Category: Queen

The Queen of Country Music?????

5/27/2016

I have a bad problem with calling everyone queen. I call my bestfriends kween, although I should probably stop that. I wouldn't want to be accused of appropriating gay culture. But, needless to say I think it's true. Everyone's a queen. Me, the girl next door, that bitch who's on the pound that killed Princess Diana. We're all queens.

I felt guilty that I didn't do enough promo for Cyndi Lauper on this blog for her recently released album Detour. It's a little known secret that she's one of my favorite people.

Cyndi Lauper is an LGBT icon for the ages and she decided to delve into country music. I know how people feel about country music. I mean if your not from Iowa, there truly is no innate desire to listen to it, but I grew up on the sentimental country twang of the nineties and it does have a soft spot in my heart.

You might not know who Cyndi Lauper is, but you know her music. She was originally predicted to be in it for the long haul. Madonna was the throwaway eighties girl and Cyndi was the crazy girl with the personality and talent. She sang “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”, “True Colors”, “I Drove All Night” and my favorite ode to female masturbation, “She Bop” just to name a few.

She's very pop in her stance in pop culture, but Cyndi Lauper is a talented musician. She's done everything and that's why the follow up to her Jazz album Memphis Blues shouldn't be anything less than a detour into country music.

The woman has done it all successfully well. Alt rock in the nineties, modern electronica, mainstream top 40. It was time for country to take her on. Detours is Cyndi Lauper's foray back into music after a six year hiatus.

Detours is full of covers. She's very classic country on here. None of this is polished Carrie Underwood or a true stab at returning to the charts, but it bears the mark of a Cyndi Lauper classic.

We've got some classic sixties country in Patsy Cline hits “Walking After Midnight” and “I Fall To Pieces”. They lack Patsy's signature husk, but Cyndi makes up for it with her usual charm and vigor. She even brings out Willie Nelson to truly harken back to those country roots on “Night Life”.

Cyndi shines on the albums second single “Funnel of Love” originally made famous by Wanda Jackson, a woman Adele absolutely adores. The album closes with the Dolly Parton classic, “Hard Candy Christmas”. Allison Kraus sings a few lines. This is the second time she's included a Christmas song on one of her studio albums. The first was “Feels Like Christmas” on the deeply political Hat Full of Stars.

Buy "Funnel of Love"

Buy "Hard Candy Christmas"

Detour is full of flaws, charms and guest stars, but Cyndi bears all of this with a cowboy's sweethearts smile. This is eleventh studio album by the woman best known for her eighties escapades. It marks the most guest appearances she's ever had on an album with five stars lending their vocal prowess. Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, and Jewel are just some of the few to lend their support. Detour may not be perfect, but it does make us hope she doesn't wait another six years for a musical return.

Buy Detour

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Ain't Your Mama

4/29/2016

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There are only two babies that can call Jennifer Lopez momma and that’s Max and Emme.

A Media Monday article written a few weeks addressed the rumor that there was new J. Lo music on the horizon. You can read that here. It outlined the possibility of 2016 being the year of J. Lo and with the series renewal of Shades of Blue and her fantastic run in Vegas, it seems like anything could happen.

News about new music from Jennifer Lopez has been hush hush. She recently signed back to Epic records. Her home away from home and where she had the majority of her nine, top 10 hits. LA Reid was the musical powerhouse behind her change. He not only judged on X-Factor, but is also one of the most important men in music bolstering the careers of both Paula Abdul and P!NK.

Rumors were swirling regarding the type of music Jennifer Lopez was creating. Now we finally have our answer.

It’s brash and sexy and defies the expectations we have of a 46 year old mother of twins. She’s full force on the chorus. It’s exciting new music from Jennifer Lopez, arguably one of the most important Latin artist of the 21st century.

“Ain’t Your Mama” is a declarative cry of a woman who is not past her prime.

She premiered the new song in a brief clip of fun, easy, breezy, waves of anticipation. Two days later she murdered us on the stage of American Idol. The same stage that relaunched her in the music world when “On The Floor” took over mainstream radio and the world.

There’s no news yet on when the new album is coming out, if it is. Her last album A.K.A. went through multiple style changes, before it finally got it’s release. We’ll see if “Ain’t Your Mama” gets her back to the top of the charts.

