Music

Did not enjoy, did not hate 2/5

Musi

Not the best Madonna album. Fine listen

What a baffling choice for a Madonna album for this list. This is so mediocre, and sometimes it’s just not good at all. There aren’t any real highs, but some definite lows.

Music explores electronic dance-pop through digital textures, rhythmic minimalism, and stylistic hybridity. However, recurring production techniques and limited emotional variation reduce formal diversity, preventing stronger structural development despite the album’s polished execution, commercial significance, and successful integration of contemporary electronic aesthetics into mainstream pop music during its era.

This is my second of the three Madonna albums on this list and just based on these alone I don’t understand how she maintained her icon status so long.

It's nowhere near the levels of the best Madge - Frozen, or Ray of Light, or even the early big pop bangers. For one thing, it feels like Madonna adjusting to what music was popular at the time, rather than shaping pop music, as she did through the 80s. It's not particularly bad, and there is one really cool song that feels much more modern than it is - What It Feels Like For A Girl - but overall it's pretty forgettable.

Waaaayyyyy past her prime.

really strange borderline annoying production choices. i feel like they produced this album without headphones on and then didn’t listen to the final product before hitting publish lol

This was Russian roulette for good songs. The title track, for me at least, really works and holds up today. And then the rest of the album happens.... I can't lie, there's probably 3 songs here that I even remotely like. I can't stand the fucking stop start thing that she keeps putting in. It irritates the life out of me as it has no purpose and without an interesting melody and exceptional vocals, it just grates on the ears. For me, Madonna has never been an album artist, but the hits here are not enough to justify having this be a must listen. I don't hate this, but this is a serious decline for Madonna at this point. And given that 'American Life' is next in her discography here, I'd say that this album set her on a path that would kill her relevance to popular culture. Fav Track: Music

El pop de toda la vida cumplidor

Just so standard and boring, did not age well. Someone called her cover of American Pie a war crime and a human rights violation and that could not be more accurate YEESH

Not for me

This is generous, saved by 1 or 2 songs.

I liked a few songs but overall not big on it. 2.5 for me but I’ll go 2

Who made this list? Ugh. I wanted to like this one, but it was just so late 90s-early 2000s club drivel. And then to end it off with that horrible American pie cover? Ugh. Just ugh. 3/10

didn't like, too flat

Felt like a soulless attempt to try something new. Maybe in 2000 it worked but listening to it now it’s bizarre and unpleasant.

Bit boring.

(2.75)

Banger opener then meh

How did this album get here?

This was definitely trash but a couple fun moments i guess

I don’t think there’s anything interesting about this album.

A few songs in, so far, so boring. I am not going to make it to the end of this. Is it more about having continuing sales than about being creative--see how different I am? But not too different--I'm Madonna after all, just a little techno now.

Really dull!!! And what a hateful cover of American Pie.

meh

Пусть тот кто составлял этот список объяснит почему я должен это послушать. Это ужасно Как будто ей сказали что они сейчас будут делать популярную музыку и начали пихать все новомодные штуки в каждую композицию. Я хейтер. Мне не нравится Мадонна. Этот альбом оправдал ожидания плохой попсовой музыки и плохого скучного исполнения. Перепеть Американский пирог было сильно Треш

I liked Madonna well enough in the 80s/early 90s but paid zero attention to this album. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I didn’t hate this. That is until the last track. “American Pie” isn’t a great song but whatever she did to it should be criminal. I am taking this rating down 2 stars for that song. I feel worse about humanity after hearing it.

What a strange album Madonna doing autotune - ugh The cover of American Pie - a musical war-crime A couple of the other songs are ok if listened to away from the rest of the ablum But as a 49 minute listening experience, I am very grateful for the skip button Such a shame, after 1998's wonderful Ray of Light album, which to me remains her career highlight

Why would you add cybernetic upgrades to Madonna? She's already a dangerous individual after assassinating Weird Al & her affiliatation with Pablo Esobar's drug ring. And whatever the fuck she did to that pie. I may trust Jason Biggs with American Pie than Madonna.

I liked Ray of Light but this is not it. The whole album feels embarrassingly disingenuous like that scene from The Matrix where Trinity tells Neo she loves him and that’s why he can’t be dead, complete with the obnoxious whisper voice.

Listened to this after lunch on a relatively boring workday. Terrible idea. Nothing interesting at all going on here. 2/5.

269/1001 Madonna - Music Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ I'm trying to think of why this on the list. For the most part, it's rather middle of the road balladry with a country tinge to it. Not offensive enough to be a one star, but equally pretty poor.

Surprisingly credible. I grew up with Madonna seemingly fitting in with 90s-00s manufactured pop, and as a narrow minded kid I never challenged that thought. I'm often a little bit surprised to realise that she's involved in some quite credible art. This record started with some interesting mature electronic sounds that I was quite into. This reappeared a couple of times throughout. Also featuring were some things that felt like uninteresting 90s-ish pop to me. Wish it were more consistently in that explorative electric space

Generic late 90s/early 00s pop album. The hits have aged poorly, and I feel little reason to come back to this album. Generic pop from 2 and a half decades ago tends not to age the best.

An absolute steaming pile of auto-tuned garbage pop music. Madonna deserves no credit for her work on this album that pushes no artistic boundaries nor develops novel sounds or ideas, and the album's producer deserves none for staunchly following the trends in pop music of the day, all of which aged poorly.

Don't enjoy the electronic dance vibe. Better Madonna albums.

This came up and I said, "oh cool, some Madonna, I haven't listened to her in a while, she's not a favorite, but it's something different to break the 70's and 80's rocktamist streak I've been on." I'm kind of glad every time a women artist comes up. Then I saw what album it was and I was genuinely baffled, why is this on the list. I didn't love Ray of light, but it was a huge album and an important moment in the career of a pretty iconic artist. This continued the trajectory of the previous album, but not in a great direction. A time capsule of a pre 911 sound and and vibe, but others were doing it better. I'll take Britney over this, feels more honest. Maybe I'm being harsh, but everything about this album feels inauthentic and pandering. Not into it. Not really a fair comparison, but this came out 2 weeks before Kid A if we want to check out someone experimenting with electronic sounds. Felt really long, wanted it to be over. Not quite 1 star, because it wasn't upsetting sounding from moment to moment, some of the songs are perfectly catchy if fully vapid. The most 2 star album yet though, can't imagine why it was included on the list.

Madonna trying to sound like 00's Britney - made me a little sad to be honest. While I have huge respect for Madonna as an artist, her music is just not my thing (Plus she really butchered American Pie!?) I feel sad that we live in a world where it seems people like Madonna feel they need to freeze their faces to stay 'young', and make music that sounds like someone else, just to stay relevant. BUT - you do you Madonna, maybe this was the kind of music you WANTED to make, and maybe you don't feel like you HAVE to have plastic surgery but you just WANT to. Nobody's Perfect. Girls just want to have botox, I guess.

A couple of songs were okay, maybe just due to familiarity (music and don't tell me), but most of the rest just faded away. The American pie cover didn't serve anything. High 1/low 2

Great production and at times experimental. But not great song writing compared to her earlier work

American Pie of every bit as bad as I remember it, but it's still the best song on the album. The album really stands on its production which is excellent, but can't sustain interest for a whole album. So it starts off feeling like a 3 but ends up a 2 for me.

