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Many Men In Line At Midnight For New Madonna AlbumInternet downloads don't prevent them from being among first to buy Music. by Contributing Editors Corey Moss and Will Comerford |
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Madonna's Music features the disco-influenced title single. ( ) |
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Madonna may be a trendsetter in women's music, fashion and lifestyle, but the Material Girl's most loyal fans include plenty of men. At two midnight sales of Madonna's new Music, the majority of fans
In Chicago, a few of the men who flocked to Tower Records on Clark Street were dressed partially in drag, donning high heels and makeup to justify their love of the divine Miss M. "Madonna continues to move forward, but she also takes a couple steps back on this album," Roger Robledo of Chicago said. He wanted to be among the first to buy the new album even though, he said, he downloaded most of it in August. "She's still the club Madonna that we all love, but she does a little country, too," he said. Store manager Mike Camacho said the Clark Street store sold more than 70 copies of Madonna's album in the first hour Tuesday morning (Sept. 19). About 50 fans were lined up in the store at 11 p.m. on Monday, including a handful who were waiting to buy a competing release, Icelandic singer Björk's Selmasongs. "We were hoping for a little more, but I know there was a lot of competition between stores with this record," Camacho said. "Seventy units is pretty good, though." In Seattle, about 30 people lined up outside Tower Records on Mercer Street, near the Seattle Center, waiting patiently in a drizzle. They appeared to be mostly men in their twenties. Jay Zeelo, a 22-year-old student who said he owns all of Madonna's albums, said "Music" (RealAudio excerpt), the first single on the album, was "edgier" than previous work. He was also interested by the singer's longevity. "It's just amazing her ability to keep going and changing — and not to become bitter," Zeelo said. Music, the follow-up to 1998's Grammy-winning Ray of Light, was produced by Ray of Light collaborator William Orbit and French musician Mirwais. "Music," a disco-influenced track with the infectious line "music makes the world go round," was released last month. "It's a lot different from her Ray of Light stuff, but it kind of grew on me," Ashleigh Verrier, a teenager who arrived at the Seattle store with her mother, said. A fan of pure house music, Verrier said she needed some time to adjust to the 41-year-old Madonna's latest style but that she had grown more accustomed to the sound of Mirwais after a few listens to "Music" and "Runaway Love." Madonna (born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) discovered the 39-year-old Mirwais (born Mirwais Ahmadzai), formerly of the French new-wave group Taxi Girl, when he sent a four-song demo to her Maverick Records label last fall. Madonna recorded a duet with Mirwais, the creepy ballad "Paradise (Not For Me)," which is included on Music and on Mirwais' import-only debut album, Production. Dre Darling, 23, was picking up Madonna's and Björk's records in Seattle to take back to a party held for the occasion. "I actually like Björk more than Madonna, but she's fun," Darling said. "I just like that she's going back to dancier stuff. I thought [Ray of Light] was too spiritual." Music originally was scheduled for a late fall release, but Maverick moved up the date when early versions of "Music" and other tracks leaked onto the Internet in May. The early availability of the album on the Internet did not seem to affect sales early Tuesday. "I've had pretty much all of the album for about three weeks, and it's just made me want to go out and buy it in the store even more," Hugo Rosado of Chicago said. "I've heard that the stuff on the album sounds different and better than what is on the Web." Joining Madonna's record in new-release displays this week are the Björk album as well as pop-rock band Fastball's The Harsh Light of Day, rapper Cam'ron's S.D.E., rock band Fuel's Something Like Human and veteran pop singer Barbra Streisand's Timeless — Live From the MGM Grand. Björk's Selmasongs is the soundtrack to the movie "Dancer in the Dark," in which the avant pop-rocker also stars. The album is culled entirely from music and dialogue in the film and is reminiscent of the big-band-influenced "It's Oh So Quiet" (RealAudio excerpt), from her 1995 album, Post. |
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