The new song does seem to end the rumors of a supposed Christmas album or an album entirely in Spanish. Although, the year is young and never say never. In 2007 she released two albums barely months apart. And, the new Jennifer Lopez creation could always be bilingual ala Enrique Iglesias and Shakira. That would also be a return to form as we haven’t had a smattering of Spanish her music since her eponymously titled multiplatinum blockbuster J.Lo.

The cover art scintillates as it should. We have some good beachy hair. Curls and all. A look she’s been rocking recently. It’s classic black and white. All chromatic. That hat screams Martha Vineyards realness and I live.

The music video has yet to be released, but my expectations are high. I want heels and abs and ass. The trademarks of any Jennifer Lopez video.

This blog will sure to keep you up to date with all Jennifer Lopez going ons. The Queen of the Bronx is come to take over the world.

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Lil Loaf

1/8/2016

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I have a new obsession and I've put it off sporadically. I keep meaning to mention Dej Loaf to you. The new female MC on the scene. She's having a slight rise to fame, but were still too far in the early stages to see how it's going to end up. Did we see “Your Love” as the first step in the royalty that became Nicki Minaj? Because, I didn't.

Dej Loaf is bringing some much needed girl power to the hip hop scene. She's from Detroit. Birthplace of Slim Shady. A rapper she happened to spot a verse on his Shady XV track “Detroit vs. Everybody”.

The funny thing about Dej Loaf is I thought she was male. Not an unreasonable guess considering the amount of testosterone on hip hop airwaves. Her vocal performance on “Back Up” was giving me Rae Sremmurd vibes. It was clean and smooth.

Buy "Back Up"

Needless to say it threw me for a surprise when the radio announces the drama with her and Lil Durk. I did some research. He released an album. It charted. That's all there is to know. According to public discourse, Dej Loaf is dating Lil Durk. A gay hip hop power couple was not something I expected.

Then, I find Dej Loaf is a she and not a he. And, it makes more sense. Then, we find out Aye Redd (who does not have a wikipidea page) is calling their relationship fake. And, supposedely they are in a relationship together.

Lil Durk and Dej Loaf

Aye Redd

Which, does explain the cute lesbian aesthetic in “Try Me”. Now I don't know what to believe. Aye Redd. Said that this relationship between Dej Loaf and Lil Durk is for publicity. Considering neither of them our household names. At least not in my quiet white suburban neighborhood, I don't know how likely that is.

Buy "Try Me"

All I know is that I like the music. “Back Up” has that crossover potential and with the success of “Hit the Quan”, “Trap Queen”, and “Watch Me” this could be Dej Loaf's play for crossover chart success. The song features some eerily reminiscent DJ Mustard slick beats.

This is the lead off song from her first EP “...And See That's The Thing”. It's got a glamorous cover shot and I'll buy it. As soon as it gets a physical release. It features seven tracks, which should be the lead up to her first studio album that should be out sometime next year.

The second single that plans to follow up the success of “Back Up” is a Future assisted “Hey There”. It could happen. Future is everyone's favorite crooner. Not that anyone knows what he's saying, but that's beside the point. Future has wattage that Dej Loaf just can't pull yet.

Buy "Hey There"

Future's been having some wins this year, especially after the mixtape he dropped with Drake. Not to mention their two collaborations “Where Ya At” and “Jumpman” both hit the top 40 on the main charts.

Dej Loaf herself isn't doing a bad job pulling in big name collaborations. She's appeared with The Game and Lil Wayne and it won't be long before she makes a name for herself. And, with the triumphant return of Missy Elliott. It's time for another female rapper to rise to the forefront.

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An LGBT Christmas

12/25/2015

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Merry Christmas bitches! It's the final day of the 12 Days of Bubbles. The marathon blogging spree is over. Exams are done. I'm with family.

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And, when thinking about what the most religious, holy thing to talk about for Friday Favorites, I thought to myself “who are the most fucking gay celebrities that I love?” In this endeavor I have compiled a list of some pretty kick ass LGBT singers.

As wonderful as the LGBT community is our representation on radio is minimal at best. See Sam Smith and his lack of personal pronouns in all of his hits so he doesn't “alienate people”. Because, as we all know LGBT is offensive and gross and disgusting and the brave heterosexuals and cisgenders shouldn't have to put up with us. Least of all on the radio or their TV screens.

