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17 minutes ago, Nikki said:
Ok, stolen from another forum, but this is me until Friday
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I've only heard 10 second clips so far, so i'm going to wait to hear the rest of MX in full.
Listening to IDSIF on it's own without hearing the others will kill me.
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1 hour ago, robster said:
That would be "Come Alive", it's there!
YES! I was hoping this would be on the album.
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7 hours ago, side_streets said:
God Control
I thought the same thing. Love it.
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4 minutes ago, Flip The Switch said:
A quick reminder.
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7 minutes ago, Marcello77 said:
Now it´s illegal buying a CD or a Vinyl being sold in a store! LOL
It's illegal for the retailers to sell it before the release date, but not for the customer to buy. However, the customer is not allowed to upload it
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11 minutes ago, Shane said:
And yes The Observer counts for Meta.
Excellent!
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Just now, Flip The Switch said:
Same with the IG accounts.
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I just sent Madonna and Guy a tweet about the leaks and she liked my reply. Wooo lol
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1 minute ago, systemvalues said:
the clip or the whole song?
A clip, but what we heard was definitely a disco stomper.
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2 minutes ago, systemvalues said:
Reviewers said there is not a disco stomper. Some said Killers wuo are partying is catchy. others that is not. I think we must wait the 14th june to judge.
There is. Some of us have heard it for ourselves and it's fabulous.
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That Oscar guy still has the clips on his IG stories. There's a clip of Madonna singing in her lower register over a piano and it sounds very solemn.
The lyrics go something like this....
"When we wake up, what can we do..... take the kids to school....everybody knows but don't have a clue" (?)
I thought it was the beginning of GC, but i'm not sure.
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1 minute ago, Confessit said:
It's one for the mass market.
Exactly! x
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God Control sounds like THE song that everyone will enjoy. The 12 second clip alone was pure bliss.
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3 minutes ago, Bat-Fan said:
The other snipet with the lyrics "stand together" and choir, was that come alive?
Not sure, but the other one I heard sounded like Batuka.
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7 minutes ago, Future feat Quavo said:
People sharing files of the actual album tracks needs to stop ugh y'all can wait one fucking week please
The 10 second recording snippets aren't illegal are they? They bought the record and aren't sharing whole album tracks or anything
They were sold a copy from the record store before it was officially released, so that in itself is illegal. Who knows how many other copies were sold.
It's not the buyers fault. Although, he shouldn't have posted clips on IG. (even though I enjoyed what I heard).
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2 minutes ago, Confessit said:
It sounds so anthemic.
This is exactly what I was dreaming of when I heard she was working with Mirwais again.....dancefloor bliss.
I think it will be a huge song for her I can certainly hear it on the dance floors.
I think so too. It's like it was lifted straight from COADF. It's magical.
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Just now, Monkey said:
OMG ! These two clips are better than everything Madame X have allready released. God Control is wonderfull, a single asap
The Hung Up of 2019.
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"It's a weird kind of energyyyyyyyyyyy"
Omg, i'm dying!!!!!!!!
and her voice sounds fantastic.
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I'm reporting everything I can find. As much as I desperately want to hear it in full, we don't want it to leak just yet.
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2 minutes ago, Confessit said:
What disco track ? I keep reading about this fantastic disco track I'm dying for the album!!
There was a small clip posted on ATRL of someone playing the vinyl. It's fabulous.
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OMG, That disco track sounds incredible. Is it God Control?
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Just now, Cyber-Raga said:
I hope it ends up on the record. This snippet is very interesting.
I love it.
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3 minutes ago, rayofgod said:
I wonder which track this is. It doesn't really fit with any of the descriptions we've heard
I was just about to ask the same thing. A few weeks ago, I would've said it was Future but obviously not. Could it be "Crazy"?
MADAME X album reviews
in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
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Madonna: Madame X review – Big, ballsy and more than a bit bizarre
3/5
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/madonna-madame-x-review-big-ballsy-and-more-than-a-bit-bizarre-1.3920630
Very few living artists compare to Madonna for cultural impact and musical legacy. Over almost four decades in the public eye she has caused controversy for merely existing. On Madame X, her 14th studio album, she uses various personas and borrows heavily from Latin hip hop, dancehall and reggaeton to steer the power of controversy into something positive.
The album begins with Medellín, on which she is joined by the Colombian rapper Maluma. It’s a quirky, low-tempo island song – and very much a Marmite one – designed to get you moving, its “One, two, cha-cha-cha” refrain telling you exactly what to do.
The playfulness of Medellín is quickly overshadowed by Dark Ballet and God Control, songs that take an experimental stand against authoritarianism and gun control through distorted Black Mirror-style pop. Now that’s a mouthful.
Recorded between her homes in New York, Lisbon, London and Los Angeles, Madame X sees Madonna go global in her musical quest for peace and equality, singing in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
While the gypsy taunts of Killers Who Are Partying miss the mark (“I’ll be Islam if Islam is hated, I’ll be Israel if they’re incarcerated, I’ll be Native Indian if the Indian has been taken,” she drawls), the gimmick-free, uplifting ballad I Rise is more earnest.
Opening with a snippet of We Call BS, the viral speech made by the young gun-control activist Emma González, who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last year, she sings: “Freedom’s what you choose to do with what’s been done to you.” Madonna knows the power she wields, and as a long-time advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV, she plays that card very well.
The most interesting moments come when we hear how she navigates the personal. Removing the brand and the bravado, she breaks it down on Looking for Mercy. She shows strength in her weary cry for empathy, removing the many layers of armour she has had to wear as Madonna the icon.
But don’t confuse this need for love as a weakness. On the zorbing 1990s disco song I Don’t Search I Find, complete with Vogue-style sass, she reminds us that she always gets what she wants. “Finally, enough love is coming…”
Madonna’s choice of collaborators is the album’s strongest suit by far. The Brazilian pop star Anitta joins her on Faz Gostoso, a Latin-tinged seduction track that comes fitted with a carnivale breakdown – alarms, sirens and drums all piling up – and the American rapper Quavo joins her on Future, a sun-kissed call for progress.
Ever altering her identity, either physically, spiritually or emotionally, Madonna takes on numerous characters (and many, many accents) to create a wild and varied universe that’s reflective of the general doom the world is swilling around in. “Madame X is a secret agent. Travelling around the world. Changing identities,” she says in the album’s teaser video. “A nun. A singer. A saint. A whore. A spy in the house of love.”
Her voice is heavily disguised throughout, pushing the sometimes manic concept of this album even further. Standing up against technological, social and political distortion, it’s a big and ballsy production that’s so bizarre in places, you can’t help but be impressed.