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[andrewducker]

Nicking this news from the IMDB. This kind of thing upsets me:

Music superstar Madonna has been ordered by her record company to re- record her new album - because it's too extreme. The pop queen has been forced to return to her Los Angeles recording studio with producer pal Mirwais after label Warners warned her the LP's electro-pop sound is over the top. A source close to the singer tells British tabloid the Daily Mirror, "Madonna feels like she delivered her best album yet last week but the record label have insisted that the material needs to be changed. They really liked what they heard and it's another example of Madonna reinventing herself. But the problem is that it's too avant-garde to be a commercial success. She had used far too many electronic synthesizers on her voice and had morphed a lot of her vocals to sound like a robot. There was even a 12 minute long track. She was reluctant, but in the end has no choice but to go back to square one." The LP - Madonna's tenth studio recording - has reportedly been provisionally titled Ein Sof, Hebrew for "Endlessness."

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[andrewducker]

She has her own label that releases other people's stuff, but I think she's on EMI (or whoever) so that she has their massive marketing budget behind her.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I keep wondering why the fact that she's Madonna isn't enough for her to tell the label to go to hell. Contracts, maybe?

[andrewducker]

Yup. They've given her a huge wodge of money and now she's stuck with them.

Sadly "Being Madonna" isn't a valid legal reason for anything much.

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[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I was thinking that her name is all the marketing power she needs. If she wasn't attached to a contract, I'm sure any number of labels would be willing to put out her album as is.