Hmm... I could create a long list of female artists (with Kate Bush and Bjork at one end, and Billie Eilish and Gazelle Twin at the other) worth listening intently to on the subject of music creation and production, but Madonna simply wouldn't be on that list. Nothing wrong with her, but leading a "lab" class? Very, very strange choice... Strange, as in, her publicist is trying to shove her into relevance by touting her as a "senior artist"...
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Apple Teams Up With Madonna for Today at Apple Music Lab Classes
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Well....Apple wants to get people of ALL ages and demographics to explore music creation. They are using GarageBand on the iPad. NOT Logic Pro on a Mac. That should tell you right there its more of an intro level session. This is the 4th in the series. The first was Rza and Wu-Tang. The second Florence and The Machine. Then Swizz Beats. Now Madonna. If you are interested in making remixes, then here is an opportunity to get your hands on vocals from one of the biggest artists of ALL TIME and remix it how you see fit. Its more about learning how to remix (and what it is) ...NOT how to make Madonna's music. In the MUSIC BUSINESS you sometimes don't get to pick the acts you are hired to work with so it doesn't matter what you think of their abilities, you do your job. If you are a music producer TODAY and Madonna called...NO ONE would hang up. All this hate over a FREE session to get people to use Apple products...it's hilarious...
I’m not sure what Madonna could teach the class about music production but she’s a great person to have at the class and should draw in lots of people.
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I don’t think there is much writing and producing from Madonna however that said I agree she is a legend and the class will be interesting and great nonetheless.
Being relevant doesn’t matter when innovation in pop music stopped about 10 years ago.
Is there any recent history between Apple and Madonna? For the 2006 Confessions tour, Madonna used multiple computers running an altered version of Logic for playback, effects and onstage mixing by Stuart Price. When Apple found out about this, they came up with a simplified version called MainStage in 2007.
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/stuart-price
The guys from Apple came down to see one of the shows and they said ‘So how are you using Logic?’ And I said ‘Well, basically, I’m using it as a mixer and there’s 22 sessions open at the same time.’ They went a bit pale and looked a bit worried and said in this German tone ‘We didn’t really design Logic to be used in this way.’
She continues to use a system based on the same concept.
https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/monitoring-madonna-426891
“we interface via MADI with the playback computers” “A second MADI interface system connects via RME MADI Bridges to two Mac Pros running Apple Logic. This allows us to interface third-party plug-ins directly with the console.”
Sometimes it helps to know who’s driving the bus.
Is there any recent history between Apple and Madonna? For the 2006 Confessions tour, Madonna used multiple computers running an altered version of Logic for playback, effects and onstage mixing by Stuart Price. When Apple found out about this, they came up with a simplified version called MainStage in 2007.
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/stuart-price
The guys from Apple came down to see one of the shows and they said ‘So how are you using Logic?’ And I said ‘Well, basically, I’m using it as a mixer and there’s 22 sessions open at the same time.’ They went a bit pale and looked a bit worried and said in this German tone ‘We didn’t really design Logic to be used in this way.’
She continues to use a system based on the same concept.
https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/monitoring-madonna-426891
“we interface via MADI with the playback computers” “A second MADI interface system connects via RME MADI Bridges to two Mac Pros running Apple Logic. This allows us to interface third-party plug-ins directly with the console.”
Sometimes it helps to know who’s driving the bus.
Yeah, Kate Bush, wow, there's a lady that's kept the quality really high even in rather recent times. 50 words for snow is in my view among her best work (and I've got everything she's released basically). I would be all over the place with excitement if Apple had chosen Bush or Björk, that's for sure.
I'm not a Madonna fan but she's surely a huge piece of pop music history and a talented artist, like it or not.
She managed to deliver hits for more than two decades and she's been influential for many other artists, people and culture in general.
Again, I'm not a fan but people using comments sections to criticize clearly successful people to feel better about themselves should probably go back doing that inside motorway bars where they belong.
She managed to deliver hits for more than two decades and she's been influential for many other artists, people and culture in general.
Again, I'm not a fan but people using comments sections to criticize clearly successful people to feel better about themselves should probably go back doing that inside motorway bars where they belong.
I'm curious, how would you interpret these posts?
Oh, please. Not everyone on the planet loves Madonna's music, get over it. Trying to spin that into something else just makes you look like a crazy person yelling at passing traffic.
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[doublepost=1560699108][/doublepost]How many tours have you been selling out of late?
Yup, and again, it's nothing against Madonna specifically. I've just never seen her as a "musician", in the common sense of the word. Her (huge) talent was in her ability to shift with the times—in her fashion, attitude, messaging, etc.—and tap into the zeitgeist... And that is an art, for sure, but it's quite distinct from music, and certainly from the technical aspect of music that you'd want from a lab. But then again, maybe her lab will reveal that there's been a massive misunderstanding/underestimation of her (perhaps even based on her pop-cultural skills)... ?? Maybe she possesses musical knowledge we just never knew about before, because it was hidden behind the aforementioned veneer of fashion, culture, etc., by her label and/or her (obvious) business savvy.
I'm happy to be wrong about her...
Madonna is the ultimate queen. Of everything.
The pop music world today would be unrecognisable if she hadn't been around.
The pop music world today would be unrecognisable if she hadn't been around.
Depends on your definition of “okay” and what country you live in. For instance, in the US you can still be fired from your job (or not hired in the first place)—or blown up by a bomb in a dance club
Apparently he’s also a big fan of Florence and the Machine, MNEK and Swizz Beatz as well! Some people like all different kinds of music, some just listen to one type, like rock, country, classical or hip hop... that’s cool too.
IIR, her guitar tech slipped that in without her knowing. Still, after the first time it was played, she had to have heard from someone, somewhere that it was a Pantera riff. That being said, she keeps playing it.
