Sylph

Well, my thesis about a mature and sonically beautifully presented album with melodies is really about that. Dance music. Not dance as in dance music du jour, trashy, forgettable, but something lasting. It certinly doesn't mean Madonna taking a guitar and singing only with it as an accompaniment.

So, Y&RWorldTurner, what is it that you'd love for Madonna to do next? A dance album?

Madonna is just shallow and uneducated, she needs to zip it. The whole philosophy et al. blabber is so out of place for her. Even the kabbalah thing she's doing is many things but not kabbalah.

Exactly. Now you're talking. Sheesh. We went from Enya (??!?!) to you getting the whole mature album. She is just OLD, like you point out, and it all turns out A FARCE. It will never happen though. We're not going to deceive ourselves.

Sleaze. It was like Goran Višnjić is this hunk, we're playin' a game of love here, the game is represented by chess... It all takes place in some god-forsaken villa in the UK on those desperate shores where the waves hit the rocks like nowhere on earth. Sleaze is not just "skin", boobs, ass, French kissing and all.

Like I said, I listen to a lot of stuff. I can't stand metal, often I can't stand banjo music. And some other stuff. I listen to GaGa. However, I am not mesmerised and I am not going to thank her for "reintroducing disco to US music scene" or any such stuff. Those are just nice, cutesy, often obnoxious songs. I love to observe the whole phenomenon of trash and how people are smitten by her and her cheap awfulness.

I found The Power of Good-Bye to be cheap sleaze. That greeny, fluorescenty cheap prevailing colour... The only thing I liked was the helicopter shot of those unforgiving shores. I love it how people's tastes differ. Frozen, Alvin, I liked because it was so... Ominous. The desert, the floating, the dog, the murder of crows... I just loved it. Am I saying it's the highest achievement of humanity in video direction? No.

Precisely. She chased trends. Underground ones. However, she explored them all, pretty much, and now there isn't much underground she can do. At least not something which would fit her.

Where did you see me call those tracks melodic and calling for more such tracks? Which is what I'm saying. Another Ray of Light, but not a Ray of Light 2.0. Meaning something "mature" and "soulful" and not "urban" as in Candy, but not the 90s production/sound of Ray.

'Cause she's a Virgo ascendant.

LMAO! I knew that would sound as if I'm a crotchety old neighbour. I love trash music. I love cr*p Timbaland, Timberlake, Ke$ha, Britney... and the whole armada of others who make ringtone music, R&B drivel, "infernal music"... I really have no problem with any 'genre' or 'style' (except metal, that's just horror). This was just me talking about Madonna. One particular case. Where I believe that trend-setting and trend-following is something she needs to leave in the past. Enya?! Are you serious? Goodness no! And if such album existed, I wouldn't ask for another.

How about Frozen by Chris Cunningham? I think that is her best video.

No! Mariah is a different matter. But we all know Madonna will continue to chase trends, instead of making them. And neither of those two is a strategy. A mature album with beautiful acoustics is another matter.

I love Madonna. I do. But her music no longer interests me, and the whole peformance thing that actually made her a star (destroying taboos, "sexualification", bla, blah) never really interested me. I want an album with beautiful melodies, sonically gorgeous, something mature, but I'm not going to get it. Other stuff is in vogue nowadays. Music is just another gizmo, gadget, whatever.

Is Madonna kaputt? As a singer, persona, phenomenon? Are we done there? She peaked a looooooooooong time ago and we're done? I believe so. On top of that, she has become waaay to snobbish and pretentious and b!tchy without much to cover it with.

It's junk because, to take a line from Shaffer's Amadeus, young woman is trying to impress beyond her abilities. It's such a bad farce full of random [!@#$%^&*] and garbage, all pumped in to the max, one is assaulted with TRASH! in every second of the video. It's not a problem to be "non-conventional". The true greatness lies in being fabulous and innovative while obeying the conventions. If she made a nice, classic, not-trying-to-be-"art" video and if that was fabulous, she would've gotten the A grade. This is just embarrassing.

Junk. Fashion credits: http://nicolaformichetti.blogspot.com/2010/03/fashion-credits-telephone-by-lady-gaga.html

The script for this thing leaked some time ago, I haven't had the patience to read it. Even if it sucks, I'm happy to see Martin's novels dramatised.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/mar/08/coronation-street-hayley-roy

From Digital Spy:

Perhaps that's for the best. Maybe you'll like him. Wait and see.

You shouldn't. Remember Julian Sark from Alias? He starts appearing in VD in April.

Who said that? Don't read everything so literally, present tense maybe used to express "an occurrence in the (very) near future". Grammar 101. No matter what he plays, he will be awful. That was the point.

+1. David Anders almost did it. Completely miscast in this show. Now I have to support him.