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Her new album, Confessions 2, from which two songs—“I Feel So Free” and “Bring Your Love (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)”—have already been released: do you think it’s on par with or even surpasses “Hung Up” and “Sorry”? Those were the first two songs from her 2005 album, Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Or do you think it doesn’t measure up? I’d say that this new album (from what little we’ve seen) doesn’t even come close to the 2005 one. And many fans feel the same way.

They always use any excuse to defend Madonna against her current decline over the past two decades.

Before, Madonna’s fans used to boast that no female singer had sold more albums, set more records, or had more singles, etc. But since last year, many mainstream media outlets have reported that Taylor Swift has surpassed Madonna in numbers, popularity, downloads, streams, sales (current sales, not total sales, because obviously that’s something no artist will ever achieve in the digital age), etc., and you can even see that on Google, in The New York Times, and in news outlets around the world.

And many fans then say that the numbers don’t matter, but rather other things like musical quality, creativity, and such—which is true— but then if the numbers don’t matter, they shouldn’t get upset when people say there are many singers better than Madonna in every way—with better songs, better albums, better voices, better production, better musical quality, etc.—it’s just that because they don’t have Madonna’s fame or Madonna’s resources and aren’t as daring as she is (they are more demure), they aren’t as popular as Madonna. Still, Taylor also has her own legacy, and it’s more powerful than Madonna’s—even if many people find it boring or don’t like it, that’s just how it is. It’s all about the numbers, folks.

Now, if we really look at the numbers—acknowledging what I said above—Taylor Swift comes out on top, along with many other artists who have been ahead of Madonna for the past 20 years.

You know what I mean? Do you get what I’m saying? So make up your minds, but no matter what you decide, Madonna loses.

Then, when fans don’t know what else to say, they bring up how much money Madonna has. Wow! I didn’t know that having money made you better than everyone else. And if that’s the case, Taylor makes almost three times as much as her.

I’m talking about the die-hard fans, because there are Madonna fans like me who don’t idolize her either—we just tell the truth, even though many die-hard fans dislike it and almost think that Madonna is the only singer in the world who exists.

According to X, sources close to the situation (the kind who spread celebrity gossip that usually turns out to be true) say that Madonna wanted to put on a provocative show at Coachella with Sabrina to promote her new album.

According to sources close to her, she wanted to rip off her bra just like Justin Timberlake did to Janet Jackson, or pull down Sabrina Carpenter’s panties in front of all her fans and then say something like, “Dance, bitch! Because you’re my bitch!”

But obviously Warner told her she couldn’t do that, especially to Sabrina, because it would make her look bad. But Madonna insisted, and in fact, Sabrina’s team told her at the last minute through her earpiece to avoid doing something like that or they’d sue her, because we could see Madonna was angry when she went on stage and eager to “do something,” just like when she did it to Britney. And Madonna was looking for a signal from Sabrina, who had no idea what Madonna wanted to do to her, and since it didn’t happen, well, it didn’t happen.

Madonna was practically bursting with energy. Let’s remember that Madonna did the same thing to a singer on a previous tour, who was uncomfortable because Madonna wanted to pull down her panties, and many criticized her at the time (if any fan knows the name, we’d appreciate it, because I couldn’t find the video on YouTube again and I was too lazy to look for it), likewise, other men have publicly accused Madonna of trying to kiss them, as well as other women, such as a fan whose corset Madonna removed during a concert, and the model Amanda from "Justify My Love," who also accused her of sexual harassment for several years.

Would you have liked it if Madonna had stripped Sabrina naked at her own concert?

Among her demands is that the hotel where she's staying must remove all the furniture and decor and replace them with new furniture and decor of her choosing before her arrival. She also requires more than 20 phone lines and 20 phones in her room. Waiters, waitresses, hotel staff, and anyone who approaches her must ask permission to look at her and must always lower their gaze and bow their heads in her presence. No one born under the sign of Scorpio or other zodiac signs that bring bad luck is allowed to approach her. She has often been seen drunk, screaming, cursing, and banging her head against the walls upon entering the hotel. She is always 2 or 3 hours late for her concerts. And much more…

All of this is documented from her recent tours.

I'm referring to the resurgence of her career in 2005 with her first single, "Hung Up," from the album \*Confessions on a Dance Floor\*.

