tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26705461278893836332024-03-07T20:20:25.715-08:00MadonnaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-36018726649946863552016-11-15T08:04:00.002-08:002016-11-15T08:04:24.609-08:00Here’s Madonna As You’ve Never Seen Her Before<h2 class="headline__subtitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NotoNashkArabic, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-width: 630px; padding: 0px; visibility: visible;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The star is featured in a new documentary about filmmaker Howard Brookner.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">A brunette Madonna shimmies in this exclusive clip from “Uncle Howard,” the new documentary about the life of avant-garde New York filmmaker Howard Brookner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Queen of Pop was at the peak of her fame when she starred alongside Matt Dillon, Randy Quaid and Jennifer Grey in 1989’s Jazz Age-themed comedy, “Bloodhounds of Broadway.” Despite the presence of such Hollywood heavyweights, the film is widely considered a flop and rarely broadcast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">As “Uncle Howard” recalls, however, “Bloodhounds of Broadway” was very special for Brookner, who was battling AIDS at the time of its production. The filmmaker had only worked on documentary films beforehand, including the acclaimed “Burroughs: The Movie,” about beat generation author William S. Burroughs. “Bloodhounds of Broadway” was intended to be Brookner’s big screen breakthrough, but the director died just months before its release. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">While Brookner didn’t leave as big of a mark on Hollywood as he’d hoped for, it was enough to entice his nephew, Aaron, into directing a film about his uncle’s legacy. Never-before-seen footage capturing the New York of the 1970s and ‘80s, as well as Brookner’s relationships with Burroughs, Madonna and Allen Ginsberg, is among the highlights. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">Aaron Brookner told The Huffington Post that, above all, he’d like the documentary to give viewers new insight as to why his uncle was such a pioneering figure in the New York arts scene. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Howard took inspiration from the likes of Burroughs and Ginsberg, who were pioneering in their writing about homosexuality. Howard’s own work championed theirs and he took it further, putting open homosexuality on screen, and living his own life openly as a queer man,” he said. “It is painfully clear that had those in power not had prejudice against the LGBTQ community, we might not be mourning so many people and great artists today. This should be remembered now more than ever.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ultimately, he hopes audiences come away from the film knowing “what you do and who you influence in this life really does matter.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">“If Howard never picked up a camera and never had such an impact on me and those around him,” he said, “few people would even know he ever existed, let alone been so inspired by him.”</span></span></div>
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Following Monday night’s presidential debate, where Donald Trump made yet another derogatory remark about Rosie O’Donnell, Madonna defended the comedian via social media. The singer uploaded a screen grab of herself and O’Donnell from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A League of Their Own</em> with the caption, “Mess with my girl Rosie and you’re messing with me!!! Cruelty never made anyone a winner.</div>
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O’Donnell also tweeted about Trump on Monday night, referring to him as an “orange anus” and sharing the video in which their infamous feud was born.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-84062549293901750822016-08-30T02:46:00.003-07:002016-08-30T02:46:28.302-07:00Madonna Celebrates Michael Jackson’s 58th Birthday With Amazing Throwback Photos<div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: museo-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.65; margin-bottom: 1.58824em;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">The Queen of Pop is missing her King. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Madonna</span> took to Instagram to pay tribute to her late friend and fellow superstar Michael Jackson on Monday, August 29, what would have been his 58th birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">Her Madgesty, who herself just turned 58 two weeks ago, posted four feels-inducing throwback pics of the pair from the ’80s and ’90s, including a snap from their iconic red carpet appearance at the 1991 Academy Awards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">“Happy Birthday to this wonderful and glorious creature!!” the “Vogue” singer captioned the collage. “ The King! Gone too soon! ❤️ ❣❤️❣❤️❣❤️❣❤️❣❤️❣.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">Jackson tragically passed away in June 2009 from acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication. The “Thriller” crooner — who is survived by his three children </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.42857;">Prince</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">, 19, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.42857;">Paris</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">, 18, and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.42857;">Blanket</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">, 14 — was 50 years old at the time of his death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">That same year, </span>Madonna honored her pal <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">and his chart-topping career during a heartrending speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">“In a desperate attempt to hold on to his memory, I went on the internet to watch old clips of him dancing and singing on TV and on stage, and I thought, ‘My God, he was so unique, so original, so rare. And there will never be anyone like him again.’ He was a king,” she told the star-studded audience in 2009. “But he was also a human being, and, alas, we are all human beings, and sometimes we have to lose things before we can truly appreciate them.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">During an October 2009 interview with </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">Rolling Stone</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">, the Material Girl revealed that while she and Jackson made a failed attempt to work together, they ended up spending the entirety of their friendship having fun. “So that’s what we were doing: watching movies, having dinner, hanging out, going to the Oscars, being silly, seeing if we could work,” she told the magazine. “He got relaxed. He took off his sunglasses, had a glass of wine, I got him to laugh.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">As it happens, the late Prince — a close acquaintance of Madonna and the Jackson 5 alum — would have celebrated his 58th birthday back in June. As previously reported, </span>the “Purple Rain” songwriter died of an opioid overdose <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">at age 57 on April 21, in an elevator of his Paisley Park compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">Jackson’s firstborn son, Prince, also shared sweet sentiments for his deceased father on his special day. He uploaded </span>an image of a sonnet dedicated to his legendary dad<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">, tweeting, “Today we celebrate the birthday of a legend, but don’t forget to celebrate the Man. Here is a sonnet written for him.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">“Happy birthday to the Man who was more than a legend,” the teen added. “I love you.”</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-11761562438975605592016-07-19T04:35:00.004-07:002016-07-19T04:35:44.149-07:00Who is 'the Black Madonna' and why is she so important?<div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">
<span class="noticia_byline">Rome, Italy, Jul 19, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News)</span>.- Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the “Black Madonna,” will be one of Pope Francis' primary stops during his visit to Poland at the end of this month for the global World Youth Day gathering.</div>
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The image, which has been crowned the “Queen of Poland” and is highly venerated throughout Europe, is almost a given stop for any Pope who visits the country.</div>
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Located in southern Poland, Czestochowa was the location of the 1991 global WYD gathering – the first major world event after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and which also marked the first time youth from Eastern European countries were able to set foot in the Western half.</div>
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In comments made to CNA in March, Cardinal Stanisalw Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow, noted how the WYD celebration this year falls on the 25th anniversary of the 1991 WYD at the Our Lady of Czestochowa shrine, which was a key year for the end of Cold War tensions.</div>
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“For the first time in history, young people coming from the Eastern countries, from beyond the Iron Curtain, took part in World Youth Day. It was the first time World Youth Day was a really a worldwide event,” Cardinal Dziwisz said.</div>
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Now, 25 years later, Pope Francis will follow in his predecessors' footsteps, and will go to venerate the image during his July 27-31 visit to Poland.</div>
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He is set to visit the monastery of Jasna Gora, which houses the image, July 28, where he will offer Mass for the 1,050 anniversary of the baptism of Poland.</div>
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But while the image holds significant meaning for Europe and for Poles in particular, what is the story behind the Black Madonna?</div>
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<strong>Legend has it</strong> the image dates back to the time of the Twelve Apostles, and was painted by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist, who is believed to have used a tabletop from a table built by Jesus during his time as a carpenter.</div>
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According to the legend, it was while Luke was painting Mary that she recounted to him the events in the life of Jesus that would eventually be used in his Gospel.</div>
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The same legend states that when St. Helen came to Jerusalem in 326 AD to look for the true Cross, she also happened to find this image of Our Lady. She then gave it as a gift to her son Constantine, who built a shrine to venerate it.</div>
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In a major battle with the Saracens, the image was displayed from the walls of Constantinople and the Saracen army was subsequently defeated, leading many to credit the portrait with saving the city.</div>
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The image eventually fell to the care of Charlemagne, who presented it to Price Leo of Ruthenia (northwest Hungary). It was placed in the Ruthenian palace where it remained until an invasion in the 11th century.</div>
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Fearful for the fate of his city, the king prayed to Our Lady to assist his small army. The result, according to legend, was that a darkness overshadowed enemy troops, leading them to attack one another.</div>
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In the 14th century the image was transferred to Jasna Gora in Poland as an answer to a request made in a dream of Prince Ladislaus of Opola. The history of the image is better documented in while in his care.</div>
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In 1382 Tartars invaded the Prince’s fortress at Belz, and during the attack one of the Tartar arrows struck the painting and lodged in the neck of the Madonna. The prince, fearful that the image would fall into the enemy’s hands, fled during the night and stopped in the town of Czestochowa.</div>
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The painting was placed inside a small church, and the prince later had a Pauline monastery and church built at the location to ensure the painting’s safety.</div>
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However, in 1430 the Hussites overran the monastery, attempting to take the image. In the process one of the looters took the painting and put it into a wagon and tried to drive away. But when the horses refused to move, he struck the painting twice with his sword. As he raised his hand to strike it again, he suddenly fell over writhing in pain and died.</div>
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Despite previous attempts to repair the scars from the arrow and the blows from the sword, restorers had trouble in covering them up since the painting was done with tempera infused with diluted wax. The marks remain visible to this day.</div>
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Later, in 1655 when Poland was almost entirely overrun by King Charles X of Sweden, only the area surrounding the monastery remained unconquered. Miraculously, the monks who lived there were somehow able to defend the portrait throughout a 40 day siege, and Poland was eventually able to drive out the invaders.</div>
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After the miraculous event, King John II Casimir Vasa crowned the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa as Queen of Poland, placing the entire country under her care and protection.</div>
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More recent stories surrounding the image involve the Russian invasion of Poland in 1920, holding that when the Russian army was gathering on the banks of the Vistula River and threatening Warsaw, they saw an image of Our Lady in the clouds over the city, prompting them to withdraw.</div>
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The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa gets its nickname “Black Madonna” from the soot residue which discolors the painting as a result of centuries of votive lights and candles burned in front of it.</div>
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As many as 2.5 million pilgrims expected to gather in Krakow for this year’s WYD event. While not all of them will join Pope Francis in Czestochowa, his visit will surely attract more pilgrims to the spot.</div>
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In his comments to CNA, Cardinal Dziwisz said that given the history of WYD and the Czestochowa image, this year’s gathering is particularly significant for European countries, such as Ukraine, who are facing dramatic conflicts.</div>
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“We mustn’t forget that the World Youth Day which took place in Czestochowa 25 years ago was the first with youth who came from the countries of the east. There were around 200,000, coming from Ukraine, from Russia and Belarus,” he noted.</div>
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“For the first time, that event was truly global. We must help youth from the Eastern countries to come…above all from Belarus and Ukraine,” he said, adding that while the Ukraine conflict makes travel in the region difficult, “we don’t exclude anyone.”</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Madonna keeps on pushing her tweets over the borderline.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The pop diva fomented outrage on social media after tweeting out condolences to the victims of the Orlando massacre that included photos of herself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The memes — one of which features her famous kiss with Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV VMAs and the slogan, "Gay or Straight, no hate" -- were slammed by detractors who felt the singer was hung up on herself during a time of mourning in the gay community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"@Madonna are you serious right now? This isn't about you and your fake ass kiss for publicity," fumed one commentator. "I would think you'd know better."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Another Twitter user replied, "Really? 50 people died and you want to make this about you?!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, 49 patrons were shot dead and more than 50 others were wounded early Sunday morning during a rampage inside Orlando's Pulse, a popular gay club.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Police shot and killed the gunman — identified as Omar Mateen — after storming the club after a three-hour hostage standoff.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37, grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to Vero Beach by himself. "Wilson-Leon had been together with Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35, and another fatality in the Pulse nightclub shooting, for about eight years," the Orlando Sentinel reported." src="http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2671516.1465919489!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635_424/luis-daniel-wilson-leon.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Madonna has had her struggles with a reputation for using social media for blatant self-promotion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In early 2015, critics slammed The Material Girl for posting altered photos ofdeceased civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Bob Marley to hawk her album, "Rebel Heart."</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-8829386174520178372016-05-08T01:23:00.002-07:002016-05-08T01:23:54.567-07:00Madonna's naked flesh has taught me a lesson I'll never forget<br />
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Bare bum cheeks, taped-up nipples, leather... when it comes to Madonna, we’ve seen it all before. So when the singer arrived at the Met Gala, this week, wearing scraps of lace and PVC patched together to make a gown - one with her bum and boobs on show - I barely batted an eyelid.</div>
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Her outfit looked like it was designed to shock and be as revolutionary as her conical bra in the 80s. But to my Millennial eyes, it all just looked tired and, dare I say it, unfashionable. Compared to red carpet pros Alexa Chung and Lea Seydoux, Madonna looked like a hippie mum gone mad .</div>
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The critics agreed. Headlines called it a “fashion fail,” while commentators said she was “truly undignified”, “utterly classless” and plain “desperate.”</div>
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But Madonna has had the last word. In an Instagram post that can only be described as a massive ‘f*** you’, she explained that her dress was “a political statement as well as a fashion statement.”</div>
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“When it comes to women’s rights, we are still in the dark ages,” she wrote. “The fact that people actually believe a woman is not allowed to express her sexuality and be adventurous past a certain age is proof that we still live in an age-ist and sexist society.</div>
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“I have never thought in a limited way and I’m not going to start.”</div>
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<span class="m_first-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.5rem;">I</span><span style="line-height: 2.5rem;">n other words – all the haters sitting at home and wondering why she couldn’t just put on a structured Balmain gown and look chic - are ‘limited’. While Madonna most certainly is not.</span></div>
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If that wasn’t painful enough to hear from the original Queen of Pop, she continued to spell it out: “If you have a problem with the way I dress, it is simply a reflection of your prejudice.”</div>
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I’ve officially been schooled by Madonna.</div>
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Because she’s right. As much as we critics pretended we were against her outfit - rather than the woman inside it - it’s not the truth. If Madonna had worn the exact same garb in the 80s, when she was in her early 20s, would we have been so judgmental?</div>
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It hurts to admit it, but if Madonna had worn her lace get-up in a scene from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Desperately Seeking Susan,</em> I'd probably have thought it was an admirable statement, and wished I were her (as much I do during every other scene in that film).</div>
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But because she was wearing it a few decades on, I found it embarrassing. I'm guilty of the very ageism and sexism that Madonna describes.</div>
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<span class="m_first-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box;">O</span>f course, I am not the only one. As a society we’ve created a world where people over the age of 40 are only ‘cool’ if they fit certain models. Nonagenarian Iris Apfel rocks because she has amazing fashion sense and statement glasses; Mary Beard has her #greyhairdontcare; Mary Berry wears bomber jackets.</div>
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Yet when an older woman makes a choice we don’t understand, like Madonna’s matador outfit and this recent bum-flashing number, we react with disgust so strong that they feel the need to call us out.</div>
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<span class="m_first-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box;">S</span>arah Jessica Parker did the same thing. After her Met ball outfit was slammed this week, she replied to a critic on Instagram: “Perhaps you didn’t like what I wore which is completely fine but you can’t accuse me not paying close attention and adhering to the theme [Manus x Machina].”</div>
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Both SJP and Madge have responded in the best way possible. They’ve used social media to get their voices heard and provide context for their outfits, in a thought-provoking way. They’ve changed people’s minds - including my own.</div>
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We, the public, shouldn't have judged them so harshly based on their appearances alone. We’ve started to recognise that when an actress is on the red carpet we should #AskHerMore than which designer her dress is by. So why do we keep shoving women into ‘best dressed’ and ‘worst dressed’ galleries every time they walk out of the house?</div>
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As Madonna said in her post: “We cannot effect change unless we are willing to take risks, by being fearless and by taking the road less travelled by. That’s how we change history.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;">AFTER wrapping up her Rebel Heart Tour earlier this week, figures have confirmed that Madonna still holds the record as the highest-grossing solo touring artist, taking in a total of $1.31 billion reports Billboard.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;">According to Billboard's Boxscore figures, which go back to 1990, the star's recent Rebel Heart Tour earned $170 million and sold more than 1 million tickets, earning her the title of the highest-grossing solo touring artist in Billboard Boxscore history, a position she had lost to Bruce Springsteen between 2012 and 2014.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;">Overall, the singer now ranks third on the all-time top-grossing Billboard Boxscore list, behind only the Rolling Stones ($1.84 billion) and U2 ($1.67 billion).</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.7143px;">She is also one of only six artists who have surpassed the $1 billion mark since 1990, and is the only woman to do so, with Elton John raking in $1.05 billion and Bon Jovi $1.03 billion, all as of March 23, 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">After the teenager spent time on the road with his mom, traveling for her recent </span>Rebel Heart tour<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">, he went to the U.K. to spend time with his father and reportedly refused to return to the U.S. </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">On Dec. 23, the "Living For Love" singer appeared in a New York City courtroom, where </span>a judge ordered that Rocco return to the U.S.<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;"> to sort out his living situation, the </span><em style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Daily News</em><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;"> reported at the time. </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">But according to a source close to the singer, Rocco has yet to return home. Indeed, he spent Christmas and rang in the new year with Ritchie, 47, in England. Meanwhile in N.Y.C., Madonna, 57, spent Dec. 25 sharing festive photos of her other three kids – Lourdes, 19, David, 10, and Mercy, 9 – on Instagram. (She </span>shared a throwback shot of Rocco<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;"> as well, captioning it: "Merry X-mas to the Sun-shine of my Life.") </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">"He should have been home already," says the source, who alleges that Rocco has missed some school. "Madonna is a devoted mother, and a big priority is her children's education." </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">As for why the teen left his mom's tour, an industry insider says he "got tired of it and wanted to be home with his dad." </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For more on Madonna and Guy Ritchie's ongoing custody battle, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.</em><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">Up next, Madonna and Ritchie – who </span>finalized their contentious divorce<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;"> in 2008 – are due in court Feb. 3 for a second hearing in New York. </span><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background: 0px 50% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 30px;">Lawyers for Madonna and Ritchie declined to comment. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-45615613048272543092016-01-06T07:54:00.001-08:002016-01-06T07:54:18.420-08:00Madonna's Singapore concert is for adults only<div id="yui_3_18_1_1_1452095571347_1067" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">
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Singapore (AFP) - The Singapore leg of pop superstar Madonna's global Rebel Heart Tour has been restricted to fans aged 18 and above, the concert's local coordinator said Wednesday.</div>
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The one-night-only event on February 28, Madonna's first-ever concert in the city-state, will be held at the 55,000-seat National Stadium, entertainment firm MediaCorp Vizpro said.</div>
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"Please note that this concert is rated 'R18' with the consumer advisory on 'Sexual References'. Only those above 18 years of age will be permitted into the venue," it said on its Facebook page.</div>
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The Straits Times newspaper noted that Madonna's concert tour setlist includes a segment involving dancers dressed as scantily-clad nuns pole-dancing on cross-shaped stripper poles.</div>
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Affluent Singapore, often ridiculed as a "nanny state" for its tradition of social control, has eased censorship in recent years and become an Asian entertainment hub. But the authorities say its population is still largely conservative.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-9048077555587200312015-11-06T06:15:00.003-08:002015-11-06T06:15:58.299-08:00St. Paul ties bring dancer back for 'B Madonna's' regional premiere<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">
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Dancer Maureen Fleming was born on an American Navy base in Japan where her father was a lieutenant commander, but she has plenty of history in St. Paul. Her grandmother immigrated to St. Paul from Ireland in 1910 and her uncle was a local monsignor -- Father Francis Fleming of St. Olaf Church.</div>
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From mid-elementary school through college, Fleming went to Minnesota schools such as Our Lady of Peace High School in St. Paul and the now-defunct College of St. Teresa in Winona.</div>
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Fleming lives and works in New York where she puts on workshops at New York University and is a guest artist at the Juilliard School. The regional premiere of her new piece, "B Madonna," which Fleming calls "the best of her work," is Saturday at the O'Shaughnessy at St.</div>
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Her dancing almost ended before it began. When Fleming was 2 years old, she was in a car accident that caused her to lose the disc between her fourth and fifth vertebrae. It could have paralyzed her, but it inspired her to begin dancing -- twisting and untwisting her joints to increase blood flow and flexibility.</div>
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Fleming hopes "B Madonna" is as much a spiritual journey for the audience as it is for her. The choreography focuses on aligning the body's spiritual center through a series of drawn-out movements and three-dimensional video projects designed by Christopher Odo, one of Fleming's longtime collaborators.</div>
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"I'm performing one image and the same image is reflected in front and behind me," she said.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.652px;">Her work with performing images is heavily influenced by her formative years spent in Japan, specifically by "Butoh," a contemplative Japanese dance developed in postwar Japan. "(Butoh) begins with an image. Instead of lifting your arm, you would imagine that a smoke ring moves up your spine and off your arm," she said. "Each movement is connected to an image. That's how I create."</span><span style="line-height: 22.652px;">"You get a sense of things happening simultaneously. It becomes like a visual theater."</span></div>
