badujunkie said:

asg said:

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

i think most acts would kill for any of her numbers

Having an audience of 0.059 or selling this much is nothing to kill for. But her next album wont be doing as well as this one thats for sure.

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[Edited 3/8/12 17:30pm]

"Masterpiece" is the only song I heard so far that I truly enjoy...

GGW fails to make Hot 100 charts this week

asg said:

GGW fails to make Hot 100 charts this week

nooooooooooooooooooo! U're kiddin right? with all the promotion it didn't make it 2 the first spot?

I bet everyone here is disappointed . Now I'm worried But keep watching and let us know how things go ok...

go2theMax said:

asg said:

GGW fails to make Hot 100 charts this week

nooooooooooooooooooo! U're kiddin right? with all the promotion it didn't make it 2 the first spot?

I bet everyone here is disappointed . Now I'm worried But keep watching and let us know how things go ok...

The thing is if the singles dont do well the album will have a lower debut and if it opens below 200k it will have a hard time going gold

You can listen to a 60 second preview/snippet of ''Gang Bang'' on PerezHilt.com !!!!!

Most interesting & best snippet so far! LOVE IT!

xLiberiangirl said:

You can listen to a 60 second preview/snippet of ''Gang Bang'' on PerezHilt.com !!!!!

Most interesting & best snippet so far! LOVE IT!

I just listened to to it.....WOW!!! Amazing track!

NEW SONG: "Gang Bang"

Best snippet yet! I like that her vocals are above the production in this one. Can't wait to hear the whole track!

RKJCNE said:

Best snippet yet! I like that her vocals are above the production in this one. Can't wait to hear the whole track!

Yeah...out of all the snippets we've heard,I like this one the best! Very dark and edgy.Imagine what she will do with this song on the tour.I have a feeling that I'm gonna LOVE this album

SoulAlive said:

RKJCNE said:

Best snippet yet! I like that her vocals are above the production in this one. Can't wait to hear the whole track!

Yeah...out of all the snippets we've heard,I like this one the best! Very dark and edgy.Imagine what she will do with this song on the tour.I have a feeling that I'm gonna LOVE this album

Yeah I think this album is gonna end up being a big fan favorite. I'm really couldn't be more excited at this point!

when MDNA is released,we gotta rank the albums again

I really like what I'm hearing so far. It sounds even more futuristic than Confessions, and I LOVE that album! Can't wait to hear the rest, I'm definitely getting the deluxe edition

asg said:

go2theMax said:

nooooooooooooooooooo! U're kiddin right? with all the promotion it didn't make it 2 the first spot?

I bet everyone here is disappointed . Now I'm worried But keep watching and let us know how things go ok...

The thing is if the singles dont do well the album will have a lower debut and if it opens below 200k it will have a hard time going gold

But steadily her sales have just dropped, the times are different, especially here in the USA, she isnt turning 40 she is in her 50's now, MUSIC her last huge seller at 3million in the USA was ages ago, and times change, music sales are way way down, and again she is much older now, i dont think the quality has anything to do with it, cause she had crap that sold and great stuff that tanked like any other artist. So over the last few albums in the usa she has gone from Multiplatnum (MUSIC) platnum with (AMerican Life and Confessions) and then Gold with (HArd Candy) which again was 4 years ago, huge time change, her loyals are there, but i think thinking this record will go gold might be wishing for something that isnt going to happen in the states at least, eventually i think it will but it will take it months and months not a week or two

Theres no doubt in my mind MDNA will go gold, but it will take awhile, and even if it doesn't... who cares? Her world tour is already a huge success.

asg said:

go2theMax said:

nooooooooooooooooooo! U're kiddin right? with all the promotion it didn't make it 2 the first spot?

I bet everyone here is disappointed . Now I'm worried But keep watching and let us know how things go ok...

The thing is if the singles dont do well the album will have a lower debut and if it opens below 200k it will have a hard time going gold

thank you doctor

I have a feeling this album is going to be more than the sum of its parts. I'm excited. Really dig "I'm Addicted" and "Gang Bang" the most so far. "GMAYL" is my least favorite so far.

