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Music

Madonna

2000

Music
Album Summary

Music is the eighth studio album by American singer Madonna, released on September 18, 2000, by Maverick and Warner Bros. Records. Following the success of her previous album Ray of Light (1998), she intended to embark on a tour. However, her record company encouraged her to return to the studio and record new music before going on the road. Her collaboration with French producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï resulted in a more experimental direction for the album, with additional production from William Orbit. Music incorporates many different genres into its overall dance-pop and electronica vibe, with influences from funk, house, rock, country and folk. The album was mostly recorded at Sarm West and East Studios in London, England. Elaborating a country theme for the album, Madonna reinvented her image as a cowgirl. Music received critical acclaim from most critics, who praised Ahmadzaï's unique production. The album earned five Grammy Award nominations, ultimately winning one for Best Recording Package given to art director Kevin Reagan. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it at number 452 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The record was also a commercial success, debuting at number one in over 23 countries across the world and selling four million copies in its first ten days of release. In the United States, Music debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 420,000 copies, making it her first album to top the chart in more than a decade since Like a Prayer (1989). It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for three million units shipped in the United States and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The album was promoted with her concerts at Brixton Academy and Roseland Ballroom, as well as several television performances such as the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards and the 43rd Grammy Awards. It was also supported by the Drowned World Tour, which grossed over US$75 million, making it the highest-grossing tour by a solo act of 2001 (the fourth overall). Three singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Music", topped the record charts in 25 countries worldwide and became Madonna's 12th and most recent number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It was followed with another Hot 100 top-five hit "Don't Tell Me" and "What It Feels Like for a Girl" which attained the top-ten position in several countries worldwide. "Impressive Instant" was released as a promotional single in the United States, peaking at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. “Amazing” was also briefly released as a promotional single in Germany, Spain, Italy and Colombia before being withdrawn shortly afterwards.

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2.74

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Pop

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Sat Apr 29 2023
2

Pretty ostentatious to name your album "music", as if to encompass all music. Also, how does one talk about this album? "Have you heard music?" "yes, of course" "no, I mean Madonna's music" "like a virgin? yes" "no, I mean her album music" "yes she puts her music on albums" "no" All jokes aside this is pretty bog standard pop music. This is probably the worst of the 3 albums by her I've come across on this list (so far?), but it's inoffensive. Except for her cover of American Pie. That shit was a war crime.

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Thu Mar 30 2023
3

6/10 more interesting than i expected, cool beats.

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Fri Apr 14 2023
2

Highlights: "Music," "Don't Tell Me" It's ridiculous to justify how awkward this album is and how terribly it's aged by saying any of this was 'experimental' even by the most mainstream US pop standards. Cher's "Believe" had tested the waters for autotune two years before, and NSYNC was having a blast earlier that year running the gamut of gaudy special effects from ring modulation to step filtering to sequencers and ARP. Madonna has always been derivative, and by this time she's just in over her head, too. Do we care about lyrics? Ideas? Because she pretends to. Laughably absurd lyrical bookends to the album: singing about the bourgeoisie and how "selling out is not my thing" when she is literally Madonna. Can't you just do what every honest sellout does and send audiences glum and bitter putzing dispatches on your barbarism of reflection from the barren apex? Whatever. No good songs, but only four I skipped halfway through out of disgust.

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Thu Apr 06 2023
5

This album was everything when it came out. Listening to reminds me of good times, I’m just singing my lil heart out. Don’t tell me is soo good. I still love it and I think It’s fucking great!

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Mon Apr 24 2023
5

I liked this album back in the day, but it hadn’t stayed with me like Like A Prayer or Ray of Light. I’m glad to have revisited it, because I enjoyed the cool electronic vibe. Driving around Seattle listening to this today felt a little like I was in some kind of Tron universe. 23 years after its release this still feels like the future.

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Mon Apr 24 2023
5

One of Madonna's most mature albums. Very entertaining, very catchy. I love it.

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Mon Apr 24 2023
5

This was a nice revisit of a CD I had bought when new, but went with the other CDs into a box some time ago. It's been a while. This one really shows how Madonna has been able to successfully reinvent herself so many times. It was a sound that felt very modern at the time and which I think has held up since then. "This is the one with acoustic guitars and robot voices," is probably how I would distinguish it. I loved it, it made me move and groove today.

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Wed May 10 2023
5

I liked vibing to this one. The music was sorta pop/electronic, but also soft enough that I could listen while working without getting distracted.

