What should Madonna do next?

Aside of the obvious answer of "DISAPPEAR", (putting C-19 ASIDE) I'd love her to collaborate with the V&A or MoMA and do a full-blown career retrospective exhibition. It's TIME. The David Bowie one was life-changingly incredible, and Madonna would have just as much scope to develop something on a similar level.

I'd also like her to do a cohesive, short dance album.The success of the I Don't Search I Find remixes really show that she should really be fishing where the fish are. I'd be fine with an 8-9 track wall-to-wall killer LP, sort of like an update of The First Album :disco:

If we do get a new album in the next few years, I think a full-blown fado album is most likey however :D
 
The I Don't Search I Find mixes were a success?
 
wurst said:
The Honey Djon mix is probably the most successful thing from the album - Medellin aside. At least in the dance music world they were pretty successful if not pop.
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Most successful by what measure?
 
Become a self-help guru. Write a book of suitably toe-curling aphorisms and start selling rugs, bracelets, crystals...all that shit.
 
Be force fed a limp carrot from her buffet
 
I love wurst's idea of a career retrospective, I just wish she was in a better place to launch it. Surely her stock, in the UK at least, is as low as it has ever been.

As far as a dance album and 'fishing where the fish are' is concerned, ANY OLD SHIT she releases gets to #1 on the Billboard dance club song chart doesn't it? That's why I was pressing as to how IDSIF demonstrated any sizeable appetite greater than usual. That's not fishing where the fish are, it's settling for a puddle.
 
Madame X is not done, this is just the beginning. You'll get a remix per month and be happy with it.
 
If we'e being serious, I'd like her to return to electonic/dance/house music - something akin to Ray of Light or Confessions on a Dance Floor.

She needs to ditch the likes of Diplo and lyrics about acting 21 in the club. The last decade has been one almighty blot on her career.
 
Win_the_game said:
If we'e being serious, I'd like her to return to electonic/dance/house music - something akin to Ray of Light or Confessions on a Dance Floor.

She needs to ditch the likes of Diplo and lyrics about acting 21 in the club. The last decade has been one almighty blot on her career.
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I agree, and don't care if ageism is levelled against it.

The thing is, I really want to hear Madonna's take on being a woman of her age now. I think that potentially could be very interesting. And that doesn't necessarily need to restrict the genre she chooses to operate in.
 
Absolutely - she can write some seriously interesting and intelligent lyrics when she wants to. I don't know why she insists on writing guff about getting drunk on Tanqueray.
 
Probably because that’s what her life is, it’s not like her life is similar to any other person. She can’t relate to normal people.
 
I think she was or a lot of people are so intent on her keeping up her youth and being able to dance like she could, which inevitably she can't and won't be able to do going forward. For me, she was always at her most impressive and magical standing STILL - Crazy for You, Take a Bow, You'll See, Frozen.

I think at this point, she's so intent on staying relevant that she doesn't care, but at the same time she's got so much going on with her family and raising (as much as she raises) her adoptive family, that her creativity takes a back burner. Some fine tuning and balance in terms of some good output going on into her 60's and not damaging her legacy further is what I would like most. Because this new 'ROL' is not going to happen, although i'd never bet against her
 
A proper career retrospective with V&A Bowie-style partnership as @wurst suggested. It's time.

She may as well write her autobiography while she's at it.
 
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Suedey said:
A proper career retrospective with V&A Bowie-style partnership as @wurst suggested. It's time.

She may as well write her autobiography while she's at it.
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She has said for years she is writing her autobiography hasn't she, so a really cleverly managed project like that could work wonders for her

In terms of the V&A thingy...that is probably best for when she's dead. Otherwise she'll turn into this Yoko Ono character that turns up in art galleries around the word, and no one wants that for Madge.
 
Halli said:
She has said for years she is writing her autobiography hasn't she, so a really cleverly managed project like that could work wonders for her

In terms of the V&A thingy...that is probably best for when she's dead. Otherwise she'll turn into this Yoko Ono character that turns up in art galleries around the word, and no one wants that for Madge.
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She'll do it if there's money in it.

Now that she probably won't be able to tour until Covid19 is over (if ever) and her injury is sorted (if ever - the re-up), this would be an easy money maker. They could have merchandise/music tie-in with it and hike up the prices and limit the numbers (due to social distancing etc. etc.)

If she writes the autobiography in time it'll be another best-seller for her.
 
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Suedey said:
She'll do it if there's money in it.

Now that she probably won't be able to tour until Covid19 is over and her injury is sorted, this would be an easy money maker.
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the book? By god it would have to be edited in to an inch of its life, but that would be a good project for her.
 
And yes of course the book would be totally re-imagined, re-styled and heavily edited etc. etc. but the hype factor alone of Madonna writing the ultimate autobiography will mean that it will sell right out of the gate irrespective of that and the reviews.

And book sales are still going strong. She cares about the money at the end of the day. A book deal coupled with a museum retrospective 'residency' at massively hiked up prices (+ even more expensive 'packages' where Madonna may or may not make an appearance for 5 minutes!! etc. etc.), will be tonnes more money in the bank for her. Much more than a new album and with significantly less of the physical and emotional strain of a tour.
 
I would eat it up with a spoon no doubt, but I really think an autobiography would be the worst possible thing she could do, assuming she didn't just hand it over to a very good ghost writer. I can't imagine it doing anything but even more cruelly exposing how delusional and out of touch she is. It'd probably make the Morrissey one look like a Carrie Fisher.
 
I think if she had the right editors it would be a good project, in terms of reclaiming her history, her drive, explaining in context why she made some of her more modern decisions.

I think that apart from being out of touch and losing her momentum in terms of quality, she has not really had a breakdown like anyone of her stature...if you look at Whitney, Mariah, MJ.. I say give her a break. But she's not giving us a break if that makes sense so fans are feeling 'let down'
 
VoR said:
I would eat it up with a spoon no doubt, but I really think an autobiography would be the worst possible thing she could do, assuming she didn't just hand it over to a very good ghost writer. I can't imagine it doing anything but even more cruelly exposing how delusional and out of touch she is. It'd probably make the Morrissey one look like a Carrie Fisher.
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Something like Tori Amos' Piece by Piece could work, which was co-written with a music journalist, but we know Madonna's too much of a megalomaniac for that.

She has been quite frank about the past in press interviews recently (including the marriages). Of course she lives in a total bubble with warped perception, but if she gets a good book deal with a lot of $$$ and a team of editors behind her she'll hone it in.
 
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