Popjustice got to listen to MDNA today

And despite his initial distaste for the singles he is calling the album "FUCKING GREAT"

his review will be up next week.

I'm getting more excited everyday!

I'm impatient..I want this album NOW!

SoulAlive said:

nooooooooooo u ain't?

OMG!

go2theMax said:

SoulAlive said:

nooooooooooo u ain't?

OMG!

Notice that "Gang Bang" is produced by The Demolition Crew and not William Orbit,as was previously reported.

SoulAlive said:

go2theMax said:

nooooooooooo u ain't?

OMG!

Notice that "Gang Bang" is produced by The Demolition Crew and not William Orbit,as was previously reported.

have i said that I love U 2day, Dave? well I do

RKJCNE said:

Popjustice got to listen to MDNA today

And despite his initial distaste for the singles he is calling the album "FUCKING GREAT"

his review will be up next week.

I'm getting more excited everyday!

A friend who works in the UK music industry is attending a MDNA playback event in London on Wednesday...I'll get his opinion once he recovers...he's a big fan...will report back once I know

Apparently,certain people in the media and music industry are being allowed to hear the album.Reviews should be popping up real soon.Here's what one insider has said....

FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HEARD MDNA ALREADY: I can't share it, only give an opinion. Only listened once.
You will be shocked - one way or another. It's like nothing you've heard from her in 20 years (as a whole album). It's eclectic and very interesting and thoughtful. What more can I say? Better than 'Hard Candy', more energetic than other albums but, also more quality than the last 2. Confessions crossed with Erotica. Weird - but in a really nice lovely way.

SoulAlive said:

Apparently,certain people in the media and music industry are being allowed to hear the album.Reviews should be popping up real soon.Here's what one insider has said....

FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HEARD MDNA ALREADY: I can't share it, only give an opinion. Only listened once.
You will be shocked - one way or another. It's like nothing you've heard from her in 20 years (as a whole album). It's eclectic and very interesting and thoughtful. What more can I say? Better than 'Hard Candy', more energetic than other albums but, also more quality than the last 2. Confessions crossed with Erotica. Weird - but in a really nice lovely way.

SoulAlive said:

Apparently,certain people in the media and music industry are being allowed to hear the album.Reviews should be popping up real soon.Here's what one insider has said....

[b]FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HEARD MDNA ALREADY: I can't share it, only give an opinion. Only listened once.
You will be shocked - one way or another. It's like nothing you've heard from her in 20 years (as a whole album). It's eclectic and very interesting and thoughtful. What more can I say? Better than 'Hard Candy', more energetic than other albums but, also more quality than the last 2. Confessions crossed with Erotica. Weird - but in a really nice lovely way.[/b]

Hope this is true!!! Very intrigued to hear it now, W/O said the singles are very different from the rest of the album.

SoulAlive said:

LOL...sorrry for this this was from an insider! not from me

SoulAlive said:

Apparently,certain people in the media and music industry are being allowed to hear the album.Reviews should be popping up real soon.Here's what one insider has said....

FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HEARD MDNA ALREADY: I can't share it, only give an opinion. Only listened once.
You will be shocked - one way or another. It's like nothing you've heard from her in 20 years (as a whole album). It's eclectic and very interesting and thoughtful. What more can I say? Better than 'Hard Candy', more energetic than other albums but, also more quality than the last 2. Confessions crossed with Erotica. Weird - but in a really nice lovely way.

The first two singles still suck.

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"Girl Gone Wild"
Rolling Stone: 3 star
Community: 4 1/2 star

By Jon Dolan
February 29, 2012

Madge pissed off Girls Gone Wild scumtard Joe Francis with the title of her latest - and that isn't the only admirable thing about this return to the straight-ahead club trance she holds dear. Sure, as wildness goes it's closer to Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope than Britney Spears, but the track (by Italian house producer Benny Benassi) smartly inverts the overpowering apocalypse pump of "Till the World Ends" into Euro-spa electro burble that's buoyant and warm-rinse soothing. It's the sound of a woman who hits the dancefloor for restoration more than craziness. After the "Mickey"-recalling head-scratcher of "Give Me All Your Luvin'," it's nice to see her get back into the groove.

