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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.
9mo
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.
9mo
80
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.
7mo
48
Madonna’s 14th album feels stretched thin all over the globe, layered with an ambitious concept that ends up muddled and convoluted.
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
Madonna.... what happened. This album was very hard to listen to all the way through. Some of the songs were dragged on for WAY TOO LONG and, it's almost an hour long. Some of these songs sound like she combined 6 songs into one and the lyrics sound like she just used random sentences and put them together in a song. Like what does she mean by "I'm gonna be africa"? Anyway, theres 1 song on here that's ok but the rest is just garbage.
Favourite track: Crave
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Favourite track: Crave
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“Madame X is a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom, bringing light to dark places”
These are the exact words Madonna uses to describe her latest record and there certainly is a kernel of truth in her statement. Madame X is a mixed bag that switches from promiscuous latin-pop jams to much more serious ballads in a blink of an eye, but of course, that’s not all folks. Madonna’s promise to work with Portuguese artists was ... read more
These are the exact words Madonna uses to describe her latest record and there certainly is a kernel of truth in her statement. Madame X is a mixed bag that switches from promiscuous latin-pop jams to much more serious ballads in a blink of an eye, but of course, that’s not all folks. Madonna’s promise to work with Portuguese artists was ... 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
I mean, it isn't the worst thing I've heard all year. It's definitely Madonna's most diverse record, with musical styles ranging from dance pop to Latin pop to trap. Unfortunately, "Madame X" fails to execute these influences well. The production does nothing new to these genres and the lyrics are trite. There's also "Killers Who Are Partying", which is supposed to be well-intentioned but it ends up being in poor taste. Another big problem I have with this record is that ... read more
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| #45 | / | NME |
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| #49 | / | Good Morning America |
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Track List
- Medellín
- Dark Ballet
- God Control
- Future (feat. Quavo)
- Batuka
- Killers Who Are Partying
- Crave (feat. Swae Lee)
- Crazy
- Come Alive
- Faz Gostoso (feat. Anitta)
- Bitch I'm Loca (feat. Maluma)
- I Don't Search I Find
- I Rise
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Added on: April 15, 2019