Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - a Madge after midnight - Madonna

[Svend]

The song sounds great and I agree the sample is well used. But does the track make anyone else think of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waitin' For"? Gwen kind of stole a page from Madonna on that last album...

[pinknsparkly]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

I hope you guys are talking about ESTHER. Wasn't that her new Kabbalala-name :o

:(

LOL!

Seriously, I wish everyone would sample Abba. Can't get enough

[KayJayEm54]

OK, it's cheesy and 'Call on Me' it ain't, but hey the track is ace and we just need some video footage to promote the single world-wide - and this does it.

Don't know if we'll see everyone dancing their socks off in the streets and public transport, but it gets my feet tapping!!

Go Madonna go - all the way to number 1.

www.vh1.com/artists/az/madonna/videos.jhtml?popThis=popVideo(64760)&_requestid=32 786

[Videoskooter]

Mmmh...I just saw that video and heard the song for the 1st time and....SORRY.

Madonna wants to be hip again and thinks: hey folks, I'm gonna re-invent Disco! Very honorable, but instead of composing a great new Disco tune, she (again) takes a sample from a classic, thanks ABBA for the use while letting the world now how rare it is to get Abba's permission (marketing).

Then she thinks: what was hot in the eighties? Oh yes, Bobby Orlando! I will use his trademark beat and re-invent it, I'll slow it down!

Now what am I going to do in the clip: mmmmh, it's Disco so let's work on the SNF theme. Think Karen-Lynn Gorney before a mirror!

Last: her children. When they see the clip they will say: Is that you mam? Where's Ali G? "That was not your mom in the M.U.S.I.C.-video! That was another me! Who is that person, call Kurt Loder so I can tell this exclusively on tele"

Next year Madonna will re-invent Punk

Sorry folks (say goodnight to the bad guy!)

[Spellbound]

No matter how hard she tries she as an artist will always be on the outside of the classic 60's and 70's dance club culture.

Outsider looking in.

It must have really sucked back then to live through an era of such great records and then see it all come to an end in the early 1980's.

"Lucky star" my ass.

We need a "Holiday" where everybody celebrates the 1970's and shits on the 1980's.

I would walk over her debut album (or anything she has released in her career) to browse through a mystery crate of used 1970's records.

The only thing that was great about the 1980's for me as a kid growing up was the abundance of 1970's rerun television programming that was still being shown on the air. In the early 1980's, 1970's music was still being played on the radio during regular rotation. (none of this retro station trash like today) 1970's automobiles could still be seen in great numbers on the streets. 1970's movies were still constantly being shown on television. etc.....

I remember going roller skating alone in 1987 (without any of my friends to distract me) so I had a lot to time observe my surroundings. I remember saying to myself "this 1980's music they are playing really sucks" "I wish I was old enough to have been able to skate here back in 1977" "This place sucks now"

[discolady75]

hi all,

I just feel that Disco is coming back for good. Here in Paris, we lived the "French touch" craze in mid-late 90's. Dimitri from Paris and others were spinning great underground disco stuff.
"Respect" parties used to be every wednesday at Queen club, where the best djs were spinning. this party is now a serie of summer gigs on a boat parked on River Seine.
Some (expensive) disco actors are appearing now on Champs Elysées posh clubs, but the question in always the same "will they let me in ?" as the door policy is very strict on these places and prices very high.
I work hard on Discolounge parties since 1 year and half, we had our first clubbing edition last week on a small club. Well, things went very nice except the fact the club owner paid a guy to watch us out "in case of". Fortunately people decided disco would definitely take the place and they hardly danced till late.
House producers, big stars like madonna, even models get always inspired by Disco era. This is the "seminal" form of todays club music, and the modern version of hedonism, so hard to find during this actual economic crisis... Patience and creativity are the key !

[RetroRuss]

The video and single has been released in the UK and there was a feature about it on breakfast TV. They interviewed someone from a fashion magazine talking about her clothes - which in my book means that the music means nothing. To be honest (and I am going to upset a few people here), if I was going to be the vanguard of a Disco revival, I wouldn't choose an Abba song. Abba are to disco music as what Dairylea is to cheese.

