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Hue’s that girl? It’s Madonna of course, in new shades and an even newer hair shade – ginger.
The star, 47 today, showed off her latest look as she left a kabbalah class and proved a head turner in more ways than one.
Mind you, if she was trying to hide it under that headgear she wasn’t doing too good a job.
One onlooker in Beverly Hills said: “Despite the beret, Madonna’s new hair colour certainly caught people’s attention.
“It’s very different from anything she’s had in the past, but it looks really good on her. Her fans will be pleasantly surprised.”
The mum-of-two does tend to let her fondness for revamping her image from head to foot go, well, to her head.
Since her first hit more than 20 years ago, her bonce has at various times been black, brunette, purple, platinum blonde, most recently strawberry blonde… and now she’s a redhead.
Not to mention her insisting that kabbalah chums refer to her as Esther.
No surprises then that she called last year’s series of worldwide gigs The Reinvention Tour.
Perhaps it’s time she re-released her old James Bond soundtrack hit…as Dye Another Day.
source : mirror.co.uk

Madonna was photographed leaving the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles yesterday sporting a red tint in her hair. Madonna is believed to have completed the album photoshoot last week, so this may mean we will see a red-headed woman on the cover of Confessions On A Dancefloor!

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source : madonnalicious

Pop queen Madonna has teamed up with producer Stuart Price to create a brand new sound for her upcoming album Confessions on a Dancefloor.
The so-called queen of reinvention believes working closely with the musician has spawned a catchy style she calls “future disco”, which is set to rock the club scene when it hits shelves later this year (NOV05).
And the pair found each other so inspiring, they simply couldn’t stop writing songs.
Price says, “We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff.
“The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day.
“Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don’t know why, but there is something magical in it. That’s what we were trying to make.”

source : contactmusic.com

Veteran rocker Elvis Costello has dismissed the talents of Madonna, insisting she makes a convincing performer but has a limited range as a musician.
The outspoken Oliver’s Army star, 50, admits the pop queen can dance well enough, but she is less in control when she starts singing.
He says, “Madonna’s a dancer, not a singer.
“She’s a very good song and dance woman, but it’s about the whole package and what you can persuade people to believe.”
source : contactmusic

Bass guitarist Guy Pratt has backed some of the world’s biggest rock acts, and his comedy routine at the Edinburgh Fringe presents a cast of famous characters whose behavior borders on the bizarre.
The bassist for hire with a sardonic take on the rock scene said of Madonna:
“She was incredibly musical and could talk to musicians in terms they could understand as opposed to Tina Turner, who would say things like ‘Could you make it more purple?”‘
Pratt, who worked with Madonna on her “Like a Prayer” album, portrays her almost as a cartoon character with a real scream of a speaking voice.
“She does have one of those voices at New York waitress frequency ‘You want coffee with that?’ It is the sort of thing that goes right through,” he told Reuters.
source : reuters

Madonna is returning to her roots with the club-friendly Confessions on a Dancefloor, due November 15th. For her tenth studio album, the follow-up to 2003’s American Life, the pop legend worked closely with British producer Stuart Price (a.k.a. DJ Jacques Lu Cont) at his London apartment.
Price met Madonna later in her career, playing keyboards on her last two tours — “I was a bit too young to be a fan in the Eighties,” he says, laughing. She approached him after last year’s Re-Invention Tour, when she began work on a music-driven screenplay, bringing him onboard to create a sound she called “future disco.” The idea for Confessions came from those sessions.
“We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff,” Price says. “The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day.”
At night, the producer would test out the tracks during his club gigs. “Whenever I was DJ’ing, I’d take dub or instrumental versions out with me,” Price says. “I had my camera with me, and the next day I’d tell Madonna, ‘This is what a thousand people in Liverpool looked like last night dancing to our song.’ You can work on a song for twelve hours, but I guarantee you’ll know within the first ten seconds of putting it on at a club whether it works or not. So these songs were tested on unwitting subjects throughout Europe.”
But Price insists that he and Madonna did not blindly trust the club scene, wanting to create something more lasting. “There’s a bit of a danger with dance music that you can create something that’s cool but doesn’t have much substance to it,” he admits. “Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don’t know why, but there is something magical in it. That’s what we were trying to make.”
The first single is the uptempo synth-disco jam “Hung Up,” which Price calls “a big feel-good song. You put it on and you want to get in your car, turn it up and drive around smiling.”

source : rollingstone

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DJ Tracy Young’s compilation “Danceculture” featuring exclusive remix of Madonna’s Easy Ride was released today.
Tracklisting :
1. Let The Rhythm – (with Cytric, featuring Kieran)
2. I Believe – (Tracy And Gomi’s Spiritual Dub, with Chaka Khan)
3. Beats And The Drums, The – (D-Formation BF’s remix, with David Lara)
4. Easy Ride – (Tracy Young And Giangi Cappal’s Easy remix, with Madonna)
5. Bass Drive, The – (with Roman Lieske)
6. Alone – (with Offer Nissim, featuring Maya)
7. You Used To Hold Me – (Giangi Cappal Vocal mix, with Ralphi Rosario, featuring Xaviera Gold)
8. New Love (Violets) – (with FC Nond Project)
9. El Mensaje – (The Messenger mix, with William Umana)
10. Home – (Offer Nissim mix, Part 1, with Suzanne Palmer)
11. World Is A Stage, The – (Tracy Young’s Operatic remix, with Terry Barber)
12. Shelter Me – (Stryke’s Drum Loop, with Stryke)
13. Walk On By – (Tracy Young’s Losing You remix, with Cyndi Lauper)

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8. Madonna – “Desperately Seeking Susan” (1985)
Every woman had thought about it: Why can’t I wear this bra in public? I wear a bikini to the beach. OK, well not every woman, but it was one Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone who made the thought a reality and much more mainstream than worried fathers would have liked. As the downtown urchin Susan in Susan Seidelman’s modern screwball comedy, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” Madonna wore her clothes — from black dresses paired with leggings to men’s pants with exposed lacy bras to rolled-down, rhinestone boots to even men’s boxers. And, of course, beads, crosses, bracelets and all that obvious bleached-out hair. Madonna was so ultra-sexy and daring, it’s not even necessary to point out what a sensation she became, since an entire phrase was coined for her legions of imitators: “Madonna-wanna-be.”

Full List :
1. Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2. Katharine Hepburn – Bringing Up Baby
3. Marlon Brando – The Wild One
4. Brigitte Bardot – … And God Created Woman
5. Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction
6. Everyone -Blow-Up
7. John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever
8. Madonna – Desperately Seeking Susan
9. The Misters – Reservoir Dogs
10. Diane Keaton – Annie Hall

source : msn / madonnalicious