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    Review/Rate/Rank MDNA

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Girl Gone Wild - 1/5

    Gang Bang - 5/5

    I'm Addicted - 4/5

    Turn Up the Radio - 4.5/5

    GMAYL - 3.5/5

    Superstar - 3/5

    I Don't Give A - 4/5

    I'm a Sinner - 4.5/5

    Love Spent 6/5

    Masterpiece - 3.5/5

    Falling Free - 3.5/5

    B-day Song - 4/5

    I Fucked Up - 1.5/5

    I'm Addicted

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Deffinately NOT. Music was the lucky album because it came out after ROL. Even if AL came after ROL it would ve been much sucsessful. For me AL is her worst album and Music doesnt score much higher.

    They're much more innovative and experimental! Also the lyrics are better... and everything is better. American Life is definitely not her best but it's really consistent and has no weak song.

    I'm Addicted

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    I think the thing is..... Even with really good songs, it takes time to see if they're good or not. I mean, you can guess, but you don't even know fully until something has been around a few years (at least 5). Hung Up and COADF have aged well, and so has most of her stuff actually. Ray of Light and Like a Prayer are looked upon as classics, when there were even some critics who were so/so on those songs/albums. Let's give these songs time.

    I am, however, annoyed that (almost) every single Madonna fan acts like COADF is the end all to all 00's Madonna albums. American Life and Music are superior.

    MDNA Album Thread

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    That's the truth of it. Everyone has an opinion. I'm fine with people not digging some of her stuff, but I've invested years in this woman. Yes, we all have our favorites, but it humors me how some criticize GGW to be a "cheap" track or what not, when much of the first album and True Blue era included a lot of usual cheaptastic meaningless pop. I loved it then and I love it now. Madonna may have produced some pretty innovating hits, but let's not pretend that GGW is the first time she's crafted a song for mainstream pop. This idea that she has to shit out a "Masterpiece" with every album is just nonsense. Some of the most popular songs in history are simple if not downright dumbass songs. Not to degrade Madonna's music, but c'mon... who really thinks "Lucky Star" and "Holiday" includes such profound and meaningful lyrics. Even the video for "Lucky Star" was just her dancing around a sound stage. How innovating is that? You can try to excuse it anyway you want, but Madonna's music is more than just about the meaningless pop tunes. Her image/persona/visionary plays a huge part. This nonsense that she's thought of as some mature and demure mother of four is just pure crap. That's not why I fell in love with her. I fell in love with the woman who pulled shit that pushed people buttons, not the norm. I feel in love with the woman who paraded half naked and was called a tramp and whore. Did I think that was her TRUE self? NO! It's a persona!! And over the years, she's managed to craft it into something different with each album. Madonna's usually at her best when she's playing "naughty". She's at her best when she's having fun or got something provocative to say. She's at her best when she's doing things that you don't expect. And yet again, here she is fifty years old, and people expect this mature demure woman to sing what? STANDARDS? Do they really expect her lyrics are always going to be profound? You're kidding yourself if you think that. Madonna is a business. She's always been. She doesn't just "phone in" anything either. She takes time to create and when she's done, she'll share it a way that she knows how to get the biggest bang for her buck. She isn't stupid. She knows exactly what she's doing. Whatever you think of this album, in the end, it means shit because those who simply enjoy her for being HER will always enjoy HER, while she laughs all the way to the bank, headlining these top grossing tours.

    While I agree with the bottom half of your post...

    Her first album is usually credited as one of the most important Dance albums of the 80s, and is usually known as the very first album that introduced "Dance-pop" that isn't disco. So yes, I'd say songs like Lucky Star and Holiday are innovative, even if they're fairly vapid. As for the True Blue era, yeah it was frivolous Pop, but she was expanding as an artist and becoming more "intelligent," so to speak. I think that's why people have such a problem with the singles released. It's nothing new, innovative, progressive... or anything. Judging from the reviews, we're gonna get a lot of raw emotion so I'm definitely looking forward for that, since she hasn't really been angry in her songs in a long time.

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