XXL
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Thank you Queendonna
Nobody male or female ever came close, does or ever will
THANK YOU
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i love it so far
Thank you!!!!!!
Falling Free is another gem
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Oh San Sebastian
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Everything is amazing
The record of a genius who doesn't need any self-proclamation tactic
This is how u do it
Thanks to all who posted links on here
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Just got the Milan tickets. They're so gay-looking.
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oh GMS
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In a way they are only projecting their own fears.
and their badly concealed sense of inadequacy next to her
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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
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") 
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Even as a B-side...it's fucking EXCELLENT.
MDNA in 6 days
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Another great song!
Yes!
Thank you Madge
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The part when it speeds up!!!
damn! this sounds SO good on my speakers with the volume up! i can't wait for the hq!!Imagine it on a stereo
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Here
From Madonna's You Tube
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Does she say "or not." in the very end...?
yes she does
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"I wish I could have you back, maybe one day"
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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
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
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An astonishing review from the most important italian journal Corriere della Sera :
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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Finally got tickets. Milan, London and maybe Edinburgh
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this album will be her best in years, and I'm a fan of both AL and HC
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Wow,this album is shaping up to be one of Madonna's strongest,most consistent albums!! I'm ecstatic.
And u can add commercially successfull too (not that at this stage matters much). Another top 10 - top 15 best selling album of the year on the way, with a tenth of the promotion younger acts within the industry arrange these days. Then the tour
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It's not as strong as some of the other tracks,but it's nice! cool,laid-back,midtempo,70s-sounding rocker.
Luv this one too
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Just 7 days till M D N A
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The Australian press was treated with a first listen to Madonna's new album yesterday, and the first reviews are in!
Check out what Kathy McCabe at The Daily Telegraph has to say about MDNA - she wraps her comments with a "Fans should get the deluxe version which includes other bonus tracks including Best friend, B-Day Song and I F...ed Up which are some of her stronger songs."
New Madonna album 'reaffirms' her pop diva status
YOU have to wonder why Madonna didn't insist on a strip search.
Critics privileged to preview her new album MDNA had to hand in their phones and their bags before sitting down in a record company boardroom yesterday.
You just can't trust anyone these days.
MDNA is the many shades of Madonna finally brought together on one album.
Opening track Girl Gone Wild reaffirms her mission to be a dancefloor diva who is one step ahead of the pack.
While her pop princess peers have been riding the 90s Euro house bandwagon for the past three years, Her Madgesty takes a defiant detour into darker, edgier and harder territory. Less wave your hands in the air and more get down and get dirty.
You can hear it most strongly on the underground hardcore of Gang Bang which finds Madonna shooting her lover dead and heading straight to hell. It sounds like The Kills if they went electronic and you'll be hearing the lyrical hook "Drive bitch!'' everywhere for the rest of the year.
Those who grew up with poptastic Madonna need not fear - she has not forsaken you.
Like any song with "radio'' in its title, you can expect to hear Turn Up The Radio all over the airwaves. Co-written with French electronic DJ and producer Martin Solveig, it is one of the bigger pop songs on the album and follows a similar template to his smash hit Hello.
Superstar features her daughter Lourdes on backing vocals, I'm A Sinner sounds like Donna Summer doing a less bombastic version of Bollywood while Falling Free is a heart-striing ballad with stripped-back strings and simple synths and the album's bravest vocal performance.
One of the standout tracks is Beautiful Killer, which is earmakred for the deluxe version only.
Inspired by French film star Alain Delon, the songs sounds like it was plucked from a Cafe Del Mar compilation circa mid 1990s.
Fans should get the deluxe version which includes other bonus tracks including Best friend, B-Day Song and I F...ed Up which are some of her stronger songs.
Why they didn't make the "standard'' version is a mystery unless you are one of those cynical types who suspect her record label may be trying to get a few more bucks out of her fans.
MDNA is out on March 23.
MDNA - THE ALBUM HAS LEAKED
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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