Shane
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1 minute ago, Genevieve Vavance said:
it's weird I can't focus on single songs, I HAVE to listen to the album from the beginning to the end, it's like reading a book (you don't start in the middle)
Same. Her albums are always a journey.
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2 minutes ago, elijah said:
And mine. It might end my fav. That or IDSIF.
It’s very high for me as well. It’s like her partial autobiography in song and since I’ve followed her for most of mine I feel like I can relate also. Also the piano is beautiful, and it’s a very interesting song in terms of music and production.
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This album is so good that picking a top 5 would be painful and a top 3 would be downright torture. Every song is a homerun.
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Madonna really specializes in these dramatic ballads that are synth-pop and orchestral at the same time. Ace.
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It’s obvious that this one is a favorite of Madonna’s. She quoted from it again on Today interview.
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Crave is the traditional pop moment of Madame X and works perfectly for me as a centerpiece. Lovely melodies and gorgeous vocals.
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Fantastic interviews this time around and so nice to see the journalists thanking her for all she has done and asking her if she knows what she means to people.
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With Crave having some luck on AC chart, they would be smart to use the momentum and service this one to AC radio shortly after Crave peaks.
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This song is brilliance on display. There will never be another Madonna, folks, not that we don’t all know that.
What is so interesting about this song is that the euphoric disco chorus only appears once, yet that is somehow just fine because of how much other stuff there is to behold.
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For fuck’s sake, this album is so good that you keep posting in song threads forgetting how many other songs you still have to comment on.
This song is a gem. I love the high note she hits on the second “search.” Love the verse, love the chorus, love the spoken word bridge, love the finale.
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Just now, runa said:
I knew you would like it,
But of course
As long as I get 2-3 ballads per album I’m good.
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This is her Falling Free/Messiah moment, where she just effortlessly nails a ballad that shuts the mouths of people who say she can’t sing.
She has maintained a lot of her range, and there is great strength in this delivery.
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Do the Portuguese lyrics translate to the lines she recited in her GLAAD speech?
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2 minutes ago, Macromad said:
I was just looking at Metacritic and saw this:
Madonna Madame X
Metascore: 73 Users Score: 91
Bruce Springsteen Western Stars
Metascore: 86 Users Score: 74
I think it's clear how biased are all these so called "professional critics", always underrating women while men get the higher rates easily.
They’re taking their sweet time to update hers with Boston Globe, All Music, and The Line of Best Fit, but those should elevate her.
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3 hours ago, Mat.Guy said:
As a Brazilian I just can't stop shaking my bubble hot ass to this song!
It's already a bop in Brazil and tonight I'm going to a Madame X themed party. So expect more ass shakinng from me until the dawn comes....
Photos please!
Such a gem!
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This is an absolute gem! Such energy!
And after all the moaning, Anitta sings like two lines
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3 hours ago, TXIII said:
And the reference to Nina Simone’s Wild is the Wind! My queen referencing another of my all time favorite artists!
Yes!!!!!!
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Her vocals in the chorus are magnificent and should silence people on that front. Not just the beautiful Portuguese lines but the “I know who I am” refrain and then when she comes in to do her own background vocals “God knows who I am.”
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Spotify in the US only has the deluxe edition with blonde cover which makes me happy. However, I feel bad for any general public who pick up the standard and don’t realize they are missing two amazing tracks. It’s obvious that the blonde cover is THE album.
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This is in all honesty one of the best interviews with her I’ve ever seen. I about cried when she told Madonna “thank you.” This journalist is ten times the professional of seventy five percent who have had the privilege of interviewing Madonna and did a poor job.
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3 minutes ago, Msig said:
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
4/5
https://www.allmusic.com/album/madame-x-mw0003274282
Madame X is the rare album from a veteran artist that puts earlier records in a different light. Ever since the 1980s, the conventional wisdom about Madonna claimed she brought trends from the musical underground for the purpose of pop hits, but Madame X -- a defiantly dense album that has little to do with pop, at least in the standard American sense -- emphasizes the artistic instincts behind these moves. The shift in perception stems from Madonna embracing a world outside of the United States. While she's been an international superstar since the dawn of her career, Madonna relocated to Lisbon, Portugal in 2017, a move that occurred two years after Rebel Heart -- an ambitious record balanced between revivals of old styles and new sounds -- failed to burn up any Billboard chart outside of Dance singles. These two developments fuel Madame X, an album that treats America as a secondary concern at best. Madonna may address the political and social unrest that's swept across the globe during the latter years of the 2010s, but her commentary is purposely broad. Perhaps Madonna errs on the side of being a little bit too broad -- on "Killers Who Are Partying," she paints herself as a martyr for every oppressed voice in the world -- yet this instinct to look outside of her experience leads her to ground Madame X in various strains of Latinx sounds, trap, and art-pop, music that not only doesn't sound much like the American pop charts in 2019, but requires focused attention in a manner that makes the songs not especially friendly to playlisting.
Madame X has its share of colorful neo-disco numbers and shimmering chill-out tracks, but they're painted in dark hues, and they're surrounded by songs so closely cloistered, they can play like mini-suites. Case in point is "Dark Ballet," an ominous number that descends into a sinister, robotic rendition of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes" section from The Nutcracker -- an allusion that recalls not the future, but the dystopian horror show of A Clockwork Orange. Such darkness hangs heavy over Madame X, surfacing fiercely in the clenched-mouth phrasing on "God Control," but present even on the bobbing reggae of "Future." The murk does lift on occasion -- "Come Alive" gains levity from its clustered polyrhythms -- but the somber tenor when combined with fearless exploration does mean Madame X can be demanding listening. The rhythms are immediate, but the songs aren't, nor are the opaque productions. While this thick, heady confluence of cultures and sounds may demand concentration, Madame X not only amply rewards such close listening, but its daring embrace of the world outside the U.S. underscores how Madonna has been an advocate and ally for left-of-mainstream sounds and ideas throughout her career.
I knew All Music would come through! This and Boston Globe and The Line of Best Fit all within 12 hours!
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A friend of mine said he is enjoying every moment of this release because he doesn’t know how many of them there will be to come. And I responded that I think we will see her recording music for years to come as she is so inspired and never wants to retire. She may slow down, but I predict we get three albums in her 60s and they will all rank among her best as Madame X surely does. And then she will release a masterpiece in her 70s mark my words!
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I have decided that I am not so sensitive to Autotune as most people. From all that I had read, I was almost under the impression that I was going to hear an album full of some unidentifiable robot singer
Other than the songs on which vocoder is heavily and audibly employed like parts of Dark Ballet, God Control, Future, Come Alive, and sections of Extreme Occident, I find it to be nothing more than a slight accent.
On first listen, I thought we had very pure vocal moments on Killers Who Are Partying, Crave, Crazy, I Don’t Search I Find, and Looking For Mercy.
I think some are confusing her new STYLE of singing as in the opening of God Control, most of Batuka, opening verse of Crave and much of I Rise as autotune but it’s just a new style.
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Every time leading up to an album, various camps fret about whether there will be bangers, ballads, experimentation etc. Isn’t the reason we love her that she gives us all of these things each time around? Every album is full of variety. Unless she is doing a specific genre project like Something to Remember or Confessions on a Dance Floor, each madonna album is a smorgasbord.
I would encourage each and every one of us to think about our initial least favorite track and make sure not to skip it. Let it sink in. Respect her decision. I honestly think this album could have one of the greatest track sequencings of her career.
Madame X album general discussion
in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
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How many times have you all listened? Do you tend to stagger plays of a new album or overdose on it?