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Originally posted by Humoresque
As much as I love American Life, imagine if it hadn't happened and everything that followed happened a few years earlier as a result:
Spring 2003: Confessions On A Dance Floor
Winter 2005: Hard Candy
Spring 2008: MDNA
Spring 2012: Rebel Heart
What do you think would have happened to these albums? 
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All of her interviews from '03 to '05 would have been very political based and awkward, because she needed to let her anger be free with the introspective AL.
I don't necessarily think COADF would have had the same amount of sales it has this day, since urban and hip-hop music was all over 2003. Hung Up would have had the same success it had on 2005.
Hard Candy would have been Madonna's Teenage Dream, all of the singles released being #1 everywhere and remembered. Ultimately leading the album into becoming a staple in the pop music scene, plus receiving continuous airplay over the years. Album selling the same.
In 2008, GMAL would be seen as weird sounding ****. And with that, Nicki Minaj's career wouldn't have taken off, so im in favour of it being released. Album still being bad at best and selling the same.
Rebel Heart would undoubtedly have been Madonna's biggest album since Ray Of Light. Living For Love would have been seen as next-level trendsetting music. A worldwide #1 for weeks. The same happens to Ghosttown. And Bitch I'm Madonna would also have been a viral and succesful song, Harlem Shake who? That happening because the GP had more acceptance to Madonna until that certain year, and with the Superbowl, alternate universe weave snatched. Oh, and the album would have been multi-platinum. Slay.
But at the same time, all of her tours wouldn't have been the same, no iconic performances like Live To Tell at Confessions. Her fans, or shall we say, we wouldn't love her as hard as we do today. She wouldn't carry the greatness we know her for.