Madame X

Madonna - Madame X
Critic Score
Based on 26 reviews
2019 Ratings: #589 / 805
User Score
Based on 971 ratings
2019 Rank: #830
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
musicOMH

Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant.

90
Louder Than War
This is a solid and surprising album that is easily her strongest release in years and a welcome return to form.
80
The Arts Desk
A mixed bag, but a brilliant and bonkers reinvention.
80
Gigwise

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
The Observer

Madame X is certainly a fluid album, but one tempered by Madonna’s solid confidence in her own aesthetic decisions.

80
The Guardian

Throughout, there is more density and musical adventure than at almost any other point in her career.

80
Slant Magazine

Madame X sounds like the work of an artist reawakened, and one who’s got something to say.

80
The Line of Best Fit

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
NME

Bold, bizarre, self-referential and unlike anything Madonna has ever done before, 'Madame X' finds the star with a glint in her eye.

80
AllMusic

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.

67
Entertainment Weekly

Its global sounds and millennial guest stars, including rappers Quavo and Swae Lee, can feel more like obligatory flag-planting than organic evolution.

60
Clash

‘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
God Is in the TV

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
The Independent

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
Rolling Stone

Madame X is so admirably bizarre, all you can do is stand back and watch the girl go.

60
Albumism

Even in its fragmented state Madame X spins as a more enduring album than Rebel Heart and maybe that’s the point.

58
Consequence of Sound

The track list is scattered and psychotic, and Madonna’s future tours will ignore almost all of these songs.

50
Uncut
Diminishing returns from the Material Girl.
50
FLOOD Magazine

Experimentation is not necessarily a Madonna-happy place. As she has in the past, she struggles with it here.

48
Pitchfork
Madonna’s 14th album feels stretched thin all over the globe, layered with an ambitious concept that ends up muddled and convoluted.
BradTasteMusic
48

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

ThisIsLukas
86

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

b4
60

Apesar da Madonna ter finalmente largado o EDM e voltar a fazer suas experimentações, nenhuma das músicas do Madame X me impressionou ou me viciou como nos seus álbuns da metade dos anos 2000 pra trás.

Também,como muitos reclamaram do disco, não curti nem um pouco o excesso de autotune e nem das colaborações, mas não me surpreendeu já que já estava esperando por isso. No geral, apesar de ser disco repetir os ... read more

CarlosDaniel
54

This album is a experience. I liked some stuff in here, but at all i fell SO exhaustive and boring that in the end i don't like much. The autotune in her made my head hurts....

Favorite: i dont loved none of the tracks, but i liked Crazy more than others.

charlottebrig
NR

did she name this after Malcolm x ?????

58

she's not Katy perry

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Track List

1Medellín
4:58
with Maluma
66
2Dark Ballet
4:14
67
3God Control
6:19
83
4Future
3:53
with Quavo
60
5Batuka
4:57
68
6Killers Who Are Partying
5:28
72
7Crave
3:21
69
8Crazy
4:02
73
9Come Alive
4:02
68
10Faz Gostoso
4:05
feat. Anitta
68
11Bitch I'm Loca
2:50
feat. Maluma
50
12I Don't Search I Find
4:08
74
13I Rise
3:44
74
Total Length: 56 minutes
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Added on: April 15, 2019