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Wed May 24 2023
5

It's hard not to see the influence this album held on the next 7 years of pop music. It feels like a quintessential pop album of the 2000s because it's the first of that kind.

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Fri Jun 23 2023
5

horrid lyrics on some tracks

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Thu Apr 06 2023
4

I love this album. Sooo…yep.

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Thu Apr 13 2023
4

The 2000 U2 album All That You Can’t Leave Behind feels like it is desperately trying to re-capture former pop-star glory with mixed results. This 2000 disc by Madonna succeeds at that same task (apart from the clunker of an American Pie cover) without the desperation. It also innovates by combining techno and country in a way that hadn’t been done before (and not super-well since).

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Fri Apr 21 2023
4

This album really surprised me. Much better than I remembered based off the radio singles.

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Mon Apr 24 2023
4

I had never listened to this album until today. I haven't listened to many of Madonna's albums. I guess that I am not a huge fan. I enjoyed it.

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Sun Apr 30 2023
4

Kind of weird use of electric sounds on some songs- but I generally liked it.

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Sun Jun 18 2023
4

I danced to this when I was three and four years old. I love Madonna.

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Mon Aug 07 2023
4

Very good electronica that I hadn’t heard before.

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Thu Aug 31 2023
4

very well done. Not my type though

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Fri Sep 01 2023
4

Didn’t know she was so dance music

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Mon Sep 04 2023
4

Great album apart from the crime that is her American Pie cover. And the awful cover.

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Sun Sep 17 2023
4

This has aged much better than I would have guessed. At the time it just sounded like the state of pop radio, because it was the music Madonna was making. But now it sounds inventive and creative, even refreshing. Unfortunately the album takes a nose dive with the last couple songs (I especially don't think the world needed that version of American Pie, which thankfully wasn't on the original release anyway). Take those two out though, and this is a surprising gem of an album.

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Mon Apr 03 2023
3

I’ve always been a little confused how Madonna became the icon that she is today. This album did not clear up any confusion, but I’m looking forward to hearing her earlier work

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Mon Apr 03 2023
3

Weirdest country album I’ve ever heard. Haha just kidding Production was really good. Very late 90s french electronica. Madonna was the weakest part of the album; is she good or just super hot? Will have to listen to more of her lesser known work.

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Mon Apr 03 2023
3

way more musically unique than I thought it owuld be. cool time signature stuff

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Thu Apr 06 2023
3

So, Madonna got together with William orbit and a few other late 90s producers and made an album where she's a cowgirl singing over house beats. OK. I mean, there's part of this I like in theory, but I just don't think Madonna can pretend to be the source of electronic underground, especially in a Stetson.

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Mon Apr 10 2023
3

Listened a while ago don't remember it

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Thu Apr 13 2023
3

In 2000 I was 10 and really starting to get into music on my own. I remember being younger than this age and liking rock music on the radio, like Nirvana and classic rock, but around this time is when I started to be more aware of music. Her song "Music" I remember hearing and being a real guilty pleasure. Of course to my friends I couldn't like her because she was "pop" and young boys don't listen to pop music they listen to rock music because you don't develop that part of your brain that allows you to not care about silly social conventions like that until you are older (atleast for me until I was in my late teens / early 20's). I think there is really something special for me personally about the general time period of 1998-summer 2001, the music that came out in that time period was so vibrant and I really vividly remember moments of life happening while listening to music from then. I think specifically of these records: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Korn - Follow The Leader Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Outkast - Stankonia Eminem - Marshall Mathers / Slim Shady Those were really pivotal for me and it was a time period where I was able to more autonomously look for and listen to music on my own. I was 8 to 10 years old! I could listen to what I what when I want. And I did! I remember listening to so much music during those 2.5 years and just doing my thing and loving life- playing sports and hanging out with friends, becoming obsessed with baseball and videogames, and not really having a care in the world. That specific time kind of ended after 9/11 and I think that was the start of puberty / teenager issues / listening to music with more serious sounds and lyrical topics. I do theorize that 9/11 played some part in that transition because up until that point I didn't really have a concept for experiencing the sometimes really terrible parts of the world. I wasn't expecting the start of this review to end up about 9/11 but that's the fun of hearing records that take you to a place in your life. I wouldn't say that this album was as special as those others listed but "Music" was a single from that era. Outside of this track the album isn't that bad. I think it's short of a 4 but higher than a 3, like a 3.3 for me.

