Music

Big singles small impression.

Mmmdonna, hittibiisit ollut aina ihan kuunneltavia ja muuten en niin välitä. En muista oliko tämä vai Ray of light kun tyyli muuttu meikäläisen makuun huonompaan suuntaan? Oli miten oli niin kultaisella 90-luvulla hänen nudet kiinnosti enemmän kuin musa, nykyään ei kumpikaan...

Pari hyvää biisiä, kuitenkin suurimmalta osin latistuu

I liked Madges early stuff, it was catchy and fun, but this Musoc album is a far cry from the likes of her True Blue album. Yes there's a couple of commercial radio known tracks on this album, but as a whole it lacks very much substance of tracks worth listening to... I just found it very boring, and just another album churned out to top up her coffers.

One or two OK songs, but in general the album sounds a bit gimmicky

Meh

"Music" is fine. The rest of the album didn't do much for me. As noted previously, anything post-Vogue just doesn't hit the sweet spot for me.

Aantal nummers vond ik aardig, maar de rest is allemaal vergane glorie. Ik heb overigens echt een hekel aan haar arrogantie, maar dat heb ik verder niet doorberekend in mijn oordeel.

Mjah, nooit echt een grote Madonna fan geweest.

Madonna die wanhopige probeert om relevant te blijven. De albums die ze voor deze maakte kan ik tot op zekere hoogte best waarderen, maar dit is gewoon treurig. En het wordt hierna alleen maar treuriger en treuriger. Vooral niet toe willen geven Madonna, dat je inmiddels een ouwe valse kraai bent! Lekker doorgaan, mallerd dat je d'r bent!

Ik had hier vroeger zo’n gekopieerd cd’tje van, maar hoe nu pas hoe erg het eigenlijk is.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Not really, this transition/phase of music for her isn’t something very appealing to me Favourite song: Track 1 - Music

Not my kind of music.

This is the second Madonna album I got here on the 1001 list, and even being so crucial for music history, they chose her worst albums to be on the list. Since I'm not a huge fan of her, it always looks like any standard pop song without much to say. It's not objectively bad, but besides the 1st song, it's a good album to be used as background music for those who like pop.

This was just fine, the title track was great, but not many others were particularly memorable. Production is a bit dated at this point.

A couple of songs I knew but were ok at best, I wouldn't run into a burning building to save it is all i'm saying. I'll just just shake my head while I see it in my newsfeed and think "Tragic".

There are a couple of OK songs on this. I'd forgotten how horrible that version of American Pie was.

This just wasn't great. Felt like the music (no pun intended) was all over the place and nothing was particularly catchy. On a separate note, garbage album art. 4/10.

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

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

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

Painful

Some lame lyrics and sparks of cool production. Overrated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artiste connue et détestée. Je n’ai pas pu aller au bout de cet album sans intérêt. L’accompagnement electronica/dance est mauvais, et je n’aime pas le chant bourré d’effets et d’autotune. A fuir. =>1/5

It’s hard for me to get in the mindset to appreciate Madonna in the first place, much less 2000s Madonna.

One decent track. The rest is garbage.

No. Just no.

Close enough, welcome back Cowboy Carter Not her best I must say, really preferred Ray Of Light, and surely there’s an album from her earlier career more suitable? Surprised to see flagrant auto tune as a stylistic choice on an album this early, sounded very distracting, and the skipping at the start of Don’t tell me was certainly a decision

Hot ass I feel like I was too harsh on the last Madonna album and have been meaning to go back and give it another chance But god damn Nobody’s perfect sounds like what everyone thinks reality awaits sounds like and the American pie cover sounds like really bad karaoke 1.5

Made me feel physical revulsion. I did not like this, and I did not finish this.

This album is poop from a butt.

Why was this even in the fucking book?

Just dreadful. A mechanical canary

How anyone can call this music is beyond me

The title of the album is misleading cause this is anything but music. How does anyone listen to this?

Probably the only Madonna album I can vaguely get through without despair. The dance-pop stuff is still pretty awful to my ears, but the three tracks that bring in more varied influences work noticeably better. Still, I won’t be coming back to this one anytime soon.

I can't help but think the only reason this made the list is because it's Madonna. The same album released under a different name, I don't think it makes the grade to be in the 1001 albums list. I mean it's better than Murder Ballads, but... Should be re-titled "Girls Gone Vocoder Wild". Tracks like I Deserve It with her pure voice coming through were substantially better than the pure disco house Veronica Electronica bits. Nobody's Perfect seemed to be her apology for releasing that painfully bad track. The day the music died was the day this was released. I was a 2 up until that last track...

I was really excited for this one because I've never run a full Madonna album. Sorely disappointed, though. Kinda just sounds like a middle aged woman trying to connect with the youths. Bunch of cheeky sounds of the time wrapped up in a body of work. I actually don't hate the exploration and trying new things, but my GOD are the lyrics bad. They lyrics are absolutely terrible. Who were the writers?? The title song does a LOT of heavy lifting. It's an undeniable banger. It almost dragged this up to a 2 but alas, fell short.

1.5

Madonna - Music This is dogshit kebab terrible. First off, her voice is characterless, dirgeful whine. Second her lyrics are infant school googoo gaga nonsense. Third, she just leeches off her collaborators. Case in point being that the tracks with Mirwais Ahmadzai and William Orbit would be perfectly ok as instrumentals. Best Track - None. But if I have to then Don't Tell Me Worst - I Deserve It. But we didn't. Absolutely fucking terrible. How the hell is this on this list? 2/10

Never heard boring Madonna until now

Nothing to see here…

Don't Tell Me sounded choppy. Nobody's Perfect lowered this album down to a one. The autotune was painful!

