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The best track on the new Madonna LP: "I Don't Give A" featuring Nicki Minaj

Abbey Road Studio Two is lit by Diptyque candles, the Steinway Model D concert grand piano has been pushed aside to make room for a bar and giggly journalists are making notes in pink pencil: it could only be a Madonna album playback. GQ.com has come to the studio of choice for the Beatles and Pink Floyd to hear MDNA, the 12th album from Ms Ciccone. It's Madge's return to the dance floor record - after the drama of her period film WE, this is her bolshy, boshy statement of intent. The highlight is the unpromisingly named "I Don't Give A", a slice of digital funk produced by Martin Solveig that is made all the more memorable for its anti-Guy Ritchie sentiment ("I tried to be a good girl / I tried to be your wife").

While the Material Girl simultaneously claims defiance and self reliance ("I'm going to be ok / I don't care what people say"), two thirds of the way through Nicki Minaj steps up to the mic to provide one of her best verses in months. The theme, bizarrely, is cars with Nicki affirming her "Don Dada" status by spending "Ten grand a tyre". She then proceeds to rhyme "Volvo" with "Aldo", produces a sex change on Jay-Z's famous line from "Diamonds Are Forever" ("I'm a business woman, I'm a business, woman") and ends with the potential Gaga diss ("There's only one queen…and that's Madonna, bitch!"). It's unhinged, unlikely and not short of surprises - we just can't wait to tell you about the full album...

Madonna's new album is out 26 March.

Love Spent is my favorite clip so far. I love the guitar based slightly indie pop sound. I love William Orbit's work more than the more traditional club tracks.

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asg said:

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you are on her jock more than anyone else

I'm starting to feel more and more like she should have just taken the orbit tracks off

this album.

She should have just gone full out and released an album full of fluffy, nonsense and

sugar coated lyrics over euro techno beats and finally got all that shit out of her system.

Then next year, she could have taken all the Orbit produced tracks, added six more,

also produced by orbit, with decent lyrics she actually spent more than 3 minutes on,

and released that as a separate, no doubt better, album.

From all the reviews it seems that although the music is fine, especially the lyrics are

once again very sub par. It seems like they get worse with every album.

Plus I think most people are probably over all those tracks like celebration, revolver,

gmayl, etc etc.

Everytime she drops a new album, I'll buy it and there will be songs that I love, but

this last decade, every album I listened to just made me cherish "Ray Of Light"

more and more for the amazing (apparantly one off) and otherworldly genius that it

is.

Where did that songwriter go? Sure the lyrics to the ROL album aren't earth shattering,

but they are miles above and beyond the shit quoted in these reviews.

Anyway, I'm probably being far too negative. Who knows, maybe I'll love the album

after all. And definately, I'm clinging to the past. But with a past that good, who can

say that's a bad thing?

I just hope that she gets tired of all those club bangers herself and decides to take it

a down a couple of notches and focus on songwriting, lyrics and uniqueness, instead

of following and trying to be hip.

IstenSzek said:

I'm starting to feel more and more like she should have just taken the orbit tracks off

this album.

She should have just gone full out and released an album full of fluffy, nonsense and

sugar coated lyrics over euro techno beats and finally got all that shit out of her system.

Then next year, she could have taken all the Orbit produced tracks, added six more,

also produced by orbit, with decent lyrics she actually spent more than 3 minutes on,

and released that as a separate, no doubt better, album.

From all the reviews it seems that although the music is fine, especially the lyrics are

once again very sub par. It seems like they get worse with every album.

Plus I think most people are probably over all those tracks like celebration, revolver,

gmayl, etc etc.

Everytime she drops a new album, I'll buy it and there will be songs that I love, but

this last decade, every album I listened to just made me cherish "Ray Of Light"

more and more for the amazing (apparantly one off) and otherworldly genius that it

is.

Where did that songwriter go? Sure the lyrics to the ROL album aren't earth shattering,

but they are miles above and beyond the shit quoted in these reviews.

Anyway, I'm probably being far too negative. Who knows, maybe I'll love the album

after all. And definately, I'm clinging to the past. But with a past that good, who can

say that's a bad thing?

I just hope that she gets tired of all those club bangers herself and decides to take it

a down a couple of notches and focus on songwriting, lyrics and uniqueness, instead

of following and trying to be hip.