Most of MDNA is about having fun, but this is also a very dark album! If 'Like a Prayer' was her divorce record and 'Hard Candy' suffered, one senses, from being put together as her relationship with Guy Ritchie was falling apart,then MDNA is a fuck you - to her marriage, the life that came with it, and partly to herself for losing her identity in a partnership. She is out there to recapture who she is, and she has demons to slay!---from the AttitudeMag review of MDNA

I'm intrigued!

Meet the press,
Buy a dress,
Do all this to impress...

Do ten things at once
And if you don't like it
I don't give a...

I tried to be the perfect wife...
I diminished myself...
It swallowed me...
If I was a failure
Then I don't give a... ---lyrics from "I Don't Give A..." featuring Nicki Minaj

Shot you dead,
Shot my lover in the head...
I'm going straight to hell...
I've got a lot of friends there

Drive bitch, die bitch---lyrics from "Gang Bang"

Album review----

***Superstar- "surely the sweetest song Madonna has released since Cherish. It twirls along, an open top summer anthem, serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus"

***Falling Free- "one of the saddest songs shes ever written"

***I Fucked up- described as confessional

***Beautiful Killer- "A fun 80s-sounding, strings laced tribute to French Actor Alain Delon"

"Is Madonna still "the Queen" as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA its hard to argue against---from AttitudeMag's review of MDNA

* "Girl Gone Wild" - biggest pop stomper on the album
* "Gang Bang" - very theatrical vocals about taking revenge on a lover who ruined her life. She apparently yells on the record "Drive bitch, Die bitch!" Kind of Stupid, kind of amazing, kind of funny and kind of fucked up! Full of one essential thing that her contenders lack: DRAMA!
* "I Don't Give a.." tour-de-force moment on the album. recounting a typical day, becomes intensely honest, telling-off of her critics. The track builds up to a genius, choral, almost Tom Burton-esque conclusion.
* "Turn Up The Radio" - Strongest most immediate section on MDNA. Begins like a delicate ballad, pleading the audience to stop for a moment and get away from the world through music. May sound trite, but there's urgency in it's simplicity. Transforms into the albums most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own. Sure to please fans, fill dancefloors, shake clubs and find a slot on the next series of Glee
* "Superstar" - one of the later highlights on the album. The sweetest song she has released since "Cherish". Twirls along, an open-top summer anthem. Serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus. It's simple and pretty and a perfect song to sing on her summer concerts! And should definately be a single!
* Falling Free - deep melancholia! One of the saddest songs she has ever written.
* Beautiful Killer - 80's sounding, string laden song as a tribute to french actor Alain Delon

Conclusion:

Overall it might not have the serious pop intensity of Confessions, it's not as a drastically new or experimental as music critics might like, but it's fun, fucked up, dancey, and full of drama. It's what her fans have been waiting for: a wallop enough of an album to put her back up there, a checkmate against Lady Gaga, who despite her brilliance, doesn't quite give you songs that are as easy to disco dance to as some of these are. Is Madonna still "the Queen" as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it's hard to argue against.

SoulAlive said:

SoulAlive said:

LOL...sorrry for this this was from an insider! not from me

u got me sweatin' 4 moment

Audience numers on radio

MADONNA - Girl Gone Wild: 0.009

go2theMax said:

SoulAlive said:

LOL...sorrry for this this was from an insider! not from me

u got me sweatin' 4 moment

from DrownedMadonna:

EXCLUSIVE - A few months ago we exclusively revealed the lyrics of Madonna's Bang Bang demo. That song has completely changed and brought to life Gang Bang, co-written with Mika and co-produced with the Demolition Crew (Demacio Demo Castellon, Mike Anthony, Square Boogie and Jax) and William Orbit. We can now reveal juicy details on Gang Bang.