Madonna stopped being interesting many decades ago! In fact, in my case, *Ray of Light* was one of the last things of hers that I could still take in and digest without too much trouble. But after that, I stopped paying attention to what she does—artists who shout from the rooftops that they’re reinventing themselves when all they’re really doing is trying to keep up with trends and rake in a few more bucks over and over again! Forget it. Real icons are people like Tina Turner, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen… they don’t go around acting like old people trying to be young; they keep up with the times without ceasing to be themselves, doing what they’ve always done and knowing when to stop and appreciate the journey! Here, with Madonna and this album, there’s little left to appreciate :-(

Es bastante malo. Principalmente hablando de la reina del pop.

I can make better music with my ballsack hitting a drum set

oof… I'm not a fan. Pop music from this era had very little for me to latch onto. And this is definitely no exception. After 4 songs, I'm ready to call it. But I feel obligated to the project to do my best to finish it. …Oh god!! Not the really tacky, bad autotune! Please make it stop! Hey! Someone figured out how to automate the mute button! "Please don't tell me to stop." I already asked you earlier, Madonna. Is she trying to conjure some Kate Bush in that last track? Okay. That's over. I've heard worse. But it's got nothing for me here.

Meh

Absolute trash

Why is this album included on this list? There are so many quintessential Madonna albums. This is not one of them.

This is a sad attempt at relevance from an aging pop star. Hardly worth inclusion in this list.

1. muzic - 2 2. inztant - 1 3. lover - 1 4. dezerve - 1 5. amazing - 1 6. perfect - 1 7. tell - 1 8. girl - 0 9. paradize- 0 10. gone - 1 11. pie - 0

One of her worst!!! American Pie is just awful!!!!!

Unlistenable

Never been a Madge fan and this is why. The first few were just plain awful. Wether the one that was auto-tuned all the way through was supposed to be ironic or not I really couldn't tell. To be fair the albumdid improve the longer you put up with it, but that is not difficult when it starts off that bad. And I have never liked her version of American pie.

486/1089 - That was bad. Autotune and acoustic instruments shouldn't mix and the production choices were really questionable throughout... I think. I forgot most of it after it ended. Apparently there's a Y2K style American Pie bonus track. I don't really get it. The point of the original song was talking about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens and the tumultuous cultural changes of the 60s. I guess the internet and Y2K was a big change but the grit and worry isn't there in this version, it's a bit too fun sounding for me. Idk what I'm talking about, take it with a grain of salt. I didn't exist in the 90s but I kinda wish this album didn't exist in the 2000s.

Fun Fact: Madonna recorded "American Pie" as a parody of Weird Al's "The Saga Begins." This is largely seen as an act of revenge after their relationship fell apart and Weird Al survived Madonna's assassination attempt

I was so disappointed by this. I thought I had listened to it a lot when I was younger but I don't remember many of the songs and found it a bit crap.

Trashy

I did not enjoy this at all. Sorry.

Way too much autotune for my taste. Music still has a good beat, and Don’t tell me is ok, but the rest of the album is a bit blah.

I don't feel like this was an album I absolutely had to listen to, but I have and we now move on.

While I like most of her music, I don't care for Madonnica. 1.5/5

The content is as bland as the title. I agree that Madonna should be on this list, but I don't get why this album is here. It sounds like an album she put out just because she is Madonna and wanted to get over with it. It's not that bad, but it's not good at all. I don't find anything engaging to it. I don't understand this inclusion.

Między 1-2. Taki najpospolitszy pop. Nic ciekawego.

Dated pop from after she was washed.

hot doo doo from a butt sorry madonna

Brutal

Everything about Madonna makes me physically ill: her voice, her appearance, everything.

Late effort from our madge

Sleek electronic dance-pop built on pulsing synth loops, programmed beats, and processed, coolly controlled vocals cycles with hypnotic precision. Listening feels like being on a brightly lit dancefloor where the same groove keeps circling without much change feeling monotonous.

This record is terrible. It sounds so dry and soulless. Madonna was an interesting figure earlier in her career, but there came a point where she wasn’t about anything except what was trending at the time. These songs do not add anything. They exist, but it does not mean they are.

Not good.

Boring and derivative.

This was really bad and then the American Pie cover sooo bad

Wow, I hate this era of music.

Madonna lost her way in the 2000’s and to is is glorified electronic music

the beats are fresh but overall it really doesn’t deliver like other songs for me. and it sounds really bad when you have an acoustic guitar and synthesized drums in this era. auto tune and that’s it.

nahh

No

I am not a big pop fan and despite knowing Madonna's name I am completely unfamiliar with her catalog. Because of the big name, I was expecting something groundbreaking. Maybe her voice is spectacular? But no, it's just shitty dance pop with light auto tune. I feel this can't possibly be one if Madonna's best albums, let alone an album you must hear before you die.

