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I wish they kept Love Spent for the deluxe. it is boring
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I'm talking about the snippets ("I'm Addicted" and "Love Spent").
Madonna's camp is obviously OK with these previews, they gave them away.
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MADONNATRIBE 'MDNA' REVIEW
Today we had the chance to listen to the new Madonna album as a whole to review it for our website and we have to say it’s really a very good work that will please both casual and hard-die fans. Well maybe it won’t be pleasing a lot catholic groups as the queen of pop dips again in the imagery she grew up with in an even strongest way than like a prayer. With Like A Prayer she rebelled against the religious “values” imposed on her by her family, with MDNA she revisits the themes adding some twisted irony proving that she may have Kabbalish blood in her veins now but her bones are still impregnated with catholicism, rivisiting again themes as sin, death, shame, betrayal , twisted love affairs and regret.
The opening of the album’s first song, Girl Gone Wild is a hint of what’s instore. She reprises one of the most sacred catholic prayers, the Act Of Contrition, and revisit it as a bad girl would do.
1. Girl Gone Wild
A great way to open the album, with a song that grows on listeners more and more. We didn’t like it AT ALL a week ago and now we are singing it and humming it all the time. It really represents the album well as the whole album is like a diary of a catholic girl gone wild. We still have to forgive her for J-low inspired bit “Dj play my favourite song” but we are quite happy with it!
2. Gang Bang
When MadonnaTribe first reported online about this track last November it could well be defined as an electronic ballad. It was sung in Madonna’s clearest voice and told the story of a love affair from the side of a hopeless victim. Now, the track has turned into one of the most hysterical tracks of the album with a beat inviting anyone to the dance floor and with some of the most daring Madonna lyrics in which Madonna turns into a killer for love and she’s proud of it, no regrets! From the first listening the theme plot of the song appears to be about a woman who first kills her lover for betraying her, then take her car and drives insanely on the street to commit suicide. In a firm cold voice she says to herself “now drive bitch, I said drive bitch and while you’re at it die bitch, that’s right drive bitch.” At one point her thoughts go back to her killed lover and she says he deserve it “I’m going straight to hell and I got a lot of friends there. And if I see that bitch in hell, I’m gonna shoot him in the head again. Cause I wanna see him die over and over and over..” Lyrically it’s not the typical Madonna track, not a surprise it was axed from the family friend version of the album sold by Walmart! Musically the song reminds us a lot of Impressive Instant from Music (2000) and it end with an “If you act like a bitch then die like a bitch!” sentence and the noice of a police car approaching.
3. I’m addicted
This is the one we like the less. Lyrically it doesn’t add anything to the Madonna body of work. It’s a song a-la I’m so stupid, with no real meaning. A lot of people like it tough and we respect that. At one point she starts chanting and repeating MDNA, MDNA, MDNA… we can report that legend says in the original early demo the word that is now replaced with MDNA was actually Hashish! that would really explain a lot!
4. Turn Up the Radio
This is probably the most Gaga-ish song on the album. Not right there with her great dance numebers like Into The Groove or Hung Up so We are not very fond of this one either. Fans were already exposed to bits and pieces of this one in the medley released online with Give Me All Your Luving and the comments were not so positive. We second that opinion but we promise this is the second and last one we don’t particulary like.
5. Give Me All Your Luvin’
L.U.V. this song a lot … Y.O.U all know it… L.U.V. listening to this single on the radio… Y.O.U have to request it a lot! It’s poppy, it’s catchy, it’s pure Madonna.
6. Some Girls
This track somehow reminds us of her very early stuff she did with Emmy before her first album, probably it’s the way she sings it or the fact the melody seems a nursery rhyme at times like her early stuff.
7. Superstar
“Like Brando on the silver screen you are a Superstar, that’s what you are”, this is the true romantic number of the album, a love song in the tradition of True Blue, Cherish, Nothing Fails. Madonna’s love interest is compared to superduper actors like Marlon Brando, Bruce Lee, John Travolta, Jimmy Dean and to historic characters such as Ceaser or Al Capone. As for the lyrics imagine a list of songs rhyming with the word star! Oh La La, Another winner for us!
8. I dont give a
This is not the typical Madonna groove, a song that has parts of rap a-la American Life in which Madonna stresses over and over the fact that although she has made mistakes it’s not other people’s right to judge her. The ghost of Guy Ritchie also haunts the songs when she says “I’ve tried to be a good wife” and “I don’t care what people say about myself”. The track features a rap by Nicki MInaj that at some point reminds everyone that “there is only one Queen and that’s Madonna!” and ends in a with an “epic chorus” and epic orchestration, the perfect epic background music for the trailer of an epic movie! How many times did we say epic? That’s used to stress the concept!
