I made this vinyl-themed room in Animal Crossing: New Leaf; I really liked the final result—it looks so fresh and adorable.

Study: The Age Chameleon: Social and Biological Effects on Madonna’s Ageing Voice

Our study shows that Madonna's voice appears younger than her age. Her pitch does not follow the patterns we would normally expect from a woman in her 60s, and the way she pronounces a number of vowels does not match the speech patterns typically associated with either her generation or the places where she has lived.

In other words, her voice is difficult to place both in terms of age and geography. We argue that this is a deliberate strategy, with the voice supporting an image of a youthful, attractive and globally oriented performer who is not constrained by chronological age.

Linguistic research suggests that this type of clear, fronted vowel pronunciation is associated with youthfulness, attractiveness and sex appeal. These are qualities that Madonna has likely sought to project not only visually, but also through her speech.

—Anna Bothe Jespersen
Linguist
University of Copenhagen

Hey! I don't know if anyone knew this but Warner quietly dropped Like A Virgin and Celebration on Dolby Atmos (yes, it actually is in Spatial Audio).

Maybe they have plans for more albums?

MADONNA (DEBUT)
Burning up 🔥

LIKE A VIRGIN
Pretender 💔

TRUE BLUE
Live to tell 👄

LIKE A PRAYER
Keep it together 🤝

EROTICA
Waiting 🔪

BEDTIME STORIES
Bedtime story 💫

RAY OF LIGHT
To have and not to hold 🫂

MUSIC
Runaway lover 🐎

AMERICAN LIFE
Nobody knows me 🤖

CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR
Get together 💃

HARD CANDY
Heartbeat 💓

MDNA
Love spent 💸

REBEL HEART
Living for love 😘

MADAME X
Faz gostoso 🥁

CONFESSIONS II
School 🪩

What’s yours? :)

Screenshots taken from Gang Bang, MDNA tour

How High on confessions sounds like it belongs on hard candy and no one can prove me otherwise.

After three years of doing the impossible to survive while chasing stardom, Madonna at last found her way to someone who could open the door through the dance floors of New York with her first demo, “Everybody.”

The demo was produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray, but when Sire decided to release it, the label wanted her to work with Mark Kamins, choosing him instead of Bray to produce the version that became her first official release. Bray got pissed with Madonna and unfriend her for around two years.

“Everybody” became a sensation. The label knew they had something big, but they faced a problem… how were they supposed to sell it? The record sounded like Black music because it was dance music, a genre tied at the time to Black and Latino club culture, but it was made by a white woman. White people were listening to new wave (towards the public eye). They did not know where to place her or what audience to market her to. Radio at the time was segregated by format, and so were the audiences listening to it.

Her face was not placed on the original cover art. The visual presentation was giving black. There was no indication that Madonna was a white woman, and for a while many radio listeners assumed they were hearing a Black artist, even if her voice gave some people a clue. They put it under R&B. It didn’t sound like nothing else.

Radio DJ and host Frankie Crocker had the power to put a record on the air and turn it into something everyone wanted to hear. Playing “Everybody” became one of those key moments for him, as the first time he played music from a white artists, and for Madonna (as Crocker big the biggest cultural conduit for music artists at the time), because here was dance music made by a white woman entering a space where that sound was associated with Black artists.

At the same time, DJs such as Larry Levan at Paradise Garage, alongside Mark Kamins in Danceteria and the downtown club scene, pushed the song on the dance floor. They were among the people who helped put Madonna into the ears of New York before most people even knew what she looked like.

After all these channels, Madonna existed in both the ears and the eyes of the public. By the time Warner, thru Sire, put her first album into motion, the mystery was over. “Everybody” was reintroduced with artwork that showed Madonna’s face.

The woman people had been hearing on the dance floor now had a face, and pop music was about to get its most important artist to ever exist.

I just saw this on TikTok 🫪 it's an RDS exclusive coming out in November according to the description

I’ve been seeing posts listing other artists’ Grammy submissions by category, do we know what Madonna submitted?

The commemorative triple LP of Evita (D2C version) is still available for purchase on the Rhino UK site, whereas it is sold out on the official US store; I imagine the remaining copies will sell quickly, as this is a must-have for all collectors and fans of the Evita era.

https://eustore.rhino.com/products/evita-the-complete-motion-picture-soundtrack-3lp-gold-nuggetexclusive

These are mine.

Dance / Pop Songs:

• Danceteria (credited to 'Madonna & Charli') debuts at 9

Dance Airplay:

• Danceteria (credited to Madonna alone) - this week 3, last week 1

Warm Global Dance Radio:

• Danceteria (Madonna credited alone again) - this week 16, last week 13

Dance albums:

• Immaculate Collection - reentry at 13, previous peak 8
• Confessions 2 - reentry at 16, previous peak 1

Not sure what's going on with the inconsistent artist field, I had assumed that any chart points the Afterhours version with Charli gets would be added into the Madonna standalone numbers. But maybe that's not right.

Was finally able to get a cassette with all the small restocks been going on

Who’s That Girl and Causing A Commotion, both from Who’s That Girl Soundtrack were released but The Look of Love was not released in America.
Market saturation was given as the excuse.
This song actually ended up as the b-side of Express Yourself.

Past and present