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She’s been a movie queen, a dominatrix, a dance floor diva and a political activist but Madonna’s latest reinvention may catch some of her more hard core fans off guard.
The Material Girl may be enjoying domestic bliss as a wife and mother, but with a new CD and documentary soon to be released she’s ready to tear up the dance floor.
Her latest CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor once again proves that just when you thought she was in danger of slipping out of ‘Vogue’ Madonna reinvents herself and in the process rejuvenates an entire genre.
This time she’s turned dance music on its ear, producing what Madonna describes as a much more personal recording with deeper lyrics. Optimistically hoping fans will think while they dance.
“Generally people don’t make dance music that makes you think, but I wanted to do that, to reinvent the whole genre of dance music,” she told eTALKDAILY’s Ben Mulroney in New York.
Take the album for what it is, she added.
“You can dance or you can psychoanalyze me. It doesn’t irritate me when people do that at all.”
Confessions is already meeting with positive reviews even before its Nov. 14 release. A newspaper in England called it “an hour of pure electronic dance/pop heaven, with no weak track, and should be hailed as a masterpiece.”
The CD follows a classic dance club format, segueing from song to song.
Along with the first single, “Hung Up,” the CD includes a sample of Abba’s classic “Gimme Gimme,” as well as dance-themed cuts “Get Together,” “Sorry,” “Future Lovers,” and “Isaac.”
The last track has some Kabbalist rabbis up in arms alleging the song is about a 16th century mystic Yitzhak Luria, whose name they say should not be used for profit.
Madonna’s more ’spiritual’ self is also seen in her new documentary which premiered in New York this week and will debut on MTV in America.
I’m Going to Tell You a Secret chronicles her 2004 Reinvention Tour and is a far cry from the blatant sexuality and self-involved diva Madonna paraded to the world 12 years ago in 1993’s Truth or Dare.
Secret shows Madonna sharing screen time with her musical director, dancers and choreographer, as well as other members of the crew. It also shows rare scenes with her children who travelled with her on tour.
“To me confession means revealing something about yourself, telling the truth, being courageous,” she told eTALK.
“I think the nature of the documentary is to go behind the scenes. You have to be willing to tell the truth. If I’m going to make a documentary of life on the road I have to include my family, so I couldn’t just leave them out.”
In one part, a man tells Madonna, “I don’t really believe in God.”
“That really hurts me to hear that,” Madonna responds.
At the screening in New York Madonna admitted to being nervous. She was worried her film might bore her fans and hoped people would appreciate the changes she’s been through.
“It would be kind of tragic and pathetic if I was still the same person,” she told ABC News after the film. “I think that while I had some redeeming traits and qualities when I made Truth or Dare, there’s a lot about me that I think is kind of selfish and kind of juvenile, and I’m happy to know that I’ve evolved and moved on.”
And Madonna’s next move could lead her to the stage. She told eTALK that she would consider writing musical theatre. In fact she wrote 20 songs with theatre in mind, some of which ended up on the new CD.
But when asked if she would take centre stage, she had a different choice in mind.
“Maybe I’ll just wait a couple of years and my daughter can do it,” she said with a smile.
Asked by Ben what she’d most like to be remembered for, she said with a laugh, “It ain’t over yet.”
“I think firstly to be able to have a successful career that spans two decades is a blessing, so I’m grateful for that. I’ll be remembered for tenacity, I guess.”

source : ctv

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The queen of reinvention has achieved the seemingly impossible yet again. In the footsteps of her least successful album ever, 2003’s preachy, melody-breaching “American Life,” Madonna returns with a song that will restore faith among her minions, fans of pop music and radio programmers. “Hung Up” is pure distraction: frothy and nonsensical and joyous. With an extravagant sample of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” the song delivers instant familarity, but Stuart Price and Madonna add a chug-along groove and singalong call to arms that build “Hung Up” into its own worthy creation. Yes, Madonna, we still believe in the beat.
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Madonna got back up on the horse again – with a little help from David Letterman.
The talk show host and Madonna rode horses along 53rd Street in Manhattan on the Late Show, the singer’s first ride since being thrown from a horse in England.
The superstar suffered three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand in the August accident.
Letterman, a novice rider himself, traded stories about tumbles.
Madonna explained that she hadn’t been back on a horse since her fall “because my record company is not very keen on the idea of me injuring myself”.
“I have a bit of excitement tainted with fear,” she said before climbing on.
source : ap

Former basketball player Dennis Rodman claims Madonna ordered him to fly from Las Vegas to New York City to impregnate her during their short-lived relationship.
Rodman, who dated the Like A Virgin singer in 1994, was gambling in a Sin City casino when he received an urgent phonecall from his ovulating girlfriend.
He writes in his autobiography I Should Be Dead By Now: “Madonna wanted to have my babies One time I was in Las Vegas at the craps table doing my thing when I got this frantic call.
“It was like the ’somebody died call’ from New York. I picked up the phone and Madonna was like, ‘I’m ovulating, I’m ovulating. Get your ass up here.’
“So I left my chips on the table, flew five hours to New York and did my thing. We got done and she was standing on her head in an attempt to promote conception – just like any girl trying to get pregnant.
“I flew back to Las Vegas and picked up my game where I left off.”
Despite their efforts, Madonna and Rodman never had a child and split after only a few months together. Madonna gave birth to her first child – daughter Lourdes – in 1996 following a fling with personal trainer Carlos Leon.
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The All New Interview Special (30 min.) This Sunday, October 23rd – 9pm ET on MuchMoreMusic Plus… Interview Highlights: Tonight on MuchMoreMusic’s ‘The Loop’ beginning @ 6:30pm ET and on http://www.muchmoremusic.com.
MuchMoreMusic presents an all-new primetime profile of multi-award-winning music icon, Madonna – direct from New York – as she prepares to release her upcoming album, ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’.
MuchMoreMusic’s own Traci Melchor spoke one-on-one with Madonna in NYC – capturing new insight into the superstar’s life, including thoughts on her spiritual evolution, the growth of her relationship with daughter Lourdes, the inspiration behind the new record, and a candid update on the effects of – and recovery from – her recent horseback riding accident.
In addition to the revealing, all-new interview, “Madonna: Confessions”, airing Sunday, October 23rd @ 9pm ET will also showcase a peek at her upcoming video “Hung Up”, as well as choice clips and context from the extensive CHUM entertainment archive.
On Sunday, November 13th @ 6pm ET, The CHUM Radio Network will present the Exclusive Canadian Radio Premiere of the new album on ‘Confessions On A Dancefloor’: The Radio Special. In addition to new tracks from the disc, the special will also feature the best of the 104.5 CHUM FM interview with Madonna, by Maie Pauts.
source : newswire.ca

From CBS.com – Tonight’s Guests :Madonna, Melissa Etheridge

“I’m not in the mood for a ballad,” says Madonna of her first album since 2003. “I can’t be bothered – I wanna dance!” Uptempo and bristling with energy, Confessions on a Dancefloor sees the singer, whose musical career began in the predominantly gay club scene of early ’80s New York, return to her roots. In this extract from her interview with gay lifestyle magazine Attitude, she talks to Matthew Todd in the tiny home studio in London where the album was recorded. They talk initially about how she came to make the record with British producer Stuart Price, and the problems she had persuading Abba to allow her to sample their 1979 hit Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) for her new single.

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