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https://diacritik.com/2019/06/19/le-degre-madonna-de-la-culture-madame-x/
Article in French that in addition to a review of the album, reviews the criticism of his age, with the comparison with Springsteen "age becomes for him an added value, an old age whose nobility would only belong to men, that he would touch there to absolute virility: the ultimate grace, the infinite wisdom. whiskey that gets better with age, the woman like a Coke who, stale with time, loses its bubbles and its spiciness. "
On the album he says in particular
"Madonna is never as powerful as when she assumes to be dead and come back from the dead." In "Medellin", a song that disrupts her melody, Mirwais installs it in an elegiac vibration over her past, ready to relive what she did not live "Dark Ballet" plunges her into the skin of Joan of Arc, a way of double sacrificed, that she plays in the superb video that accompanies it, by the formidable Mykki Blanco, whom she had sung in Israel, during the Eurovision, in a way of political claim (but which no one has noted) since it is a question of crimes which remain ignored and which are nevertheless made in the light of day. "God Control" is a summit, given as an operation of pure plastic force, in turn disco, gospel, Gregorian chant and hymn against firearms. "Batuka" repeats Cape Verde in litany, "Killers who are partying And the terribly successful "I don t search I find "multiplies the images of Lady X. And this is perhaps the most radiant point of Madonna's songs: this moment when each song changes, as if it would die precisely at the end of each song - as parenthesis. More than pop, Madonna is baroque in the style of a Kanye West who finds here with Madonna an opponent of size as if the Life of Pablo responded, by his art of collage, The Life of Mado."
He ends the article by saying"A return to a political vision that fortunately does not pass by yet another anti-Trump speech (which serve no purpose but participate in the generalized fair that it feeds) but a political response of form: a form where each song is a collage of influences, an operation again Frankensteinnienne to claim dissimilarity as a founding principle, as Madonna has always done: the dissimilarity as a paradoxical principle of recognition.It must be said here, in Madonna, The autotune is political.The drum machine is political.The presence of young Maluma is political.His musical desire is political.His standing is political.Medonna is political, fundamentally political because she is woman for women and women, sometimes at risk of her music but she definitely embodies the counter-figure of contemporary parlor - a definitive heroine in very dark times. " -
If I had to describe this album, I would say that Madame X is melancholically festive, as a reflection of her artist, Madonna seems happy and yet we also feel loneliness, this dichotomy makes the album unique.
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I listen God Control but now I wait for the rest, I want surprise for friday.
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FUCK. God Control is a masterpiece, it's crazy, wild, bold, bizzare, it's like Impressive Instant meet COADF with the politcal aspect of AL all this with Daft Punk influence. It's pure music, it's rich, dance, touching, it's just magic.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/madonna-madame-x.html
Madonna shotting by JR. Beauty queen.
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In the frenchmagazine Têtu we have a description of the album.
In recent weeks, the record industry was rumored to be rumored. We were talking about an album of featurings, a disco disc, a return to the sound of Music. It is not so. Certainly, there are some rappers on the album like Quavo or Colombian Maluma. But the star is struggling to bring pop music to new territories: fado, reggaeton, dancehall. We hear a crazy song, as if Daft Punk remixed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (Dark Ballet), jazzy pianos and sick vocodors (God Control), implacable reggaeton sung in Portuguese (Faz Gostoso). There is only one title on the album that recalls the Madonna before (Crazy). Madame X is above all a call to revolt and control of firearms, a manifesto for the rights of minorities (I Rise) and solidarity (Killers who are Partying).
the American icon claims to be "in the continuity of American Life". "Provocative, conflictual, emotional, passionate. these are the words I would use to describe my music. And I hope, too, inspiring"
Oh and apparently on Dark Ballet she sings in French making Madame X and Jeanne of Ark one and the same person.
" Je n'ai pas peur de mourir pour ce en quoi je crois" "I'm not afraid to die for what I believe"
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The prod is great but her voice...god it's bad really bad, I meant ok she want to change like the character but it's don't work here for me.
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Having the info on the date are not really bad, I meant it's not like the song leak
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On itunes we see
I Rise 3 May
Crave feat Swae Lee 10 May
Future feat Quavo 17 May
and Dark Ballet 7 June
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The strategy is not stupid, the time is that people get tired of a song rather quickly, they need constant new things. In addition, to release several titles so quickly is also a chance to squat the charts.
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If it's true I find that sad to have just the feat song, I want her alone.
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2 minutes ago, Marcelox said:
I never saw Madame X the movie .. but what if Madonna poisoned Maluma with that apple in the first video.. and then runaway.. and the other videos are all connect in her journey??