I get what you're saying totally but for me "deep" madonna has never been as great as "fun" madonna. but then, my favorite records are right down the middle.

I just want another "get together" - not deep by any stretch, but that's her best track and probably my favorite 'pop' song of the past 10 years, no joke. I like the whole simplicity of her 'club bangers' where the lyrics aren't total trash. "Sorry," "Hung Up," "Revolver" (i actually thought those lyrics were pretty cool, though i don't think she wrote them), "She's Not Me," "Give It 2 Me," "Heartbeat" - those are all killer to me.

That said, I think the song titles are the most juvenile and Asshole Simpson/Avril Lavigne-esque I've ever seen her do. "I Don't Give A" "I Fucked Up" "Girl Gone Wild" "Gang Bang" and "I'm Addicted?" really? Those are up there with "I'm So Stupid" (that's a great song tho) and "To Have and Not to Hold" as song titles. (Another great song - so maybe that's a good thing?) But i agree, the lyrics quoted in the reviews thus far are so trite, juvenile, and throwaway. As long as her vocals are there and the production is dope, I'll be happy - but I do long for "You'll See, " "Rain" or even "Spotlight" Madonna-type lyrics at times too.

Glindathegood said:

Love Spent is my favorite clip so far. I love the guitar based slightly indie pop sound. I love William Orbit's work more than the more traditional club tracks.

Do you know what song Perez is gonna premiere tomorrow? I hope it's "Gang Bang"

SoulAlive said:

Glindathegood said:

Love Spent is my favorite clip so far. I love the guitar based slightly indie pop sound. I love William Orbit's work more than the more traditional club tracks.

Do you know what song Perez is gonna premiere tomorrow? I hope it's "Gang Bang"

If she's smart she'll hold that one out till the very last possible minute - seems to be the defining song of this era, already, no?

Can't lie - IM EXCITED!

Sorry, there was probably no feasible way to re-do "Miles Away" for this album.

MDNA Album Review by Guardian:

First listen: Madonna's MDNA
We've had a sneak preview of the new album – get ready for terrible French accents, amazing pop raves and heartfelt ballads


Girl Gone Wild
After the relative failure of the album's first single Give Me All Your Luvin' – in with a bullet at No 37 in the UK – this throbbing, having-a-bit-of-a-dance electro-pop stomper was released a few weeks ago in the form of a fairly embarrassing lyric video. Embarrassing because the lyrics are probably the worst thing about it, all "you got me in the zone, DJ play my favourite song" club LOLs. Co-produced by Italian DJ Benny Benassi, it's a lot more exciting musically, especially when the whole thing disintegrates in the middle eight, dropping out completely as Madonna coos "forgive me". A signal we're back in Confessions on a Dance Floor territory following the relative misstep of Hard Candy.


Gang Bang
Madonna in playful mode. Big throbbing industrial-tinged beats, spoken word verses, no real chorus, just a ridiculous collection of sound effects (police sirens, gunshots) and imposing menace that's actually pretty fun in a kind of slightly unhinged way. Gang Bang recalls her American Life album in its slightly uneasy marrying of genres, with a sudden dubstep breakdown its most obvious detour. Lyrically it's a twisted revenge fantasy rather than a sordid romp, closing with the line: "If you're going to drive like a bitch then you're going to die like a bitch."


I'm Addicted
Again co-produced by Benny Benassi, this continues the theme of "Fun!" (however forced it might seem) that permeates most of MDNA's first half. "I need to dance," Madonna trills over squiggly synth squelches and a beat that morphs into a fairly ridiculous Calvin Harris-esque breakdown. By the end she's chanting "M D N A", which you imagine might be shouted back at her by some fairly large crowds come summer.


Turn Up the Radio
This one, co-produced by Martin Solveig, should have been the second single. Its relatively calm intro is a timely breather from the throbbing bass and feels more carefree and instinctive than what has gone before. Over a bouncing beat that filters, stutters and drops in all the right places, it slowly morphs into an anthemic raveathon, with a lovely middle eight underpinned by almost tribal drums. Again, the theme is the need for one and all to chill out and have some fun.


