.

Ma-tear-ie-uhl!



-I’d love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I’d like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people. -MADONNA
more material girl

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:52pm

LOVED True Blue Madonna. I wore that cassette out!

Loved Whose That Girl, too.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:53pm

If you want to talk about underrated, how about all those great paintings she posed for especially when holding those annoying little kids.

What's your favorite Madonna and Child painting?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 7:57pm

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 8:00pm

Classic David Fincher video for "Bad Girl"

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 8:03pm

Some of the very early songs that weren't hits still stand up for me, despite the fact (or maybe because of) they're very dated. "I Know It" is an under-rated classic!

Maybe it's just me.
I Know It

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 8:09pm

I love "I Know It"!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 9:13pm

Well of course I don't agree she was doing more intresring things back then alone as I think she still has some classic moments now, but between these years I would actually sat the Erotica period. Bad Girl, Rain, Deeper and Deeper, Whys it do Hard etc

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 10:11pm

I don't even know how to respond to this thread without basically citing everything she did from the early 80s until the mid 90s. After that, with some rare moments like "Hung Up", her output never quite matched her glory days. I hate how overly mannered her singing got after her Evita voice training and her time in the UK. For me, the golden age is when, as a young kid, I first really got into Madonna and when I believe she was at her most interesting and relevant: The 89-91 period with Like A Prayer, I'm Breathless, The Immaculate Collection, "Vogue", "Justify My Love".

She will never be that interesting or relevant again. I just wish she wouldn't try so hard to be "cool" and provocative to a young audience that, outside of the gays, has no interest in her. She could still be interesting and sexy while owning where she is in her life.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 10:40pm

I don't know if you would classify this as "classic" Madonna, but she touched my soul with the aong "Rain".

I was in love with Renee, and that was my song for him...because I wanted his love to come down on me like rain.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 11:08pm

I don't really LOVE any of her songs, but I think my favorite is Like a Prayer. My other favorites are those that are disco.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 11:46pm

"I'm gonna be sexually provocative, and I'm gonna prove that I can get everyone's attention and that everyone's gonna be interested in it, and it was sort of my way of saying, see, the world *is* hypocritical."
VH1 Behind the Music 3/5

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/14/14 at 1:34pm

don't make me act a fool, dave

[BornThisWay]

Posted: 2/14/14 at 2:36pm

The Queen's First Performance

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/14/14 at 4:17pm

So, who do we think is going to play Madonna in the inevitable bio film? Please God, don't let it be Madonna.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/14/14 at 4:46pm

there were already three bio films but the actors who played Madonna weren't huge names.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/14/14 at 4:52pm

Three? Jesus. All TV movies, I'm guessing?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/15/14 at 1:50pm

What else about Madonna inspired you?
Rose McGowan: She gets knocked for her voice, but if you try to do scales and you go up octaves, you crack at a certain point and then you skip higher — she sings in that weird sweet spot, and I find that not a lot of people do her at karaoke because of that. Also, unlike Gaga, whose look changes every day, Madonna is quite smart with her image — it’s a new look for each period of her life. You need to keep evolving with your fans, because if you’re different every time you leave the door, where do you go? What’s left? Do you dress like a businesswoman?
Rose McGowan Interview

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/15/14 at 1:55pm

Which period of her life is Madonna in now, and in what way is her current look an evolution?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/15/14 at 1:57pm

I agree with you there, Namo. I don't think she's been good for the last 10/11 years.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 2/17/14 at 7:58am

LOS ANGELES--Madonna, who has always insisted she was the best choice to play Eva Peron, may have been right. It is not only that she holds the screen with charisma and force in the film version of "Evita," but that she understands from the inside out how Evita invented herself - how she used fashion and stage presence and personal flair to make herself seem bigger than life.

Consider the problem of the president of Argentina. Alan Parker, the director, requested permission to shoot on Eva Peron's famous balcony in the Plaza De Mayo in Buenos Aires. Permission was denied. Every member of the Cabinet was approached. No soap. Finally Madonna went personally to make a call on the president. After their conversation, permission was granted to use the sacred balcony.

"What did you use on him?" I asked her. "Psychic power?"

"I think it was excellent-smelling perfume," she said. "I think at that point I was possessed by her. I went in costume to the meeting, and I think that he picked up on my passion for her, or suddenly saw a different point of view."

It is not too big a stretch to envision the original Evita making a call to the presidential office, also with passion, also with perfume, and getting what she wanted. The other actresses considered for the role (and they are both wonderful: Meryl Streep and Michelle Pfeiffer) would have brought other qualities, but can you imagine either one of them deciding which perfume would best seduce the president?

Evita was the rock star as politician's wife. She adored the movies. She would not have been oblivious to the cult of personality that fed on such personages as Churchill, Hitler or DeGaulle. Born poor and illegitimate, she understood how the movies fed the souls of the disenfranchised with images of power and glamor. She used that knowledge to create herself in the image of a star, and then she found the politician to whom she could attach herself (or was it Evita who swept Juan Peron behind her?).
Madonna: Possessed by 'Evita'

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 2/17/14 at 9:12am

Midwest - why are you infatuated with a washed up, talentless diva?

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/17/14 at 9:16am

but what a career, based on no talent. Her charisma was unmatched.