A new dance album on the way and I decide that the best Madonna is the ballads one. Timing is a drag.

Spiritual awakening albums gotta be my new favourite genre.

Enhancing old demos with AI will always generate a backlash, especially when it’s done in such a sloppy and obvious way that sucks all hints of human life out of your songs. Why do you keep letting your career legacy be ruined Madonna?

Looking on the bright side, it’s the first time she makes the right choice for first single (it’s by far the best thing in here).
Also, my hot take is that she knew a backlash would be inevitable at this point and fully embraced it.
Also also, this is coming from someone that hates Reputation.

Maybe I should just accept that the drugs have changed.

Her A&R choices for remixers have always been the worst possible and it shows. And “Gone Gone Gone” is the definition of cringe.
(Turning into a Madonna hater was never on my bingo card, but here we are)

It’s actually a cute album, sorta like a sweet time capsule from another era. But I really want to believe that the interludes are spoofs, otherwise rating would be 0 (zero).

black midi please come back.

I’m all for recycling my garbage, but pop music? Hum…

Yes I came here because of the movie.

I will always prefer a goofy millionaire crooning horny jams for fun over an egocentric millionaire spitting hateful bars for revenge.

Abel succumbs to pop’s greatest trap (no pun intended): playing safe and ending up sounding bored and boring.

Dear Kendrick, you’re a millionaire belonging to the 1%, so the amount of personal hate that you insist on perpetuating is really starting to sound like just a gimmick.

An elegy to death, as expected.

Kaleidoscopic chaos but totally in control.

Rate would be even higher if it wasn’t for the ill-advised inclusion of Vogue, which completely ruins the concept.

It’s funny how Gaga is becoming much more interesting as an actress, than as a musician - where she keeps playing safer and safer, either on her own official discography as well as on these side projects. And this one in particular is a perfect showcase to that theory - with her usual subtlety of a bulldozer, all songs are flattened out and this album becomes much less exciting than the movie that served as its inspiration or even than the official soundtrack.

My allergy towards hype and consensus strikes again.

Potentially very good album slightly ruined by the inclusion of an annoying tropical shit-fest in its track list (“Alright Tonight”).

It’s actually not the full disaster i was expecting, some deep new jack swing cuts intercalated with a threesome of cute ballads, rather pleasant and also somewhat forgettable.