Both Bang Bang and the final version now titled Gang Bang are very different from Give Me All Your Luvin' and Girl Gone Wild. Bang Bang was a mid-tempo song featuring a sample synth piano, which is now disappeared on Gang Bang. If the demo was someway similar to certain Mika songs, without the typical happiness, now Gang Bang is very theatrical and electronic. Now the lyrics are presented in a new manner in Gang Bang. Part of them are compeltey new and the chorus has changed. But, if some of the lyrics are the pretty the same, the whole thing is very different and absolutely more dramatic and violent. The song is now very dark, also thanks to the new beat. One of the biggest difference, it is that Madonna is now mostly speaking gently over the track in a Kill Bill like fashion. "Bang Bang, shot you dead, my lover in the head. Bang Bang, shot you dead and I never regret
," Madonna says in the chorus.

As the song progressives, so does Madonna. Her voice gets much more aggressive, and it's clear she is out to take revenge on her past lover. "I'm going straight to hell, and I've got a lot of friends there," Madonna says. "If I see that bitch in hell, I'm gonna shoot him in the head again, 'cause I wanna see him die. Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over."

The end is terrific, and it may cause controversies, especially because it is a woman to express this way. Someway, it may be compared to the video of What It Feels Like For A Girl . "I said drive bitch. And while you're at it, die bitch. Now if you're gonna act like a bitch, then you're gonna die like a bitch."

The production is very good. Gang Bang is very different from everything Madonna ever done before. Be ready to be completely blown away!!

Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)

Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012

There's a fun moment at the end of the video to the first single Give Me All Your Luvin’, when Madonna flings a baby doll off camera and away from her breast. It isn’t a subtle marker of starting anew with her loyal audience of gays and good-time girls, but it is comically satisfying nonetheless. Party Madonna is back and she wants us to know it.

Teaming up with producers Martin Solveig, Benny Benassi, The Demolition Crew and old hand William Orbit, MDNA is a dose of what she does best. While that may seem like just dance music, there is more to Madonna’s oeuvre than that.

Girls Gone Wild, the biggest pop stomper on the album, kicks off with a reference to Act of Contrition from Like a Prayer. The production might sound like she's been listening to a fair bit of Rihanna, but who’s counting. Madonna brings her own authority, creating the kind of anthemic party song that she does best, the kind where everyone from your three-year-old niece to your 60-year-old mother gets up on the dancefloor. Much of MDNA is about having fun, but despite that, this is a dark album. If Like a Prayer was her divorce record and Hard Candy suffered, one senses, from being put together as her relationship with Guy Ritchie was falling apart, then MDNA is a fuck you ­ to her marriage, the life that came with it, and partly to herself for losing her identity in a partnership. She’s out to recapture who she is, and she has demons to slay.

The strangely titled Gang Bang sees her singing in a weird theatrical drawl about taking revenge on a lover who ruined her life. ‘Shot you dead, shot my lover in the head…, I’m going straight to hell…, I’ve got a lot of friends there’, she deadpans before yelling, ‘Drive bitch, die bitch!’. It’s kind of stupid, kind of amazing, kind of funny and kind of fucked up ­ but gives the album one vital ingredient to Madonna's success that all contenders, apart from Lady Gaga, have never clued up on: drama.

The Solveig-produced I Don¹t Give A..., is one of the album's tour-de-force moments. Beginning by recounting a typical day, it becomes intensely honest, and is, as is her way, a telling-off of her critics. Love her or loathe her, Madonna has made her name by raising a middle finger to, well, just about everyone. ‘Wake up, this is your life, children on your own, gotta plan on the phone, meet the press, buy a dress, do all this to impress…, do ten things at once and if you don't like it I don't give a….’ It’s here that she makes specific reference to her ex-husband. ‘I tried to be the perfect wife, …I diminished myself…, it swallowed me, …if I was a failure then I don’t give a…’. The track builds to a genius, choral, almost Tim Burton-esque conclusion.

