Music

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

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*

Bearable, but that American Pie cover is weapons-grade suck.

I listened to this twice to be sure but I imagine it's controversial to say I thought this was bang average and didn't really like it at all. What it feels like for a girl, truly awful and irritating. I'm sorry. I can't like what I can't like. I didn't enjoy it

I guess it could’ve been worse. Not sure why this one is here. Pretty generic early 2000s pop.

This kind of stinks. Madonna isn't my style and later Madonna doesn't seem to do anything that hasn't been done better before. Also the bonus track of American Pie is brutal.

Another electronic tome with mediocre vocals and monotonous synths. Oh wait, it's Madonna? 🥱

Good

I’m not opposed to pop music, but this was not very good. Her foray into electronic based pop music falls flat. Most of the songs are boring and forgettable. 2/5 Won’t listen again

2.3 Ok, let's ignore the unnecessary butchered American Pie at the end. I'm going to assume that was a bonus track only for the tape cassette release in Djibouti or something and that no one actually ever heard it. That wasn't as terrible as I expected, but overall still pretty poor. The only redeeming thing about it was the surprisingly ok two songs sequence in the middle with Don't Tell me and the Girl one. Other than that it was pretty mundane pop. I remember when autotune was (thankfully) briefly all the rage but it was always going to sound crap in hindsight. Nobody's Perfect is laughably bad as a result. The rest of I'm just waiting to end.

2000 was a weird year. Everything sounds so synthesized and it really didn't age well

Couple good pop songs but most songs are just hot garbage.

OHHH, I GET IT NOW! Madonna is like the pop superstar version of David Bowie, what with all the reinventing and \"shape-shifting\" and songwriting ability... nevermind, this bit sucks. Mostly cringey, the song \"Amazing\" is ok, but even that just goes on too long. Madonna does not sound like she's having fun - which is the first rule for this kind of music. Some interesting production here and there. Why MUST I hear this before I die? Probably would not have been worse off without it. But hey, I made it through.

A couple of songs on here that I wouldn't mind hearing on the dance floor, but for the most part this just seems like Madonna trying to cash in on a musical trend. Not very inspired and not worth a second listen. 2.5 stars

Madonna's discography really is a musical roller coaster. Her previous album two years prior to this was 'Ray of Light', which felt like a spa friendly, buddhist inspired record that could have been conceived during some journey about finding oneself in Nepal. This record gives me the feeling that she is back in the bar, ready to shot Jack Daniels and throw dart with the boys. This was an incredibly strange record with a wide array of different musical styles. Both 'Music' and 'Don't Tell Me' feels very 90s and are both Madonna classics. They both sound vastly different though, so it's strange to find them on the same record. They're both by far the best songs of the record though. Some mentions must be made of 'Nobody's Perfect', where Madonna discovered auto tune, which is quite a terrible song actually. 'American Pie' is quite a decent cover I guess, but just weird to find it on this record. Musically it stands out quite a bit from the rest. The rest of the songs were not that noteworthy. Overall I think this record was too sprawling and incoherent for my taste when combined with the fact that the songs weren't that good.

Holy auto-tune batman, what a mess! There is some compression effect on all vocals which sounds horrible. That in combine with overuse of bad auto-tune ("Nobody's perfect") made this a pretty bad album. Even the hits like "Music" were quite dissapointing. Also why was the cover of "American Pie" popular? It is pretty bad. It gets a star for trying something different and for the best song on the album "Don't tell me" with its country riff which is pretty decent.

Not nearly as good as i remember it. American pie cover is awful , ‘Music’ is incredible . everything in between these two tracks is middling . 2 overall , but 5 for the Music .

This album is so far from Madonna's best work! I'm genuinely surprised Music made the cut. Yes, the title track is an absolute bop to this day, but too many songs were lackluster. The end of the album improved some, at least. The middle of the album was forced, and the lyrics were uninteresting. Madonna relied too heavily on electronica and unnecessary autotune. She has such a beautiful voice, which she reveals in the "American Pie" cover, but why wasn't that voice actually showcased in the actual album and only in an extra track for the international version?! I admire when an artist changes their sound but only when it's done well. And this album just wasn't even in the quality. Considering I know Madonna can do so much better, Music was a disappointment after the first song finished.

