Madonna No Longer Has A Recording Contract, Is Now A “Free Agent”

Retire.

OP, that’s a fucking awful photo of an old lady.

She's free to pursue her real true passion now, being a spokesperson for life insurance commercials.

Time to write your memoirs, bitch. Too bad The Love Boat is no longer in production. You could get an episode or two paycheck from them.

Ain’t no way to treat a lady....

Well, she no longer has a voice, so it should all work out very well.

Rumor is she's back at Warners

I’m hoping all these flops were part of a brilliant plan to get out of her contract, and now she will suddenly start producing amazing work!

And she will pull off the mask she had been wearing to reveal her actual non-freaky, aging gracefully face.

She needs better writers and producers to write her the next Gaga esque task.

Stoppit. None of this is true. Madonna just signed a contract to do dinner theatre in Albuquerque.

So that's what the cover of Rebel Heart was all about, she got tangled up trying to hook up her land line phone.

She could sit on her ass and spend $2 million per month, just keeping her investments in place at a moderate scale, and it would take over 35 years for her start to run out.

Poor Madge. Poor old Madge.

She already resigned with Warner.

She already has a new concept album in the works, "Incontinence", where she slides down a stripper pole and paints it brown.

Somebody sign her to a recording deal before she makes another film! For the love of God, keep her away from the film industry!

If it weren’t for Covid she would be playing in Branson, right next to the Lawrence Welk theatre.

Madonna's face breaks my heart. She was never beautiful, but she's really ruined any resemblance to the Madonna of Blond Ambition.

She will have another huge hit, like Cher did with Believe.

I don't feel sorry for her. She had her time. It's over.

Why would she need one?

She signed with Warner. She's working on her memoirs/biography/musical of her life with Diablo Cody. She'll release a greatest hits on Warner Bros and have a new song or two that will probably sound like her old stuff and be a moderate hit. That's all.

R21 Wow, a 2-Disc Greatest Hits, what a great idea!!

I would love to see 90 year old Grandmadonna making it through the wilderness not knowing how lost she was in 2020.

If I’m honest, I’ve enjoyed a lot of songs from her over the last 10 years but does she have another hit song in her..another “hung up”? No! The days of hits from Madge ended with hung up..she literally hung up! Unless she falls in love again with someone amazing or she finds her spirituality again, she is done making anything inspired.

She’s in her 60’s so she never will be popular again. That video was embarrassing of her scolding Diablo Cody while they don’t wear masks.

Give her my number, please. We women of a certain age must stick together. And, I have an idea for a "sister" act!

Madonna posted a pic of herself yesterday on social media and holy fuck, her lips look HORRID. WTF is wrong with her?

I've been a fan of Madonna for over 30 years but I'm starting to question how sane she really is and wonder if Liz and Freddy were hiding the crazy like Tom Cruise's former publicist did for him. Guy Oseary doesn't give a fuck about Madonna except the $$ so he doesn't really care how poor her reputation is. He's probably made a mint off of those shitty side deals like gyms, perfumes, etc.

But for someone to do that to their face and add in those horrific butt implants, there is something wrong with them. And I don't believe it's just a "I am getting older but want to stay younger" kind of thing. There is an inherent mental defect in them to allow them to even consider butchering their body in that fashion.

Her immobile face in addition to her declining vocals... she really could have had more dignity than this.

Mark my words, Diablo will quit this project because she won't be able to deal with Madonna and her fuckery.

Rebel Heart was great except for the song Bitch I'm Madonna. But they were like 15 songs on there, all of which were very good to great. It was better than anything she released in the 2000s. All the songs sounded like they could have been included in any of her 90s albums. Ghost Town sounded like the B side to Power of Goodbye. Others could have fit into Bedtime Stories or Erotica. Madame X was just average Madonna to me, and showed that she was still willing to take risks.

R28 but showed...the album was better than Chromatica.

[quote]She already resigned with Warner.

Flat out lie. She has not resigned with them, but she is “talking with them” aka begging them to take her back.

[Quote] She will have another huge hit, like Cher did with Believe.

In the streaming age? I think not.

I wish she'd give up her attachment to singing in a high pitched voice. She should also ease up on the vocal effects. It doesn't nothing for her. Pitch correct, like everyone else does, but enough with the vocoder stuff.

*It does nothing for her

Madonna's stock has declined so much in the past decade. She really has no other choice than to embrace nostalgia and promote her old records in deluxe reissues.

She needs to become what she's always tried to avoid: a nostalgia act .

I want the extended Jellybean mix (not the 12") from the single.