SoulAlive said:

when MDNA is released,we gotta rank the albums again

im hoping it outranks confessions as number 4 for me!

RKJCNE said:

Theres no doubt in my mind MDNA will go gold, but it will take awhile, and even if it doesn't... who cares? Her world tour is already a huge success.

Basically my point, i think to be able in these times at her age, in the USA to pull out a gold record is a smack in the face to the newbies like a Rihanna or Katy perry who with 20 number ones on one album can barely get platnum here

lastdecember said:

asg said:

The thing is if the singles dont do well the album will have a lower debut and if it opens below 200k it will have a hard time going gold

But steadily her sales have just dropped, the times are different, especially here in the USA, she isnt turning 40 she is in her 50's now, MUSIC her last huge seller at 3million in the USA was ages ago, and times change, music sales are way way down, and again she is much older now, i dont think the quality has anything to do with it, cause she had crap that sold and great stuff that tanked like any other artist. So over the last few albums in the usa she has gone from Multiplatnum (MUSIC) platnum with (AMerican Life and Confessions) and then Gold with (HArd Candy) which again was 4 years ago, huge time change, her loyals are there, but i think thinking this record will go gold might be wishing for something that isnt going to happen in the states at least, eventually i think it will but it will take it months and months not a week or two

Confessions was double platinum, which is what Music was for years until it got re-certified to triple platinum around Confessions time.

badujunkie said:

SoulAlive said:

when MDNA is released,we gotta rank the albums again

im hoping it outranks confessions as number 4 for me!

I thought Confessions would be a hard album for her to top,but this new album just might do it.

lastdecember said:

RKJCNE said:

Theres no doubt in my mind MDNA will go gold, but it will take awhile, and even if it doesn't... who cares? Her world tour is already a huge success.

Basically my point, i think to be able in these times at her age, in the USA to pull out a gold record is a smack in the face to the newbies like a Rihanna or Katy perry who with 20 number ones on one album can barely get platnum here

Very true, and although it may not stay on the charts for as long, but I have no doubt that MDNA will have a higher debut then either of RiRi or Katy's last efforts, extraordinary considering her age.

And I love seeing her and Bruce ontop while many younger artists are scrambling.

Just heard the Gang Bang snippet. NOW THAT'S THE TYPE OF MADONNA I LOVE!!!!!!! She might actually be able to top Confessions! I gotta get tour tickets!

aardvark15 said:

Just heard the Gang Bang snippet. NOW THAT'S THE TYPE OF MADONNA I LOVE!!!!!!! She might actually be able to top Confessions! I gotta get tour tickets!

I already got my tickets,for the two shows she's playing in my area this is one of the most exciting Madonna eras.

Hell,I might even get a ticket for one of the Vegas shows, too

SoulAlive said:

aardvark15 said:

Just heard the Gang Bang snippet. NOW THAT'S THE TYPE OF MADONNA I LOVE!!!!!!! She might actually be able to top Confessions! I gotta get tour tickets!

I already got my tickets,for the two shows she's playing in my area this is one of the most exciting Madonna eras.

Hell,I might even get a ticket for one of the Vegas shows, too

SoulAlive said:

aardvark15 said:

Just heard the Gang Bang snippet. NOW THAT'S THE TYPE OF MADONNA I LOVE!!!!!!! She might actually be able to top Confessions! I gotta get tour tickets!

I already got my tickets,for the two shows she's playing in my area this is one of the most exciting Madonna eras.

Hell,I might even get a ticket for one of the Vegas shows, too

You must have "deep pockets" or you're gonna be eating top ramen for months!

WatchThemFall said:

I have a feeling this album is going to be more than the sum of its parts. I'm excited. Really dig "I'm Addicted" and "Gang Bang" the most so far. "GMAYL" is my least favorite so far.

http://blog.musicomh...donna-mdna.html

08 March 2012
TRACK-BY-TRACK: Madonna - MDNA
Madonna-mdna

Yesterday we repaired to London's Abbey Road Studios to waggle our ears just the once at Madonna's new album MDNA. The Queen Of Pop's first album for new label Interscope (Polydor in the UK), it sees her join forces with Italian housemeister Benny Benassi and France's Martin Solveig, and team up again with Ray Of Light and Music cohort William Orbit.

