I agree with that (though you can totally sing the chorus to Vogue!). But I'd still say songs like that are the clubby outliers of her ouevre. Lately she's been overtly playing catch-up with club trends rather than originating them, and the look doesn't suit her.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
the only reason you can't sing Vogue in the shower is because no one remembers how the verses go
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
You can't really sing Vogue or Justify My Love in the shower.
believe me, you most certainly can.
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
dooby-doo, dooby-doo-doo-do-do-doo-do, dooby-do-do-doo(that's what it's for)
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
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!"
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
You guys sound like Paul fucking McCartney.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Thumbs aloft!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
How complex does a hook have to be before you can sing it in the shower?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly 39% complex.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
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, 28 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
If Madonna tried to play "Into The Groove" on guitar it would sound like "I Deserve It."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Madonna's gift, as such, used to be (besides not sounding tired) not sounding like she was breathlessly, belatedly playing catch-up.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
isn't "tragic dorm bathrooms" redundant
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
a girl gone WILDa good girl gone WILD
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
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, 29 February 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC Like A Virgin was half amazing singles and half unlistenable garbage.
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. It was her weakest album for a couple of decades.
― prolego, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
surm won't tolerate any dissent re "Shooby Dooby Doo."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Revolver" pissed me off way more. Plus Evita (not really her fault).
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
The worst thing about it is how it disinfects the word "erotic."
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Not even sure if it's better than the Paris Hilton sexting song.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I will never know about that because srsly fuck seeking out a Paris Hilton song, life is far too fucking short for that
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Most of her efforts these days lie in film-making.
― prolego, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Efforts."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Wouldn't want Madonna to get a big head.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― 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
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh it's cute, at worst negligible.
Plus, it was buried on the second side.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
you have to admit that madonna keeps up with linguistic fashion for using "punk rock" as an adjective. i'm serious about this.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 March 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://mymdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dna_strand_sm.gif
― Eric H., Tuesday, 6 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
well doesn't that just make everyone feel like a knee-jerk everything's-gotta-be-a-drug-ref...ist
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even want to know what's happening back there
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
It's like opening the Necromonicon.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Q: is mymdna a social networking site for madonna fans?A: well, there's already manhunt
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh cmon, "opening the Necronomicon" is a good line
― Pup Shalom Dog Costume (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
how is that a "Madonna is old" joke
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
The Necronomicon is old? Dead things are old?
BTW, I think Madonna's awesome mother/*ucker shirt was her smartest, cleverest statement on age.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Her arms are her worst.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
But the best at cracking walnuts!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link