Give Me All Your Luvin' feat Nicki Minaj and MIA
If you were one of the 108 million people who watched this year's Super Bowl halftime show then you've probably heard this first single. If, however, you listen to the radio then you probably haven't, seeing as it wasn't playlisted on Radio 1 and received limited exposure elsewhere. Though admittedly not her best comeback single – that's Frozen, in case you were wondering – it's still a fun song, Solveig slightly reworking the bouncing beats and acoustic strums of his amazing Hello single and drafting in Nicki Minaj and MIA to add some personality to a middle section that's slightly dubstep-interlude-by-numbers.


Some Girls
Probably the album's weakest moment, with Madonna's vocals pulled, processed and buried deep in the mix, acting more like another instrument within a deluge of filtered beats. It could have easily been a leftover from her Music album, William Orbit unable to find a melodic core in a song that probably should have been included as a bonus track.


Superstar
Opening with a massive Cheerleader-style drum beat – reminiscent of the extended intro to Solveig's Hello – this is much better, Madonna sounding playful and energised, singing about how her new boyfriend is pretty amazing. In fact, she likes him so much she'll let him "have the password to my phone". Unfortunately, as with most songs on the first half of the album, the chorus is a bit weak, a simple "oh la la, you're my superstar". Also, memo to Madonna: massive pop stars knowing about dubstep is probably a bit old hat now, but we get another dubstepesque breakdown nonetheless.


I Don't Give a feat Nicki Minaj
Brilliantly odd. Opening with a bang, literally, it goes on to morph into an America Life-style rap (no wait, come back) that features a list of things Madonna has to do ("meet the press … sign the contract"). The industrial beats soon make way for spooky chants and out of nowhere Minaj pops up, finishing her rap with "there's only one Queen and that's Madonna, bitch". If this isn't being made into a T-shirt as you read this then there's something wrong with the world of merchandise.


I'm a Sinner
Futuristic-sounding, double-tracked beats hail a song that veers from having fun on a night out ("all the boys and the girls wanna be like us tonight"), to a religious revelry ("Hail Mary, Jesus Christ on the cross died for our sins"). Produced by William Orbit, his signature motifs are all over it, from the Ray of Light-style guitar line that emerges from nowhere to the bit later on that sounds like Beautiful Stranger.



Love Spent
Back come the guitars, this time working around processed strings, a pretty melody and lyrics about wanting to replace money in a man's affections. "Hold me like your money … Spend your love on me," Madonna sings over four-to-the-floor beats and a properly ravey middle eight. There's an amusing moment when she deadpans: "Frankly, if my name was Benjamin, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in."


Masterpiece
Over a simple fingerclick drum beat and a pretty acoustic riff, this ballad – which appeared on the W.E. soundtrack – takes the painting metaphor hinted at in the title and runs with it. "If you were the Mona Lisa, you'd be hanging in the Louvre," Madonna sings, with the implication being that it's hard to love something perfect and distant ("the look but please don't touch me type"). It's one of the best vocal performances on the album, her voice soft and sweet throughout, lifting effortlessly into the chorus of "I'm right by your side, like a thief in the night, I stand in front of the masterpiece." A breath of fresh air after heavy bass and ravey synths.



Falling Free
Opens with a spooky, slightly unhinged piano section that's more lonely woman in haunted house than Coldplay stadium filler. Deep strings underpin the whole thing, with just the piano and strange electronic textures – similar to Ray of Light's Drowned World – for company. As with most of the later songs, you could easily read a lot into the lyrics, specifically thinking about Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie. "We're both free, free to go," she sings as the strings sigh and slowly settle. It's a haunting way to end the main album.



Beautiful Killer
The first of four bonus tracks, this draws on a fairly popular Madonna theme: that of being drawn to something bad for you. "Baby I'll let you shoot me down" and "I can't really talk with a gun in my mouth" are two lyrical highlights on a song that was rightly left off the main album.



I Fucked Up
This, however, definitely should have been on it. Opening with a big, bass-heavy beat and a snapped "I fucked up", it's Madonna at her self-lacerating best. "I made a mistake, nobody does it better than myself," she sings as the beat is joined by strings and sudden bursts of guitar. Suddenly the beat skips and speeds up, creating the album's grimiest, least polished moment. Fans of Confessions on a Dance Floor's Sorry will be pleased to hear her sing "je suis desolé" in the least convincing French accent.



