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Celeb News: "Give Me All Your Luvin'" reviews
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"Give Me All Your Luvin'" reviews
"Give Me All Your Luvin'" Reviews --
SOURCE: Rolling Stone
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Madonna is a stressed-out party host on the first single from her forthcoming MDNA – so determined to show her guests the funnest time ever that she winds up snapping champagne flutes in her white-knuckled grip and driving everyone out the door before the clock's struck 10:00.
"Give Me All Your Luvin'," written and produced by Madge and her latest Euro-dance collaborator, French DJ Martin Solveig, wants badly to be an irreverent bubblegum romp.
It has a perky electro beat, a dippy singsong melody, and a cheerleader chant ("L-U-V, Madonna/Y-O-U, you wanna?") designed to evoke silly-fun pop classics like "Mickey" and "Hollaback Girl."
But the tune and the lyrics seem dashed off, and the aggressive, assaultive spunkiness makes you want to run and hide. Not even the presence of two of the world's most reliably irrepressible pop stars, Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., can lift this party out of the doldrums.
N-O thanks: don't wanna.
2/5 Stars
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine
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"Have you ever watched a dog vomit and then immediately lap it up?"
That was one of the only notes I made after a demo of Madonna's new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'," leaked last November. I can't be 100% certain where I was going with that indelible image, but it seems instructive, perfectly encapsulating the essence of Madonna's music career as she approaches the end of her third decade as a pop star.
Indeed, the very title of "Give Me All Your Luvin'" tells you all you need to know about Madge's primary purpose for continuing to make music today. That might sound cynical, but for the last few years, the Queen of Pop has been peddling a brand, not necessarily art, regurgitating the same themes and images and asking us to continue to consume them, no questions asked.
After all, what were songs like "4 Minutes" and "Celebration" if not commercials for Madonna Inc.?
The last time Madonna got divorced, we got "Like a Prayer," so it's hard to ignore how decidedly vapid "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is by comparison.
There's nothing wrong with that per se: She's done frivolous bubble-gum pop before, and while the timing for a song like this might be perfect for pop radio (with boosters Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. tacked on for added marketability, natch), it feels shockingly…reductive.
"Every record sounds the same/You gotta step into my world," Madonna sings, but even if "Give Me All Your Luvin'," produced by French DJ Martin Solveig, doesn't really sound like anything on the radio right now, it also doesn't sound like what "Justify My Love" sounded like in 1990, what "Frozen" sounded like in 1998, what "Music" sounded like in 2000, or even what "Hung Up" sounded like in 2005.
The song is catchy, sure, but its few charms—'60s surf-pop guitar, vintage video-game effects, and references to her past songs—are fleeting at best.
More importantly, we've heard it all before.
"Beautiful Stranger," which shares more than a few similarities with the new single, at least sounded like it was being sung by a grown woman rejuvenated and exhilarated by love at first sight; here Madonna's just playing head cheerleader for a team of one (it's telling that, aside from Nicki and Maya, the cheerleaders and football players featured in the music video are essentially faceless slaves).
The issue isn't Madonna's age (she's made a career out of thwarting expectation and convention, which is why she still matters), but authenticity: The difference between, say, "Into the Groove" and "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is that Madonna's demand for us to give her all our money—err "luv" (because, you know, that's how the kids talk now)—is coming from a queen on a throne, not an unknown hipster on the dance floor with the whole world at her fingertips.
The marketing synergy behind the single's launch, including a partnership with Clear Channel and a much-buzzed-about Super Bowl halftime performance, is breathtaking, but the bold, blond ambition that was once charmingly calculated now just seems calculated.
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SOURCE: Billboard
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Rating: 60/100
When Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin'" fell victim to a widely publicized leak in November, this reviewer's main reaction was, "that's it?" Sure, the track had many elements of the song types currently dominating the radio -- peppy production, a cheerleader chant straight out of "Hollaback Girl," an easy-to-remember chorus -- but it felt like something was missing.
When Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. were confirmed to appear on the finalized track, the assumed missing piece was "guest raps," but now that "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is out in full, very little has changed.
What the raps add, if anything, is a temporary distraction from the tedious proceedings: Minaj spits her guest verse so quickly, the listener barely has time to register lines like "I'm Roman / I'm a barbarian / I'm Conan" before she's off the track.