1/10 A pop electronica album from 2000 featuring work by Guy Sigsworth (a man who has worked extensively with Imogen Heap, Björk and Lamb, among others)? Yes please! Oh… What? Hang on, what the hell is this? I obviously remember the big hits off this record from my teenage years, but in my head, they were way better songs than they actually are, and the production across those tracks, as well as the rest of the record is absolutely bizarre. This album is the audio version of the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids” clip from 30 Rock, in which Madonna, her collaborators and, if I had to guess, quite a few music execs, try to make music that “The Kids” are into, despite not really understanding that music at all. It’s kind of remarkable. What’s even more remarkable is that, from a sales point of view, it actually worked. It feels a lot like the first port of call was to buy three or four of the most popular synths of the day and bash through a bunch of presets, while playing along to some hastily programmed drum beats, but then not actually developing things further, except to pile more effects, weird noises and clashing tones over the top of everything. Honestly, it’s a complete mess from a production point of view. If you listen closely, there are actually some half decent ideas buried under there, but they’re so swamped by “state of the art production techniques” (i.e. digital fuckery that’s been really badly executed) that it’s hard to see them than anything other than big steaming musical turds. And you can’t claim that these are just artefacts of the time this record came out, because a lot of the electronica techniques they are trying to implement had been used creatively, effectively and with nuance for at least a decade prior to this release. Luckily for my mate Guy, it looks like he only actually had a hand in one track on this record, which is actually the best one on there, but even that isn’t enough to save this steaming pile of musical manure. And I’ve nothing against Madonna, she has released some classic pop music in the past, but this is just a shambles. Music - The weird thing about this is that it’s a better song in my head than it is on the actual record. It’s so dynamically flat, there’s no nuance to the drum programming, and the synths feel like they’ve all been set to the one of the first presets in bank A. It apes the work of a load of dance music producers from the 90s but without any of the grit, style or feel. This is “baby’s first dancefloor anthem”, aka the kind of music you give to kids if you don’t credit them with any critical thinking. The melodies are reasonably catchy though, so this sold by the boatload. Impressive Instant - More derivative dancefloor sounds to start us off and good lord, it gets worse. There are some atrocious and pointless vocal edits in this that don’t add anything musical or interesting to the blend. This is stuffed full of terrible sounds that don’t connect together well and it doesn’t even find anything close to an engaging melody. This is complete trash of the highest order. Runaway Lover - Again, and I feel I may be repeating myself often on this record, this is another derivative, unmemorable dancefloor track that has some truly baffling moments of production. I can hear kernels of how this could have been turned into something not shit, like there’s a tiny bit of trip-hop sound like Lamb buried deep within it, but it’s been ultra-processed to the point where that feels so very far away. I Deserve It - So this is a fairly mundane country pop number, but the drum beats and synths that they use are so teeth grindingly robotic and dynamically flat that all of the charm and nuance is completely sucked out of what could have been a half-decent song. Utterly baffling. Oh, and it’s too long. Amazing - Well this isn’t as bad as some of the stuff we’ve had up to now, but it’s still very, very dynamically flat and one-paced. It kind of feels like the production team and Madonna herself are doing two different things with this track that don’t actually blend all that well. There’s a bit of grit and intensity to the track and Madge sounds like she’s singing a clean pop song. The flutey synth pad is annoying, and it feels like they also couldn’t work out how to end it. Nobody's Perfect - Oh, shit. Awful auto-tune now. And some weird whispering. I just don’t see what the auto-tune brings to the table here, and even the lead synth sounds sad to be involved in this. Again, there are some really clunky bits of production that almost sound unintentional, they’re that poorly executed. This is such a strange way to treat a ballad, because as a result of all the audio fuckery, it has no soul at all and the production actually draws attention away from the (admittedly incredibly boring) song that sits underneath it. Don't Tell Me - Right, so I obviously remember this because I was 15 years old when this album came out and wasn’t a complete shut-in. But again, my memory of it is far better than the reality. The sample chopping of the guitar part is laughably poorly executed, and that type of sample chopping had been being done expertly by a number of producers up to this point, so the age of this song is no excuse. The timing is sloppy, the cutting of the tail of the tones jars. The synth parts are really crap, the strings sound like cheap samples and it’s produced in such a way that everything clashes and feels pretty incoherent. I think there are some decent melodies in there, but they’re hidden amongst an abomination of clashing and half-arsed ideas. What It Feels Like For A Girl - This is the best track on the album by such a long way that it’s not even funny. It has a good thematic message, the melodies are pretty good and there’s so much more nuance to the synth and drum programming. It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that this is the only track on the album that was co-written and co-produced by Guy Sigsworth. The synths and strings blend really nicely together and it’s got a really nice ambience to it. It’s not the most well developed or exceptionally interesting track, but it stands out so far above the rest that I actually quite enjoyed it. Paradise (Not For Me) - What on earth is going on with this half whisper-sung vocal intro? Oh god, then we get some vocoded nonsense. The resonant synth patch that comes in is way too loud and again, this feels like a super-weird clash of styles and tones that rut up against one another but never blend. It’s like a string of half-completed ideas mashed together. Some of those ideas aren’t actually that bad and we land on some reasonable moments of ambient trip-hop production, but as soon as the vocals come back in again, they are so bad that I’m not even sure how to describe them. Gone - Ok, here’s a plodding singer-songwriter start. The drum programming isn’t as mind-numbingly flat and robotic as I Deserve It, but it’s still pretty monotonous and uninteresting. I also don’t understand why you’d put those synth effects over the top of this, it’s just an incredibly strange production choice. This is a fairly bland track, but it’s not terrible, however it’s just got more of those odd choices that make it a hard listen. American Pie - This is a bonus track, so normally I wouldn’t review it, but I just wanted to note that this is an utter abomination.

