★★★★★
When the entire history of the human race is written, the final week of February 2015 probably won't be deemed the absolute pinnacle of our species' stupidity. But it'll surely warrant a mention, at least. I'm not talking about those good ol' boys in Isis trashing 9,000 years of human history, though there is that...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-03-02
★★★★★
Mert & Marcus "Rebel Heart" gets us closer to the inner Madonna than we've ever been.
Imagine a world where Madonna hates being photographed, where she considers quitting her career and admits to suffering haunting demands that she "act like the other girls."
It's the same world where pigs fly and figure skaters crowd the deepest recesses of hell.
Yet, somehow, that's the world occupying significant parts of Madonna's revelatory new album, "Rebel Heart...
- www.nydailynews.com
2015-02-28
★★★★★
Perhaps more so than that of any other pop artist, living or dead, Madonna's career can be handily split into distinct eras, and further subdivided into periods or phases: her commercial peak in the '80s, her provocateur years in the early '90s, her electronic renaissance in the late '90s and early aughts, and so on. It's the evolution, or so-called reinventions, that these shifts represent that many wholly credit, erroneously, for the singer's unprecedented longevity...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2015-02-27
★★★★★
"Who do you think you are?" demands a screeching voice on the self-explanatorily titled B*tch I'm Madonna. If anyone in pop has earned the right to assert herself so rudely it is surely Madonna Louise Ciccone, an iconic A-List superstar for over 30 years. It helps that the track in question fizzes with bright energy, a handclapping rave anthem powered by a fantastically wonky synth line that sounds like a vintage arcade game played on an electronic kazoo, and topped off with a snappy Nicki...
- www.telegraph.co.uk
2015-02-26
★★★★★
Madonna gets down with Kanye, Avicii and more on a supercatchy, sexed-up album
For many years, Madonna avoided the Internet like gluten. But in December, the Internet decided to stop waiting for Madonna, and everything went wrong: Her music was stolen and leaked; her hasty, emotional responses on Instagram used terms like "rape" and "terrorism," provoking (you guessed it) Internet outrage...
- www.rollingstone.com
2015-02-26
★★★★★
Madonna's third album True Blue is my favorite Madonna album of all time and I will tell you why. Featuring 4 of Madonna's most legendary cuts in addition to 8 other high quality tracks that touch upon a wide variety of lyrical topics and instrumentation, True Blue is a consistently entertaining album from start to finish...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Did you know that if you type in "Madonna" on Amazon.com 259 entries appear under "Popular Music"? Nuts, I know. Though lately I've cringed at the thought of greatest hits packages, I realized 11 years have passed since The Immaculate Collection and it is time to pluck ripe apples from the Mrs. Ritchie orchard. Despite a few boomerangs, GHV2 is worth a trip to the record store. In case you were worried, Erotica is not ignored...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Genre: Electro Year: 2003 Country: USA Web: Official Site Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Maverick It's an odd time in American pop music. While Jewel hits the dance floor and Lucinda Williams raps, the queen of the clubs straps on an acoustic guitar and continues to ride an electronic wave with a new collection of haunting songs. While Madonna's latest effort plugs into the electronic sounds that fueled Ray of Light and Music, the songs won't be dance floor anthems...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
It's not called Lyrics, and for good reason. Madonna's latest release is a true release of pop energy and dance. It combines Madonna's signature songs with French techno master Mirwais Ahmadzai (former musician for French electro band Taxi Girl), an acoustic guitar, and polished touches by William Orbit. Song titles include the words "Impressive, amazing, perfect, paradise"?and if that's not a hint for fun I don't know what is...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
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