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4 days ago
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- See - Sada Elbalad
Madonna Drops Album "Veronica Electronica": Stream It Now
Yara Sameh "Veronica Electronica" has finally entered the zone. After 27 years, Madonna's long-rumored "Ray of Light" remix album became a reality on Friday. The project features rare and unreleased edits of songs from her 1998 masterpiece. Remixers on the project include "Ray of Light" co-creator William Orbit and clubs kings Peter Rauhofer, Sasha, BT and Victor Calderone. It also includes the original demo of 'Gone, Gone, Gone,' a previously unreleased recording co-produced by Madonna and Rick Nowels, who co-wrote several Ray of Light tracks alongside her in the late '90s. The rest of the tracklist includes 'Drowned World/Substitute For Love,' 'Ray Of Light,' 'Skin,' 'Nothing Really Matters,' 'Sky Fits Heaven,' 'Frozen,' and 'The Power Of Good-Bye.' Released in February of 1998, "Ray of Light" remained 78 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2. (The Titanic soundtrack hindered it from achieving the top spot.) The record generated four Hot 100 hits with the title track, 'Frozen,' 'The Power of Goodbye' and 'Nothing Really Matters' and won four Grammy awards, including the trophy for best pop album, in 1999. "Ray of Light" was a major moment for electronic music's mainstream crossover, with Madonna being the first major pop artist to do an entirely electronic album and thus helping push '90s club culture onto radio and into pop culture. While "Veronica Electronica" was originally intended to be a remix companion to "Ray of Light," it was shelved due to the success of the album, which ultimately sold more than 16 million copies. Stream "Veronica Electronica" below. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results News "Tensions Escalate: Iran Probes Allegations of Indian Tech Collaboration with Israeli Intelligence" News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks
Irish Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Veronica Electronica by Madonna: Lost album is like a postcard from the edge of the rave era
Madonna Artist : Veronica Electronica Label : Warner From Taylor Swift to Beyoncé , pop star reinventions are a dime a dozen nowadays. But that was not the case in February 1998, when Madonna ended a four-year recording silence with her career and zeitgeist-defining seventh album, Ray of Light. This was Madge reborn, transfigured, lifted up and unshackled from her previous image as tweaker of taboos and scourge of moralists. It was also helpfully stocked with bangers – from the Tori Amos / Fiona Apple -flavoured ballad Frozen to an effervescent title track that pulsated with the joyous abandon of an evening spent raving your socks off. Eager to make the most of her return to prominence, Madonna had planned to follow Ray of Light with an ambitious remix LP, given the working title Veronica Electronica (named for the persona Madonna had adopted while toiling in the studio with producer William Orbit). However, as Ray of Light became a phenomenon, plans for a spin-off were shelved, for fear it would encroach on the success of the original record. Twenty-seven years later, Madonna's career is in a different place. There has been ongoing chatter about a biographical movie starring Julia Garner as the young Madge. However, that project is now apparently to be reworked into a Netflix series (with Garner seemingly no longer involved). READ MORE She has also been on the receiving end of unkind – and often sexist and ageist – reviews for 2019's Madame X. The accompanying tour was controversial more for its tardy start-time than for anything Madonna got up to on stage. Having once scandalised the world with her raw sexuality, now Madonna was only getting headlines because she didn't know how to operate an alarm clock. There's never been a better moment, then, for an outpouring of foot-to-the-floor Madonna nostalgia, and that is precisely what the fun, boisterous and belatedly unleashed Veronica Electronica delivers. Along with that, it is a great time capsule that brings the listener back to the heyday of the superstar DJ. This was a glorious age when remixes were less sad cash-ins than conceptual opuses, invariably conjured by figures such as producer and deck-spinner Sasha, who overhauls Ray of Light opener Drowned World/ Substitute of Love – inspired by the fun JG Ballard novel, The Drowned World – and whips it up into a supersized rave odyssey. There isn't much variety across Veronica Electronica, which more or less follows the running order of Ray of Light (the title track reworked into a rigorously OTT onslaught by Sasha). Two previously unreleased tunes, The Power of Good-Bye and Gone Gone Gone, are in a similar vein to the pre-existing material, and it is surprising to hear the latter was originally omitted because Madonna felt it jarred with the project's overall vibes. Ray of Light caught Madonna at a crossroads. She'd given birth to her first child, Lourdes Leon, in 1996 and was preparing to play the title in Alan Parker's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita. [ Distressing news about Elton John and Madonna. We don't get too many cask-strength feuds any more Opens in new window ] She had, moreover, become immersed in the Jewish esoteric belief system of Kabbalah – events that led to a period of self-questioning and a desire to move forward as an artist. 