B-Day Song feat MIA
Rumours that this MIA collaboration was bumped from the main tracklisting following middlefingergate were not confirmed during the playback, but it's more than likely it was left off because it's Motown/Spectorish beat doesn't really fit with the rest of the album. It's a jolly romp though, with MIA joining in on the chorus but letting Madonna deliver the line "give me a spanking, start the day off right" by herself.



Best Friend
A real highlight. With a massive electro beat that pogos all over the place, this is a brilliant rush of darting synths. Lyrically it's about a relationship that should never have been, Madonna lamenting the loss of a friendship after things went wrong. There are nods, perhaps, to her previous life as part of the English gentry – "I miss the countryside in which we used to lay" – and it's one of the few times on the album where the chorus truly soars. It ends with the line "it's so sad that it had to end" and, generally, this is true of Madonna's MDNA, an album that's been trailed by weak singles, but contains brilliantly bonkers moments.

badujunkie said:

SoulAlive said:

Do you know what song Perez is gonna premiere tomorrow? I hope it's "Gang Bang"

If she's smart she'll hold that one out till the very last possible minute - seems to be the defining song of this era, already, no?

Can't lie - IM EXCITED!

Sorry, there was probably no feasible way to re-do "Miles Away" for this album.

I just hope there's a song on this album that moves me (emotionally) the way "Miles Away" did

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ALBUM REVIEW---MADONNA 'MDNA'

Today we had the chance to listen to the new Madonna album as a whole to review it for our website and we have to say it's really a very good work that will please both casual and hard-die fans. Well maybe it won't be pleasing a lot catholic groups as the queen of pop dips again in the imagery she grew up with in an even strongest way than like a prayer. With Like A Prayer she rebelled against the religious "values" imposed on her by her family, with MDNA she revisits the themes adding some twisted irony proving that she may have Kabbalish blood in her veins now but her bones are still impregnated with catholicism, rivisiting again themes as sin, death, shame, betrayal , twisted love affairs and regret.
The opening of the album's first song, Girl Gone Wild is a hint of what's instore. She reprises one of the most sacred catholic prayers, the Act Of Contrition, and revisit it as a bad girl would do.


1. Girl Gone Wild
A great way to open the album, with a song that grows on listeners more and more. We didn't like it AT ALL a week ago and now we are singing it and humming it all the time. It really represents the album well as the whole album is like a diary of a catholic girl gone wild. We still have to forgive her for J-low inspired bit "Dj play my favourite song" but we are quite happy with it!

2. Gang Bang
When MadonnaTribe first reported online about this track last November it could well be defined as an electronic ballad. It was sung in Madonna's clearest voice and told the story of a love affair from the side of a hopeless victim. Now, the track has turned into one of the most hysterical tracks of the album with a beat inviting anyone to the dance floor and with some of the most daring Madonna lyrics in which Madonna turns into a killer for love and she's proud of it, no regrets! From the first listening the theme plot of the song appears to be about a woman who first kills her lover for betraying her, then take her car and drives insanely on the street to commit suicide. In a firm cold voice she says to herself "now drive bitch, I said drive bitch and while you're at it die bitch, that's right drive bitch."

At one point her thoughts go back to her killed lover and she says he deserve it "I'm going straight to hell and I got a lot of friends there. And 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.." Lyrically it's not the typical Madonna track, not a surprise it was axed from the family friend version of the album sold by Walmart! Musically the song reminds us a lot of Impressive Instant from Music (2000) and it end with an "If you act like a bitch then die like a bitch!" sentence and the noice of a police car approaching.

3.I'm addicted
This is the one we like the less. Lyrically it doesn't add anything to the Madonna body of work. It's a song a-la I'm so stupid, with no real meaning. A lot of people like it tough and we respect that. At one point she starts chanting and repeating MDNA, MDNA, MDNA... we can report that legend says in the original early demo the word that is now replaced with MDNA was actually Hashish! that would really explain a lot!

4. Turn Up the Radio
This is probably the most Gaga-ish song on the album. Not right there with her great dance numebers like Into The Groove or Hung Up so We are not very fond of this one either. Fans were already exposed to bits and pieces of this one in the medley released online with Give Me All Your Luving and the comments were not so positive. We second that opinion but we promise this is the second and last one we don't particulary like.