:( 1/5

The first part of the album was really grating and awful. What It Feels Like For A Girl and Paradise (Not For Me) were the only songs that were at least decent, and that’s because they’re different from the sound of the rest of the album. Not feeling generous today; this is getting 1 star.

Awful. Even by Madonna's standards.

It was so bland, the production is immaculate but nothing else going for it.

Unlistenable

Blech. Never much of a Madonna fan and I found this album pretty horrific

It was so forced although I wasn’t in the gay clubs then so It might of been banging but I couldn’t help but cringe for her shot at staying relevant…

just no god no this was fully bad

Not for me

As someone who is only vaguely familiar with Madonna, I can just imagine someone not knowing anything about her, seeing this cover thinking it’s country, and then being seriously disappointed lol. On a related note, this album is awful.

madonna krolowa popu jak szczupak krolem wod

I hate this.

Insipid lyrics, nothing memorable, completely skippable

I mean come on. How is this album in this list… although I quite like ‘Don’t Tell Me’

Alright. When I listened to the last Madonna album, I thought it was a fluke that it was so bad, but I'm beginning to think that at some point in her career, she just got really bad.

Awful. The absolute worst. The cover of American Pie is the worst thing I've ever heard. Not just limited to music, either. That includes all sounds. Ever.

god this album actually sucks

GTFO

I promise never to change the station on Holiday, but that's it.

“I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows“ -bart simpson

Music - 3/5 Impresive Instant - 0/5 Runaway Lover - 2.5/5 I Deserve It - 1/5 Amazing - 2.5/5 Nobody's Perfect - 0/5 Don't Tell Me - 2.5/5 What It Feels Like for a Girl - 3.5/5 Paradise (Not for Me) - 1/5 Gone - 2/5 American Pie - 0/5 That was some bland and overproduced pop BS. I don't know how I listened to the whole thing, but there were some bright spots (Music is a guilty pleasure type of song, What It Feels... is an actually half-decent song). The autotuned and robotic voices really kill this thing. How was this critically acclaimed. All I'm realizing is that the early aughts were not a good time for music. Overall: 1/5 Favorites: Music, What It Feels Like for a Girl

Crazy how big Madonna got without ever actually putting out a good album

A bunch of terrible lyrics and bland music held together by ear candy

I didn’t like it

too techno-y :(

Incredible how bad this is

bastante basura, he pasado como 6 canciones, nunca mas

This hasn’t aged well and I didn’t like it when it came out

I like Madonna but this album is not it. Some of the songs have awful lyrics and some of the performances are genuinely annoying, especially the painful whisper lyrics. 'what it feels to be a girl's was only okay track. The American pie cover confirmed the 1. Jesus Christ it's bad

Why is this here?

Madonna two days in a row?? Ray of light yesterday was surprisingly good and got a 3. I'm nearly angling for a 1 with this. What is the aim? The techno pop tracks early in this album are shocking. Only when the sort of country-pop tracks are tried does it sort of hit a note of acceptability. And 'music' as a title. I don't understand? Is it that you were trying to amalgamate loads of different music genres into one, or are you just being super lazy? Or do you actually have that much of a state of self-importance that you feel an album can be titled as such? Ok, it's getting a 1 now.

Nicht auf Apple Music

There’s not a single song I wouldn’t immediately skip if I heard it ever again.

What in the hell is this sound?? The 2000’s pop sound was all over the place, this sounded like spacey electronic dance music but in the worst way possible. Madonna owes me 49 minutes of my life back. The sad part is that enough people enjoyed this shit for it to make this damn list lmao. Wait Nobody’s Perfect came on and Madonna morphed into T Pain… you can’t make this shit up!

The sound of a dying swan, the last motion of a headless chicken before it expires, the twitching of butchered meat when salt is applied, the punch-drunk boxer who desperately throws a couple of last haymakers hoping to connect with anything on their way down, a middle aged mum wearing her daughters clothes as a way to hold off peri-menopause, the boss who passes off an underlings work as their own to seem like they still know whats going on, a dad shouting 6-7 at his kids as he hasn't accepted his irrelevance

Music Don't Tell Me What It Feels Like for a Girl

An awful, boring album. Was Madonna faking an English accent during this Kabbala, Guy Ritchie phase? Some things are better left in the last millenium.

Just pop music that isn’t all that good. 1/5

Not my bag.

Ni de puta coña escucho a Madonna.

Wow, that was trash.

Only made it to track two. I just don't want to listen to this.

Thought this was quite dated and not entirely sure why it's here. The title track isnt great and the American pie cover is awful. They bookend pretty bland dance pop with acoustic guitars in between. Not great overall

Why?

Not very listenable

Madonna is annoying to me.

Do I have to? Lol

Terrible. Couldn’t take it seriously with the ridiculous lyrics…

This is one of the worst things I have ever listened to. She can’t sing; the lyrics are facile and vapid. Shit in a silk stocking, the manifest inadequacies of the material are to be buried under expensive production but end result sounds little better than europop.

This phase of Madonna is no bueno

Not for me 1/5

I thought Music was horrible. It lacks the energy and authenticity of Madonna's older work. The electronic direction felt uninspired, especially compared to her earlier hits. It just didn’t capture the magic she used to have. Definitely not a favorite.

