Louise Oriole Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Metacritic-MDNA Reviews 77 so far on Metacritic! Out of all the reviews she got, they put that stupid Entertainment Weekly review? Didn't that one get a B-... how does that equal 67? Edit: Never mind, I see EW gave HC a B+ which translates into an 80 according to MC. Edited March 22, 2012 by Louise Oriole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Out of all the reviews she got, they put that stupid Entertainment Weekly review? Didn't that one get a B-... how does that equal 67? Edit: Never mind, I see EW gave HC a B+ which translates into an 80 according to MC. Idk, their grading system is a tad out of whack in that respect. I hope they put the Billboard review up, that one is a 100 for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest groovyguy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/music/features/10397/madonna-the-mdna-verdict-is-in Madonna: the MDNA verdict is in Our London team says give this new album some, not all, your luvin' First published on 13 Mar 2012. Updated on 13 Mar 2012. Sharon O'Connell of our sister publication Time Out London has given Madge's new disc a spin – or streamed it, or whatever it is the kids are doing these days – and declared that the album is "more Hard Candy part two than Confessions... [on a Dance Floor]". Those familiar with the Queen (mum) of pop's oeuvre might take that as a bit of a swipe, and an expected one given the outright terribleness of lead single 'Give Me All Your Luvin''. But O'Connell's review in Time Out's Now.Here.This blog is mostly a thumbs up. Noting that Madge's regular band of dear-god-please-make-me-relevant producers might be trying too hard on certain tracks, O'Connell says there are some gems in the mix. "The rest of the record is a monstrously throbbing and insistent, jack-booted stomp through the electro/fidget- house heartlands, with notes of deranged rave, dubstep and (on lead track, ‘Give Me All your Luvin’) rapid-fire dancehall raps from Nicki Minaj and MIA, Madge’s guests at her recent Superbowl appearance. Co-producers Martin Solveig and Benny Benassi have given Madge the 20-ton rhythm, batter-listeners-into-submission treatment, but there’s a (welcome) shift in mood with ‘Superstar’, which – despite the rhyming dictionary lyrics (superstar/car/guitar) – is sure to set tongues wagging as to the subject’s identity." And MDNA (are we calling her that now?) also manages some of that old-school Madonna raciness with a song titled 'Gang Bang'. And it's apparently quite good – "The brutal ‘Gang Bang’ is a highlight – all Teutonic beats, juddering bass and featuring police sirens and the sound of burning rubber – with Madge barking out a dark litany: ‘bang, bang, shot you dead, shot my lover in the head’ and ‘I said drive, bitch.’" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip The Switch Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Hard Candy 2? BLASPHEMY. KILL THE BITCH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter9 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I wished they had a different reviewer for EW. MDNA might not be to their taste but a B fucking minus ??? Am sorry that's just bitterness. I remembered EW was one of the first magazines to bash Gaga when she was coming up with Just Dance. saying she would be over before you knew it.They even had a thing on their Bulls Eye saying we had to accept the fact that Gaga wasn;t going away anytime soon. Now they are sucking up to her at the speed of light. So BITCH PLEASE . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Oriole Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 US Weekly gave it a 3.5 out of 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest groovyguy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 US Weekly gave it a 3.5 out of 4 http://boyculture.typepad.com/boy_culture/madonna/ Us Weekly (April 2, 2012) is the first tabloid to weigh in on MDNA, giving it a healthy 3.5/4—this seems in line with other reviews (even tough-to-please Rolling Stone likes it to the tune of 3.5/5, the same score it initially gave her brilliant Confessions on a Dance Floor before adjusting it upward to 4/5 best-of-the-year status), which have been overwhelmingly positive. It sure didn't seem like this album was destined for critical success a month ago, when some fans were reeling from having white-knuckled it through "Give Me All Your Luvin'" and others were not luvin' "Girl Gone Wild." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoxoboi24 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The EW reviewer is JEaLOUs...whats a B- grading mean actually? EW gave Erotica a C+ or something and then changed it to like a B. They suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davejr. Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Metacritic-MDNA Reviews 77 so far on Metacritic! there have been like a dozen other reviews and then they include the one from EW just to make it look bad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 there have been like a dozen other reviews and then they include the one from EW just to make it look bad.. Well thankfully that EW review didnt damage its score thus far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 There's only four reviews thus far on Metacritic, so not much for a valid average yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 EW gave Erotica a C+ or something and then changed it to like a B. They suck. That magazine always jumps on trends and is not exactly a quality publication so I am not surprised. However I do wish they had chosen another reviewer as well. Because her review was just silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Too bad David Browne isn't reviewing for Entertainment Weekly anymore. He was good for Madonna reviews (positive/negative/all in-between) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vocalism Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The music section took a huge dive after David Browne left EW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vocalism Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Out of all the reviews she got, they put that stupid Entertainment Weekly review? Didn't that one get a B-... how does that equal 67? Edit: Never mind, I see EW gave HC a B+ which translates into an 80 according to MC. You're saying 67 is too low? A "B" would probably be like 70-75, so 67 makes sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The music section took a huge dive after David Browne left EW. Yes to both of you! I remember that his reviews even when negative were so well done. And they actually featured Erotica in a little recap several months after its release, in which they reassessed certain albums and gave them higher (or lower) marks than the original review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Metacritic-MDNA Reviews 77 so far on Metacritic! Woo! Go Madge! As long as she ends up with more than 71, I'm good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Woo! Go Madge! As long as she ends up with more than 71, I'm good Ha, so MDNA can officially be seen as better received than BTW? Just guessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutten Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/22/madonna-mdna-review?newsfeed=true Madonna: MDNA – review Neither triumph nor disaster, Madonna's new album is business as usual – but then this is no usual business 3/5 Amid the distorted synthesisers and razor-sharp beats of Girl Gone Wild, the second single from her 12th studio album, we find Madonna repeatedly insisting: "Girls, they just wanna have some fun." Let us banish from our minds the thought that there are perhaps more dignified approaches for a 52-year-old woman than singing "Girls, they just wanna have some fun" in a song named after a series of porn videos in which women are encouraged to strip off in exchange for free baseball caps, and which has furthermore been dogged by a series of allegations of the sexual exploitation of minors. This is a Madonna album, which means that if we start worrying about the value of its lyrical content, we'll be here all day. It may self-consciously reference her three unequivocal long-playing classics – opening with a quote from Like a Prayer's Act of Contrition, returning Ray of Light's sonic architect William Orbit to the producer's chair and carrying a hint of Confessions on a Dancefloor in the four-to-the-floor pounding of its opening four tracks – but the words weren't up to much on those, either. Suffice to say that MDNA also includes a rather saccharine song called Superstar, on which Madonna opines "You're like James Dean driving in a fast car", then adds "you can have the keys to my car", which does rather prompt the response: if he drives like James Dean, love, I'd keep your car keys to yourself, unless you want to lose your no-claims bonus. Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Let us instead recall that another singer once suggested girls just wanna have fun, and that said singer, Cyndi Lauper, was briefly considered to be Madonna's rival. It sounds bizarre now, a reminder of just how remarkable Madonna's career is. In the week she first made the British charts, she was vying for attention with Tracey Ullman, the Thompson Twins, the Flying Pickets, Roland Rat and That's Livin' Alright by Joe Fagin. Hip-hop was still in its infancy, house music had yet to be invented and one of the guest artists on MDNA, rapper Nicki Minaj, had recently celebrated her first birthday. What's striking isn't that Madonna is still with us – everybody's still with us, up to and including the Flying Pickets, who are about to wow the Schloss Burgfarrnbach in Nuremberg – so much as where she still is: a commanding presence at the absolute centre of pop, as capricious and changeable a genre as music has to offer. The question of how she's managed it is a good one. The stock, rather snide answer is that it has more to do with perspiration than inspiration, and there are certainly moments on MDNA when it's audibly straining to keep the pace or to shock you. The ecstasy-referencing title seems unwittingly quaint in a world of meow meow and black mamba. Give Me All Your Luvin' may be the weakest thing here: its position as the album's lead single seems to have had more to do with showing off the presence of Nicki