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Madonna does "Vanity Fair"

Madonna's on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Vanity Fair.

The article is available in its entirety online. I didn't read it, though. Maybe it's because I got to it at the end of a long day, but my brain simply resisted the first few sentences:

The world is a series of rooms, which are arranged like concentric circles, or rooms within rooms, joined by courtyards and antechambers, and in the room at the center of all those rooms Madonna sits alone, in a white dress, dreaming of Africa.

To reach her, you must wait for a sign. When it comes, if you are pure of heart, you begin to move toward Madonna, and move fast.

Huh? A bit precious for me. Here's a photo from the issue to clear your mind:

This article may be a beautifully written character study, but all I know is, when it comes to Madonna, I'm a purist. I want to see her perform. So here's the video for her latest single, "4 Minutes":


I like it. Especially the nude corset part. And by the way, can you believe that Madonna's turning 50 this August? Damn.

The album that this song is on, Hard Candy, arrives at the end of April. In the meantime, I thought I'd count down my current top five Madonna songs (they change). Here we go:

5. "Music" — Madonna the Mack Daddy

4. "Frozen" — Madonna the Mystic

3. "Human Nature" — Madonna the Dominatrix

2. "Papa Don't Preach" — Madonna the Pregnant

1. "Burning Up" — Madonna the Original

So what do you think? Do you like "4 Minutes"? What are your favorite/least favorite Madonna songs?

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  • rockgirl01970's picture

    Made me gay...

    Frist of all, I think the Justify My Love video may have tipped my scale to the gay side, putting it at the top of my faves list.

    1) Justify My Love- http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rfw4XCBB-lw

    2)Bedtime Story

    3)Beast Within

    4)Physical Attraction

    5)Like A Prayer

    6)Sorry

    7)How High

    8)Get Together

    Least Faves-

    1)ShooBeeDoo

    2)Love Makes The World Go Round

    3)Anything off American Life save Hollywood and Die Another Day

     

    lunakiss's picture

    Madonna Crazed #1 Fan!

    Oh my Goddess. I am such a huge Madonna Fan. Growing up, I collected every single article,cd/tape(back in the day) I could get my hands on. I also have crush on her even when she does sometimes act a fool. As she turned 40,she just got hotter and hotter. So more defined in her body. A woman of change and invention. Top Fav songs : Erotica, Holiday, Music, a slew of songs on her Confessions on the Dance Floor, Ray of Light cd, Bedtime Strories and more. Least ...I have to think about that. I'm so hyped her new album is coming out. In fact, I'm hyped about a lot of artists albums are out or coming out soon.
    hoff69's picture

    The Icon

    I love Madonna. She is never boring. I can't believe she is 50.
    Natazzz's picture

    I heart eighties Madonna

    I was a big fan when I was little, just like every other little girl at the time.

    I still heart eighties Madonna, but I do not really care for the Madonna of the last decade. 

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    -Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

    Who doesn't blog these days?

     

    TeranisStorm's picture

    but...

    they didn't save anyone or anything in that video...?

    i like the video though, made me like the song better...however, what was up with the (early years) britney spears resemblance? the semi curls in the hair...super blonde...it was weird to see madonna seem very britney-like...maybe it amuses her to toy with justin's thoughts or something...

    fantasyfantasik's picture

    Music.

    The first time I ever had slept with a girl was the day Madonna's Music video came out. The Music video was kind of an excuse that precipitated the whole event. I have SUCH fond memories of that whole album. Thanks for making me a lesbian Madonna!

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    sloane's picture

    my favorite songs

    borderline

    lucky star-i will always love the slinky dancing in this video.

    into the groove

    crazy for you

    take a bow

    you'll see- my favorite madonna song

    beautiful stranger

    don't tell me

    get together

     

    the_pressure_of_a_name's picture

    Ice Cream

    Wow....I'm struggling to answer as there are so many Madonna tracks that I love so much.....  It's like asking someone to pick a favourite flavour of ice cream....if you thought about it long enough you could probably get it down to 2 or 3 kinds on a shortlist and finally choose your favourite, but you shouldn't have to because they are all great really! 