Madonna had natuurlijk een flinke invloed op de pop-muziek. Ondanks dat ik het eerdere album niet zo interessant vond, snap ik dat deze zangeres in onze lijst thuishoort. Nu krijgen we echter een album van haar uit 2000. Met al het begrip, maar ik durf wel te stellen dat ze op dat moment echt geen trendsetter meer was, maar een trendvolger. Ze volgde ze de nieuwere elektronische muziek en keek goed hoe haar jongere collega-popzangeressen hier mee omgingen. Dit is dan ook vooral een papagaaien-album. En net als bij papagaaien begrijpt Madonna zelf eigenlijk de geluiden niet die ze voortbrengt. Het tweede nummer is het meest exemplarisch. Dat begint als een Daft Punk kloon. Muziek die draait om een kale ontwikkelende basis. In plaats daarvan wordt het overschaduwd door de totaal niet passende verdraaide stem van Madonna. Zo doet ze die basis én zichzelf tekort. De titeltrack is eigenlijk het enige nummer dat een positieve uitzondering vormt. Zilver voor American Pie. Maar dat is een uitzondering. Madonna vond zelf blijkbaar dat dit niet op het album thuishoorde. Het tapt echt uit een ander vaatje. En dat is terecht. Maar ik begrijp de platenmaatschappij wel. Ik zou het er ook graag doorgedrukt hebben. Anders was dit schijfje helemaal mondiaal door de shredder gehaald.

Wat Madonna altijd goed heeft weten te doen, is vernieuwing in haar muziek brengen. Ze was zelden de eerste die een bepaalde stijl uitbracht, maar ze was vaak wel een van de eersten uit de mainstream. Het wiel zelf uitvinden deed ze nooit denk ik, maar slim als ze is zoekt ze wel de samenwerking met andere artiesten. Dit keer met William Orbit, geen bekende naam bij het grote publiek, maar wij hebben al een plaat van hem mogen luisteren in de lijst. Fijne triphop was dat, al stond er ook tergende ambient op zijn Strange Cargo. Het resultaat is een album vol Madonnaliedjes met beats en elektronica van oa Orbit. Madonna kon al niet zingen en nu moet ze haar heil zoeken in de autotune. Het voegt maar weinig toe en zal wat mij betreft ook absoluut niet de annalen van de popmuziek halen. Dit waren de laatste stuiptrekkingen van Madonna gok ik. Al heeft ze blijkbaar hierna nog een rits albums uitgebracht die me niks zeggen. De beatjes redden het nog enigszins, maar dit album had de lijst niet hoeven halen. Zit tussen de 2 en de 3 in. De vorige keer heb ik Madonna hoog gegeven, dan zijn we nu weer een keer streng.

Unlike the music but the lyrics are absolutely cringe, just horrible

Rough album to get through. Madonna leeches off of new trends, much like exploitation film, and this is her autotuned record. The hits are solid, but the lyrics are atrocious. You just have to thank God that her version of 'American Pie' was not included in the original release.

Who is that much of a Madonna fan that you think everyone should listen to Music? It’s mental. The hits are hits for a reason but “Nobody’s Perfect” is easily one of her worst songs. Madonna is a chameleon, changing with every musical trend to blend in - no real integrity, she just wants to be relevant. Ultimately I can sorta respect that; it just doesn’t always make for a great listen.

Holy autotune. Found nothing redeeming about this album.

Pop, RnB, 2000 -> 2

I like Madonna's earlier stuff, but the electro-pop of this album doesn't do it for me. It's well produced and good for the genre, just not my kind of music. I respect her ability to evolve with the time.

Ouf, c’était pas top. Au moins elle est honnête, il y avait bel et bien de la Music sur cet album

I was just going to talk about how inane this is, mostly because of Madonna’s lyrics, but the beat to Don’t Tell Me pissed me off so badly that it went immediately on my curated ‘Worst Songs Ever’ playlist. I genuinely moved my head around in an attempt to reconnect my headphones. Fuck whoever came up with that idea. What It Feels Like For A Girl is interesting enough that it pulls this from the brink of a 1 star, but the rest of the album is so banal yet pretending to be deep that it just puts me in a bad mood

I honestly think Madonna should have recorded all of the lyrics in French. At least there would have been some mystery to the music. As it stands, this is shallow and forgettable pop.

