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London, United Kingdom – Madonna performs at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, February 25, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Twitter erupted as Madonna took a tumble during her performance of Living for Love that closed this evening’s Brits, here’s some of the reaction:

• Sanjay Sood-Smith: “I think Madonna may well have just broken the internet by falling backwards down some stairs on the Brits, sorry Kim Kardashian.”
• Dan Deacon: “Can someone tell me @Madonna is ok ? Was this one of those Brits meets Casualty hybrid programmes????”
• Jarett Wieselman: “”Poor Madonna” is trending worldwide right now.”
• Richard Madeley: “And Madonna’s recovery from a really bad fall was the perfect reply. Well done M.”
• Little Boots: “At least someone did a performance exciting enough to involve the risk of tripping up.”
• Simon: “Forget about Ellen’s most tweeted selfie. That Madonna vids gonna break some records.”
• John Niven: “The good news is I bet Madonna is taking that tumble in really good humour. having a laugh. Not sacking anyone.”

BBC

She said she would carry on, and did she ever.

At Wednesday’s BRIT Awards in London (the UK’s equivalent of the Grammys), Madonna’s headline performance of “Living For Love” got off to a bumpy start when the New Yorker fell off the stage.

Madonna’s huge cape appeared to get snagged by one of her dancers, pulling the 56-year-old backwards and causing her to tumble down a mini flight of stairs. The sound of her hitting the ground was audible and sent gasps around the 02 Arena, which holds 20,000.

Despite being clearly rattled, she continued with her matador-themed performance and the crowd screamed their appreciation for the singer’s stoical show.

Take a bow, Madge. You’ve earned this one.

New York Post

The queen of pop took a nasty tumble

Just like the song says: She’s gonna carry on.

Madonna was pulled down a flight of stairs during her performance at the U.K.’s Brit Awards today performing her new single “Living For Love.” Video footage appears to show a cape-like costume element meant to be pulled off Madonna’s shoulders which didn’t detach properly, dragging Madonna down three stairs and onto her back on the stage.

Falls in live performances are an occupational hazard for the most seasoned performers: In 2009, to name just one instance, Jennifer Lopez fell onstage at the American Music Awards. But this has been a moment of unusual attention to Madonna, with her upcoming albumRebel Heart representing a serious bid for an artistic comeback.

Still, Madonna’s beating back her critics began seconds after her fall: She got up and finished the song.

TIME

Taken from The Guardian

Oh, didn’t think we’d get this after its Grammys outing. Madonna has suffered from Bjork syndrome of late: collaborating with the hottest production talent, sometimes using multiple examples in a single track, but not joining the dots with songwriting. Living For Love however manages to blend a properly good chorus with the backing track, even if you can still very much see the seams.

Once again, the look is “bejewelled sex-toreador”. She struts convincingly around the opening bars and then disaster: as her cape is yanked off she’s pulled off her podium and clatters to the floor! But as befits Madge, who has risen phoenix-like more times than anyone can remember, she’s a proper trooper and completes the song, though a little more muted than you might have otherwise expected. Many lesser performers would have missed an entire verse at such a nasty fall. Kudos!

a collection of press photographs from Madonna’s Brit Awards performance, she performed Living For Love with a new choreography.

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In collaboration with Universal Music France we are happy to present this competition. M will be performing two songs on Le Grand Journal. There will be various French media attending. Stay tuned for more!

Here’s the order of performances on the BRIT Awards tonight at London’s O2 Arena, along with scheduled times:

8:03 – Taylor Swift

8:22 – Sam Smith

8:38 – Royal Blood

8:53 – Ed Sheeran

9:09 – Kanye West

9:25 – Take That

9:38 – George Ezra

9:51 – Paloma Faith

10:09 – Madonna

Kanye replaces originally scheduled performer Rihanna, who reportedly was a no-show at rehearsals and pulled out at the last minute.

“Everything was prepared for Rihanna’s performance but she was a no-show,” a source told The Sun. “The organizers are furious as she was one of the biggest coups.”

West is expected to perform a new song in front of a battalion of musicians and a team of dancers.

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Madonna gets down with Kanye, Avicii and more on a supercatchy, sexed-up album *** 1/2

For many years, Madonna avoided the Internet like gluten. But in December, the Internet decided to stop waiting for Madonna, and everything went wrong: Her music was stolen and leaked; her hasty, emotional responses on Instagram used terms like “rape” and “terrorism,” provoking (you guessed it) Internet outrage. Her swift solution was to put six songs online immediately, with a promise that 13 more would follow in March. But some of those 13 new songs have turned what might have been a modern-day pop treasure into a diamond struggling to escape the rough.