1 - not good, overproduced electronic pop

Look I’ve always had a soft spot for pop music, and that’s something I’ve had to defend / admit to myself quietly so I’m not going to be a genre snob here. However, this just wasn’t a fun listen. Madonna has a catalogue of great tracks, ones which you don’t have to be a pop fan to enjoy/admit how well crafted they are. But lots of these felt like they could have been crafted on audacity by someone of my capabilities, and ‘I deserve it’ epitomised that lyrically and musically throughout. Sunday is a notoriously fantastic day to listen to an album, but this wasn’t one of them. Am sorry.

This is such an auto-tuned mess. The few decent songs are more straightforward (Don't Tell Me for example). But What it Feels Like for a Girl tries too hard to be provocative with nothing to show for it. And then there's the blasphemy of the American Pie cover.

Madonna's 8th album changed the game and definitely deserves to be on this list.

This is supposed to be one of the 1001 albums, which one should listen to before one dies? Is that some kind of joke? It's not different to thousand others pop albums out there, except maybe that a very famous person made this album. If I'm missing something I really would like an explanation.

Was going to be a 2 but I couldn't forgive that awful cover of American Pie

Yes, this was Music by Madonna. Though if you asked someone to sing a song by her I can't imagine any of these would be among them.

Geh mir weg damit. Habe ich irgendwann abgebrochen. War nur nervig.

Dear me. This album contains the worst lyrics you will ever hear. And the production is just something I cant articulate. Like when you get something new and try every feature at once. Over produced? Lazy? Shite? All of the above. Honestly this is dreadful

I believe this album sort of spearheaded her reinvention as a dance-pop gran, culminating in Confessions on a Dance Floor about 5 years later. The album title is laughable - absolutely no thought whatsoever. "What's on your new album, Madge?" "Music, Guy". Don't Tell Me is a song on the album. The other tracks are not worth reporting on. Tonally, all over the place. Regarding the cover of American Pie: I saw Don McLean some years ago now in Utrecht doing his greatest hits tour. He ended up doing a 10 minute version of his second best song (his best being Vincent). It was pretty spectacular; he's an old man but he sounded young and vibrant, lamenting loss and generational change. Back to Madonna - this album is about 1.5, but I can't for the life of me fathom giving this 2 stars.

Ah, 2000. A time when well-established icons (and Victoria Beckham) disguised their ageing voices with that robot autotune sound. When you hear the name Madonna, nobody - absolutely nobody - thinks of this album. Title track might be considered after a while, but this couldn't sound more bland and dated if it tried. A reminder that not everything pre-9/11 was sunshine and rainbows. It's 8 hours since I wrote the above, and I only just got to see other reviews. Considering the number of references to 9/11 in them (not something I ever do) I'm going to say that this album is not just terrorism on the ears, but contains some form of subliminal terrorism within. Madge did it.

Crap. Madonna had her moment in the 1980s. But you can only coast so far on spectacle over substance, without being good at the things that are actually your job - singing, dancing, writing pop songs. Madonna's post-'80s career is a textbook study in diminishing returns.

This is crap. Theres nothing great about this album at all. If it wasn't by modanna or at least she stood there while someone both over and underproduced this album, it wouldnt even be considered.

THEY MEMORY HOLED "American Pie" lol I was so confused! I listened to this *10* track album on Spotify, then went to the reviews... Why are all these people wanging on about American Pie??? A little digging then brings up an *eleven* track version Woof.

I'm just thinking of all the albums that aren't on this list that could have been over this one........ It does encapsulate that weird time between 90s/00s pop. Didn't mind Don't Tell Me. 1.5/5

A esto lo llamo música para drag queen básicamente: un electropop vacío sin alma alguna. De hecho, cuando esta mujer se pone a jugar con el autotune no hay quien la aguante. Este disco solo tiene una canción agradable (American Pie) y no es ni siquiera de Madonna. 1/5

kinda meh. its got that 70s 'futuristic' sound at times. a bit depressing

Big ole meh

Sorry, I just can't. I've never been a big fan of Madonna, and this is clearly Madonna past her peak. Just no.

Madonna suffering from a seriously bad case of the Y2K bug. It sounds like she listened to a bunch of 90s electronic alt rock (Beck, Portishead, Beta Band, Stereolab) and thought, oh I'll have a go at that. The electro pop stuff is pretty solid, if uninspired, high spec dance music as you'd expect from a standard bearer of the genre and some of the chilled out mellow stuff is decent, but what the hell is this acoustic strummy pseudo Sheryl Crow stuff ('I deserve it') and auto-tuned trip hop ('nobody's perfect')?! Awful.

Didn't listen to the whole thing cause meeeehhh

There were a couple times I caught myself thinking "maybe this one will be okay?" But they weren't. Soulless pop trash

This album was terrible. I have no clue how it made this list. Washed up, poorly written trash. Hopefully there’s some 80’s Madonna on this list

Not an album I'd run out and buy. Sometimes I wonder about the people who chose the albums for this list.

The cover of American Pie is the longest 4:33 I've had in 548 albums. Ugh.

Uh no thanks

Mostly mindless forgettable eh. The good ones seem like Madonna trying to sound like Cheryl Crow. The bad ones have no personality and barely sound like Madonna.

Not my cup of tea, I do like a few of her early club songs but this is too shiny and overproduced

I'm angry that I've been forced to listen to this. American Effing Pie FFS.

Wow. Bad.

Meh outside of 2 songs

Auto tuned pop confection.