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Butoh is more improvisational, however, while Fleming's work revolves around making choices and then assembling them to create a theme. "I record a lot of my improvisations on video and then choose moments that look like two things are happening at the same time," she said. "For example, a moment that looks like I'm being born and dying, or a moment that looks painful and pleasant."</div>
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"B Madonna" is part of the O'Shaughnessy's 19th annual Women of Substance series, which Fleming says has always interested her.</div>
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"I like the value of the Women of Substance series that you see things from different perspectives," she said. The performance also has a companion gallery exhibition called "O Black Maddona" at Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality, 1890 Randolph Ave.</div>
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Fleming's performance will feature text by David Henry Hwang and music by Philip Glass performed live by pianist Bruce Brubaker, accordionist Guy Klucevsek and Taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe.</div>
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<b>What:</b> "B Madonna," a performance by Maureen Fleming</div>
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<b>When: </b>7:30 p.m. Saturday</div>
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<b>Where:</b> The O'Shaughnessy, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-35474115286188790072015-11-06T06:09:00.000-08:002015-11-06T06:09:02.499-08:00Singer Adele was inspired by Madonna for new album '25'<div style="background-color: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; padding: 18px 0px 0px;">
<strong>Los Angeles:</strong> Singer Adele has revealed that Queen of Pop Madonna's 1998 album Ray of Light was a direct inspiration for her own highly-anticipated record ‘25’. Adele's new album ‘25’ is scheduled for release November 20, reported Rolling Stone.</div>
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"You know what I found so amazing about that record? That's the record Madonna wrote after having her first child, and for me, it's her best. I was so all over the place after having a child, just because my chemicals were just hitting the roof and shit like that.</div>
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"I was just drifting away, and I couldn't find that many examples for myself where I was like, 'they truly came back to themselves,' until someone was like, 'Well, obviously, Ray of Light'," Adele said. The 27-year-old singer's lead single "Hello" smashed records worldwide.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-85889045771477744512015-09-12T21:22:00.001-07:002015-09-12T21:22:14.907-07:00Michael Jackson vs. Madonna: Who's the Greatest Visual Artist of All Time?<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.28px; line-height: 32px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; width: 650px;">
If you're a child of the '70s or '80s who grew up listening to pop music, chances are you were a fan of Prince, Madonna or Michael Jackson. These three artists dominated radio whilst pioneering the music video as an art form. They went way beyond what any other popstar before or since has achieved and all three are the reason that pop today is such a visual medium. Before this trio became a part of the public consciousness, having a great song was enough to be a star. They literally changed the rules of the pop game.</div>
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Personally, although I appreciate Prince, I wouldn't call myself a fan, and for that reason I'm just going to focus on MJ and Madge in this article. Who has the most iconic imagery? Who's tours have offered the most visual spectacle? And which of them can lay claim to the greatest music video of all time? Let's take a look back on two unparalleled careers and try to answer the question of whether Madonna or Michael Jackson is the greatest visual artist of all time.</div>
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<i>Thriller: the beginning</i></h3>
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<i>Thriller </i>might have marked the turning point for the music video as a form of promotion, but it wasn't the first of Michael's videos to make waves - that would be <i>Billie Jean</i>, the album's second single, which became the first music video by a black artist to get heavy rotation on MTV. That video was nothing special, but Jackson quickly followed it up with <i>Beat It</i>, a much bigger visual spectacle which Billboard crowned the video of the year.</div>
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But it's <i>Thriller </i>which truly put the music video as an art form on the map. There's nothing to be said about this epic clip which hasn't been said a million times - it's quite simply a masterpiece. The choreography in particular, which Jackson devised with Michael Peters, has spawned countless recreations over the years, and is not just synonymous with MJ but with Halloween too. The video cost half a million dollars and without it, the careers of everybody from Britney to Justin and, yes, Madonna herself, would likely never have got off the ground.</div>
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<i>I hear you call my name...</i></h3>
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Whilst Jackson churned out numerous visual epics in the decade that followed, often embracing the "music video as mini movie" format, Madonna discovered quickly that the best way to make an impression was to enhance her visuals with a secret ingredient she had absolute mastery over: controversy.</div>
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And what could be more controversial than presenting white middle America with a black Jesus? The clip came six years after <i>Thriller</i> in 1989, and depicts a black man being wrongly arrested for the murder of a white woman. Madonna, having witnessed the murder, goes to church where she finds a caged black saint who seems to be the man from the street. Crosses burn, Madonna dances in a state of undress, and curtains fall to reveal the whole thing was a performance.</div>
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There are various interpretations of the video and the way it infuses themes of race, religion and sexuality. The lyrics to the song itself - "I'm down on my knees, I want to take you there" - are basically about giving head, which you can imagine didn't go down too well when paired with the religious imagery of the video. So great was the outrage that Pepsi, who had just paid Madonna $5m to use <i>Like a Prayer </i>in a new commercial, dropped their association with her. (She got to keep the pay cheque.)</div>
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The controversy didn't scare Madonna. If anything, it fuelled her, and the power of sexual imagery became the blueprint for most of her videos in the following years. The interesting thing about the scandal was that it actually had a negative effect on her sales - <i>Like a Prayer </i>was a number one single, but the album sold 10 million copies fewer than <i>True Blue </i>three years earlier. Whilst MJ's videos were strictly a promotional tool for his music, Madonna's had become completely at one with her image, and arguably helped create a brand around her which was more important than her record sales.</div>
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<i>After the '90s: Madonna's continued dominance</i></h3>
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By the year 2000, Michael's public image had become so tarnished by plastic surgery and damaging allegations that his music was no longer a talking point. 1995's <i>HIStory </i>had sold 3.5 million copies in the US, half the figure of <i>Dangerous</i>four years previously, and he hadn't released anything in three years.</div>
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Madonna had been through a quiet period of her own, releasing the deathly dull <i>Bedtime Stories </i>in 1994 before focusing on the movie <i>Evita, </i>but she came back in a massive way in '98 with <i>Ray of Light</i>. The video for lead single <i>Frozen</i>marked a complete creative rebirth for the Queen of Pop.</div>
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Controversy had been replaced by artistry. Shot by Chris Cunningham, whose previous video credits were for relatively unknown acts like Aphex Twin, <i>Frozen</i>is a surrealist gothic masterpiece which is less concerned with a storyline (in fact, it doesn't have one - it's just about Madonna shapeshifting into a black dog and a flock of birds) than with creating something potent and visually arresting.</div>
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Whilst Michael's videos had more or less covered the same ground thematically during the '90s without any real change in visual style, Madonna had moved the game on. Already known for her ability to reinvent, <i>Frozen </i>told the world not to get comfortable. Expect only the unexpected. And so, whilst the video for MJ's<i>You Rock My World </i>barely caused a ripple in 2001, Madonna had shapeshifted seamlessly into the most important visual artist of the new millennium.</div>
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<i>Bringing the imagery to the stage</i></h3>
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But for both artists, the music video was never the pinnacle of their art: it was the ability to put on a performance which elevated them way beyond their peers. Their legacies were created on the stage. Jackson only toured solo three times, but all three were among the biggest concerts tours of all time. He could sell out Wembley in a matter of seconds... five times over.</div>
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This performance of <i>Bad </i>from Yokohama, Japan in 1987 illustrates perfectly Michael's approach to performance. The spotlight is on him, the theatrics are minimal, and there are no dancers vying for your attention. Despite the minimal stage set-up, it's absolutely impossible not to be awed by Jackson's charisma and energy. The crowd in Japan seem a little reserved, but in this clip of <i>Black or White </i>from Wembley in '92 every single person in the audiences is losing their mind.</div>
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By contrast, Madonna's tours are notorious for the sheer spectacle they deliver. Before she was a singer, Madonna had trained to be a dancer and left home at sixteen to follow her dream in New York City. She'd started at the bottom and her appreciation of dance as an art form is inherently clear in each of her tours. Unlike Michael, she's just one component of something bigger.</div>
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This performance of <i>American Life </i>from 2004's Re-invention Tour brings the song's highly controversial anti-war music video (it features a doctored clip of George Bush using a hand grenade to light a cigar, to give just one example of why it went down like a lead balloon in America) to life on stage. In terms of choreography, it's militaristic and cold. Whilst Michael's performances were all about channeling the energy of the song into the audience, Madonna is a pro at using performance to make a statement on a bigger scale - not that everybody appreciates that. The Re-invention Tour split opinion, with some fans remarking that they'd expected to attend a concert, not a political rally. Nonetheless, the<i>American Life </i>performance is a great example of Madonna's unrivalled ability to marry her the artificial aspects of pop music with much bigger themes.</div>
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Sometimes, though, you just want a fun performance, and Madonna's incredible thirteen-minute, four-song medley from the 2012 Super Bowl has already gone down in history as one of the all-time classic half-time sets, exceeding the shows put on by the likes of Bruno Mars and Beyonce in the years since. Madonna commands the attentions of every person in the 100,000 capacity stadium - not to mention 100 million+ viewers across America - in a way no other artist could.</div>
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Except for one.</div>
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<i>So - who's the greatest visual artist of all-time?</i></h3>
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It's the million-dollar question, and it's all but impossible to answer.</div>
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Michael had one performance style; Madonna's is the polar opposite. Michael has the most famous music video of all time and is single handedly responsible for popularising the music video format. Madonna's music videos reinvented her image to keep her relevant as a performing artist further into her career. And yet Michael's <i>This Is It </i>tour was on course to be a monster comeback... every counter argument has a counter argument. The truth is, it's completely subjective.</div>
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Me, personally? On a purely visual level, and having been a chart-topping artist further into the 21st century than Jackson, I think Madonna takes the title. From the Blond Ambition cone bra to the pink leotard from <i>Hung Up</i>, to the incredible spectacle of her six global concert tours this side of the year 2000 alone, she has proved herself to be the master of the visual medium.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-26753819049019484212015-09-12T21:18:00.000-07:002015-09-12T21:18:42.520-07:00Madonna kicks her new tour off in rebel style<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Queen of Pop Madonna has kicked off her Rebel Heart Tour in Montreal. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">The 57-year-old iconic singer, who has been wowing audiences for over three decades, belted out a selection of old and new and even performed Material Girl from the first time since her Blonde Ambition Tour in the 1990s. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">DJ and producer Diplo warmed the crowd up with an hour's introduction set before the lady of the hour opened the show with a video in which she discussed topics including censorship and dictatorship. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Her entrance was as flamboyant as her fans know her personality to be and she descended on to the stage in a cage and then gave concert-goers two of the most energetic hours they may have ever seen. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Ending the show on a high note, Madonna draped a Canadian flag around her as she sang "Holiday" to a crowd who lapped it all up. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Her Rebel Heart album came out in March of this year and the tour continues to March 2016 where it finishes in Australia.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-14904737120841064702015-08-17T07:05:00.002-07:002015-08-17T07:05:28.049-07:00Madonna says Elvis Presley possessed her <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Madonna felt the spirit of Elvis Presley pass through her when he died, according to her brother-in-law, singer songwriter Joe Henry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Elvis Presley died 38 years ago on August 16, 1977. August 16 is also Madonna's birthday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Henry, co-wrote 'Jump' and 'Don't Tell Me' for his famous sister-in-law, as well as various album tracks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">In a post at his Facebook page Henry writes, 'I have told this tale before, but it bears repeating: when Elvis Presley died on this date in 1977, this upstart professed in real-time that she felt his spirit had passed out of his body and through her own in exodus.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">'I laughed at her then for such outrageous self-possession, at the arrogance that I assumed must allow her to declare such publicly'.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Henry met Madonna in 1975 when they were both Michigan students at the same school. He had just entered his Sophomore year, she was a Senior. They were both members of the Thespian Society. They once played Mother and Son together in a school play.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Henry says, 'she was whip-smart and short on patience; and to tell the truth, she scared me more than a little. But along with her sister Paula, her presence upon my landscape nudged open a door through which I would pass and find my life utterly and forever changed.that unusual and sprawling family becoming, years later, my own'.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">After knowing Madonna for 40 years Henry says, 'like anyone, I can sometimes forget to see the flesh and blood/heart and mind behind the parade float that is her public persona. But then I will find myself across the kitchen table from her, sharing a martini, and be additionally shocked to recognize anew the compact, terse-yet-compassionate human at the switches'.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Madonna has three brothers Anthony (born 1956), (born 1957) and Christopher (born 1960) and two sisters Paula (born 1959) and Melanie (born 1962). Joe Henry is married to Melanie. They have two children.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">R.I.P Elvis Presley, January 8, 1935.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 16px;">Happy birthday, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone born August 16, 1958</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-19205119135035387692015-08-17T07:02:00.002-07:002015-08-17T07:02:24.224-07:00Madonna's outrageous gypsy-themed birthday party <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 16.8048000335693px;">Madonna turned 57 on 16 August in typically flamboyant fashion surrounded by handsome young men. Her children, Lourdes, 18, and Rocco, 15, plus nine-year-olds Mercy and David, who both were adopted from Malawi, also threw themselves into the fun.</span><br />
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For her gypsy-themed party, the Queen of Pop wore a see through black gown, with a floral head dress. The centrepiece of the celebrations was a bar featuring a huge letter M in lights.</div>
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She was presented with a cake featuring a figurine dressed in her style with leopard-print knickers and a red top. It was emblazoned with the words 'Rebel Heart', which is the title of her latest album and a reference to her free-spirited ways.</div>
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Madonna posted pictures of the whole event with captions in praise of Leos and thanking her 'rebel hearts', as she also calls her fans, for their good wishes.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Madonna and her 'princess' Lourdes</span></div>
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The other important Leo in her life is son Rocco, who turned 15 last week at a birthday bash thrown by the pop star and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie.</div>
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In a clip posted to Instagram the proud parents looked on as the teenager blew out his birthday candles. Madonna was seen holding the cake while everyone sang. Then the film director tenderly put his arm around his eldest son and gave him a kiss on his head.</div>
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A few days ahead of her own birthday Madonna also shared a throwback picture with her other ex-husband Sean Penn, who was born on 17 August. She had written: "It's almost our birthdays. Two Leos", noting that the black and white photo was taken by another Leo, well-known photographer Herb Ritts.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-21983420033424205572015-08-02T02:20:00.002-07:002015-08-02T02:20:27.005-07:00Madonna’s Instagram: Rebel Heart Tour costume revealed<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; padding: 0px 0px 30.71875px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Who’s That Girl………… #rebelhearttour</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-74161701687735393522015-08-02T02:19:00.003-07:002015-08-02T02:19:28.914-07:00Nicole Kidman on meeting Madonna<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; padding: 0px 0px 30.71875px; vertical-align: baseline;">
“I remember just being so excited to wear [the gown to the Oscars],” Kidman said. “And then I remember Madonna coming up to me at the after party — and I was, you know, still very new to everything — and saying ‘best dressed! Best dressed!'” Remember, in the primitive, pre-social media days of ’97, the notion of “Best Dressed” wasn’t quite the orchestrated production that it is today.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-21240619828778160652015-08-02T02:18:00.003-07:002015-08-02T02:18:30.804-07:00Madonna Scores 46th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs Chart<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 36px; padding: 0px 0px 30.71875px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Madonna’s back at No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart, as her latest single, “B**** I’m Madonna” rises 2-1 on the chart dated Aug. 15.</div>
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It’s the diva’s 46th No. 1 on this chart, and extends her own record for the most No. 1s on a singular Billboard chart. (She broke the record in May, when she surpassed George Strait’s 44 leaders on the Hot Country Songs chart.)</div>
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The new Aug. 15-dated Dance Club Songs chart — which measures reports submitted by a national sample of club DJs — will post to Billboard’s websites on Aug. 4.</div>
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“B**** I’m Madonna,” featuring Nicki Minaj, is the third single from Madonna’s Rebel Heart album. The set debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking her 21st top 10 effort.</div>
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For Minaj, “Madonna” is her fifth No. 1. She also hit the top with “Turn Me On” (David Guetta featuring Minaj), “Give Me All Your Luvin'” (Madonna featuring Minaj & M.I.A.), “Pound the Alarm” and “Beauty and a Beat” (Justin Bieber featuring Minaj).</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-51820037882446718142015-08-02T02:12:00.002-07:002015-08-02T02:12:59.042-07:00Mad for Madonna even at P3K-P57K tickets<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_175485" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 16px; margin: 5px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 628px;">
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The Philippines may still be struggling to curb poverty and unemployment, but the country’s middle class seems to have adapted to a lifestyle that used to be the domain of the rich and famous.</div>
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Proof: Madonna’s Manila concert at SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena on Feb. 24, 2016, is more than six months away, but already, there is much ado about getting tickets now, “before they run out,” a midlevel corporate executive told the Inquirer.</div>
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Those who have made a purchase proudly posted the tickets’ image on their Facebook pages.</div>
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And while most Filipinos also took to social media to comment about the outrageous ticket prices—from P3,150 to P57,750—many others did not hesitate to respond to the organizers’ promotional offer: priority seats for members of Madonna’s official fan club Icon, Citibank cardholders and Globe Telecom subscribers.</div>
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It took one week before the official announcement on July 29 that the Manila concert, part of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” world tour, will have a second night on Feb. 25, 2016, although the Inquirer had reported it in advance (Madonna in Manila confirmed: 2 nights at MOA Arena, lifestyle.inquirer.net, July 1).</div>
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The decision to hold back the announcement of the second night was a calculated move, sources say, to test if the Philippine market was ready for advance ticket sales, especially for a top concert act like Madonna.</div>
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Apparently, the scheme worked because it afforded those with a tight budget to buy tickets via credit card or charge to their mobile phone bills.</div>
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International publications have noted that Madonna’s last few tours abroad sold tickets in the range of $300–$350 (P13,500-P15,750) and the cheapest at $35 (P1,575).</div>
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An article in Forbes.com mentioned that the average ticket for the Rebel Heart tour is priced at $452.33 (P20,354.85), adding that “Madonna surpassed Fleetwood Mac as the artist with the most expensive tour (51.5 percent more) in 2015… The Oct. 24 (2014) show in Las Vegas became the most expensive date with average price of $949.21 (P42,714.45) while the cheapest tickets were available for $164.30 (P7,393.50) at the Edmonton (Canada) date…”</div>
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According to Inquirer sources, the cost of bringing Madonna and her entourage of dancers, live band and production crew to the Philippines is approximately $4 million (P180 million), excluding hotel accommodations and other production expenses.</div>
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That’s an awful lot of money, and it took the SM Group, which owns MOA Arena, to bankroll the amount, sources said. SM’s founder Henry Sy Sr. may be the country’s richest man, but producing concerts is still a business—even if Madonna’s Manila shows could just be for prestige, the sources pointed out.</div>
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For a time, another group was determined to bring her to perform at another venue, the Iglesia ni Cristo-owned Philippine Arena, where tickets could be priced lower since it is about five times bigger than MOA Arena. In fact, a Philippine Arena representative had aggressively expressed his desire to bag the deal when he called up the Inquirer and said, “Sa amin na lang si Madonna (We want Madonna)”—even before finding out who the promoters are.</div>
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The Rebel Heart tour is said to be the 56-year-old pop queen’s third and final tour under the 10-year multirights deal with Live Nation, signed in 2007 for $120 million.</div>
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As for her Filipino fans who may be wondering what their idol would be singing at her MOA Arena concerts, here’s word from the Macomb Daily, a publication in Madonna’s hometown Michigan: “By July 2015, Madonna was still working on the set list with her team of creative directors, producers, designers and choreographers. She described the tour as a ‘characteristically theatrical spectacle’ and would include songs from her whole career.”</div>
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A recent article on Billboard.com said: “However, picking the set list was hard since the singer wanted to perform the ‘Rebel Heart’ (album) songs as well as her old discography, too, in order to satisfy all her fans. She found the task challenging since ‘thematically the songs— the old and the new—they have to go together; sonically they have to go together.’”</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-53814774704141580592015-08-02T02:08:00.001-07:002015-08-02T02:08:26.320-07:00Show us your Basquiat!<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Calling all Rebel Hearts artists! Your online fan art has really caught Madonna’s eye and moved her. She has asked if you can submit your best creations, from any era, style and look. Madonna has been inspired by your creativity and would like to display a digital gallery of your artwork live during the upcoming Rebel Heart tour. To be eligible to participate, you must be at least 18 years old and the sole owner and creator of the artwork and other modifications to the photograph, and you must sign your creation with your name -- we want to make sure to give credit where deserved! </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Upload your creation as a high quality TIFF or JPEG file that is 800 x 960 pixels minimum in size (larger formats welcome) to your favorite file sharing service and e-mail us the link to it at art4madonna@gmail.com before July 30th 2015.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Looking forward to seeing your works of art! What do you got, Show us your Basquiat!</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">By submitting, posting or uploading your artwork to us, you are confirming that (1) you are the only owner and creator of your submission and no one else owns any rights to your submission; (2) the only name on your submission is your name and you are 18 years or older; (3) you grant us and our designee(s) a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, fully sub-licensable, irrevocable, transferable, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, digitally perform, publicly perform and publicly display and otherwise exploit in any manner your submission, and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to or prior approval by you ,and you have all rights necessary to make this grant of rights to us; (4) your submission is not subject to any obligation of confidentiality, attribution or otherwise and does not violate any applicable laws, rules or regulations; (5) you indemnify us and our designees, and we are not and will not be liable, for any use or disclosure of your submission and (6) your submission is and will be exclusively governed by and subject to the laws of the State of New York, United States of America (including, without limitation, its laws pertaining to copyright) and you irrevocably waive any "moral rights" or other similar rights or claims regarding attribution of authorship or integrity of your submission pursuant to any law throughout the world.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-3990976185658762412015-08-02T02:06:00.003-07:002015-08-02T02:06:24.827-07:00“Bitch, I’m Madonna” Up to No. 2 on U.S. Dance Chart<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