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Thu Apr 13 2023
3

A good pop album. There's definitely some filler though. But I like that a lot of songs have the eccentric feel of experimental electronica (especially the early tracks). The production gets a little adventurous.

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Fri Apr 21 2023
3

Thought I’d hate this but it wasn’t bad. Obviously the American Pie cover is terrible. But I don’t really like the original that much anyway.

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Wed Apr 26 2023
3

Ah it's fairly shite tbh. Music is a banger, what it feels like... is okay, there is a.l.o.t. of filler, and that American Pie cover is an abomination.

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Sat May 06 2023
3

Typically like Madonna and this is right in the middle of her re-invention when I think she's perhaps a little too comfortable - she's at her best when working with up and coming producers and bringing outside influences to the mainstream, which I guess is being tried here mixing electronica with country. However as a listen it's not anywhere near her best "I deserve it" stand out tune. 3

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Sat May 13 2023
3

I always check the tracklist before listening to an album and omit the bonus tracks or international release tracks from my listen, which is how I avoided the human rights violation that is the Madonna cover of American Pie, which I'm about 60% sure is one of the direct causes of 9/11. Best track: Paradise (Not for Me)

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Wed May 17 2023
3

Madonna trying to be modern but what's lost here are any good songs. Best song is a cover of a song that's 30 years old

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Wed May 17 2023
3

Top notch turn of the century production, but the songwriting, particularly the lyricism and melodies were weak for a release for an artist this big.

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Sat May 20 2023
3

Madonna es trobava en un moment dolç, després de la seva recuperació artística i comercial amb 'Ray of Light'. Aquí va continuar amb la seva pròpia reinvenció com a icona rellevant en el nou mil.leni. Ho feia, de nou, juntant-se amb alguns dels grans noms del moment. Una tàctica intel.ligent que encara li serviria durant un bon grapat d'anys. El resultat és un treball interessant, inspirat, basat en les cançons, cada una d'elles tractada com una obra en si mateixa. Temes com 'Nobody's Perfect', 'Amazing' o el propi 'Music' es troben entre el millor de la seva discografia; tot ell un treball molt consistent

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Wed May 24 2023
3

Some brilliant dance production on this. It's not quite ray of light for me, but it's a very good album

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Thu May 25 2023
3

I often gripe about production. This has 5* production...total credit to that dude. Tbh its a very listenable album. Some of the lyrics are a bit hokey and there are track (nobody's perfect) with a auto tune thing that i skipped. And American Pie was an execrable cover. Almost a 4.

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Sun May 28 2023
3

Year 2000 pop, nice to listen to but nothing mind blowing

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Thu Jun 01 2023
3

61 of 1001 Madonna - Music Favorite Track : Music Rating : 3 / 5 (Rounded Up) It wasn't as bad as I expected. A bit toned down for Madonna. Some songs seemed more suited for a 20 year old, but who am I to judge?

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Thu Jun 15 2023
3

Heb nog nooit goed naar Madonna geluisterd maar ik vond het wel interessant. Er zitten een aantal spacende nummers tussen. Ik vond het niet bijzonder goed maar wel verrassend

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Thu Jun 22 2023
3

I didn’t mind this. A couple of good tracks and a reasonable listen. I’m not familiar with all her albums but I quite liked this point in her career. 3*

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Sun Jun 25 2023
3

Back in the day my co-judge and I danced to the title track at Club Med, where it was on high rotation. Madonna made a smart move two years earlier, by teaming up with William Orbit for a fresh club sound and here she adds another producer to the mix with good results, though outside of "Music" the up-tempo tracks aren't as strong. Not often you'll find a multi platinum pop album with such adventurous (for its time) production. As far as transformations go, Madonna's not in the same school as David Bowie or Miles Davis but she's up there. In this version I find the Cowboy image is a bit confusing, considering the overall sound.

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Tue Jun 27 2023
3

Good follow up to Ray of Light with some harder house and some indie songs. Awful version of American Pie with unnecessary nursery music.

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Fri Jun 30 2023
3

This is not in the latest issues of the book anymore. Probably because it's not different enough from Ray of Light. It's not the worst album on the list by far, so that can't be the reason. It's alright. Not a record I would pick myself. Favorite song: What it feels like for a girl

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Sat Jul 01 2023
3

This was fine and I liked it but Madonna is the pop dance goddess and this wasn’t her.