Wow, this "Music" is shockingly bad. What the helly happened to Madonna between Ray of Light and this? Pretty sure it's still with William Orbit, but unlike Ray of Light, all the songs here just suck! "Nobody's Perfect" might take the record for worst, most pathetically generic, song ever. The lyrics on that are especially bad, like a 4th graders first poem. I didn't even like a single song off of this, and I am quite trigger happy with likes (got 40k on spotify 😂). Worst inclusion of the list ever, I genuinely can't believe they went with this over Weezer or blink-182 or hell even Madonna's older albums. She was HUGE in the 80s and we only get "Like a Prayer"? Seriously? I'm completely missing some essential music history here. This never should have sniffed the list, this album is awful. Worse than The Streets and SAULT

I really dislike Madonna, and it doesn’t help that this album was made 20 years after her prime

The Good: We get Music!!! The Bad: It is 2000’s Madonna music… The Ugly: That gold grill… Really? Music? This is what the list is turning into? Yesterday I was excited… Today I am distraught… Music will do that to you… And to think that I have 600+ albums to go before the journey ends...

This is a cultural time-capsule best left buried. Very dull pop that at best boasts some interesting production but little else. The decision to include a dreadful cover of what was already one of the 20th century's most over played songs was a bizarre one. At the end I felt like I required a spiritual cleansing, honestly.

This is the most ironically named album in history. It is not, in fact, music.

Evidence that you can all the studio tricks in the world and still produce a steaming pile of turdmusic. I feel sorrow for all the bytes wasted on this. And the cover of American Pie is a lifeless corpse of a song.

This album sucked. It was an irrelevant pop star coopting an underground movement (EDM) to create a soulless and bad pop album

eh

Really poor overproduced pop album the American pie cover is an abomination

Garbage. Techno country with video game noises and major autotune. No thanks

Absolutely ass. I feel sexually assaulted by the music and I now have ptsd.

Absolute terrible album with no worth in this world. Waste of an hour of my life as well. None of the songs were playlist worthy not even close. This album sounds as bad as Madonna looks nowadays. And every song was a shitty club rave beat that sounded terrible. Madonna you can do so much better. Unrelease this now.

Ts is so ass bro. Like imagine if you were groped, thats what happened to my ears on the first half of the album. Then the second half is HOLY MID I feel this shitty music penetrates my ears without my consent and I loathed every second of it Every single track on this feels like it’s all over the place and it’s a shit show all

More assembly line music drivel.

Am I being Punk'd?....Ashton Kutcher, that you?

This was a struggle. Awful.

Madge peaked with vogue - this is superfluous noise.

No surprises, this is a Madonna album that I don't particularly care for. Something about her voice grates on my nerves.

Hoo boy, this album is so early 2000s it physically hurts. Madonna is clearly starting to drink her own Kool-Aid by this point, and she really thinks she's God's gift to music here - despite the overwrought lyrics, weebly autotune, and general dearth of musical innovation all round. There's no greater sign of a lack of imagination than another bloody cover of American Pie.

Пластиковый звук не оч

I remember hating the single. I'm sure I still hate it. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

When I was in the sixth grade, this album was pretty recent. We had some sort of assignment where we had to write/perform a parody song in French. One kid, who had not learned very much French, did Music. His lyrics were “Musique//fait les personnes//vien ensemble//oui!” which is pretty funny grammatically, and also pretty catchy, and I still think about it sometimes. Singing that line in my head was more satisfying than any moment of the actual Music by Madonna.

Nogle enkelte numre der er noget værd på, men jeg synes hele den blip-blop produktion er ældet så dårligt. George Bush æra-core

Håber dælme ikke det her er den eneste Madonna plade på listen! Synes det startede fedt, de første par sange var cool! Men den sidste halvdel af pladen havde en del numre som lød decideret forfærdeligt. Kedelige ballader med stenet elektronisk produktion og elendig brug af autotune.

I am not the target audience for this album. I've never been a fan of Madonna or her brand of pop music. This album also utilizes a lot of early 2000's production, which hasn't aged well in my opinion. It's also stange to me that the visual component of this album is country oriented. Nothing about the music on this album makes me think country or cowgirl

Ray of shite

ugly

Meh... boring, washed-up pop record. Early 2000's wasn't a great time for pop music, just a lot of safe, uninspired music. Definitely didn't need to listen to this.

Why is music in scare quotes? That doesn't bode well. Wow, hot garbage autotune crap.

It’s not that this album is blatantly bad, it’s just ver uninspired and remedial. Maybe for the early digital age it was groundbreaking but it doesn’t really hold up now. The “glitch” part in the pre chorus of Nobody’s Perfect made me smirk. The lyrics of the first half of the album remind me of a high school girl that’s learning to write poetry. The final two songs are the stand outs. Maybe I’m expecting too much from a dance music album but I was not very impressed.

🥱

Couldn’t make it through this one. Between the drum machine and annoying synths just not for me.

Nearly an hour full of autotuned crap. This version of american pie is a crime.

Not a fan

the mountains of effort poured into this album to give it a different sound ended up making it the most year 2000 sounding ass album imaginable. it's so obviously an elder stateswoman of pop trying to prove she's still got it and just copy pasting whatever christina and britney were up to. holy shit this is so bland. this is a mayonnaise sandwich on wonder bread. [tapping my ear] we're just hearing reports that it ends with an indefensibly weird rendition of american pie this is soooooooo bad

Just terrible

Like chewing toilet paper.

Sorry. Just not my shit. It sounds like it was recorded underwater.

Nope

Skip

Jesus, that cover of American pie!

