7 hours ago, Taoboi said:

SHE'S COMING....

From what I understand, it's supposed to be more along the lines of Confessions on a Dance Floor with the same producer.

Unpopular opinion, but I didn't like her collabs with Mirwais as much

59 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

From what I understand, it's supposed to be more along the lines of Confessions on a Dance Floor with the same producer.

Unpopular opinion, but I didn't like her collabs with Mirwais as much

And you understand correctly. ;) Part of the reason I'm super excited because that album (and being a pioneer for the 'album that is a continuous mix' movement) was a time. Though I liked Mirwais...until I didn't. lol.

July 3rd release date!

https://x.com/Madonna/status/2044402249976447164?s=20

Available for pre-order in various formats on her official website as well:

https://www.madonna.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqIim6Esfgi13C13_QnAwaWZSXIrxqIE8c0X7qJx8RNm-4_2N5V

Oooooo

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

July 3rd release date!

https://x.com/Madonna/status/2044402249976447164?s=20

Available for pre-order in various formats on her official website as well:

https://www.madonna.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqIim6Esfgi13C13_QnAwaWZSXIrxqIE8c0X7qJx8RNm-4_2N5V

So it's going to be a hot summer?

Good.

Her first summer release since True Blue in 1986 - almost 40 years ago exactly in fact (TB was released on June 30th).

Preview (apparently full song drops on Friday)

Using the Helvetica typeface is a choice, but I'm loving everything as a second part to Confessions, which is bold to live up to. However, this feels more promising than MDNA or Madame X, which were messy eras.

YAS Queen! Beautiful cover and it's coming so much sooner than I could ever hope!

1 hour ago, YRBB said:

YAS Queen! Beautiful cover and it's coming so much sooner than I could ever hope!

Happy feet!!!

ETA: @Maxim IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 hour ago, Taoboi said:

Happy feet!!!

I have a good feeling about this one!

Great article from Josh Ackley at OUT.

Parts that resonated with me and my own experiences with her:

“For a lot of us, Madonna has never simply been a pop star, she has been a figure we associate with permission, with defiance, with the refusal to shrink when shrinking is what the culture is asking for.”

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“That is why this announcement lands the way it does now. Not because people are waiting for a soundtrack, not because nostalgia is powerful, but because for many of us Madonna has been tied, across different moments in our lives, to the experience of being given permission when the world was asking us to disappear. She has been tied to survival, not in a dramatic or abstract sense, but in the daily sense of pushing through environments that were not built to accept us, of finding something to look up to when there was very little around us that reflected who we were.

There is also something else that is easy to forget if you reduce her to iconography or legacy, which is that Madonna is fun. Not in a trivial way, not as an escape from seriousness, but as a refusal to let seriousness become a cage. The joy, the sexuality, the humor, the excess, the theatricality, all of it has always been part of the same project as the defiance, part of the same insistence that life should not be reduced to something narrow or disciplined into something manageable for other people’s comfort.

So when she clears the slate and signals that something new is coming, something that reaches back to one of the last moments the world felt this tightly wound, people react. They stop. They pay attention. Because for those of us who have lived through her at different stages, who have needed what she offered at different points in our lives, it does not feel like a routine album cycle. It feels like the return of a force that has, more than once, made it possible to keep going.”

57 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Great article from Josh Ackley at OUT.

Parts that resonated with me and my own experiences with her:

“For a lot of us, Madonna has never simply been a pop star, she has been a figure we associate with permission, with defiance, with the refusal to shrink when shrinking is what the culture is asking for.”

---

“That is why this announcement lands the way it does now. Not because people are waiting for a soundtrack, not because nostalgia is powerful, but because for many of us Madonna has been tied, across different moments in our lives, to the experience of being given permission when the world was asking us to disappear. She has been tied to survival, not in a dramatic or abstract sense, but in the daily sense of pushing through environments that were not built to accept us, of finding something to look up to when there was very little around us that reflected who we were.

There is also something else that is easy to forget if you reduce her to iconography or legacy, which is that Madonna is fun. Not in a trivial way, not as an escape from seriousness, but as a refusal to let seriousness become a cage. The joy, the sexuality, the humor, the excess, the theatricality, all of it has always been part of the same project as the defiance, part of the same insistence that life should not be reduced to something narrow or disciplined into something manageable for other people’s comfort.

So when she clears the slate and signals that something new is coming, something that reaches back to one of the last moments the world felt this tightly wound, people react. They stop. They pay attention. Because for those of us who have lived through her at different stages, who have needed what she offered at different points in our lives, it does not feel like a routine album cycle. It feels like the return of a force that has, more than once, made it possible to keep going.”

AMEN.