I'm going to be trying to include people that you might not be aware of. Some people you would have to do some research to find. Therefore as much as I love my gay boys, Elton John and Ricky Martin, they won't be on here. Similarly, everyone's favorite bisexuals Fergie, Madonna, and David Bowie did not make the cut.

Beth Ditto (Gossip)
Lesbian
“Obsession” would be an understatement for my feelings on Beth Ditto. Lead singer of rock band Gossip, she's the body positive LGBT icon you've been looking for. She's gorgeous. See my Snapshot Saturday I did on her (read here). And, more importantly a voice so distinctive, it's unlikely anyone could replicate it's wail.

She released a self titled EP full of four pop oriented tracks. Most of her work with Gossip is rock based. Standing in the Way of Control and Music For Men were there commercial break through. Specifically, their ubiquitous song “Heavy Cross”. Their last album explored an eighties pop melody and lived up to it's title of A Joyful Noise.

Buy"Heavy Cross"

RuPaul
Gay
Drag queen extraordinaire and also the topic of a Snapshot Saturday (read here). RuPaul has maintained an interesting music career. Since, his second studio album, Foxy Lady, he's remained an independent dance artist. His work is disco inspired empowerment and R&B.

His most popular song was “Supermodel (You Better Work)” when it almost went top forty in the nineties. My personal favorite album by him is Redhot and it's feel good anthem “Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous”. Recently, he's emerged an artist on the outskirts of mainstream with the self promotion through RuPaul's Drag Race. Making “Sissy That Walk” a surprise club hit and it's parent album Born Naked his highest charting since Supermodel of the World.

Buy "Sissy That Walk"

Troye Sivan
Gay

Arguably the most well known of all the celebrities on this list, Troye Sivan is the youtuber who started the trend of “coming out online”. He released his debut album The Blue Neighborhood this December. Without a hit in sight his album and EP sales are stacking up well against who are having top ten hits. Marking a clear need for any kind of LGBT representation in the music industry.

All of his music is experimental electro pop. The trend among hopeful pop stars who want to carve out their own niche in the industry without alienating the top 40. His single “Wild” notably marked him using male pronouns to address his lover.

Buy "Wild"

Tegan & Sara
Lesbians
Canadian duo Tegan & Sara have always been on the outskirts of pure mainstream success. They have quirky good looks and have slowly been building a fanbase since their debut album Under Feet Like Ours in 1999. Their biggest mainstream success in the United States came recently when “Closer” hit the radio long enough for them to have their first charting song.

Heartthrob marked their biggest mainstream attempt and is a good place to start investigating their discography that plays well against their pop/rock leanings. Funny enough their biggest success came with a collaboration with The Lonely Island for the Lego Movie Soundtrack. “EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!”

Buy "Closer"

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!)
Transgender

A strong example of the lack of transgender representation in media, Laura Jane Grace made waves back in 2012 when she announced that she identified as a woman and was undergoing gender confirmation surgery to Rolling Stone.

It raised the profile of her band Against Me! and allowed for their biggest commercial success Transgender Dysphoria Blues that still only charted as high as 22 in the United States. Valid and to the point it's one of the most gripping punk rock releases of 2014.

Buy "True Trans Soul Rebel"

Halsey
Bisexual
Halsey is what the self deprecating cool kids listen to. Gorgeous. Sexy. Stunning. Breakout indie star of the year, she has a loyal and growing fan base. Her music falls into line with the moody electro pop that her contemporaries are favoring, yet doing something more with it.

There is a never ending list of amazing bisexuals. And, yet their sexual orientation is consistently erased and made to be either heterosexual or homosexual. Take Lady Gaga and Freddie Mercury. Halsey defied her record label's insistence on making her lover in “Ghost” a man and traded him in for a lush woman instead. Halsey spreading bisexual awareness one video at a time.

Buy "Ghost"

Charice
Lesbian

Filipino singer Charice was championed by Oprah. Had the highest charting album for an Asian act in the United States and all but disappeared. Her voice has the controlled range that Ariana Grande is praised for. Charice just lacked the right producers that shot other strong voiced divas like Mariah Carey to fame.