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Fri Jul 07 2023
3

I vaguely recall when this album came out, and it was being heralded as a marked turn in Madonna's career. Listening some 22 years later, it doesn't really have much sense of being groundbreaking, indeed some of the content seems quite dated (see 'Feels Like For A Girl'). Still, there are a few decent tracks, including the titular 'Music' which I recall featured none other than Ali G in the accompanying video

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Fri Jul 07 2023
3

Better than expected but still felt a little forgettable

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Sat Jul 08 2023
3

Pretty good, but honestly nothing really brings me back to it.

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Wed Jul 12 2023
3

This album incorporates disco, trance, electro-pop, and country/folk elements. Though the use of these elements is not new, the fact that they’re all present in a pop album by a blockbuster artist is really fascinating. The album does sound really dated due to the effects it uses and its production style, but I did really enjoy it as it gave me a new perspective of an artist who is known for her earlier groundbreaking pop work. Madonna is clearly interested in musical growth and even if it doesn’t always land, I appreciate her trying to expand her horizons.

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Tue Jul 18 2023
3

Good but also has some weak moments. What It Feels Like For A Girl is my favourite.

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Thu Aug 10 2023
3

Best lekker eens een keer zo’n album te luisteren

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Thu Aug 10 2023
3

This is my least favorite Madonna album, but I do love Impressive Instant. The rest sounds dated & bland compared to her other work. It's honestly disappointing to see this one & not Confessions on a Dance Floor - that one has an ABBA sample for christ's sake! I will always love/hate Madonna, and she'll always be The Queen of Pop, but this album is a general dud.

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Tue Aug 15 2023
3

There is a fitting pop superstar arrogance to just naming a release "Music". Madonna signing about what music does to the "bourgeoisie" is the icing on the cake. Obviously with the sort of team behind something like this, there are catchy pop earworms aplenty. I think this list has leaned too heavily into this artist's later catalog; its all pretty forgettable.

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Fri Aug 18 2023
3

Not her best but I did love this when it was realised

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Wed Aug 23 2023
3

Not her best, but pretty good. 3 stars.

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Wed Aug 30 2023
3

This was pretty good. Some familiar tracks, really liked the cover of American Pie.

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Mon Sep 04 2023
3

no false advertising here: it's definitely music by madonna

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Thu Sep 14 2023
3

Un anniversaire dans une ambiance des plus obscures, l'appartement de Robert est en effet plongé dans le noir depuis plusieurs longs mois. Personne n'est venu nous ouvrir à notre arrivée, nous avons donc decidé de célébrer ces 900 albums dans la sobrieté, non sans lâcher quelques larmes au passage.

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Thu Sep 14 2023
3

La génération d'avant avait des goûts de chiottes.

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Mon Sep 18 2023
3

This was good but not great, some good songs but not the absolute consistency of a great pop album.

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Thu Sep 21 2023
3

Totally remember the time this electro producer Madonna record dropped, a certain feeling of postmodern genre clashing made everything feel cocainy euphorical before 9/11 hangover awakeing. Also humour wenn from Ali G then to Achmed „l’ll kill you“ the dead terrorist. Rrrreprezent!

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Tue Mar 28 2023
2

It's no Ray of Light, is it? That American Pie cover is so painful it makes the original sound great

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Wed Mar 29 2023
2

Oh god, forgot about the early 2000s music, probably for good reason. The mixing is just interesting lol. Some definitely Daft Punk vibes which I'm okay with. But some of the fake instruments and voice effects are just grating. Lots of experimental more electronic stuff in the beginning, but the middle of the album slows down for more approachable, catchy, dance music. Lyrics vary, some are generic love songs. While some actually pose interesting philosophical questions. I get a lot of video games sounds from some of these songs. Some enjoyable parts, but overall 2/5 Favorite songs: Impressive Instant, I Deserve It, Amazing Least favorite songs: Music, Nobody's Perfect,

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Wed Mar 29 2023
2

with the resources at her disposal she had to score a couple of cool tracks, but it just strikes me like gangsta rap: the expression of goals and desires that are fundamentally shallow and corrosive

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Thu Mar 30 2023
2

I'm not a big fan of cowgirl-electronica-Don McLean Madonna. 4/10

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Thu Mar 30 2023
2

3/10. Wow, I really didn't care for this, but I can certainly see how it influenced 2000s music.