Music - 3 Impressive instant - 2 Runaway lover - 1 I deserve it - 2 Amazing - 2 Nobody's perfect - 1 Don't tell me - 3 What it feels like for a girl - 2 Paradise (not for me) - 1 Gone - 3

It's just so predictable and clean. All the sounds sound like pre programmed drum machine kits from the factory, no effort to dirty them up. Bland song structures, no real hooks save for the title track. I know Madonna has much stronger material. This is a 2 from me.

Honestly I think there are a lot of better Madonna efforts that could have been on this list. IMO this isn’t one of her best. After dominating the 80s and 90s, the 2000s was not Madonna’s best decade.

Like 2 good songs ish

Many of my friends loved her music. And she was a cultural moment, especially early on. I saw Desperately Seeking Susan--with who, I wonder?--and enjoyed the story and her cool. But I hated it then, and I still dislike it. Nope!

Inoffensive in the main, but sappy and boring. The autotune dates it badly. Two stars.

I'm surprised that another modern Madge album is on the list. And, again, though she is obviously one of the most important pop stars of all time, these later albums are just not worth being put here. Madge is flagging badly by this point. I would've though her earlier albums would have been more represented. Anyway, this album being here is pointless. Best Tracks: Music; Don't Tell Me; American Pie

Surprised that the majority of the Madonna albums have not been from the 80s. This is not the strongest entry

September 18, 2000 was probably the day the music died... (Sorry, couldn't skip this obvious pun) As I already hinted at in my other Madonna review, I don’t think it’s worth examining her music in isolation—and certainly not entire albums. “Music” also contains a few well-known singles (“Music,” “What It Feels Like…,” “American Pie”) and, apart from that, a lot of boredom. If that were enough, wouldn’t Whitney Houston, for example, also have to be on this list? Exactly. Long story short: “Music” sounds just as uninteresting today as it did 25 years ago.

Musically sound dance tunes, but when it’s not auto tuned, she relies on a vibrato that’s so consistent I’m not sure whether it’s actually another effect. This is not my kind of pop.

So 2000. Auto tune isnt great. This album is all over the place. Dont Tell Me was the only decent song. The American Pie cover is bad.

Not great bar one song.

The title track and Don't Tell Me are pretty good, the rest are not.

Finally a female artist!! I’m glad it’s Madonna too I do like her music. Although I don’t like this album nor any songs on it. It’s too country-pop for me.

Not great. I was kinda digging it until the auto tune started. I have allergies to auto tune.

This is supposed to be experimental? How?

It's okay, solid 2.5......you know, average

I liked it less than expected

Not for me. Only 2 tracks I can call favourite (normally 3) tunes. 1. Music 2. Don’t Tell Me 3. ….

A concerted attempt to be current in 2000, which did not set it up to age particularly well. She could still find some songs that worked for the dancefloor but too much of this feels like her trying on clothes that don't quite fit. The last song about authenticity is a bit ludicrous when this is Madonna using clumsy autotune and dressed as a cowgirl I skipped the bonus track. You know the one

After Ray Of Light, this one felt like a real letdown, pretty much marking the beginning of the Madonna career slide. That last album was so cohesive, but Music just feels like a weird mix of stuff that doesn't always work. The production sounds a bit too sterile at times, and the autotune is annoying, especially on "Nobody's Perfect". It's missing the heart you usually get from her, and it feels like a bunch of generic club tracks and silly gimmicks that haven't aged well. That said, it's not a total bust. The title track "Music" is still a killer pop song, and "Don't Tell Me" is awesome, mixing acoustic guitar with some cool production. Those singles showed she was still ahead of the curve, but as an album, it's a bit weak compared to her best stuff. It's a brave try at something new, but it just feels a bit...dated.

Nothing special. However „Paradise” is great song in my opinion.

OMG MADONNA HI FAVS (top 3): impressive instant, paradise (not for me), gone mençoes honrosas: music, runaway lover, amazing, american pie po me hypei supper por ser um album da madonna mas KKKKK eh ne... mas tem umas boas nota final: 2.5/5

So I'm not anti-Madonna in general, I know she had some fun songs back in the day. I appreciated the vaguely pro-trans language at the beginning of "What It Feels Like for a Girl," and one or two tracks had fun club music-y things going on that reminded me of Rozalla or whatever from the early 90s. So some of this was ok? But most of it was a chore, with autotune, stupid lyrics, and as a bonus some faux-chanteusey nonsense in one of the songs. 2 stars. It would have been 1 star if I'd had to listen to the cover of "American Pie" that's on the extended version - I already despise the original, so threatening me with a cover of that song by Madonna is the kind of thing that would get me to confess in an interrogation. "Anything but that, I swear I'll talk!"

The most generic bang average 00's pop ever

The title track is...something in a bottle. Not lightning, but it hits all the Y2K musical brain itches. That doesn't make it a good song, or a bad song (it's an ok song) it just hits a little bit of everything. And this kind of...a little bit of everything that was happening in 2000 keeps on through the album. It's not good. It's not bad. It's ok, which actually makes it worse than a lot of the things that it's referencing. And it's important as a time capsule that seems to touch the pop music zeitgeist, but it's also entirely forgettable. Inch deep, several feet wide, and I more or less had it pegged by track 2. To be clear: I am not the target audience here. It's background music for me. Almost made a Moby joke here, but then remembered that was Gwen Stefani, but, y'know, same stuff either way. This album is also notable for Madonna's reinvention - difficult for a pop singer to do, and maybe not quite successful in retrospect, it was at least current at the time. Feels a little bit like "industry plant, but an already household name." Hell, Katy Perry didn't pull this one off. Anyway, this is a weird one I keep coming around on. Again, it's not a good album. But...maybe it is a bad one? There are pieces that really are specifically not good, but Madonna is talented and can carry pretty much anything. Ultimately, I guess that it's just kind of there, which isn't great. Takes it down a notch from the coward's 3.

There is a lot going on in this pop album, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. This album feels like watching an old movie with early CGI. At the time of release it probably felt groundbreaking and interesting to see all the new techniques being used. And now it just feels bad. It’s dated and kind of off putting. Even the catchiest songs are plagued with weird electronic drones and overlapping sounds that make them unenjoyable. It just is not for me.

Madonna needs to apologise immediately to Don McLean for absolutely butchering American Pie Even I'm offended listening to that. A true hate crime was commited 2 ⭐️

Fuck this sucks so hard. Music and Don't Tell Me are nostalgic bangers but Nobody's Perfect was a haaaaard listen. She really said nothing equals nothing and that's what this album is, do better MADONNA

The more I listened to this, the more I disliked it. Sorry Madge

Fuck me this is bad. 2 barely recognisable songs with a hit of pop attraction. Beginning to have doubt about the authors of this compendium

Going into this one, I was expecting awful. Dreading it honestly, but it was fine. Seems like Madonna hopped on the bandwagon of auto tune and electro beats of the time and it doesn’t feel exactly right for her. But What It Feels Like for a Girl is a great song.