I think she is addicted to pain killers and has mental illness. Once you go too far with plastic surgery, there is no turning back. Her Madame X was an embarrassing and expensive debacle.

Who would you like to play Madonna in the biopic? My pick is Lee Grant.

For young Madonna

It will be so weird if Madonna dies of a drug overdose. For years she was one of the only musicians who never had a drug problem, and she led such a healthy lifestyle. It would be kind of like when Prince died.

I agree with the above poster. She is an opiate addict and seems to have had some sort of mental breakdown to lead to her recent bizarre plastic surgeries.

For all Madonna's desperation, I never expected that she'd get butt implants... Does anyone here have them? Are they comfortable when you're sitting down?

For current Madonna

For current Madonna

Here’s her screen test

I thought Madonna looked her best as a brunette. Especially the Like a Prayer video. The brunette really brought out her Italian features.

She looked like a natural beauty, for once. We haven't seen it since!!

I see Reverse Mortgages commercials on METV in Miss Vadge’s future.

R38 Jamie Auld can play Madonna (again) but she's going to need (LOTS of) acting lessons.

Madonna's got a busy schedule. She's going to be part of a Remember the 80's concert alongside Kim Wilde, Devo, Flock of Seagulls, Stacey Q., La Toya Jackson, Tiffany and Toni Basil. Then she's going to do a mini tour for her biggest fans at LGBT retirement communities and nursing homes. And then there's the sequel to her Sex book. She'll be collaborating with Lucasfilm who have been hired to retouch the photos.

She didn't ask, but here goes: she should quit making albums. Cut a single and keep refining it until it is absolutely *perfect*, like "Believe."

The girl that played her in the Madonna and The Breakfast Club movie looked freakishly like her.

[Quote] she's going to need (LOTS of) acting lessons.

Wouldn't that make her a less believable Madonna?

Ouch. Madonna was dumped right before her birthday

[quote]Ouch. Madonna was dumped right before her birthday

And then the week before that the love of her life Sean Penn got married to a 28 year old.

She’s isn’t having a good year.

Please no more new material.

I was jonesing for a Madonna thread. Thank you, OP for this much needed escapism from Covid and other serious matters of our times!

R48 There were times watching that when I felt like I was watching the real Madonna.

Actress Terumi Matthews actually had Madonna down pat in the Fox movie of the week Madonna Innocence Lost

WHET to Terumi Matthews?

God I remember that dreck, r55. And Terumi looked and sounded nothing like Madge

I'm a fan, so I have to admit that I still have some hope she can put out at least one more great album. It doesn't even necessarily need to be pop. I'll say it kind of sucks if she goes out on a 'meh' career note. She's an icon, she should know to go out on a high note.

Fried fish!!!!!!!

Ages as gracefully as Edina Monsoon. If she only wore those get ups and carouse around drunk/high she would be a bit more entertaining.

“ The Queen of Pop is considering returning to Warner Music Group, where she launched her self-titled debut album, “Madonna,” in 1983 and went on to crank out hits including “Like a Virgin” (1984), “True Blue” (1986) and “Ray of Light” (1998). Music trade publication Billboard said Madonna has not yet inked a new deal with any label and that talks with Warner Music are “in the early stages.””

Is she going to demand ownership of her old masters?

No label wants her. Warner only wants her for the chance to reissue her back catalogue.

Wasn't she with Sire Records? Was that a subsidiary of Warner?

She’s actually in her brother’s basement in Jersey with an old Macbook, a USB mic and some CD-R’s working on the new album.

I wonder why I can't find Hard Candy on any streaming service (I'm in Canada). It's not on iTunes, Google Play or YouTube Music.

R58 I love it. That shit will never NOT be funny!

Is her life even that interesting for a biopic? We already know the story of how she slept with deejays to get her music played, she got famous despite not being a singer, and was a bitch and bad actress. The end.

With all her abortions, I don't see this coming in under two hours.

So what happens now? So what happens now? Where is she going to?

When I see the phrase “in the early stages" in an article about Madonna my brain immediately assumed they mean “in the early stages" of dementia! Kind of sad, but she's unraveled so quickly in the past few years!

"Who would you like to play Madonna in the biopic? My pick is Lee Grant."

Mae West , the Sextette years

I feel sorry for Diablo Cody having to work with her. Rickie and the Flash, Part Two?

Madonna is not that interesting.

[quote] So what happens now? So what happens now? Where is she going to?

I am sorry children of the internet. She has to be put down.

She's resigning with Warners? Hmmm. How, um, reductive.