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Sat Apr 01 2023
2

Cat: Some of the tracks musically are a lot of fun and maybe were trendy or groundbreaking at the time. The lyrics are mostly terrible. Madonna has a beautiful, distinct voice. AJ: Totally agree. The two singles were the two best songs. Couple random acoustic guitar songs thrown in with more random electronic noises. She sounds great, but the writing is elementary at best. 🤣

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Thu Apr 06 2023
2

Most of the songs on this album don’t pay off the way my brain wants them to. I like Madonna’s earliest albums, but this one was very meh for me. Maybe too electronica for my tastes.

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Fri Apr 14 2023
2

While I'm not really a Modonna fan, I can find stuff in her early work that I can enjoy and appreciate. This one could've been made by so many different people in the late 90s/early 2000s, it was just uninspired.

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Fri Apr 14 2023
2

Some of the singles hold up. It just felt a little soulless.

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Fri Apr 14 2023
2

No standouts. The dance songs lack energy, the slow songs are bit dull. There are much better Madonna records.

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Fri Apr 14 2023
2

It's ok she's trend following on this one.

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Wed Apr 19 2023
2

Madonna tried trip hop. At certain points the glitchiness feels overwrought, and at certain points they don't feel like Madonna songs, but more songs featuring Madonna. Somewhere. There are a few genuinely good tracks, but I don't think this record needs to be here. Favorite tracks: "What It Feels Like For a Girl", "Runaway Lover", "I Deserve It"

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Fri Apr 21 2023
2

I liked Gone, Music (mostly for nostalgic reasons) but the rest was very mid. Also the American Pie cover is sacrilege.

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Thu May 04 2023
2

Listened to front half, I'm guessing the back half isn't too different. Meh in every sense of the word. Exc3pt "Nobody's Perfect". That's straight ass. 2.5/5

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Sun May 07 2023
2

Meh. Bland, over produced, shiny and expensive. Not her best work. Also includes her cover of American Pie, which is so bad it is virtually a hate crime.

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Thu May 11 2023
2

I much prefer earlier Madonna, and American Pie is a crime. I do remember though how big this was when it came out and she was a rule breaker and pop visionary in her own way.

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Wed May 24 2023
2

It's a bit zero 7/Moby in places...that turn-of-the-century ambient Ibiza chill-out vibe. It's not an album that I would choose to listen to again.

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Fri May 26 2023
2

DIgamos que se trata de musica lisa, ademas de que las letras no son nada del otro mundo, tampoco creo que haya un hit ademas de music, pero bueno que se peude esperar de la era del estancamiento del pop. Madonna se queda fuera de ideas en un album en el que hasta sus instrumentales son aburridas 3/10.

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Sun May 28 2023
2

Just alright, feel like this is Madonna trying to recapture old magic, just doesn’t hit

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Mon Jun 05 2023
2

It's certainly music. It's not great and sounds super dated. Also what a shit cover of American Pie. 1.5/5

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Thu Jun 15 2023
2

Half decent album by the ultimate singles Queen. Won't be adding to the rotation though

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Thu Jun 22 2023
2

Bits of this album veered dangerously close to a 1. But in the end I'm going to show some mercy and go for a 2. Don't push me to listen to it again though.

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Thu Jun 22 2023
2

Starts off well, but boy does it fall away after that.

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Fri Jun 23 2023
2

Funny how Mirwais made 2 albums this year and this was the worse one.

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Sun Jun 25 2023
2

I wanted to like this but I found it formulaic and quite boring actually. A two is being generous

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Sun Jun 25 2023
2

I was planning not to like this which probably isn’t the right way to approach the 1001 offerings. Let’s say it was better than my low expectations and I found myself grooving a bit at the beginning. Still, there was nothing original here. I was excited for the cover of American Pie but it was underwhelming.

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Thu Jun 29 2023
2

Some lame lyrics and sparks of cool production. Overrated.

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Thu Jul 06 2023
2

Very dance oriented, almost EDM-ey but not much base

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Sat Jul 08 2023
2

I didn't like this. But, it was risky and bold, so I respect it. I think primarily I just can't stand the way Madonna sings.

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Mon Jul 17 2023
2

1 2 3 hmmmmm "Paradise (Not for Me) is kinda nice. The whole thing is dated though. Not the future like some reviews say. And calling an album "Music" is the same as calling it "Untitled" and thats just the laziest and most boring thing you can do. "Gone" is great too Don't know how you fuck up "American Pie" though 2

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