    But I gotta say Sloane, my list would pretty much match yours, except I would take away "Don't Tell Me" and add on "Live To Tell" and "What It Feels Like For a Girl."

    Batman's picture

    Madge!

    1 Vogue 2 Like a prayer 3 Frozen 4 Playground 5 bedtime story

    gabydejongh's picture

    Squeels with delight!

    Can't wait for the new album to come out! I've already pre-ordered it on Amazon!

    Favorites:

    Cherish

    Express Yourself

    Ray of Light

    Music

    Burning Up

    Jump

    Sorry (Live)

    Nobody Knows Me (Live)

    Vogue

    sarahef's picture

    I'm a product of the 90s and early 00s...

    ...my Madonna faves reflect that.

    5.) Die Another Day

    4.) Frozen

    3.) Sorry

    2.) Beautiful Stranger (Austin Powers Soundtrack)

    1.) Ray of Light

     

    I love her, and I reallyreally hope that she performs until she's 80 and in diapers.

     

     

    ...and all was well, and the world smiled.

    HotHandle's picture

    Get "Into the Groove"...

    Madonna and I are the same age; she is still going strong and so am I.  I like all of her songs, but "Into the Groove" is my favorite, because that song came out the same time I did, so it holds a very special memory for me.

     

    Leibug67's picture

    MYDONNA!!!

    *sniggers*  Damn her pics just get better and better.  Love ALL her songs..too many to list, her movies....not so much.  Unrequited Madonna <3.  And I do agree with Natazzz I'm an eighties fan, my fav decade of her music.

    yoohooana's picture

    Lady Madonna

    Favorites include

    Hung Up, Holiday, Open Your Heart , Material Girl.  But the best for me is the movie soundtrack from Evita.

     

     

    jill-bennett-fan's picture

    madonna rocks

    oh my god i love madonna and that new video rocks.

    my favorite madonna songs are

    crazy for you

    like a virgin

    holiday

    madonna is awesome.  she has been my idol since the 80's. some might even say im obsessed with her. when i was a kid my entire room was madonna. pictures, posters i even had naked ones of her hung on the walls. 

     

    bananatart's picture

    Worship Her!

    I love her so much I have to name eleven. My favorite Madonna songs:

    1) Survival (Bedtime Stories)
    2) Vogue (I'm Breathless)
    3) Jump (Confessions on a Dance Floor
    4) Dress You Up (Like a Virgin)
    5) Like a Prayer (Like a Prayer)
    6) Justify my Love (The Immaculate Collection)
    7) Secret (Bedtime Stories)
    8) X-static Process (American Life)
    9) The Power of Goodbye (Ray of Light)
    10) Holiday (The Reinvention Tour remix)
    11) Hanky Panky (I'm Breathless)

     

    fee's picture

    Madonna

    Frozen is definitely my favourite song of hers. I first heard it when I was about 11. Everyone I knew hated it, but I loved it. 

    And yes, turning 50! I really don't know how she does it. Michelle Pfeiffer will turn 50 this year too. This month, in fact. Both are as beautiful as ever :)

    "Bad juju? Is that a voodoo-thing?"
    "Close...but with a 'j'." 
    - Malinda Lo & Sarah Pecora, 'the Lo-down'
    drella's picture

    love her

    I love Madonna she's just fantastic - my favorite songs are

    sorry,

    paradise,

    erotica,

    hung up,

    frozen,

    forbidden love

     

    too much to name them all ;)

    Hth's picture

    Is there anyone more awesome than Madonna?

    There is not!

     Ray of Light and Like a Prayer are my two favorite songs -- beyond that, everything just blurs into one overstuffed trunk full of terrific! 