This strongest, most immediate section of MDNA continues with Turn Up the Radio, which begins like a delicate ballad as she pleads with the listener to stop for a moment, to get away from the world through music. It may sound trite but there's urgency in its simplicity. It transforms into the album’s most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own and fans will be happy to have a dancefloor filler that will shake the clubs and would happily find a slot on the next series of Glee.

One of the later highlights is Superstar, surely the sweetest song Madonna has released since Cherish. It twirls along, an open-top summer anthem, serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus. It¹s simple and pretty and a perfect song to sing on her summer concerts ­ and should definitely be a single.

MDNA ends, as recent Madonna albums do, with deep melancholia, from the Orbit-produced Falling Free, one of the saddest songs she’s ever written, through to the confessional I Fucked Up on the Deluxe Edition, accompanied by Beautiful Killer, a fun, 80s-sounding, strings-laced tribute to French actor Alain Delon.

Overall, this might not have the serious pop intensity of Confessions, it’s not as drastically new or experimental as music critics might like, but it’s fun, fucked up, dancey and full of drama. It’s what her fans have been waiting for: a wallop enough of an album to put her back up there, at checkmate against Lady Gaga, who, despite her brilliance, doesn’t quite give you songs that are as easy to disco dance to as some of these are. Is Madonna still ‘the Queen’ as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it’s hard to argue against.

[Note to Monsters: Lady Gaga is frikkin’ amazing, too. Don¹t kill us.]

4 STARS ****

Getting excited! So excited that I actually bough GGW off of iTunes, even though I'd already pre-ordered the album.

SoulAlive said:

Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)

Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012

4 STARS ****

Attitude Magazine - is a gay magazine. I am absolutely not against gays, just mean that the relationship of gay magazines and Madonna reminiscent of the relationship Rolling Stones and the Beatles .... absolutely love ...
Therefore, 4 * of them - not such a great score

I like GGw, it is very catchy, but the one who wrote in the Review that the song is epic, probably was just joking

LiLi1992 said:

SoulAlive said:

Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)

Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012

4 STARS ****

Attitude Magazine - is a gay magazine. I am absolutely not against gays, just mean that the relationship of gay magazines and Madonna reminiscent of the relationship Rolling Stones and the Beatles .... absolutely love ...
Therefore, 4 * of them - not such a great score

I like GGw, it is very catchy, but the one who wrote in the Review that the song is epic, probably was just joking

??? why? 4 out of 5 stars is very good! also ''Popjustice'' heard it and they were negative about GGW & GMAYL.. So maybe that says something? Orbit already said the rest of the album is very different, all kinds of styles/songs on the album.

LiLi1992 said:

SoulAlive said:

Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)

Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012

4 STARS ****

Attitude Magazine - is a gay magazine. I am absolutely not against gays, just mean that the relationship of gay magazines and Madonna reminiscent of the relationship Rolling Stones and the Beatles .... absolutely love ...
Therefore, 4 * of them - not such a great score

I like GGw, it is very catchy, but the one who wrote in the Review that the song is epic, probably was just joking

You obviously don't read the gay press! They can be very critical of even their icons like Madonna. I guess it's tough love! Madonna's been criticized a lot by the gay media for supposedly not being outspoken about gay issues enough. A lot of the gay press were very critical of Hard Candy, much more so than the straight press. The gay press is actually harsher in reviews than the straight media most of the time.

Glindathegood said:

LiLi1992 said:

Attitude Magazine - is a gay magazine. I am absolutely not against gays, just mean that the relationship of gay magazines and Madonna reminiscent of the relationship Rolling Stones and the Beatles .... absolutely love ...
Therefore, 4 * of them - not such a great score

I like GGw, it is very catchy, but the one who wrote in the Review that the song is epic, probably was just joking

You obviously don't read the gay press!

you're right ... I did not read. My assumption is based solely on the fact that over 70% of the Madonna fans - gay (the figure is not absolutely accurate, it is just personal observation, of course, but it is clear that more than half) ....

A lot of the gay press were very critical of Hard Candy

Well, gay people are very loyal to Madonna, but not deaf. This album is really awful

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