13 Weeks of Madonna

A blog celebrating the back-catalogue of the Queen of Pop in the lead up to her first Australian Tour in almost 23 years. #Madonna #RebelHeartTour #13WeeksOfMadonna

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#TouchedForTheVeryFirstTime

Week Two: Like A Virgin (1984) - “Like A Virgin”

What better way to kick off week two than with Madge’s VERY FIRST #1 single, Like A Virgin. Performed to this day (currently on the Rebel Heart Tour) this single truly speaks for itself & has embedded itself into pop culture for all of eternity, & has spawned a mass of imitators across all medias. Bow down bitches, for The Queen has arrived, in the mid 80′s, in full force. 

I made it through the wilderness Somehow I made it through Didn't know how lost I was Until I found you

I was beat Incomplete I'd been had, I was sad and blue But you made me feel Yeah, you made me feel Shiny and new

Hoo, Like a virgin Touched for the very first time Like a virgin When your heart beats Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy My fear is fading fast Been saving it all for you 'Cause only love can last

You're so fine And you're mine Make me strong, yeah you make me bold Oh your love thawed out Yeah, your love thawed out What was scared and cold

Like a virgin, hey Touched for the very first time Like a virgin With your heartbeat Next to mine

Whoa Whoa, ah Whoa

You're so fine And you're mine I'll be yours 'Till the end of time 'Cause you made me feel Yeah, you made me feel I've nothing to hide

Like a virgin, hey Touched for the very first time Like a virgin With your heartbeat Next to mine

Like a virgin, ooh ooh Like a virgin Feels so good inside When you hold me, And your heart beats, And you love me

Oh oh, ooh whoa Oh oh oh whoa Whoa oh ho, ho

Ooh baby Yeah Can't you hear my heart beat For the very first time?

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#ImNotGonnaCryAnymore

Madonna (1983) - Think Of Me

I'm getting tired of waitin' around I feel like I'm always trackin' you down I don't wanna point my finger at you But there's something you're forgettin' Here's what you better do, you better

[Chorus:]

Think of me I know you want to baby Think of me It won't be long before you Think of me 'Cause I'll be gone and then you'll Think of me

You walk in and you see me cryin' You apologize say you lost track of time I'm not gonna cry anymore You're gonna lose me too if you don't Know what's good for you, you better

[chorus]

Tell me what I did to you to make you Treat me so badly If you wanna see me anymore If you don't wanna see me walking out the door you better

[chorus]

Stop wastin' all my time You know it could have been so fine Hey boy I'm waitin' on a sign Don't you know there's someone else Stop thinking of yourself

[chorus]

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#BabyAllIveGotIsTime

Madonna (1983) - Physical Attraction

You say that you need my love And you're wantin' my body, I don't mind Baby all I've got is time And I'm waiting to make you mine

You say you wanna stay the night But you'll leave me tomorrow, I don't care All of your moves are right We can take it anywhere, this

[Chorus:]

Physical attraction It's a chemical reaction Physical attraction Chemical reaction

Trying hard to get away But I can't seem to fight the way I feel Even though you're not for real Your touch is driving me Crazy and when you smile It's just makin' me want you more and more Baby won't you stay a while It could be such a fantasy

[chorus]

Maybe we were meant to be together Even though we never met before We got to move before the sun is rising And you'll be walking slowly out the door

[chorus]

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#JustOneDayOutOfLife

Madonna (1983) - Holiday

Holiday Celebrate Holiday Celebrate

[Chorus:]

If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would be so nice

Everybody spread the word We're gonna have a celebration All across the world In every nation It's time for the good times Forget about the bad times, oh yeah One day to come together To release the pressure We need a holiday

[chorus]

You can turn this world around And bring back all of those happy days Put your troubles down It's time to celebrate Let love shine And we will find A way to come together And make things better We need a holiday

[chorus]

Holiday Celebrate Holiday Celebrate

[chorus]

Holiday Celebrate Holiday Celebrate

Holiday, Celebration Come together in every nation

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#CauseYouGotTheBestOfMe

Madonna (1983) - Borderline

Something in the way you love me won't let me be I don't want to be your prisoner so baby won't you set me free Stop playing with my heart Finish what you start When you make my love come down If you want me let me know Baby let it show Honey don't you fool around