Going from Ray of Light to this in two years should be a chargeable offence. It is no wonder that the word music is in quotation marks on the cover. Dull, uninspired, ticking boxes for a record. I hated this for how much I couldn't enjoy it - at least give me a reason to listen to it again even if it's so bad I have to laugh. This had nothing. And yet I will probably give Ray of Light four or five stars when I get it.

This does not need to be on this list. To me this is nothing more than an artifact from this time period in pop music. Slick production and too much autotune. It has a bit of an electronica and trip-hop vibe to it at times. But man this feels so forgettable and inconsequential. Just feature Madonna's good stuff on this list, no need to add this here.

Sorry, Madge. Light Years by Kylie Minogue is WAY BETTER. Overall: 1/10

Any other artist could have put out some decent music like this and just had Madonna as a feature on a track or two. This is kind of useless Makes sense that it has been removed from the list.

Good God is this bad. The robo-assault dance music is wholly unmoving. And as much as I dislike robot music, the tiny spaces without her voice are the best parts.

This might be harsh, but I have a head-cold and this album has gone straight through me. After the first couple of songs I did start to question whether it was me or the music - then that horrid autotune song came on and she started singing American Pie and I've concluded, as ever, Madge is the problem.

Unbearable autotune experiment

I realised that I already knew a lot of songs off this album. I also realised that I hate the ones I didn't know as much as I hate the ones I did.

ależ słabe 1+

There was nothing fun about this album. Why would anyone call this "Music"?

I'd give it a 0 if I coule

There were a couple of songs that I kinda liked (Don’t Tell Me, What It Feels Like for a Girl, Gone), but overall this album was pretty boring and unremarkable. If it wasn’t by Madonna, there’s no way it would be on the list. I hate the adaptation of American Pie. So much.

Boomer music

Oof... this album really is a product of it's time. It's so stuck in time that I wouldn't even say it's a 00's album. It's specifically the year 2000. When people say they don't like Madonna, this is the era they're referring to. I've always heard that Madonna is the only artist to release a chart-topping record every decade since her start. I'm now realizing she only accomplished this by pandering to the audience of the time. She just chases whatever the trend is. The only song I kinda liked was "Don't Tell Me", but even that feels like a rip-off of Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". Specifically the guitar cutting in and out.

Did not care for that at all.

Did not enjoy this. A couple songs were okay I guess but more than a couple were just straight bad. Production was… creative, but often not enjoyable. I really don’t that this was an album that I needed to hear before I die.

What a fuckin mess this album is. It’s like they took every shitty trend in pop music in the year 2000, randomly mixed them together and puked out 11 songs hoping a couple of them hit. I guess it’s interesting that an aging pop star/sex symbol tried to revive her career in such an obviously contrived and desperate way…and it actually worked. I mean the album is called “music” and had Madonna in a cowboy hat on the cover for fucks sake and ends with a horrible cover of American Pie. Wait, maybe this is satire and I’m just getting it as I write this. If that’s the case it’s a masterpiece, if it’s a genuine attempt to make good music it’s terrible (though I kind of like Don’t tell me).

I like Madonna. The Immaculate Collection album is one of my favorite things ever. But whether this album was done by her or somebody else it slides into annoying bad rather than regular bad and it makes my skin crawl in places. Plus her cover of “American Pie” is egregious. 1.5/5

Boring, typical pop. Nothing that has to be heard here.

Pop. Wow I really didn’t like this album. It felt like there were a bunch of do things tried, but all of them were terrible. The whispering, the sudden stops, the auto tune, the cover. There were a couple of okay songs here, but not one I’d recommend.

I find it amusing that "music" is in inverted commas on the album cover - someone at the record label must've had the same opinion of this as me. This is properly bad, no idea why it's made the list when she's made some decent pop in her career. Feels like a midlife crisis album, desperately trying to stay relevant and just getting everything one beat wrong. Like a dad going on his first night on the pull after the divorce, or David Cameron at a football match. 1/5.

Could not finish this one

There was a time, 10-15 years before, "Music" when Madonna was a relevant artist. Sometimes controversial, kinda edgy and her songs, videos and persona kept her in the headlines and the charts, because she was an artist that walked the thin line of celebrity, performer and what we would call today, an influencer. I didn't care for her music, actually I couldn't stand her, but I recognize and respect her talent and show(woman)ship. Fast forward to 2000, with the release of "Music", it questions her relevancy. First of all, the music is horrible, the songs are forgettable, on the cover she wears a cowboy hat and glitzy western shirt, the techno-pop beats are repetitious and boring and covering an iconic song, American Pie is unnecessary and embarrassing. Trying to keep up with the times musically has been what I think of Madonna for over the past 20 years and the ride has been amazing bland from someone that constantly seeks our attention. "Music" was almost unlistenable and when the auto-tune kicked in I wanted to turn it off, but clearly I'm a masochist. Essential?...uh NO, garbage...YES!

This album demonstrates the true power of music industry. Despite containing auto tuned, vapid, genre-less shit, its sound was all over the place and even garnered several Grammy nominations. Critics “loved” it. I don’t buy it for a second. They know who butters their bread. Madonna! If you shone a light on this album it would not cast a shadow because there is no substance.

Doesn’t belong in the list. Ray of Light would have been a better choice as It was adventurous and more of a radical step for her than “Music” was.

Horrible experiencia.

The only thing I can say about this is that I listened to this out of the 1,001 albums before I die. That’s about all I can say. Prefer her earlier stuff.

