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90
Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant.
90
This is a solid and surprising album that is easily her strongest release in years and a welcome return to form.
80
Throughout, there is more density and musical adventure than at almost any other point in her career.
80
Bold, bizarre, self-referential and unlike anything Madonna has ever done before, 'Madame X' finds the star with a glint in her eye.
80
Madame X is certainly a fluid album, but one tempered by Madonna’s solid confidence in her own aesthetic decisions.
80
Madame X sounds like the work of an artist reawakened, and one who’s got something to say.
80
Madonna is not merely returning to her origins on this fourteenth album, a regenerative fervour thrives on Madame X, traversing a gamut of disparate genres, stirring curiosity and wonder with rhapsodic intensity.
80
While this thick, heady confluence of cultures and sounds may demand concentration, Madame X not only amply rewards such close listening, but its daring embrace of the world outside the U.S. underscores how Madonna has been an advocate and ally for left-of-mainstream sounds and ideas throughout her career.
80
It’s refreshing to see one of pop’s biggest risk-takers take one of her biggest risks in her career and it makes for one of the most daring albums you’ll hear all year.
80
A mixed bag, but a brilliant and bonkers reinvention.
67
Its global sounds and millennial guest stars, including rappers Quavo and Swae Lee, can feel more like obligatory flag-planting than organic evolution.
60
‘Madame X’ isn’t just an album (if it is that at all) – it’s an opera, or a comedy of errors. It’ll make you feel confusion, frustration, happiness and maybe joy, but it will definitely make you feel.
60
Madame X is such a cultural melange ... that it sometimes verges on collapsing in on itself. At other times, though, what is thrown at the wall sticks beautifully.
60
Madame X is so admirably bizarre, all you can do is stand back and watch the girl go.
60
Madame X often struggles to maintain any kind of natural rhythm as ideas and styles pile up on each other and are seemingly shoe-horned in wherever there is space.
60
Even in its fragmented state Madame X spins as a more enduring album than Rebel Heart and maybe that’s the point.
58
The track list is scattered and psychotic, and Madonna’s future tours will ignore almost all of these songs.
50
Experimentation is not necessarily a Madonna-happy place. As she has in the past, she struggles with it here.
50
Diminishing returns from the Material Girl.
48
Madonna’s 14th album feels stretched thin all over the globe, layered with an ambitious concept that ends up muddled and convoluted.
After three months, I’m finally on the last Madonna album!
“Madame X” is sort of a controversial album on AOTY, as it was the product of a bot attack. Ever since the release of this album, Madonna’s reputation as an artist on this site is mainly remembered off this album. Anyone who judges Madonna’s music off this album should listen to her earlier works because they capture Madonna at her peak. Madonna is far from her creative peak on “Madame X,” and ... read more
“Madame X” is sort of a controversial album on AOTY, as it was the product of a bot attack. Ever since the release of this album, Madonna’s reputation as an artist on this site is mainly remembered off this album. Anyone who judges Madonna’s music off this album should listen to her earlier works because they capture Madonna at her peak. Madonna is far from her creative peak on “Madame X,” and ... read more
See what I did was actually listened to the full album without any major distractions before rating it
If you don’t do this then you will end up giving up completely on track 5 because the first 5 songs are written poorly as all hell. In fact they just kinda suck. I don’t blame you for wanting to give up. However once you get over the giant speed bump Madonna manages to deliver compelling, and Well written songs with... sub par mixing
Yeah it isn’t a great record, but it is ... read more
If you don’t do this then you will end up giving up completely on track 5 because the first 5 songs are written poorly as all hell. In fact they just kinda suck. I don’t blame you for wanting to give up. However once you get over the giant speed bump Madonna manages to deliver compelling, and Well written songs with... sub par mixing
Yeah it isn’t a great record, but it is ... read more
Great album.
The truth is that I do not understand why many did not like this album. I think the way Madonna took this album and put it into music seems interesting to me, making a set of many mixes of different musical genres. "Madame X", I really like her quite a bit.
Favorite tracks: Medellín, Dark Ballet, God Control, Future, Batuka, Killers Who Are Partying, Crave, Crazy, Faz Gostoso, Bitch I'm Loca, I Don't Search I Find, I Rise.
Least favorite track: Come Alive.
The truth is that I do not understand why many did not like this album. I think the way Madonna took this album and put it into music seems interesting to me, making a set of many mixes of different musical genres. "Madame X", I really like her quite a bit.
Favorite tracks: Medellín, Dark Ballet, God Control, Future, Batuka, Killers Who Are Partying, Crave, Crazy, Faz Gostoso, Bitch I'm Loca, I Don't Search I Find, I Rise.
Least favorite track: Come Alive.
Madame X é um disco que poderia ter dado muita sorte se não tivesse uns defeitos mais toscos que dancinha de adolescente burguês descupado no Tik Tok.
O conceito do disco é 10/10, mas execução... nem tanto.
Primeiro porque essa VACA fica inventando de meter um autotune naquela voz, deixando ela mais feia que a capa do Lotus, as letras cheias do conceito, sendo cantadas por uma voz totalmente morta e metálica, a mulher cantando sobre assassinato ... read more
O conceito do disco é 10/10, mas execução... nem tanto.
Primeiro porque essa VACA fica inventando de meter um autotune naquela voz, deixando ela mais feia que a capa do Lotus, as letras cheias do conceito, sendo cantadas por uma voz totalmente morta e metálica, a mulher cantando sobre assassinato ... read more
The Queen of Pop's fourteenth studio album, Madame X, is her most experimental, unapologetic, and personal release since the beginning of this millennium. It is Madonna's personal manifesto, and the fact that it may be a hard pillow to swallow for a notable part of the audience, is its purpose to certain degree (at least as I see it). It is not a background music, it requires attention. And still, you are probably going to either love it or hate it.
Madonna's success is incomparable. She ... read more
Madonna's success is incomparable. She ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Medellín 4:58 with Maluma | 66 |
| 2 | Dark Ballet 4:14 | 74 |
| 3 | God Control 6:19 | 90 |
| 4 | Future 3:53 with Quavo | 59 |
| 5 | Batuka 4:57 | 73 |
| 6 | Killers Who Are Partying 5:28 | 76 |
| 7 | Crave 3:21 with Swae Lee | 74 |
| 8 | Crazy 4:02 | 75 |
| 9 | Come Alive 4:02 | 66 |
| 10 | Faz Gostoso 4:05 feat. Anitta | 63 |
| 11 | Bitch I'm Loca 2:50 feat. Maluma | 45 |
| 12 | I Don't Search I Find 4:08 | 72 |
| 13 | I Rise 3:44 | 76 |
Total Length: 56 minutes
Year End Lists
| #9 | / | Idolator |
| #12 | / | Albumism |
| #12 | / | Slant Magazine |
| #45 | / | NME |
| #46 | / | Billboard |
| #49 | / | Good Morning America |
| #67 | / | MOJO |
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Added on: April 15, 2019