I posted this in the What Are You Listening To? thread, but Beth Ditto's new video is both a tribute and parody of Madonna's Justify My Love video.

Love it.

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The dance scene has always been her most supportive scene, but I wish she'd go back to using organic instrumentation and arrangements. Where's Pat Leonard when you need him, Madonna!?

I just hope she doesn't end up doing Lady Gaga the Madonna way.

In the February 19, 2011 issue of Billboard, Irving Azoff (chairman of Live Nation Entertainment) says this in an interview:

Q: Live Nation's long-term multi-rights deals all seem to be going very well. Will there be any more of those coming?

A: No, we're not going to do multi-rights deals. But look at what's going on with our partners at Roc Nation and the kind of year that Jay-Z had. Shakira's touring has been really well-planned and incredibly successful this past year. And they tell me Madonna is about to record so there could be another Madonna cycle coming.

Q: Would a Madonna album be through you guys?

A: Yes.

Q: So you plan on issuing recorded content?

A: Live Nation, prior to the merger, entered into some of these all-rights deals, so there are certain artists, Madonna being one of them, [for whom there] is a recorded-music strategy. Once she gets the album recorded, we'll sit down with her and her manager, Guy Oseary, and figure out what's best for the record. It has to start with the music.

I just hope she doesn't end up doing Lady Gaga the Madonna way.

She can get her back by ripping off Bad Romance

But, I agree.... dance is definitely the way to go for her since it is her home genre really and it has brought her the most success, lets just hope she is "creating" this time and not following.

Have you ever met her, Y&RWorldTurner? Talked to her for five seconds or something?

Have you ever met her, Y&RWorldTurner? Talked to her for five seconds or something?

No, the closest I ever got to her was when she gave a performance at a record shop in NYC in 2003 when promoting American Life. Never actually went up to her though, and would never know what to say having followed her since childhood.

I have met people who have worked with her though...

Yeah... I guess it would be totally different if it were something more spontaneous. This how, when you have like 30 seconds to tell her something, and you think she's heard it all, it can get a bit confusing. You're just blocked.

No, the closest I ever got to her was when she gave a performance at a record shop in NYC in 2003 when promoting American Life. Never actually went up to her though, and would never know what to say having followed her since childhood.

I have met people who have worked with her though...

Oh that was when she was doing the acoustic set to promote her album! In one of those performances, I heard she forgot the words to Like a Virgin.

Yeah, she wasn't planning on singing Like A Virgin, but relented when one fan requested it and then everyone else started to.

Yeah, she wasn't planning on singing Like A Virgin, but relented when one fan requested it and then everyone else started to.

LOL. It was on Access Hollywood or something. I remember she had the guitar and she played and forgot the words. I see how out of sight, out of mind she wants that song to be.

You know, I want a more introspective album from her again. Like A Prayer and Ray of Light are both dear to my heart, and one of the reasons why was because she was vulnerable on both albums and they represented who she is and where she was in her life. They were both a result of some very tumultuous years/experiences in her life and you could tell how creatively inspired she was during those respective periods of her career. Don't get me wrong, I love dance Madonna and at her core, her heart and music has always been dance, but I feel like we already had a big dance album with Confession On A Dancefloor in the last decade, and it would be a great time for her to go in a more personal and reflective route again.

Like A Prayer and Ray of Light both happened after lengthy gaps in her pop career too, and her next album will probably be her biggest gap between albums.

Edited February 19, 201114 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

She has claimed a rock album before and it never happens. Isn't she also working with RedOne (which proves that like her last album with Timbaland, she's fallen behind the curve in terms of who she works with--Hard Candy was essentially the swan song in terms of Timbaland having songs and albums that were hits even if it only had one big single). But is RedOne an "unknown" producer? LOL

At any rate now that dance music is finally a hit again on US radio, it's prob a smart move (and what Madonna does best anyway).

I could see her at this stage wanting to do a more "personal" album--though that was the impetus for American Life as well...

LOL. It was on Access Hollywood or something. I remember she had the guitar and she played and forgot the words. I see how out of sight, out of mind she wants that song to be.

But then she embraced it again for one of the best parts of her last great tour, the Confessions one.

You know, I want a more introspective album from her again. Like A Prayer and Ray of Light are both dear to my heart, and one of the reasons why was because she was vulnerable on both albums and they represented who she is and where she was in her life. They were both a result of some very tumultuous years/experiences in her life and you could tell how creatively inspired she was during those respective periods of her career. Don't get me wrong, I love dance Madonna and at her core, her heart and music has always been dance, but I feel like we already had a big dance album with Confession On A Dancefloor in the last decade, and it would be a great time for her to go in a more personal and reflective route again.

Like A Prayer and Ray of Light both happened after lengthy gaps in her pop career too, and her next album will probably be her biggest gap between albums.

I love Confessions on the Dance Floor but despite what Madonna claimed, I think it IS an introspective album (and is let down by some of her typically too "teenaged diary" cloying lyrics). Hung Up was a trick, as it is the ONLY song on the album (well maybe Sorry too?) that doesn't address personal issues with her.

Edited February 24, 201114 yr by EricMontreal22

More tweets from Guy Oseary:

Madonna goes into the recording studio next month to begin work on new album…

are there any back catalog plans for reissues/remixes/remasters planned for this year?

there are no back catalog plans currently.. I met with Warner Music about that very subject.. but nothing has come of it…

When is M thinking about another tour?

there is nothing to report in regards to tour.. you guys know how this works… first comes the album and next comes the….

What is going on with all these demo leaks?!

i dont know who all the leaks are coming from… if anyone wants to tell me the source, i would appreciate it..

Does M have any producers in mind for her new album?

she has a good idea on which producers she will be working with…