Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant.
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.
Madame X is certainly a fluid album, but one tempered by Madonna’s solid confidence in her own aesthetic decisions.
Throughout, there is more density and musical adventure than at almost any other point in her career.
Madame X sounds like the work of an artist reawakened, and one who’s got something to say.
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.
Bold, bizarre, self-referential and unlike anything Madonna has ever done before, 'Madame X' finds the star with a glint in her eye.
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.
Its global sounds and millennial guest stars, including rappers Quavo and Swae Lee, can feel more like obligatory flag-planting than organic evolution.
‘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.
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.
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.
Madame X is so admirably bizarre, all you can do is stand back and watch the girl go.
Even in its fragmented state Madame X spins as a more enduring album than Rebel Heart and maybe that’s the point.
The track list is scattered and psychotic, and Madonna’s future tours will ignore almost all of these songs.
Experimentation is not necessarily a Madonna-happy place. As she has in the past, she struggles with it here.
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
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
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
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.
1 | Medellín 4:58 with Maluma | 66 |
2 | Dark Ballet 4:14 | 67 |
3 | God Control 6:19 | 83 |
4 | Future 3:53 with Quavo | 60 |
5 | Batuka 4:57 | 68 |
6 | Killers Who Are Partying 5:28 | 72 |
7 | Crave 3:21 with Swae Lee | 69 |
8 | Crazy 4:02 | 73 |
9 | Come Alive 4:02 | 68 |
10 | Faz Gostoso 4:05 feat. Anitta | 68 |
11 | Bitch I'm Loca 2:50 feat. Maluma | 50 |
12 | I Don't Search I Find 4:08 | 74 |
13 | I Rise 3:44 | 74 |
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