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Several media outlets (including the Coachella site) have announced Madonna has been officially added to the Coachella line-up as a second night performer in the dance tent.

Is this a reflection of the mega-festival organizers being sadly out of touch, or has indie music's recent shameless embrace of self-irony finally started kicking it back in the face?

Remember, Coachella's previous line-ups concentrated on a combination of established and emerging indie acts, DJs, and the more recent reunion of past alternative champions.

I say it's pathetic, just like all of Madonna's efforts in the last ten years.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

hey they got madonna that's kinda neat.

― pinkerton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

cool

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sheep

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I guess she's going to spin records.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Int-Ewe the groove

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Madonnetz

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Given the choice between seeing Madonna and Tool (I think they go head to head, I don't have the schedule in front of me), the numerical probability I'd make a bee-line for the Madonna show is incalculable.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

papa don't bleat

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

What do people mean when they throw around that ridiculous word "indie" anyway? It's a meaningless term. Some of the bands are on major label, other aren't. Or does indie now just refer to middling bands on the mainstream's visible periphery? Oh yeah, that's right, it does.

Who cares if Madonna performs?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

should be "some of the bands are on major labeles, others aren't"

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a reflection of the mega-festival organizers being sadly out of touch, or has indie music's recent shameless embrace of self-irony finally started kicking it back in the face?

Maybe because the organizers realize Madonna has written better songs than almost half the fucking lineup?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, so true.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, Madonna and Coachella sound good together because they both end in the letter "a".

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

She was probably planning to be in Palm Springs that weekend anyway.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

wow, a popular dance artist is playing the dance stage at a popular festival! "pathetic"!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe because the organizers realize Madonna has written better songs than almost half the fucking lineup?

I was under the impression that Madonna performed songs and didn't write them.... that's what Stuart Price, Mirwais, William Orbit etc. do.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

My def of indie as it applies to my comments:

indie = artists that define their own sounds

not indie = artists with sounds defined by labels and producers, or in this case: trend chasers

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

How's life back in 1983?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Mirwais and William Orbit are producers in this case. Madonna has songwriting credit on by far the lion's share of her back catalog.

NOT THAT IT MATTERS to the actual point anyway.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'd LOVE to hear an album that was 100% madonna WRITTEN songs.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's great, personally. i'm already going to see daft punk and depeche mode. so exciting! i love madonna!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha i guess joy division isn't indie under your definition giles

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

How you figure?

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Tread warily.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a reflection of the mega-festival organizers being sadly out of touch, or has indie music's recent shameless embrace of self-irony finally started kicking it back in the face?
Maybe because the organizers realize Madonna has written better songs than almost half the fucking lineup?

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (sotoal...), March 1st, 2006.

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Hahaha, so true.
-- James Slone (freontrotsk...), March 1st, 2006.

Ha ha ha - so NOT true. Open mouth, insert foot. Thank you.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

It lives. Whatever it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

how is that a foot-in-mouth comment in any way

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

MADONNA DID NOT WRITE MOST OF HER SONGS

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

how is that a foot-in-mouth comment in any way

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Giles, who has the most integrity in rock today?

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry- I'm not biting on that.

Madonna has been washed up for years. She went from trend-setter to trend-chaser almost a decade ago.

I don't need to go into her entire history to back that up.

My point is this: Coachella did not start out as a festival that embraced or invited acts like Madonna.

You elitists who feel the need the dissect every last word in a posted comment like it's a fight to the death in the music critical theory arena are really, really annoying.

(To be followed by "People who post strawmen arguements and argue in circular terms are really annoying" or some such redundant ILM mantra...)

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

My point is this: Coachella did not start out as a festival that embraced or invited acts like Madonna.

So?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's disappointing to me, Ned, and I'm curious to know if she's been added because they approached her, or she approached them.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

You elitists who feel the need the dissect every last word in a posted comment like it's a fight to the death in the music critical theory arena are really, really annoying.

You asked for it, my boy.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

What can I say? I'm a purist. I like my big commercial bombastic pseudo-indie rock mega-festivals to be free of artists who have spent all their career time in the Top 40 charts.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

And, unless I'm mistaken, you're the elitist who doesn't want "the trend chaser" (who hasn't written "most" of her songs) sullying the pristine indie integrity of the Coachella lineup.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have March Fools Day in the US or something?