Ahead of a standard-format review nearer to MDNA's release date (26th March), Laurence Green runs through the album track by track...

Girl Gone Wild
Kicks off with a spoken word intro – already placing it in classic Madonna territory. It’s that ego-centricness of Confessions On A Dancefloor all over again, but with even louder beats. There’s the slick veneer of the commercial dance number here too, echoing recent Greatest Hits teaser single Celebration. The vocals aren’t Madonna’s best – a defining feature across the album – but when the clubland backing is so explosively loud, that’s hardly a detracting feature. There’s even a persistent energy of sorts to the vocals that, twinned with the buzz-saw synths, firmly establishes Girl Gone Wild as the sound of ‘now’. With its aping of the ‘girls just wanna have some fun’ refrain, there’s a real '80s sentiment beating at the heart of the track too.

Gang Bang
"If I see that bitch in hell I’m gonna shoot them in the head again" – Madonna’s brawling for some action here, via a filthy, almost Erotica-esque onslaught of breathy vocals. It teases and plays, proper between the covers stuff; which you’d kind of expect from a song with a title as blatantly lewd as Gang Bang. At moments it all sounds like something off Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack; hard techno, brutal, uncompromising and industrial. Gang Bang feels vital and on point in a way Madonna hasn’t sounded in years. There’s police sirens and an obliging dubstep middle-eight (there was always going to be one on the album, wasn’t there?) – Everything about Gang Bang is menacing and comes on at full-throttle, right down to Madonna’s flippant remark of "I’m going straight to hell".

I’m Addicted
The burbly techno synths continue here, again it’s all very Tron-esque. If Confessions was dancey, I’m Addicted is dancey with a capital D. The bass positively explodes outwards and it’s refreshing to see Madonna putting out something with real punch. For an artist of her age and experience, she could easily rest on her laurels, and I’m Addicted is about as far away from that as it’s possible to get. Some rave synths get whacked into the mix too, like it’s 1991 all over again – this leads into a hyper-fast outro of the "MDNA!" hook, putting the track forward as a real centrepiece model for the rest of the album.

Turn Up The Radio
This is where the real Madonna melodies of old surface, mining the kind of exuberant stuff that characterised her '80s greats – that playful spirit is well and truly back. As obvious as its airwaves-courting title might be, this is *the* big radio hit on the album, the kind stations up and down the country will lap up in the summer. There’s an incredible abundance of optimism here, a carefree abandon in thrilling degrees of magnitude. Here Madonna is the American queen triumphant, proclaiming "I wanna go fast and I’m gonna go far" in an up-and-at-em call of readiness for life and anything it chooses to throw at her.

Give Me All Your Luvin
In hindsight, and with the hype and drama of the Superbowl performance behind her, the truth is that Madonna doesn’t really need Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. on the album. In the wider scope of MDNA as a whole, they pale into the background – though to be fair to them, they’re a much better fit than Timbaland and Justin Timberlake were on Hard Candy. Clearly, the aspect of sisterhood combined has something going for it though, and it’s nice to hear Madonna so rejuvenated and youthful here, having some fun and laughs with her ‘hip’ pals.

Some Girls
The first of the five William Orbit tracks on the album, and it kicks off with yet more of the palpably massive levels of bass that mark out the record’s opening tracks. The industrial techno theme is continued too with a massive wedge of robotic treated vocals snaking out across the song. There’s a harking back to the more electronic moments of Music and American Life, everything pumping with the air of Madonna as superior, as the pinnacle of her contemporaries. As with Orbit’s Ray Of Light era productions, the track thrives on a sense of experimentalism that still remains effortlessly commercial at the same time.

