Music

Noone can get away with that American Pie cover.

This was not an enjoyable listen. Over reliant on autotune and techno. One of my least favourite covers of all time to finish the album.

That a cringeworthy cover of one of the most loved songs of all time is probably one of the better songs on this debacle says it all. Madge is the poster child for the history of pop music. Take a black genre, make it palatable for a white audience, rinse and repeat. She has tried to rise above her insipidness by flashing her "edgy" image all over any willing media platform. If you need reminding just how insipid she is, the first two songs feature electronically altered vocals. They're awful but still way better than those songs that feature her natural voice. This is a truly horrid album. But not as bad as Like A Prayer. Nothing is worse than that shit.

Lazy

Too much auto tune was honestly kind of annoying. I would have preferred one of her earlier albums

Generic unimaginative pop.

Did not enjoy, couldn’t make it through album

Feels very manufactured. Definitely 2000s music, feels like music for background without a lot of meaning Some catchy tunes but I dislike the use of auto tune

Quite boring

Testifying that the early 2000s were not a great period in music history

Forgettable, bland, generic pop shit. Not a fan of Madonna, but she has recorded better and more memorable stuff than this.

This album cover really sets you up for a whole different experience than what it gives you lol

Unmemorable, unremarkable. Undeserving of a place in this list.

This is shit, probably the most egregious of the list’s over compensating by adding recent albums in case they become classics

The early 2000s is the all time worst era for popular music, discuss? This album would support the case for the above proposition. 1998's dancy 'Ray of Light' was varied, interesting and decent overall. This takes the dance direction and strips out anything interesting or innovative and replaces it with generic, by-numbers turn-of-the-millenium dance-pop. Mid-paced, repetitive, overproduced, vocoder-heavy, and bland. It sounds incredibly dated and is the sort of thing you would have heard at a rubbish nightclub whilst drinking a blue WKD or Smirnoff Ice. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Don't Tell Me Date listened: 31/07/23

I'm really unsure about this bc I fucking hated it: the music has aged as well as milk from the year 2000 and the high level of autotune hurts my ears. I don't understand why she would tarnish her career with smth so bad. The cover makes me sick and the ending cover of American Pie is enough to drive anyone to insanity.

God no. Madonna is just awful.

Just not a dance music kind of person I guess

1.5./5. Bad, I thought Madonna was supposed to be good.

Just what I always wanted, an electro-country album from THE material girl trying to act like she rejects materialism. Despite the production team's best efforts at making a solid and interesting accompaniment to the music, Madonna manages to completely stink up the joint. This has all the worst aspects of that bland, saccharine techno that in many ways seemed to define Y2K. It's a shame, because Madonna does have good songs, but none of them are on here. I disappointed parent out of 5 😞

Really tried to like this. Just feels like way too many sounds and effects thrown together.

Sounds like it was made by a 12 year old in garage band

Not one of her best, or one of THE best

Too electronic. Sounds rubbish. Madonna Extremely overrated this is dogshit

Her version of American Pie is one of the worst things I have ever heard. The rest of the album is hohum but fine and if it had stopped before that track it would have been unremarkable.

'Music' was an ok single, but there's nothing much else going for this. 'Nobody's Perfect' is very poor indeed.

ugh, fucking really? I know Madonna has never exactly been thinking man's music, but at least her earlier stuff had fun 80s charm. This just sucks. I remember the first song, and the rest is just as awful. Basic late 90s turd beats (adding vague rock overtones at times) and dumb lyrics about the dancefloor. Fuck off, madge. 1/5.

I hate this. Shitty club backbeats ruin most songs for me.