Let's hope she's miming...

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Giles,

please keep digging this hole of yours.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Our boy Giles is no doubt scanning AMG to confirm his irrefutable evidence that Madonna has written nary a note of "Live to Tell," "Like A Prayer," etc etc.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Giles, what about Depeche Mode? They've been on an indie label for their entire career, but they're poncey fops who don't write their own songs (Vince Clarke writes them). And they're headlining Coachella. Is the universe about to collapse into a singularity of musical heat death?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see my scoffing at Madonna joining a festival that bears no relation to her music for reasons of either festival desperation over their shitty line-up this year, or her own push into a music arena far more popular than she is at this point, to be me digging my own hole.

But you can always explain why you think I'm digging my own hole.

Otherwise, you can go fuck yourself. Really.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is very amusing to me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

"She?s not suitable for festivals. She can do her own big gigs. I think maybe she is just after a bit of credibility really. It could also be a funny thing for students. You know where it's crap but they actually think it?s funny. Ironically funny. It might be that she is there because she has a massive gay following and loads of gays might go there." meh

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Our boy Giles is no doubt scanning AMG to confirm his irrefutable evidence that Madonna has written nary a note of "Live to Tell," "Like A Prayer," etc etc.
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (sotoal...), March 1st, 2006.

Tell me, Fred- do you know the composers of Madonna's entire song list by heart? Thought not. Don't throw rocks from glass houses....

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

But you can always explain why you think I'm digging my own hole.

Daft Punk bear some traces of Our Lady's influence.

her own push into a music arena far more popular than she is at this point

Confessions on a Dance Floor has, domestically and internationally, sold more copies than a third of the lineup in total; but I know you don't care about popularity or Top 40 validation, right?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me, Fred- do you know the composers of Madonna's entire song list by heart? Thought not. Don't throw rocks from glass houses....

Well, I do, actually. There aren't that many. But I won't bore you or our dear readers, who have no doubt left to make popcorn.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Madonnetz
-- Giles Manius (gilesmaniu...), March 1st, 2006. (later)
pretty funny actually.

― harshaw (jube), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Who cares if Madonna performs?

-- James Slone (freontrotsk...), March 1st, 2006.

"indie" now = "alternative" ten years ago

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'd love to see madonna perform with tool

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

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I was referring to the menopause comment, actually

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Was there indignation (actually unsubtle trolling, but whatever) like this when Glastonbury booked Kylie?

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

yes!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's surprising... I thought Kylie had the universal indie kid stamp of approval. I mean, Madonna's never duetted with Nick Cave!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

There were a lot of Giles-esque nobheads whining in some places about Kylie's addition to the bill. Perhaps they all jumped for joy when she was forced to pull out (they seem THAT evil).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

giles,

i was just posting something about how all indie and punk fans aren't douchebags on another thread. thx for the backup, homie. appreciate it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. I had expected this to be a data point in the 'dance music too gay for America' debate, but I guess people KEEPING THE SCENE ALIVE are people KEEPING THE SCENE ALIVE the world over.

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say as a three time Coachella goer that the inclussion of Madonna into the Dance Tent, not just thrown into one of the big stages (in which she could easily perform) is not just a great hype move. I love the fact that she's singing there and I'm sure lots of people are as well.
Now i just hope Tool calls it off and Guns N Roses takes it's place. Now that would create some hype.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Madonna is a washed up old talentless whore, and I can't fathom enjoying her performance at Coachella or anywhere. Sure I can appreciate her for marketing skills and cultural icon status, but at the same time she hasn't made a decent song in 10-15 years.

Giles is indeed kinda digging himself a hole with his rhetoric, but the ILM hivemind "you must like ______" mantra is equally tiresome.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

the ILM hivemind "you must like ______" mantra is equally tiresome.

As is the ILM hivemind "you must not like _______" mantra, which is where Madonna is usually put.

― Merryweather (scarlet), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

XPOST

Sorry, Matt, but this indie/punk knobheaded douchebag is hardly the first person on ILM to piss on a pop musician.

