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  1. I am so beyond Proud of Madonna for her work on this album. She got the PERFECT producers for this. Added some new collaborations but brought Orbit in to smooth it over.

    Its just a perfect Madonna album. end of story...

    Yes!!! :clap: Madgicdonna. Her Madjesty the Empress of Pop Pusic :bow:

  2. when someone said THIS IS CLEARLY THE ONLY RECORD THAT SHE IS GOING BACK TO HER ROOTS they were right.

    Very early Madonna (Otto Von Wernherr and "Wild Dancing), Debbie Harry, Depeche Mode and TUTR sounds like a updated Video Killed The Radio Star and some retro sounds with a modern twist makes this an absolutely brilliant record. Finally she dares and use different vocal ranges.

    :thumbsup: GODDONNA and the album of the second decade of the 21st century

  3. I mean that bitch of a journalist from La Repubblica

    You know Madonna needs to learn to play the guitar or learn about surviving on the street from him

    It's been 30 years and some things when Madonna is concerned just won't die I guess

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    Yuck. Really poorly written review from a desperate journalist with no arguments. Full of the usual Madonna criticism cliches and backhanded compliments . . . basically it's mentioned a zillion times how Madonna is desperate to deliver a youth-oriented product, that her performance at the Superbowl was mediocre :doh: and ridden by her desire to appear as youthful as possible, that her voice was treated too much on most of the record and that she's not a serious musician (at the end a quote from her interview with Larry Flick is thrown into it: "If things went tits up I'm sure I'd be happy just to sit in a corner in the street and play the guitar for people" - I am not sure if she'd survive then") :crazy:

  5. The only so-and-so Italian review so far comes from the local edition of Wired.

    Basically they barely speak about the album but go down onto an essai about how Madonna may still be the queen of Pop but she is lame at using the social media, where Lady Gaga still reins.

    Biased from the start, basically. It's like talking about MDNA and state that most of the world's female models are taller than Madonna. So what?

    http://daily.wired.it/news/internet/2012/03/16/madonna-nuovo-album-social-68547.html

    They look more concerned to make sure they don't bow to anyone than to write decent stuff. Typical Italian snobbish intellectualism.

    Thanks for saying this :thumbsup:

    Another thing that diminishes this country, aside from the Vatican mafia-style hold on it

    If anything Madonna refraining from the extensive use of social media is what's keeping her interesting and different from the rest. That article from MTV Asia explains this brilliantly.They get paid so much money and they don't know shit. Somebody just put them there as it often happens in this country

  6. An astonishing review from the most important italian journal Corriere della Sera :

    Madonna Peccatrice Pentita

    Madonna repenting sinner

    Act of contrition and dance music.

    Hints at Lady Gaga, a few regrets about her former husband

    "My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart" Madonna recites in her new record "MDNA". Several saints are mentioned in the track "I'm a Sinner" among them San Sebastian, Saint Christopher and Saint Anthony, in addition to references to Mary and Jesus Christ. The album is released worldwide on March the 26th, except for Germany where it comes out on the 23rd (might be the spread?). The album looks promising and like it's about to deliver fireworks, since it has totalized the highest number of pre-orders in the history of I-Tunes. The team behind it is first-rate in terms of writing, production (William Orbit, Demacio Castellon - Nelly Furtado's husband) and execution (Nicky Minaj, LMFAO, MIka ...). Although in the creative department a duo made up by two Italian cousins stands out: Benny and Ale Benassi, the former who doesn't speak English is regarded as a genius by Madonna and the entire staff.

    In many of the songs Madonna publically deals with her private life. Particularly moving are "I don't give A", "I Fucked Up" and "Best Friend". In the first one she admits to her failures in her private life. " I tried to be your wife....." In "I Fucked Up" she reasserts that no one is better than her at making mistakes while in "Best Friend" she explains that parting ways with her husband, based on the assumption that love is eternal, immortal and unassailable got her to lose her best friend.

    She doesn't spare a dig at Lady Gaga and it will surely feed the war between the two fandoms that's been going on online for a while now. In the last part of "I Don't Give A" the US rapper of African descent Nicky Minaj proclaims at the top of her voice: "There is only one Queen and that's Madonna, bitches".

    The structure of the record (we're referring to the deluxe version including 17 tracks vs the standard one containing 12) is really interesting. First of all there's the co-existence between tecno swaggering, frivolous light songs with deeply introspective/retro melodic moments (see "Masterpiece" the recent Golden Globe winning song). Then there's the sequence: starting from extreme dance technicalities, passing through classic pop and finally reaching auteur songwriting atmospheres. Girl Gone Wild is the album opener featuring an act of contrition spoken along an organ instrumental part, followed by a saraband pure Madonna style where all the Benassi's creative folly erupts. Then there's Gang Bang, a club anthem with a distinctive William Orbit feel to it, quite reminiscent of Ray Of Light: a crazy rhythmics whose climax culminates in a Madonna orgasm similar to the one simulated by Irene Papas in a famous record by Aphrodite's Child 50 years ago.

    "I'm Addicted", a track penned by Madonna and the Benassi duo is playful and captivating with a pumping bassline: as danceable as ever with a catchy smart chorus.

    Madonna could succeed in having the older audience to digest certain sounds, thus creating a public made up of tecno-grandparents. "Give me all your luvin'" and "Some Girls" follow: Madonna is once again at her audaciously funkiest. Her 15-year-old daughter Lourdes contributes backing vocals to "Superstar" while Madonna plays the guitar on the melodic Falling Free.

    As a whole MDNA is a nice and varied record. This article was written based on one only listen, with notes taken on paper due to the requisition of PCs and phones prior to the listening session.

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