She's "writing" a movie script with the dreaded Diablo Cody.

Hookers of the world unite! And write terrible movies!

[quote]No label wants her. Warner only wants her for the chance to reissue her back catalogue.

Exactly. This whole situation reminds me of when Diana Ross came back to Motown after releasing several flops with RCA. By the time she was back with Motown, she was so irrelevant by that point and they seemed more interested in her back catalogue than her new material (which flopped there as well).

Everything about her now is sad. She looks so horrible that people can no longer relate to her. At least Cher can laugh and poke fun at herself.

R14, the first single will be Where's The Potty?

We don't need anymore new material, gurl.

R48 R54 That is the aforementioned Jamie Auld.

She wished Rocco a Happy Birthday today on social media.

I'm sure he scrolled down to the next update...

R6 - your comment assumes she ever had one which she never did.

Rocco is cute!

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Yes, Sire Records was a subsidiary of Warner for whomever asked.

Rocco is so cute

He's a dandy? A spiv?

Rocco looks very handsome.

Does Rocco sing?

Maybe she'll do a remix of WAP, with her own video. And drop some verses.

She could show off that new ass, twerking and doing some splits.

I’m a 55 year old, and that would not be inspiring. I wish she could figure out how to glam it up and own her age. Big rubies and big hair.

Comme ca?

Yes! ^^^ Gorgeous. Is it too late for Madonna, the little Detroit street urchin, to be exquisite?

Terumi Matthews sells real estate now and looks pretty good.

When Ross came back to Motown it was a different company and there was no one to take her under their wing like Clive did with Aretha and Dionne.

[quote]When Ross came back to Motown it was a different company and there was no one to take her under their wing like Clive did with Aretha and Dionne.

Well no shit. It’s going to be the same story for Madonna if she goes back to Warner. She’s been gone for 12 years.

Has he always been stylish?

Oh my favorite thing, orange colored damaged hair on the both of them.

Diablo looks like she's saying "Help me. Is this the nadir of my career? "

The next plastic surgeon that touches her face should be charged with elder abuse. She looks like a fat Asian lady in a blond wig.

I thought she had her own label, Maverick? Maybe I don't understand how it works.

Having to look at Madonna is bad enough,STOP posting pics of the hideous misshapen headed Rocco ! Havent we suffered enough ???

R98 Good lord she looks like a fucking freak. I guess having your phone hanging around your neck is an alternative to Life Alert.

Does she have a procedure every day now? Because she's never looked this horrible. It seems she went absolutely apeshit with the plastic surgery during Madame X.

Why is a 62 year old woman wearing pigtail braids??? Looks ridiculous.

[Quote] I thought she had her own label, Maverick? Maybe I don't understand how it works.

That was a sub-label, some would say vanity label, though Alanis Morrisette's big album was on Maverick. The parent company was Sire/Warner.

She’s gone mad.

An elder gay here.

This reminds me of when Johnny Carson stepped down as host of the Tonight Show.

Someone (I have forgotten who) was interviewing him and ask him why he was retiring.

He said he once asked the opera singer Beverly Sills why she retired from singing.

He said her response was “I would rather have people ask why I quit singing than ask why I didn’t stop singing”.

Madonna has passed that point.

Maybe she can write the theme song to the new League of Their Own tv series.

Madonna must be doing children's parties for extra cash.

There's no other excuse for that get up.

People under 40 don't have recording contracts. That is so last century. Madonna always wants to be in the under 40 set.

No record contract because her albums suck?

Janet did it first!

No recording contract has sent her full time into 'writing a movie about her life' with the awful Diablo Cody..

What they produce together will be Leonard Pinth-Garnell level bad.

She'll go back to Sony.

And nobody but Jabs will care.

Will Madonna have numerous actors play her, like that Bob Dylan movie?

For Diablo: The Worst Of All Time: I often get asked who the worst casting couch director/producer/actor etc is. There are definitely specific categories that have clear winners, but there is one individual (Bob Guccione) who went above and beyond in the way he treated women. He owned adult magazines, but also non adult magazines ("Omni") ("Viva") ("Longevity") too. Either way, if you wanted to be on a cover and you were female you were going to sleep with him. There were too many women who would sleep with him for him to ever put someone on the cover who wouldn't. There was one female singer (Madonna) who thought she was immune because she was fairly famous. She didn't end up sleeping with him, but had to orally service him in his office. He also had levels of adult magazines. One he called classy ("Penthouse") and the others he called less classy If you wanted to be in the classy one, you would sleep with him. If he thought you belonged in one of the less classy magazines, you would have to sleep with him or fulfill some twisted perversion he could come up with involving objects or people. If you balked, he would say bye. No one ever balked. They were desperate at that point to keep their fame. Bob Guccione/"Omni"/"Viva"/"Longevity"/Madonna /"Penthouse"

So you had to do more to get in the non-classy mags? Dat makes no cents.