In its sixth week on the U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs Chart, <em style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitch, I’m Madonna</span></em> is Going Hard and Up to No. 2 (for the week of August 8, 2015).</div>
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The Queen is blowing up the dance chart!</div>
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Thanks to MadonnaTribe contributor <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rob</span> from Berkeley, California USA.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-54628809053783291302015-08-02T02:05:00.001-07:002015-08-02T02:05:28.255-07:00Madonna adds a second show in Manila<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
By overwhelming demand, Madonna is adding a second show in the Philippines! The second night of her <em style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebel Heart Tour</span></em> is set for <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 25, 2016</span>, again at Mall Of Asia Arena in Manila!</div>
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The Madonna.com pre-sale for Manila is open to all registered Week #10 Icon Live Pass holders. Lifetime Legacy member priority access will begin at 10am PHT. The general public sale starts on Sunday, August 2nd.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-80167209034761047362015-08-02T02:04:00.002-07:002015-08-02T02:04:12.996-07:00“Bitch I’m Madonna” extends the Queen’s record for most No. 1s on a single chart<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
From an article by Keith Caulfield, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Billboard.com</span>:</div>
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Madonna’s back at No. 1 on <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance Club Songs</span>, as <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitch I’m Madonna</span></span> rises 2-1 on the chart dated Aug. 15.</div>
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It’s her 46th No. 1 on this chart, and extends her own record for the most No. 1s on a singular Billboard chart. Madonna broke the record in May, when she surpassed George Strait’s 44 leaders on the Hot Country Songs chart.</div>
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The new Aug. 15-dated Dance Club Songs chart – which measures reports submitted by a national sample of club DJs – will post to Billboard’s websites on Aug. 4.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitch I’m Madonna</span></span>, featuring Nicki Minaj, is the third single from Madonna’s Rebel Heart album. The set debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking her 21st top 10 effort.</div>
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For Minaj, the song is her fifth No. 1 and her second one with the Queen of Pop, following MDNA’s <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give Me All Your Luvin’</span></span>.</div>
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Check out Billboard.com for an updated look at Madonna’s 46 Dance Club Songs No. 1s, beginning with the double-sided single “Holiday”/”Lucky Star,” which reached the top the week of Sept. 24, 1983. You’ll notice that one of her No. 1s is an entire album: You Can Dance (1988), a collection of mostly remixes of previously-released songs (and one new cut, “Spotlight”). Prior to Feb. 23, 1991, the chart wasn’t always song-specific and full albums were, at some points, allowed to chart.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-57152297835526785522015-07-26T11:07:00.001-07:002015-07-26T11:07:37.640-07:00Rebel Heart (Madonna album)<div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<i><b>Rebel Heart</b></i> is the thirteenth studio album by American singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Madonna</span>. It was released on March 6, 2015 by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interscope Records</span>. Following the completion of the <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MDNA</span></i> era, Madonna worked on the album throughout 2014, co-writing and co-producing it with various musicians, including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Avicii</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span>. She teased by uploading pictures of her recording sessions on her<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</span> account. Working with a number of collaborators on the album, Madonna faced problem in keeping a cohesive sound and direction for <i>Rebel Heart</i>, since her previous efforts have been only with a core group of people.</div>
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Thematically <i>Rebel Heart</i> represents the two different sides of the singer; listening to one's heart and being a rebel; the themes grew organically during the writing and recording sessions. Musically, it is a pop record which merges an array of genres such as 1990s<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">house</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">trap</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reggae</span>, as well as the usage of acoustic guitars and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">gospel choir</span>. Some of the songs are autobiographical in nature while others talk about love, personal reflections, as well as introspection of Madonna's career. <i>Rebel Heart</i> features guest appearances from boxer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Tyson</span> and rappers <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nas</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chance the Rapper</span>.</div>
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The record had been set for a March 2015 release, with the first single to be released on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Valentine's Day</span>. But after a flurry of unexpected album content <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">leaks</span>, the singer released the album for pre-order on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">iTunes Store</span> on December 20, 2014, with six songs being available for download. Police investigation led to an Israeli man being arrested, who was charged for hacking into Madonna's computer and leaking the songs. The cover art for the deluxe edition of the album became popular, leading to numerous memes being created on Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter. To promote the album, Madonna made several television appearances and performances, including the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">57th Annual Grammy Awards</span> and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2015 Brit Awards</span>. Further promotion for the album would come from the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rebel Heart Tour</span>, which will start from September 2015 and continue till March 2016 through North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>", "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ghosttown</span>" and "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bitch I'm Madonna</span>" were released as singles from the album.</div>
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<i>Rebel Heart</i> received predominantly positive reviews from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">music critics</span>; multiple reviewers called it her best effort in a decade. They found that unlike her last two studio efforts <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hard Candy</span></i> (2008) and <i>MDNA</i> (2012), the album was progressive in its sound. The album debuted at number two on the <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>200 chart in the United States and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">UK Albums Chart</span>. It peaked at number one in various countries across the world, including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">major music markets</span> such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, while reaching the top ten of the charts in France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden.</div>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">2</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Writing and recording sessions</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">3</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Titling and themes</span></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">8</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Commercial reception</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">9</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Track listing</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">10</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Credits and personnel</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">11</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Charts</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">12</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Certifications</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">13</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Release history</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">14</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">See also</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">15</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">References</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">16</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">External links</span></li>
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Following the release of her twelfth studio album, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MDNA</span></i> (2012), Madonna embarked on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The MDNA Tour</span> to promote it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-touropens_1-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>1]</sup> The tour courted many <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">controversial subjects</span> such as violence, firearms, human rights, nudity and politics. Lawsuits were created against Madonna from the concerts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-law_2-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>2]</sup> She was enraged by many of these incidents, which she claimed was "injustice" against human beings.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>3]</sup> In September 2013, she released <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">secretprojectrevolution</span></i>, a short film directed by her and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Steven Klein</span>, dealing with artistic freedom and human rights. The film also launched a global initiative called Art for Freedom to promote <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">freedom of expression</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>4]</sup> She clarified on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">L'Uomo Vogue</span></i> that her next album would be connected with Art for Freedom, saying that she "had" to be committed to the initiative and use her voice as an artist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>5]</sup></div>
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By December 2013, Madonna's manager <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Guy Oseary</span> commented that the singer was "eager to get started" on her next album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmartin_6-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>6]</sup> However, she had another project in mind, developing the screenplay for the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Andrew Sean Greer</span> novel, <i>The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells</i>. Madonna decided to split her time between writing the screenplay and writing songs for the new album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytint_7-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>7]</sup> In February 2014, Madonna confirmed that she had already begun working on her thirteenth studio album, saying "I'm right now in the process of talking to various co-writers and producers and talking about where I want to go with my music".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>8]</sup> Working with a number of collaborators on the album, Madonna faced problem in keeping a cohesive sound and direction for <i>Rebel Heart</i>, since her previous efforts have been with only a core group of people developing the music. She observed that a lot of the people she enlisted would not stay in one city at a time due to their different projects, resulting in Madonna not finishing her songs. "So, I was just the person standing there with a clipboard in the headlights, going 'Ok!' A little bit like a school teacher," she admitted.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup></div>
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By March 2014, Madonna started posting a number of images on social media website <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</span>, where she hinted at possible songwriters and collaborators with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hashtag</span>captions. First she posted about going into the recording studio with Swedish DJ and producer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Avicii</span>, followed by another image of them a few days later, with the caption "The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs!".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmartin_6-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>6]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>10]</sup> Record producer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Carl Falk</span> talked to newspaper <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dagens Nyheter</span></i> in April 2014 about the sessions with Madonna and Avicii. He recalled that eleven demos were recorded within a week at <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Henson Recording Studios</span> in Hollywood, with acoustic guitars and piano. A total of six personnel were selected by Avicii's manager Arash "Ash" Pour Nouri. They were divided into two groups, the first one consisting of Falk, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rami Yacoub</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Savan Kotecha</span> and the second group consisting of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Salem Al Fakir</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vincent Pontare</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Magnus Lidehäll</span>. Avicii worked with both the groups in creating the demo songs, while Madonna arrived at the studio in the afternoon and stayed till 7 am. She worked closely with both teams while writing and changing melodies, and was in charge of the process.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>11]</sup></div>
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Two of the collaborators with Madonna on the album included <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Avicii</span> (<i>left</i>) and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span> (<i>right</i>)</div>
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A few days later Madonna posted the image of a sunset with the words "Rebel Heart" on them, and a caption which the media interpreted as lyrics of a new song. The lines posted were: "Day turns into night. I won't give up the fight. Don't want to get to the end of my days... saying I wasn't amazed."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>12]</sup> Further images showed Madonna with singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Natalia Kills</span> in front of a microphone, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Martin Kierszenbaum</span>, the founder and chairman of Cherrytree Records and senior executive of A&R for<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interscope Records</span>, Madonna's label.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmartin_6-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>6]</sup> By mid-April 2014, she also revealed the names of songwriters <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mozella</span>and record producer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Symbolyc One</span> on Instagram with images of the group working in studio.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>13]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>14]</sup> The list of personnel extended to include producer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span> and sound engineer Nick Rowe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>15]</sup> In an interview with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sirius XM Radio</span>, Kierszenbaum described the recording process:</div>
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We were supposed to be with her in the studio for a couple of days. She kindly invited us to stay a little longer. We don't know what's going to end up on the album but it was an absolute you know honor... For me being such a fan for so long it was so exciting to hear her vocal in the room right next to me, coming out of her head really sounding exactly like all those records we all love and she's a pleasure to work with because she's so in tune with who she is and what she wants to sing. I don't know. It's really great collaborating with her and Natalia is such a great writer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>16]</sup></div>
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In May 2014, Madonna posted a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">selfie</span> where she talked about working with American DJ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>17]</sup> Madonna had invited him for her annual Oscar party, but he could not make it. They eventually started talking about music through texts and decided to collaborate on the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbcover_18-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>18]</sup> In an interview with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Idolator</span>, Diplo explained that Madonna had asked him to provide his "craziest record" for the album. Together they wrote and recorded seven songs and Diplo added that "Those records are gonna be crazy-sounding. We really pushed the envelope with some of the stuff we were doing... [S]he was up for anything. I love when an artist gives a producer the confidence he needs to work with them, and Madonna was very open-minded to my ideas."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>19]</sup> One song was composed out of a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hook</span> Madonna had sung while drinking in the studio, and Diplo described it as "super weird". Another one (later confirmed as "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>") had almost 20 versions ranging from a piano ballad to an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EDM</span> composition, ultimately Madonna and Diplo compromising on a middle level. Rechtshaid and British singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MNEK</span> also joined for writing sessions with them, improving the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">verse</span> of the song.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbcover_18-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>18]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>20]</sup> Diplo also confirmed another track, known as "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bitch I'm Madonna</span>", which he believed would push lyrical boundary for a pop song.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>21]</sup> Both <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alicia Keys</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ryan Tedder</span> confirmed working on the album, saying that they contributed to the songwriting with Keys playing piano on "Living for Love".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>22]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>23]</sup> Two other songs, "Messiah" and "Devil Pray", were confirmed by Madonna in different interviews.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-inter_24-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>24]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>25]</sup></div>
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Thematically, Caryn Ganz from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rolling Stone</span></i> felt that the album focused on two subjects: listening to one's heart and being a rebel. Madonna explained that these concepts were not the initial inspiration, but emerged during the sessions with Avicii. One group of musicians explored an upbeat approach to songwriting, while the other team chose darker chords. Madonna observed two distinct themes emerging organically, and felt the need to express that.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup> So the record was titled as <i>Rebel Heart</i>, since it dealt with two different facades of the singer—her rebellious and renegade side, and her romantic side. She wanted it to be a dual album with each part representing these facades.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup> With French radio<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">NRJ</span></i>, she explained that <i>Rebel Heart</i> could be both autobiographical as well as fiction, since while writing songs she mixed both her own experiences as well as imaginary narratives. The title also stemmed from Madonna's belief that contemporary music artists are not encouraged or inspired to be rebellious, take risks or speak-up and she wanted to highlight it. However, she understood the importance of having love in the rebellious nature, so added the word <i>Heart</i> along with <i>Rebel</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nrj_27-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>27]</sup></div>
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"There's a looking back here, a missing the beginning of my career when I was surrounded by other artists... like <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Keith Haring</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Basquiat</span> and<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Warhol</span>. It was a time when pop music was more naive and free. I was missing that feeling and that mixture of so many different worlds in New York."</div>
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—Madonna talking to Jim Farber of <i>New York Daily News</i> about the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dailynewsint_28-0" style="font-size: 9.85599994659424px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>28]</sup></div>
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Introspection was also listed as one of the foundational themes prevalent in the album, with genuine statements of careerist and personal reflections of the artist and her "obsessive self-regard".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-slant3_29-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>29]</sup> Madonna explained to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jon Pareles</span> of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The New York Times</span></i>that although she has never looked back at her past endeavors, reminiscing about it felt correct for <i>Rebel Heart</i>. "And it's bittersweet for me to think about that. It just seemed like a time where I wanted to stop and look back. It's kind of like survivor guilt. How did I make it and they didn't?" she added.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytint_7-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>7]</sup> During the development phase of the album, she became comfortable to express her ideas in front of a few people, comparing it to "writing your diary in front of somebody and reading it out loud... It was almost like an acting exercise, you know, just putting myself in a room and letting ideas flow even if I didn't feel so connected to the people."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup></div>
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Further inspirations for the album came from Madonna's exploration of other cultures and art, literature and music, referencing them in the songs. She believed that the tracks should stand on their own, and could be broken down to minimalist production, so that one could sing them with just a guitar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup>Madonna also enlisted the help of her daughter Lourdes and son Rocco, calling them her <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A&R</span>. They frequently visited night clubs and were able to bring news about upcoming music and artists to her, which helped create the sounds she gravitated towards for the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dailynewsint_28-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>28]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ggtheft_30-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>30]</sup></div>
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A generally pop record,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ew1_31-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>31]</sup> <i>Rebel Heart</i> was different from Madonna's releases in the last decade according to Bradley Stern from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MuuMuse</span>. He called it an "eclectic record" merging an array of musical genres like 1990s <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">house</span>, to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">trap</span>, to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reggae</span> to usage of acoustic guitars. Stern felt that unlike chasing the current musical trends—like those of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hard Candy</span></i> (2008) and <i>MDNA</i>—the album was progressive in its sound.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-muu_32-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>32]</sup> Adding to this, Mitchell Sunderland from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vice</span></i> felt that <i>Rebel Heart</i> was a "lesson learned" from the critique Madonna had received for the last two albums.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>33]</sup> Jed Gottlieb from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Boston Herald</span></i> found the album to continue Madonna's "increasingly interesting, innovative approach" by combining contemporary musical styles with her previous tastes. He found <i>Rebel Heart</i> to be an improvement from the generic dance tunes in <i>MDNA</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-herald_34-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>34]</sup> For <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jon Pareles</span> from<i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Rebel Heart</i> was like a sequel to <i>MDNA</i> in its composition, but while the later was marred with its cold mechanized vocals and cliché songwriting, the former was able to portray Madonna's musical abilities as someone "who ponders sin along with romance and fame".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_35-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>35]</sup> Jay Lustig from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Record</span></i> believed that Madonna had always lacked a thematic coherence with her previous endeavors. However, with the songs from <i>Rebel Heart</i> she was able to create potentially successful singles despite the different styles of the tracks, thereby maintaining consistency in the record.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-njersey_36-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>36]</sup></div>
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A 21-second sample of the opening track "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>" featuring Madonna singing over "regal" piano sounds, accompanied by a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">gospel choir</span>.</div>
