MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

the only reason you can't sing Vogue in the shower is because no one remembers how the verses go

You can't really sing Vogue or Justify My Love in the shower.

believe me, you most certainly can.

though you can't really sing Justify My Love at all

xpost They goes like this: dooby-doo, dooby-doo-doo-do-do-doo-do, dooby-do-do-doo.

dooby-doo, dooby-doo-doo-do-do-doo-do, dooby-do-do-doo
(that's what it's for)

You do the Lenny Kravitz doh-doh-doh-dohhhh part and then you pick up the shower nozzle like a mic and say "Love me! That's Right! Love me!"

You guys sound like Paul fucking McCartney.

Thumbs aloft!

How complex does a hook have to be before you can sing it in the shower?

Exactly 39% complex.

I just mean I have no difficulty imagining LMFAO lyrics can be heard in your more tragic dorm bathrooms. The problem is less that new music is unsuitable to Madonna's gifts so much as Madonna's new music is tired. Cher pulled off digital disco ten years ago.

If Madonna tried to play "Into The Groove" on guitar it would sound like "I Deserve It."

Madonna's gift, as such, used to be (besides not sounding tired) not sounding like she was breathlessly, belatedly playing catch-up.

I just mean I have no difficulty imagining LMFAO lyrics can be heard in your more tragic dorm bathrooms. The problem is less that new music is unsuitable to Madonna's gifts so much as Madonna's new music is tired. Cher pulled off digital disco ten years ago.

― da croupier, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never been happier to be done school.

isn't "tragic dorm bathrooms" redundant

a girl gone WILD
a good girl gone WILD

But on the radio there's not a lot of room for songs without a 4/4 stomp and a stupid hook. It's a shame Madonna is buying into that, but I don't see what choice she has, if she wants to get played.

Seriously? It's Madonna, she'll get played whatever, she could afford to take more risks than pretty much anyone else. I haven't heard any of the new stuff but if it does just sound like Guetta-house then I'd put that down to lack of imagination rather than anything else. See also Hard Candy.

there's a good argument to be made that this new single is the worst thing that madonna has ever committed to record

IIRC Like A Virgin was half amazing singles and half unlistenable garbage.

Yeah. It was her weakest album for a couple of decades.

surm won't tolerate any dissent re "Shooby Dooby Doo."

there's a good argument to be made that this new single is the worst thing that madonna has ever committed to record

"Revolver" pissed me off way more. Plus Evita (not really her fault).

I don't understand how this new boring song can be viewed as being worse than the actively terrible song she released right before it, not to mention the impressive string of drippy clunkers she's released throughout her entire career

The worst thing about it is how it disinfects the word "erotic."

Not even sure if it's better than the Paris Hilton sexting song.

I will never know about that because srsly fuck seeking out a Paris Hilton song, life is far too fucking short for that

the song is actually seriously p amazing, but mostly because it was already a song that these people just had Paris re-do vocals for

if she was gonna go this route, why didn't she just pay for the full max martin spa treatment. i mean, go to the source and don't mess around. even britney would have turned up her nose at the girls gone wild song.

there's a very condescending "meet them halfway" attitude madonna seems to have to catering to the charts that more and more ends up at the exact wrong halfway point

Between the Super Bowl and this track I am p convinced she is just going through the motions w the bare minimum of effort. Who produced this? Maybe the Orbit tracks will redeem her?

Most of her efforts these days lie in film-making.

"Efforts."

Most of her efforts lie in trying to physically turn back the hands of time. Which is her prerogative, but she should't pretend her music is nearly as impressive as her physique.

Wouldn't want Madonna to get a big head.

there's a good argument to be made that this new single is the worst thing that madonna has ever committed to record

― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 5:08 AM (Yesterday)

I always think Jimmy Jimmy is the very worst thing she's ever recorded. Every year or so I listen to it and crrrringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgL3A1VRSWI

oh it's cute, at worst negligible.

Plus, it was buried on the second side.

you have to admit that madonna keeps up with linguistic fashion for using "punk rock" as an adjective. i'm serious about this.

http://mymdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dna_strand_sm.gif

well doesn't that just make everyone feel like a knee-jerk everything's-gotta-be-a-drug-ref...ist

I don't even want to know what's happening back there

It's like opening the Necromonicon.

Q: is mymdna a social networking site for madonna fans?
A: well, there's already manhunt

The Madonna-is-old jokes make you look bad and are...old. There's enough bad music being pumped out by this woman to poke fun at instead.

Well, I will say there is a distinction to be made between someone who is old and someone who is old and trying to act young. For sure Madonna has been "old" for a while now, both literally and figuratively, but in general she has surmounted society's prejudices. Not this time, though.

oh cmon, "opening the Necronomicon" is a good line

how is that a "Madonna is old" joke

The Necronomicon is old? Dead things are old?

BTW, I think Madonna's awesome mother/*ucker shirt was her smartest, cleverest statement on age.

Her arms are her worst.

But the best at cracking walnuts!

personally I'm waiting for someone to splice that anigif with the face-melting scene from Raiders