'That was a big catalyst for me,' she told Q magazine in 2002. 'It took me on a search for answers to questions I'd never asked myself before.' She was also pushing herself as a vocalist – a consequence of the singing lessons she took for Evita and which can be heard on the epic remix of Frozen, where Madonna's delivery has the quality of a storm rising over ocean waters. 'I studied with a vocal coach for Evita and I realised there was a whole piece of my voice I wasn't using,' she told Spin in 1998. 'Before, I just believed I had a minimal range and was going to make the most of it. Then I started studying with a coach.' Madonna was eager, too, to tap into the energy of 1990s electronic music – which led her to collaborate with synth-pop artist turned producer Orbit. Yet, though their alliance would prove enormously fruitful, it was not a straightforward collaboration. Orbit was a bit of a lost soul and initially thrown by Madonna's ferocious work ethic. 'She's a fabulous producer,' he would later tell the Guardian. 'When it says 'produced by Madonna and William Orbit', people don't always give her the credit for that. But she's as responsible as me.' Among Madonna fans, Veronica Electronica has long been regarded as the ultimate lost album and news of its release has been greeted with joy. But even an agnostic will find lots here to enjoy. It's a postcard from the edge of the rave era and an eloquent love letter to pop at its purest and most euphoric.
Perth Now
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Madonna introduces fans to Veronica Electronica
Madonna has introduced fans to her alter-ego Veronica Electronica as she prepares to release the remix album of the same name. The pop superstar has revealed she used the name while working on her 1998 record Ray of Light with producer William Orbit and she's given the title to her new remix album which features new versions of tracks from the critically-acclaimed 1998 record. In a post on Instagram, Madonna explained: "Making my Ray of Light album was a seminal moment in my life as an artist. "I was going through a huge metamorphosis. I had just given birth to my daughter Lola, I had found my spiritual path and I was ready to shed a new skin and take a road less traveled by. "I ventured into electronic music with William Orbit and I created an alter-ego, taking one of my names and Veronica Electronica was born. Meet my other half." Madonna went on to add a video showing an AI-generated version of her younger self announcing the Veronica Electronica remix album. The AI Madonna said: "I am not real. I am just an artificial intelligence but I want to tell you that the album Veronica Electronica will be out soon. "It's the long-awaited remix album from the Ray of Light era." Veronica Electronica features eight rare and previously unreleased remixes from the Ray Of Light album by Peter Rauhofer, William Orbit, Sasha, BT and Victor Calderone and it includes new a version of the title track as well as 'Drowned World/Substitute for Love', 'Nothing Really Matters', 'Frozen' and 'The Power Of Good-Bye'. The album will be released on July 25 digitally and on a silver vinyl, part of Madonna's Silver Collection' project which releases her catalogue as limited edition vinyl versions. It comes after Madonna previously revealed she is working on a follow-up to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. The pop superstar has been busy recording new music and she's called her latest project Confessions Part 2 suggesting the record is going to be disco and electro-pop-themed like its predecessor which included the singles Hung Up, Sorry and Jump. In a post on Instagram, Madonna wrote: "My Valentine's Day gift to all my fans is to let you know I'm putting my heart and soul into my new music and I can't wait to share it with you!! Confessions Part 2." She added a gallery of pictures which showed her in a recording studio alongside producer/DJ Stuart Price, who previously worked on Confessions on a Dance Floor as well as several songs for her 2003 album American Life.