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<i>Rebel Heart</i> opens with the song "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>". Composed in the house genre it begins with Madonna singing over a "regal" piano line, eventually joined by percussion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lfl_37-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>37]</sup> Although a breakup song, "Living for Love" talks about being triumphant and hopeful.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hc_38-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>38]</sup> According to Dean Piper from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Daily Telegraph</span></i>, the song has "some classic Madonna traits: religious references, a gospel choir, 90s piano beats and a whirling bass". It was compared to her 1989 singles, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Like a Prayer</span>" and "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Express Yourself</span>" by Jason Lipshutz from <i>Billboard</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lfl_37-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>37]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-telegr_39-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>39]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitfix_40-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>40]</sup> The second track, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Devil Pray</span>", was inspired about how one would be enticed to partake of narcotics to achieve a higher level of consciousness and connect to God.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-inter_24-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>24]</sup> Lyrically it asks for salvation from a variety of drug abuses, making allusions to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Saint Mary</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lucifer</span>, as well as the pain of healing from drug abuse.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-telegr_39-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>39]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinrebel_41-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>41]</sup> Produced by Madonna with Falk, Avicii, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DJ Dahi</span> and Blood Diamonds, "Devil Pray" starts with gentle guitar sounds which builds up to an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">electropop</span> production, accompanied with a house beat.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hc_38-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>38]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nypost_42-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>42]</sup> "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ghosttown</span>" talks about civilizations ending and the world encountering an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">armageddon</span>, but human beings seeing hope among the destruction.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup> Written with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jason Evigan</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Evan Bogart</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sean Douglas</span>, it is a power ballad song, where Madonna sings in "piercing" and "warm" vocals like those of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Karen Carpenter</span>'s, and the production comparable to her 1986 single, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Live to Tell</span>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nydaily_43-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>43]</sup> According to Douglas, "Ghosttown" was written in three days, after Madonna personally requested studio time with him and the other songwriters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ghost_44-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>44]</sup> Fourth track "Unapologetic Bitch" has <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reggae</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dancehall</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dubstep</span> influences, and is a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ska</span> song where Madonna speaks negatively about a break-up and her lover, in lyrics like, "It might sound like I'm an Unapologetic Bitch but sometimes you have to call it like it is."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-telegr_39-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>39]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nydaily_43-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>43]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>45]</sup> Madonna explained that the song was about having fun irrespective of the situation one is.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup></div>
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The fifth song, "Illuminati", was inspired after Madonna came to know that people alluded to her with the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">eponymous term</span>. So she researched about the real Illuminati and wrote the song.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-6" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ggtheft_30-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>30]</sup> Lyrically it refers to the Illuminati <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">conspiracy theory</span>, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Egyptian pyramids</span>, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Phoenix</span>, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Age of Enlightenment</span>, and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Eye of Providence</span> among others, with the chorus lyrics: "It's like everybody in this party is shining like Illuminati".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitfix_40-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>40]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ibtimes_46-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>46]</sup> According to Madonna, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span> who produced the track had loved the melody and changed the composition as he found best suited.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-7" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup> Minaj appears on the sixth track, "Bitch I'm Madonna", where she raps, asking everybody to "go hard or go home", while Madonna shouts lyrics like, "I just want to have fun tonight, I wanna blow up this house tonight". Produced by Diplo and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sophie</span>, the track has a tearing sound alongside the "bleepy electro" and "churning <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dubstep</span>" composition.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-muu_32-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>32]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitfix_40-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>40]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nypost_42-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>42]</sup> During the writing sessions Minaj had to rewrite the lyrics until she could get the correct sentiment per Madonna.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rsrebel_26-8" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup> "Hold Tight" consists of an "arresting" chorus and a drum beat sound, described by Sam C. Mac of <i>Slant Magazine</i> as "innocuous, lyrically platitudinous pop that briefly works itself up into something exciting when it threatens to become a gospelized stomp."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-slant3_29-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>29]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>47]</sup> Track eight, "Joan of Arc", is a ballad where Madonna talks about the media scrutiny of her life, singing "Each time they take a photograph, I lose a part of me I can't get back". It also references the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Roman Catholic saint</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">of the same name</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinrebel_41-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>41]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>48]</sup> Madonna's hushed, vibrato-tinged vocals and confessional lyrics in "Joan of Arc" are enhanced by a new beat and utilizes strings in the bridge and acoustics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-slant3_29-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>29]</sup></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span> (<i>left</i>) produced the tracks "Illuminati" and "Holy Water", while boxer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Tyson</span> (<i>right</i>) had guest vocals on "Iconic"</div>
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"Iconic" features <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chance the Rapper</span> and boxer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Tyson</span>. The latter had a spoken word introduction to the song, similar to his addition on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Canibus</span>' debut single, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Second Round K.O.</span>" (1998). Tyson was invited to the recording studio by Madonna, where he talked about his life and recorded it in one take.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>49]</sup> Consisting of a "weird" beat, "Iconic" finds Madonna embracing herself as an icon through the lyrics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-slant3_29-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>29]</sup> "HeartBreakCity" follows "Iconic", and is a piano ballad talking about lost love with Madonna singing in deeper vocal register, inspired by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">baroque pop</span>. Containing synths, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">banjo</span> sounds and hollow drums, "Body Shop" describes love as a damaged car on the highway, requiring a body repairing to be alive.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> West also produced the next track, "Holy Water", where the singer compares her bodily fluids to the title. With hedonistic sound effects, the song is reminiscent of Madonna's 1990 single, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Justify My Love</span>" and contains a lyrical excerpt from "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vogue</span>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-national_51-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>51]</sup> A bassline accompanies the chorus, consisting of moaning sounds, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">arcade game</span> music and synths.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> "Inside Out" is produced by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Dean</span>, and features Madonna's vocals with<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reverb</span>, accompanied by piano sounds and restrained chords. "Wash All Over Me" follows, and is the last track on the standard version. Baroque piano sounds and a steady military beat approaches the chorus as Madonna sings about the world changing, heartbreaks and accepting it. A gospel choir and minimum synths backs the song's composition.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-national_51-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>51]</sup></div>
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The deluxe version of <i>Rebel Heart</i> begins with the track "Best Night", an 80s electro composition reminiscent of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sade</span>'s songs with drums and Indian flute instrumentation. Madonna begins the song with the line, "You can call me M tonight" but her voice is not discernible on the chorus, only on the harmonies. There is reference to her previous single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Justify My Love</span>" (1990) at one point in the intermediate bridge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> "Veni Vidi Vici" appears next, and is rap "origin story song" with its lyrics built around memorable moments off her career like, "I <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">expressed myself</span>, came <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">like a virgin</span> down the aisle / Exposed my naked ass, and I did it with a smile / And when it came to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sex</span>, I knew I walked the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Borderline</span> / and when I <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">struck a pose</span>, all the gay boys lost their minds". Madonna sings the chorus over simple guitar beats, uttering "I came, I saw, I conquered", the English translation of the song's title.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>52]</sup> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nas</span> appears for a guest verse talking about is own life as Diplo backs it with shotgun and crunching horn sounds. "S.E.X." is the next track where Madonna asks "Tell me what you know about sex" sarcastically over sounds of bass, synths and string <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">arpeggio</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> Near the end she enlists a number of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">bondage</span> items like "Twisted rope, handcuffs, blindfold, string of pearls". Described as both an embodiment and critique of act, "S.E.X." talks about the lack of intimacy with Madonna rapping in a "dispassionate" voice; she purposely made it sound like she had a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">lisp</span> in her articulation of the words.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>53]</sup> One of the first tracks confirmed, "Messiah" is a dramatic pop ballad<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BillboardReview_54-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>54]</sup> with an orchestra backing and violins reminiscent of Madonna's 1986 single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Papa Don't Preach</span>". Madonna employs a "deeper velvety" tone in her voice, with the lyrics talking about lighting candles and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">necromancy</span> as well as casting spells of love. The title track finishes off the album and was changed completely from its leaked demo version. It consists of an acoustic guitar and violins, while the song itself is autobiographical. As Amy Pettifer of <i>The Quietus</i> noted, "'Rebel Heart' quietly [acknowledges Madonna's] part in building the scene and popularising stylistics that are the foundation of current trends... A bit of pop magic dug, nonetheless, from the depths of her rebel heart."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup></div>
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In May 2014, photographer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mert Alas</span> posted on his Instagram that he was listening to the album, but <i>Billboard</i> clarified that Madonna was still in the process of recording it in Los Angeles.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>55]</sup> They later posted a 50-second snippet of an instrumental which media claimed to be from Madonna, but the sample was traced back to Dutch DJ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sander Kleinenberg</span> and his song "We Are Superstars".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vul_56-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>56]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>57]</sup> Oseary confirmed that Madonna looked forward to a 2015 release date for the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>58]</sup> However on November 28, 2014, two songs leaked into the internet, titled "Rebel Heart" and "Wash All Over Me"; the songs were immediately <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">taken down</span>, with Oseary tweeting and asking assistance in finding the leaks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>59]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>60]</sup> On December 17, 2014, a total of 13 songs were leaked, including artwork suggesting the album to be named <i>Iconic</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billboardone_61-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>61]</sup> An aggravated Madonna clarified that the songs were demo versions from earlier recordings; she compared the leak to that of "artistic rape".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>62]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timess_63-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>63]</sup> She was subsequently criticized for referring to the hack as "terrorism" in the wake of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Peshawar school attack</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sydney hostage crisis</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>64]</sup> Madonna said in an interview with <i>Billboard</i> that after the leak, she and her team tried to trace it back to the source, but ultimately decided to release the finished songs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup> Referring to the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sony Pictures Entertainment hack</span>, she criticized the internet and explained that the incident led to securing her laptop and hard drives, while disabling the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wi-Fi</span>. "I wanted to plan everything in advance. Release the single, shoot a video, start talking about my record. And you know, prepare for the release of the entire album and have everything set up just so... But we sort of were left with no choice," she added.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbint_9-6" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup></div>
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Obviously there is a person, or a group of people behind this that were essentially terrorising me. I don't want to sound alarming, but certainly that's how I felt. It's one thing if someone comes into your house and steals a painting off your wall: that's also a violation, but, your work, as an artist, that's devastating... I'm sorry if words alarm people, but that's what it felt like. It was not a consensual agreement. I did not say 'hey, here's my music, and it's finished.' It was theft.</div>
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—Madonna talking about the leaks to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alexis Petridis</span> of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ggtheft_30-2" style="font-size: 9.85599994659424px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>30]</sup></div>
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On December 20, 2014, the album became available for pre-order on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">iTunes Store</span>. When ordered, six tracks (five in the United Kingdom) were automatically downloaded. Madonna stated that the songs were meant to be "an early Christmas gift" with the final release on March 10, 2015. Originally, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>" was intended to serve as the lead single from the album. It was to be released on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Valentine's Day</span>, with the rest of the record slated for the spring. However, due to the leak the release date had to be pushed up.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rollstonetwentith_65-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>65]</sup> Oseary recalled that they did not receive a confirmation until Friday night whether the pre-release could be executed, since iTunes was closing for the Christmas weekend. After much discussion on the pros and cons of the release, and with the aid of Interscope vice-chairman Steve Berman, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Apple Inc.</span>'s Robert Kondrk, they were able to go live slowly.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-golive_66-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>66]</sup> The six songs Madonna chose had to be polished, and since the producers of the tracks were unavailable, Madonna <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">mastered</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">mixed</span> them on her own.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-insidebb_67-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>67]</sup> The album's release was compared to Beyoncé's <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">self-titled</span> surprise release in 2013, with <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i> calling it a "partial <i>Beyoncé</i>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>68]</sup> Still the leaks continued with 14 new demos being revealed from December 23–27.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billboard2_69-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>69]</sup> Three new tracks—"Hold Tight", "Joan of Arc" and "Iconic" featuring Tyson and Chance the Rapper—became available following Madonna's Grammy performance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-accessholly_70-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>70]</sup></div>
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The final track list of <i>Rebel Heart</i> was revealed on January 20, 2015, with the standard and deluxe version song names.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>71]</sup> A day later <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Israel Police</span> arrested a man, suspecting him of hacking into Madonna, as well as other musician's computers, stealing and leaking content. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lahav 433</span>, a crime-fighting umbrella organization from Israel had led a month-long investigation since the leaks happened, working closely with the FBI. Although Israel Police denied to name the suspect, media identified him as former reality show contestant Adi Lederman, who had participated in Israeli singing competition, <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Kokhav Nolad</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, season ten</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>72]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>73]</sup> As the deluxe edition leaked in full,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>74]</sup> Lederman was charged by Israel's Magistrate court on four counts: Computer trespassing, prohibited secret monitoring and additional computer trespassing, copyright Infringement and obstructing investigation. The investigation also revealed that Lederman was the one who had leaked the demo of Madonna's lead single from <i>MDNA</i>, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Give Me All Your Luvin'</span>". Copies of songs including rehearsal recordings of upcoming performances of Madonna were sold for more than $1,000 to various clients.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>75]</sup> He was ultimately sentenced to 14 months in prison at Tel Aviv.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-76" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>76]</sup></div>
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The cover art, featuring Madonna's face inter-crossed with black wires, became popular in social media resulting in numerous <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">memes</span> being created on Instagram, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tumblr</span> and Twitter. Fans wound black wires across their face to look like the cover, and even created memes with the faces of other celebrities, including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Britney Spears</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Michael Jackson</span>,<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Homer Simpson</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jim Carrey</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Marlon Brando</span>, and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Grinch</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>77]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-78" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>78]</sup> Madonna herself forwarded many of the images on her social media accounts. However, three of the images—those of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Martin Luther King Jr.</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nelson Mandela</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bob Marley</span> with the same wires around their face—was heavily criticized for being "disrespectful and racist".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-79" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>79]</sup> The singer explained the photos the next day, saying that she was flattered for the comparison to the said people and relegated herself as a "freedom fighter".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-80" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>80]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Promotion">Promotion</span></h2>
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Madonna confirmed her appearance at the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">57th Annual Grammy Awards</span> on February 8, 2015; Oseary clarified that the singer would also perform at the ceremony.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-81" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>81]</sup> The singer performed "Living for Love" wearing a one-piece outfit in matador red, surrounded by male dancers as Minotaurs similar to the song's music video. <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Forbes</span></i> reported that Madonna's performance was the most-watched moment of the night.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>82]</sup> Her effort to sing live without <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Auto-Tune</span> during the choreographed performance was also heavily praised.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>83]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>84]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>85]</sup> She also performed the song at the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2015 Brit Awards</span>, on February 25, 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-86" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>86]</sup> However, in the early stages of the performance, a wardrobe malfunction caused her to be pulled down a flight of stairs that made up part of the stage. She later took to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</span> to confirm that she was well, posting "Thanks for the good wishes! I'm fine".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-87" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>87]</sup> It was later revealed that her cape was tied too tight when her dancers attempted to remove it from her neck, causing her to crash to the floor and leaving the audience in shock. After several seconds, she continued the performance as planned.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-88" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>88]</sup></div>
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Madonna partnered with the gay dating app, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Grindr</span>, where a contest was held for five users of the app to be selected for an exclusive interview with the artist as promotion for<i>Rebel Heart</i>. The contest included re-creating the artwork for <i>Rebel Heart</i> and post it as the Grindr profile picture. Other winners would receive signed copies of the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-89" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>89]</sup> Joe Stone from <i>The Guardian</i> considered this to be a "savvy" promotional method, by directly connecting with the singer's gay audience.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-90" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>90]</sup> On March 2 she appeared on France's <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Le Grand Journal</span></i> show, performing an edited version of "Living for Love", as well as "Ghosttown" for the first time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-91" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>91]</sup> Following this, she travelled to Italy for an appearance on the television show <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Che tempo che fa</span></i>, where she performed "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Devil Pray</span>" and "Ghosttown" while talking with host <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fabio Fazio</span> on numerous topics including the album's development process.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-raitv_92-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>92]</sup> Another interview aired on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Today Show</span></i> on March 9 and 10, 2015,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-93" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>93]</sup> where she spoke about the <i>Rebel Heart</i> leaks to host <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Carson Daly</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-94" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>94]</sup> Madonna appeared for the first time at <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Howard Stern Show</span></i> on March 11, 2015, scheduled at a special time for the singer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-95" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>95]</sup> She discussed about her life, and personal relationships, as well as confirmed "Ghosttown" as the second single from <i>Rebel Heart</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-atlanta_96-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>96]</sup> She also appeared for her first UK television interview in three years, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Jonathan Ross Show</span></i> on March 16, 2015, where she performed "Living for Love" and "Ghosttown".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-97" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>97]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-98" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>98]</sup></div>
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Madonna appeared and performed on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Ellen DeGeneres Show</span></i> in US, for the entire week of March 16 to 20. Songs performed included "Living for Love" where DeGeneres herself joined the singer onstage,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-99" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>99]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-100" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>100]</sup> a stripped down version of "Joan of Arc" and "Ghosttown",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-101" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>101]</sup> and finally her 1985 single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dress You Up</span>", during the bathroom concert sequence with DeGeneres.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-102" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>102]</sup> On March 29, 2015, Madonna performed "Ghosttown" at the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2nd iHeartRadio Music Awards</span> at Los Angeles, where she was joined by singer<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Taylor Swift</span> onstage playing guitar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-103" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>103]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-104" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>104]</sup> Two days later <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">BBC</span>'s <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jo Whiley</span> interviewed her for Radio 2, the singer's first radio interview in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-105" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>105]</sup> Madonna appeared on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</span></i> on April 9, 2015, singing "Bitch, I'm Madonna" and her 1983 single, "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Holiday</span>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-106" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>106]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-107" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>107]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-108" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>108]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Rebel_Heart_Tour">Rebel Heart Tour</span></h3>