Finally I got something that is not an agreed-upon bonafide classic! There are moments on this record that I plainly did not like. Pastiche and dated: Madonna seems to be trying to set herself apart from her younger contemporaries with a blended sound that combines trance, euro-dance and electropop with "country" or "americana". The latter elements are put in quotations because the "country" moniker is mostly worn as a cheap aesthetic and not as an actual authentic sonic foundation. Some songs have kernels of hyperpop post-ironic experimentation laden within Madonna's murky, overly-earnest songwriting that sometimes meanders into utter meaninglessness. There are adventurous moments that I am sure would have piqued my interest in the year 2000 but as a retrospective listen, the production is too hollow to keep pace with the giants of that time like the bombastic and meticulously crafted beats of the likes of Britney Spears. It is neither urgent nor mature, existing somewhere blandly in the middle.

Quite ahead of its time for 2000. Set the trend for this poppy sound. I didn’t like it

Madona's career during this century has been mostly riding the wave, with some good results like this record. I would give it 3 stars, but that American Pie rendition is a crime alright

Not today lol

Except for the hits, I don't know a lot about Madonna's music. I can imagine their earlier stuff is of higher quality than this album. Some very annoying songs on here, and then some better things when it progresses. Still mediocre in general though.

I've never been into anything Madonna does. Great dance music I guess, but not my thing :)

Desperate attempt to be something she was

Correcto

Not really a Madonna fan, sorry

so euro-dance. it's got a distinct 2000 electronic big beat pop sound. At the time it was cool and different from the Britney Spears et al pop sounds, but today it feels a little dated. Nobody's perfect is perfectly awful. Album was probably a bit ahead of its time, at the time but retrospectively doesn't hold up.

Has some nice hits but also so many anoying parts..

This wasn't great. Modern Madonna... Just shitty electro pop music, drum machines, and her moaning. Not for me. Favourite songs: Music, Don't Tell Me, Amazing Least favourite songs: I Deserve It, Nobody's Perfect, Paradise (Not For Me) 2/5

So derivitive. As someone who does kind of enjoy 80s Madonna, this is a huge falloff

The bad cover of American Pie is on "Music." This is one of quite a few terrible covers of 60's/70's songs that were pushed on the public in the late 90's and early 2000's (looking at you, Sheryl Crow). If we need three Madonna albums then this would not have been my choice for the third. It doesn't really break ground, as she seemed to tell her producers "Cher Me" and then they did. Not to say it's bad, as Madonna does a great job of altering her voice and sound to fit what she wants to be. Madonna has always been a sort of chameleon, being able to fit her sound into the latest trends and "Music" is no exception. The song Music is really great and one can see how these tracks would fit well in the early-2000's club atmosphere. The middle is the best part of the album, which isn't something you would traditionally expect, especially on an album with only 10 tracks. Not sure this one belongs in the book, as I do not know what it brings by the 2000 that hasn't already been presented.

What it feels like for a girl wasn't half bad!

this album is pretty meh. 'Music', the opening track, is the most fun track here. Everything else was pretty forgettable. To me, this album sounds pretty over-produced. its electronic - but it sounds almost like it tried to be risky and wasn't I don't think I would have this in rotation again.

It’s like if daft punk had a baby and then Shania Twain had a baby and then by some miracle those two babies met and [at the appropriate legal age] fucked, that would be this album. Unfortunately, that genetic amalgamation is no good. But you know what is good, madonnas song die another day from the movie die another day. I feel like no one ever talks about that song but it was a banger. And it was cool like usually during a bond credits opening it’s just like random stuff going on but in this like the scene keeps going and it’s bond being tortured with silhouetted women on fire all around him. Pretty cool. Maybe people were just focused on that scene where bond parasails down that massive wave with the roof of that weird ice speed racer and a parachute. Like who the hell green lit that idea. So bad. But freakin Halle berry. Wow. What a run she had. So hot. And that orange bikini. Goodness. But ya this album sucked.

There were a couple decent songs but otherwise this was a slog. Don’t see much influence besides it being Madonna. At least we’re knocking out some of the latter albums in her career.

At first I was bowled over by how ridiculously Y2K-sounding this album was. Like, the sort of "techno," as pop listeners called every electronic music genre at the time, along with futuristic production effects that I remember being really wowed by at that time, is all over this thing. If I'd listened to it closer to release I would probably rate it higher, but encountering it for the first time in 2024 does it few favors. It sounds extremely dated. Some songs really won me over though, especially in the last half, like "What It Feels Like For a Girl" and the moody and cinematic "Paradise (Not For Me)." Still, I probably won't revisit it unless I'm showing it to my wife to see her reaction.