I'm not really a Madonna fan, but this album might have made me a hater. I Deserve It doesn't suck, but the rest is a showcase of the worst trends in music at the time. It's lyrically vapid and overly edited. The heavy rhythm tracks clash with the vocals and the melodies. It plays dress-up with country without seriously embracing it. It's simultaneously empty empowerment and adolescent hedonism. The electronic manipulation is grating and meaningless. Also, the bonus track is insulting. It turns a song of grief and reflection into a flat, poppy dance track. It sands away any meaning or personality and replaces it with a polished corporate product. It truly is representative of the sound the 2000's. Also, it fails on a large, structural level, as opposed to other albums on this list that I hate on a pure, sonic, moment to moment level. Because of that, I guess it's not a one.

Just gonna put it out there... I don't think that late-90s, early 00s Madonna was really at the peak of her career or putting out can't miss, game changing albums.

this was pretty bad. i dont understand the production choices they made on this, they dont really fit these songs at all. the only song that really interested me was dont tell me and that was mostly the intro.

The first song is absolute trash. I don't care for this style of music. The album gets a second star only because it's Madonna and she's not without incredible talent, even if it's tragically misapplied on this album.

Actually listening to a Madonna album is a good example of why I'm doing this. Enjoyed Don't Tell Me with its fairy unique stuttering background, and the slightly more stripped back I Deserve It. In contrast, the auto tune on several songs and especially Nobody's Perfect feels horribly dated. The cover of American Pie at the end of the album on spotify is one of the worst things I've ever heard, but I think it is a bonus track. Overall a very 2000 album! 3/10

Music ist das achte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Sängerin Madonna. Es erschien im September 2000 bei Maverick/Warner Bros. Records und wurde zwischen 1999 und 2000 aufgenommen, vor allem in den Sarm West/East Studios in London, mit weiteren Sessions in Guerilla Beach (Los Angeles) und The Hit Factory (New York). Das Album bewegt sich überwiegend im Pop- und Dance-Pop-Bereich mit deutlichen elektronischen Einflüssen und integriert Aspekte aus Funk, Rock und Folk. Die Produktion erfolgte durch Madonna selbst mit französischem Einfluss durch Mirwais Ahmadzaï, unterstützt von William Orbit, Guy Sigsworth und weiteren Co-Produzenten. Bekannte Songs auf Music sind neben dem Titelsong „Music“ auch „Don’t Tell Me“ und „What It Feels Like for a Girl“, die alle als Singles veröffentlicht wurden. Weitere hervorstechende Titel sind „Impressive Instant“, „Runaway Lover“, „Amazing“ und „Paradise (Not For Me)“. Das Album markiert eine Fortsetzung von Madonnas Interesse an elektronischen Klängen nach Ray of Light (1998), kombiniert mit tanzorientierten Arrangements und experimentelleren Elementen. Die Produktion erzeugt eine klare, rhythmusbetonte Kulisse, in der Madonnas Stimme zwischen verfremdeten und konventionelleren Momenten variiert. In der abschließenden Bewertung zeigt Music Madonna auf einem populären Höhepunkt ihres Schaffens, mit mehreren kommerziell erfolgreichen Singles und einer stilistischen Mischung aus Mainstream-Pop und elektronischer Klangästhetik, die sowohl tanzbare Tracks als auch introspektivere Momente umfasst. Ich kann mit diesem Popgedudel einfach absolut nichts anfangen!

Such a generic name for an album. But this does bring massive nostalgia. Not sure that Madonna overusing autotune constitutes classic status.

not he best album from Madonna

"Music" is the second commercial pop album I've had within a week. Some sections were unbearable to listen to. I'm not a big fan of Madonna, especially after hearing "Music". The only thing I loved about "Music" is the backing tracks by Ahmadzai and others. If it weren't for the production value, I would've had a worse experience. 2 stars for "Music".

frankly boring

Mostly okay. Some dance floor songs, some radio songs. Madonna appears to accomplish what she set out to do here. Mostly not my thing but she does it very well so there's that. I did skip the auto tune song, using that as an effect is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Oh no, did not need that cover of "American Pie". Not at all.

In which a rich, middle-aged lady shows herself to be about five years behind the club culture curve. Then has a smash hit anyway. Not saying it's terrible but it's a shame that this is how the mainstream operates.

Alrighty. Interesting... Not even sure what to say about this, not a big fan at all, but at least so far on the 2nd song it's a bit better than that Britney album I had to listen... Cannot see giving this more than 2 stars, I highly doubt even after I listen to it whole, that my opinion will change that much. Maybe even 1

i had high expectations for this since it's madonna but i was disappointed

Was fun. Not my style though. 2.5

Not her best album. I guess autotune was new at the time, but not something I enjoy.

Generic electro pop drivel

this cover of the classic song "American Pie" should be a crime

Not for more at all.

Weird that she has her country music costume on but the album is mostly dance club fare. Her voice sounds pretty good here but I’m assuming some electronic manipulation is likely going on. At any rate this music is not for me but is does have a generally decent sound. Fans of this style should enjoy it.

Didn't like it at the time. Don't like it now.

bullshit ass title. Shoud be Kinda Shit Music. Veery early 2000s sound. Definitely didn’t age well. But also it just doesn’t have the bops I expect from someone like the big Madonna. Absolutely not an album you have to listen to before you die.

One fun song that has lasted as nostalgia but otherwise horrific

ui das album und wies tönt hani soo nöd gern. so de computer 2000er choppy stuff. music isch so en schlechte soong. so bi allne ambitione wo bide madonna au bewundernswert sind mit ihrem erneuerigsdrang, ich find do isch sie ine meeeega komischi richtig. runaway lover au es nüt vomne song, sehr dance mässig aber nöd so richtig well d melodie isch huuuere moll und trurig. i deserve it isch au fett ass mann huuere lasch würkli. und s tönt au afoch nervig? amazing isch chliiii besser. aso s het chli drive und no schöni background gsäng. dont tell me het de papi us irgendme grund if ipod gha früener. de isch huere iigängig. aber de komisch start stop gitarreding findi immernonig cool. what it feels mike isch okay i guess? ich bin echt au chli überrascht wie wenig spass ich han und wie guet das anschinend achoo isch domols. american pie isch glaub s einzige cover und ich finds de best. vorallem d gitarre am schluss vo. refrain isch reeecht geil. einzigs mol woni d instrument cool find. glaub dasch es 2. jop es isch.

I have to imagine there is another Madonna album on this list because if not, this is a sad representation of what she can do. I mean, the album is fine overall but nothing spectacular. I see why the songs that became hits were chosen - nothing else really stands out and I just feel like it is trying too hard to be a relevant pop/edm album but doesn’t hit the mark on either very well.

This had 2 good songs the rest were meh.

Where Madonna briefly stops pretending to be British. The title track is a banger. Ray of Light was heaps better

I don't think this will get repeat listens from me, but this was interesting, had good lyrics and interesting music. I just maybe didn't like this as much as classic era Madonna music.

Light 2

Heard some before; 1.5; Not really sure why this album is on here. Madonna has some other albums that are much better than this, and this one really doesn't hold up well at all with the passage of time. Feels like it's trying to blend elements of trip hop with other production tools from around the turn of the century. And the lyrics just aren't very good at all. And the tracks based around the guitar are just very plain and boring. Favorite Track: Don't Tell Me

This album came out when I was in high school and I thought Madonna felt out of touch and was very upset with the atrocious cover of "American Pie". Now I'm about the same age she was when she made this and I get what she was trying to do and knowing Madonna has a large gay fan base makes me excited she made some club songs for them, but this album is not for me. I hope this isn't Madonna's only entry on this list. This can't be her best work.