Ditto M.I.A., who appears just long enough to drop a few scientific adjectives ("supersonic / bionic / uranium") before effectively dropping the mic with, "I'ma say this once -- yeah, I don't give a ****."
It amounts to a subpar effort from all parties, particularly Madonna, who hasn't sounded this robotic since the more tweaked-out moments on her last album, "Hard Candy."
Here's hoping her other collaborations with Solveig, as well as longtime collaborator William Orbit, produce better dance-pop results when new album "M.D.N.A." comes out March 26.
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SOURCE: Spin
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Madonna is not a woman who likes to share her spotlight, so the fact that she surrendered the aesthetic of her new video for "Give Me All Your Luvin' " to promoting her upcoming appearance at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show and asked M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj to appear on the track is no small feat.
The Madonna- and Martin Solveig-produced song — the first single from March 26's M.D.N.A. — channels the retro vibe of her Austin Powers single "Beautiful Stranger" through the "Mickey" filter (Tony Basil is even rocking a similar cheerleader chic look in its single cover).
But Madonna has a little additional firepower here: Minaj contributes a blitzkrieg 16 referencing "boy toy" and her own alter ego Roman, while M.I.A. joins in a few seconds later with a handful of slo-mo bars that ends with a gun blast censoring her parting shot, "I don't give a ****." In short: Everyone plays themselves perfectly.
The video, directed by Megaforce, is regrettably light on Madonna's dancing, especially considering her videos for 2008's Hard Candy were elaborately choreographed.
Her attempt to find a bridge between sports, love, and fame falls a bit flat — "Fans can make you famous, a contract can make you rich, the press can make you a superstar, but only luv can make you a player" is scrawled in cursive at the top of the clip — but in the end, the football players and cheerleaders in the video are all literally faceless passersby.
They, like the two high-profile MCs, are all here in service of the Queen of Pop — they are shouting "L,U, V, Madonna" and taking bullets for her, after all.
But are those Smirnoff bottles we spy on the bar while Madonna strikes familiar poses and Nicki and Maya are decked out like virgins? Everyone's gotta play the stupid game these days, even if she is not only a different kind of girl, but a different kind of queen.
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Hmm.
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Still ******** on all the other so called queen of pop lessors. Those reviews will not stop her from selling a lot....
She remains unbothered
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It's meant to be an easy hit, nothing ground breaking. I think with time it'll serve it's purpose.
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There are plenty of positive reviews. I liked it so who the **** cares.
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it feels shockingly…reductive.
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it feels shockingly…reductive.
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@ her comment backfiring on her!
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Originally posted by Onen
There are plenty of positive reviews. I liked it so who the **** cares.
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Post them.
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it feels shockingly…reductive.
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It's weird that she's doing these type of songs at this point in her career but I guess she feels she has something to prove to the new pop generation.
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I find it interesting that she says she chose Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. because they were unconventional, but then she makes them completely conventional for her music video.
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Originally posted by Onen
There are plenty of positive reviews. I liked it so who the **** cares.
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Everyone who is not you.
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To be honest, I'm not surprised with all of the reviews. It's supposed to be a simple, fun song, but she's getting a lot of backlash because of the fact that she's Madonna and because she's done it better.
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Originally posted by J0rdan
I find it interesting that she says she chose Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. because they were unconventional, but then she makes them completely conventional for her music video.
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I'm just proud of M.I.A. for keeping her confident, sassy, too-cool-to-care swag in the video.
Releasing Bad Girls at the same time was a great decision too. It shows that she's DOING a very pop song/video for Madonna, but is not BECOMING a super-pop artist.
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Dayyyyym they went IN.
leave madonna alone shes the queen she can put out whatever she wants and we should be lucky to have it. reductive flop or not.
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I think it's fun, but it's not a slam dunk.
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And so the true tea began to spill......................... .
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In many ways, the song and video ARE reductive. It's basic and monotonous and there's nothing really different or innovative about it. However, Madonna is an older artist trying to stay afloat a VERY fickle music industry amongst a bunch of women half her age so you have to do what you have to do.
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Originally posted by MonsterMosama
Dayyyyym they went IN.
leave madonna alone shes the queen she can put out whatever she wants and we should be lucky to have it. reductive flop or not.
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Her legacy doesn't give her right to release terrible songs for the sake of releasing terrible songs.
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she's the queen of pop, she can make everything she wants
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