We all know that in the first 20 years of her career, Madonna had two resounding flops (Erotica and American Life, with Erotica also dragging down Bedtime Stories). So you could say that in the ’90s, Madonna only found success at the end of the decade with her albums Ray of Light and Music, the latter being her last truly successful album, although neither Ray of Light nor Music were as successful as True Blue, Like a Virgin, and Like a Prayer…

What I mean is that, in 2003, Madonna sank back into failure with American Life, and she herself said in a 2005 interview that she needed to grab attention somehow and that’s why she’d chosen the ABBA sample—to grab the world’s attention with her first single—and that after that single, she could finally say, “Now listen to me” (the rest of the album).

In other words, “Hung Up” was just a commercial hook to get people to take notice of her, and since an artist’s first single is always the strongest, she had other singles like “Sorry” and “Jump” that, despite being successful, didn’t have the same impact as “Hung Up.”

So, perhaps if ABBA hadn’t granted Madonna the rights to her sample, the Confessions album wouldn’t have been as successful as it was; it would have had moderate success at best, because there’s no stronger single on the entire album than that one.

And so one could say that Madonna’s last hit would have been in 2000 with “Music.” Madonna was fortunate that ABBA agreed to save her career by granting her the rights. From that album onward, in 2008 and beyond, all her albums have been commercial failures.

She still has hits and sales, but she hasn’t managed to achieve even 1/20th of what she once had—that’s what we mean by failure. And other singers far surpass her in sales, streams, and popularity.

We all know that it was MTV that launched Madonna’s career. It was a new, youthful channel that focused on the transgressive, the novel, and what broke with convention. And that’s why it became so famous. (Let’s not forget that MTV hated Michael Jackson for being Black, and yet MJ was already a thousand times more famous and popular than Madonna, just through the radio; practically speaking, it was very easy for Madonna compared to MJ).

What would have happened if MTV had never existed? Madonna was successful on the radio, yes, but not as much as when she started appearing on MTV. Almost no one would have seen her videos; perhaps her fame would have started later, and maybe, by arriving so late, she wouldn’t have been as groundbreaking anymore.

It was during the Like a Prayer era that Madonna reached the peak of her career, and people were calling her unbeatable and things like that. You know, fan stuff—because in reality, Michael Jackson, for example, was three or four times more popular and successful than she was. But she was the most successful woman of her time.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that, if they had waited another year or two, they might not even have called her the queen after the whole world saw the failure of *Erotica*, which worked against her for two eras (Erotica and Bedtime Stories, where she also failed to recapture her initial success), and it wasn’t until the end of the decade that her success began to resurface with Ray of Light and Music, where she made music, videos, and songs without any real sexual connotations—and if there were any, that wasn’t the main focus.

Likewise, in 2003 she failed spectacularly; in 2005 she was successful thanks to ABBA initially; and then, starting in 2008, all her releases have been commercial failures, where she has sometimes not even been able to regain 10% of the fame and influence she had with her first four albums.

In reality, his fame is solely due to his first four albums, where the first was successful but not that much, and the next three were iconic, right up to *Erotica*.

That “every man should feel another man’s tongue in his mouth at least once in his life.”

It’s a quote that many of her fans have taken as gospel; it was published in her pornographic book \*SEX\* back in 1992 and was constantly censored at the time.

Do you believe in her philosophy?

At least not as much. I've been conducting research for my thesis on the influence of pop music culture on certain celebrities, both in the past and today, and I now have my statistics from various sample populations.

The sample consisted of:

-5,000 people aged 12 to 15.

-5,000 people aged 15 to 20

-5,000 people aged 20 to 30

-5,000 people over 30.

A total of 20,000 respondents, yielding the following results:

-13% of respondents aged 12 to 15 like Madonna and think she is the Queen of Pop. 87% do not know Madonna, 67% are not even interested in getting to know her, and 74% think there are several better current artists they like more (they were also played samples of Madonna’s songs).

-16% of respondents aged 15 to 20 like Madonna. 70% do not know Madonna, 67% are not interested in getting to know her, and 71% think she is overrated.

-25% of respondents aged 20 to 30 like Madonna; 55% do not know her; 44% are not interested in getting to know her. 69% think Madonna is overrated. 59% think there are better artists.

-41% of respondents over 30 like Madonna. 43% know her a little but aren’t interested in her, and 16% don’t know her. 57% think there are better artists. 61% think she is overrated.

