MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

like Matt I read the MDMA bit of it as indicating something Housier and more fun than dubstep

xxp: Lex, you're talking about someone who released "Give It To Me" as a single, on what grounds are you basing this trust

also MIA and Nicki on one track? it's a bit blatant/desperate

oh and yeah agree about the "DNA" part of it too

MIA's probably the most desperate one in that equation.

just think Madge cd've picked a subtler way to tell us she's "with it"

right - weed is the dubstep drug of choice surely. mdma + dubstep = DNW

― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:46 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but Lex--all the nuubsteppers are into the "rave scene"!!!

xxp: Lex, you're talking about someone who released "Give It To Me" as a single, on what grounds are you basing this trust

memories receding ever rapidly into the past ;_;

Her best titles are always based on her name - her debut, Like A Virgin, Like a Prayer, The Immaculate Collection, even COADF, and now this. It's already been said but she really does have the fucking luckiest name in music history.

I'm just hoping the first single is a red herring built around the Superbowl and album is actually destroys.

*the album is

weed + madonna + dubstep does not sound terrible if her vocals are produced right

There's a bit of that new song that sounds a lot like 'Bohemian Like You'

i.e. terrible

^yeah

"The release of 'MDNA' has been marred slightly by the leak of an early version of the first single, 'Gimme All Your Luvin' in November last year, for which a Spanish man was arrested in December."

Gosh, it must have been a really terrible version.

Man, that could be a mediocre single from any number of acts. But mostly sounds like peppy Britney, c. Toxic.

not a zz top cover i take it

Is that Genesis P Orridge in the You Tube up thread?

the dubstep middle 8 is the most hilarious musical development of the past year

Perhaps a bridge too far to think that the MDMA pun would have any relationship to the style of the music - Madonna doubtless is just pleased that it codes as youthful, electronic etc.

If you take a really wide lens approach that basically thinks of MDNA as = young people at raves then perhaps she ought to have gotten Skrillex to produce the whole thing.

OTOH her last single was produced by Paul Oakenfold and had appropriately euphoric aspirations (also was not very good).

Maybe it's time for more ABBA samples.

madonna + dubstep = lou reed + metallica

She should do an album with The Knife and Planningtorock

most importantly every single video should include her treating a DDR machine like a stripper pole IMO

Is there even any indication that that dubstep-breakdown-thing is part of an official release?

it's a triple pun right? her own name, mdma + referring to a generation of fans and artists who have her in their dna

http://foreverydaypeople.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/prml.jpg

If it's a triple pun, it may be the first triple pun in pop music since "12 Inches of Snow."

such a limp stab at a dubstep bridge too. sounds like it was made by some pop producer who tried to approximate skrillex using keyboard presets and doesn't actually know how to work an lfo.

Is there a dubstep template in Garageband yet?

Maybe she could get MSTRKRFT, BNJMN, SBTRKT and other producers who hate vowels on board.

KMFDM too.

kissing my...?

Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid

or rather, Keine Mehrheit Für Das Mitleid

It's German disco, Lex. Kinda.

(Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit would make more sense)

most importantly every single video should include her treating a DDR machine like a stripper pole IMO

― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:36 PM (1 hour ago)

^^^

If it's a triple pun, it may be the first triple pun in pop music since "12 Inches of Snow."

I had this disc and never thought about the title much but wow that is good

All these producer ideas are terrible at a time when the phone presumably still hasn't rung for Dennis Ferrer and Quentin Harris.

Pretty sure I read that the album was being produced by Martin Solveig? Which isn't terrible but isn't exactly very exciting either.

KMFDM = Kill MotherFucking Depeche Mode

xpost Unless it all sounds like "Rocking Music".

Maybe she should just make a lolspk moombahton album like Nadia Oh's.

martin solveig is definitely terrible, think i'd rather skrillex

i don't think madge's voice is quite up to dennis ferrer/quentin harris levels of production though - they best frame house/r&b divas who can BELT IT OUT.

