What's with the Madonna bashing? She's a genuine music legend and Apple did a smart thing to team up with her.
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Apple Teams Up With Madonna for Today at Apple Music Lab Classes
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Absolutely disgusting. Cook is a degenerate.
“We can’t have anything hateful or offensive on any of our platforms and we will use our market position to enforce strict censorship.”
*2 seconds later*
“Heeeere’s Madonna!”
“We can’t have anything hateful or offensive on any of our platforms and we will use our market position to enforce strict censorship.”
*2 seconds later*
“Heeeere’s Madonna!”
Apple wants big money big name celebrities that appeal to a certain demographic. Clearly, you and I are not in that group. That's OK, I don't look to tech companies for good musical taste.
I may be wrong but both Apple and many musicians seem to be inspired more by making money than the product they make
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She’s like an old soldered imac with nogradability.
5400 RPM spinning rust in an SSD world.
For a real challenge they should offer the option to remix her Eurovision performance. A fully spec'ed Mac Pro to the first person to make it listenable
Well, during her "career" she's remade herself many times, so she should keep trying! As the Stooges said, "If at first you don't succeed, keep on suckin' til you do suck seed."
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Yes, she's a legend in her own mind. Granted she had some top pop hits, but can she match the raw voice talent of Lady Gaga or Grande? Rhetorical question, so no need to answer.
Most people's musical tastes seem to get locked in at a young(-ish) age, and they just keep listening to those same old songs - or, at best, new songs by the same old artists - for the rest of their lives. Combine that fact that people Madonna's age are pretty much in their peak earning years right now, and you can see why Apple panders to that demographic.
Not to mention that Tim Cook and most of Apple's current leadership are also in that general age range.
Not to mention that Tim Cook and most of Apple's current leadership are also in that general age range.
She's a powerful and smart person, but to keep rehashing her same old songs is almost ruining them. Sometimes you just need to stop and let your legacy live on in glory.
Why did you put career in quotes? She's one of the top selling female artists in history.
I’m going to answer anyway... I’ve never been a huge listener to her music, and I don’t own any of her albums, but I would put her heads and shoulders above the two you mention. Lady Gaga almost certainly wouldn’t exist if Madonna hadn’t paved the road ahead of her.
I’d put her on my list of Very Important Artists That I Don’t Enjoy, along with Elvis and the Stones. I’ve never considered “raw voice talent” all that important in any of the music I do listen to, so I can’t judge her on that. As a songwriter, musical artist, cultural phenomenon, and business person she’s in rarified company.
That said, my disagreement with your opinion is offset by that great Three Stooges quote.
She still want to blow up the White House? Asking for a friend.
No, the other Madonna...
Probably, considering nothing has improved there.
Well, even if you despise Madonna and/or her music? It's sort of interesting she was willing to let one of her songs get deconstructed and remixed this way, because she's done this before too.
If anyone remembers the old ACID Pro sound loop editor package for Windows? They used to run contests to remix songs from packages they'd have you download as ZIP files, and upload your best results. Madonna shared "Ray of Light" and a couple of other tracks back then, and helped judge the contest winners herself.
If anyone remembers the old ACID Pro sound loop editor package for Windows? They used to run contests to remix songs from packages they'd have you download as ZIP files, and upload your best results. Madonna shared "Ray of Light" and a couple of other tracks back then, and helped judge the contest winners herself.
I've got 10 of Madonnas albums and she was very good at what she did. Still have to agree that she hasn't been relevant in a long time.
For a real challenge they should offer the option to remix her Eurovision performance. A fully spec'ed Mac Pro to the first person to make it listenable
LOL Maybe Apple will ship the next iPhone with it installed as well!