Throwing out provincial charges in the name of popular inclusion on such a subjective issue is equally provincial, btw.

But infinitely more interesting than Cure Vs. Joy Division....

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a huge problem with Madonna, I'm just wondering out loud if I'm going to see her at 60 with electric blue hair and fishnets performing her songs on a battleship....

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

... and her voice will still be total shit.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's hilarious that Madonna is doing Coachella. Funny that she wants to, funny that people give a shit, funny that people are pissed, and even funnier to see people defend their positions so passionately. It's a lot funnier sideshow than, say, the inevitable discussion of whether or not ~~it's just too fucking white~~ enough hip hop artists are involved or not.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

(for the record I've never been to Coachella and at this point, probably won't ever go. I don't really care who plays these things.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

So if she written -- er, sorry, "made" -- a decent song in 10-15 yrs then she's not a talentless whore. I'm glad we cleared this up.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone remember the good ol' days when "indie" meant "mobbed-up"?

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

10-15 years is a pretty long time in the public eye without any decent product. Also you left out "washed up" and "old" (which figure into her current "talentless" status).

If she has a talent, it isn't for singing. Its for cherrypicking other people's talent and marketing it shrewdly. I can appreciate that as being hard work, but I don't have to respect it or enjoy it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

But "decent" signifies some level of enjoyment.

Sorry, Shakey, but you ain't getting away with this. On ILE you're a pretty solid defender of liberal values, so it grieves me when you use a word like "whore" as an insult, like my parents or something. You don't like Madonna, fine: just conceive of a more cogent dismissal.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

she has a nice body, so for a whore it does not appear that she has been ridden hard and put away wet too many times.

talent is an irrelevant concept without marketing.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

I made several Alfred: that she doesn't really write her own music, that she's turned from a trend-setter to a trend-chaser, that she hasn't done anything decent by her own standards in over a decade.

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

that she doesn't really write her own music

Now you're either being annoying or stupid. Or maybe illiterate, in which case I'll cut you some slack. I'm inclined to think just annoying, since you give away the game by writing "really."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

okay, calling her a whore is kind of a cheap shot - I'll concede that. On the other hand, COME ON, we're talking about a woman who has publically exploited her sexuality (and society's expectations of it) about as much as is humanly possible for material gain. That's, y'know, pretty whore-y.

I like a few of her songs, I'll happily admit it. I think her voice is really weak, with a narrow range, and a limited expressiveness that I find irritating. I don't care if she writes her own material. I do think her switch from trend-setter to trend-hopper is kinda sad, but that also has more to do with her age and the cycle of marketing than anything intrinsic to her ideas (what she has of them, anyway). I don't think she's done anything decent in 10-15 years and I'll stand by that - that she's still so uber-ubiquitous is kind of annoying.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

You've got me, sir. I am very self-aware of how far I've been overreaching on this entire thread, actually.

But since some of those charges could be thrown at Depeche Mode, and other artists on the bill, maybe Madonna does belong it this line-up after all.

She can go on right after the even-more-washed-up DJ Peretz, or whatever his goofy set name is these days...

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

(and for someone who has been widely praised for her public manipulation of her sexuality, I think its only fair to criticize her along similar lines. Her "sex" book is highbrow wank material, let's not kid ourselves.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

(uh xpost)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

On the other hand, COME ON, we're talking about a woman who has publically exploited her sexuality (and society's expectations of it) about as much as is humanly possible for material gain. That's, y'know, pretty whore-y.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Prince is waiting for you outside. And David Bowie.

I like a few of her songs, I'll happily admit it. I think her voice is really weak, with a narrow range, and a limited expressiveness that I find irritating

I'll accept this.

I do think her switch from trend-setter to trend-hopper is kinda sad, but that also has more to do with her age and the cycle of marketing than anything intrinsic to her ideas (what she has of them, anyway).

