{"id":151,"date":"2005-11-10T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/hung-up\/"},"modified":"2005-11-19T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T03:59:55","slug":"hung-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/hung-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hung Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/hung-up.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Madonna's 'Hung Up' single\" title=\"Madonna's 'Hung Up' single\" class=\"alignright\" \/><br \/>\nFollowing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/polorex\/377057205\/item.html\">Paulo&#8217;s lead<\/a>, I guess it&#8217;s time to comment on the fact that I am totally loving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madonna.com\/\">Madonna<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/archives\/001855.html\">new song &#8220;Hung Up.&#8221;<\/a> I&#8217;ve had the track since <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?selectedItemId=81858422&#038;playListId=81858559\">iTunes made it available<\/a> back in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard it at the club on Halloween weekend, and I have to say that hearing it while dancing and drinking and being around people only made it better. Since then, I&#8217;ve managed to download six versions (radio edit, album version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Tracy+Young\">Tracy Young<\/a>&#8216;s Get Up and Dance Groove remix, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Stuart+Price\">SDP [a.k.a Stuart Price]<\/a>&#8216;s extended dub), SDP&#8217;s vocal mix, &#8220;Blueyender Tech&#8221; remix). I&#8217;ve also downloaded the video.<\/p>\n<p>I may even be so bold as to say that this is Madonna&#8217;s best song since &#8220;Music&#8221; or &#8220;Ray of Light&#8221; &#8212; mostly due to the fact that it sort of reinvents her yet again. (Although I really liked &#8220;American Music,&#8221; it wasn&#8217;t as exciting or danceable.) And for those who complain that she is just &#8220;stealing&#8221; from ABBA &#8212; it&#8217;s called sampling and had I listened to &#8220;Gimme Gimme Gimme&#8221; before hearing &#8220;Hung Up,&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t have been very impressed. Now, however, I think the song is kind of cool, and the part that Madonna sampled is even more exciting in the ABBA original.<\/p>\n<p>I like the song so much, even, that I used some of the lyrics during a philosophical conversation last night. My friend was talking about how all these goals she has and that she just wants to have them right away and I said it sounded like she spend most of her life waiting for the future. Then I said, &#8220;Time goes by so slowly for those who wait.&#8221; How obnoxious is that???<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I cannot wait for <i>Confessions from the Dancefloor<\/i> next week. Here&#8217;s hoping the album is as good as the lead single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Paulo&#8217;s lead, I guess it&#8217;s time to comment on the fact that I am totally loving Madonna&#8216;s new song &#8220;Hung Up.&#8221; I&#8217;ve had the track since iTunes made it available back in mid-October. I first heard it at the club on Halloween weekend, and I have to say that hearing it while dancing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/hung-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hung Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}