5. Give Me All Your Luvin'
L.U.V. this song a lot ... Y.O.U all know it... L.U.V. listening to this single on the radio... Y.O.U have to request it a lot! It's poppy, it's catchy, it's pure Madonna.

6. Some Girls
This track somehow reminds us of her very early stuff she did with Emmy before her first album, probably it's the way she sings it or the fact the melody seems a nursery rhyme at times like her early stuff.

7. Superstar
"Like Brando on the silver screen you are a Superstar, that's what you are", this is the true romantic number of the album, a love song in the tradition of True Blue, Cherish, Nothing Fails. Madonna's love interest is compared to superduper actors like Marlon Brando, Bruce Lee, John Travolta, Jimmy Dean and to historic characters such as Ceaser or Al Capone. As for the lyrics imagine a list of songs rhyming with the word star! Oh La La, Another winner for us!

8. I Dont Give A
This is not the typical Madonna groove, a song that has parts of rap a-la American Life in which Madonna stresses over and over the fact that although she has made mistakes it's not other people's right to judge her. The ghost of Guy Ritchie also haunts the songs when she says "I've tried to be a good wife" and "I don't care what people say about myself". The track features a rap by Nicki MInaj that at some point reminds everyone that "there is only one Queen and that's Madonna!" and ends in a with an "epic chorus" and epic orchestration, the perfect epic background music for the trailer of an epic movie! How many times did we say epic? That's used to stress the concept!

9.I'm a Sinner
Ok, lyrically this is the new Like a Prayer, the song that will make catholics mad. Her voice on this song once again sounds different, you barely recognize her at the very beginning. Musically, it's the most classic Orbit guitar sounding song on this album, Ray of light remixes meet Beautiful Stranger but yet in a great different way. It should definitely be a single, with a great video accompaining it, she'd become once again the Queen Of Controversy many fans adore and in this case the controversy would spark from the nursery rhyme she says on the history of the most popular saints.It stars with a "Hail Mary full of grace, get down on your knees and pray" going ahead with a " Jesus Christ hang on the cross died for our sins it's such a loss". She continues with "St Christopher find my way I'll be coming home one day" and "St Sebastian don't you cry let those poison arrows fly"! Stuff that would really want Pope-a-Ratzi cover his ears with his velvet cape! Definitely one of our best favourites.

10. Love Spent
It starts with an Orbit guitar, Madonna has a sweet voice on this one. ANother love song a la Nothing Fails that would also fit well on the American Life album. There's a great, uncredited, reprise of the Abba theme used in Hung Up that pops up here and there throughout the song. Good one!

11. Masterpiece
This song HAD to be on this album, after discussing it for a while Madonna decided to include the W.E. on the record and she made a good decision. Masterpiece fits perfectly between Love Spent and Falling Free and it's the kind of classic, simple and straighforword Madonna ballad that she hasn't been delivering for a long time and it lets you catch your breath after all the dance numbers that preceed it!

12. Falling Free
The closing number for this album is a slow paced song co-written with Joe Henry. Her way of singing it is very sweet, using her "evita operatic voice" at times, and the theme is very melancolic. There no loop at all accompagning the song, it's just her voice, some Orbit electronic sounds and music instruments like cello. It's a song that Bjork would do and it also reminds us score music of some Japanese animation series. A great way to close the standard edition of MDNA

13. Beautiful Killer
We're back to dance music with beautiful killer and back on the theme of death. Here's she's a victim who is in love with a man who wants to kill her. This is another great song "You can call my name and I'll be around, maybe I'll let you shoot you me down cause you're a beautiful killer with a beautiful face". Like in her film Snake Eyes, the song ends with a gun shot hinting the fact her beautiful killer finally killed her.

14. I fucked up
To have regrets or not to have regrets? this is the question! On this one Madonna says she knows she made a mistake, she is so ashamed and whishes to take it back but she can't. She says nobody screws things better than her. She says she's sorry and "je suis desole'" but it's not clear to whom she is apologizing with. A friend, an ex lover, a ex husband? The ghost of G.R. appears again when she says she misses "running in the country".

15. B-Day Song
It's the most positive and light song on this album, as cherish was on like a prayer. Madonna re-invented the classic motown sound for this track in which she, as first reported by Madonnatribe in December she celebrates her own birthday in the most joyous way. It's a great song that has been switched from the standard edition to the deluxe second disc as it doesn't completely fit the theme of the main album.