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Numerous news outlets started reporting about the supporting concert tour for <i>Rebel Heart</i>. Italian newspaper <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torino Today</span></i> reported Madonna planning on returning to Turin on November 20 and 21, 2015, with the tour.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-109" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>109]</sup> Canadian newspapers, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">La Presse</span></i> and <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Le Journal de Montréal</span></i> reported that Madonna's tour dates in Quebec City and Montreal had been decided. According to them, Madonna would be inaugurating a new arena in Quebec City, while the shows in Montreal would happen at the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bell Center</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-110" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>110]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-111" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>111]</sup> The tour was titled as the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rebel Heart Tour</span>, and is scheduled to take place in North America, Europe and Oceania, starting from September 9, 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-112" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>112]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-113" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>113]</sup> According to <i>Billboard</i>, Rebel Heart Tour would be an all-<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">arena</span> one, and would visit cities where Madonna has not performed before. Initial itinerary had 25–30 shows in North America and 20–25 shows in Europe, with additional dates being revealed later on. The tour will visit Australia and New Zealand in early 2016,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbannounce_114-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>114]</sup> and will be the singer's first visit to Australia in more than 20 years, having last toured there with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Girlie Show World Tour</span> in 1993, and her first time in New Zealand and Philippines.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-115" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>115]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-116" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>116]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-philli_117-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>117]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Critical_response">Critical response</span></h2>
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<tr><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: top;">Source</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: top;">Rating</th></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">AllMusic</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="4/5 stars"><img alt="4/5 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="4/5 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_118-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>118]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The A.V. Club</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;">B–<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avclub_119-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>119]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3.5/5 stars"><img alt="3.5/5 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3.5/5 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/11px-Star_half.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/17px-Star_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/22px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BillboardReview_54-1" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>54]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3/5 stars"><img alt="3/5 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3/5 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GuardianReview_120-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>120]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Los Angeles Times</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3/4 stars"><img alt="3/4 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3/4 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-latimesreview_121-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>121]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">NME</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;">5/10<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nme_122-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>122]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rolling Stone</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3.5/5 stars"><img alt="3.5/5 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3.5/5 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/11px-Star_half.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/17px-Star_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/22px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RollingStoneReview_123-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>123]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Slant Magazine</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3.5/5 stars"><img alt="3.5/5 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3.5/5 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/11px-Star_half.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/17px-Star_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/22px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SlantReview_124-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>124]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Spin</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;">6/10<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-125" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>125]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">USA Today</span></i></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="3.5/4 stars"><img alt="3.5/4 stars" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" title="3.5/4 stars" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /><img alt="" data-file-height="110" data-file-width="108" height="11" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/11px-Star_half.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/17px-Star_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/22px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="11" /></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodayReview_126-0" style="font-size: 8.96000003814697px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>126]</sup></td></tr>
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Upon its release, <i>Rebel Heart</i> received positive reviews from critics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-digitalspy_127-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>127]</sup> At <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Metacritic</span>, which assigns a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">weighted mean</span> rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album received an average score of 68, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 29 critics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-metacritic_128-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>128]</sup> <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Daily Telegraph</span></i> writer Neil McCormick, Andy Gill of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Independent</span></i>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">AllMusic</span>'s <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stephen Thomas Erlewine</span>, and Lauren Murphy from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Irish Times</span></i> all gave the album 4 out of 5 stars. McCormick felt that "For the first time in years, [Madonna] doesn't sound desperate", praising it in comparison to <i>Hard Candy</i> and <i>MDNA</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TelegraphReview_129-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>129]</sup> Saeed called it "a fine collection of sturdy pop tunes in which Madonna finally allows herself to look back and sometimes pilfer from her peak periods of the late 80s and early 2000s".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-national_51-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>51]</sup> Murphy wrote "the indisputable pop icon is back with a tentative bang" after <i>MDNA</i> had "few memorable pop hits".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IrishReview_130-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>130]</sup> For Gill, the most impressive factor about <i>Rebel Heart</i> was Madonna's vocals,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-indereview_131-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>131]</sup> while Erlewine found <i>Rebel Heart</i> to be a revival of Madonna's defiant side and her confessional mood.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_118-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>118]</sup></div>
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Writing for <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Quietus</span></i>, Amy Pettifer praised the album, describing it as "a darker return to the club culture roots [for Madonna], and it seems – on some level – to face up to the missteps of her more recent releases."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuietusReview_50-6" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> Giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">USA Today</span></i> writer Elysa Gardner described the album's sound and lyrics as "piercingly direct".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodayReview_126-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>126]</sup> <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chicago Tribune</span></i> writer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Greg Kot</span> and Randall Roberts from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Los Angeles Times</span></i> awarded it 3 out of 4 stars. Kot believed that the album would have been better without the sexuality referencing songs, but still considered it to be a "fascinating"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kot_132-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>132]</sup> while Roberts believed that the <i>Rebel Heart</i> stood out "sturdily" because of the production.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-latimesreview_121-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>121]</sup> Writing for <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Boston Globe</span></i>, James Reed opined that <i>Rebel Heart</i> was a "welcome detour in the artist's recent discography... her most satisfying effort in a decade and nimbly connects the dots between Madonna's various eras and guises."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bostonglobe_133-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>133]</sup> Critic <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Joey Guerra</span> described <i>Rebel Heart</i> in <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Houston Chronicle</span></i> positively as "a complex, consistently strong album".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hcreview_134-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>134]</sup></div>
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<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Slant Magazine</span></i> editor Sal Cinquemani, Joe Levy from <i>Billboard</i>, and Caryn Ganz of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rolling Stone</span></i> all awarded the album 3.5 out of 5 stars. Cinquemani wrote the album was "all over the map", yet felt it was "a surprisingly coherent one".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SlantReview_124-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>124]</sup> Levy wrote that the album was "subtle" compared to "current standards", adding that "These songs unfold slowly, building through foreplay-like intros before hooks are displayed over a shifting series of textures."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BillboardReview_54-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>54]</sup> Ganz felt that <i>Rebel Heart</i> "is at its strongest when Madonna shoves everyone to the side and just tells it to us straight", and added "Deep down, Madonna does have a rebel heart – and you can't fault her for reminding us that pop music is all the better for it".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RollingStoneReview_123-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>123]</sup> Jamieson Cox from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Time</span></i> commended the album for being consistent in its production and sound, Madonna's vocals and songwriting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timereview_135-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>135]</sup> Giving it a rating of B, Kyle Anderson and Adam Markovitz from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Entertainment Weekly</span></i> called <i>Rebel Heart</i> as "Madonna's best outing since 2000's <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Music</span></i>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ew1_31-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>31]</sup> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alexis Petridis</span> of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i> and <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Time Out</span></i> writer Nick Levine gave the album 3 out of 5 stars. Petridis felt that the two contrasting sides of the album did not "quite gel", reasoning that "the former might represent the music Madonna wants to make, while the latter is the music she feels obliged to make".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GuardianReview_120-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>120]</sup> Levine wrote "'Rebel Heart' may lack cohesion, but she's definitely not down for the count: this contains some of the best music Madonna's made in a decade".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-136" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>136]</sup></div>
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Annie Zalesky from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The A.V. Club</span></i> said the album had its "fair share of those head scratching moments", but found it to be a move in the right direction musically.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avclub_119-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>119]</sup> <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Spin</span></i> writer Andrew Unterberger gave the album a 6 out of 10 ranking. While describing the record as "clunky", Unterberger also wrote that it "contains a number of Madonna's best songs in years".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinreview_137-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>137]</sup> Writing for <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The New Zealand Herald</span></i>, Lydia Jenkin gave a mixed review, deeming the album a bit of a mess" and "confused".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-138" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>138]</sup> Lindsay Zoladz from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">New York</span></i> was disappointed, feeling that Madonna sounded "safe" in the songs. She added that "The Madonna of <i>Rebel Heart</i> [has] succeeded once again in the increasingly empty goal of sounding current."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-139" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>139]</sup> Gavin Haynes of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">NME</span></i> panned the album, saying that the album "feels like a wasted opportunity. Trite self-empowerment anthem 'Iconic' informs us that there's only two letters difference between Icon and I Can't. Sadly, there are also two letters between class and ass."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nme_122-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>122]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Commercial_reception">Commercial reception</span></h2>
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According to Andrew Hampp from <i>Billboard</i>, the pre-order received warm response commercially after its release to iTunes Stores around the world. In the United States, three of the six released tracks debuted on <i>Billboard</i> 's <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dance/Electronic Songs</span> chart dated January 3, 2015—"Living for Love", "Bitch I'm Madonna", and "Unapologetic Bitch"—despite being available for two days.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-insidebb_67-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>67]</sup> The six songs have sold a combined 146,000 digital downloads, according to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nielsen SoundScan</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>140]</sup> The album's pre-orders were estimated at around 50,000 to 60,000 copies, according to industry prognosticators.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-insidebb_67-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>67]</sup> The album debuted at number two on the <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>200 chart with 121,000 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">equivalent album units</span>, behind the soundtrack of the TV series <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Empire</span></i>. Although <i>Rebel Heart</i> was the best-selling album of the week with pure album sales of 116,000 copies (96% of overall units), it fell behind the soundtrack when it came to streaming and track equivalent album units, with just over 1,000 and 4,000 respectively. It became Madonna's 21st top-ten album, but was her first studio release not to debut atop the chart since 1998's <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ray of Light</span></i>. <i>Rebel Heart</i> 's concert tour bundle amounted to less than 10,000 copies compared to the 180,000 copies sold for previous album, <i>MDNA</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USdebut_141-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>141]</sup> The release also prompted Madonna to debut at number 7 on the <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>Artist 100 chart, moving up by 2,919% in overall Artist 100 points and gaining by 31% in social media activity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-artost100_142-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>142]</sup> In Canada, <i>Rebel Heart</i> debuted at number one on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Canadian Albums Chart</span> with 18,000 copies sold in the first week, making it her seventh number-one there during the SoundScan era.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-canada_143-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>143]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-144" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>144]</sup> The next week, the album dropped 19 places on the <i>Billboard</i> 200, while in Canada it dropped only one position.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-145" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>145]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-146" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>146]</sup> <i>Billboard</i> reported that the sales dropped down by 78% to 26,000 units, due to the high pre-orders during first week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-secondweekdrop_147-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>147]</sup> The album gradually dropped down the next two weeks. On the fifth week it received a boost in sales from Madonna's appearance on <i>The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon</i>, jumping from number 57 to 41 on the<i>Billboard</i> 200.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-148" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>148]</sup></div>
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In the United Kingdom, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Official Charts Company</span> reported that <i>Rebel Heart</i> outsold its nearest competitors by a ratio of nearly 3:1, after just 24 hours on sale.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-149" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>149]</sup> However,<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sam Smith</span>'s <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In the Lonely Hour</span></i> pushed ahead at the last minute, and <i>Rebel Heart</i> debuted at number two with difference of 12,000 copies. It became Madonna's first studio album to miss the top spot since <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bedtime Stories</span></i>, which also debuted at number two in 1994.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ukdebut_150-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>150]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-151" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>151]</sup> The album sold 37,245 copies including 416 from streaming, becoming the lowest first week sales for a studio album by Madonna. However, she extended her lead as the biggest selling female artist of the 21st century in UK, with cumulative sales of 7.65 million copies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-152" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>152]</sup> Next week, the album dropped to number 7, with sales declining by 67.46% to 11,983 copies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-153" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>153]</sup> The album was certified silver by the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British Phonographic Industry</span> (BPI) for selling over 60,000 copies and has sold 76,490 copies as of June 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bpi_154-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>154]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-uksales_155-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>155]</sup> <i>Rebel Heart</i> debuted at the top of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">German Albums Chart</span>, becoming her twelfth chart-topping record there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ger_156-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>156]</sup> Madonna surpassed <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Beatles</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Robbie Williams</span> as the foreign act with the most number-one albums in German chart history, and equalled <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Herbert Grönemeyer</span> for the third rank overall, behind only <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Peter Maffay</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">James Last</span> with 16 and 13 chart-toppers respectively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-157" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>157]</sup> In France, the album debuted at number three on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SNEP Albums</span> chart, with three-day sales of 17,000 copies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fra_158-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>158]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-159" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>159]</sup> <i>Rebel Heart</i> also debuted at number one on the record charts in Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, as well as the top ten in the rest of European countries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cz_160-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>160]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nl_161-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>161]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gr_162-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>162]</sup></div>
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In Australia, <i>Rebel Heart</i> debuted at the top of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ARIA Albums Chart</span> with sales of 6,962 copies, becoming Madonna's eleventh number-one album in the country and tying her with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">U2</span>, as the act with most number-one albums since the establishment of ARIA in 1983.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-163" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>163]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-noise11_164-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>164]</sup> It became Madonna's 19th week atop the chart, ranking her at number 24 on the list of artists with most accumulated weeks at the top.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-noise11_164-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>164]</sup> The album had a sharp drop the next week, selling 1,312 copies and climbing down to number 18 on the album chart.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-165" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>165]</sup> In New Zealand, it debuted at number seven on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Official New Zealand Music Chart</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NZchart_166-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>166]</sup> In Japan, <i>Rebel Heart</i> debuted at number eight on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Oricon Albums Chart</span>with first-week sales of 7,548 physical units, becoming her 23rd top-ten album there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-japan_167-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>167]</sup> It also entered the Oricon International Albums Chart at number one, staying there for a second week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-japanintl_168-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>168]</sup> In South Korea, <i>Rebel Heart</i> gave Madonna two top-ten entries simultaneously on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Gaon International Albums Chart</span>, with the deluxe edition at number one and the standard edition at number seven.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-korea_169-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>169]</sup> As of May 2015, the album has sold an estimated 650,000 copies worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rebelww_170-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>170]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Track_listing">Track listing</span></h2>
<table class="tracklist" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 4px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1098.8125px;"><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– Standard edition</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-171" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>171]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_credits_172-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>172]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