9.I’m a Sinner
Ok, lyrically this is the new Like a Prayer, the song that will make catholics mad. Her voice on this song once again sounds different, you barely recognize her at the very beginning. Musically, it’s the most classic Orbit guitar sounding song on this album, Ray of light remixes meet Beautiful Stranger but yet in a great different way. It should definitely be a single, with a great video accompaining it, she’d become once again the Queen Of Controversy many fans adore and in this case the controversy would spark from the nursery rhyme she says on the history of the most popular saints.It stars with a “Hail Mary full of grace, get down on your knees and pray” going ahead with a ” Jesus Christ hang on the cross died for our sins it’s such a loss”. She continues with “St Christopher find my way I’ll be coming home one day” and “St Sebastian don’t you cry let those poison arrows fly”! Stuff that would really want Pope-a-Ratzi cover his ears with his velvet cape! Definitely one of our best favourites.
10. Love Spent
It starts with an Orbit guitar, Madonna has a sweet voice on this one. ANother love song a la Nothing Fails that would also fit well on the American Life album. There’s a great, uncredited, reprise of the Abba theme used in Hung Up that pops up here and there throughout the song. Good one!
11. Masterpiece
This song HAD to be on this album, after discussing it for a while Madonna decided to include the W.E. on the record and she made a good decision. Masterpiece fits perfectly between Love Spent and Falling Free and it’s the kind of classic, simple and straighforword Madonna ballad that she hasn’t been delivering for a long time and it lets you catch your breath after all the dance numbers that preceed it!
12. Falling Free
The closing number for this album is a slow paced song co-written with Joe Henry. Her way of singing it is very sweet, using her “evita operatic voice” at times, and the theme is very melancolic. There no loop at all accompagning the song, it’s just her voice, some Orbit electronic sounds and music instruments like cello. It’s a song that Bjork would do and it also reminds us score music of some Japanese animation series. A great way to close the standard edition of MDNA
13. Beautiful Killer
We’re back to dance music with beautiful killer and back on the theme of death. Here’s she’s a victim who is in love with a man who wants to kill her. This is another great song “You can call my name and I’ll be around, maybe I’ll let you shoot you me down cause you’re a beautiful killer with a beautiful face”. Like in her film Snake Eyes, the song ends with a gun shot hinting the fact her beautiful killer finally killed her.
14. I ****ed up
To have regrets or not to have regrets? this is the question! On this one Madonna says she knows she made a mistake, she is so ashamed and whishes to take it back but she can’t. She says nobody screws things better than her. She says she’s sorry and “je suis desole’” but it’s not clear to whom she is apologizing with. A friend, an ex lover, a ex husband? The ghost of G.R. appears again when she says she misses “running in the country”.
15. B-song
It’s the most positive and light song on this album, as cherish was on like a prayer. Madonna re-invented the classic motown sound for this track in which she, as first reported by Madonnatribe in December she celebrates her own birthday in the most joyous way. It’s a great song that has been switched from the standard edition to the deluxe second disc as it doesn’t completely fit the theme of the main album.
16. Best Friend
This is the real end of it. In this one she’s is missing her best friend and the things and places they shared together..
“I miss the countryside where we used to mate”.. Guy Ritchie again? but she says that “I’ve survived the biggest test” … good for her then!
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MADONNALICIOUS 'MDNA' REVIEW
The UK playback of MDNA for critics, commentators (and a fan!) took place in two sessions at Abbey Road Studios today. Mobile phones were sealed away, wristbands were given out and we were led to Studio Two for the listening party.
The studio featured a huge MDNA album cover on canvas on the wall, white upholstered chairs and placed on each chair was an MDNA notebook, pencil and an MDNA card giving details about the album tracks and producers.
We were served MDNA mocktails (rather nice!), wine and water. Some tasty food was sampled – Thai crab salad, lemon chicken with roast potatoes and anchovy butter, and paneer dumplings with corriander rice.
As for the album, the trouble is madonnalicious forgets to be a journalist for the day and becomes a fan. We cannot write long wordy pieces like other reviewers, we can only give you our essence of the album, our feelings.
On just one listen, fear not, there is hope! For a long-time Madonna fan the William Orbit tracks are the standout ones – or maybe more ‘traditional Madonna’. It seems as if the album is almost in two parts – Before WO and After WO – maybe if the sequencing was different it might not have seemed so obvious.
The Orbit tracks are the more introspective melodic ones, the Martin Solveig and ‘Benny’ Benassi tracks are the ones you could dance to in a club, but not maybe choose to just listen to at home.
This seems definitely to be the ‘divorce’ album, there is a lot of looking back at failed relationships and even admitting that she ‘f*cked up’.
