Future Lovers is easily the crappiest track on COaD. Really sounds like they did it in about 15 minutes. Bleech. The rest sounds sounds so much better by comparison.
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MendesCity said:

My least favorite. It's so dissapointing that it comes after my favorite track, "Sorry". Mirwais, go bye bye! He was also on board for "SuperPop" but that doesn't redeam him.

MendesCity said:

it's my favorite song on the album.

though, for what it's worth, i'm not a mirwais fan.

I think their work together was brilliant, so I'm not appreciating your appreciation thread.

well for what it's worth, i like this track a lot.

Mirwais did some amazing stuff with Madonna and I
don't like everything, no, but the ones that i do
like, i like tons and tons. very good stuff.

It's many people's favorite or one of them. And because it it...I wantto like it more than I do, but i just can't get into that song. I now think it is now weaker than New York or Jump.

I feel as though Mirwais worked on the last song as THAT sounds like an AL songs... but then again it sounds like what AL should have sounded like.

He did Superpop? I like that song...though nit's m,ired in "thinking" lyrics, which isn't her strong suit and thus is the reason it was probablyu left off the album.

Has anyone heard Fighting spirit off the limited release?

So there's 2 madonna threads...and no one likes mine. No one likes Hanky Panky?

superspaceboy said:

i was going to post on that thread but i got distracted by the lastest 'chaos & disorder sucks' thread over in the P:M&M forum.

superspaceboy said:

I have it and if you want it, drop me a line

As for Mirwais, i prefer his work with Madonna more than the new album. Not to say i don't like her new album, i just love his edginess, making Future Lovers easily my favorite track off the album.

jayaredee said:

Even over Get Together?

VoicesCarry said:

It's already gotten old on me

"Future Lovers" is in my top 3. I love the work Mirwais has done with Madonna and I love his solo album.

jayaredee said:

Mirwais' biggest mistake was letting Madonna play guitar on her own album.

superspaceboy said:

i love the way madonna plays guitar - she makes it look so difficult!

I think that Mirwais' work on Music was fine, but Madonna needed to work with a Patrick Leonard on the lyrics and melodies before she worked with Mirwais on production. There was a definite decline in tunefulness when the Music album dropped; lyrics also really suffered.

Anxiety said:

Yes she painstakingly strums each chord like she's performing surgery or something. Make you appreciate P's playing that much more.

superspaceboy said:

i just figured she was a better guitar player since all he seems to do is pick a guitar up and make it sound good then just throw it like it was some kind of smelly dog or something. the way she furrows her brow deep into her face when she plays guitar tells me that something really special must be going on.

Anxiety said:

You two..

superspaceboy said:

Except it's Mirwais playing on the album. And I think the playing is just fine.

VoicesCarry said:

Hey you!

jayaredee said:

say it isn't so!!!! That's like the best song on there!

Future Lovers IMO sounds so lifeless and uninspired.Easily the weakest track on the cd for me.

CinisterCee said:

Next Up Madge performs Stairway to Heaven

GangstaFam said:

Don't sarcasm and Madonna go hand in hand?

Mostly what I was saying was a guitar album for Madonna was probabaly not a good thing esp with beats and her words vocorded over it. I'm not saying it was a bad album, as I liked it. I just think it would have made for a beautiful accoustic album.

superspaceboy said:

The intro alone!!

GangstaFam said:

I actually like their work on the Music album a lot. Future Lovers has one good hook, that "evidence of its brillance" bit. Beyond that, it goes on and on and on....And everytime she does that "I'm going to tell you about love," I keep thinking of the "Madonna Knows Best" film over at radaronline.com, and I can't keep from cracking up.

MendesCity said:

haha I gotta see that.

My friend almost regurgitated when I played him that cheezy spoken intro.

GangstaFam said:

that's right! mirwais produced MANY brilliant tracks for Madonna in only 5 years.


Music
Impressive Instant
Nobody's Perfect
Paradise
Nobody Knows Me
Hollywood
Easy Ride
Future Lovers

im with ya

Anxiety said:

Madonna has never played anything but a tiny piano thingy on her collab with Prince and the cow bell on Holiday. Not a note on her other albums. Check the liner notes and various interviews.