Tagged: Madame X

“The best is yet to come”

The release of Madonna’s Madame X is still a few weeks ahead but journalists and writers are receiving an exclusive first taste of the new record – X-themed cupcakes included. Read More

Crave

‘Cause you’re the one I crave

New song releases, magazine covers, tour date announcements and pre-sales, live events such as the Medellín video premire on MTV, the Billboard Music Awards and the Eurovision Song Contest final: everything in the world of Madame X moves quicker than a ray of light and it’s not easy to keep up.
Fortunately, Madonna herself reminds us that feelings never fade. Read More

Medellín video

Why Madonna may have the last commercial laugh in 2019

Mark Beech at Forbes discusses why Madonna – the best-selling female recording artist of all time – may well have the last commercial laugh in 2019 despite those critics who wrote her star off this weekend after her Eurovision performance, and said that many younger pretenders now have captured her pop crown. Read More

Let the choir sing…

No Madonna performance – especially when televised live in front of the entire world to see – is safe from criticism. But what you’ve read this morning (or overnight) following the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final deserves a word or two by yours truly, and it is a chance to stop and think about it that we should not miss. Read More

“A message of peace is not political”

Following Madonna and Quavo‘s performance of Future at the Eurovision Song Contest final tonight – which ended with dancers brandishing the Palestinian and Israeli flags on their backs as they embraced each other – something that was widely seen as a political statement on the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a representative for Madonna provided Entertainment Weekly with a photo of the performance and a note. Read More

Madonna makes call for Israel-Palestine unity at Eurovision

In her much-anticipated and politically contentious performance at Eurovision in Israel, Madonna made an apparent call for peace in the region.

As she and guest star Quavo sang the lyrics “Not everyone is coming to the future / Not everyone is learning from the past”, a pair of her dancers – one wearing a costume bearing a Palestinian flag, another with an Israeli flag – embraced as they climbed a set of stairs at the climax of the performance. Read More