Madonna

By Stuart Heritage But not this time. This time Madonna has gone to Malawi to launch her brand new school, the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. It’s a noble gesture – Madonna wants to use the school to “focus on empowering women to become leaders, not like that fat idiot Guy Ritchie”. We made part of that quote up. W...

By Rolling Stone A host of big-name artists are releasing albums this week, starting with Madonna’s double-disc collection dedicated to her entire tenure on Warner Music, Celebration. Packing 34 hits and two new songs onto two discs, Celebration is a dizzying, non-chronological journey through the M...

Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone gives Celebration 4/5 stars in this review: What? No 'Hanky Panky'? Is this some kind of a joke? Given how obsessive her fans are, it's a thankless task for Madonna to assemble a two-CD hit... Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone gives Celebration 4/5 stars in this rev...

Artist: Madonna Album: Celebration Review: What? No "Hanky Panky"? Is this some kind of a joke? Given how obsessive her fans are, it's a thankless task for Madonna to assemble a two-CD hit collection. But from the opening one-two of "Hung Up" and "Music," two of her best ever, Celebration k...

By Dodai More info on A Day Without Megan Fox at the link, and, of course, an intro to the Twitter tag #NoMF. [Asylum]A family affair: Madonna's daughter Lourdes will be in Her Madgesty's music video for the single "Celebration." [ET]Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie is in Montenegro cavorting with 18-year-...

By Sadie What is so irksome to workaday adoptive parents like me, is ...why Madonna, who adopted a boy named David to much criticism in 2006, decided to adopt another child from a country that doesn't have an established, transparent adoption system. In reputable adoption countries-which include C...

Malawi law indicates a person must be a resident of Malawi to adopt. Madonna's attorney, Alan Chinula, conceded that the singer isn't a resident, but argued that it was more important to consider the best interests of the child overall -- the same ... Video: Madonna Adoption Left To Court CBS

By JayBird Madonna visiting the village of Salaza in Malawi today. Photo thanks to Fame Pictures . - Lawyer: Madonna Has Filed Appeal to Adoption Ruling [MSN Wonderwall] - Lindsay Lohan inexplicably drags her bones on stage to hug Lily Allen in the middle of a song [Dlisted] - James Franco looking insa...

By Dodai Madonna took Jesus Luz to a Kabbalah service. Again. This paper calls her "the world's most boring date." [Daily Mail] Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou got married in Africa over the summer??? Well, it was a ceremony. But it's not necessarily legal. [Gatecrasher]Katie Holmes has to make...

By Dodai By the by, it looks like Guy Ritchie is getting around $76 to $92 million from Madonna in the divorce settlement. No wonder he's been looking so giddy lately! [AP] Her rep says Michelle Williams will not be accepting awards for Heath Ledger if/when he gets any at the Golden Globes or beyond. TM...

She said as much during her livewire two-hour concert, sprinkling hometown sentiment and 'it's good to be home'-isms throughout the show. But she let her feelings really be known near the end of the night, before a sing-along portion of the show which included a karaoke-style version of h...

By Brad Frenette lt;p><i>Quentin Tarantino has said the sign of a good film is that it makes you want to go home, eat some pie and talk about it. With that in mind, our Popcorn Panel features film buffs feuding in this space each week. </i><br /></p> <p><b>This wee...

By Stuart Heritage Also, they’ve got a bit of a tricky history, sexually. Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears were a couple for a number of years, Madonna and Britney Spears kissed with tongues at an awards show and Justin Timberlake managed to keep his dinner down while watching Madonna grind about in a man...

By Madonnasworld(noreply@blogger.com) Madonna entered the Air Canada Stage on an "M"-marked pimp throne with Candy Shop," the title track off her latest studio album Hard Candy. In the words of Dee Daly, 28, a first-time Madonna attendee, she entered in true M form, "with her legs spread open and ready to go." A virtual Britany Spears also appeared in a remixed version of "Human Nature." Vogue" sampled with "4 Minutes" and a house version of "Like a Prayer" brought the desired Madonna dance fever. "Like a Prayer" was Daly's favourite performance; it reminded her of the classical moment in the controversial video when a back-up singer places her hand on M's forehead before breaking it down with the choir. "It was like in church and all of a sudden Jesus came to talk to us," said Daly.   [read the full post]

Request Song: 3 Guys had big board writtien "Hollywood", "Who's that girl" and "Secret" but a girl rushed on to Madonna and ask for "Sorry" ... C"mon make her sing another songs we really want to hear like "Open Your Heart", "Everybody". My choice would of been "Causing a Commotion" cause it wou...

Yesterday morning Madonna announced - through a publicist, of course - that she and hubby Guy Ritchie were splitsville. But the Sticky & Sweet tour must go on. So last night at her first of two sold-out TD Banknorth Garden shows (the second is tonight) the Material Girl proved divorce - a...