When announcing her sexual orientation, Charice said “that she understood if people didn't want to be her fan anymore.” As if that was an acceptable reason to dislike her. She's stayed mostly out of the public light, since then but she still has two strong albums full of ballads to capture you with.

Buy "Pyramid"

I hope you've found some cool LGBT singers to add to your playlist. If there's anyone you think I should add be sure to comment below.

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Quan To The Co

10/16/2015

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ABC is killing the game. Literally and figuratively.

In a highly inventive new television show Quantico there will be FBI recruits, sabotage, golden boys, and terrorism. All playing into America's deep rooted fears of a terrorist attack. The show is going to play with those conventionalities that have made Homeland such a runaway hit for Showtime.

The reason I discovered this show is because of actress Priyanka Chopra. I did a Snapshot Saturday on her entitled Drop Dead Priyanka (read here). I was trying to title it as a variation on “drop dead beautiful” and looking back on it I realize I didn't do a great job on that.

She is a beauty pageant queen. She was very successful at it. Imagine Vanessa Williams in the eighties. Priyanka is gorgeous. She's also a phenomenal actress and women's right's activist in India. She's really an amazing woman.

She will be starring as the lead Alex Parrish. From what I've been able to gather from the trailer, she is an independent woman. She is very confident with her sexuality.

This show is set up to be a thriller. The central concept is that it's a flashback to her days in training at Quantico. One of the people she trained with committed this terrorist act on American soil and she's been set up for it.

Over the course of the season it should focus on her times training and her current situation of trying to discover who set her up. There's the golden boy. The one who's beautiful to look at, but only got in because his parents are agents. Jake McLaughlin is set up to be her love interest. More then likely he will not be the traitor.

Jake McLaughlin

Graham Rogers

There's a whole slew of other characters here to misdirect and throw suspicion. It will be intersting to see if this show does well. It airs on Sunday's. A tough time slot to say the least. Pan AM, GCB, 666 Park Avenue were three shows canceled consecutively in the same time slot Quantico is set for.

This is going to be Priyanka's debut to American audiences who are widely unaware of her superstar status in India. She's tried to launch a music career here, but neither Pitbull assisted “Exotic” or Bonnie Raitt cover “I Can't Make You Love Me” clung to American radio.

If this show is the success it has the possibility of being, this could be what gives Priyanka a leg up in the music industry. See Jennifer Lopez and Ariana Grande for examples.

I haven't been able to watch it, yet. Tragically I work on Sunday's, but I have high hopes for it. Honestly, I'm going to catch up over the winter break and report back to you. Trying to keep up with Scream Queens and America's Next Top Model is the struggle right now.

Make sure to checkout Quantico on ABC. It airs on Sunday's at 10/9 central. They've only aired a few episodes, so there's still time to catch up before it's season finale later this year.

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Emotional Kiss

10/2/2015

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It's gotten to the point that I've gotten so frayed by this. There's this constant tearing down of Carly Rae Jepsen's first album Kiss and this over the top praise for Emotion.

This blog hasn't accurately reflected how much I like Carly Rae Jepsen. I've mentioned Emotion once or twice in compilation posts of other albums to buy, but I've yet to sit down and tell you in six hundred words or less how much I like Carly Rae Jepsen.

You know Carly Rae. The sweet voiced Canadian behind “Call Me Maybe”. The definitive song of 2012. Her own success hurt her. No one wanted to hear anything after this. Even, with synth goodness of “Good Time”, no one bought it's parent album Kiss.

Buy "Call Me Maybe"

I lived for this album. If I was blogging at this time I would have put Kiss as one of the best albums of 2012. This album came out the same week as P!NK's The Truth About Love. I know, because I had to choose which one to buy with allowance of $20 a month.

Kiss was just such a good album, but everyone over looked it because of how over they were “Call Me Maybe”. That was okay with me. I bopped to this album.

Now were here in 2015 and people are praising Emotion. Her latest album featuring the kind of hit “I Really Like You”. Even with a Justin Bieber appearance it couldn't reignite her hit status. But, everyone is praising this album. They all love it. Carly Rae Jepsen is a Queen now apparently.

Buy "I Really Like You"

This is my problem. I like Emotion. I like Emotion a lot. It's certainly one of the best pop albums of 2015. It's no Breathe In. Breathe Out, but I have been living. Carly Rae Jepsen herself has torn apart Kiss and I am just not about this life.