To go from Ray of Light to this is quite a step down. It’s fine for the most part, but not her strongest effort

Nah 10/1/26

WTF was this shit???

Had to put myself in the shoes of a teen in the early 2000s and I could see how this would hit back then, but obviously not my taste now

I would just never listen to any of them again

Madonna is so much better than this. Why autotune her? She doesn’t need it!

I didn't really like most of this, but it's interesting to hear what passed for experimental in early aughts pop. The lyrics are pretty consistently awful. Music and Don't Tell Me are both undeniable bangers, particularly the latter. Strong 2.

Forgettable. I didn't find the music bad for the most part, but it just didn't do much to engage me. Not a single song I would add to a playlist, or listen to again on purpose. The version of American Pie, a song I don't care for much anyway, is criminal. I seriously question how this album made it onto this list.

Ugh, another Madonna album and William Orbit certainly isn't helping things here. The 2nd half of the album, was actually much better...until Madonna attempted to cover American Pie. Wow, that was amazing. Amazingly bad.

Generic ass-pop. Madonna has great stuff, this album isn't it.

Yeah man, plenty of artists put out something worth listening to 16 years into their careers. I just don't think Madonna is one of them.

Boring and did not age well AT ALL, choosing autotune was not a great decision, the songs without it are okay. 1.75/5

Meh.

Music by Madonna is an OK album, but it’s far from her strongest work, which makes its inclusion on the 1001 Albums list a bit surprising. The shift towards a more overtly dance-focused sound is interesting, and there are moments where the production and beats really work. However, despite its slickness, the album never quite feels like it goes anywhere meaningful, lacking the spark and songwriting depth of her best records. There are some genuinely enjoyable pop moments. The title track Music is a great tune and still sounds infectious, while Runaway Lover and What It Feels Like for a Girl are well-crafted, memorable pop songs. Elsewhere, though, the album struggles to maintain momentum. American Pie, in any of its forms, remains a miss for me flat and unnecessary and Paradise (Not for Me) fails to leave much of an impression. Favourite tracks: Music; Runaway Lover; What It Feels Like for a Girl Least favourite tracks: American Pie; Paradise (Not for Me) Album artwork: A classic Madonna album cover

Nothing particularly special, some songs are a bit nostalgic from my childhood, but others have that distict 2000's feel.

Madonna, bringing whatever to the mainstream since forever (or atleast since her second maybe third album). The first couple are bangers for aure but its not because of madonna. And she’s karoke level good at singng at best (listen to i deserve it). Credit to her for finding interesting fringe artists (in music and dance and s&m)and them exploiting the fuck out of them (we could hail her for bringing light to talent but ultimately she’s repackaged it and made a shit load for herself) but now we have the internet, meh, who needs her? I suppose there is a place for good curators but you dont usally idolise the curator. You might thank thwm for their work or admire their taste but you dont salute them for the actual art. She even apologises on nobody’s perfect while perfecting her pitch via autocorrect. FFS.

Well I guess music was not in a good place in the year 2000. What It Feels Like for a Girl narrowly saved this from a 1 just by being a competent pop song.

I remember when this came out and I thought this was the end of her career. I was right

Maybe it’s a generational problem but Madonna will always feel like drunk mom music to me.

Well this was mostly garbage. Shout out to Impressive Enstant and Runaway Lover for being the only semi-redeeming moments for me. (Who knew I'd respond to what I can only describe as futurist house?) Things dropped off a cliff shortly thereafter though. The obviously experimental folksy/country vibe was pretty terrible. Then a bunch of generic dance pop, some of which sounded like experimental demos in all the wrong ways (stutter guitar on Don't Tell Me, I'm talking about you here). American Pie cover was the breaking point for me, and made me question ending my own life it was so bad. By the time I hit the Raga I didn't know what the fuck I was listening to. This is a complete disaster of mismatched styles in a desperate attempt to compete with Britney and Christina in the charts. It's a singles collection, not an album.

Madonna is talented. This record doesn't reflect that. It's basically an autotune irritation. But, as I was quickly dismissing track after track, I came upon "I Deserve It" which is an acoustic guitar backed track featuring her voice. Nice. Why doesn't she do a whole album like this instead of that crappy electronic poppy bullshit? Couple of other tunes that bear mentioning: "Paradise (Not for Me)" has a dark and brooding vibe with a really cool backbeat groove and the ending tune "Gone" is a quiet, self-reflection that closes out a 3 song album. The rest is noise.

Autotune galore. Some songs are okay, but most are quite annoying

This was the Madonna album that literally no one wanted. Zero hits, super blah pop. Pretty much the poster album for "wait for the artist to write something rather than forcing them to pump out albums." Influence 2. Hits 1. Intangibles 2. Quality 3. Hard pass 2.

Odd, the dancy stuff is a bit basic but ok, the country stuff is awful and smashing them together is a weird choice. What It Feels Like For a Girl is a great track.

Music is one of those albums that tries to reinvent pop but ends up feeling a bit too self-aware for its own good. You can hear Madonna reaching for that mix of futuristic electronica and dance-floor confidence, but a lot of it feels cold and calculated rather than fun. The production, courtesy of Mirwais, is sleek and polished, full of quirky filters and chopped-up beats, but it sometimes overpowers the songs themselves. It feels like a record more interested in style than substance. There are a few bright spots where her personality cuts through the gloss. The title track still has that cheeky swagger that only Madonna can pull off, and “Don’t Tell Me” brings in a country-twang-meets-electro mix that almost works. But elsewhere it drifts into something a bit lifeless, like she’s trying too hard to sound experimental rather than just making good pop. The emotional side that made her earlier work hit so hard is mostly missing here. Overall, Music feels like an ambitious idea that never quite finds its groove. It’s clever, but not especially moving, and the robotic production makes it hard to connect with. It’s not a disaster by any means, but it’s Madonna on autopilot, testing boundaries that other artists would later explore with more heart and better results.

I had no idea Madonna was so concerned about the bourgeoisie and selling out! The downtrodden must have rejoiced upon hearing this. I covered my ears when hearing most of this.

Let’s start with every song is at least one minute too long. Ironically I think Paradise (not for me) was one of the better songs on the album. I like the first hit for about 2 minutes and then I’m done. Overall - I have never really liked much Madonna music after her album “bedtime stories”… with some exceptions (like confessions on the dance floor). In general a solid meh AND please can no one ever cover “American Pie” ever ever again. I actively despise that song and am bitter that I know all the words due to its high radio playtime when this came out.

Boring and uninspired. Simple lyrics and subjects

The line of certified pop stars reinventing themselves is long. Perhaps it's less notable that it occurs, but for Madonna the results on Music speak for themselves. These ultra-global, mega-machine lady-stars are at their best when they can change with the times and for themselves. It's a shame only a few of them achieve the two necessary conditions: possessing the vision and bravery for the risks while also attaining the contractual freedom to build the infrastructure for exploration and change to actually thread the needle. The likes of Madonna, Beyoncé, and Swift are among the few. I'm sure their careers are being studied right now by the next generation of pop vocalists, and Madonna's Music is certainly on the syllabus.

The electronic songs at the beginning were much more interesting to me. Favorite track: Impressive Instant

Not very good.