Those are the results in a nutshell.

Not Madonna. And I don't care whether you like my opinion or not. We need to stop being sheep and just parroting what society has taught us. If Trump tells you he’s God and the best president in the world, do you believe him?

Obviously not. Likewise, just because society has normalized something doesn’t mean it’s real. Everyone can be wrong, and I’ve explained my reasons many times here—I’ll just summarize them briefly:

Madonna isn’t original: she’s spent most of her career copying what dozens of artists from the past—or even those still alive today—have done. Plus, the success of her producers, musicians, fashion designers, image consultants, choreographers, etc., has propelled her to stardom. She’s done almost nothing on her own.

So, if Madonna isn’t the queen, who do you think really is? Perhaps other artists also rely on producers and designers and certain inspirations, but not as blatantly as Madonna, who only provides her body and voice.

She said that "Born This Way" was very similar to "Express Yourself" in terms of its chord progression.

On the other hand, it seems Madonna forgets that Hung Up is very similar to ABBA, and that almost all of her videos, photos, and artistic image are based on the hairstyles, covers, fashions, moves, and dances of other artists from Hollywood’s golden age and similar eras, the most obvious being Marilyn Monroe.

Besides, it’s funny how she’s used her song “She’s Not Me” to claim she’s original, when the truth is she isn’t very original at all. And many of her achievements are thanks to her stylists, producers, dressmakers, designers, and dancers who create her choreography, etc.

She just provides the face and body—and used to provide the voice—but now it’s almost all lip-syncing.

Que es por contrato temporal y cada mes tienes que ir a firmar tu renuncia, inclusive si “disque después de cierto tiempo ven que trabajas bien, te dan contrato indefinido, pero igual firmando tu renuncia” donde se especifica que la empresa no te debe nada.

Lo rechacé yo… ¿hice bien? por qué llevaba un tiempo buscando trabajo, y no necesito dinero afortunadamente, pero no es como que esté muy a gusto sin trabajar (igual aprovecho mi tiempo en cosas productivas no soy nini) y mas que era de lo que estudié y al parecer (quien sabe) el ambiente era agradable, aunque me quedaba lejísimos de casa (como hora y media de ida).

Inclusive los que tienen puestos altos tienen que firmar renuncia.

Obviously, we all know that Madonna pioneered women’s sexual liberation in music. And thanks to Madonna, female singers can now perform and/or dance half-naked and engage in obscene and pornographic acts during their shows, songs, and videos. Thanks to Madonna, promiscuity in women is no longer frowned upon. Today, all of that has even become the norm for success in show business, since, as Madonna has also said, “If you don’t show some skin, you don’t sell.”

But beyond that, many fans say that because of her advocacy for sexual liberation and her revolutionary ideas, Madonna is on the same level as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Joan of Arc, etc. Because of her liberal stances and support for the LGBT community, Black people, and women (except for Latin Americans, whom she apparently doesn’t like, save for the occasional exception or solely for her own success, as her attitudes have demonstrated on many occasions).

Incidentally, it is said that she has become as powerful as Alexander the Great was in his time, and although Madonna hasn’t said so herself, her fans from the ’80s and ’90s—and even today—include many who claim she is more powerful than God.

In short, Madonna has had such a profound impact on every aspect of people’s lives—and women’s lives in particular—that the women you know today would be nothing and nobody without Madonna. You could truly say that the women and gay people in the world today are Madonna’s creation. Everything that exists today is possible thanks to Madonna. And Madonna has also said on several occasions that she has changed the world.

That’s why she gets offended—even by herself—when no one worships her, because she feels it’s an insult to her person and that kind of divinity she brings with her wherever she goes.

Not the commercial trash she’s been putting out since 2008, where all her albums—both in physical sales and streaming—have been a flop. (Yes, they’ve been at the top only for the first few days or, at most, the first few weeks, before falling out of the top 100.) And her sales and streaming numbers aren’t even a twentieth of the success she once had.

I think that instead of Madonna trying to imitate or be like Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, etc.—in a bad way that makes her look ridiculous musically and aesthetically in terms of quality and creativity—she should make the mature songs she used to make when she was actually young, and she wasn’t ashamed to make mature songs back then.