Kiss was a masterpiece. And, so is Emotion. But, there not even that different. It's not as if this a new Carly Rae Jepsen. It is not that. It's a vague update of the same eighties influenced pop she started out with. These albums are clearly by the same singer.

I'm just done with Kiss being torn apart. I love that album. I love every song on there. Maybe, not that duet with Justin Bieber. But, that album has a warm place in my heart. It's my baby.

I just need people to stop coming for Kiss and praising Emotion. These albums are gold and I'm sorry you missed out on it round one.

Letting you know right now that it's hard to see Emotion on a store shelf. It doesn't stand out at all. Right now my personal favorite song on the album is “Your Type”. Mainly because every single word describes my life. It was in that moment I realized I have the love life of a middle schooler.

Buy "Your Type"

The funniest track to me is “La Hallucinations”. It's catchy. It's good, but it's about the media and all the lies they've said about her. I know she's famous. But, she's always been squeaky clean to me. Like I've never heard of her getting naked with some boy. Breathing on some bong. I guess she needed to address the haters, but I didn't even know this was a problem. If you're watching TMZ, then your not really looking for quality reporting.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, buy Kiss and Emotion. Complete your Carly Rae experience.

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Tylar Xy

9/4/2015

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I found a blog I enjoy reading.

This is ground breaking. If you've been a dedicated Bubble Righted reader you know that I don't really talk about other bloggers I like. The only one I stand for hardcore is Cherie Cheezcake, because she's a queen. It's not that I don't want to talk about other bloggers it's that I don't really know how to find other blogs. But, I actually found a blogger I enjoy reading.

Picture it. It's about August 31st and I'm going through my twitter feed and I see that Havana Brown is talking about her song “Battle Cry”. I'm fan girling of course. This song is fucking amazing. I am living. I am living for the video.

Buy "Battle Cry"

If you didn't know that I'm obsessed with Havana Brown, I'm sorry that I have let this slip by. She is sexy. She is talented. She's my favorite Australian next to Olivia Newton-John. She's amazing. I featured her in an article I did called “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life” (read here) and I reviewed her album Flashing Lights (read here).

So, it's really not surprising that Havana Brown has brought me to another blogger. You don't understand there is a strong possibility that I'm studying abroad during the spring semester and my top reason for picking Australia is so I can see Havana Brown doing a club set, on tour, whatever. She's a goddess.

This blogger Nick Tredrea reviewed her song and it was a short little piece, but all of his reporting was on point. So, I was like why not read more of his blog. I ended up reading every single thing over the course of two days. It was a holy experience if I'm being brutally honest.

The only time I was a little side eyed was when I couldn't tell if he was throwing some shade at Madonna. My blog might as well be renamed madonna.com. You know I'm obsessed, but I said to myself he's promoting Madonna. And, I decided not to be crazy and let it go.

I think my favorite thing about his blog is his fashion articles. It's something I want to do on this blog, but I don't. I love fashion. I read my Vogue from cover to cover every month. I enjoyed his fashion commentary. I'm actually just obsessed with his blog.

Follow his Instagram here

I would like to imagine that this is what my blog would be like if I was Australian, but it would not be nearly as entertaining.

He also has a YouTube channel. Right now there's only a few videos. I don't know what the posting schedule is. I think it's funny. I really enjoyed it. It's certainly better then mine.

Subscribe to his YouTube channel here:

I have already pinned his blog to my task bar. I've subscribed to his channel, followed his twitter (which is extremely entertaining), and followed his instagram.

Needless to say I think I've already fan girled up.

Read his article on Havana Brown here.

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Not The Island

5/15/2015

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Manila Luzon is one of America's favorite drag queens or my favorite drag queen. It's basically the exact same thing. Manila Luzon is a combination of the largest island in the islands Philippines and the capitol. Fun little geography lesson from Bubble Righted.

Manila Luzon is drag queen royalty. She was in a serious relationship with Sahara Davenport (winner of the seconds season of RuPaul's Drag Race) before Sahara passed away from heart failure a few years ago. It was the most tragic thing that ever happened. RuPaul said something along the lines of how he think of all of his girls as eternal. It was heartbreaking.