Made the mistake of starting it on the last track. Hell no. Second star because she must be my lucky star

You'd think with all her resources she could have bought herself a far better album. Autotune can't save her voice and apparently no one had the guts to tell her that her lyrics suck too.

Not for me. I'm not sure why this album is here, it doesn't sound particularly fresh, or interesting, or new, or influential. In fact, it sounds quite the opposite. It sounds like Madonna chasing the new trends instead of the reverse like earlier in her career. It's catchy, in a way, but it really sounds like an aging superstar clinging to relevance. 2.5 stars

I generally love Madge and get what she’s going for here, but apart from ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ and ‘Don’t Tell Me’, this just hasn’t aged well. And did we really need a cover of American Pie to end the album? Don McLean’s original is bad enough, but this version…this is an abomination. There’s just other, better, worthier (granted earlier) Madonna albums that I would include on this list, or any other, ahead of ‘Music’. Perhaps Garry Mulholland summed it up best in his review for The Guardian in September 2000 when he wrote: “It is naff. Screamingly, amusingly, hypnotically naff. Once you have accepted that, it is possible to start listening to Music for what it is: the sound of a bunch of middle-aged trend-watchers second-guessing what today's kids go for. It is the absolute definition of mutton-dressed-as-lamb middle-youth.”

Hmm. Ok but nothing great

meh.

I love me some 80s and early-to-mid-90s Madonna. But the stuff after that is just not the same quality. This album is mostly a snore.

4/10

Oof. The second half was tolerable, I didnt mind the mellower tracks as much, but the more ravey electropop sound, really was feeling close to a 1 star. Sounds like late career Cher fronting the Black Eyed Peas, hot garbage. And that American Pie cover hurts

The second best album called Music that I listened to this year. Pretty boring, it had none of the Madonna songs I had heard of. American Pie was the only interesting part.

I was quite excited to do this because the other two Madonna albums we have listened to were great, but this was mostly pretty poor, and extremely dated. A big fall off from Ray Of Light.

Of the three Madonna albums I’ve listened to on this list, this was perhaps the weakest. It was different than I expected, and maybe even in a good way - slower songs, kind of interesting (experimental, even?) electronica - but it felt hollow and inauthentic, and failed to come together. Given that it’s not Madonna’s best work, or even especially notable or influential, it’s hard to justify its inclusion on the list. Paradise (Not For Me) 2.5

Een soort techno Madonna album? Ok, ik ben volledig klaar hiervoor! Hele futuristische productie en duidelijk volledig op de dansvloer geinspireerd. Mensen zeggen dat Ray of Light het Madonna album is dat EUSEXUA van FKA Twigs heeft geinspireerd, maar een song als Runaway Lover zou ook niet misstaan op dat album! Ah shit, daarna komt helaas wel I Deserve It, ik wil meer technodonna!!! Nee, de tweede helft van dit album kakt harder in dan iemand op een after die dacht niets meer nodig te hebben. Pff, jammer, ik was wel klaar voor technodonna maar de ballads zijn eigenlijk niet zo goed. Vrij matig zelfs. Madonna is voor mij op haar best op up-tempo dansvloerkrakers, maar dat kan er ook aan liggen dat dat de Madonna is die ik het beste ken. American pie de cover, ja ik ben gewoon niet heel erg een fan van covers over het algemeen. Zelfs de kolonisatielijst doet toch vaak een beetje pijn. Ook bij deze cover denk ik toch voornamelijk; waarom luister ik het origineel niet? Album begint dus best wel sterk, kakt hard in en eindigt ook echt een beetje met een stinker met American Pie. Mwah... FAVO: Music, Runaway Lover, Don't tell me

I guess she's technically right.

An ok dance album but she has much better albums earlier in her career

Not a Madonna fan, the music is mostly meh. Never really got the appeal. yeah she can sing, so what many people can sing. Very generic 2000s music, remember hearing the singles on radio and thinking they weren't that good even as a kid.

16-10-25

Very nice production and instrumentals combined with flat and uninspiring vocals.

Sucked Bad album

thought it was gonna be country, not CUNTRY

Was actually considering a 3 rating until that American Pie cover.

Музыка: 5/10 Разнообразие: 4/10 Тематика и вайб: 6/10 Цепляемость (отдельные песни зашли): 2/10 Реиграбельность (можно ли рандомно врубить на фон): 5/10 Итог: 4.4

I was okay with the first or second song and then it lost me. I was expecting more from this album, and it didn’t do that.

It's hilarious to think this was the number 1 album in the country at one point. Simpler times. Madonna is polarizing, but she's past her prime here. I don't even know what's going on in this album. One of those "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" type of albums. The skipping guitar track on Don't Tell Me physically hurt my stomach. Madonna has some great songs, but they aren't on this album.

It's ok. She has other albuns I like more

This is terrible early 2000s pop. Awful.

This music album wasn't my favorite music.

I expected Madonna albums - I did not expect a 2000's album . . . I like a lot of her stuff, Like a Virgin era. She's a lot better singer and musician on this album and I'm sure in 2000 it was important development for her to stay current and relevant (and selling, I believe this album was a commercial success) but it's not my favorite.

I'm not sure if it's true but I don't remember pop music sounding like this before the 2010's. In that way it's a bit of a foray in to electronic music from a pop perspective that nobody was doing until a bit later, which is cool. That said, it sounds very much like it was the early version of EDM tinged pop music; the beats that aren't from the singles are pretty forgettable and Madonna might as well have been any other nameless singer with a female voice for some of them. The singles are decent enough; the title track has a unique beat and has more of Madonna's traditional vocal stylings than the other ones. I appreciate that someone took the time to suggest she go in to other genres a bit besides the overarching EDM but none of it screams "crossover hit" to me. "Don't Tell Me" is not going to land on country radio no matter how hard she tried. This is fairly mid. The non singles are pretty bad, the cover of American Pie is somehow more shit than the original. Points for probably pushing the boundaries of pop a little bit forward.

It's rare for a pop album to work for me, and this was no exception. Not objectively bad, but I was glad when it was over. 2.2

Meh

I’m not super familiar with Madonna’s discography, but I know she has plenty of albums better than Music. Most of it is just bland generic pop. The couple songs I did enjoy were funnily enough the ones that were more country inspired. The version of this album on apple music did not include her cover of American Pie, but based on some of the reviews here I had to check it out anyway. It’s a good thing that it’s left off the album, because it alone would drag this down to a one star

Madonna walked so Playboi Carti could run. I’m conflicted on this one. On one hand I don’t like most of these songs, but a remaining few I really do like. So as a whole it’s not great. Favorites were I Deserve It, Don’t Tell Me, and What It Feels Like For A Girl.

Hello fellow kids. Sorry, just no. I'm not sure what cultural relevancy Madonna was aspiring to in 2000 but it was over. She can't even sing. I will say she was working with a talented producer who deserved a better vocalist.

Odotin kunnon tanssimusaa. Jouduin pettymään. Albumi oli jopa alavireinen odotuksiini verrattuna. Useimmat ääniraidoista olivat ärsyttäviä eikä laulukaan säväyttänyt. En kuuntelisi uudestaan. Hämmästyttävää kyllä Madonnan coveri American Pie:sta oli aivan mukiin menevä ja paransi muuten pitkäveteistä albumia.