I think the implication is that he would still degrade you even if it wasn’t Penthouse.

[quote]Will Madonna have numerous actors play her, like that Bob Dylan movie?

Florence Pugh - growing up in Michigan Madonna

Hunter Schafer - NYC/Holiday/Like A Virgin/Sean Penn Madonna

Gabourey Sidibe - Like A Prayer/Dick Tracey/Blonde Ambition/Truth Or Dare Madonna

Brie Larson- Sex/Erotica/Evita/Loudes Madonna

Winona Ryder - Ray Of Light/Guy Ritchie/Confessions Madonna

Glenn Close - Justin Timberlake/Superbowl/adopting black kids Madonna

Betty White - Brits stage fall/eyepatch/sad and desperate Madonna

Herself - Future fantasy Madonna

DIrected by Mary Lambert

You'll have to drop one of those choices for David Banda, r120.

I feel bad for her, but she's her own worst enemy. Cher and Meryl are like ten years older than her, but no one says they're old or desperate (even tho Cher still wears a g-string body suit on stage).

I thought Madonna sounded good on the Dua remix.

[quote]I feel bad for her, but she's her own worst enemy. Cher and Meryl are like ten years older than her, but no one says they're old or desperate (even tho Cher still wears a g-string body suit on stage).

Why feel bad for a bitch? Also, no one says Meryl and Cher are old and desperate because Meryl actually has talent and Cher is in on the joke and doesn’t take herself seriously. Madonna has none of those attributes.

She's reached that "dentures" speech/vocal sound, like Lizsha.

Our sides!

OP's photo - that outfit always reminds of the Bugs Bunny opera one with the horse. ?Only she looked good.

Jesus Christ, she looks fucking hideous. Her mouth. This isn't even the Joker mouth, it's like some weird, droopy, pouty thing to make her look glum and miserable, like something is dragging her face down.

This is some serious body image issues. She's 61. What is she going to look like at 70??

R129 Another yawn.

That mix sounds really amateur.

R131

Autobiography, jukebox musical, death.

But.. but.. but.. she caint die, Pee-paw, she just caint!

She just had huge implants put in her ass.

And possibly also in her face.

No. The face is injectables.

Surprised Madonna didn't get Artecoll/Artefill done.

R136 why? Those are early generation fillers and not nearly as good as the ones on market today.

I know, because I have granulomas from the microscopic acrylic beads that were supposed to stimulate collagen.

What are granulomas? Bumps on the skin?

The cheeks are way overdone. Are they implants or fillers?

R138 it's a nodule (small bump) under the skin which is formed as an immune response to foreign objects it can't get rid of in the body.

In my case you can't see them but they can be felt. And whenever I have a cold or other illness where my immune system is in overdrive they get inflamed and itchy.

She's FLOPULOUS!

She's truly FLOPTASTIC!

Her last record was FLOPNIFICENT!

I was a fan until last year. I fkew across country to see her Nadame X show at the Wiltern. Never before have I seen such a display of complete self absorption. The temperature was stifling, the show tone-deaf (or maybe it was the audience but I don't think a dancer being gunned down is worthy of applause), the song selection was both dull (Madaje X) and uninsured and she talked. . .so. . .much. Which wouldn't be bad if she was amusing or funny but she has no sense of humor. Only Whitbey Houston gave a worse show. (I never felt like going to a boat show to see Janet.) Truly awful what she has become. She was the best and now she's just awful.

Apologes for the typos. Lost my glasses.

She was never the best, not with those live vocals (yes, I know she mixes them with recorded vocals).

That remix is incredibly good. She sounds great. But she looks like a fucking moron with the grills. Girl, get a fucking grip and act like a 40 year old.

I am glad I missed the Madame X tour. I thought about going to another country to see it, because I enjoy going to see concerts in other cities and I am a Madonna fan. But there was something off about the tour from the beginning. Thankfully, the spotty sales, the cancellations, lateness, lame jokes, and shitty set list made me reconsider.

I once travelled to London to see Kylie Minogue's Christmas show. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. An absolute perfect evening. The warmth she generated from the stage is something Madonna could never do, and I admit to being a bigger fan of Madonna.

At this point, anything would be better than her junky new music. Sorry, but it’s unlistenable.