The first album that Manila ever released was entitled Eternal Queen and it was dedicated to Sahara. Because, yes in great drag queen history, Manila also sings. Questionably of course. Manila describes her voice as “super fake sounding”. They're kind of perfect. All of the music is dance oriented trash, but that's okay.

Buy "Eternal Queen"

My personal favorite is “Hot Couture”. The video is precious. I also feel her duet with Latrice Royale “The Chop”. They premiered this song right after they both got kicked off the All Stars season of Drag Race. That was probably the most disappointing thing that ever happened. I love Latrice and Manila and they both deserved to go further then that.

Buy "The Chop"

Buy "Hot Couture"

I love RuPaul's Drag Race. This is the most perfect show that's ever existed. The Mayor and Miss Sara Bellum and I watch this show religiously together. It's kind of our thing. It is the glitter glue that binds our love for each other together. My favorite season is season 3. That's the season that Manila was on. She killed it. How many other queens could pull off a pineapple the way she did. No one.

This season was full of shade and drama. The popular queens labeled themselves as “Heathers”. A reference to the classic eighties dark comedy The Heathers. And, proceeded to call all the other queens “boogers”. It was cold. How to be a bully. That is what that show really taught us that season. It was amazing. Those queens did not rest until they got rid of every single booger remaing on RuPaul's Drag Race. Carmen Carrera was on it that season. .

She's attempting to be the first transgendered Victoria Secret's model and she could do it. Carmen is sexy and I love her. Not everyone feels her the way I do, but I have soft spot for her. She kills it and I love it.

In totally unrelated news, I was at this event recently where there was this boy who looked exactly like Christian Slater in The Heathers. As great as that is. Like he was cute and all, but let's be real. I was a little afraid that he had a plan to mass murder everyone. That might be unreasonable, but you obviously haven't seen The Heathers as many times as I have.

The first time I watched that movie was with the twins. We were baby freshmen. We should not have been watching that movie, but we loved it. I've made so many people watch it. Thunder and Rosencrantz love it. J Lo is not into it. Whatever. She can be boring.

Side note that Manila Luzon makes club appearances. If she is in your city. Go see her. She's amazing. She might even perform “Helen Keller”. Probably one of the most offensive songs in existence, but most certainly labeled as one of my guilty pleasures.

Buy "Helen Keller"

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The Rebel Heart Review

3/13/2015

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It should come as no surprise that there is a special edition of Friday Favorites on the Madonna album that just dropped this week. Now, if you didn't know Madonna was dropping this album. I don't know where you have been. My blog might as well be renamed “madonnna.com”

Of course I bought Queen M's latest release, her 13th album. I spent far too much money on it. I got the super deluxe edition and $30 down and two hours later I have finally finished listening to a masterpiece. At the end of the year I do reviews of every album I've bought released during that year. It gives time to really live with the album, but I know this is going to be one of my favorite releases so far.

Critics have been calling it a perfect blend of what MDNA and Hard Candy were not. These were the two albums Madonna previously released. I love both of these albums and it always annoys me when people talk bad about them. These albums are almost always described as a desperate attempts to remain relevant. The point of a pop star is being relevant. I don't understand the criticism.

I disagree with the assertion that this album is the culmination of what these two albums failed at. I really like Rebel Heart. It does run long with at over seventy minutes if you get the deluxe edition. It is ballad heavy, but the ballads are good. A few more frentic Diplo numbers would not be something I would be opposed to, but the record as a whole is solid.

This album proves that you should not listen to leaks. I only listened to the first two leaked tracks “Wash All Over Me” and “Rebel Heart”. “Rebel Heart” is better for all the changes (and as of right now is the most played song I have off the album) and although “Wash All Over Me” has a stronger emotional impact now, a part of me misses the demo's euphoric Avicii inspired break down. I do think the final version of “Wash All Over Me” is superior to the demo however.

It will be hard to escape Madonna in the following months. Her tour starts off this August and in the meantime she'll be performing “Living For Love” and most certainly “Ghost Town” to get one radio hit off this record that is full of memorable moments. She's doing an entire week on Ellen starting this Monday.

Buy "Living For Love"

Buy "Ghost Town"

There are very few songs on this album I would call misses, “Veni Vidi Vici” would be one of those. It's cringe worthy references to past hits is too much for a hardcore fan, but is still expertly crafted. Her song “Vogue” has once again been interpolated into a song (remember one of the final moments of “Deeper and Deeper) with an inclusion in the sexually explicit “Holy Water”.