So dance pop is totally not my thing. I hate the overproduction of this album. I hate the terrible autotune that's on most (all?) songs. There is more to making music than synthesized beats, phased shitty drum sounds, and autotuned vocals. That's like the worst kind of album I can imagine. I do like some of the stuff that Madonna did in the 80s and maybe early 90s but this is pretty unbearable. I was close to giving this album an extra star because I rather enjoyed Gone but then American Pie followed. WTF? I have always hated the original version of that song and this has to be some kind of joke. Like how many people heard this before the album was released and none of them thought to say "You know, Madonna, this really is not something to which you should subject the world"? 1/5

I can see how some people might enjoy the album.

Madonna never had a great voice and her 80s pop wasn’t great, but is classic 80s. The newer stuff is much worse. Could not get through 4 songs

Madonna’s hit or miss for me. She has some great albums and great music, but this one is just so… boring. Not at all like her great synthpop from the 80s, or dancy trip hop Ray of Light released just before this album, or the later disco-esque Confessions on a Dance Floor. Music is just so much lamer than what she's capable of.

The music is so overproduced and loaded up with auto-tune and voice effects that it really could have been sung by anyone at all. In addition, it's enough to listen to the first 30 seconds of any of the tracks and you'll have heard the entire song. The entire endeavor is devoid of any personality. Sure, for Madonna this may be consider re-inventing things. But it's just a switch from manufactured-to-death 80's pop to manufactured-to-death 00's pop. I was prepared to give this 2 stars as most of it is inoffensive background muzak. But then the atrocious American Pie cover hit me like a personal insult.

Not even going to try and listen to this one

jfc

This is the worst one so far. So dated and just a cacophony of sound. The lyrics are on par with Kirk van Houten's "Can I Borrow a Feeling?" I hated every second I had to listen to this.

Not to my taste

Not her best

Thanks to this list I've listened to enough electronic albums to know that there's nothing special about this album other than Madonna released it

I really expected better from such a renowned pop icon. I get that she needs to evolve and change her sound, but Jesus fucking Christ. Half of this album is just boring and repetitive, and when it's not being boring it's just weird experimentation, and not in a good way. And I feel like that album title is trying to compensate for something, because half the songs on this album don't even feel like music. They are just a random assortment of sounds that nobody asked for.

You cannot call this... monstrosity "Music." It is laughably absurd and too 'experimental' for even electronic music today.

"Nobody's Perfect," indeed. This felt formulaic and tired.

I laughed, I cried, I pissed myself. A placeholder album. Low-effort, I’m-it-for-the-paycheck energy I went and listened to Madvillainy upon finishing this one, just so that the day’s listening wasn’t a waste.

This is awful, the cover of American pie is possibly the worst thing I've heard. Such a surprise as the last 2 Madonna albums I got both got 5's. She can clearly sing, but why on earth she decided to (what I assume is) autotune the hell out of her voice is beyond me

is it 1001 albums you must hear before you die, or 1001 albums that make you want to die?

I really hated this.

Really

Expected Madonna on this list as she is renowned, but not this album. Way too much bad autotune and the worst American pie cover ever.

No, it’s not.

This album is absolute garbage. A complete waste of my time to listen too. Demoralizingly terrible music quality, atrociously uninspiring lyrics, disgusting use of digital music editing technology. How on earth did this album qualify in the top 1000? Absurd.

Skipped thru some songs. Didn't like this album at all.

One or two notable songs (as in, I recall them being a big deal on the radio, not that I actually enjoyed them) but overall nothing special with this album.

Boooooooo

I guess I do not like to boogie-woogie

Listened to this in a foul mood and it put me in a worse mood. If it weren’t bad enough, it finishes with a godawful cover of American Pie. Where’s the 80’s Madonna!?

This was a shit album. I remember when this album came out and it was bad then. Not sure why Madonna thought to go auto tune, maybe it is because she knew she couldn't sing. Also the American Pie cover was awful.

Not a big Pop fan of this era, can see the influence. Not for me.

Ooof. Rough listen.

The songs all sound the same, and none of it was interesting at all. 1/5

Serieux wtf. C’est over produit. Sans saveur.mon dieu et le cover the american pie. C’est juste un crime… 1

DNF, absolute garbage, so disappointed in Madonna for this.

Meh

Ali G innit. my memory must be fucked but wasn't madges version of american pie fucking huge when it was released? it's absolutely horrific. as is most of this album.

Presumably fucking shit

Vapid pop with an unpleasant whiff of desperation. Former pop princess tries to keep up with the new kids (Britney et al) by throwing money at her latest album. Hardly headline news Ms Ciccone. Cher did it first, and Kylie was more fun. And that American Pie cover was an abomination.

Yet another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex I liked the opening track for the first 30 seconds, then it was too much. Not a fun listen. Step away from the audio effect buttons! If you want to like Madonna, stick with mid-to-late 80s pop Madonna.

There were some better songs on here than other Madonna stuff we've done. The American Pie cover was atrocious. Gone was an interesting look at her actual singing ability. I Deserve It was pretty good. Overall though this music still sucks.

almost 20 years since Madonna debuted, Madonna was basically replaced by autotuned AI version of herself. The only thing she is good at is keeping herself relevant in media with controversial bullshit. The only song the autotune wasn't as obvious was that cover of American Pie, but let's be honest. That song is equivalent to a war crime.

Rambling? No song felt like anything to me. Not my style and even for this style of music just nothing interesting going on here for me.

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