By Karina Longworth Not to diminish any of her myriad accomplishments (and I will never, ever begrudge her creative partnership with David Fincher), but it seems inarguable that history will remember Madonna most vividly as a cultural vampire: a supernatural creature (who, if not verifiably immortal, t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Madonnasworld) any news about Madonna lately? Anything at all? No. Really? Are you planted by her 'people' or even Madonna herself – there were brand ambition venture, the Sticky & Sweet Tour. Forget the release of her 11th studio album, Hard Candy. when pressed down for iPoding. And we're off… Like 2006's Confessions Tour – The including 'Borderline' and 'Into The Groove', which Madonna said she Like A Prayer', 'Ray Of Light' and 'Hung Up', the triumvirate of Madgesty that's what you pay for, sleek showmanship. Madonna has straitjacketed Britney in the video backdrop for 'Human Nature' we get Madonna asks "What are you looking at?" and after more than 25-plus on 11 September. The world tour continues until 18 December. For   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Sylar) The concert videos are once again a huge step ahead. The "Charlie and Chocolate Factory" style opening video was simply hypnotic, all the new material was fresh and very seductive, the "Die Another Day" interlude by Tom Munro is another milestone in the Madonna unreleased video collecti...

By noreply@blogger.com (Madonnasworld) Madonna Beats Midlife Crisis With Tour, Sexy Disco The Queen moved her conquering army of 250 courtiers from England to Wales, where she appeared on a throne and flaunted the $2 million crown jewels she had bought for the occasion. U.K.-based Madonna, the American ``Queen of Pop,'' started her ``Sticky and Sweet'' tour in the Welsh capital Cardiff. She kept 40,000 subjects -- sorry, fans -- waiting 90 minutes to see her in best regal mode. Of course, she didn't apologize. Royalty never says sorry. Madonna turned 50 this month. Her idea of ``how to avoid the midlife crisis'' is to plan a crusade of pop domination -- taking by force Europe, the U.S., Canada, Chile and Brazil. At one point in the first gig, she joked that she was open to singing requests. Bef...   [read the full post]

The evening has nine of the 12 songs on her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, which went straight to the top of the charts in 31 countries. It culminates in a grand finale focusing on what could be described as Madge's 'post-imperial' phase: a futuristic, Japanese-influenced rave set in which...

By Pera Other re-workings of her old hits included a guitar-heavy rock version of Borderline and striking New York subway train visuals on the track Music. Sticky & Sweet" is Madonna's first world tour since she hit the road in 2006 with "Confessions" -- the highest grossing tour by a female a...

By Madonnasworld(noreply@blogger.com) At this point: Many of the interesting tidbits that Chris talks about is Madonnas lack of vocal training, about how, her backup singer Niki was almost fired and sometimes Madonna orders that her mike be TURNED oFF so she doesnt drown out Madonnas voice. The book is dedicated to their father and to their step mom Joan, who Madonna was always a mother to him. Madonna was the one that introduced him to a gay bar, and to pot and tab of ecstacy! Another tidbit that he shares is that David Geffen proposed to Madonna, over and over. view pix Check the site tomorrow for PART 2 review of 'MY LIFE with my SISTER Madonna. Where Madonna Does it Better http://www.Madonnasworld.com www.madonnasworld.com   [read the full post]

By Pera Her new album Hard Candy is getting the hard sell - most of the songs are drawn from there. However, few of the new tracks are particularly memorable - although one stand-out moment is a striking image of Madonna and her highly stylised male dancers moving in tandem across the stage during th...

By Pera New York, Paris, Maidstone. For the last of three, short shows to plug her current album, Hard Candy, Madonna arrived by helicopter in the Kent countryside to headline Radio 1's Big Weekend. Clearly, the plan was to prove that a... Instead, a sterile, soulless performance made Madonna resemb...

By Pera Which would be a dubious legacy, were it not for the fact she's released so many life-affirming, radio-dazzling, zeitgeist-riding songs along the way, from "Holiday" to "Hung Up", via "Virgin" and "Vogue". And yet she's never got the credit she deserves. Twenty five years after finding f...

By Madonnasworld Before "Hard Candy," Madonna had never before opened her legs for an album cover. Two decades ago, her patchouli-scented belly adorned the sleeve of the intimate "Like a Prayer," and in 2005 she showed a bit of derriere for the disco-nostalgic "Confessions on a Dance Floor." She played wit...

By Pera A crowd far larger than the 2,200 capacity of New York club Roseland camped out overnight on the streets of midtown Manhattan awaiting the chance to see Madonna debut tracks from her new album Hard Candy on Wednesday. The audience of celebs and die-hard fans who actually made it through the...

By Madonnasworld Madonna Opens Up "Candy" ShopAs record release parties go, the one Madonna threw at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on Wednesday night for her new album "Hard Candy" was pretty sweet. Setlist: Candy Shop" Miles Away" 4 Minutes" with Justin Timberlake Hung Up" Give it 2 Me" Music"

Gay boys, rejoice: The Material Girl a.k.a. Madge a.k.a. M-Dolla, (as she is currently known) has returned to save us from the Miley Cyruses of the world. The diva's latest album, Hard Candy (her last for Warner Records), dropped April 29 to rabid fan anticipation and generally positive reviews....