Not awful (bar American Pie) but lacks the excitement it tries to bring

Huge singles, but way too many dreary deep cuts and Auto-Tune ballads to make this hold together as an album

# 89 Music ~ Madonna Music is strange. Perhaps this era for Madonna is strange. In a point of her time where you would have considered her a fading star along with her contemporaries in Prince and MJ, her popularity suddenly got a second wind. Now on level playing field with the American teen pop of Spears and Aguilera as well as the continuing RnB explosion, Madonna sought out to make herself stand out by forming a new image for the 2000s: one that attempted to dispel the controversies of the early 90s and portray herself as.... a cowgirl. The music of Music then. Madonna summons the powers of the British electronica scene from trip hop to downtempo to techno and fused it with Americana. These electronica skeletons are decorated with acoustic and electric guitars to give a sort of folky/heartland rock flavour to these otherwise techno party songs. And this is essentially what Music is. Folk party hits. A good deal of these songs are about partying, and unfortunately they sound really hollow. All these electronic tricks from heavy chopping and manipulation to auto-tuning just leaves me cold, as if they are flashing lights that don't deliver. Madonna though sounds great as ever though, and her more introspective and critiquing songs are more convincing than her party songs. Runaway Lover and What It Feels Like for a Girl are great songs that make great use for Madonna's perchance for deep emotion, but outside of this, the rest feels unusually empty. A bit disappointing.

Removed

I love Madonna, and Ray of Light is well deserved a place on this list, but this, not so much.

Similar to the Madonna album from 1997, not really feeling it.

Music makes the people boo together

Experimental Hahaha Definition Experimental: Doing something that has not been done before. I won't insult your intelligence by explaining the irony of this 2* for the people who did all the computer programs

Terrible album art, terrible album name and very, very mediocre tracks. I guess there is something to say for production quality and some electronic sound choices which are nifty, but it is otherwise botched by the voices, lyrics and superficial composition.

4/10 I guess that’s what I get for listening to a pop star’s album that’s just called “music”

eh, this isn't gonna cut it from a legend like madonna. hard to believe anyone, let alone critics, considered this "experimental" at the time. there was a lot changing in music around the turn of the millennium but madonna's safest, blandest album yet was not it. the title track is decent and don't tell me is serviceable. the rest is just 4-minute unremarkable pop song drivel, scooped out of the big slimy vat where it resides and slopped down onto the album to fill time. that said, i thought the american pie cover was at least interesting. it's not amazing by any means, but the different instrumentation and vibe shift is worth a listen or two. seems to be very polarizing in these comments, but i assume those are all from conservative dad rock dudes that hate anyone who tries to put a new spin on the classics, especially a w o m a n !!!! favorites: music, don't tell me, american pie

It only took until album 915 for me to get my first Madonna album to review, and it’s her classic album True Blue… er, Music. Neato. I consider myself a causal Madonna fan, but I’m not familiar with anything she put out after Ray of Light. I think her stuff from the eighties and early nineties is fantastic, but I’m not sure what to make of her in this western getup that she’s sporting on the cover of this album. I have no idea what I’m going to hear on this album, but here goes nothing! The booming bass of the title/leadoff track got my full attention, but that was one of the few moments where I was engaged with this album. Musically, I mostly enjoyed the dance sounds on this album, but lyrically and vocally, I just could not have cared less. I’ve heard worse things on this list (yesterday’s effort from Primal Scream comes to mind), but I’ve heard so much better, especially when it comes to pop and dance music from this era. Most of this album just felt robotic and uninspired. If Madonna had anything to say on this album, it certainly didn’t land with me. I did wind up recognizing “Don’t Tell Me,” which was the best song on the album, by a slim margin. I loved the stutter-step of the guitar, and the bass beat was excellent too. “What It Feels Like for a Girl” was pretty good too. I liked the dream-like sound of the electronic elements, and I thought the lyrics were pretty good too (strike what I said earlier, but this is the only instance where this album has anything meaningful to say). While this wasn’t really my speed, I have high hopes for the other Madonna albums on this list, but I still think it’s a crime that this album made the cut, while True Blue didn’t.

Runaway lover and amazing are good, the rest is just generic pop

I thought I liked most of Madonna's disco, electronic music era stuff... I was wrong. Minus the opening song this pretty much sucks across the board.

As far as Madonna goes this album is about as good as it gets. However, that's a bit like celebrating the tallest midget as, by and large, the rest of her music bores me to tears. The opening track is solid, there's a couple of other decent tracks, the cover of 'American Pie' is awful. I made it all the way through, so it's 2 stars from me.

Yep !

Just grating and not that enjoyable.

Really wanted to enjoy this but outside of about two songs it was shite. Utterly dull.

The material girl was a product of the 80s, but her star quality had long faded by this album. This album is just generic commercial pop garbage.

5/10. It wasn’t as bad as I expected. Solid pop for that time, but not for me.

Cool album, I don't know what I was expecting, but it's interesting. 5.4/10

I liked the title song but everything else was horrible. Jesus.

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A little too techno synth for me. Trying too hard to be club beats instead of good songs. Music and Don't Tell Me are pretty solid.

This album is all over the place. The first song was so bland that I almost gave up, but then the second song hooked me. Then the 3rd and 4th songs were like a totally different sound. She's just totally unpredictable. And then she covers American Pie? with synths and shit? and it ain't wholly terrible, though it's also not better than the original.

Ah, Madonna's autotune phase. While she was a massive force to be reckoned with in the 80s and 90s, by the turn of the century, she was comfortably settled into a niche that, while commercially successful on star power alone, really seemed to leave a lot to be desired.

I remember that ‘Music’ was everywhere when this came out, which I suppose is pretty typical of Madonna - formulaic enough that her hits are hits. But is that a good thing? Listening 25 years later it’s a bit boring, and seems like pop music is still the same, engineered to give the (sheep) listeners the same things over and over to keep them happy. As usual Madonna’s vocal performance is good, although pretty auto tuned by this point, an aspect of the times that I never really liked much. Hard to rate this for me because although none of the tracks were very bad, none were that great either. 2.5/5

Be warned this album is an infectious disease. It won’t make your life better and it’s probably bad for your overall health but only this album will grow on/in you. Joking aside I really thought this album was trash at first but then the second listen it got funny, and then it got funnier and funnier. Really this album is “so bad it’s good”, the room of music if you will. There probably should’ve been a sign on the studio for keep Madonna away from the dj equipment cause some of the songs on here are so silly and of their time that you don’t even have to look to see if it was made in 2000, you just immediately KNOW it is from 2000. Yah i definitely can’t pretend like I like this album legitimately, but I will still make my friends listen to this album on repeat for the foreseeable future.

Title track is good. Had potential but it never elevates itself above mediocrity. The version of American Pie is very cringe.