Im in for a connect journey, I meant why do this Madame X concept if it's just video with no connection.
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Just now, San said:
It is just past 10 pm here on the east coast of Australia. I highly doubt it will be released at midnight.
Logically it will be a simultaneous global release, not led in Australia.
Yeah for me Madonna going to wait the clip on MTV before giving us the song, it's logical for me.
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Im wondering who work on the song, Mike Dean? Mirwais? Both?
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The last big lead single was 4 minutes with no doubt. I meant GMAYL is catchy, kind of fun but nothing more. Living for love could be huge with better production.
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secret agent = killer.
So maybe the song is Killers.
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Maybe the next three pic would be the title of the song with the date.
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Euh...the radio have the song but not the title? Please. I meant you listen a song you know the name of the song.
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In my memories she filming the "theater" video just after the Oscars so the first week of March.
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it's tiring to see messages around MDNA Skin again and again when this has been denied OVER and OVER.
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36 minutes ago, acko said:
What about my tape though?
Ghosttown is hollow and it sounds like a Sia track aka desperate for a hit.
Honestly Heartbreak City would have been a better choice of second single.
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Living For Love could be a ICONIC video but the effects on her face and the rest was pretty ugly...
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No teasing for Living for Love because she was tried to fix the chaos of the leak. We have just 2 vid before the clip I think.
Madame X album general discussion
in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum
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For a french fansite of Madonna, News of Madonna, Mirwais give a interview on he work for Madame X.
When I said “compatible,” I meant that it’s necessary to share at least some essential things. Love of art, a certain sense of the esthetic, risk-taking, not being afraid to affirm your ideas, even sometimes oppose her opinion.
We live in a stifling mainstream world where Pop Stars bring out the same sort of song every 3 months.
They change a chord, slightly change the text around and then the marketing labels take care of shouting about how great the new song is - so new and revolutionary etc…! Whereas in fact it’s the more or less the same harmless banal song – just a bit different from the last one.
Madonna said “all that Mirwais & I do together always ends up becoming politically oriented”. Is that the reason for you getting together again? No, not at all. To start with we agreed on the Portuguese and latino influences she wanted to explore and then gradually as you say, I suggested some more experimental songs to her such as “Dark Ballet” which she liked straight away. Then of course, we talked of things like gun control in the US and then that turned into a song.
Once the songs have been written, there can be a fairly long production process and arrangements with exchanges backwards and forwards with her to find the final form the song is to take. Even at this stage, the craziest ideas can still be added.
Could we say that music of latino inspiration could be used for something other than to sell holidays and automatic sunshine? Fado has a sad dimension to it and I find other types of Latino are also musically very motivating. Why not try something new?
Let me tell you what I really think. I think that many people and critics are missing something essential in her way of exploring Latin/Portuguese music. They missed the global political thread that Madonna has all through the album.
In Trump’s America, where the latinos are insulted just about every day, and where the minorities are provoked all the time, the fact that one of the principle American superstars, who’s white, has chosen a lead single duo in English & Spanish with a Columbian is a very strong political sign. It makes me think of Marlon Brando when he sent a native indian to refuse his Oscar in 1973, even if the context’s not the same.
That’s the reason one day I termed the “Madame X” album a “global futuristic album”, saying that it ‘s “perhaps the first record of its kind”. It’s not World music, it’s music about intelligent integration : fitting in and sharing cultures, adding a political dimension. It’s certainly not about trying to use specific cultural influences as some are trying to make us believe.
Although the music is very modern, it’s more Madonna’s attitude and her lyrics that are ahead of their time on this album. It was certainly time to put lyrics and meaning back into the center of the mainstream debate.
And if some tend to think that some words are rather naïve (not at all what I think myself) it’s always far better to do something rather than nothing at all.
Due to or rather thanks to streaming, the Anglo/American supremacy of mainstream music will no longer exist. In let’s say ten years time from now, everything will be more fragmented with very important markets such as the Latino one which is growing fast.
It is this cultural and artistic openness across the borders, that Madonna naturally integrates, that was interesting to develop on Madame X.
Strangely, she is not ethnic centered which is not the case of most American pop artists.
In a word, in her rap song “American Life” that had little success and that no-one really understood at that time, she clearly said she was living outside the American Dream. That didn’t mean she wasn’t American. On the contrary she’s a true American! That was very intelligent.
And if there’s one thing to retain from my interview it’s this:
Madonna doesn’t make any come back with Madame X, she’s just arrived! Like a cool newcomer !
And this is just the beginning. It’ll get even better in the future with or without me!
I am really happy at the huge responsiveness of the fans to this album. I get the feeling they are happy about this new chapter and I want to say them a big thank !
They are the best!