Just try to understand, I've given all I can, 'Cause you got the best of me

[Chorus:]

Borderline feels like I'm going to lose my mind You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline

[repeat chorus again]

Keep on pushing me baby Don't you know you drive me crazy You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline

Something in your eyes is makin' such a fool of me When you hold me in your arms you love me till I just can't see But then you let me down, when I look around, baby you just can't be found Stop driving me away, I just wanna stay, There's something I just got to say

Just try to understand, I've given all I can, 'Cause you got the best of me

[chorus]

Keep on pushing me baby Don't you know you drive me crazy You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline

Look what your love has done to me Come on baby set me free You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline You cause me so much pain, I think I'm going insane What does it take to make you see? You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline

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Lucky Star

#ButImTheLuckiestByFar

80's magic at its absolute best. How this song did not make it to #1 on any worldwide chart just makes me scratch my head & wonder what was wrong with the world in 1983?

I've had to include not one, but two links for this gem from Madge's debut LP: one of my all time fave tracks from The Queen. 

The music video is so god damned fucking minimalist & fantastic - the dance moves/choreography, the styling, the choppy, clunky (and awkward-at-times) editing. Kudos to the director for eternal pearls of wonder such as these: 

If the skies opened & heaven handed me down a budget ($$$) to work with this is the exact kind of music video eye candy I would attempt to create in my garage complete with a home-made green-screen. 

I also simply HAD to include my FAVOURITE EVER performance of this track. One in which I was lucky enough to witness live (twice - thank you MasterCard) during the Confessions Tour. The mixing of Lucky Star into Hung Up & the energy building at the latter stages of the former track is magic that only Stuart Price could muster (note: please work with this genius again sometime soon, Madge): 

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Madonna - Burning Up (LIVE: Re-Invention Tour Lisbon 2004)

#ImOnFire

Track #2 of Madonna (1983) week brings us Burning Up. It was the second single that spawned from her debut album, and peaked at... You guessed it: number #13 on the Australian charts according to the Kent Music Report, now known as the ARIA Chart.

Linked above is one of my favourite performances of Burning Up, a track that is not only akin to an active & irritating sexually transmissible infection, but also is rumoured to be making a comeback on the Rebel Heart Tour. 

#IHaveNoShame 

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Week One: Madonna (1983) - Everybody

© 2006 WMG Everybody (Video)

And so it begins... Madonna (1983): The Queen of Pop releases her first studio album in the same very year, just weeks after these two diehard Madonna fans were born. Our very first exploration of Madge’s back-catalogue on #13WeeksOfMadonna is her first single Everybody. 

This blog is a celebration of the back-catalogue of Madonna in the lead up to her first Australian Tour in almost 23 years. Two diehard fans, (Valentino & Bex) met whilst at school in outback Broken Hill (somewhere in the middle of the desert in Australia) in the 1990′s after Valentino expressed adoration for Bex’s home-made Madonna-inspired book cover during class. 

They have been best friends ever since, and will experience their first-ever Madonna concert together at Rod Laver Arena, in the second row(!), in Melbourne on 12th March 2016. 

Their love for Madonna culminated in Valentino (briefly) exploring a short career in drag, channelling “MDNA Tour Girl Gone Wild” Madonna for his 30th birthday 2 years ago at #DRAGFACE2013 in Melbourne:

Valentino has previously travelled long distances to see The Queen: 2006 - The Confessions Tour, twice at Tokyo Dome, and 2012 - The MDNA Tour, twice at Madison Square Garden in New York City, all four times much to the detriment of his credit card debt (which he’s still paying off to this day). But heck, it was worth it.  Bex was lucky enough to have kind & generous parents who drove her to experience Madonna at the age of just nine to see The Girlie Show in Adelaide in 1993. 

Valentino & Bex will experience Madonna together for the very first time at The Rebel Heart Tour, twice, in Melbourne on March 12th AND 13th in 2016. This event will surely eclipse the experience they shared in the back of a limousine at their high school prom in 1999......... 

It is now exactly 13 weeks until Madonna debuts her Rebel Heart Tour on our Australian shores & we thought no better way to celebrate than to celebrate with one Madonna track from each of her 13 studio albums, every day, for the next 13 weeks, until the very day when she makes her return to the Australian stage on 12th March 2016. 

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