The teaser of Ghosttown video which will be premiered on Tidal looks interesting...and dark.

Yeah!! omg so excited for it!

She did a photoshoot and interview with Cosmopolitan which should be coming out soon.
Also, she is performing on the Tonight Show in the US this week. I think it's on Thursday. Still more to look forward to for Madonna fans!

Hard Candy: Give It To Me, 4 Minutes, Miles Away - The last Madonna album that I liked

Confessions On a Dancefloor: Pretty much the whole album (My favourite track on the album being Get Together)

Before: Holiday (my all time favourite), Frozen, True Blue, Lucky Star

Yeah unfortunately I didn't like it, I preferred Kylie's Kiss Me Once. Believe me the media could never sway my judgement on music

So do you mostly like dance/club music? I noticed Confessions is your favourite Madonna album. It's probably her most club dance sort of album. It's kind of similiar to some of Kylie's albums in a way. I love Rebel Heart because it has so many different styles, including lots of midtempo and ballads. She took some risks and stepped out of the box. I guess Kiss Me Once is okay if you just want light pop/dance club music, but to me it's very boring.

Can't believe this has been out almost a month. I'm still not board of it!

Videos don't excite me one bit, but i'm really glad she's pulling out all of the stops for Ghosttown. It's getting loads of play on Radio 2 too which is great. I really don't expect it to become a hit, but at least she's still getting played.

Germany are getting another 2 track single too so there'll be something else for the collection. I wonder if the UK store will release another bizarre 4-track single. That'll be lovely! She's never been one for b-sides, but with all these demos floating about I wonder if she'll stick on a bonus track.

Likewise, ever since those first four instant grats were released to iTunes, Ghosttown really stood out as something special. It's still one of my favourite songs of 2015 three months on.

I just wonder if Madonna is releasing a single version of Ghosttown as apposed to a remix bundle (I also have no desire to download a remix bundle of the song).

Whatever happens I'd love to see this become a bonafide hit as it's easily up there with Madonna's classic singles. It pisses all over Living For Love imo and I quite like that song anyways. I just think Ghosttown is in a different league.

Yeah that's a fair assessment of it, I like a range of styles of music from Country to Hip Hop. I guess when it comes to Pop music in particular, I enjoy listening to light, catchy and upbeat songs which I think Kylie is brilliant at. What styles of music do you like?

Echo the other comments. I've played this album so much I'm worried I may have worn out the CD!

Its very much Madonna back to her best. I hope Joan Of Arc is a single, quite like to see Devil Prays, Hold Tight and Illuminati released too.

See I'm the opposite, I'm finding it a chore to listen to now, still like all the songs but now the excitement has worn off I'm losing the will to listen to it, the Ghost town release will probably help with that.

No. It really isn't Madonna back at her best. If you had read the credits that I provided a link for on the previous page, you will have seen that in all but about five songs, she has very little input into writing and producing. RH is an album that is full of other people's work that she is taking the credit for. That is why I believe she did not want the credits printed and why 2014 was used as the (c) because in 2015 all songs had been totally changed by other people. Producing a Confessions, or a American Life or a Music would be Madonna back at her best.

How do you come to that conclusion? Madonna is credited as a songwriter on every one of the songs. It's your right to not like the album, but I don't think it's fair to say that she had no input into writing or producing the songs or say that she is taking credit for other people's work. You can't tell from credits how much input she had or didn't have unless you were there in the studio. Madonna has always worked with and been influenced by other people. Confessions had a lot of input from Stuart Price, American Life from Mirwais and Music from Mirwais, William Orbit and Guy Sigsworth. Just because you personally don't like the album, I think it's wrong for you to basically accuse her of plagarizing other people's work. Just because you personally don't like something doesn't mean Madonna wasn't involved in it. She said in many interviews she changed some of the songs after the leak. So it was her choice to do that.
Just because she is working with more people doesn't mean she's not in control of how her music sounds. Especially on this album, where we all saw pictures of her in the studio with the co-writers like Mozella writing the songs. Why not just say this record isn't to your taste which is fine, instead of accusing Madonna of being lazy and not focused and basically stealing other people's work which I think is totally unfair which you have zero evidence for.
Nowhere on those credits does it even show the production credits so where do you get that she had no input into the production? She usually co-producers her songs with other people.
I really don't understand where you get from the credits she had little involvement in the music?
Clearly, you became attached to the demos and are upset she changed them. That's why she hated they leaked out because she feared that will happen.
Maybe it's time for you to move on to other artists since you don't like her new music. But she is in control of her sound, whether you like it or not.

For me this is already the most played Madonna album since Confessions. Personally I think it's far superior to Confessions in every way. But that's a personal choice my favourite albums are Erotica, Bedtome Stories, American Life and Rebel Heart in no particular order. The reason is most probably because they seem more personal and in some way give you a bit more insight as to who Madonna is as a person. I love ROL but unfortunately a bit like Confessions due to popularity and radio play especially ROL it kind of means I tend to skip the singles which were released.
I think in her career she should just make music which makes her happy regardless of commercial success. It's interesting that some fans are so hung up on chart performance. What I do like about Madonna the most is the fact she is willing to try and experiment which has meant she hasnt stuck to one formula for making music meaning that all her albums with exception of her first few vary so much. I like the fact Hard Candy (personally not one of my favourites) had a completely different direction to MDNA and then Rebel Heart.
As for the media negativity I think it's quite sad that after a career spanning 30+ years instead of celebrating someone's achievements they continue to try and knock her. But I don't think it's just Madonna it seems to be anyone who has massive success people appear to be very judgemental and in a lot of comments on media forums just appear jealous and nasty because they have such sad lives themselves. I totally understand people not liking someone's music or thinking it's rubbish but I don't understand the reason for writing personal comments.
Any way rant over back to Rebel Heart, I know I am really excited for this Tour as I think there are so many excellent tracks I would like to hear live on tour.