16. Best Friend
This is the real end of it. In this one she's is missing her best friend and the things and places they shared together..

"I miss the countryside where we used to mate".. Guy Ritchie again? but she says that "I've survived the biggest test" ... good for her then!

badujunkie said:

asg said:

Ditital sales r in

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you are on her jock more than anyone else

I always follow all the charts what u think about the numbers?

http://www.independe...pe-7544751.html

First Listen: Madonna, MDNA, Interscope
4 out of 5 stars

Madonna shows the new generation of divas she's still top of the pops
Andy Gill

Thursday 08 March 2012

With digital technology making it possible to create hits quite acceptably in your spare room, the older studios are feeling the pinch, and keen to find new ways of monetising their profile. Which may be why Abbey Road's Studio 2, is tonight playing host to a playback of the new Madonna album, MDNA.

She's opted to work primarily with three co-producers, the Italian Marco "Benny" Benassi, Frenchman Martin Solveig, and Englishman William Orbit – all of them celebrated for their cutting-edge work in electronica. Orbit, of course, has worked with Madonna before, helming the hugely successful Ray Of Light album; but he's not the only echo of former glories present on MDNA, which at times seems determined to remind one of her previous achievements.

There's the faint melodic similarity to "Hung Up" in part of "Give Me All Your Luvin'"; the reference to Brando in the obvious hit single "Superstar", which reminds us of "Vogue"; and the religious undertones of "I'm A Sinner", with its lines about "Mother Mary, full of grace" and "Jesus Christ up on the cross", which is like a less complex play with the same themes so brilliantly manipulated in "Like A Prayer".

Is she, one wonders, bringing the full weight of her CV to bear in re-establishing her pop dominance in the face of inroads made by the likes of Rihanna, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga? Because MDNA represents a determined, no-nonsense restatement of the Madonna brand following the lacklustre Hard Candy, on which her hip-hop collaborators failed to apply their talents as rigorously as they might.

Here, the likes of Solveig and Benassi, for all their parochial successes, are still hungry enough to ensure the zonking great beats and synthesiser riffs are sculpted for maximum propulsion. "Girl Gone Wild" opens the album with a variant on the "girls just wanna have fun" theme, Madonna's introductory spoken "confession" quickly giving way to a fulsome electro stomper laced with blurry dubstep touches. "Gang Bang" is all too eager to court controversy, its martial beat and twitchy minimal strands of synth hosting the star's arch commands to "Die, bitch!". M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj guest on "Give Me All Your Luvin'", chanting "L! U! V! Madonna!" before contributing babble-raps swamped by the techno pulse.

Minaj reappears on "I Don't Give A", like a henchman adding muscle to Madonna's assertive claims of being the best: "There's only one queen, and that's Madonna, bitch!". Wherever Lady Gaga is, her ears are probably burning.

Girl Gone Wild" teaser of video will be out Friday morning...
Guy Oseary ‏ @guyoseary

[Edited 3/7/12 17:18pm]

HQ version of "Love Spent"

I want you to hold me
like you hold your money
Hold on to it
‘till there’s nothing left

Love spent
Feeling love spent
Yeah, I’m love spent
Wondering where the love went
Love spent
Yeah I’m love spent
Really love spent
Wondering where it all went

Don’t try to take me like you took your money
Take me In your arms until your last breath
I want you to hold me like you hold your money
Hold me in your arms until there’s nothing left

Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left, nothing left

Love spent
Feeling love spent
Yeah, I’m love spent
Wondering where the love went
Love spent
Yeah I’m love spent
Really love spent
Wondering where it all went

asg said:

badujunkie said:

you are on her jock more than anyone else

I always follow all the charts what u think about the numbers?

i think most acts would kill for any of her numbers

HQ version of "I'm Addicted"

"Turn Up The Radio"

asg said:

badujunkie said:

you are on her jock more than anyone else

I always follow all the charts what u think about the numbers?

U love her! Take time to post Madonnas numbers in a thread abou her over and over again..U L.U.V. her!

Another album in the vein of Hard Candy; lacking all personality and created with the bare minimum attention from the artist herself.

