Reply With QuoteNot with those cheap sounding synths! We need real horns and strings :-)
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No, this isn't anything from her new greatest hits package. I just came across it on YouTube:
Says it's a demo that didn't make it into Bedtime Stories.
Has anyone else heard it before? What do you think? Is she true to Philly Soul?
"Because there's music in the air."
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Not with those cheap sounding synths! We need real horns and strings :-)
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You're right. Nothing artificial should ever be associated w/Madonna.
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"Because there's music in the air."
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The rhythm does remind me of early 70s Thom Bell/ Detroit Spinners-type stuff.
...ya gotta beat the street......
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It does sort of sound like a lost Spinners tune. Or a Simply Red song.Originally Written by SandraDee
I like how she sounds at 0:54
"And I beieved you..."
"Because there's music in the air."
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This version is not good and that's why it was probably ditched from the album but...with a good vintage remix (Joey Negro, Dimi) this could be a hell of a track! Or Tom Moulton, yes Tom would turn this into a jewel!
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what's the song? I don't see anything to click that will allow me to hear it.
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It's called Love Won't Wait.
I just tried the link, and it worked. Check your settings. Or go directly to YouTube and do a search, and tell me what you think of it.
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"Because there's music in the air."
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I don't feel it's philly-ish, it's a bit like Hall & Oates-Sound very pop-oriented with some motown-touch and a very poor arrangement. Doesn't fit Madonna.
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Well, boring old Madge will rob any idea and capitalise on everything her production team can think of.
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Oh yes, she's a magpie. She should be named business woman of the century.
...ya gotta beat the street......
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I listened, and I didn't think it was so awful...I sure prefer it to the cold, emotion-less electronic sound of some of her more recent records (especially "American Life"). She said she wanted the "Bedtime Stories" album to have more of an R&B vibe, which is why she hired TLC and Soul 2 Soul's producers Dallas Austin, BAbyface and Nellee Hooper. If she REALLY wanted to challenge herself and make some authentic soul music she'd work with some producers who wouldn't let her "coast"...maybe Gamble and Huff, Ashford and Simpson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones....she always picks producers with one foot in the pop world.
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Would love to see what Ashford and Simpson could do with her.
It's funny because she started off working with Reggie Lucas and Nile Rodgers, and they created some great sounds with her. But she's obsessed, like many artists, to only work with the newest and freshest.
I think her best work is with Stephen Bray, Shep Pettibone, and Patrick Leonard. Leonard got a great performance out of her on Like A Prayer, although he still had to add a gospel choir to up the legitimate "soul" quotient. Madonna could never create those sounds on her own. Pettibone got a smooth jazzy sound out of Madonna on Bad Girl. And Keep It Together with Bray is probably her most effortless sounding r&b-flavored song (and it doesn't hurt having Niki Haris sing back up.)
"Because there's music in the air."
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it's funny you mentioned the "Like a Prayer" album, because few people seemed to take notice of her duet with Prince on that album....I'll bet both he and she were expecting it to attract more attention. But the song seemed so spare and minimal (just like "Sticky Wicked", his song with Chaka Khan).....maybe that's why so few noticed it.
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