Well said! I really could not have put it better. Madonna put her heart and soul into Rebel Heart. We saw all the posts she made about it daily on Instragram and when RB leaked Madonna mastered the first batch of 6 songs all on her own just so they could be released on ITunes within a 48 hour period. So to say she had nothing or very little to do with the album is purely stupid. Madonna has a very distinctive style and that style is all over RH.

I've actually had to put Wizzy on ignore sadly, I'm sick of being patronised by him just because he dislikes the album he thinks everyone else should too! I can engage in healthy debate but this is too much now. Its gone from one extreme to the next. It put me off posting in here for a week or so.

Yeah exactly right. How on earth can one tell how much effort someone has put in by simply looking at the credits!

By way of example, Nicki Minaj was credited in Bitch I'm Madonna for simply contributing the rap verse. Alicia Keys was credited in Living for Love for simply adding a Paino rift! Nuff Said.

Whether Madonna had a full hand in the writing credits or not, doesn't diminish my opinion of her or the epicness of the album

I don't care how OTT i sound, Rebel Heart for me is 2016's winner for Grammy album of the year.

Why take things so personally? On most songs, Madonna's name appears in the middle of the list, and on some at the end. The primary contributors are creditted first. I have never said she is plaglarising other people's work - that is an entirely different thing. I said that she is taking more credit for the songs on RH than she is entitled to.

Madonna's input into songs on her past three album has been far less than what came before. I am well aware of how she works. Like a Prayer was her first album where her lyrics would solely be primary. She wrote the lyrics to each song. This continued right the way up to Confessions. She was able to. She was in control. She worked with just a maximum of three people at a time and created solely original, well structured songs. They felt like Madonna songs. She relied on her co-writers to add the main melody whilst she would sing melodies for them to include. These songs had three people maximum involved.

During True Blue she was offered La Isla Bonita by Pat Leonard because Michael Jackson turned it down. She stripped it bare and she and Bruce Gaitsch re-worked it entirely to make it her own.

Nowadays that doesn't happen. How can you have 8 people writing one song and then claim she has overall control in her music? If you read exactly what I said originally, you will notice I confirmed that "it is telling that the best songs on the album are the ones where she had the greatest amount of input".

I'm not particularly upset that she changed the demos because of the leaks. But she did make some misjudged choices in those changes. How anyone can say HeartBreakCity is better in its chopped version is beyond me.

I have no desire to change my choice of favourite artist. It will always be Madonna. Not necessarily for her music, because I find myself becoming more disappointed in that each time she releases something, but because of who she is and what she means to me as a strong headed individual. I have also said (but this point gets ignored over and over again) that I think there are some cracking songs on the album. Since she has released the songwriting credits, it has pleased me to learn that the songs I really like are the ones that she had the greatest input. Joan of Arc for example.

I'm sorry if you felt patronised, I have never said that people shouldn't enjoy the album. A healthy debate is about exploring other people's opinions further and not just dismissing them. I am fully aware that she mastered the 6 songs that were released at Christmas all by herself. She is perfectly capable of doing that and much more. It seems though, that many only seem to be able to debate if the people they are debating with agree with them.

I will once more say why I changed my view on RH. I listened to two Madonna albums back to back. These albums contained well structured, strong, anthemic Madonna songs. Then I listened to RH immediately afterwards and it hit me that the thing missing from the album was a well structured song, with the exception of Joan of Arc, Ghosttown and Messiah. But three songs out of 19 isn't enough for me to herald it "Madonna's greatest". I don't think it is. But, it isn't her worst either, I've said that many times too! Funny how people nitpick posts to interpret it differently!

Quite right too. RH is by far, the best album release of 2015 to date. Whether it wins the grammy though depends on the prejudices of the committee.

So an album that you gave 2.5/5 a couple of weeks ago and said you probably wouldn't listen to again this year - is 'by far the best release of 2015'.

Ok...

Yes. Because no other release this year has interested me at all thus far. I am also able to use my own God given intelligence and see things from a wider perspective - that my personal feelings are not the be all and end all. It is also a Madonna album, so regardless as to how I feel about it personally, I am always going to have positive bias towards it. It isn't a bad album anyway. It's a very good album. It just isn't a very good Madonna album considering I have each and every one of them to compare it to.

So what the Hell have the 'prejudices of the committee' got to do with anything then.
Basically your saying an average album (2.5/5) should win the grammy but probably won't because the 'committee' will be prejudiced towards it.

Words fail me...

For someone who has the problem of "words failing them", you certainly have a lot to say!

You know perfectly well what I meant. Madonna is often overlooked at events such as grammy's and Brits and so on. There is an ageist and often a desire to be seen as trendy and relevant amongst committees and panels of organisations. Sometimes, something that should win, doesn't. And, I made it perfectly clear in the post you were replying to, that my view is irrelevant because I am able to see the wider picture, even if you found that convenient to ignore. You're not the Labour Party's new spin Doctor are you?

No I simply fail to understand the 'wider perspective' you write about, what wider perspective? That Rebel Heart has spawned loads of hits and connected with the public? That's it's sitting in the 90's on Metacritic? What are you basing that this album should win a grammy on? An album you yourself have been bashing.....
I don't get it.

And Madge has had loads or nominations and a fair few wins at the Grammys....so not really overlooked at all.