Madonna

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This album directly influenced Austra's new album, "Chin Up Buttercup": austra.bandcamp.com The title song from the album is based on the 1971 folk track Sepheryn, which was written by Curtiss Muldoon and Dave Curtis. Madonna liked the song, and reworked it with producer William Orbit for the album. -- William Orbit played all the guitars on the album's tracks. He remembers his fingers actually bleeding after playing so much.

Austra's new album: Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams shared a mutual love of pop divas, Eurodance and hard-to-find techno. Madonna’s 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, was a key influence in the later stages of album making: “Ray of Light was produced almost entirely on a Juno-106 and a Korg MS-20 which we’d been using, so the reference point was aligned,” says Stelmanis. The album sounds like a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart. austra.bandcamp.com

“Survival” is the opening track of Madonna's 1994 release Bedtime Stories. 2025's Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter is an EP commemorating the 30th anniversary of her sixth studio album, Bedtime Stories (1994). The EP includes the song "Love Won't Wait", which was abandoned and not used on the Bedtime Stories album.

Madonna opened the 41st GRAMMYs with a Japanese-inspired performance of "Nothing Really Matters," drawing inspiration from its music video. youtu.be

On this day in 1984 (41 years ago), Madonna released her second album, Like A Virgin, produced by Nile Rodgers of Chic fame. Nile Rodgers also handy in a game of 6 Degrees of Music.

For Tara in Seattle -- "What are you doing?" "Oh, you know.. just voguing in the kitchen at 9:30. Like ya do.." Thanks KEXP! - Davey Jay -- "Strike a pose." Watch the official music video for "Vogue": www.youtube.com

From 1985! The song became Madonna's second number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top of the charts of Australia and Canada.

Out to Zeynep! "Oops, I didn't know I couldn't talk about sex." -- Madonna highlights the double standard of scorning a woman for embracing her sexuality, whispering, "Would it sound better if I were a man?" She elaborated: "I'm being punished for being a single female, for having power and being rich and saying the things I say, being a sexual creature - actually, not being any different from anyone else, but just talking about it. If I were a man, I wouldn't have had any of these problems. Nobody talks about Prince's sex life." -- She told the Los Angeles Times: "It's my definitive statement in regards to the incredible pay-back I've received for having the nerve to talk about the things that I did in the past few years with my Sex book and my record. It's getting it off my chest. It is defensive, absolutely. But it's also sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek. And I'm not sorry. I do not apologize for any of it."