I think that the deluxe edition is the version of this album you should buy. The standard ends on “Wash All Over Me”, which although a solid song does not anchor the album quite the way “Rebel Heart” does as a closing track.

If you love Madonna the way I do, of course you need the Super Deluxe edition, but you also didn't this article to remind you that the Queen is back. The Super Deluxe edition comes with a second disc of four new songs and two remixes of “Living For Love”. Similar to the way the MDNA album was set up. She is planning on tying ticket sales for the Rebel Heart Tour with the purchase of the album and that might be a more effective way of going about buying this album.

Buy the Standard

Buy the Deluxe

Buy the Super Deluxe

And, if I had to rate on a scale of 1 to 5 Bubbles, I'd give it a 4. Just a ½ bubble more then the rating Rolling Stone awarded it.

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I Like Marilyn Manson?

2/6/2015

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It isn't really a question of if I like Marilyn Manson. I like him. Once I did my own research on him, I really do like Marilyn Manson. I appreciate his aesthetic. He does such a good job on it, I've just never felt the urge to invest in that aesthetic. I am an easily frightened human being. And, this is the man who brought us the colossally successful Antichrist Superstar.

Now technically Marilyn Manson is a band, but whatever. It's one man. One nightmare. You know his makeup. It's on point. People are always surprised when I say I like Marilyn Manson. But, he just seems so cool. I can't explain it.

It was only recently that I listened to one of his songs. As exciting as single releases like “Long Hard Road Out of Hell” and “Arma-goddamn-fucking-geddon” sound. I wasn't going to listen to them. I was perfectly fine sitting on the bleachers being like kill Marilyn Manson. KILL. Loving his love with Dita Von Teese.

Because, yes he was married to the most famous burlesque dance there has ever been. She is probably the reason I like him as much as I do. And, they divorced a good seven years ago. But, in my mind they're love was everything. Tumultuous, sexy, and ultimately destructive.

Surprisingly, it was RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Adore Delano that made me look into Marilyn Manson's new single. He was all like listen to “Deep Six”. And, I was like. Okay. Adore Delano is also a singer and of course I've heard his album Til Death Do Us Party. So, I took a shot and assumed I could trust her.

#NowPlaying @marilynmanson #DeepSix! Good shit. pic.twitter.com/Z8FEnp9HVL
— Adore Delano (@AdoreDelano) January 9, 2015

I started off by watching the music video. Which is disturbing, but in a cool way. And, apparently no CGI was used in making it. I don't know how they managed that, but it's fantastic. The song had me grooving. It left me wondering if I liked Marilyn Manson.

Do I like Marilyn Manson?

I mean his new album Pale Emperor came out last Tuesday. I was out and about town. I bought the new Fall Out Boy album American Beauty/American Pyscho, but I didn't pick up Pale Emperor. I'm just scared.

I do listen to some hard rock. But, that comes way of The Pretty Reckless and Pat Benatar. Marilyn Manson has historically superseded them. “Deep Six” did not suggest an album full of screamo and crunching guitars that I couldn't handle. But, I'm so afraid.

I looked at the track list. The opening song is “Killing Strangers”. Then you have beautiful tracks like “The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles” (I can't imagine how that chorus goes), “The Devil Beneath My Feet” and “Birds of Hell Awaiting”. Does this not frighten you just knowing Marilyn Manson's track record. It makes me squeal and not in the good way. I am a stereotypical white girl who knows every word to Taylor Swift and bops back and forth to Katy Perry.

I am not a death metal kind of person. I just don't know. Let's also not ignore the fact that it's lead single “Deep Six” is about being buried. I have not analyzed it's true contents. But, this could include being buried alive or maybe just death in general. I don't know. I'm just not sure if I can handle a Marilyn Manson full length.

That said I am living for this album cover. And, I am enjoying the fact that his record label is called Hell Etc. That's funny.

I might just end up getting the CD single. Because, yes “Deep Six” was released on CD exclusively at Best Buy. The song is getting good reviews by the way. This isn't just me spouting. It's also do well on Mainstream Rock Radio. I didn't know there was such a thing.