Madonna
MDNA
PopMusicMogul Rating: **** out of 5.
“I'm gonna’ be OK/ I don't
care what the people say /I'm gonna be alright /Gonna’ live fast and I'm gonna’
live right”. Just as soon as Madonna
utters these words on her track “I Don’t Give A”, it is very clear what’s going
to be happening on her latest musical effort, MDNA. It seems that the “Queen of Everything “has temporarily
stopped trying to push pop music forward. She’s stepping back, having fun, and giving a
finger to everyone who has ever stood in her way.
The album suffers from sort of a confused “Jekyll and Hyde” disposition.
There are amusing and pleasurable ass
shakin’ pop songs, like the banging religious “Girl Gone Wild” or the euro
tinged anthem “Turn Up The Radio”, or the cheerleading chant of “Give Me All
Your Luvin” and the breezy “Superstar”, and interwoven with those “fist pumping
party songs”, are the “gritty divorce”
songs. The “Love Spent”, “I Don’t Give A”, “Gang Bang” side of the album. They
are all pulsing and tender, with her thumping angrily over a few house beats
and hints of psychedelic electronic disco. These are the songs that make the
album unique, and by far, her most raw and personal tracks in her entire career.
It makes sense, and yet, it doesn’t. Is she trying to get
over her divorce, or is she trying to have fun? Or both? I guess, we’re just
supposed get up and dance, and then sit back down and enjoy it. The album just
really lacks a direction, but that doesn’t mean the tracks do. The album is
fun, and in the end, and with Madonna at the helm, that’s really all that
matters.
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