Madonna Denies New Album Title Is 'Licorice'

[Brian Damage]

Madonna has dismissed reports her final Warner Bros studio album will be called “Licorice.” The pop superstar's broadcaster friend Larry Lick played two new tracks, "Candy Shop" and "The Beat Goes On," from her upcoming disc on his Sirius Satellite Radio show OutQ on Thursday.

Lick then went on to claim the new disc is called Licorice and will be released in spring 2008.

But in an email to Reuters, Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg writes: "Sirius does not know what they are talking about. Wrong title. Release date wrong etc."

Madonna will part company with Warner Bros once the album is released and embark on a new initiative with concert promoter Live Nation. The 10-year deal encompasses all of Madonna's future music and music-related businesses.

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)

[SBTB Geek]

I'm sure she's upset at Britney for releasing the album she wanted to make.

[Dean Winchester]

I'm sure she's upset at Britney for releasing the album she wanted to make.
not at all, I've heard the two leaked tracks and it's a completely different direction than Confessions On A Dance Floor

[SBTB Geek]

But I thought Madonna was going for the hip-hop influenced somewhat electronica/techno record, which is what Blackout is?

[Dean Winchester]

looks like this cd will be a return to her primitive r&b-influenced sound much like Confessions was a back-to-basics return to pure dance music.



From MadonnaTribe

One of the Five Songs we first reported on November 18 from the Timberlake/Timbaland session is a nice, mid-tempo love song with classic "Madonna lyrics" and a theme concept that loosely reminds of the idea behind the song "Like a Virgin".

Across The Sky, tells the story of a woman who is quite disenchanted by love, a woman who knows deception, a woman who lied and has been lied to quite a lot in her life. A woman who admits she is not a saint but that finally fells like a new person now that she has found a new love in her life and she is ready to travel "across the sky" with her man, poetically holding his hands in hers.
Musically the songs contains a lot of acustic guitars and has a very catchy chorus. Justin Timberlake is "oooing" on backing vocals.

Fans who might be worried that Madonna has been looking for much new musical directions with this album must be reassured that she has re-invented and adapted that genre to her own unique style.



Exclusive info about the photoshoot Madonna will be doing for the cover of her new album. The Queen of Pop will be shooting the album cover on December 22nd in the United Kingdom.

She will be following again tradition, as the photographer is again Steven Klein. The album design will be once again in charge of designer Giovanni Bianco.


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Give It To Me is a song produced by Pharrell Williams, and it's a very catchy uptempo track that reminds of early Madonna tracks from the "pre-Madonna era" such as "Love on the run". The fans who were worried that this album would be too hip-hop would be happy to know that it's very 80's in its structure and it's pure Madonna. A person who apparently heard the song said it sounds quite "cartoonish".

The "Give It To Me" phrase has nothing to do with a supposed "sexual content" as rumoured on a few Madonna forums, but it's said in the sense of "I'll handle the situation for you".

A male voice is also singing backing vocals on part of the second verse and Madonna reprises a couple of lyrics from "The Beat Goes On" on this one.

The break is very strange, the song basically stops suddenly while Madonna says "Don't Stop It" the male voice, probably Pharell himself says "to the left, to the right".

[Dean Winchester]

But I thought Madonna was going for the hip-hop influenced somewhat electronica/techno record, which is what Blackout is?
well, Nelly Furtado and Justin did that before Britney, hell even Bjork did it. It's kind of common right now for pop stars to work with Timbaland

[SBTB Geek]

^Nelly and Justin's albums were great, but underneath it all... they're simply hip-hop albums with a bad coat of 80's-ripoffs plastered on top. Blackout is much more original, and true to its core... POP.

Btw, Timbaland went NOWHERE near Brit's album. (Thank God) He wanted to be involved, but Brit refused.

[Dean Winchester]

I really hope this album won't be too embarrassing. A lot of the people over on MadonnaNation are dreading the album because it's the first time since Bedtime Stories where Madonna has seriously catered to trends and catering herself to US radio. For someone who usually starts trends it seems a little strange to see Madonna working with Timbaland and Pharrell and Kanye after they've become commonplace. I think deep down she does want another huge hit in America, Confessions On A Dancefloor was a blockbuster throughout the rest of the world but only a moderate success here mainly because radio wouldn't play Hung Up (which on a worldwide scale is her biggest hit ever) and Sorry. However, I don't think the most commercial song in the world will secure Madonna US airplay at this point because of her age. I just hope the album turns out better than it sounds because this album will either be fantastic or the most embarassing album of her career.

[platinumblondelife]

Well I loved Bedtime Stories...how did that album cater to a trend?

[Dean Winchester]

Well I loved Bedtime Stories...how did that album cater to a trend?
well, Erotica was a huge disappointment for Madonna, especially in America. So with Bedtime Stories, she worked with most of the "hot" producers and songwriters at the time (Babyface, Dallas Austin, Nelle Hooper, etc...) because it was a way to guarantee her a spot on the radio again. Granted, a lot of people work with the hot producers but Madonna always seems to pride herself on being the one to start trends and just do her own thing, so a lot of fans get disheartened when they see her jumping on a tried and true bandwagon when usually she's the one who refuses to do it. What she's doing now with Kanye, Timbaland, Pharrell and the sort is similar to 1994 when she worked with who was hot then for "Bedtime Stories". BS is not a bad album at all, but it is one of her most uninspired albums because it was such an obvious attempt at commercial success that she was craving after Erotica took a huge blow to her career.

However, I have a feeling this album won't succeed as well as she hopes because US top 40 radio isn't going to play a 49 year old at any rate

[88survivor]

Which kind of sucks because I believe US commercial radio has ageism issues as their agenda instead focusing on people in their 40s or 50s. It really sucks. So their only target is people in their 20s or late teens.

[Dean Winchester]

Which kind of sucks because I believe US commercial radio has ageism issues as their agenda instead focusing on people in their 40s or 50s. It really sucks. So their only target is people in their 20s or late teens.
I agree with you, I don't understand why radio is so afraid to play older artists. The Eagles, a bunch of men in their late 50's and early 60's, are having one of the fastest selling albums of the year, but yet you're never going to hear them on the radio (barring "classic rock" and "oldies" type stations) because they're "old". Same with Springsteen, Magic is his fastest selling album in some time but he's just "too old" for the same radio stations that used to play the hell out of him in the 80's.

I believe we're currently in a musical environment where age shouldn't mean jack **** anymore. When you look at album sales, you seem to find people from their teens into their 60's selling remarkably well, but radio thinks that anything after your early 40's is "ancient". Just because an artist has gotten older doesn't mean a damn thing as far as I'm concerned. Paul McCartney and Paul Simon are both now officially retirement age and yet their most recent albums were the freshest and hippest albums they've released since they were in their 40's.

The UK has it much better, Cliff Richard is nearly 70 years old and he STILL scores hit records there, yet in America, Madonna is considered too old for the radio.