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Express Yourself mixed with Born This Way…not sure what I think about that. 

My guess is that Madge thinks mixing the two on tour is her way of being tongue-in-cheek about the fact that the two songs share the same melody. And then throwing in some lyrics to her song She’s Not Me to add insult to injury. 

To which I say…well played, Madonna. LOL.

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Any thoughts?

“Act of Contrition”
“Girl Gone Wild” (meets “Material Girl”)
“Revolver”
“Gang Bang”
“Papa Don’t Preach” (edit)
“Hung Up” (MDNA remix)
“I Don’t Give A” (rock remix)
“Best Friend”/”Heartbeat” (interlude)
“Express Yourself” (meets “Born This Way”)
“Turn Up the Radio”
“Give Me All Your Luvin’” (Just Blaze remix)
“Open Your Heart” (meets “Sagarra Jo” by Kalakan)
“Masterpiece” (feat. Kalakan)”
“Justify My Love” (William Orbit remix—interlude)
“Vogue”
“Candy Shop”
“Human Nature”
“Like a Virgin”
“Nobody Knows Me” (interlude)
“I’m Addicted”
“I’m a Sinner” (meets “Cyber-Raga”)
“Like a Prayer”
“Celebration

“I appreciate your analysis of the album release ‘strategy’ @Madonna Express Yourself. I wasn’t involved in its formulation in any way myself. All I will say is that certain thoughts about it that I see expressed online by committed fans such as yourself, were blindingly obvious to me from the very get go, well before the release. But I’m no Jimmy Iovine, with the ability to advocate my convictions forcefully, and as co-producer, co-writer etc am aware that it is not in my ‘job spec’.

But you won’t see me exactly jumping up and down with delight over the way that things have panned out. We were very pushed for time, due to a rather interesting and shall we just say, ‘traditional’ method of recording that the esteemed engineer Demo was partial to, and various pressing commitments that took up the artists limited time, such as perfume ranges and teen fashion contests and other such endeavours which are beyond my own limited understanding of pop star agendas.

The recording sessions for the six songs I did were hugely enjoyable for all of us. M was on form and better than ever with her singing and writing and musicality, and was having a great time. We had songs lined up that were breathtaking. You’ll hear some of them on Chris Brown’s new album, and they are the best ones, Kreayshawn’s (INCREDIBLE) new album, my own recently completed ‘Strange Cargo’ album. And some other surprising places. SNAPPED up by the artists concerned. Most of them, I believe, destined to become classics (let me know in a couple months wether you concur with that)

The team I assembled in NY for MDNA were, and are as good as it gets now. Writers and musicians and performers I picked because they take my breath away with their talent. And are totally of-the-moment in everything good that is going on in contemporary music at the moment. And usually hard to book because they are so in demand. And all of us fully committed to putting ourselves through extraordinary efforts to make MDNA the greatest album of the year.”

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This is kind of disheartening to hear, as a big fan of Madonna, it makes me feel as though this album wasn’t really handled with care or thought, that she simply threw it together when she had spare time. And the lack of promotion, the jumping right into the tour (which has been in the planning process since October apparently), makes me feel a little cheated. That this whole project has just been a business deal. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really looking forward to the tour, mostly to get to see songs performed from past albums. But she knows how much a tour of her’s can bring in. 

Does anybody else know how I feel or want to add their opinions, I would love to hear from others?