MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

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

http://files.brobible.com/archive/Buzz/1CelebrityHallofFame/Stallone-over-the-top.jpg

L-R: Madonna, Madonna

It was more a Madonna is evil rather than a Madonna is old joke, but hey.

http://soundcloud.com/mdnareloaded/madonna-im-addicted

Thankfully this track is *much* better, but I mean it'd be exceedingly difficult to make something worse than GGW

Music gets pretty zzzzz around 0:24 but the vocals are pretty great throughout

And now here's another snippet of a track ("Love Spent")

http://videolog.tv/video.php?id=761098

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17297661

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http://www.mp3waxx.com/jobfolders/madonnafdup/blast-page.html

o_O

"Bad Girl" that's not.

should I be happy my job blocked that URL

your job otm

Oh God, she's gone back to her American Life phase where every other word in the song is either "I" or "me."

She's also gone back to her American Life phase of sucking.

Album appears to be in *ahem* circulation now. GGW was not just a bad choice to open the album, but a bad choice altogether (this can't be restated often enough).

The album is shockingly pretty damn brilliant. The singles are somehow the worst songs on the album (which for someone with 30 years experience in the industry and for being well Madonna is ridiculous).

The acoustic "Love Spent" on one of the deluxe editions is pretty goddamn great.