Our favourite tracks and ones we cannot wait to listen to again are (not including GMAYL and Masterpiece which we have heard lots of times):
Girl Gone Wild - just keeps growing on us, wanted to get up and dance to it right there! A good opener to the album with the spoken intro.
Superstar - ooh-la-la you’re my superstar, light pop-song. New era Vogue-rap name-checking Bruce Lee, John Travolta and James Dean.
I Don’t Give A - although quite hard to hear the lyrics clearly, we loved the whole song – and the Nicki Minaj rap which claims ‘there is only queen and thats Madonna…bitch’ – it is almost like a grown-up version of a playground rhyme.
I’m A Sinner - or Beautiful Stranger part II – which isn’t a bad thing! Could have been on Ray of Light. Classic Madonna and William Orbit.
Love Spent - we are sure we heard some of the Hung Up/Gimme Gimme Gimme tune mixed in very quietly – need to hear it again.
Falling Free - with an almost Evita-like voice, very stripped down with piano and strings ‘We’re both free, free to go’ Is this the divorce song?
Best Friend - quite a good ending to the (deluxe) album as the final line is ‘Its so sad that it has to end’ SILENCE…
I’m Addicted, Turn Up The Radio, Some Girls, Beautiful Killer, B-Day Song weren’t stand-out tracks for us, but they were not bad either. Maybe on additional listens they will grow on us. And don’t forget our opinion is always subject to change!
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DIGITAL SPY 'MDNA' REVIEW
Earlier today Digital Spy was invited to Abbey Road Studios to listen to Madonna’s 12th studio album MDNA.
There were crab salads, multicoloured cocktails and, as if that wasn’t enough, a chunky notepad with the album cover on the front waiting for us on our chair. We presume it was there for us to scribble our notes on, but we didn’t feel comfortable putting our ugly scrawlings over something so clearly amazing.
We’ve posted our thoughts on each of the LP’s 17 tracks below:
1. ‘Girl Gone Wild’ (produced by Madonna, Benny Benassi)
Most of you will have heard this one by now, and truth be told we’re still not sure about it. Our guess was that it was chosen for its appeal to a wide audience and radio stations, but as a Madonna album trailer it’s surprisingly weak. That said, it makes for a brilliant opening track.
2. ‘Gang Bang’ (produced by Madonna, The Demolition Crew)
Ignore the title – this isn’t about a 53-year-old woman singing about having lots of group sex. “Bang bang shot you dead/ Shot my lover in the head,” she chants over a relentless, pulsating electro beat before announcing: “I’m going straight to hell – I’ve got a lot of friends there.” Just when you think things are wrapping up, she interrupts, “If you’re gonna act like a bitch, you’re gonna die like a bitch!” before firing off a gun. It’s completely ridiculous and amazing.
3. ‘I’m Addicted’ (produced by Madonna, Benny Benassi, The Demolition Crew
We noted that this would have probably been a better single choice than ‘Girl Gone Wild’. “I’m addicted to your love” she admits on the chorus that is a mixture of hard house beats with a club classics melody. It all climaxes in the song’s finale, in which she chants “M D N A” over and over.
4. ‘Turn Up The Radio’ (produced by Madonna and Martin Solveig)
After three hard-faced club bangers, Madge offers up the softer but equally dancey ‘Turn Up The Radio’. “When the world starts to get you down and nothing seems to go your way… turn up the radio,” she professes over a propelling beat that Daft Punk wouldn’t **** a snook at. It might be weak lyrically, but the message is genuinely uplifting.
5. ‘Give Me All Your Luvin” (produced by Madonna, Martin Solveig)
Madonna’s “Superbowl Single” doesn’t seem to have lived up to a lot of people’s expectations, but we’ll happily admit that we’re still enjoying it. It also serves as a welcome break from what is so far a high-wired run of songs.
6. ‘Some Girls’ (produced by Madonna, William Orbit)
“Some girls wanna be on top…some girls got a filthy mouth,” she sing-speaks with a distorted vocal over a squelchy bassline. It’s a confident number about female empowerment in 2012, and probably highlights best how MDNA isn’t simply about hopping on the dance bandwagon, but pushing it into new and exciting realms.
7. ‘Superstar’ (produced by Madonna, Indiigo, Michael Malih)
This is where the record makes a distinct shift lyrically between basic one line choruses to surprisingly intimate details of her life. Here she compares her man to the likes of James Dean, Caesar and Al Capone, promising to “give you a massage when you get home”. It’s less in-yer-face than most of the LP, and where she sounds at her most relaxed.
