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Celeb News: 'MDNA' reviews
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Originally posted by Nicole
Pitchfork ratings are out of 10. Will count as 45/100 on Metacritic.
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really?
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Member Since: 10/30/2011
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I frankly don't even understand why Pitchfork keeps reviewing her work at this point. I really want to know what they want Madonna to do at this point to satisfy their unreachable standards.
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Originally posted by Sexy ****
only GB and GGW are decent tbh
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Originally posted by PRINCE✦OF✦CHINA
I frankly don't even understand why Pitchfork keeps reviewing her work at this point. I really want to know what they want Madonna to do at this point to satisfy their unreachable standards.
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Reading the article, it didn't seem extremely harsh so they could've gave her at least a 6 or 6.5.
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I think they gave it such a low score because they judge Madonna on a higher scale than... Rihanna or some other pop star.
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The Pitchfork review will be the first one added to metacritic tomorrow. Just know it.
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Originally posted by Sahn
The Pitchfork review will be the first added to Metacritic tomorrow. Just know it.
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IKR??
Did you update the 1st page? You should also put a star next to the reviews that will be counted on Metacritic.
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I honestly feel most of the reviews are fair. It's an album, but it's not AN ALBUM, if you catch my drift. It has some really great high points but also some really horrible low points. It's a fun album and Madonna did good, but I see where everyone is coming from.
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Originally posted by EmaciatedHooker
I honestly feel most of the reviews are fair. It's an album, but it's not AN ALBUM, if you catch my drift. It has some really great high points but also some really horrible low points. It's a fun album and Madonna did good, but I see where everyone is coming from.
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Did you just read the last 2 pages?
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Originally posted by Sahn
Did you just read the last 2 pages?
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Yes, and I agree with everyones' points.
I feel like MDNA was not made because Madonna genuinely wanted to make music. I feel that MDNA was made so that Madonna could go on tour and fulfill her duties so she could get that $120,000,000 put into her bank account.
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Originally posted by Legendtina
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She isn't lying. I love Madonna but this album is just horrible. I mean worse than Kesha.
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Originally posted by EmaciatedHooker
Yes
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Ok. I'll give you a recap:
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Originally posted by Billboard
"MDNA" -- her 12th studio album -- is a collection of thoroughly pumping pop tunes, some of which are slices of sheer brilliance.
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Originally posted by MTV
The record, set to drop on March 26, has some of the finest musical moments we've heard from the pop legend in the last few years.
This album is a drug worth taking.
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Originally posted by Rolling Stone
Revealing herself has always been part of her art, and this is hardly her first album that’s dark, messy and conflicted. But MDNA stands as Madonna’s most explicit work.
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Originally posted by The Times
On MDNA Madonna successfully returns to what she does best: hi-energy disco, as thrilling as it is unhealthy.
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Originally posted by Attitude
Is Madonna still ‘the Queen’ as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it’s hard to argue against.
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Originally posted by NME
So, is the Queen of Pop back on her throne? Just about. We’d pledge our allegiance anyway.
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Originally posted by MusicOMH
In summary, whereas Hard Candy felt like it was grasping at fading trends, MDNA is far more Madonna just being Madonna. And that usually turns out best for everyone involved.
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if you see where everyone is coming from you'd see that the vast majority think the album is fantastic. Only 2 bad reviews. Born This Way got more than 2 bad reviews.
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Originally posted by spree
if you see where everyone is coming from you'd see that the vast majority think the album is fantastic. Only 2 bad reviews. Born This Way got more than 2 bad reviews.
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IKR? And the bad reviews had spent more time to talk about Madonna HERSELF than the album
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Originally posted by EmaciatedHooker
Yes, and I agree with everyones' points.
I feel like MDNA was not made because Madonna genuinely wanted to make music. I feel that MDNA was made so that Madonna could go on tour and fulfill her duties so she could get that $120,000,000 put into her bank account.