I am not an Abba fan, I don't have one Abba record - however they're music is simple, catchy Pop songs that appeal to the masses but disco it ain't.

I think if Madonna wanted to revive Disco she could have chosen a better tune from BITD to play with.

[QUINNY]

This morning, I noticed a track from Robbie Williams new album has the line "listening to Oran 'Juice ' Jones and Jocelyn Brown" or words to that effect. Maybe a Disco revival (#17) is on the cards?

[darrens]

Originally Posted by Headlamp

I think if Madonna wanted to revive Disco she could have chosen a better tune from BITD to play with.

I think Madonna's more interested in reviving her career than reviving disco.

I have no doubt that her single will hit number 1 in the pop charts, and as she is now in her late 40s she's hardly likely to be "hip and happening", so the route she has taken here is no doubt the best one open to her. Can you blame her?

I suspect that "ABBA Gold" and other associated CDs, DVDs, etc. will get a big boost as a result of this single, and Benny and Bjorn will be laughing all the way to Sveriges Bank.

Anyway, as you said, Abba's not disco.... :P

[Svend]

'K, it's true ABBA are not a "disco" act but a "pop" act. However, they have made records aimed specifically at the clubs. A number of these were quite successful: (1) Lay All Your Love On Me/On and On and On was a #1 club record in 1980 and the Disconet re-edit of LAYLOM is a highly prized collector's item; (2) The Visitors/When All Is Said and Done was a Top 10 club record in 1982; (3) although it didn't make the national club chart, Voulez-Vous (1979) is a disco record by virtue of its production, extended length, lyric, intrumentation, etc. And yet, ABBA is not "disco"? If the only people who are disco are the ones whose every record is aimed at the clubs, well that's a pretty small party.

And as for being simple, catchy music--many of the simplest things, when taken apart or looked at closely, reveal incredible complexity. Many ABBA songs are incredibly complex in terms of production, structure, harmonies (it takes a 2-octave range to sing Dancing Queen), and so on. Many of their lyrics are no great shakes, but ABBA has always said the words are not the point but part of the overall sound. They are not Fiona Apple or Bruce Springsteen, writing confessional/autobiographical lyrics. ABBA have a distinctively European approach to songwriting. For many Europeans, the soul is in the melody.

[Videoskooter]

Madonna revived Disco at last nights MTV-awards. She climbed out of a giant Discoball, so folks, this means that Disco is back :o :-?


My heart goes out to Borat, the real star of the show :lol: and whosaid that Madonna was the most talented transvestite that has ever opened an awards-show :o and when announcing the Pussycat Dolls he said: Get your pants down, here come the singing hookers. A man of fine taste IMHO!

For full coverage on man's yesterday's quotes:
http://www.boratonline.co.uk/. They're too gross to post here :oops:




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[Davicillo]

The Madonna single is the best thing she's done since the 'Ray of light' set. Sounds great on radio, and will certainly crossover to many more people coz of the Abba sample. Well done Maddi top toon. can't wait for the album maddi & Donna together, sheer heaven!!!

[Videoskooter]

Come to Belgium! It will be sold here in avant-première this week. Next Thursday at midnight.

Still don't like the song though, so I doubt that I will check the album. I'm a bit fed up with Miss Marketing.




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[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by Headlamp

I am not an Abba fan, I don't have one Abba record

neither do i, come to think of it i dont own a madonna one either :lol:
i was just watching a programme on t.v [top selling acts 2000-2005] on madonna they were saying shes now testing her records out on groups of people implying even she dosnt know where she is going.

[Spellbound]

Madonna revived Disco at last nights MTV-awards. She climbed out of a giant Discoball, so folks, this means that Disco is back

WOW!

You let an EVIL corporation dictate to you what is hot?

MTV can burn in hell as far as I am concerned.