Fun but not revelatory for me personally

Autotuned to death. Most of her music bores me and I prefer the 80s stuff. I liked I Deserve It and Gone best, and they're among the lowest rated songs on the album...but I think her slow thoughtful stuff is better than the dancy stuff.

utter garbage with possibly the worst cover version of any song ever! saved from a 1 star review purely down to the fact that I managed to make it through the whole album

I can say I am not a Madonna fan outside of 3-4 songs, but I do love the title track on this one. I have never given this album a listen so this is new to me... The production and vibe on the title track is great, it reminds me a lot of "Everybody" from her first album. Groovy and danceable. "Impressive Instant" was a meandering mess, like a rough draft went wrong, not impressive at all. "Runaway Lover" sounds like a Tel Aviv disco, so generic and far from her comfort zone, no soul. "I Deserve It" should have been a Broken Bells song, they'd have done it better, but I didn't mind it. "Amazing" was anything but, she mailed in the vocal. "Nobody's Perfect" was awful, the music, the vocal, the length. "Don't Tell Me" was country flavored, the beat and weird staccato were distracting - that was a hit (40M listens)?! "What It Feels..." was nauseating. "Paradise" was too long, super boring and overcooked. "Gone" (super vanilla) was thankfully the final tune and my agony could end. There's no reason this disjointed mess of an album should be on the T1001, it doesn't break any ground and most of it sucks. Is it that she moved from shitty pop to shitty dance beat music? 2 stars for trying.

I still recall a lot of the words from the hit singles on this album over twenty years later. It's a pretty decent pop album but of its time and doesn't feel like it was much more than a commercial endeavour.

Trying too hard

This style of dance pop just sounds very fake and tacky to me. It may have been ahead of it's time but I don't think it's aged very well. Not her best work. What It Feels Like for a Girl and Don't Tell Me are pretty good though.

I suppose the album title is apt because there isn’t much more to be very descriptive about. I won’t go as far as to say Madonna phoned it in on this one, but her lyricism and vocal performances were pretty vague. The production choices were waaaay better than the vocals/lyrics. A decent opening track with some chunky drums/bassline had me hopeful, and the vocal chopping on “Impressive Instant” kept my hopes high. But it wasn’t until “What It Feels Like For A Girl” that I found anything worth while - I liked the synth pad textures and harmonies, it sounds like an instrumental that could’ve played on Postal Service’s “Give Up”. We know that shes give this sound more life and thump on “Confessions On A Dancefloor” 5 years later, which just adds to this albums meandering quality. It’s a shame, there’s some influences from house, trance, and even downtempo/goa lounge all on this album. But the songs dont really do anything within those genres. Wanted and hoped for more, strong 2/5 Was her cover of “American Pie” a bonus track on this album? If so, go listen to that mess just for fun

bezveze

Apart from a few songs, it's just a generic pop album for people who like to dance.

I know a lot of this is bad but there are some nostalgic songs that I didn't even know were madonna (Don't tell me, What it feels like for a girl) and obviously Music is a banger you're all in denial

Inte så roligt, miss American Pie var bäst

Really hate rating a Madonna album so low, but I didn’t enjoy it.

There are legitimately great Madonna albums (at least 1 that I know of anyway) and this wasn’t one of them. The terrible dated production is bad enough, if it was slathered over good songs we’d at least have something. But these songs are just bad. I only kind of dug Don’t Tell Me, but the rest was not good

The production on this is all over the place. “What It Feels Like For a Girl” was the only highlight.

Music feels like an album that's not necessarily a miss, but rather an album that's geared toward surface-level listening rather than immersion. It more so feels like an obligation to follow up a hit like Ray of Light, as all the songs on here follow early 2000s tropes of trippy electronic beats and autotuned vocals. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If Madonna stays faithful to the sound that made her famous, she risks being labeled a one-trick pony, but keeping up with the trends, like here, makes the album soulless and uninteresting. Just listen to the opener and that weird sexual energy combined with a lack of sense of direction, or Nobody's perfect where Madonna uses gimmicky autotune even if she has proven she has the vocal chops to deliver. Breathy vocals and recycled slow beats are tailor-made for the masses. Maybe suburban moms will like it, but not me.

This era of using autotune to make a “creative” point has not aged well. I guess this is a transition record for Madonna - going from the darkly hypersexualized work of the 90s to a more club/dance friendly style. Don’t let the cowboy hat fool you!

There are songs on here I really liked. The clubbier ones where the production is bolder, but there’s just too many songs that are bland/not really my interest. A lot I liked about the production on this album, though it has those early digital era snare samples I find grating. Wish it leaned farther into the funky/electronic parts of the sound.

Weird

Madonna is much more of a singles artist than an album artist and none of the singles from this album were particularly great. Why the fuck is this album on the list? Stick with the compilations.

Nope A bunch of songs sound like a night out in a gay club (fabulous night out but Robyn did it better). The other songs sound like she’s ripping off the roster of Lilith Fair artists And American Pie is cringey and not needed

Fine

it’s madonna idk

I wanted to hate this just cause I thought the cover was lame. I don't though (at least completely). Even with some tackier sounds of the late 90's early 2000's and some pretty lame lyrics. Music, Runaway Lover and Amazing are pretty good. What it feels like for a girl is cool. Sometimes there is almost a portishead/bjork style production to some of these tracks which I'll give props to Madonna for trying out. Other tracks get annoying though.

La premisa del álbum es intrigante: "música electrónica y funky combinada con folk futurista". Y cumple lo prometido, aunque para entrever algo de folk hay que echarle imaginación. Precisamente, este álbum es la respuesta de Madonna a un momento en que la música comercial estaba evolucionando, intentando mantenerse relevante mezclando sonidos típicos del pop con electrónica más actual. El resultado es como si juntaran en un laboratorio, a lo monstruo de Frankenstein, a Christina Aguilera y Daft Punk. Un álbum comercial e hiperproducido, con sonidos diseñados para vender (salvo por ese autotune aberrante en "Nobody's Perfect", un bodrio total), a la vez que influyente y lleno de temas divertidos y hasta interesantes a ratos. Un álbum merecedor de esta lista, pero que sencillamente no es de mi estilo. Y hasta casi le resto otra estrella por esa versión traumatizante de "American Pie".

Whose idea was it to take the voice of one of the most famous pop stars of all time and put it through the Electrogargle 2000?

3.5/10

Very Ross with a Keyboard vibes.

I’m surprised this was such a critical success at the time as it seems a bit of a mess to me. I don’t necessarily dislike all the production choices (the heavily Daft Punk-indebted Impressive Instant is fun), but the album hops from one style to the next with little cohesion. More importantly, it’s lacking in great songs: Don’t Tell Me is the only one that truly holds up 25 years (wow - I feel old now!) on. 2.5

So

Maybe would like it more if I hadn't lived through its popularity? (34 known/75 new)

No thanks

Meh, not a huge fan. It’s well enough done in that gobs of money are spent to make it polished and shiny. But behind all the gloss is…what? Not much really.

How?

Pretty standard pop album. Some of the songs were catchy, others sucked. I feel like it liked more than the others on here but it wasn’t anything special.

Some catchy songs but feels so cynical and that cover of American Pie is a travesty.

1. Madonna had her first hit in my first year of high school. My son has left high school. Even if I had had my son when I was in high school (I didn’t), this would have been a very impressive run in a world that is at best ephemeral. 2. Madonna, of course, is anything but ephemeral. 3. In general, and specifically in the context of this project, she is bound, though, to be victim of her success. 4. I’ve generated 931 albums and this is the second Madonna album. I’m working on the presumption that no others will turn up in the 80 or so to come. 5. That means no True Blue. No Like A Prayer. No Erotica To each their own and all that, but this is risible. 6. The other Madonna album (thus far) is Ray Of Light. She’d had an indifferent run (again, subjectively) in the decade before that. Ray Of Light is one of the few times when the phrase ‘a return to form’ has been used correctly. 7. But it also cast a long shadow. 8. You fill in the rest.

