Swept Away

I downloaded some promotional quality mp3s last night...

The single is a train wreck.

The Felix Da Housecat mix does give it some more songlike qualities... but doesn't save it.

XXXOOO
Satori

Jeez.... i thought it was just me, being an ole fart with no knowledge of music et al.... as i heard it and thought it was hiddeous! Unbelievable embarrasing...the rap thing.. ohmahgawrd.... i am amazed nobody told her...you know, took her asside and said, listen this is shite...she's lookin ole too...

Rumor is, that she was on the phone for 2 hours with Missy Elliot before going in to record that "rap."

Now, if it's true, Missy is probably STILL doubled over in pain laughing about how it turned out.

Maybe she needed 2 days... or 2 weeks?

She should have just asked Missy to do a guest spot on the piece. That MIGHT have saved it

XXXOOO
S

Just saw her video and I am TOTALLY confused.
Anyone understand what she is doing?
Is her partner Satan finally coming for her?


The video that you can't see

April 3, 2003
Madonna announced Tuesday that she was blocking the U.S. release of the video for her new single, "American Life," saying "I do not believe it is appropriate to air it at this time." She added, "Due to the volatile state of the world and out of sensitivity and respect to the armed forces, who I support and pray for, I do not want to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning of this video."

Too late. "American Life," had already made its debut on German television on Monday, after she defended it to MTV last week, saying, "It's about trying to get a message out that if we want peace and love in our life, then we have to make it happen in the world."

She is such a contrived bitch.... reason she pulled it was pure marketing money making bollocks, she can no longer afford to be controversial... shes been on such a loosing streak that she can't afford any more loss...
She never ever did have talent, she was always just clever. Clever at using everyone elses talent and absorbing it and claiming it as her own... that is genius... but it ain't talent. I guess she has less of a genius cotterie than she used to...
I can't stand her, never have liked her...sure there are some music/images that i have liked but its all 'not her' its like crediting a model for the designers dress...

I think it's fucking hilarious! images of war with "I do yoga and palates and the room is full of hotties and I check out all the bodies..." leave it to her to try to get PR out of wartime, what a fucking mess! I can't help it, its just so great how awful it is. I think we have finally seen the most desperate attempt for attention she could possibly try. And I thought having a baby was the last form of desperate P.R. I hope she looses a TON of money from this piece of poor pop poo!

And that rap.....can't wait til another rappin' blonde we know hears it... "Sorry hon you weren't the first"

Is it my imagination or is that video a complete rip-off of Rob Roth's & Kitty Boots' (Click & Drag) "Atomic Cafe" video? Yet another thing Rob has "given" to the world. Thanks Glam Nerd.

thanks but I'm sure she ripped someone else off, or a combination of us. however....

Im not one to ever bring this topic up but...If one more person had said to me , "Madonna's Drowned World show was so Click + Drag", I thought I was going to punch someone. and then there's the single blue eye in a monitor that opens the show......very familiar........

but just wait, something tells me a certin other persons next music video directorial effort may have a certin projection idea attached to it.

hmmmmmmmmm

--> "And that rap.....can't wait til another rappin' blonde we know hears it... "Sorry hon you weren't the first"

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I was thinking the EXACT same thing when I first heard it.

Speaking of, why ISN'T there a hopelessly devoted topic for Ms. Harry? I know a lot of the Mother crowd is friends with her... so not as star struck, but for us Midwest folk, seeing her at the Mothership party was a REAL treat.

It was also our biggest regret during our last trip up. In our determination to be subtle and casual, we missed meeting her

XXXOOO
S

Bah!

[This message was edited by glamnerd on 04-08-03 at 01:54 PM.]

She should have a topic of her very own, but between DH and the Fishsticks/AbFab etc. she is very featured. But feel free to start it. God knows we all have enough Jersey Tomato stories to go around. Just a little tidbit....She just shot the season finale of "Will and Grace". It's pretty major that they gave her the season finale.

I just saw Christina Aguleras(sp?) new video last night. It's quite beautiful at some moments. I'm starting to like her....oh no,

Not sure about the pins in her back, but the rest is pretty. I sort of liked her last video too (that "you are beautiful"song). It was directed by the same guy who did Madonnas current video mess and the new movie "Spun" that features Debbie as the lesbian neighbor who kicks the shit out of a guy in a 7/11.

I like her new CD. The girl can sing.

Last week I watched on DVD of Madonna's much criticized remake/flop. Well, I am glad that I didn't pay any $$$ to see it (Vulgar Greek spent his money on the DVD), as it was just horrid...she wasn't that good acting as a bitch (surprisingly, right?), and she was just horrid when she has to flip to vulnerable on the island...totally unbelievable at all, and no sympathy for her character whatsoever. The only moment when I stopped my running negative commentary through the whole thing was when he fantasized her doing a number (oh that's right, she's an entertainer, NOT an actress). The real question is when she will give on such attempts at thespianism?

And I saw the original during the winter (oh that's right, it still is winter outside, even though we turned the clocks back), and it was amazing piece of cinema- male vs female, socialist vs capitalist, nature vs civilization, and the dynamic interplays in only the way a 70s Italian film can pull off...

The remake is just high gloss shit.

When we use to talk (before she was famous) she used to tell me that the music stuff was just a stepping stone to her real destiny... acting. She saw herself as Jessica Lange. She always saw herself as ultimately an actress.
tee hee

did anyone read the Vanity Fair interview that came out to promote Swept Away? She basicly said that she couldn't get hubby Guy to ever sit through a Fellini movie. How he hated foreign movies , with subtitles. He only liked action movies or something like that. That might explain the end result of their little project together.

yuck!

Speaking of interviews, here's an interview with the Material Bomb that appeared in a newspaper piece today: Madonna Slams Brits - Calls Them Lazy

[This message was edited by Joel on 04-18-03 at 01:36 AM.]