Not very good— some of the beats are actually terrible. The beat in the title track, at the end, is used in an Edward the Confessor song from Sleeping Dogs. That later song is much better. A lot of it sounds like Ratchet and Clank background music.

I mean, it's alright

Fine, dated feeling.

Not for me

Turns out I don't like early 2000s pop style Madonna, who'd have guessed?

I associate this sound with grubby clubs (and not the good kind of grubby)

1.9 I think I liked the production of this album as whole even if was very busy. If you took of the Maddona name it might rate a half point higher. Impressive Instant was the standout for me, I will listen to that again, everything else there is no chance. The crap songs are crap

apart from the few already known songs, I didn't enjoy it

The first couple of songs were slightly interesting in how they were built. Lyrics all kind of throw-away and obviously the whole album is aimed at danceability. But then track six came along and just stomped on everything downgrading the overall status. Madonna can be a competent and creative artist but this as all the hallmarks of having no driving reason to be other than for cash from the market.

Utter rubbish from a "has been." Just because an 80s/90s sexual pop star puts out an album (or, album after hackneyed album), doesn't make it good, or even listenable. Gee whiz, artists should be held to a higher standard. These are the albums that make me absolutely abhor corporate record label horsesh*t.

This album was bizarre. Not in a good way. I have never listened to Madonna before, and I’m gonna assume this was the outlier. Product of its time, certainly should not be made now. I liked glimpses of the production, like how some of the chopped instrumentals or samples were, but a lot of it is grating. Some of it feels brilliant and avant-garde. Some of it feels like trash. Can’t pinpoint how it made me feel. Standouts: Music, Runaway Lover, Don’t Tell Me, and Gone.

Didn't I already have this? No wait, that was Ray of Light. Pretty sure we don't need both on this list. This album has some real clunkers and few real triumphs, though I do really like Don't Tell Me for reasons I can't really put my finger on.

Not one of Madonna's finest albums, mediocre at best.

Better than I thought it would be

Music is not a good album despite its pretentious ideas to the contrary. For starters it's a weird collection of styles that don't work together, all copycats of late 90s stuff Madonna clearly thought she could use to reinvent herself. Some very generic pop, some piss poor efforts at introducing trance/europop sounds, some embarrassing country-adjacent bits and wtf was she doing with autotune? None of it is cohesive, it's lyrically empty (What It Feels Like For A Girl is *bad*), a couple of songs are passable (Music and Amazing) so it's not downright bad, but the cover of American Pie should have her in The Hague. A low 2 because it didn't disgust me enough to turn it off early and give it a 1.

I had visited this album at least one time before to look for something beyond the one radio hit. Revisiting it now, all these years later, presented me with the same profound disappointment at what was hopefully the low water mark of Madonna's career. Paradise is the one exception. It hit me last time and it hit me now. Unlike the rest of the album, it seems to convey a feeling. And there are lyrics as well as instrumentation. For such a great artist who has been so important to Gen X listeners for decades, this one is tough. A single point of light in that one song, depressing as the song is.

Sad and pathetic. Not sure what is worse, fading into the background while music moves forward, or publicly flailing in an effort to emulate a world you used to own but has now surpassed you.

Overall Madonna has been maybe the biggest disappointment of any artist on this list. Making a name for herself as a maverick, the song on this album "What it feels like for a girl" just feels empty of any of that rebel spirit. This journey has taught me that I like about one album's worth of Madonna's songs across her whole career. Too band none of those songs are on this album.

yeah not for me.

Singlarna är det väl inga fel på men resten är ju blä.

Yeah, I think only like 80's/early 90's Madonna. A couple of good songs; but a bold, stupid title for a mediocre album.

Not her best. her latest reinvention...

Bleh. Cept for music

So much great music by Madonna, why this album and not one of her first releases?

Gotta agree with Curtis on this one - so many better Madonna albums

Incredibly boring. This only got a pass to be on the list because it's Madonna. Had this been some no-name (probably with a first AND a last name, loser) musician it wouldn't have even been considered.

I know it should be for me, but I just couldn’t get myself into it. A little too bizarre.