By Naaz Dattu Naaz reviewed the album at the official Warner Bros. Canada listening party in an exclusive Toronto night club. Here is her impression of Hard Candy, track-by-track: Click here to read Robert’s listening-at-home Hard Candy review

By Pera The 11th studio set of her career -- and her last for Warner Bros. Records, the longtime label that she's leaving for a wide-ranging deal with concert promoter Live Nation -- "Hard Candy" is a heady, frisky sugar rush of urban dance-pop come-ons in which Madge finally gets into the hip-hop g...

By Pera Candy's sugar solidifies by album's end: "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" is no hit, but it's intriguing lyrics and easy-on-the-ears refrain are good enough to compensate for the fact that it sounds like a rip-off of "Cry Me a River" or "What Goes Around, Comes Around." Candy closer "Voice...

By Pera Madonna is coming home: Having spent a decade working with producers drawn from European club culture, Hard Candy is her link-up with the American men who've come to define global pop. Five songs with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, six with...

By Pera Anyone disappointed by that album should take a lick of "Hard Candy," out Tuesday. It's everything "Confessions" professed to be - and more: a disc that gorges on catchy choruses, nagging beats and insouciant vocals. It may be the best album of Madonna's career. Certainly it's the most cons...

On her 11th studio album -- and her final disc of original material before leaving Warner for that bazillion-dollar Live Nation deal -- the Material Mom gets her groove back with four of the biggest names in hip-hop: Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams and Kan...

There's no big mystery why Madonna hooked up with such R&B-hip-hop stars as Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, producer Timbaland and his protege Nate "Danja" Hills for her new dance-pop album, Hard Candy, in stores Tuesday. Timbaland? "A Cheshire Cat."

All through her career, it has been impossible to divorce Madonna's music from her image, as they feed off each other to the point where it's hard to tell which came first, the concept or the songs. Glancing at the aggressively ugly cover to Hard Candy -- its blistering pinks and assaultive l...

By Pera After Confessions On A Dance Floor, where she revived disco and brought legwarmers back in style, we thought there was no musical stone left unturned by Madge. And yet we were sure she would surprise us once again. But at almost 50, the inspiration well seems to have run dry. The solution is a go...

By Pera When in doubt, take Madonna at face value. Since the beginning of her career, she has telegraphed her intentions and labelled herself more efficiently than any observer. She has titled albums Music, Erotica and, in 2005, Confessions On A Dance Floor for a collection that mingled personal...

By Pera Madonna on Her Directorial Debut and Mission to Save Malawi Madonna recently claimed that she was over New York; she still liked to stick her finger in our socket from time to time, but there were no longer so many... Madonna on Her Directorial Debut and Mission to Save Malawi

By Rob SINGLE OF THE WEEK: MADONNA feat JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – 4 MINUTES: Madonna continues to impress with her latest single, 4 Minutes, featuring a collaboration with Justin Timberlake (who really is getting about a bit). Featuring an urgent, funky and utterly pulsating beat, some tick tock ch...

By Sylar At around the same time that she was penning this blueprint for the next phase of her career, Timbaland and Pharrell Williams were bandmates in their impeccably named high-school ensemble Surrounded by Idiots. Source: Madonna Tribe

By Pera 9. Dance 2night: Not a Paul McCartney cover! This is a bit downbeat sounding, but it's still not a ballad. It's just a bit dark. Wise ol' Madonna tells us all that 'You don't have to be beautiful to be understood. You don't have to be rich & famous to be good'.

By Pera All of which is worth dwelling on, because how will The Madonna Effect play out when Hard Candy is released? It's tempting even to theorise that Madonna has made it so that there won't be much of an Effect. Hard Candy is no disaster, but a little more of that wouldn't have gone amiss.

By Pera In this up-tempo number, previously called 4 Minutes To Save The World, she exchanges dialogue with Timberlake and Timbaland for, as the title suggests, exactly 240 seconds. Devil is a reworked mid-tempo outtake from her last album, Confessions On A Dance Floor.

Madonna has long been known as the Material Girl..But we're crowning the Queen of Pop the queen of new material judging by her forthcoming album Hard Candy. Her last album Confessions On A Dance Floor in 2005 was filled with great disco classics such as Hung Up.

By Pera Claiming the films of Godard, Visconti, Pasolini and Fellini as her inspiration, Madonna hopes to "one day make something that comes close to their genius," according to the press notes for "Filth and Wisdom." On the evidence of this, her...

By Daryl D Now, Madonna enters the Charity Hall of Fame (or Shame) with “Hey You” and when this record arrived in my email box, I really didn’t want to listen to it. Madonna’s last album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, sold over ten million copies worldwide. Her tour in support of the album was the most suc...

By Daryl D Thankfully, The Confessions Tour-Live From London is filled with more fun than political messages. She plays a horse master during “Future Lovers,” “Get Together,” and “Like A Virgin.” She plays an acrobatic, crazy chick during “Sorry,” “Like It or Not,” and “Let It Will Be.” She’s surpri...