La teoría del Paradise Garage, que comenté aquí hace unas semanas, en palabras de Robster
“Okay, go with me for a bit.
I was going through possible things that might influence the look and feel of the upcoming album and this has been touched upon earlier but there are clues here that could hint at what's to come. Madonna posted a series of images on insta on august 5th with the caption "Park it here. Garage study #1". That caption as some people already stated might refer to Garage House, but I think it might be a little more particular. I think it might refer to "Paradise Garage", the legendary NYC club that changed the way people went out. It was the first club with a top notch sound system and a sprung dance floor and the set-up of the club was the first to create a layout where the dance floor was set-up to let the DJ be the center of attention.
Musically it was basically the bridge between disco and house music and thus a very significant space in music history. The venue was also a safe space for LGBT people and multi cultural hot spot. In the early days there were invite only party's in the building (which used to be a parking garage) called "Construction Party's", called that way because the club was still under construction. Later it expanded and evolved in capacity etc, but it always kept a rough edge.
Admission to the club was only available to members and their guests with an interview process used to select members. In order to avoid New York City restrictions on bar and restaurant hours-of-operation, snacks and beverages were freely available to patrons and no liquor was served. These measures allowed the club to stay open after hours, often until 10:00 AM or even later the following day. In contrast to its well-known contemporary Studio 54, The Garage fostered a distinctly no-frills, egalitarian atmosphere, as reminisced by one of its former dancers:
You went there to dance, and we didn't dance like the regular people who were dancing in discos. I used to get dressed up to go to a disco, I'd do the Hustle for a couple hours till 4 o'clock in the morning, then I'd say, "Oh shit, lemme go to the Garage." I had my bag with me and go to the Garage and change into my sweatpants and my sneakers.
I'm thinking Madonna might connect to the idea of that particular club as a place where all sorts of people from all walks of life (white, black, straight, gay, etc, etc) came together to just dance the night away and have fun, the ultimate safe space, called "Paradise" no less (music makes the people come together). Coincidentally Madonna used to attend parties at Paradise Garage herself, and even did the famous performance of "Dress You Up" in the outfit painted by Keith Haring for his birthday party which was held there. She referenced Paradise Garage by using it's logo during the interlude of the Celebration Tour for the skit where she tries to get into the night club right before "Holiday" which featured a sample of "I Want Your Love" by Chic (Nile Rodgers connection).
Could M in her album visuals hint back to Paradise Garage and that era or the concept of Construction (or Construction Party's flyers graphic design) and Paradise in general and could she possibly IF the concept of sampling musical classics be repeated from COADF go for using a sample of the iconic "I Want Your Love" by Chic?
This was my Ted Talk...”