Strange overlay between acoustic guitar and techno. Didn’t know where this album was trying to go. And what’s with the cowboy themed cover art

2 maybe 3 songs that I enjoyed. I did not like the American Pie cover. What was she thinking

Seems like a real throwaway album to me. I really hated the first 4 songs but then it seemed to get a bit more musical. The production is weird because on a lot of songs all the instruments are just part of the rhythm. There's very little instrument carrying the melody or harmony; just thump thump. Many tunes almost sound like house music, probably proto house which is what make this album a little important? And the autotune gets old quickly.

Bunch of random 90s cliches thrown together

I don't think any of Madonna's are really thought of as classic albums she's a singles artist. But THIS is the one I need to hear before I die? Well I tried, it almost turns into a half credible dance album but then comes the god awful electronic country nonsense, a total re-run of 'Beautiful Stranger' and a cover of 'American Pie', to top it all it's got the auto-tune gimmick on it too. Sheesh. OK, 'Don't tell me' is a corker. Fair play. It's only right to have some Madge on this list, but this is a bloody odd choice.

Apparently, this is the last Madonna I'll encounter in this list. Crazy that I didn't have to hear any stuff from her dance-pop era. Instead, I mostly got her wonky attempts at electronic music at least a decade after her prime. What a disappointment.

I got really scared when I saw this album cover because I thought it was just gonna be Madonna doing country badly. After listening to this album I wish it was just that.

🎧I liked Runaway Lover and I Don’t Deserve It even though both drag on a bit too long. Otherwise this album is a stinker. Madonna is, of course, capable of so much better.

It's tough to listen to a Madonna album knowing that there was a time when she'd put out an album where you'd have a good 3 or 4 songs that pulled you right in. There's nothing even bad here, I don't think. It just doesn't have that pull. It's like seeing someone's thumb slip off the pulse of the audience.

There was one song that didn't make me want to rip my headphones off.

Vallan kuunneltava levy. Onneksi American Pie on viimeisenä, erinomainen nostatus loppuun. Aika metallinen soundi, se on Madonnalla läpi uran läsnä vaikka muuten monipuolinen onkin.

Must be the first Madonna album I’ve ever listened too

I do not like Madonna and I never have, and I can’t say I particularly enjoyed this either. However, the influence on the next decade of pop music, for better or worse, cannot be denied here. It’s definitely a relic of its time and has not aged well. The American Pie cover is something that I had memory holed, and damn, it’s really bad.

I remember a time - it must have been the mid 80s to mid 90s - when a new Madonna album was a sensation. But that ship had sailed by 2000, when this album came out, and apart from American Pie (which is a cover) and maybe Music, it only contains pop tracks that about betray the time when they were produced. 2/5

In which Madonna attempts to simultaneously ride Brittney Spears' and Shania Twain's waves

Has a few highlights but a fairly boring and derivative 2000s pop album. Not close to her best work and notas bad as her worst.

2.18

One the one hand, this project has given me an excuse to engage with Madonna's career; on the other, I'm now well versed enough in Madonna to rank this album as quite inessential.

Oh dear, very cringy. Giving off big “cool auntie” energy - “hey kids, I’m 42 but I still make dance music and take mandy”. The odd bit of good song writing (mostly Don’t Tell Me) just about saves this from the one star club.

God, auto tune is cringe, and the American Pie cover? Woof. Two for some okay tracks but so much better Madonna albums out there.

★★½

y’all. what are you doing. Dont Tell Me is better than Music.

No he escuchado un disco de Madonna en mi vida, sus canciones en la radio y la MTv por supuesto que sí. Cero interés, conocía algunas canciones, pero no puede ser menos interesante. Lo mejor es que me han entrado ganas de escuchar American Pie. Le voy a dar 2 estrellas.

This just faded into the background for me. And I don’t really mean that as a good thing. I guess it was offensive to my ears but was just kinda meh

First time I have listened to a full Madonna's album(or maybe a second one, after Like a Virgin) and I instantly regret it. Three singles are pretty good, revoking some good memories, but the rest of the album is so terrible, I can't even think of it anymore. The auto tune songs are so bad, I actually did a double take if it's a real thing. In case of Madonna - only listen to singles from now on.

1.5 stars. Dated songs and dodgy lyrics. One weirdly decent track (paradise).

Some of these songs are way too long

It's alright but doesn't grab me

Very techno. Second song is a no no. Third song is not much better. Fourth lookin ok? Still weird,weird album. I think I might like Nobody’s Perfect 3/10

Appareently, the title track was released as a single, but I don't remember hearing it or anything else from this forgettable album. Interesting, but insipid, cover of Don McLean's "American Pie".