<tr><th class="tlheader" scope="col" style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; width: 2em;">No.</th><th class="tlheader" scope="col" style="background-color: #eeeeee; width: 405px;">Title</th><th class="tlheader" scope="col" style="background-color: #eeeeee; width: 305px;">Writer(s)</th><th class="tlheader" scope="col" style="background-color: #eeeeee; width: 305px;">Producer(s)</th><th class="tlheader" scope="col" style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; width: 4em;">Length</th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">1.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Madonna</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thomas Wesley Pentz</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Maureen McDonald</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Diplo</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Rechtshaid</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:38</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">2.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Devil Pray</span>" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tim Bergling</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Arash Pournouri</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Carl Falk</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rami Yacoub</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Savan Kotecha</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dacoury Natche</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Michael Diamonds Tucker</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Avicii</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">DJ Dahi</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Blood Diamonds</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:05</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ghosttown</span>" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jason Evigan</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sean Douglas</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Evan Bogart</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Evigan</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:08</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Unapologetic Bitch" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pentz</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Shelco Garcia</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Bryan Orellana</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Diplo</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Rechtshaid</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Shelco Garcia & Teenwolf</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:50</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">5.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Illuminati" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Larry Griffin Jr.</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Dean</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tommy Brown</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">West</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Charlie Heat<sup class="reference plainlinks nourlexpansion" id="ref_a" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[a]</span></sup></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:43</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">6.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bitch I'm Madonna</span>" <span style="font-size: 11.8999996185303px;">(featuring <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>)</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pentz</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Rechtshaid</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Onika Maraj</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Samuel Long</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Diplo</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:47</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">7.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Hold Tight" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pentz</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Uzoechi Emenike</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Philip Meckseper</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:37</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">8.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Joan of Arc" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Griffin Jr.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">AFSHeeN</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Josh Cumbee</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:01</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">9.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Iconic" <span style="font-size: 11.8999996185303px;">(featuring <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chance the Rapper</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Tyson</span>)</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Griffin Jr.</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chancelor Bennett</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Natche</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Tucker</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">AFSHeeN</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Cumbee</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:33</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">10.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"HeartBreakCity" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Bergling</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pournouri</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tobias Jimson</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Michel Flygare</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Paloma Stoecker</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Salem Al Fakir</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Magnus Lidehäll</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vincent Pontare</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Avicii</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Fakir</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Lidehäll</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pontare</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Astma & Rocwell</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:33</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">11.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Body Shop" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">McDonald</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Griffin Jr.</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Natche</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Tucker</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Gad</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">DJ Dahi</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Blood Diamonds</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">3:39</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">12.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Holy Water" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Martin Kierszenbaum</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Natalia Kills</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">West</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Brown</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">West</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Heat<sup class="reference plainlinks nourlexpansion" id="ref_a" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[a]</span></sup></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:09</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">13.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Inside Out" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Evigan</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Douglas</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Bogart</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:23</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">14.</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">"Wash All Over Me" </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Bergling</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pournouri</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Fakir</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Lidehäll</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Pontare</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">West</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Brown</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Madonna</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Avicii</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">West</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Dean</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Heat<sup class="reference plainlinks nourlexpansion" id="ref_a" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[a]</span></sup></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">4:00</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" colspan="4"><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px; padding-left: 10px; text-align: left; width: 7.5em;">
<b>Total length:</b></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;"><b><span class="duration"><span class="min">55</span>:<span class="s">06</span></span></b></td><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Media Markt</span> standard edition (bonus track)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-173" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>173]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="tracklist collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable1" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 3px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– Deluxe edition</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-174" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>174]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="tracklist collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable2" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 3px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Media Markt</span> deluxe edition (bonus track)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-175" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>175]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="tracklist collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable3" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 3px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– Japanese deluxe edition (bonus track)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-176" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>176]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="tracklist collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 3px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fnac</span> deluxe edition (Disc 2)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-177" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>177]</sup></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="tracklist collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable5" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; padding: 3px;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="tlheader mbox-text" colspan="10" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 1096.8125px;"><span class="collapseButton" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0.5em; text-align: right; width: auto;">[<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">show</span>]</span><i>Rebel Heart</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">– Super deluxe edition (Disc 2)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-178" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>178]</sup> / Digital EP<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-179" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>179]</sup></span></th><td class="mbox-empty-cell" style="border: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;"></td></tr>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Notes</dt>
</dl>
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><sup style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1;"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_a" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">^[a]</span></b></span></sup> signifies a co-producer</li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Credits_and_personnel">Credits and personnel</span></h2>
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Credits adapted from Madonna official website.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_credits_172-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>172]</sup></div>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Performers</dt>
</dl>
<div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-2" style="-webkit-column-count: 2; background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 0.3em;">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Madonna</span> – vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span> – vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chance the Rapper</span> – vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Tyson</span> – vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nas</span> – vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DJ Dahi</span> – additional vocals (outro)</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MNEK</span> – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">background vocals</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Santell – background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">London Community Gospel Choir</span> – background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jason Evigan</span> – background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Salem Al Fakir</span> – background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vincent Pontare</span> – background vocals, additional background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span> – additional background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MoZella</span> – additional background vocals</li>
</ul>
</div>
<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Musicians</dt>
</dl>
<div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-2" style="-webkit-column-count: 2; background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 0.3em;">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alicia Keys</span> – piano</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Toby Gad – musician, guitars, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">programming</span>, instruments, additional programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Carl Falk</span> – guitars, keyboards, programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Avicii</span> – keyboards, programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Shelco Garcia & Teenwolf – musician</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span> – musician</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Salem Al Fakir – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">marching drums</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">keys</span>, guitars</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Dean</span> – guitar, keyboards and drum programming, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">key bass</span>, additional programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Abel Korzeniowski</span> – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">electric cello</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">L.A. Orchestra – musician</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Joacim Ottebjork – bass</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">AFSHeeN – musician, programming, instruments</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Josh Cumbee – musician, programming, instruments</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stephen Kozmeniuk</span> – musician, programming, instruments</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Dan Warner – programming, instruments (guitar)</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Lee Levin – programming, instruments</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">DJ Dahi – programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Michael Diamonds – programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Magnus Lidehäll</span> – programming</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Demacio "Demo" Castellon</span> – additional programming</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Technical personnel</dt>
</dl>
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<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Madonna – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Diplo – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span> – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Avicii – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">DJ Dahi – production, additional production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Blood Diamonds – production, additional production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span> – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Jason Evigan – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Shelco Garcia & Teenwolf – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span> – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Mike Dean – production, mixing, engineering</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Charlie Heat – production, co-production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Toby Gad – production, mixing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">AFSHeeN – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Josh Cumbee – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Salem Al Fakir – production, orchestra editing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Magnus Lidehäll – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Vincent Pontare – production, vocal editing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Astma & Rocwell</span> – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Carl Falk – production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Travis Scott</span> – additional production</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Demacio "Demo" Castellon – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">engineering</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">mixing</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nick Rowe</span> – engineering</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Angie Teo – mixing, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">additional recording</span>, additional mixing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Ann Mincieli – additional recording</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Ron Taylor – additional <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pro Tools</span> editing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Noah Goldstein – engineering, mixing</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine – engineering</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Zeke Mishanec – additional recording</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Rob Suchecki – additional recording</li>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Argentine Monthly Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">CAPIF</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-180" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>180]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">9</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Australian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ARIA</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aus_181-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>181]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Austrian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ö3 Austria</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aut_182-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>182]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Belgian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ultratop</span> Flanders)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fla_183-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>183]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Belgian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ultratop</span> Wallonia)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wal_184-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>184]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Brazilian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ABPD</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-185" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>185]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">4</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Canadian Albums</span> (<i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-can_186-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>186]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Croatian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">HDU</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-187" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>187]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">3</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Czech Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ČNS IFPI</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cz_160-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>160]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Danish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hitlisten</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dk_188-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>188]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Dutch Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MegaCharts</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nl_161-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>161]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Finnish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Suomen virallinen lista</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fi_189-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>189]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">French Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SNEP</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-france_190-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>190]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">3</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">German Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Official Top 100</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ger_156-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>156]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Greek Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">IFPI</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gr_162-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>162]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">3</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Hungarian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MAHASZ</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hun_191-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>191]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Irish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">IRMA</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ire_192-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>192]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">5</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Italian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">FIMI</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ita_193-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>193]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Japanese Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Oricon</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-japan_167-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>167]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">8</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Japanese International Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Oricon</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-japanintl_168-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>168]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Korean International Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Gaon</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-korea_169-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>169]</sup><br /><i><small>Deluxe version</small></i></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">New Zealand Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">RMNZ</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NZchart_166-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>166]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">7</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Norwegian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VG-lista</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nor_194-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>194]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Polish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ZPAV</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pol_195-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>195]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">5</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Portuguese Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">AFP</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pt_196-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>196]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Russian Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2M</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-197" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>197]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Scottish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCC</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ac_Scotland_Madonna_198-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>198]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">3</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Spanish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PROMUSICAE</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spa_199-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>199]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Swedish Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sverigetopplistan</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swe_200-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>200]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">10</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">Swiss Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Schweizer Hitparade</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swi_201-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>201]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">UK Albums (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCC</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-uk_202-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>202]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">US <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>200<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ac_Billboard200_Madonna_203-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>203]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td></tr>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Certifications">Certifications</span></h2>
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<tr><th class="headerSort" role="columnheader button" scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); cursor: pointer; padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;" tabindex="0" title="Sort ascending">Region</th><th class="headerSort" role="columnheader button" scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); cursor: pointer; padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;" tabindex="0" title="Sort ascending">Certification</th><th class="headerSort" data-sort-type="number" role="columnheader button" scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); cursor: pointer; padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;" tabindex="0" title="Sort ascending"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sales/shipments</span></th></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Italy (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">FIMI</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fimi_204-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>204]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Platinum</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">50,000<sup style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1;">*</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Poland (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ZPAV</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-zpav_205-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>205]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Gold</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">10,000<sup style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1;">*</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">United Kingdom (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">BPI</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bpi_154-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>154]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Silver</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">76,490<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-uksales_155-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>155]</sup></td></tr>
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<small><sup style="font-size: 9.33333396911621px; line-height: 1;">*</sup>sales figures based on certification alone</small><br /><small><sup style="font-size: 9.33333396911621px; line-height: 1;">^</sup>shipments figures based on certification alone</small><br /><small><sup style="font-size: 9.33333396911621px; line-height: 1;">x</sup>unspecified figures based on certification alone</small></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release_history">Release history</span></h2>
<table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 1em 0px;"><tbody>
<tr><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Region</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Date</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Format</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Edition</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Label</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;"><abbr style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help;" title="References">Ref.</abbr></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Australia</th><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 6, 2015</td><td rowspan="8" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">CD</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Deluxe</td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Universal Music</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-206" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>206]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Germany</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">super deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Media Markt</span> standard and deluxe</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-207" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>207]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">France</th><td rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 9, 2015</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">super deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fnac</span> deluxe</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Polydor</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-208" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>208]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">New Zealand</th><td rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">super deluxe</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Universal Music</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-209" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>209]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Sweden</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-210" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>210]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">United Kingdom</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Polydor</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-211" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>211]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Canada</th><td rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 10, 2015</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