Again - paging David Bowie. You can't be a trend-setter for 15 yrs; it's impossible. You have other things on your mind. It only matters insofar as the music reflects a certain desperation. You say it does, I say her (scattered) high points in the last 15 yrs are as strong as the ones in her heyday, but, hey, that's my opinion and we disagree.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes relatin' to Madonna:

http://www.geocities.com/rrubiera/mike-basslr.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

And now, gentlemen, I will meet you at the bar. The next round's on me.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

haha Prince is a TOTAL whore! (albeit apparently a reformed one these days). I'm not so clear on how Bowie exploited his sexuality, apart from that whole "I'm gay! (oops just kidding!)" thing which, in retrospect, is all rather crass and insulting.

as far as the trend-setter thing, I don't blame her for being left behind (which as you correctly point out is inevitable), but I do blame her for not knowing when to quit. and fwiw, I think Prince has dealt with his aging/fade from trendsetter status WAY better than Madonna has. But then Prince has always had his virtuoso musical chops and one-man-band work ethic to fall back on. Madonna, by contrast, does not.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I'd have to say between Bowie/Madonna/Prince, Prince wins the grace award by a landslide.

Also, in terms of aesthetic music relevance, it would have to be

Prince > Bowie > Madonna

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Neither Bowie nor Prince did anything on the scale of Sex, though. Interestingly, Madonna has let Sex remain long OOP. I wonder why.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah well since most indie music is CRAP and Madonna hasn't made a decent rekkid since Ray of Light it sounds like she'll fit right in at this crappy little two bit music festival.

― Tutrle, Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is very amusing to me.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 1st, 2006 3:36 PM.

I imagine its like deja vu.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, more something else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it's a spoken word performance -
MADONNA READS FROM HER CRAPPY CHILDRENS BOOKS IN FAKE BRITISH ACCENT

ps - she didn't "write" those books either

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Fake English accent.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, imprecise of me. LIMEY ACCENT

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Anachronistic. But better.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

look, as a four-time Coachella vet, including the first one, i can say that Madonna is not out of place on this lineup. whether you like her or not is not the issue you set up at the beginning of this thread, so i'm not getting into that.
if you want to talk about Coachella changing, hell, the first one was the only one like it. it was mostly DJs and electronic music and hip hop. i don't think we're gonna see Amon Tobin or Neotropic at this festival again - i just don't. indie rock has become the festival's staple. as a big electronic music fan, that's kind of disheartening. now the rise of the indie snobs means lesser-known electronic bands and DJs aren't going to be invited to the festival anymore. but that's cool, things change, and the festival is still the best one in the world.
so now we have the megastars "invading" Coachella. come on, the festival starting in 2001 has had huge (as in huge moneymaking machines) bands - Oasis, Chili Peppers, Coldplay, the Foo Fighters. i wouldn't exactly expect to see any of those groups on your typical indie kid's top 10 list. who cares though? you can like Wolfmother just as much as you like Madonna.
so what about Madonna? the album is mostly a LRD album with her vocals. it certainly fits the dance/electronic criteria. she's playing the dance tent. it's a warm-up gig for her tour, not a mainstage takeover, in a unique venue.
and moreover - it's just fucking fun. not everything has to be a statement. it doesn't have a double meaning. there's no irony or kitsch involved. it's fun dance music sung by, whether you like her or not, a cultural icon. i think it's a unique experience that's going to be a lot of FUN...provided i can get in the damn tent.

― txjaxx, Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

the festival is still the best one in the world.

Earth to txjaxx: Sónar.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

there's no irony

Except that, when Madonna performs, the dance tent will be too crowded for dancing.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

not for slam-sancing, though

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

naturally. is there any other way to dance to "This used to be my playground"?

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

well, that one's more of an air-guitar/headbanging song than an anthem for the pit

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Macca+Madge+"'Lady Madonna' encore"= I forgive both for everything

― Okeigh, Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Madonna has mad indie-cred. Ciccone Youth, anybody?

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

True, but for the 30 years that ensued.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, 20.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

It is true that Madonna rarely writes her own songs.Quite common in pure, pristine, polished pop.

And IMO, her best (chosen) songs were "Holiday", "Live To Tell" and "Ray Of Light".

http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/M/madonna-lyrics/madonna-holiday-lyrics.htm

http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/M/madonna-lyrics/madonna-live-to-tell-lyrics.htm

http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/M/madonna-lyrics/madonna-ray-of-light-lyrics.htm

― Peppy Zimbot, Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

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