For example: “Take a Bow,” “Frozen,” “American Pie,” “Inside of Me,” “Time Stood Still,” “Oh, Father”… these are great songs, very beautiful pop ballads, and I think it would be better for Madonna to make an album like that with those kinds of ballads (that way she doesn’t have to dance or move around so much and can address mature topics for mature adults—not for teenagers like Miley Cyrus a decade ago)— and it would work much better for her; she’d be more successful, and people would like her music a lot more.

She might even regain some of the success she once had and stop with the nonsense of acting like a twenty-something at a disco with mediocre music). (In 2005 she did it right, but without trying to look like a twenty-something like she does now).

With her obsession with looking young—both in her music and her persona—she looks like a twenty-something Barbie-doll model in her photos, with a perfect body and enviable features. But in reality, when we see her in person, her face has been distorted by so much plastic surgery, not to mention the countless hours of Photoshop she piles on and the intense front lighting used to hide wrinkles and imperfections, with her arms and legs covered up so her wrinkles aren’t visible.

And yet Madonna has often said she is strongly against the female beauty stereotypes imposed by Hollywood on female artists, as well as the marketing behind them, and that she supposedly fights against them tirelessly in her daily life.

We know that Madonna has been in the music business for over 40 years. But of those 40 years, we must consider all the albums and eras that were commercial failures

Failures: Erotica, American Life, Hard Candy, MDNA, Rebel Heart, Madame X

Moderate successes: Madonna, Bedtime Stories

Hits: Live a Virgin, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Ray of Light, Music, Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Madonna’s success was limited to the 80s and 90s, but since her last hit in 2005, her albums have been commercial failures compared to her successful albums and even compared to other artists.

From 2006 onward, the artist who has consistently dominated the top charts, sold the most albums, garnered the largest fan base, and had the most successful tours is Taylor Swift, along with other contemporary singers such as Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, and others.

Madonna was essentially queen for only 20 years (of those 20, she had two flops, Erotica and American Life), and for the rest of that time, she hasn’t been queen of anything; she is merely REMEMBERED as the queen she once was, not as the queen she is now. That’s a huge difference.

She’s gone from being one of pop’s most iconic figures to a caricature of herself in the worst possible way. And above all, a flat, commercial, boring caricature with no humor or innovation, desperately trying to score a hit (she’s had plenty, but nothing compared to her biggest hits from the ’80s and ’90s). She doesn’t have even a tenth of the relevance today that she once had. Neither her music nor her personality are interesting anymore, except to her obsessed fans—of whom there are very few left, since in terms of numbers, she doesn’t have the same following she did in 2005 or the ’90s or ’80s.

I think everyone is aware of the parody and the increasingly poor music Madonna puts out. It seems that the older she gets, the worse her music becomes and the less relevant she is.

Madonna is living solely on her past, because all her albums since 2006 have been commercial failures, and she’s desperately trying to regain relevance by teaming up with young, popular singers.

As few people know (because most aren't interested in Madonna), she released her new album a few weeks ago, along with the first single "I feel so free", which debuted at number one in dozens of countries only to plummet to the bottom of the top 100 in its second week.

Although many of her most die-hard fans liked the song, many didn’t, because Billboard had to come out and say that the first song wasn’t going to be the official single xD and that the first official single would be released soon, and that would be “Bring Your Love” featuring Sabrina Carpenter.

Madonna performed it at Coachella with Sabrina, and then two days ago her supposed single was released, but social media and music charts show that her new single from her new album has already debuted worldwide at only number 34 on Spotify xD and number 29 on Apple Music xD.

Those are pretty low numbers; it hasn’t achieved the expected success.

It’s worth noting that the second song from her new album was released today, since with the first single—even though many fans claimed it was the best song ever created—they refused to accept it as the official first single because it didn’t measure up to her greatest hits and was just an introduction.

Today her official single (the second song) was released, featuring Sabrina Carpenter, but if you listen to the song “Bring Your Love,” it’s full of autotune—her voice sounds too artificial (except in the opening and closing lines where she doesn’t sing)— and many fans have complained about that, plus the song sounds robotic, very commercial, and they didn’t want it to be a duet where Sabrina dominates the entire song. (And many of her own fans say that, not just me) \[though as always, there are those who claim that no better song has ever been created in the whole world\].

Could it be that Madonna doesn’t sing anymore? Many fans seem disappointed.