Here it is, Madonna's latest album since Ray Of Light was released in 1998. This time William Orbit's dance edge is joined by French producer/musician/remixer Mirwais Ahmadzai.
Generally an upbeat dancey album which finds Madonna still ahead of the game sixteen years into her career. Here's my review track by track:
Music- A cool little dance number with a touch of the Daft Punk's about it.
Impressive Instant- Sexy, bass-heavy monster of a floor-filler with cheesy synths, robotic voices and whispers aplenty.
Runaway Lover- Pile-driving, euphoric, low-slung, funky, Euro-dance track with much bleeps, blips, bloops and other William Orbit style sci-fi noises. One of the best tracks on 'Music'.
I Deserve It- Warm and reflective, country flavoured, acoustic-guitared beauty.
Amazing- Another stand-out track. This rock-tinged, rumbling, pure pop dancer with a dreamy, soaraway chorus and more than a nod to previous hit 'Beautiful Stranger', finds our heroine head-over-heels with some boy or other.
Nobody's Perfect- Air-style, synth-powered, slow, strange and melancholy tune with a vocodered up Madders confessing that she's done wrong and saying she's sorry.
Don't Tell Me- By far my favourite track on the album. It has great guitar strings and a country western style to it.
What It Feels Like For A Girl- Tender, sensitive, flirtatious, sexy and oddly vulnerable-feeling ode to the female perspective which opens with a spoken word sample of Charlotte Gainsbourg from the movie The Cement Garden. Compelling little grower.
Paradise (Not For Me)- Haunting, Air-meets-Daft Punk style synth atmospherics. More of that vocoder vocal stuff, whispers, lush stirring strings. Although not one of the best tracks on the album.
Gone- Pared down, acoustic guitar and beats, country-tinged song with touching harmonies and the now obligatory synthy squirls and swirls.
American Pie- We've all heard this one. Don McLean's 1972 classic dragged right up to date with some William Orbit production. Quite a decent cover version.
A very good effort from Madonna and with an album like this her career shows no signs of letting up yet, which is a good thing indeed.
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nice to see a Madonna fan on ciao....very well written op..keep them coming
LostWitness 07.05.2001 23:30
My favourite track has to be Runaway Lover - the remixes of What It Feels Like For A Girl have been pretty good as well though. An excellent album for sure.
leahslad 07.05.2001 22:53
This is a decent op and got a VH from me, although I think there is a small room for improvement. Maybe if you added a little more opinion aswell as facts (such as a rating for each track maybe?) it'd improve things even more. Steve.
The new millennium saw a change in Madonna as, ever at the forefront of popular music ... more
trends, she took the earth mother vibes ofRay Of Lightand transposed them to the heart of the dancefloor. The end product,Music, is a wondrous mixture of the familiar...
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