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lmao. she doesn't get all that money upfront. she'll get $40 million for this album and then a chunk of tour profits. since she now has a 360 deal, Live Nation and Interscope will get a portion of the pie from everywhere now: tour profits, record sales, merchandise, ringtones, etc.
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The critics who dislike the album need to sit the **** down and pop their ***** to im addicted.
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Twenty years ago, when Madonna was at the top of her game, she published her provocative art book “Sex.” In it, she included photos of herself in various states of undress and wrote about the art of seduction. Her tips included wearing good perfume, garter belts but no underpants and that “on every date you have to say one really disarming thing.”
Decades later, the now-53-year-old confirms, for better or for worse — OK, worse — that Madge of the Dance Floor is nothing if not consistent. On her 12th studio album, “MDNA,” she follows the advice she laid out at her peak. Madonna is garter-belt sexy for “Girl Gone Wild,” metaphorically takes off her undies on “I’m Addicted” and tosses off half a dozen typically “disarming things” about her private life (thus the reason that this has been dubbed her “divorce album”).
But the Madonna of today has lost the art of surprise, and the shock and awe she used to inspire with each new move have gone the way of her bullet bra and taffeta skirts. More important, Madge seems to have lost her ability to create in that magical space that pushes pop forward while remaining completely of the moment.
The music here is certainly not disarming, and while it’s dangerous to speculate on the listening habits of artists, “MDNA” more than anything sounds like an album made by someone who’s lost touch with the desires of today’s popular music while pursuing other endeavors, including child-rearing and moviemaking.
For example, the second song, “Gang Bang,” has a good beat you can dance to, as does “I’m Addicted,” a driving love anthem produced by Italian superstar DJ Benny Benassi, so both accomplish a key goal of most of Madonna’s work. But like the rest of “MDNA,” neither offers much in the way of innovation.
The album offers evidence that the singer has fallen behind, that she is no longer setting the conversation in a genre she essentially invented — blending Top 40 pop with club music. While Madonna keeps banging away, the template she helped build is ruling the charts via the work of Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Kesha, each of whom not only sings about club life but also lives it, thus delivering more convincing fantasies.
Yes, a few tracks on “MDNA” are punctuated with a dubstep “bass-drop,” a current electronic effect-song hook typified by a halting sonic skid and massive low-end rumble that drives dance floors batty. But each appearance of it sounds tacked on “for the kids,” as if Frank Sinatra had used a sitar on “My Way” in 1969.
Much of the music on the new album could have appeared on any random electronica collection of the last decade. Frenchman Martin Solveig’s work at its worst feels like watered-down Daft Punk or Basement Jaxx, and the bonus track, “Masterpiece,” features a dance hall-infected rhythm that sounds positively 2006. And despite a few life-injecting moments with rapper Nicki Minaj, the deluxe package also features a remix by joke-rap duo LMFAO, which the Madonna of 1992 no doubt would have ridiculed.
To Madonna’s credit, her idea of disarmament has evolved on “MDNA,” and it includes addressing her 2008 divorce from husband director Guy Ritchie. The songs that address the end of love, such as “Falling Free,” co-produced by longtime collaborator William Orbit, are surprisingly transparent stories about her split and arrive with genuine emotion. But none is as inspired as her more personal work over the years, from “Papa Don’t Preach” to “Frozen.”
On Madonna’s best albums — “Like a Virgin,” “Ray of Light” and “Music” — she lived in that pocket between pop’s present and future, and with each hit single she offered a dose of the new that confirmed her ability to seduce us. But the enemy of seduction is familiarity. The power to jar a lover requires the element of surprise, one that’s sorely lacking on “MDNA.” We’re 30 years into this relationship, after all. Surprising us at this point would require a drastic new approach, one that Madge seems unable to muster this time around.
The looming question is whether the next step for Madonna is a sordid affair, a relationship counselor or a divorce lawyer.
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Originally posted by UclaBoi
She isn't lying. I love Madonna but this album is just horrible. I mean worse than Kesha.
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The delusion
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