Paparazzi...2000

 Vacation in Sicily

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With Lola in London

I'll Remember...2000

'Music' topped the Billboard Hot 100 on September, 16, 2000.  It was her first Billboard Hot 100 since 1995 (and her 12th and most recent leader).  By reaching number one, it made Madonna the second artist to achieve number one hits on the Hot 100 in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The first was Janet Jackson, who had done the same achievement with "Doesn't Really Matter", which preceded "Music" as the Hot 100's number one single. "Music" was also the longest-running number one song on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play in the 2000s, with a longevity of five weeks at number one.  It eventually became the second most-successful dance song of the 2000s in the United States, reaching number two on the Hot Dance Club Play Decade-end Chart, behind Madonna's own "Hung Up" (2005).

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LIVE at Brixton Academy

For the Record...Don't Tell Me

Release Date: 

Hot 100 Chart Peak: 4

More ranch-hand glitch-hop from Music, except this time Madonna’s a lonesome troubadour defending her very being while invoking some tried-and-true country music imagery. The whole whirs and gyrates like a lasso, and it’s an unmistakable radio moment of the early 2000s.  

"Don't Tell Me" was the second single from the "Music" album and was co-written by Madonna's brother-in-law, recording artist Joe Henry. He would later release his own version of the track, re-titled "Stop," on his 2001 album "Scar."  Henry played the demo for his wife and she said, "You know, I can really hear Madonna singing this song. You should send it to her, you know, she's making a record in London right now." However, he claimed, "If I was going to pitch something to her, I could probably dig something up, but it certainly wouldn't be this." 

Later, his wife sent Madonna a copy of the demo, but it was so musically different from the record she was making that she didn't know how she could make any use out of it. After some time, he was talking to Madonna on the phone and she asked to rearrange the track to fit in better with the album, recording the song months later. Henry claimed in an interview that he was surprised that, lyrically, it remained completely intact.

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On the Cover of a Magazine...2000

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Rare 'Music' demo sessions with Madonna talking in the beginning, different lyrics,different vocal takes, rough vocals, and a different mix.

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Madonna Tribe: Fact of the Day

The Paradise Not For Me video shot as a backdrop for Drowned Tour is considered by many one of her best video works.
Here are some tidbits, the video director Dago González shared with us at MadonnaTribe.
The song is about suicide so we show Madonna getting ready to enter the " other side". It is a performance video so the story is really told by the lyrics and Madonna's intention as she delivers each line.
 Arianne Phillips worked on the wardrobe. We were going to use the kimono from the "Nothing Really Matters" video, but Arianne found this elder Japanese woman here in Los Angeles and she had this fantastic wedding kimonos that were from centuries ago, so we presented them to Madonna an she absolutely loved the one we ended up using on the video.
 Madonna was walking on these Japanese shoes which are wooden and they're very difficult to walk on. She started walking on them and she was doing a kind of shake and I told her "in the next shot I want you to walk exactly this way." In post production we ramped it so it had more of a robotic feel. It worked great and it ended up being incorporated onto the stage choreography.
 While we were editing for the tour, she kept telling me to hold back on the cuts (I did not get it at the time, I felt it could become too slow) but once I went back and looked at the footage I realized how right she was- There are takes were you don't have to do a single cut because there is so much emotion and subtext behind every line that she delivers.
 I was never really happy with the last scene of the video where the spirit is supposed to escape her. We tried different versions at that time and nothing was really working, so we ended up with the one that worked the best, but I re-did it this time so what in the original video happens to be like rays of light coming out, out of her mouth comes out this black ink, and is very cool.

 

Thanks Madonna Tribe!

On the Cover of a Magazine - 2000

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'The Next Best Thing' After Party

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Turner Prize Speech

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Amazing acoustic performance of 'Don't Tell Me' on David Letterman

Wonder if this is what her intimate performance is going to be like next week in France.  That would be awesome and a nice change.  Madonna Unplugged. 

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Video On Trial

Music

Gives Good Face-2000

On the Cover of a Magazine - 2000