MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

Nooooo!
Please, no!

and moan ...... for those who like anagrams

MW cent - yeah not worth two

Woohoo! iPodonnna



MDN magic word: strength as in extra-strength iLenol

Thank God that Jobs' musical taste and computer taste reside in totally different parts of his brain.

Will she make a cameo at the event?

The beat goes on. = An obese ghetto.

Give Madonna a little credit. She proved that a child living with his father can still be an orphan. All you need is a fake British accent and a ton of money.

She has more talent in her left meat curtain than any of you.

You got to admit, Madonna's like the most fsckable 50 year old woman on the planet.

<<She proved that a child living with his father can still be an orphan. All you need is a fake British accent and a ton of money.>>

Kid had been abandoned. Can't we all just move on now?

It's fine to criticize her music (liked the early stuff, not the later stuff), or her politics (a little obvious, for me), her taste in fashion (loved the Jean-Paul Gaultier phase) or her sexuality (bring it on). But the people who trash her completely are like the people who trash all Apple products, sight unseen. Opinions not to be respected.

My two cents...

this is bad...this is bad...this is bad...this is bad...

Well yep, it's true.

Produced with Timbaland. Verses sound like Justin Timberlake, Chorus is classic Madonna.

Looks like tomorrows "Beat" is definitely Madonna, not the Beatles.

.
Lets face it, the Beatles are dead.

Madonna is trying to keep her face out there.

My money is on Madonna, Apple using "The Beat Goes On" to spite the Beatles which still have refused any online downloads.

"She has more talent in her left meat curtain than any of you."

And yet I can still sleep at night. She is a MILF for sure.

queasy is right...

If the Beatles truly are holding out, then this is a brilliant move on Steve Jobs part to shove it in their face a bit.

Hey! Maybe, just maybe, it's LADY Madonna that has the beat going on....

Please don't listen to Like a Prayer and ABBA's SOS back to back. You might realize what a hack I am.

Sly and the family Stone's Respect Yourself makes me want to Express Myself.

This is 2007, not 1987. Madonna isn't relevant these days to anyone under 40....

la-di-da-di-da . . .

la-di-da-di-di . . .

and the (BLEEP) goes on . . .

and the (BLEEP) goes on . . .

"...This is 2007, not 1987. Madonna isn't relevant these days to anyone under 40...."

Umm, in case you haven't heard Madonna's last album "Confessions on the dance floor" when to number one in 14 countries and was certified 3x platinum in the US. Not to mention her SOLD-OUT worldwide Confessions Tour and four top 20 singles from the album.

That's about as relevant as any major artist gets these days.

"This is 2007, not 1987. Madonna isn't relevant these days to anyone under 40...."

In 2005-06, Hung Up (Madonna's lead single from Confessions on a Dance Floor) retired at Number 1 on MTV's TRL (teen/tween demographic). Also, she held the number one song in the world for 22 straight weeks (Hung Up for 15, Sorry for the following 7) and was the first artist in the history of the chart to hold the number 1 and number 2 song in the same week. Her summer 2006 tour grossed almost $200 million (number 2 for the summer and the top female tour).

You may not like her. You may think she's a hack. You may think she has no talent. But whether you like it or not, Madonna is still plenty relevant.

That being said, I don't think there's any connection between this event and her new leaked track. And I can't wait for the album.

WHAT IF: Apple creates their own Record Label with Madonna helping to fund and run it? She did just settle for 100 mil to get out of her Mavericks Record Label

Oh ghod no. I mean, I like LOVE Madonna and stuff, but this will totally, absolutely suck if Apple pulls out Madonna instead of the Beatles. Maybe it's best we found out today, rather than experiencing the let-down tomorrow with no warning.

MW: radio. As in, people will trash their iP* products in rage and start listening to the radio again.

Hey guys, you do know that Madonna owns a record label, right? The first band she signed was Green Day. Now, what if the big news was El Jobso signing Madonna's label to an iTunes exclusive? Buy her bands' music as exclusive DRM free tracks through the iTMS, with the artists getting EVERYTHING they deserve and cutting out the middle men.

Now that would be the thermonuclear warhead that would indeed "Let the Beat Go On".

".... She did just settle for 100 mil to get out of her Mavericks Record Label"

Actually, She just SOLD her stake of her Maverick Label for 100 million.

She owned a large portion of Maverick.

If there are supposed to be new iPod announcements tomorrow, what do you make of the current education promotion - free iPod with purchase of a Mac until September 16? Either 1) the new iPods announced tomorrow are not available immediately or 2) they will continue to offer previous generation iPods in the education store or 3) they will change to rebate form to add the new iPods tomorrow. Anyone have any guesses?

Or maybe there are no new iPods and iTunes will have exclusive Madonna videos and free concert tickets with purchase of her new album.

@Major in Mac

The new iPods will be excluded from the promotion.

Beattles or no, it is going to be about a host of things tomorrow (and nice takes on Madonna's record label. It could easily be an iTunes non-DRM take tomorrow - which would be another huge deal).

1. New iPods - Duh.
2. New iTunes 8.0
3. New iTunes content now in HD
4. AppleTV SW update and HD content go for it galore
5. iTunes and AppleTV do HD with Disney being the first onboard the HD train (720p folks - hey' it is a start).

6. New iPod HiFi box with built-in wifi.

FINAL BIG DEAL: The one no one sees coming - Noise Canceling headphones to compete with Bose Quiet Comfort line.

No movie rental service - not yet - that comes in January with another label onboard - 20th Century Fox being the highest likelihood.