Dont Tell Me is good, and I would listen to a Madonna country album in a heartbeat, but the rest is not so much. I dont know if it was an experiment to try a bunch of different stuff but it falls fairly flat. Also she gets points for all the anger stirred up by her American Pie cover.

I mean… it’s Madonna doing euro club music. On paper that sounds like an album I wouldn’t like. “Don’t Tell Me” earns it an entire star on its own but other than that this is a hard pass for me

one banger could i write poetry to this? n

Not one of the Madonna albums I would have chosen for this list. "Don't Tell Me" and "What It Feels Like for a Girl" are great songs, but the rest of it left me a bit flat. Two and one-half stars, with the half-star being a bonus in honor of Pride Month. This half-star will be revoked in July.

Nothing on here that I want to revisit, but not bad.

I expected this to be a lot better as I remember really liking Don’t Tell Me at the time Turns out I only liked Don’t Tell Me

Way below earlier Madonna output. 2/5

The title track is a fun song, very catchy. Don’t Tell Me may be the best song on the album. There is a reason these two songs were the singles over the rest of the album. The remainder veer from generic dance music, to just bland, or moderately catchy but forgettable. Overuse of autotune abounds in these tracks. What it Feels Like for a Girl is atrocious. I get what she is trying to do, but this missed the mark. America Pie should be considered a war crime; it is terrible. 2

not a big fan, in fact, i despise this album. awful title

Except for Music and Don’t Tell Me, I never heard any of the other tracks. Auto tune seemed to be the trend for this album which was disappointing.

Wow this has aged terribly. The thin drums, the autotune. Grand aspirations that fell so so flat. 1.5/5

Woof this did not age well. Don't Tell Me is still cool, but Music which was the lead single is awful. Didn't love it back in 2000 and definitely like it less now. And that American Pie cover sucks, but then again, nothing could ever come close to Weird Al's version.

Pretty awful album but I still can't give it a 1. It's soulless and the single "Music" isn't good today and wasn't when it was released. This doesn't even compare to Madonna's greatest hits like Material Girl, Like a Prayer, Like a Virgin and so on. Those are timeless classics. Oh and she also completely butchers American Pie.

I did not enjoy this at all. Some songs I absolutely hated, and there were 1 or 2 that were just ok, but overall I would not want to listen to this again.

Boring, except I liked one song alright: "Paradise (Not for Me)" sorta had some triphop vibes, and I enjoyed that. Wish it were more of that. The rest is either bad or entirely forgettable. 1.5/5

Bleh

Late Madonna album. Obviously knew the songs that made the radio. In listening to it through, I was not hating until it got to the one that was all autotune. I despise autotune. For that reason, I knock it down from 3 to 2 starts.

Auto-tune garbage

It sounds like Madonna is singing in front of the soundtrack to a Matrix film. It's forgettable, repetitive, and unusual in a bad way. I can't believe this is the artist that did "Material Girl." It's like the studio just had some background music and asked Madonna to sing exactly ten voice lines so they could auto tune it and cash out.

Listened Before? N Ehhhhh.. not sure what this is doing here especially when I haven't seen any of her earlier work on the list. Music the song is okay but the rest was meh. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Music

¿En serio esto uno de los 1001 mejores discos?

Of all the Madonna, why is this one to make the list

Like an Oscar going to an actor who was just okay in a role but everyone now agrees was really good in something a few years ago, music critics love nothing better than pretending a late period album by a once great artist is something other than garbage. Sorry critics, I’m not falling for it. Madonna was a force of nature from ‘83 to ‘89 but this sucks.

By 2000, Madonna was not really relevant to the popular music scene. She had effectively been dethroned as pop goddess by artists like Britney Spears. She hadn't had a number one album since 1989. This album was an effort to conform to the times. It relies on heavily electronic production. Do not be deceived by the cowgirl album cover - none of this is country. Lots of electronic-based production and autotune experimentation. It certainly hasn't aged well and comes off as a desperate cash grab with almost completely meaningless lyrics in many of the songs. It seemed to have worked, though, as this album was pretty successful upon its release. What was interesting to me were some of the more R&B inspired tracks such as "Amazing" and "What it Feels Like for a Girl". I can't say this album didn't keep me interested.