8. ‘I Don’t Give A’ (produced by Madonna, Martin Solveig)
Madonna opens up about life as a 53-year-old divorced mum in a sing-rap fashion – “got to call the babysitter…got to sign the contract” – but insists that she “don’t even feel the pressure”. The best bit comes at the end when Nicki Minaj announces: “There’s only one Queen and that’s Madonna, bitch,” before a regal orchestra ensues that sounds like it was lifted straight out of a blockbuster movie.
9. ‘I’m A Sinner’ (produced by Madonna, William Orbit)
It took us all of 30 seconds to realise that this sounds like a sequel to Ray Of Light’s ‘Beautiful Stranger’ which, given the producer, we’re sure isn’t a coincidence. “I’m a sinner and I like it that way,” she sings on the psychedelic chorus, before preaching “Jesus Christ hang on the cross, died for our sins it’s such a loss” on the middle eight.
10. ‘Love Spent’ (produced by Madonna, William Orbit)
We’ll be honest, we weren’t particularly taken with this one. There’s a banjo on the intro that re-appears later on, but it’s worth sticking with for a glorious ending of crashing symbols and booming electronics.
11. ‘Masterpiece’ (produced by Madonna, William Orbit)
It’s the first ballad on the album, and it feels like it arrives just at the right moment. The production is more “organic” (there’s drums, guitars and Orbit’s trademark wobbly bits),and it doesn’t try to be anything other than a solid pop song. “I can’t tell you why it hurts so much to be in love with a masterpiece,” she sings on the chorus.
12. ‘Falling Free’ (produced by Madonna, William Orbit)
This one is even more stripped back, relying solely on strings, piano and some synths littered throughout. “Our hearts are intertwined and I’m free, I’m free of mind,” she sings with what is easily her strongest vocal on the record.
13. ‘Beautiful Killer’ (produced by Madonna, Martin Solveig)
We’re surprised this was demoted to deluxe-only, as it is easily one of our favourites. A thumping pop hook and glitchy beats play out as she confesses her penchant for bad boys. “You’re a beautiful killer with a beautiful face,” she admits before rolling out the best line of the song (and possibly the album): “Baby, I can’t talk with a gun in my mouth.”
14. ‘I F**ked Up’ (produced by Madonna, Martin Solveig)
A thumping midtempo number in which Madonna confesses that sometimes (though probably not that often), she isn’t perfect. “I made a mistake/ Nobody does it better than myself,” she admits before the pace picks up dramatically in the middle and tails off at the end.
15. ‘B-Day Song’ (produced by Madonna, Martin Solveig)
It’s essentially the complete opposite of what you’d expect from a Madonna and MIA collaboration. It’s unashamedly fun, has no political agenda (that we can tell anyway) and, in truth, is a bit pointless.
16. ‘Best Friend’ (Madonna, The Demolition Crew)
The album closes with a dubsteppy ballad in which Madge talks about missing her closest pal. “I won’t pretend, I feel like I lost my very best friend,” she says, before singing “It wasn’t always perfect, but it wasn’t always bad” in isolation at the end.
17.’Give Me All Your Luvin” (Party Rock Remix)
They didn’t play this at the showcase, so we can only assume their feelings about it are the same as ours.
MDNA is by no means a perfect Madonna album, but it certainly has the potential after repeated listens to be up somewhere in the top six. There are some glorious highs and, unfortunately, one or two misfires, but it wouldn’t be a Madonna album if she wasn’t taking risks. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this record is that there are no obvious hits on it, but as a body of work it makes for a thrilling and genuinely fascinating listen.
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sorry when they are posted already, don't know.
just wanted it to be here to discuss all together about the album in the 'mdna' thread!
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I'm most excited for:
Turn Up the Radio
Falling Free
Best Friend
OK LEAK NOW 
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I'm most excited for:
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It feels centred and controlled whilst the likes of Gaga and Britney's latest efforts feel try-hard and sloppy in comparison.
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From the snippets/full songs we've heard...
"Turn Up the Radio" >>> "Love Spent" >>>>>>>>>> "Girl Gone Wild" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Give Me All Your Luvin'" = "I'm Addicted"
Just my opinion.
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Based on what we have Give Me All Your Luvin >>> Love Spent >>> Im Addicted >>> Girls Gone Wild
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i was hoping her voice sounded drained on the song because of the quality of the snippets, but even in 720p the mixing sounds bad =/
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Hm
I say
GMAYL > Love Spent > Turn Up the Radio > I'm Addicted > Masterpiece > GGW
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I personally do not understand the GMAYL hate. I love it. But I'm hoping for better. Based on the clips so far... No.
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GREAT >>>>>>>>> I'm Addicted >>>>> OK >>>>> GGW = Love Spent >>>>>>>>> BAD >>>>>>>>>>> GMAYL
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