"I'm Addicted" sounds like something 2 Unlimited did twenty years ago, but "Love Spent" sounds amazing - best thing I've heard so far!

Controversial. Artistic. Cunning. By TGJ/Kcool

These are but a few of the titles Madonna has worn over the course of her illustrious career. However, the trait shining brightest these days is the singer’s “business savvy”.

Wonder what we’re on about? The answer awaits below…

With three weeks remaining before the release of the megastar’s ‘MDNA’ LP, fans -naturally- have been salivating over her promotional spots. Where she’s performing? Where she’s appearing. So on and so forth.

Yet, it seems team Madonna have an altogether different strategy; one which centres on sales of the touring variety, as opposed to album figures.

For when quizzed on promotion for the album, the 53 year old’s manager Guy O’Seary replied on Twitter, offering:

“we don’t have any tv currently scheduled.. will keep you posted

there is no time for promo tour.. We are in full on tour mode.. Need to get it ll together.. working on other ideas..

she’s in full on rehearsals.. a teaser of video coming soon.. and video being edited now.. other things in the works..

Needless to say an interesting approach; one which presents quite the conundrum.

On the one hand, it makes an abundance of sense. Madge’s album sales have been on a steady decline for the last 10 years. Yet, her tour-on-tour grosses ($) continue to break records. Hence, her new joint 360 deal with Live Nation and Interscope will see the label recoup millions and then some from her forthcoming world tour (which is already sold out in many countries). And with a projected $400 Million box office gross, the trek (which sets sail in May) will generate more for the label than the album would have – even with Lady GaGa type sales.

And yet, there’s the fact that fans who can’t afford her extortionate ticket prices won’t be privy to see their idol any time soon. A fact which sees ‘MDNA’ arguably serve as little more than commercial for a tour which’ll make Madge richer, yet leave many fans out of pocket.

It’s worth noting, though, that the commercial flare of the singles thus far indicate chart success may have been desired. However, after the lukewarm reception to both ‘Give Me All Your Luvin” and ‘Girls Gone Wild’, gears may have changed.

Whatever, the case it’ll wholly interesting to see how the project plays out when it arrives on March 26th.

2 me its like they know its not going 2 sell well.With the two fastly dying first singles. Plus they know the majority of the money is not coming from record sells. So they're going the Prince route & giving away one free album per concert ticket. Because that is where the big bucks r being made in concert revenue not record sells....Good choice Madonna!!!!

http://www.thesun.co...rs-on-MDNA.html
Madonna rolls back the years on new album;new album is a return to form

By GORDON SMART, Showbiz Editor

Back to her best ... Madonna's new MDNA album

SINCE Madonna was old enough to wear a leotard she's lived for dancing.

Now the singer is 53 and knocking out her 12th studio album, you might expect her tastes to change.

But no. Her appetite for making music to get a sweat on to is showing no sign of dinner lady's arm.

I've had a listen to new collection MDNA and it is packed with special little chemicals – including dubstep.

Her daughter Lola is a huge fan of producer Skrillex and it sounds like mum might have been listening in.

In fact, Lola gets a gig on backing vocals on the album's stand-out track Superstar. Opener Gang Bang also follows the dubstep trend.

Madge has gone back in the Confessions On A Dancefloor direction for an album packed with big pop classics.

Her past release, Hard Candy, was a let-down for even her most loyal followers. So it's a wise move to return to what she does best.

And it's all thanks to her successful partnerships with top European producers.

William Orbit – who was behind Ray Of Light – is back on board, plus Benny Benassi and French club DJ Martin Solveig.

Having rappers M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj on board was a shrewd move and they bring quality as well as credibility to their guest appearances.

Lyrically, she spits out a few harsh words for ex-husband Guy Ritchie on I Don't Give A.

But she also accepts some responsibility for a broken marriage on bonus track I F***** Up.

Fans will love I'm Addicted, Turn Up The Radio and Some Girls – they are classic Madge.

Falling Free is the most stripped-down Madonna track I've heard for years.

The album should be the spine of an incredible live show – just what her army of followers will want to hear.

It's a return to form and out on March 26.

With digital technology making it possible to create hits quite acceptably in your spare room, the older studios are feeling the pinch, and keen to find new ways of monetising their profile. Which may be why Abbey Road's Studio 2, is tonight playing host to a playback of the new Madonna album, MDNA.