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</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Universal Music</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-212" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>212]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">United States</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">super deluxe</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">LP</li>
</ul>
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</td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Boy Toy</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Live Nation</span></li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interscope</span></li>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Worldwide</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Digital download</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Standard</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">deluxe</li>
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</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wwitunes_214-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>214]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th rowspan="2" scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Japan</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 11, 2015</td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">CD</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Deluxe</td><td rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Universal Music</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-215" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>215]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 18, 2015</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Super deluxe</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-216" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>216]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Germany</th><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 27, 2015</td><td rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">LP</span></td><td rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Deluxe</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-217" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>217]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Sweden</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-218" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>218]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">France</th><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">March 30, 2015</td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Polydor</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-219" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>219]</sup></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">United Kingdom</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Standard</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-220" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>220]</sup></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770674830577915475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670546127889383633.post-86593148592490687102015-07-26T11:03:00.000-07:002015-07-26T11:03:25.267-07:00Bitch I'm Madonna<div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
"<b>Bitch I'm Madonna</b>" is a song by American singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Madonna</span> from her thirteenth studio album, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rebel Heart</span></i> (2015). Featuring guest vocals from Trinidadian rapper <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>, the song was co-written and co-produced by Madonna, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span>, and British electronic musician and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PC Music</span> co-hort, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sophie</span>, with additional writers including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MoZella</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span> and Minaj. It was released as the third single from the album by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interscope Records</span> on June 15, 2015. An <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EDM</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">vaporwave</span> song, Madonna sings "Bitch I'm Madonna" in a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">nasal tone</span> as she wants to have fun, while sings that "she's Madonna".</div>
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The song divided <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">music critics</span>, as some called it "energetic", applauding Minaj's rap verse, while others said that it was only "desperated to shock". In the United States, "Bitch I'm Madonna" became the first Madonna song to enter the <i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>Hot 100 in three years, peaking at number 84. The song became Minaj's 63rd and Madonna's 57th Hot 100 entry, placing them at positions three and four on the list of women with the most entries on the chart. Worldwide, the song has reached the top-thirty in Finland, Hungary and Sweden.</div>
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The song's accompanying video, directed by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jonas Åkerlund</span>, has Minaj and Diplo appearing along with Madonna. The video also contains cameos from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rita Ora</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chris Rock</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Miley Cyrus</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Beyoncé</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Katy Perry</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span>. However, the absence of the guest stars from the set dissapointed reviewers. Additionally, comparisons ensued with the recently released music video for singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Taylor Swift</span>'s single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bad Blood</span>" which had featured similar guest stars. In order to further promote the song, Madonna performed "Bitch I'm Madonna" during her appearance on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</span></i>.</div>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">1</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Background and development</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">2</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Release details</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">3</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Composition and remixes</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">4</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Critical reception</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">5</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Chart performance</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">6</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Live performance</span></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">7.1</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Background</span></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">7.3</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Synopsis</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">7.4</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Reception and analysis</span></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">10</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Charts</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">11</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">Release history</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">12</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">References</span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">13</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span class="toctext">External links</span></li>
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In February 2014, Madonna announced that she had begun working on her thirteenth studio album, saying "I'm right now in the process of talking to various co-writers and producers and talking about where I want to go with my music".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>1]</sup> By the next month she started posting a number of images on social media website <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</span>, where she hinted at possible songwriters and collaborators with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hashtag</span> captions. Two months later, Madonna posted a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">selfie</span> where she talked about working with American DJ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>2]</sup> Madonna had invited him for her annual Oscar party, but he could not make it. They eventually started talking about music through texts and decided to collaborate on the album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbcover_3-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>3]</sup> In an interview with<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Idolator</span>, Diplo explained that Madonna had asked him to provide his "craziest record" for the album. Together they wrote and recorded seven songs and Diplo added that "Those records are gonna be crazy-sounding. We really pushed the envelope with some of the stuff we were doing... [S]he was up for anything. I love when an artist gives a producer the confidence he needs to work with them, and Madonna was very open-minded to my ideas."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>4]</sup></div>
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One of the tracks recorded was confirmed by Diplo as titled "Bitch I'm Madonna", which he believed would push lyrical boundary for a pop song.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>5]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>6]</sup> Madonna explained that the phrase was new to her and was introduced by Diplo, who explained that anyone who could remain cool when faced with criticism was appropriating Madonna, hence it was not just unique reference for the singer. The origin of the song's idea was traced back to rapper <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lil B</span>'s 2010 song, "Pretty Boy Farmer", which presented the lyrics "I look like Madonna / Bitch, I'm a farmer". Diplo took this idea to Madonna and developed a song which addressed the singer's detractors talking negatively about her longevity in the music industry, adding "We made this record about, 'Fuck it, bitch, we're all Madonna'". He also insisted that they recruit Trinidadian rapper <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>, who had previously worked with Madonna on two songs from her <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MDNA</span></i> album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-weareall_7-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>7]</sup> Diplo explained to <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interview</span></i> magazine that the song's composition happened while they were drinking one night in the studio, where he played Madonna a Japanese <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">pizzicato</span> melody and a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">drop</span>, which she appreciated. He added guitar sounds over it since Madonna preferred to start her compositions in it and then progressed with the writing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>8]</sup> Minaj's role in the song was confirmed through Instagram again, by adding the caption "We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-werk_9-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>9]</sup> Madonna commented about her method working with Minaj,</div>
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Whenever we work together she always sits with me and listens to the song, and says "tell me what this song is about to you." She's very methodical in her thinking. We talk about it, she writes down words that I say describing what the song's about and the sentiment that I'd like her to get out there, and then she goes away and she works on it. She writes it, she comes back. She does a version of it, we talk about it. It's a back and forth until she gets it right. It's a total collaboration.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>10]</sup></div>
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On December 17, 2014, the demo version of "Bitch I'm Madonna" leaked onto the Internet, alongside the other twelve demo recordings for Madonna's then untitled thirteenth studio album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billboardone_11-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>11]</sup> An aggravated Madonna clarified that the songs were demo versions from earlier recordings; she compared the leak to that of "artistic rape".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>12]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timess_13-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>13]</sup> She was subsequently criticized for referring to the hack as "terrorism" in the wake of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Peshawar school attack</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sydney hostage crisis</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>14]</sup> On December 20, 2014, the album became available for pre-order on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">iTunes Store</span>. When ordered, six tracks including "Bitch I'm Madonna" were automatically downloaded. Madonna stated that the songs were meant to be "an early <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Christmas</span> gift" with the final release in March 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rollstonetwentith_15-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>15]</sup></div>
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Following "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Living for Love</span>" and "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ghosttown</span>", "Bitch I'm Madonna" was confirmed as the third single from <i>Rebel Heart</i> by Madonna on her Instagram. She also released three remixes of the song on her <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">YouTube</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tidal</span> accounts for <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">streaming</span>. The cover art of the song was also released alongside; it was created from one of her images on Instagram. The majority of house remixes of "Bitch I'm Madonna" were produced by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rosabel</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sander Kleinenberg</span> and Oscar G, who posted a message on his <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Facebook</span> account about the collaboration, "When Madonna calls you, you do exactly what she asks. I very grateful for this opportunity!"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>16]</sup> Another remix by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sick Individuals</span>, which consist of Dutch duo Rinze "Ray" Hofstee and Joep "Jim" Smeele, was released exclusively to <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sick_17-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>17]</sup> The remixes were first released on June 15, 2015, in Australia and Germany, and the next day in other nations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-au_remixes_18-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>18]</sup></div>
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A 22-second sample of "Bitch I'm Madonna" featuring <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>'s rap verse and Madonna singing the lyrics "we go hard or we go home."</div>
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"Bitch I'm Madonna" was co-written and co-produced by Madonna, Diplo, and British electronic musician and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PC Music</span> co-hort, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sophie</span>, with additional writers including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MoZella</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span> and Minaj.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>19]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_credits_20-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>20]</sup> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Demacio "Demo" Castellon</span>was the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">audio engineer</span> for the track and also did the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">audio mixing</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">recording</span>. Other engineers working included <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nick Rowe</span> and Aubrey "Big Juice" Delaine, with Zeke Mishanec helping with additional recording and Angie Teo working on additional mixing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_credits_20-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>20]</sup> The song was the first time that PC Music, which generally catered to underground music and artists, was working with a mainstream artist like Madonna. Sophie recalled that it was Madonna who was "calling the final shots" for recording the song and noted that there was no label representative who dictated the process.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>21]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>22]</sup></div>
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"Bitch I'm Madonna" has musical elements from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DJ Snake</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lil Jon</span>'s "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Turn Down for What</span>" (2013) with Madonna's vocals reminiscent of singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Miley Cyrus</span>' autotuned rapping.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12track_23-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>23]</sup> The song has a tearing sound alongside the "bleepy electro" and "churning" <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dubstep</span> composition.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-muu_24-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>24]</sup> It begins with the sound of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">acoustic guitar</span> reminiscent of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Avicii</span>'s single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wake Me Up</span>" (2012), as Madonna coos in the background, "You're gonna love this", but quickly changes into an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EDM</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">vaporwave</span> track. The track deviates from a traditional <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">song structure</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hook</span>, instead featuring harsh <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">cuts</span>, synths and Madonna singing in a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">nasal tone</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-siphon_25-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>25]</sup> Minaj raps in the track, asking everybody to "go hard or go home", while Madonna shouts lyrics like, "I just wanna have fun tonight, I wanna blow up this house tonight",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitfix_26-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>26]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nypost_27-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>27]</sup> "alternating between pitch-shifted shrieks of 'Who do you think you are??' and the sing-songy title taunt."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinreview_28-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>28]</sup> Regarding her profuse usage of the word "bitch" in the song (along with another song "Unapologetic Bitch" from <i>Rebel Heart</i>), Madonna defended her decision to <i>Billboard</i>, saying:</div>
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I think that's bullshit. The word police can f--- off. I don't want to be policed! I'm not interested in political correctness. The word "bitch" means a lot of different things. Everything is about context. When I first moved to England and heard the word "c--t", I was horrified. People were calling each other c--ts! And then I realized that, in that culture, it was different—they slapped each other on the back and said, "Who's the c--t, right, you're my best mate!" The word "f---" doesn't just mean sexual intercourse. I mean, "You're a stupid f---," "Are you going to f--- with me?" "F-- off!"... Sex has nothing to do with any of those expressions, and the same goes for "bitch". If I say to you, "I'm a badass bitch," I'm owning myself, I'm saying, "I'm strong, I'm tough, and don't mess with me." If I say, "Why are you being such a bitch to me?," well, that means something else.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>29]</sup></div>
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Since Madonna had to rush-release the first six songs from <i>Rebel Heart</i> due to the hack and leaks, Diplo clarified that the released version on the album was not his final mixing of the track; he later posted his intended cut on his <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SoundCloud</span> account.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-weareall_7-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>7]</sup> Three of the house remixes of "Bitch I'm Madonna" were released as dub versions of the song, with a long drawn-out beat section and minimal vocals from Madonna, as noted by Robbie Daw from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Idolator</span>. Kleinenberg's remix was considered different from them although Daw believed that all the remixes were "cheap" in comparison to the original.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>30]</sup> According to Sick Individuals, their remix of the song had of "hard-hitting" beats and it was also an energetic version, catering to the dance floors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sick_17-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>17]</sup> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fedde le Grand</span>'s remix of the song had minimal effects of the original composition, and was changed to an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">electro house</span> track with metallic sounds.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>31]</sup></div>
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The song divided <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">music critics</span>. Sasha Geffen from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chicago Reader</span></i> gave a positive review of the track, complimenting it for bringing the underground PC Music to mainstream, adding that "between Diplo's blocky breakdowns and Sophie's slippery arpeggios, [the song i]s a provocative piece of work [...] The shift from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SoundCloud</span> to superstars was always coming—it just so happens that Madonna is the one who carried it over."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-siphon_25-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>25]</sup> Another positive review came from Neil McCormick of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Daily Telegraph</span></i> who elaborated: "[T]he track in question fizzes with bright energy, a handclapping rave anthem powered by a fantastically wonky synth line that sounds like a vintage arcade game played on an electronic kazoo, and topped off with a snappy Nicki Minaj rap. Madonna delivers the melody like a playground nursery rhyme, chanting about bad behaviour in a butter-wouldn't-melt sing-song voice."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-telegraph_32-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>32]</sup></div>
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Dan Weiss from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Spin</span></i> observed that the "most surprising thing about a song that's actually called 'Bitch, I'm Madonna' is that it doesn't have any surprises."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12track_23-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>23]</sup> In contrast, Andrew Unterberger of the same publication enjoyed the track, claiming that "it might not be your favorite Madonna, but it's unquestionably her, and it's far more compelling than the anonymous EDM enthusiast she played on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MDNA</span></i> (2012)."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinreview_28-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>28]</sup> Unterberger also praised the addition of PC Music "ping-ponging oddball freneticisim" and "Diplo's block-dropping beats".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinreview_28-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>28]</sup> Caryn Ganz of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rolling Stone</span></i> was also positive, calling it "frenetic" and praising Minaj's verse, calling it "pure fire",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rollingstonereview_33-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>33]</sup> while Anna Zelaski of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The A.V. Club</span></i> appreciated the song for being "the right kind of gimmicky, a Nicki Minaj-featuring earworm about partying that’s mindless fun and impossible to take seriously."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-theavclub_34-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>34]</sup> In the same vein, Andy Gill of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Independent</span></i> called it "amusingly abrasive" and praised Minaj for "repris[ing] her role as Madge's rapping henchgirl."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-theindependent_35-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>35]</sup></div>
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In spite of noting that Diplo makes Madonna sounds fun on the song, Gavin Haynes of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">NME</span></i> noted that "as the candy-bass [...] shows, the gulf between her life and her music is now impossible to ignore."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nme_36-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>36]</sup> Calling it "awry", <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alexis Petridis</span> of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i> claimed that "Bitch I'm Madonna" is "a fantastic title in search of a song. In lieu of one, producer Diplo comes up with a kind of hybrid of EDM and happy hardcore and throws Nicki Minaj at her most hyperactive into the mix; the result genuinely sets your teeth on edge."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-theguardian_37-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>37]</sup>Criticizing the album for being "overworked", Sal Cinquemani of <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Slant Magazine</span></i> found that "the duality of its title [is] muddied by the inclusion of garish party jams like the infuriatingly catchy but lyrically cringe-inducing 'Bitch I'm Madonna'."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-slant_38-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>38]</sup> John Murphy of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">musicOMH</span> remarked that the song "never quite lives up to its fantastic title, and just sounds a bit of a mess, trying to cram in Diplo-produced dancehall rhythms, a dubstep breakdown and the seemingly now obligatory Nicki Minaj guest rap."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-musicomh_39-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>39]</sup> Evan Sawdey of<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PopMatters</span> opined that the song "absolutely reek[s] of desperation, wanting so badly to shock and offend listeners that [it] fail to resolve as satisfying song first and foremost."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-popmatters_40-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>40]</sup></div>
