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Originally posted by Jump
People love to bash Hard Candy as generic but even as she explains, it is at the end of the day, a thematically cohesive record. Like half of the songs are about urgency...
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Part of Madonna's appeal to me is that her entire catalog, almost since the beginning, is full of little moments that add up to make a huge theme, one of the most consistent of her career, and the Slant review of MDNA really opened my eyes to it. The theme of time and how little there is left. She's always been about hurrying, she can't wait, there's no time to screw around, etc. Having dealt with the loss of her mother at an early age, her rise being concurrent with the rise of AIDS, and in the last seven years watching as all of her pop superstar peers began to die, it makes sense that she'd feel such a sense of urgency and she may not necessarily realize how huge a theme the scarcity of time is in her discography. They're not always big, bold references but you hear them zip by and go "hmmm...."
Infinity. Immortal! Ahhhhhh.
Ugh, who's not getting a bit worked up? 