Favorite Track: Music

Madonna, eh? Boring formulaic pap that is very much of its time and hasn't stood the test of time particularly well.

The electro stuff is so loud, I could barely hear her. Not that I really wanted to, she had nothing to say but *love*. There was one song that was decent but the rest was ass. Like, it felt like she took the 80’s, pumped it with steroids, then dropped it onto a Y2K computer. Madonna fell off hard.

Honestly, first few songs are kinda aged like dogshit on a hot summers day, but the latter half of album honestly isn't bad at all. Like nothing outstanding, but pretty good music

carti’s was better, which isn’t saying much, but still. “interesting” sound selection. very slow pace, drags waaaayyy too long. not as bad as i thought. 1.5/5

Madonna *Probably* deserves to have an album on the 1001 list. For the life of me, though, I wouldn't agree that this is the correct selection.

I listened to like a prayer 14 times instead

The mixing on this was so bad the first few songs physically caused pain.

It's not good, it's not bad.

Did not enjoy. It was a techno album.

The songs with guitar on them were better than the electronica ones. I could see people liking this album a lot, but it didn't really land with me.

Nope. There were two songs I remember liking as a teenager but this album was so bland.

Generic pop but because Madonna is attached it makes this list. It’s not great

This didn't age very well, especially the title track. There are some good songs though. Don't Tell Me (though I hate the intro) & What It Feels Like for a Girl in particular.

This was like the worst of the 2000s. Don't Tell Me was the most interesting song on here. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 2/5

This is an odd album of hers to have on this list for me. I find this album extremely annoying as the beat is too electronic and repetitious. But maybe that was the point. Anyway, we’re ray of light is a superb album this one I have to skip through to even come close to making it to the end. But it’s Madonna! So fuck what I say.

Could basically guess the release year off the electro-pop elements, which were mostly cringe. Some of the buzzing and beeping is straight up unpleasant in the ears. What It Feels Like is a pretty good track.

Why is this on here? I’m not saying Madonna shouldn’t have an album on this list but this one? No.

I’ve never been a huge Madonna fan, but even taking that consideration this just hasn’t really aged well. I was in high school when this came out, and even the nostalgia isn’t doing it for me.

Feels like someone saw what was popping on TRL and thought, “Yeah, I’ll have one of everything.” The vocoder stuff is so heavy-handed it’s basically cosplay. There's a cold, mechanical sheen over everything, like a Daft Punk costume party but everyone forgot to bring the soul. It’s trying to be futuristic and sexy but lands closer to awkward and metallic. There's no warmth. No pulse. Just vibes made in a lab with no coffee. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Music - Don't Tell Me

Weird style

Aged about as gracefully as Madonna herself.

I’ve always hated the title track, and the other songs are mostly worse. Only Amazing, with its Foo Fighters-like/lite chorus, and Gone prevent this album from getting the lowest score. Horrible album

Few good songs, but the rest is very boring

It sounds very dated with the autotunez and ethereal beats. And I was a pretty big fan of Ray of Light (the album prior)

love madge but some of the choices on this album…including and especially the american pie cover (as the closer!!!!)...phew

This music doesn't really music to me.

Musically it's actually... interesting. Light, almost absent sometimes instrumentals, creative autotune, and a few more experiments. But the majority of the album is somehow... soulless? I've kinda liked it, even though its weirdness puts me a bit away from it. Especially the temporary musical stops that are somehow motion-sickness-inducing. On it's own it'd be a pretty good 2/5. Inoffensive, I've just heard a lot of better albums. But the American Pie cover is terrible.

Two bangers and not much else.

Too overproduced for my liking. 5 year old me loved this though, the lyrics are so tacky.

Ok, but... hear me out... what if we *don't* need to hear this before we die? This takes the worst parts of early aughts pop music and mashes it together with the worst of British electronic music. I don't have anything against Madonna in general, but this is not a good representation of her best music by any stretch.

Kind of a weird choice for Madonna. I assume she also has older albums here. This is her 2000 comeback album As for this album. Dunno, it’s fine? Not really my music. I don’t think it’s particularly strong. Not complete crap but not good enough for the list. Two stars (assuming Madonna has other entries).

Not what I prefer. A couple of interesting tracks. Felt kind of phoned in?

Not a strong one from old ‘Donna

Um, I was there when this came out so I can say with certainty this is not/was not some kind of amazing groundbreaking album. It’s barely fine. I like Madonna just fine, but this is not it.

A couple good ones but not my jam.

not an awful album just kinda weird and not rlly my taste.

This should be fun pop music but it just isn't fun

a straight up 2, until don't tell me brings it up to a 3. only for the disgusting version of american pie to bring it crashing back down

This cover of American Pie made me angry

A very mixed bag. Some really crappy songs and some decent ones.

"I'm not very smart." About time you admit it you dumb bitch.

During I Deserve It I was thinking “this isn’t so bad” but yeah, I didn’t like that.

Flop

Guter Pop.

Bland, not really much going on, lots of auto-tune (poor taste imo)

Would not listen again; I was genuinely excited for this but it underwhelmed me. The Y2K of it all has aged poorly. What it feels like for a girl is still an excellent song. This is a straight up two.

If wet white bread were an album it would be Music Not necessarily bad but certainly not good and no flavor at all.

#498. This was worse than I anticipated. 2/5: cringe

There were some good ideas in here but mostly it was overly repetitive

Pretty generic pop album. Auto-tune was obnoxious in "Nobody's Perfect". Standout was "Paradise (Not For Me)" until about the 5 minute mark, twice as long as it should have been.

Other than the Hit songs that take me back to my childhood, this album is a dud. Love it, or hate it, it's music. Favorite Track: "Music".

Of all the Madonna albums I thought might appear on this list, I think this would have been one of the last ones I would have picked. It's okaaaay, and it's nice to have a pop pick for a change but there are much better albums out there. Only the singles are the standout tracks. Mid.

A couple of tracks have some interesting window-dressing, but this is wholly forgettable.

Only gets 2 because I made it all the way through.

I didn’t really mind this album and thought Don’t Tell Me was actually pretty good. There were no songs I absolutely hated but Paradise (Not For Me) went on for too long, however. I was about to give it a 3/5 but then the cover of American Pie came.

I’ve always thought that Don’t Tell Me is Madonna’s most underrated single and that American Pie is her worst. The rest of the album is somewhere in the middle - and largely forgettable.

Great sounding album production-wise but otherwise this is not for me. The faux-cowboy stuff was painful. The Bjork-ripoff was even worse. The mighty beats in the first half saves this from a 1-star.

This could really be an album by anyone. Crack songwriters, sparkly producers: where is Madonna in all of this? The title track is a great pop tune, but that has little to do with who is fronting this. Could just as easily see (hear) Britney singing this and no-one would notice. I know they were a 'thing' at the time, but the over-autotuned vocals get wearing after a while too. I guess you had to be there. There is something really soulless and cynical about this whole set. The day the music died indeed.

Everyones complaining about the American Pie cover and sure it's a bad cover but at least it's a good song? Couldn't say the same about a lot of others on this one.

American pie?

Mixed bag of songs, poor in parts. I always thought Madonna was incredibly derivative, she just does styles of music that is popular at the time and hopes for the best. The bjork style "Paradise" is a particular low light, however the American pie cover is a war crime. 2*