    I know it's easy to laugh at her Kabbalah thing, and I do think that she's pursued it with the same vaguely scary obsessiveness with which she's always pursued everything she cares about, but my mild discomfort with that aside, I think what really makes me love Madonna has always been the way she combines the very visceral and sensual with the ecstatic and sacred in her music.  I can't think of any other pop musician who has been as fascinated with and at home in the places where body and soul interact.  When I was younger, I responded to a quality in her early love and sex songs, like Into the Groove, Live to Tell, Open Your Heart, and of course most of the Like a Prayer album, that felt trancendent to me.  I fell away from her a little in college, less impressed by Erotica and Bedtime Stories (though the anger and pride in Human Nature suited the angry young feminist in me very well *g*),  but ever since Ray of Light (possibly my favorite album of all time), I've been reconverted.  She's a consummate songwriter and musician, absolutely, and I just find the way she's become even more forthright about her interior life in her music so inspiring -- I love pop music, and I wish more people were half as capable as Madonna at using the genre for real, personal artistic expression.  She's remarkable in every way. 

    Lou79's picture

    What A Woman!

    I really can't believe shes fifty this year. Madonna was my idol and my first celebrity crush when I was just a wee nipper!

    Here's a few of my fav Madge songs in no particlular order, otherwise I would be here all night!

    1. Into the Groove

    2. Lucky Star

    3. Like a Prayer

    4. Express yourself (Wow she was hot in that video!)

    5. Cherish

    6. Rain

    7. Erotica

    8. Take a bow

    9. Human Nature

    10. Deeper and deeper

    11. What it feels like for a girl

    12. Jump

    13. Vogue.

    Ok I'm going to stop now because I swear I will get carried away! Long may her Madgesty reign as the Queen of Pop woop woop!

     

    Bomi's picture

    Dark Madonna and creepy asian people

    If anyone remembers the music video to " Nothing Really Matters" it had a very Asian theme. Being that i am Asian and when this video came out i was in highschool... I was so terribly excited to see Asian people on my tv... even if they were strange and creepy. At least I saw them... and even to this day that has to be the most Asians i have seen in a music video in America.

    That being said- my top two Madonna songs

    Nothing Really Matters

    Frozen

     

    So... I like dark Madonna... with creepy asian people in the background.

    miss_zabone's picture

    Top Five

    1.) Ray of Light

    2.) Hanky Panky (The Dick Tracy soundtrack is very under-rated IMHO)

    3.) True Blue  / Lucky Star (tied for third)

    4.) Secret

    5.) Her cover of "Fever"

    6.) Like A Prayer (honrable mention)

    lonelily's picture

    Like a Prayer is probably my

    Like a Prayer is probably my all-time favorite road-trippin song. Doesn't get much better than a gospel choir backing you up. 
    my007's picture

    not the best singer, not the best dancer, not the beauty, but...

    she is definitely Nr. 1. And because of that I have respect for her.

    I listened to one of her first live performances and she sounded just god-awful. And listened to her new concert and she sounds bearable.

    But I really admire her ability to reinvent herself every few years and to stay on top in industry which adores only youth and beauty. So I'd say the lady is pretty smart. And you have to give credit to that no matter what you think about her music ... and her British accent.

    xpress's picture

    my top

     

     

     1- vogue

    2- ray of light

    3- music

    4- frozen

    5- what it feels like for a girl

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Mays's picture

    HUMAN NATURE!

    The beat is insaaane, love it.. That would be considered my fave. I'm glad you considered it one of the top songs.

    4 minutes, on the other hand.. is a good song but I have a feeling it would be forgettable and easily bored from after a few listens.

    Linda77's picture

    Human Nature

    Wow, thank you for mentioning Human Nature. It was a revaltion for me, then. The bluntness of the lyrics just made me reconsider.. everything.
    ladyjazzkiller's picture

    Love Her!

    All in all I thought that article was good. The one in Elle is great, too. I love the photos from both. I blew all of the money I had for lunch on both magazines, and I don't regret it, dammit! I want me some Momo!!

    I think she's still one of the sexiest women in the world. Top of my list right now. I don't care if she's turning 50.

    It's really hard for me to pick favourites when it comes to her songs. I love almost all of them for lots of different reasons...the one that I'm REALLY loving right now is "Drowned World/Substitute For Love." Simply breathtaking. I didn't like it when I was little, but now I adore it.

    I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna


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