JeffTheAlpaca

She has new stuff coming out soon


Madame X


https://ew.com/music/2019/04/14/mado...usic-madame-x/

JeffTheAlpaca

Her new video whichj premiered today.

17K dislikes at Youtube

gerrythedon

1. Medellin featuring Maluma
2. Dark Ballet
3. God Control
4. Future featuring Quavo
5. Batuka
6. Killers Who Are Partying
7. Crave featuring Swae Lee
8. Crazy
9. Come Alive
10. Extreme Occident (Bonus Track)
11. Faz Gostoso featuring Anitta
12. Bitch I'm Loca featuring Maluma
13. I Don't Search I Find
14. Looking For Mercy (Bonus Track)
15. I Rise




Madame X Deluxe 2CD (18 Tracks / Hardcover Book 32 pages)
Poster (double sided)
7-inch Picture Disc (I Rise)
Standard Cassette (13 Tracks)
Tattoo Sheet

https://shopuk.madonna.com/products/...-deluxe-boxset

jpcamb

I liked her back in the day. Got about halfway thru the music video and turned it off. Don't get the eye patch thing, seemed lame and made her look even older. Maybe time to reinvent herself one more time and try retiring for good...

Meathead

I didn't even get 20 seconds in to the video... jumped to the middle to see if it improved (nope). Just terrible.

Daytripper

How about just doing a full on pop album without enlisting so many people to help? Every other song on this is featuring some singer I've never heard of.

Yeah, it's a horrible song (and video). Can't believe this is the lead single. Sounds more like a B-side or album filler.

JeffTheAlpaca

The Arianna Grande video that came after the Madonna video was better than that song

brayzie

Was the intro parodying herself or is it supposed to make her sound cool and tragic? The song itself, I agree, sounded like filler.

JeffTheAlpaca

I don't think the Millenials care about her and her music.

Daytripper

They don't. She needs to stop trying to appeal to the current market and (again) just make another proper pop album.

story

I have to be honest, I haven't actively listened to Madonna in a long time, but what's presented here in music, pictures, and video really feels like it's her being reactive and trying to ride coattails rather than be the cutting edge personality she used to be in her early days. That's something that can happen to any artist, I suppose, and it's something she needs to really consider for her next move.

Sonny Corinthos

I stopped watching as soon as she licked the guy's nasty toe.

Nick Danger

My first thought was that she was imitating Lady Gaga.

My second thought was that she'd made a business decision to appeal to the Latin market. Millions of potential customers who don't speak English live in this hemisphere.

I have a lot more respect for artists who continue to be creative than the ones who sing the same songs for thirty years. When I saw Bo Diddly in concert, he did a second half of calypso. Other members of the audience were mad that he didn't do a full show of bumbumbum-bah-bah, but I thought it was great. Madonna seems to be trying to split the difference between keeping her baby-boomer fans and doing something moderately new.

brayzie

Same here. In fact, I was never a regular fan. I remembered hearing of her as a kid, but I never checked out her albums until within the last 5-10 years.
She's put out a LOT of good songs. True Blue, Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, and Crazy for You are just some of my favorite songs.

I'll have to check this album out and give her last couple albums a re-listen.

Sonny Corinthos

Madonna now claims she's being punished for turning 60. I guess the crap music she's been putting out has nothing to do with it. Somebody is full of themselves. I enjoyed her most of her music in the 80's and early 90's, but after that, she lost me.

https://news.sky.com/story/madonna-i...ng-60-11710956

brayzie

I thought this was the most interesting and important thing from the article:

The rest of her claims of being silenced for the reasons she listed doesn't seem accurate. She was on top for the entire 80s and 90s, and still was putting out hits in the 2000s. I don't recall any efforts to "silence" her based on her looks or voice quality. I do remember she got into trouble for the sexual imagery she combined with Christian imagery for her "Like a Prayer" music video. And the Pepsi commercial that came from that was boycotted. Then she was accused of anti-semitism for the song "Justify My Love-The Beast Within Remix."

Maybe he ageist thing is accurate, but pop music is traditionally for a younger crowd, and they want to listen to people closer to their age, to experiences they can relate to. Is she just upset that she's not selling like she used to, or is it something else?

JeffTheAlpaca

She is delusional thinking she can be more popular than Swift, Grande, Gomez, and the other queens of pop right now.

However she had the cool holograms at the Billboard Awards performance.

Decker

I seriously cannot believe how terrible this album is.. Unlistenable.

Daytripper

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...0liL0hy1rqbm6c

Sonny Corinthos

It's hard to believe this is just her 14th album. I thought she had released more albums than that. I agree, it's a hot mess.

Daytripper

Oh, but her fan boys sure are coming to it's defense everywhere online. She can do no wrong in their eyes. It sad and comical.

Decker

Yup. Thing that shocked me is that it's running a stunningly decent Metacritic score of 72

PerryD

It's almost as if people might have different tastes in music

Decker

Come on, that's an over-simplification and you know it. There is plenty of music that doesn't and probably never will appeal to me. But Madonna isn't that.

Using a movie metaphor, I like Tom Cruise action movies a lot. I might lose my mind with the last Mission Impossible flick or with Edge of Tomorrow. Now when I go see something like The Mummy or Knight & Day, I can objectively walk out and think to myself "That was shit" -- and usually the critics agree with me. Same for superhero flicks. I enjoy them and knew right away when I saw Batman v Superman or X-Men Apocalypse that they were bad films. Checking now, their Metacritic scores were 44 and 52 respecitively. That doesn't surprise me at all. If one of their scores were in the 70s, I would be surprised and confused by it.
If on the other hand a movie by Lars von Trier or Gaspar Noe gets a good score, well that's just the sort of weird movie that would have never appealed to me so I can just chalk up good reviews as something that might appeal to critics but not to me. There is a big difference.

Madame X is the Batman v Superman of technopop records.

stvn1974

I like it. I think it is her best album since Confessions On The Dance Floor. It isn't dance music at all and if I had to compare it to anything it reminds me of a more electronic Medulla by Bjork. I also don't get the complaints about Madonna vocoder on some songs. Radiohead process the hell out of Tom Yorke's vocals and every one jerks off to the latest Radiohehad release.