Minaj and MIA than its featherweight melody. On the other hand, Gang Bang (not, alas, a cover of the song performed by Agadoo hitmakers Black Lace in Rita, Sue and Bob Too) isn't a bad track: augmented by a dubstep interlude, its atmosphere somewhere between brooding menace and the trance-state of a dancefloor at 4am. But it's way too long, extended largely in order for Madonna to say "bitch" a lot. Equally, however, she can make the business of maintaining a career in pop into its 30th year look entirely effortless: Turn Up the Radio's sudden shift from ballad into house music; I'm a Sinner's metallic clank and see-sawing chorus riff. There's something hugely appealing about I Don't Give A's fizzy remodeling of the old Too Much Monkey Business/Subterranean Homesick Blues model of rapid-fire lyrical inventory, its focus shifted from not needing a weatherman to know which way the wind blows to the more pressing matter of how Madonna's polymath talents are thriving following her divorce from Guy Ritchie. The closing Falling Free is flatly fantastic: an Orbit-helmed, beautifully turned ballad, subtly decorated with strings and soft electronics. It's one moment when MDNA reaches the heights of the predecessors it keeps referencing. The rest is neither the return to form it thinks it is, nor the disaster Madonna should rightly have delivered at some stage in her musical career but never quite has: there have been highs and lows, but never an outright catastrophe – a state of affairs she's more than made up for in the world of celluloid. Instead, MDNA turns out to be just another Madonna album. It's already had the biggest single-day pre-order in iTunes history: business as usual for the most remarkable business enterprise in pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Ha, so MDNA can officially be seen as better received than BTW? Just guessing Well, I didn't wanna say it, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Madonna's MDNA: Reviews Are In! Critics praise the album for its 'pumping pop tunes' and being Madge's 'most personal effort to date.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The sidebar in EW: MDNA Can't Get Enough of Madonna "Give Me All Your Luvin' ": Yes, she shouts out herown name- but she also sings, :You can be my Lucky Star," a nid to one of her first hits. "Some Girls": She mocks girls who act "Like a Virgin" (hello, 1984) and says she'll "put your lovin' to the test," a la 1989's "Express Yourself." "I'm Addicted": Her love, she gushes, "fits like a glove," borrowing a similie from 1986's "True Blue." "Superstar": After name-checking Marlon Brando and James Dean, both callbacks to 1990's "Vogue," Madge says she likes to watch her lover get "Into the groove." Just as she did in 1985. "I'm a Sinner": Her new dance-floor burner goes out with a Hail Mary, the same prayer that opens 1989's "Act of Contrition." (HG: ?) "Turn Up the Radio": Drawn to her man "like a moth to a flame," she quotes a line from 1998's "To Have and Not to Hold." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elysium Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Erm...I don't know about anyone else but would I be right in thinking MDNA has received unanimous praise from critics so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIRTY PIG Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 This weeks NME features their official review and gave it 7/10 and basically call it amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest groovyguy Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 This weeks NME features their official review and gave it 7/10 and basically call it amazing Amazing, yet only 7/10??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Amazing, yet only 7/10??? Go figure. BTW got 8/10 and then later that year was dubbed by them as the most pretentious album ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt420 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Erm...I don't know about anyone else but would I be right in thinking MDNA has received unanimous praise from critics so far? According to what I've read so far YES! Obviously some have been more favorable than others but I have yet to read a BAD review of this album. The reception of this album reminds me so much of ROL upon it's release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeJazzHot! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Now at 73 on Metacritic. They need to put up the Billboard, MTV, Rolling Stone, and USA Today reviews still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikki Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 because of the pretentious gardian, the MC score just got down to 73 he gave it 60/100, the first neutral review. yes, fuck him http://www.metacritic.com/music/mdna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Holy Christ on the cross, what is with the outright BITCHY tone that some of these critics (Guardian) take toward her even in largely decent reviews? And my GOD, there is nothing more annoying than the basically amazing reviews that then dole out a 7!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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