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Sean - do you use filepile. There's a copy up on there - search for 'american life 192'. If you don't then say and I'll email my password details.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

30 seconds in and it's FUCKING FANTASTIC.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, once again Madonna has taken the "Music" template and done something far, far superior with it. The rap section is fantastic, but fortunately the rest of the song is, too. The acoustic guitar break is ULTRA-CLASSIC, and the 303 filter tricks are just great; it's like they recorded most of the song just using Rebirth.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

JENNY FROM THE BLOCK EAT YOUR HEART OUT, YOU TALENTLESS (prettyprettypretty) COW

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

it sounds like a bonus round

i hate it

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I honestly thought the entire single sounded like a bad joke, and I've liked all of the other recent Madonna singles.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I fail to see how sounding like a bonus round is a bad thing.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely laughable. But the rap is classic - I wish that part could be longer.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, once again Madonna has taken the "Music" template and done something far, far superior with it.

Not that hard to do, admittedly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I DO YOGA AND PILATES, THIS ROOM IS FULLA HAWTIES'

lyric of the year

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry dan you're right on

half of my record collection sounds like a bonus round

rephrase:

it sounds like it was composed with My First Keyboard

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

That still makes it sounds cool, though! And this single is just rub.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah you're right

okay:

it sounds like a bonus round done on a My First Keyboard except it's rub

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

OK on second listening I think it might be brilliant.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It must be the Carter fan part of you that likes it, it does have a "Sheriff Fatman" quality to it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Which is the same thing as saying it's crap.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha Tom, I figured that out in one listen! (The second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth listens were mere confirmation wrapped in scary obsession.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

That's just sad.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

So
I went into a bar
Looking for sympathy
A little company
I tried to find a friend
It's more easily said
It's always been the same
This type of modern life
Is not for me

This is like a vintage Morrissey lyric; imagine if Madonna had written "How Soon Is Now?". Juxtaposing this bleakness with the part where she talks about how she's living the American dream with her honey, then completely nods to Prince, then jumps straight into her "Fuck J-Lo" rap... absolute genius.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't heard this yet but...

...can someone pretty please forcibly air-drop Monsieur Mirwais into a small rural Texas town so he can get his eyes gouged out and his hands cut off by a parade of French wine bottle-smashing hoodlums since he has almost singularly destroyed my Madonna-lurve and made the last three years excrutiatingly difficult for my worship of the former Great Goddess of popular culture? Please S'IL VOUS-PLAIT ppplease?

WHERE THE FUCK IS PATRICK LEONARD???????????????

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Noooooo! Mirwais has made Madge all bizarre and excellent!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, there's a part near the end of her rap where she sounds like a cross between Da Brat and Miss Jade.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Madonna's "American Life" vs. TMBG's "I'm Sick of This American Life"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(hint: the Madonna song's better)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd think that would be true almost by definition, JBR.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

ever HBO sunday night theme song so far has suuuuuuuuuckt and this ain't no exception

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"American Life" vs. "American Pie"

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

when I first heard Madonna's "Music" (which initially sounded like a bass drum and Madonna saying the word "music" over it while cackling at strippers) I went through the most depressed three days of my life, and truly believed civilization was at an end.

But I like the song now (I think the extreme intake of cough syrup had something to do with my initial reaction to "Music"), so I'm hopeful that this song (which sounds FRIGHTENING) won't drive my to leap off something.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

it reminds me of the new Malkmus

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

When icons hit middle age, then?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

when icons dick around on guitar

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

plus Malkmus is heavy into yoga now also

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The most 80s nostalgia single EVER. The Brett Easton Ellis revival begins HERE (or with Mary Harron really I guess).

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 29 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The Brett Easton Ellis revival begins HERE

Needs more cocaine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

on one hearing this is my favourite madonna single ever

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

THe Bret Easton Ellis revival began two years ago, in my living room, you fools.

I can't find the Madonna track for download anywhere, I just keep finding fakes. Who te hell does stuff like that? That's a sad life.

I can kind of do that thing she does in that picture, except I never tried with heels, I think I will do that today at the gym. The heels I mean.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

This is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life.

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

''on one hearing this is my favourite madonna single ever''

ha! I bet you haven't even heard the thing.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

It kind of is her best single ever.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to have to download it and give it another listen, because I did not get anything at all out of it the first (and only) time I heard it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

someone stole ilm's ears!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I downloaded it and still haven't listened to it, so Yanc3y is totally right.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030401/ap_on_en_mu/war_madonna_video_5

She's pulled the video. Wimp.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, what a way to throw any pretense to artistic integrity out the window.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"artistic integrity" is a pretty way of saying "I'm a self-absorbed asshole".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The video sounds like the best Madonna video ever, too!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Did that Focus Group ever get published?

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=qxLn_v7z3fk

― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 03:54 (thirteen years ago)

Some of those minor/major things work great. That one just sounds like a cassette that was left in the sun.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:39 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

"In the teaser, Madonna describes Madame X as “a dancer, a professor, a head of state, a housekeeper, an equestrian, a prisoner, a student, a mother, a child, a teacher, a nun, a singer, a saint, a whore,” and “a spy in the house of love.”"

― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:30 (seven years ago)

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― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:52 (seven years ago)

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