She's opted to work primarily with three co-producers, the Italian Marco "Benny" Benassi, Frenchman Martin Solveig, and Englishman William Orbit – all of them celebrated for their cutting-edge work in electronica. Orbit, of course, has worked with Madonna before, helming the hugely successful Ray Of Light album; but he's not the only echo of former glories present on MDNA, which at times seems determined to remind one of her previous achievements.

There's the faint melodic similarity to "Hung Up" in part of "Give Me All Your Luvin'"; the reference to Brando in the obvious hit single "Superstar", which reminds us of "Vogue"; and the religious undertones of "I'm A Sinner", with its lines about "Mother Mary, full of grace" and "Jesus Christ up on the cross", which is like a less complex play with the same themes so brilliantly manipulated in "Like A Prayer".

Is she, one wonders, bringing the full weight of her CV to bear in re-establishing her pop dominance in the face of inroads made by the likes of Rihanna, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga? Because MDNA represents a determined, no-nonsense restatement of the Madonna brand following the lacklustre Hard Candy, on which her hip-hop collaborators failed to apply their talents as rigorously as they might.

Here, the likes of Solveig and Benassi, for all their parochial successes, are still hungry enough to ensure the zonking great beats and synthesiser riffs are sculpted for maximum propulsion. "Girl Gone Wild" opens the album with a variant on the "girls just wanna have fun" theme, Madonna's introductory spoken "confession" quickly giving way to a fulsome electro stomper laced with blurry dubstep touches. "Gang Bang" is all too eager to court controversy, its martial beat and twitchy minimal strands of synth hosting the star's arch commands to "Die, bitch!". M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj guest on "Give Me All Your Luvin'", chanting "L! U! V! Madonna!" before contributing babble-raps swamped by the techno pulse.

Minaj reappears on "I Don't Give A", like a henchman adding muscle to Madonna's assertive claims of being the best: "There's only one queen, and that's Madonna, bitch!". Wherever Lady Gaga is, her ears are probably burning.

[Edited 3/8/12 0:47am]

Madonna's MDNA album wins rave first reviews from music critics

Music critics have been treated to a first listen to the diva's new album MDNA and have given it a resounding thumbs up.

Journalists were invited to listen to the album at Abbey Road's Studio 2 in London last night with The Sun claiming it's a 'return to form'.

The Daily Mirror said Madonna's latest offering makes recent albums by her pop rivals Lady Gaga and Britney Spears appear 'try-hard and sloppy'.

Its critic added: 'Tracks including I F***ed UP and Best Friend (featured on the Deluxe version of MDNA) are clear odes to her failed marriage with Guy Ritchie. Whilst tracks like Gang Bang (!) leave you wondering who exactly the star wants to shoot in the head. The lyrics screech: “Bang, bang, shot you dead. Shot my lover in the head.

'One thing you need to wipe clean from your brain immediately as the album starts is the fact Madonna is 53. She sounds 25. In fact, if this album was released by a Pop Princess then it wouldn't be out of place.

Madonna on the cover of new single Girl Gone Wild (Picture: Interscope)

'This is one girl that still knows what she's doing and she's in control.'

The Independent claimed Madge was still 'top of the pops'.

'MDNA represents a determined, no-nonsense restatement of the Madonna brand following the lacklustre Hard Candy, on which her hip-hop collaborators failed to apply their talents as rigorously as they might,' said its critic.

The Guardian describes the album as a mixture of 'terrible French accents, amazing pop raves and heartfelt ballads'.

Its review adds that MDNA is an 'album that's been trailed by weak singles, but contains brilliantly bonkers moments'.

The first single to be taken from the album was Give Me All Your Luvin' featuring Nicki Minaj and MIA.

Madge performed the track at the Super Bowl but found her return to the stage marred by rapper MIA, who decided to give the crowd the finger.

Her next single will be Girl Gone Wild.

Universal Music Taiwan have released information about pre-ordering MDNA. When pre-ordering the MDNA (Deluxe Version) CD from Thursday 01 March to Saturday 24 March from most of the major records stores (priced at NT$438 (around US$14.90).

It comes with a giant poster (70X70CM), Deluxe MDNA cover and a one track Give Me All Your Luvin' (No Rap) single.