Rebel Heart is a long, passionate, self-referential meditation on losing love and finding purpose in chilling times. It’s also a chance for the Queen of Pop to floss a bit and reflect on how she painstakingly carved a path others have happily twerked down in the years since her 1983 debut. The über-fit 56-year-old star gleefully enunciates “bitch” on the refreshing, reggae-tinged “Unapologetic Bitch” and the frenetic, Nicki Minaj-assisted “Bitch I’m Madonna,” both featuring Diplo’s ear-tingling airhorn blasts. She quotes herself on three songs, calling back to iconic passages from “Vogue” and “Justify My Love” before whisper-rapping about her past hits in “Veni Vidi Vici.”

The album opens with another kind of flashback — the classic-sounding house jam “Living for Love,” a buoyant song about moving on after a breakup. The stellar “HeartBreakCity,” meanwhile, is a dramatic plunge into post-relationship hell. The singer grappled with her divorce from Guy Ritchie on her past two albums, but now that she’s back on the market, there are new fools to smack down.

Her co-pilots this time aren’t the electro mavens who assisted on 2012’s glossy MDNA nor the pop titans who lent a hand on 2008’s dancier Hard Candy — they’re trendier talents like Blood Diamonds and established hitmakers like Kanye West. Sometimes these collaborations gel perfectly, like on “Illuminati,” West’s grimy take on the Internet’s favorite conspiracy theory, and “Devil Pray,” where Avicii helps Madonna revive the strums-and-beats vibe of 2000’s Music. And Minaj’s verse on “Bitch I’m Madonna” is pure fire.

Unfortunately, cameos from Nas, Chance the Rapper and Mike Tyson don’t elevate their respective songs. And Madonna lets her own appetite for over-the-top sex songs run wild on a handful of cringy tracks like “Holy Water” (an ode to oral sex featuring the unfortunate line “Yeezus loves my pussy best”) and “S.E.X.,” which spells out an unconventional list of bedroom aids including “chopsticks, underwear, bar of soap, dental chair.”

The album is at its strongest when Madonna shoves everyone to the side and just tells it to us straight. So it’s fitting that she wraps up the deluxe edition with the title track, recalling how she went from weird kid to narcissist to spiritual thinker over Avicii’s bright, orchestrated production. Deep down, Madonna does have a rebel heart — and you can’t fault her for reminding us that pop music is all the better for it.

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/madonna-rebel-heart-20150225#ixzz3SmOf2Nz8
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Israeli accused of selling unreleased tracks as well as collecting huge archive of e-mails and pictures; says he knows it was unethical, ‘but who the f*** cares?’

An indictment was filed on Tuesday with the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court against Adi Lederman, a 39-year-old city resident who is suspected of systematically hacking into computers and e-mail accounts belonging to figures in the entertainment industry.

Lederman is accused of, among other things, breaking into the computers of ten people associated with the singer Madonna and selling unreleased tracks.

To read full article by Ynet News click HERE

Madonna has shot up to number two on the UK iTunes chart with her new single.

The star’s latest release ‘Living For Love’ was made available in the UK earlier today (February 25), and has quickly scaled the iTunes sales chart.

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It is only currently behind Noel Gallagher’s promotional track ‘Lock All The Doors’, which has been released to promote his new album Chasing Yesterday.

‘Living For Love’s high sales have been achieved despite Radio 1 refusing to playlist the track as they deemed it irrelevant for their younger demographic – a decision which was protested by Madonna’s fans.

The station said that it makes its playlist decisions “on musical merit and… relevance to our young audience on a case-by-case basis”.

‘Living For Love’ has been released in the UK today ahead of Madonna’s performance at the Brit Awards this evening.

The star will take to the stage at London’s O2 arena for the ceremony, which will be broadcast live on ITV from 8pm.

Madonna’s 13th studio album Rebel Heart – which also features new tracks ‘Bitch I’m Madonna’, ‘Ghosttown’ and ‘Iconic’ – will follow on March 9.

We’ve just seen the artwork for the exclusive free DVD that is given away to the first 200 registered fans coming to the party.

We are very happy to announce that we exclusively worked on the artwork for this and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Because we collaborated on this with Universal Music and they had it pressed, it’s an official DVD/free giveaway

See you March 5th