Quentin Harris? Calvin Harris more like

Isn't this being produced by William Orbit?

KMFDM = Kill MotherFucking Depeche Mode

KMFDM = Knights In Satan's Service

Y'all make me think this'll be her Blackout.

she had her blackout already in 1992

Her best titles are always based on her name - her debut, Like A Virgin, Like a Prayer, The Immaculate Collection, even COADF, and now this. It's already been said but she really does have the fucking luckiest name in music history.

OTMFM

oh brazil

I listened to this album a few months ago for the first time since fall '12. It holds up better than I thought (the final stretch ain't bad) but no way is it other than third tier Madonna.

"bitch i'm madonna" may be her worst ever anything

well it is a sophie/diplo production

though maybe madonna causing pc music to jump the shark could prove her greatest contribution to music in a decade

I think I like MDMA nearly as much as Confessions, which means it's my 2nd favorite Madonna album since 1995.

so she's put the album up for pre-order and chucked out those songs that leaked as early downloads. 13 other tracks will come in march.

while it's probably a smart move, i don't exactly like the precedent of brazilian hacker stans being able to force the hands of their favourite artists (although considering north korean hackers seemingly managed to stop the interview's release this might prove the future).

unholy brazilian madonna fan/kim jung-un alliance will destroy western civilization

The wikipedia article says that there has been a "slurry of unexpected album content leaks". Giggle.

"devil pray" is the best thing here. it wouldn't sound too out of place on american life (save for the fact she's left kabbalistic musings behind for a hallucinatory drug trip through catholic hell). that folktronica sound is really such a comfortable fit for her in many ways, and in hindsight kind of makes me think she axed mirwais too soon.

"ghosttown" is fairly standard tedder-esque balladry (he's got a writing credit on "devil pray" but not this which feels like a mistake) but she sounds so much better vocally on it that she has in years and it makes such a difference. someone in her team needs to tell her to stay in her lower register because when she veers out of it she ends up sabatoging even potentially great material. but we've discussed this here ad nauseum.

"bitch i'm madonna" remains terrible (what the hell is that drop?!) and sophie needs to stop existing already. poor nicki getting roped in when she's already had a bad enough week.

i don't even know what the fuck "illuminati" is, but i've long expected madonna to become music's norma desmond so in a way it makes more sense than anything else here. i wish she's stop with this rebel heart nonsense and just call an album i am big, it's the charts that got small already.

Just listened to the iTunes samples. They are terrible, every one of them. I didn't like MDNA or Hard Candy either. When is it time for me to finally give up?

Oh man "Living For Love" is some awesome throwback piano-house Masters at Work shit

that was my impression, just the vocal melody uh needs work

BITCH *clap* I'M *clap* MADONNA *clap*

This btw: Madonna - Rebel Heart (2015)

"In advance of the US launch of MDNA SKIN on September 26th, Madonna partnered with The Fat Jewish (Josh Ostrovsky) for a playful, tongue-in-cheek video collaboration featuring MDNA SKIN."

:(

oh madge no

last week I went to a clubnight which was playing nothing but Madonna for five hours. It was excellent, obviously (although a DJ who took the reins at the last hour had clearly been left out the planning stage as he played songs that had already been played) but I was really surprised at how well-received the stuff from this album went down.

... "The Fat Jewish"?

never have I been so glad to be out of the loop

although maybe all this means is that this dude is going to be an omnipresent comedic force by 2020 who then morphs into an ignorable character actor

hack joke stealer on twitter is all you need to know

also ppl stopped talking abt him a few years ago so madge's ppl are def on the cutting edge here

I mean he was just in the Charli XCX "Boys" video, he didn't 100% disappear

Man, it's been nothing but crap since (and including) American Life ...

'hung up' was good

and this song from mdna was a highlight even if it could stand to have a minute lopped off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG40yJQ2_aQ

'Hung Up' was alright, but it was undoubtedly helped a lot by that ABBA sample.

Rebel Heart was better than this but it doesn't matter.