Superstar
Ironically, Superstar isn’t one of the William Orbit tracks, but it sure sounds like one. It’s the album’s ‘rock’ track and stands as another prime single candidate. The melody is sublime, the kind of thing long-time Madonna fans have been waiting years for, and released here, it’s like a cleansing burst of pure radiance. Even the slightly shoe-horned in dubstep section can’t detract from the song, it’s that good.

I Don’t Give A
Here, the industrial influences meet hip-hop beats amongst a grinding cacophony of sound and borderline raps from Madonna (though thankfully it never reaches the silly, pretentious levels of the ill-fated American Life single). "I’m gonna live fast, and I’m gonna live life," she claims, with a sort of wry simplicity, as if that’s all there is to it. It’s probably one of the album’s weaker tracks, stemming chiefly from the fact that – as Hard Candy proved – Madonna just can’t do ‘urban’ (Bedtime Stories excepted). Nicki Minaj pops up again and then the track descends into a weird cod-orchestral outro. It’s regality defined, and Nicki eagerly clamours to hold up Madonna as such: "There’s only one queen, and that’s Madonna, bitch."

I’m A Sinner
That trademark psychedelic William Orbit sound is out in force here, with crunchy guitar riffs once again suggesting the Ray of Light era. There’s some lovely tinkling, celestially imbued synth bits and tribal sounds going on too. At times, it all feels a bit like Madonna’s about to don her Earth Mother makeover, and by any measure, this is definitely the album’s most religious track as she reels off names of saints.

Love Spent
The opening moments sound akin to the country n’ beats combo of Music’s Don’t Tell Me and while Love Spent takes some time to get going, it’s worth the wait. In the final choruses, everything all comes in at once, backed up by thunderclap beats – as far as firmly defined ‘album tracks’ go, this is a pretty good effort, even if it feels a little by-the-numbers at times.

Masterpiece
Yes, it might be a Madonna ballad of a certain esteemed ‘class’, and yes, it might be on the W.E. soundtrack, but that’s probably where it should have stayed. After the hi-energy pace of the rest of the album, Masterpiece feels out of place.

Falling Free
Compared to Masterpiece, Falling Free makes a far better stab at positioning itself as a ballad that fits into the wider context of MDNA. Echoey piano lines and string sections set up a lovely trippy vibe that shares more than a little in common with the likes of Drowned World/Substitute for Love. Falling Free sounds properly sumptuous; there’s a richness to its production that serves to close the album down as a real assertion of Madonna ‘the artist’. Her vocals here are excellent, both moving and tender in a way that genuinely touches at the heart. Like scented rose petals and jasmine cast loose on water, Falling Free has a rippling beauty to it that is utterly enchanting.

Beautiful Killer
The first of the bonus tracks, and of all the Martin Solveig-produced songs on MDNA, this sounds most stereotypically of his ‘style’. As is often the wont with bonus tracks, Beautiful Killer is pretty disposable, a bog standard clubland floorfiller – but the middle-eight is rather good.

I Fucked Up
A slow grind of swirly synths and guitar that feels restrained from ever becoming properly great because of that really quite cringeworthy title. It’s just one step too far on the crudeness barometer. But as with Beautiful Killer, the pace ups in the closing moments and the song improves with impressive agility. There’s also a neat reference to Sorry as Madonna recycles her "Je suis désolée" line.

B-Day Song
Featuring M.I.A., B-Day Song feels like the obvious counterpoint to Give Me All Your Luvin, with M.I.A. feeling far more at home here than she does on the album-proper. It’s bratty with a Material Girl punkiness to it but the chorus hook is predominantly more annoying than catchy, with only the choppy guitar riffs helping salvage affairs.

Best Friend
Another wary dip into a more urban soundbase, there’s some cute blippy GameBoy-style synths to play with here, but for the most part Best Friend sounds like an unfinished demo or drum machine exercise. There’s a bare boned minimalism to the track that, as with Beautiful Killer, sets it very much out as ‘just’ a bonus track.

In summary, whereas Hard Candy felt like it was grasping at fading trends, MDNA is far more Madonna just being Madonna. And that usually turns out best for everyone involved.