MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

so is this one of those cases where you have to get the deluxe editions to get the better tracks ?

has she ever attempted a song like "B-Day Song"? It's like ABBA attempting a kid's song played on live instruments by Muppets.

"i'm addicted" is pretty awesome

and i'm not sure about "gang bang" but it's... genuinely disturbing

"gang bang" is the best thing here imo

"i don't give a" and "i'm addicted" are the other two that stood out and if i'm being honest the chorus of "give me all your luvin'" is stuck in my head a great deal of the time. it sounds less good when i actually play it, because madonna's voice is a total husk now, it drags down decent songs/fails to elevate catchy-but-basic bubblegum tunes/sinks each of the ballads.

"i'm addicted" is great and sort of what i wanted this whole record to sound like, given the title mdna

"Gang Bang" might grow on me but right now it's just super annoying

haaaaaa I just got to the dubstep bridge

well this whole song is just spectacularly falling apart

I just cannot take "DRIVE BITCH/NOW DIE BITCH" very seriously

"I'm Addicted" is actually a good song

After the two singles and "Gang Bang", I was not expecting this

"superstar" = worst madonna lyrics yet?

well "I'm Addicted" was a good song until she ran out of ideas at the end and started aimlessly chanting "M! D! N! A"

holy fuck I am 30 seconds into "Turn Up The Radio" and I want to murder everyone I have ever known so that they don't accidentally hear it

hahahahaha "i don't give a" is awesome, choral stuff at the end is so ott

like, there are a bunch of components here on paper that I should really, really like, but it's put together in the most fucking annoying manner possible and I'm just sitting here thinking "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD"

don't share your hate for "turn up the radio," dan. it's just kind of nothing

although "Gimme All Your Luvin" is even more annoying, lol

"Some Girls" sounds like an anonymous diva house remix, which automatically makes it the second best song I've heard on this album so far

okay "Superstar" is just PATHETIC

"you're abe lincoln / cuz you fight for what's right"

hoo boy

"I Don't Give A" reminds me a little too much of "Top That!" from "Teen Witch":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEa1BYBgeQI

Yeah, I think I'ma skip this one.

it's better than hard candy?

I don't think I'd even give it that, based on what I've heard so far

So then it's officially the worst album of all time. Check.

had the coda on "I Don't Give A" been the intro, it might have saved the song

"I'm A Sinner" sounds like it actually has quantizing issues, like they couldn't get the components of the loop to match up correctly; it's still the third-best song I've heard on this album

"Love Spent" starts with a banjo, that's a good sign

haha and once that goes away the song gets much much much better

did she just say "Frankly, if my name was Benjamin/We wouldn't be in the mess we're in"

oh Madonna

"I want you to hold me like you hold your money/Hold me 'til there's nothing left"

this is still the third- or fourth-best song on the album

oh god that lyric made my jaw drop when i first heard it

the benjamin one

... O_O

I... I genuinely like "Masterpiece"

this is EASILY the best song on the album so far

"you're abe lincoln / cuz you fight for what's right"

http://healthsolutionbd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/bush-shock-1.jpg

okay what the fuck, "Falling Free" just started and why do I like the ballads so much??

Lyrically, it's still kind of inane but at least she sounds like she has a personality and the melody does more than just sit on one note for entire verses

Lyrically, it's still kind of inane but at least she sounds like she has a personality

this really surprises me b/c i think even more than the underwritten songs, lyrical clunkers and uninspiring producers, madonna's terrible terrible delivery is what sinks the album - someone with a semblance of character could've rescued even the inane songs but she sounds bored and rigid and characterless for the most part, and this is especially the case where she's required to sound emotional (the ballads) or carefree (the bubblegum)

I'm with lex re her voice. It's as if this is what happens to billions spent on voice lessons and locution: after fifteen years the warranty runs out and she forgot to keep the receipt.

I completely agree that Madonna's delivery is terrible right up until the last two songs on the main album; "Beautiful Killer" is also much less irritating than the lion's share of the album.

haha oh my god "I Fucked Up" on the other hand is absolutely the terrible flat affect horseshit delivery you are calling out

i've just realised dan hasn't got to "bday song" yet

*anticipates*

(i agree that for some reason "beautiful killer" does work v well)

"I Fucked Up" should have been double-time the whole song, it wouldn't come across quite so lifelessly

"Bday Song" is my favorite.

seriously though, she has zero awareness and zero people around her who give a shit if "I Fucked Up" in this form was allowed to go out the door

what

what is happening here

why are M.I.A. and Madonna singing over an interpolation of the Sesame Street theme song

I am too bemused to make a judgement about this

the vocals thing is particularly sad because her voice was so crazy good at elevating her (already classic) material - could anyone have done 'open your heart' or 'into the groove' or 'burning up' or 'crazy for you' as well as her? her 80's voice is one of pop's most underrated instruments. And I don't think there's any excuse to what it's become other than sheer laziness (which is SO NOT A GOOD LOOK on you madge).

hahahaha seriously what was that, though

the bit where MIA asks to be spanked is particularly o_0

oh shit "Best Friend" is kind of instantly appealing

oh wow "masterpiece" is really good

and yeah, this has zero to do with "voice lessons" and everything to do with "50+ year old woman on autopilot"