New Madonna single

That Bond single couldn't get over itself, yuck.

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030311/i/1047418255.3556843573.jpg

Also, does Madonna even consider herself American?

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...

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?

"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."

or

"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.

http://www.toto691.co.uk/Madonna_American_Life_192.mp3

Set your standards VERY low and maybe you won't be disappointed.

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move to slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!

i think this bit is wrong, i'm sure she says 'DJs spinnin I said 'my my'

ahem ahem "do THE punk rock"

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!"

and yeh Russ, you had block parties in the Bronx bopping to The Clash and Kraftwerk - sounds amazing

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?"

(It's not very good but the rap is great!)

http://www.hmv.com/servlet/HMVApp/Registration.StartUp/createSessionId?ct=pd&sku=352697

it's kinda dire

i hate it

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.

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

She's pulled the video. Wimp.

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

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

"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.”"

Madame X - she's been all of us

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGJlOTk0MTYtZGU2OS00MDc4LTg2MGUtYzRjYmNlNjNkOTYzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzA2MzYwOTg@._V1_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PtBzdiZ3g

Madame X:

01 Medellín [ft. Maluma]
02 Dark Ballet
03 God Control
04 Future [ft. Quavo]
05 Batuka
06 Killers Who Are Partying
07 Crave [ft. Swae Lee]
08 Crazy
09 Come Alive
10 Faz Gostoso [ft. Anitta]
11 Bitch I’m Loca [ft. Maluma]
12 I Don’t Search I Find
13 I Rise

must say i am intrigued by "killers who are partying"

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

Y'all enjoy. This is v bad.

it was also produced by mirwais which is extremely weird to me

appears that a lot of the album has been produced by mirwais.

Madonna finally relents and works with a prior collaborator and she chooses Mirwais?

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.

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

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.

i said it was no "hung up"! it absolutely isn't, i haven't even decided if i like it lol

OK, kids, let's see what's got you hopped up.

I'll say her Spanish is pretty decent. That's the best thing I can say about the track.

^^^ fair reaction

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

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 ..

too funny. will never intentionally listen again.

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.

And her older fans just listen to Lady Gaga now instead.

i'm not sure this is accurate

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...

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).

wtf @ "Dark Ballet"

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uagw4zser8

oh i guess it makes sense she worked with Mirwais on this because this is just as bizarre as "American Life"

the album's credits have fewer collaborators since the Stuart Price days. We'll see if it works.

ILM has never been more wrong than in the first hundred or so posts to this thread.