Is that skanky old broad still releasing records? No wonder the music biz is such sad condition. She should go the way of Michael Jackson.

(I was 2 years behind her at the same high school. I'm old, she's older. She was skanky then - some things don't change.)

Wasn't there also a recent rumor Jay-Z was joining forces with Apple?

"...I was 2 years behind her at the same high school. I'm old, she's older. She was skanky then - some things don't change.)"

She turned 49 on August 16th. I too went to the same High School in Rochester, Mi. However, I'm 17 years behind. Her father just recently sold the house that the entire Ciccone family grew up in for $285,000. It was all over the papers here in Rochester.

The Beatles or Madonna ? Maybe some sentimental, old baby-boomer might care. As an young(er), unsentimental baby-boomer I'm completely sick of them all. Pretty soon Madonna with have an album of updated "show tunes" or "classics" or "torch songs". BLEEECH! She can share the same spot in Hell with Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, James Taylor and KD Lang. And the Beatles ? Classic rock stations sentenced them to Hell as well with 40+ years of the same old songs.

I hope "The beat goes on" means nothing and we don't have suffer through new songs from old folks who don't get it anymore.

MDN "God help Steve Jobs if he's planning on dashing the media's expectations"


Screw the media's "expectations".

"old folks who don't get it anymore." Heck I wouldn't know what to do with it if I could get it anymore. Darn smartass young punks!

YES!! Do we finally get the Madonna Edition iPod???

Bright pink with a pointed-cone scroll nipple...

Not that there's anything wrong with Madonna

**choke** **gag** **ack**

Just like there's nothing wrong with Mikey Jackson either.

The HQ rip of this track leaked 2 weeks ago. I doubt they are related.

However, if Apple and Madonna WERE to pair up for a special edition iPod, now would be a good time. There has been talk about Madonna releasing a 25th Anniversary box set next year, maybe there will also be a 25th Anniversary Madonna iPod.

Madonna Edition iPod? Thats sooooo freakin' 5 years ago!

http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/12/10/ipod/

WTFs with the tiny font around here?

I wish this hag would call it quits...you aren't hip no more, M...hell, you aren't young either!!

She can only wish her songs will be half as popular in 30 years as the Beatles songs are.

"She can only wish her songs will be half as popular in 30 years as the Beatles songs are."

------

Actually, 2007 is already the 25th anniversary of Madonna on the music scene and songs from her first year like "Holiday," "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" are just as popular and/or recognizable as any Beatles song. I don't think another five years is gonna make much of a difference to those songs. Heck in eight more years, "Vogue" is going to turn 25 years old.

Regardless of what you think. Madonna is the most popular, successful and famous female artist of all time.

She has pushed the limits and challenged conventional thinking about what a female pop artist should be in ways that no other artist before her has ever done.

She has without a doubt earned and cemented her place in history.

I love madonna as much as anyone, but I got to tell ya. I've been fortunate enough to hear "The beat goes on" and let me tell you, it is BAD, I mean REALLY BAD. The worst Madonna ever, even worse than "American Life."

You can't ever criticize Madonna for not "Thinking Different," but I sure hope Apple doesn't tie a campaign or product to this song.

Madonna who?

Like so what! So long as she doesn't do a special appearance or something. Ugh.

Talent or not, appealing or not... who, why, and whatever... as a Mac Fan I could care-lesser about it.
As a WINDOWS Fan which I am not, hahahahha, I care-even-more-lesser... hahahahah

THX MDN - but honestly does it really matter who is singing of what song is on for such a short few moment in time while WE are all introduced to NEW wonderful products. hahahahah... I see the light.

j

Okay, so that page you linked to (http://www.poolparty.com/poolparty/2007/08/madonnas-beat-g.html) just links to here (http://preventjossstone.blog-city.com/sexy_cack_full_madonna__pharrell_track_leaked_1_1.htm) which then basically says the same as the previous site, with no directions as to where to find the "preview".

How about you just link directly to the site that isn't so cryptic about where to find the song http://whatspoppin.punt.nl/#385462

listen while it's up

I'll make this prediction.

Regardless of what Apple announces, somebody will piss on it.

It's too expensive/it doesn't have enough storage/the resolution isn't good enough/it isn' true HD/blah, blah, blah.

MS/Zune/Sony/??? did it first/better/does it cheaper/etc./etc.

NO, NO...A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!! NO MADONNA! I CAN'T STAND THAT ANCIENT FOSSIL WITH THE SAGGING BOOBS AND BAD PLASTIC SURGERY!!!!!

Damn you, Jobs! I wanted HD content for the Apple store! Not to hear more blather about this left-over reject whore from the 80s!!!

The Madonna album name is not likelya coincidence. as for the Beatles, that's not likely to happen:

The Beatles on iTunes (No), and Other iPod rumors.

@ Tom
re: Beatles rumor

Wanna try that URL again?

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh please please not again...
I just can't take it anymore
Ok, if they don't do something Beatles tomorrow I can deal, but I will not get my hopes up anymore, just forget it, Beatles are done for me on iTMS. Even so, I can deal with that.
But Beat Goes On referring to Madonna?? IN LIEU OF Beatles teases?? Salt on a wound. I don't know if I can tune in for tomorrow's event. Or check the news sites tomorrow. Is Apple losing it? Just scratch the whole 'event' thing and just intro some new 'pods and be done with it, don't get us all teased up only to have John Mayer put us to sleep again. Once was cool, a regular spot is not. Gawd, Madonna, curse you whoever suggested that. Sigh....

Madonna is irrelevent? Then who are these "Beatles" you keep talking about?