There's a toe curling rap on there, and once again, she's using Mirwais... so we get more squelchy synths and vocoders.
You'd have thought she'd have learned her lesson with that Bond theme......
The artwork looks pretty good for a change, though.
― russ t, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
What Dan said. Therefore this new single must be genius.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
"If sci-fi filmmakers of the 1960s had dared to suggest that Bond movies were still being made in the twenty-first century, they would probably also have filled the theme music with space noises and robot voices."
i.e. yes it is a Bond theme.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
It may not be the song so much, it's the Mirwais production I findhard on the ears. Sounds dated already. I was hoping she'd have moved on from him this time.
― russ t, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
That Bond single couldn't get over itself, yuck.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030311/i/1047418255.3556843573.jpg
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, does Madonna even consider herself American?
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I guess I'm not bored with these production tricks. I liked and still like Music but then again I'm a girl who grew up in the 80s/90s so I have a high Madonna tolerance. Objectively, this could be the beginning of a dud period for Maddy or it could all work out fine. I do think parts of the song are really nice and I just today got it stuck in my head; always a sign...
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul cox (paul cox), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 05:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
The only thing I like about this whole American Life project of Madsonna's so far is the album cover (which is fantastic) - at last she seems to have roped in a decent designer. For a lady who apparently collects art and has a ...err.... high appreciation of it.... why are her record covers always so nasty and tatty?
― russ t, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Breaks to win and breaks to lose, but these here breaks will rock your shoes!"
or
"You're in a place where the nights are hot, where nature's children dance and set a chance."
"I said a hip hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop, the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat."
Blaming old skool for bad lyrics is like blaming AC/DC for making the same song over and over.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.toto691.co.uk/Madonna_American_Life_192.mp3
Set your standards VERY low and maybe you won't be disappointed.
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's highDJ's spinnin' are savin' my mindFlash is fast, Flash is coolFrancois sez fas, Flashe' no doAnd you don't stop, sure shotGo out to the parking lotAnd you get in your car and you drive real farAnd you drive all night and then you see a lightAnd it comes right down and lands on the groundAnd out comes a man from MarsAnd you try to run but he's got a gunAnd he shoots you dead and he eats your headAnd then you're in the man from MarsYou go out at night, eatin' carsYou eat Cadillacs, Lincolns tooMercurys and SubarusAnd you don't stop, you keep on eatin' carsThen, when there's no more carsYou go out at night and eat up bars where the people meetFace to face, dance cheek to cheekOne to one, man to manDance toe to toeDon't move to slow, 'cause the man from MarsIs through with cars, he's eatin' barsYeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hallHe's gonna eat 'em allRapture, be pureTake a tour, through the sewerDon't strain your brain, paint a trainYou'll be singin' in the rainI said don't stop, do punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna beJust have your party on TV'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's onAnd now he's gone back up to spaceWhere he won't have a hassle with the human raceAnd you hip-hop, and you don't stopJust blast off, sure shot'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' barsAnd now he only eats guitars, get up!
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
i think this bit is wrong, i'm sure she says 'DJs spinnin I said 'my my'
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahem ahem "do THE punk rock"
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dance crazes that never quite made it, part 86: PUNK ROCK!
"A one, and a two,that's how you do,the PUNK ROCK,don't you dare to stop!"
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
and yeh Russ, you had block parties in the Bronx bopping to The Clash and Kraftwerk - sounds amazing
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
The link above to the Madonna track doesn't work, and all the p2p sources I've tried have resulted in a loop of what seems like Madonna's voice saying "what the fuck are you trying to do?"
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
(It's not very good but the rap is great!)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.hmv.com/servlet/HMVApp/Registration.StartUp/createSessionId?ct=pd&sku=352697
it's kinda dire
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 29 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Needs more cocaine.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
ha! I bet you haven't even heard the thing.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
She's pulled the video. Wimp.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=qxLn_v7z3fk
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
"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 (four years ago) link
Madame X - she's been all of us
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGJlOTk0MTYtZGU2OS00MDc4LTg2MGUtYzRjYmNlNjNkOTYzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzA2MzYwOTg@._V1_.jpg
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 April 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PtBzdiZ3g
Madame X:
01 Medellín [ft. Maluma]02 Dark Ballet03 God Control04 Future [ft. Quavo]05 Batuka06 Killers Who Are Partying07 Crave [ft. Swae Lee]08 Crazy09 Come Alive10 Faz Gostoso [ft. Anitta]11 Bitch I’m Loca [ft. Maluma]12 I Don’t Search I Find13 I Rise
― petey v, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
must say i am intrigued by "killers who are partying"
― petey v, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
same but "dark ballet"
single is both trend-hopping and deeply weird, but it's probably the first time i've been more intrigued than indifferent toward a lead madonna single since.... "hung up"? this is no "hung up" but
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Y'all enjoy. This is v bad.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
it was also produced by mirwais which is extremely weird to me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
appears that a lot of the album has been produced by mirwais.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Madonna finally relents and works with a prior collaborator and she chooses Mirwais?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Didn't she try working with William Orbit again and it didn't work out?
Not really feeling the new single. There's a nice breezy feel to the verses but the chorus feels clumsy and the song is two minutes too long. It's definitely stronger than her last few leads but that really isn't saying much.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
i mean i'd say the majority of stuff she made with mirwais was good
of course i wish it were stuart price, alas xp
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
Hung Up is prob my favourite single of the 2000s so that’s a high bar.
This is a bit dull but it’s curious enough to pique interest about the album. I don’t mind Mirwais. “Nobody’s Perfect” remains incredible.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
i said it was no "hung up"! it absolutely isn't, i haven't even decided if i like it lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
OK, kids, let's see what's got you hopped up.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
I'll say her Spanish is pretty decent. That's the best thing I can say about the track.
― daavid, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
^^^ fair reaction
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Me and the newly-out lodger were just dancing round the kitchen to this, and we've decided we like it. Extra points for the Usha Uthup reference, too. https://youtu.be/k8f5Itra2Wo
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
time to dig out that Mirwais album then I guess.and, to be fair while driving home, when the song came on the radio (Sara Cox R2 : EXCLUSIVE build up etc), it was rather enjoyable ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
too funny. will never intentionally listen again.
― dyl, Thursday, 18 April 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
I listened to it four times in a row, hoping I could dig anything out of it. I couldn't. How many times is too many times to still give Madonna the benefit of the doubt?
Then I thought, young people don't give one fuck about Madonna. And her older fans just listen to Lady Gaga now instead. She's in an interzone desperately attempting to stay on-trend when she could probably do something else with far more success.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 April 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
And her older fans just listen to Lady Gaga now instead.
i'm not sure this is accurate
― dyl, Thursday, 18 April 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Me neither; I know an “older” Madonna megafan who cares little for Gaga (despite my recent attempts to get him into Joanne).That said, I’m not sure how much he cares about “new” Madonna, either...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 18 April 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
I'm talking about moms and shit who probably still buy cd's, but a couple a year. Not us (although I now listen to way more Gaga than anything Madonna is making).
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 April 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
wtf @ "Dark Ballet"
― Jeff W, Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uagw4zser8
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
oh i guess it makes sense she worked with Mirwais on this because this is just as bizarre as "American Life"
― ufo, Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
the album's credits have fewer collaborators since the Stuart Price days. We'll see if it works.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
ILM has never been more wrong than in the first hundred or so posts to this thread.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link