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In the United States, "Bitch I'm Madonna" debuted on <i>Billboard</i> 's <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dance/Electronic Songs</span> chart dated January 3, 2015, at number 14 with sales of 12,000 copies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>41]</sup> Following her appearance on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</span></i>, the sales surged by 748% to 9,000 copies, making the song re-enter the chart at number 21.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-danceelec_42-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>42]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>43]</sup> The release of the music video enabled the track to sell a further 13,000 copies (up by 1,703%) and reaching a peak of number five on the chart, becoming her second top-ten single there following "Living for Love".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>44]</sup> The song debuted at number 26 on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hot Dance Club Songs</span> chart and has reached a peak of number 7.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hot_Dance_45-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>45]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dance_46-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>46]</sup> "Bitch I'm Madonna" debuted on the<i style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Billboard</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>Hot 100 chart dated July 4, 2015, at number 84, becoming her first entry on the chart since "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Give Me All Your Luvin'</span>" (2012). The entry was aided by 1,454% gain in streaming activity for the track, gaining 2.6 million US streams up to the week ending June 21, 2015. The track became Minaj's 63rd and Madonna's 57th Hot 100 entry, placing them at positions three and four on the list of women with the most entries on the chart.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>47]</sup> The following week, the song fell down by 11 places on the chart, landing at number 95.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>48]</sup></div>
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In the United Kingdom, Alan Jones from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Music Week</span></i> reported that following the release of the music video, there was a sales surge for "Bitch I'm Madonna", selling 1,667 copies (up from 148 copies of previous week, an increase of 1,026.35%) but did not chart within the top 200 positions of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">UK Singles Chart</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-uksales_49-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>49]</sup> In France, the song first debuted at number 90 on the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">French Singles Chart</span> the week of December 27, 2014, following the advanced release of the album's six tracks for pre-order on iTunes. Later, it fell to number 135, before dropping out the chart. The song re-entered at number 104 when the music video was released, and fell to number 149 the following week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fra_50-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup> In Spain, the song also debuted with the advanced release, reaching number 49.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spa_51-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>51]</sup></div>
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Madonna performed "Bitch I'm Madonna" during her appearance on <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</span></i> on April 9, 2015. The performance began with Madonna backstage putting the finishing touches to her make-up, then entering Diplo's dressing room where he is having a party surrounded by women. Madonna does a dance routine in the hallway and into the studio audience where the audience was waiting for her.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>52]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>53]</sup></div>
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Along with announcing "Bitch I'm Madonna" as the third single, Madonna also confirmed the release of a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">music video</span> for the song. She teased in a post on Instagram saying that the video would have many "surprise" guests.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>54]</sup> A number of people were tagged in the Instagram post, including singers <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Beyoncé</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Katy Perry</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Miley Cyrus</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rita Ora</span>, as well as Minaj and Diplo. Other personnel tagged included costume designer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Arianne Phillips</span>, hair stylist Andy Lecompte and fashion designer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jeremy Scott</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>55]</sup> Comparisons ensued with the recently released music video for singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Taylor Swift</span>'s single "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bad Blood</span>" which had featured similar guest stars.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>56]</sup> Madonna had also released images from the set previously, showing her with pink hair and in provocative clothing. Another preview came from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Flaming Lips</span> lead singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wayne Coyne</span>, who had visited the set and uploaded a short video of the shooting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>57]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>58]</sup> Filming took place on the top floors of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Standard Hotel</span> in New York City, and was directed by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jonas Åkerlund</span> who explained how he landed the project:</div>
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'Madonna called me about 'Ghosttown'. We hadn't worked for a while because of different circumstances so when I heard all the songs [on <i>Rebel Heart</i>], I was very excited about 'Ghosttown'. I connected to it creatively. And, yeah, we enjoyed working together. I was supposed to start something else right after and that got pushed and she asked me to do 'Bitch I'm Madonna'. I saw it being so completely different from 'Ghosttown', something a little bit less serious, just fun and crazy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ewmv_59-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>59]</sup></div>
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The team had a short time for finalizing the different aspects of the shoot, including rehearsing the whole sequence. They also had just one night to complete shooting and due to the casual nature of the song, decided to invite Madonna's close friends and family to be in it. Contrary to normal shooting schedules, the team had to work fast before the sun came up, since they were portraying a party at night. Following the choreography, every person on set had cues about their position and where their part would come in the shooting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ewmv_59-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>59]</sup> A number of designers contributed clothing for the singer to wear, including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Moschino</span>, Discount Universe, SSUR, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chanel</span>, Majesty Black and shoes by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Giuseppe Zanotti</span>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmv_60-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>60]</sup> According to Amber Kallor from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Style.com</span>, various contemporary fashion trends appeared in the video, including candy-colored hairs, black lips, white bows and glitter eye makeup.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>61]</sup></div>
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The video was confirmed to be released on June 16, 2015; Madonna also released a teaser of it, which showed the aftermath of a party, as the song played slowly in the background. On the release day, a poster was uploaded on Madonna's Instagram which confirmed that along with the aforementioned personnel, singer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Beyoncé</span> would also appear in it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>62]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>63]</sup> Joe Lynch from <i>Billboard</i> compared the poster to those uploaded during the release of "Bad Blood" but nevertheless believed, "it's likely that Madge had this project in the works before becoming aware of Taylor's plans".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>64]</sup> However, the video did not arrive on June 16, instead a second teaser was released, showing Madonna<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">twerking</span> in jeans shorts and high heels, with multi-colored graphics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>65]</sup> It ultimately premiered the next day on Tidal, along with a behind-the-scenes clip. It was an exclusive release to the streaming site for the first 24 hours, following which it was released on Madonna's <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vevo</span> page.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>66]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>67]</sup> The full list of guest appearances in the video included Beyoncé, Perry, Cyrus, Minaj, Ora, and Diplo along with rapper <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kanye West</span>, actor and comedian <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chris Rock</span>, designer <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alexander Wang</span>, model <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jon Kortajarena</span> and Madonna's sons Rocco and David.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmv_60-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>60]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>68]</sup> However, the video faced problems in Tidal with error messages and freezing in-between, resulting in the company releasing an apology on Twitter: "We apologize to all the fans excited to watch the #BitchImMadonna video, we’re working on a fix. We'll have it up and running soon."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-smhtidal_69-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>69]</sup></div>
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The video starts with showing four little girls in white dresses singing the opening lines of the song. Madonna is shown exercising alongside, wearing an animal printed dress and a studded, pink motorcycle jacket.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-70" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>70]</sup> She finishes and comes out in a colorful hallway, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">drinks water</span>, kisses a guy and walks through the corridor, crossing Diplo at one point. As the chorus starts the scene cuts to two Japanese dancers making choreographed moves in a bathtub and inside a bar as Madonna joins them. Ora and Rock appears mouthing the phrase "Bitch I'm Madonna". The second verse starts with Madonna crawling along the hallway, getting entangled in balloons, meeting Diplo again and finally the camera pans away to reveal a number of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sock puppets</span> in neon glow swaying together to the song.</div>
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During the second chorus, Madonna and her dancers go from the hallway to a bar where the singer forcefully makes a guy drink (Kortajarena), <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dry humps</span> a dancer and continues dancing. The guest appearances start with Cyrus pointing her middle finger towards the camera wearing glitter around her eyes, followed by Wang, Diplo and Rocco in the bar, Beyoncé posing like Madonna's music video for "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vogue</span>" (1990),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>71]</sup> Perry moving around to the song, and David dancing while Madonna and others cheer him; all of them mouth the song name while they appear onscreen. As the chorus ends, a dancer brings a video screen behind them where Minaj appears rapping her part, interspersed by shots of West cheering. Madonna and her dancers continue moving through the room and reach a dance pole. She climbs through a set of dimly lit stairs and reaches the rooftop where the party is taking place. The song nears to an end and Madonna is shown surrounded by her dancers while she lies down; interspersed scenes shows her twerking and dancing in a room wearing a cap. The video ends with a far away shot of the Standard Hotel's brightly lit rooftop where the party continues.</div>
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An alternate ending was present in the behind-the-scenes video, showing an exhausted Madonna leaving the party with a male model, as well as aftermath scenes of the party which was released in the first teaser trailer. The parting shot showed Madonna running around the room and posing in front of the windows overlooking New York. Other scenes included Madonna chatting with Ora and Rock in-between takes, sitting in the hallways, plunging towards the neon sock puppets multiple times as well as singing the song with the litle girls from the beginning of the video.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>72]</sup> Another video set to Kleinenberg's remix featured further footage of Madonna dancing and the guest stars in more loose manner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>73]</sup></div>
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Jason Lipshutz from <i>Billboard</i> wrote an article about why the video was an important release for Madonna. He wrote that although the <i>Rebel Heart</i> era had received more promotion than the previous <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MDNA</span></i> era, the commercial returns had been diminishing. The previous two singles, "Living for Love" and "Ghosttown", failed to enter the <i>Billboard</i>Hot 100 chart making it the first Madonna album without a Hot 100 single, until "Bitch I'm Madonna" entered the Hot 100 at number 84. Lipshutz believed that the cameo filled music video might be Madonna's attempt to bring back audience for the whole era. "Essentially, Madonna has pulled a Queen of Pop move with this one: she opened her<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rolodex</span>, surrounded herself with high-profile collaborators and moved the needle. At the end of the day, it's cool to have Beyonce vogue-ing in your music video! And she can do it, because bitch, she's... well, you know," concluded Lipshutz.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbwhy_74-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>74]</sup> Joe Lynch from the same magazine called the video as an "embarrassment of star power", adding that it "has everything: Miley's middle fingers, Madonna kissing a shirtless hunk, topless women in a bathtub, breakdancing, sock puppets singing, Moschino fashion and much more."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbmv_60-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>60]</sup>Brennan Carly from <i>spin</i> had thought that the cameos would have overcrowded the video, but believed that its "grandeur and ambition" made it comparable to Madonna's music video for "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hung Up</span>" (2005) as well as "Living for Love".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spinrev_75-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>75]</sup></div>
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Kevin O'Donnell from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Entertainment Weekly</span></i> said that although "[a]nytime Madonna announces a new video, it's a global event. And it's no different with ['Bitch I'm Madonna']", he called it "her most bonkers video in years".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ewmv_59-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>59]</sup> Hicks from the <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">San Jose Mercury News</span></i> was impressed with the video, but felt Madonna could have done it without the guest appearances.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-76" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>76]</sup> Emilee Linder from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MTV News</span> observed that the video was completely different from the one released by Swift, but described it as "action-packed" in a different way, that of portraying a party.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>77]</sup> Daniel Kreps from <i>Rolling Stone</i> declared that with the release of "Bitch I'm Madonna, "The age of blockbuster all-star music videos are upon us".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-78" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>78]</sup> Both Nolan Feeney from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Time</span></i> and August Brown from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Los Angeles Times</span></i> declared that the video proved "only Madonna can flex enough star power to bring together her A-list competitors in one place."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-79" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>79]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-80" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>80]</sup></div>
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Christopher Rosa from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VH1</span> criticized the fact that none of the female singers, including Minaj, were actually present on set during shooting of the video; their parts were filmed separately. He added that it was "pretty hilarious. Madge's clip is called, 'Bitch I'm Madonna', but why couldn't she get these youths to show the eff up?"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-81" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>81]</sup> Writing for the <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Life & Style</span></i> magazine, Chantal Waldholtz was disappointed with the clip calling it "lackluster" due to the short cameo appearances.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>82]</sup> Kevin Fallon from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Daily Beast</span></i> called the video as "pathetic and sad" and questioned the inclusion of guest stars like Swift's video, ultimately deducing the whole affair as "absolutely pointless. At worst, it's desperate. At best, it's just dumb... [The video] is a fascinating mix of impressive and sad, both aggressively relevant and therefore wholly irrelevant at the same time." He ended the review with one compliment about the single take in which the video was shot, comparing it to the 2014 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">black comedy film</span>, <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Birdman</span></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>83]</sup></div>
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Bernard Zuel from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Sydney Morning Herald</span></i> spoke about the problems with a release to Tidal, saying "Apologies, embarrassment and another social media fail: is this already a new low water mark for Madonna and Tidal only weeks after it began operating?" He criticized Madonna's team for not able to release the video smoothly, while noticed that criticisms about the video included "Madonna's age, sexually charged performances or need to shock".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-smhtidal_69-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>69]</sup> Tshepo Mokoena from <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guardian</span></i> considered the cameos as more of "slapdash than slick" appearing as "flat and glossily detached".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>84]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Track_listings_and_formats">Track listings and formats</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: inline-block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">[</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">edit</span><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Digital download (Album Version)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>85]</sup></dt>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (featuring <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span>) – 3:47</li>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Digital download (Remixes)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-au_remixes_18-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>18]</sup></dt>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fedde le Grand</span> Remix) – 3:55</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rosabel</span>'s Bitch Move Mix) – 7:05</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sander Kleinenberg</span> Remix) – 4:58</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Junior Sanchez</span> Remix) – 5:10</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (Oscar G 305 Dub) – 8:44</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sick Individuals</span> Remix) – 5:07</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (Dirty Pop Remix) – 5:11</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (Flechette Remix) – 3:21</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (Oscar G Bitch Beats) – 8:44</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Bitch I'm Madonna" (Rosabel's Bitch Move Dub) – 7:35</li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Credits_and_personnel">Credits and personnel</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: inline-block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">[</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">edit</span><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Management</dt>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Webo Girl Publishing, Inc. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ASCAP</span>) / <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Songs Music Publishing</span>, LLC on behalf of "I Like Turtles" Music</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Songs of SMP (ASCAP) / Lion of God Publishing Co. (ASCAP) c/o Kobalt Songs Music Publishing / <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EMI April Music</span>, Inc. and MoZella Mo Music (ASCAP) / Atlas Music Publishing on behalf of itself and Gadfly Songs (ASCAP)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI) on behalf of itself and Harajuku Barbie Music (BMI) / Brill Building Songs (ASCAP) c/o Kobalt Songs Music Publishing</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nicki Minaj appears courtesy of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Young Money Entertainment</span> / <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Cash Money Records</span></li>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Personnel</dt>
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<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Madonna</span> – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">vocals</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">songwriter</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">producer</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Diplo</span> – songwriter, producer</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sophie</span> – songwriter, producer <small style="font-size: 11.8999996185303px;">(uncredited)</small></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nicki Minaj</span> – songwriter, background vocals</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MoZella</span> – songwriter</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Toby Gad</span> – songwriter</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ariel Rechtshaid</span> – songwriter</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Demacio "Demo" Castellon</span> – <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">engineer</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">mixer</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">recording</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nick Rowe</span> – engineer</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Aubrey "Big Juice" Delaine – engineer</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Zeke Mishanec – additional recording</li>
<li style="-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; margin-bottom: 0.1em; page-break-inside: avoid;">Angie Teo – additional mixing</li>
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Personnel adapted from Madonna's official website.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_credits_20-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>20]</sup></div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Charts">Charts</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: inline-block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">[</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">edit</span><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Belgium (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ultratip</span> Flanders)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sc_Flanders_Tip_Madonna_feat._Nicki_Minaj_87-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>87]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">50</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Canada (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Canadian Hot 100</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-canada_88-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>88]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">58</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Finland (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Suomen virallinen latauslista</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lata_89-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>89]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">13</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">France (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SNEP</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fra_50-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>50]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">90</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Hungary (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Single Top 40</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hun_90-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>90]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">21</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Spain (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PROMUSICAE</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spa_51-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>51]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">49</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Sweden (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DigiListan</span>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-91" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>91]</sup></th><td align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">30</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">US <i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></i> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hot 100</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hot100_92-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>92]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">84</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">US <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hot Dance/Electronic Songs</span> (<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></i>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-danceelec_42-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>42]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">5</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">US <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hot Dance Club Songs</span> (<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Billboard</span></i>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dance_46-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[</span>46]</sup></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">3</td></tr>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Release_history">Release history</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: inline-block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">[</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">edit</span><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2>
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<tr><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Country</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Date</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Format</th><th scope="col" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;">Label</th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Australia<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-au_remixes_18-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;">[18]</sup></th><td rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">June 15, 2015</td><td rowspan="5" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Digital download (Remix EP)</td><td rowspan="5" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><div class="hlist">
<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Boy Toy</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Live Nation</li>
<li style="display: inline; margin: 0px;">Interscope</li>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Germany<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ger_remixes_93-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;">[93]</sup></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Japan<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jp_remixes_94-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;">[94]</sup></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Canada<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ca_remixes_95-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;">[95]</sup></th><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">June 16, 2015</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: normal; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">United States<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-us_remixes_96-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;">[96</sup></th></tr>
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