Madonna- American Life

[tommer]

i certainly hope the rest of the album is better than the first single.
it's her worst single since Erotica, surprisingly bad.:( what do you think?

[CarneVaca]

Originally posted by tommer
i certainly hope the rest of the album is better than the first single.
it's her worst single since Erotica, surprisingly bad.:( what do you think?

Gee, Tommer, your opinion wouldn't have anything to do with the message now, would it? ;)

[Street Angel]

I really like Madonna's music, but these electronic sounds and arrangements are becoming more and more annoying to me. It's nice to hear that Madonna enjoys working with Mirwais (after all, it's HER album, not mine! :lol: ), but to be honest, I don't like her "Music"-era work as much as previous material. I don't expect her to present radical musical changes with each album, but her current sound is getting boring very quickly as far as I'm concerned.

[Sorcerer386]

This song is definitely a disappointment, especially after Die Another Day. I heard it on the radio driving home from classes and just thought, this is awful. I tried listening to the whole thing but I spaced out about half way into it...it just seems like she tried a little too hard to get a point across. "What It Feels Like for a Girl" got its message across without sounding too blatant, but this one just screams, "Here's the message, that's it." And yes, the acid rock goes a little too far in this one.

[sara1998]

I'm afraid now to hear it. I am a Madonna fan, too. I like some of the stuff on Music, I really loved Ray of Light. But, in my opinion, nothing will beat her '80's music!

Maria

[strandinthewind]

I heard a sniglet fof American Life today. It is not awful. The lyrics good, but they are just too repetitious in my book and the computer enhanced vocal gimmick is a little old (think Cher's Believe circa 1999 ?). In my opinion, she still can come out with stunning stuff when she wants. Music and especially Ray of Light are good fairly recent examples in my book. It will be interesting to see how the American public takes our little ex-partiot's comment on the country that made her what she is. But, she has never flinched before and come out smiling . . . .;)

[Johnny Stew]

Well... it's not bad. I don't hate it.
It didn't blow me away either, and it didn't really make me HAVE to listen to it again.

I'm sure it will grow on me though, but I doubt I'll ever like it as much as I like her earlier work (well, especially 'Like A Prayer' thru 'Bedtimes Stories').

'Ray Of Light' was a great album, but I never could get into 'Music,' no matter how hard I tried.
I really dug the singles ("Music," "Don't Tell Me," and "What It Feels Like For A Girl"), but there's maybe one or possibly two other songs on the entire album that I really get into.

I guess I can only take the whole electronica/acid rock thing in limited doses.



Johnny Stew

[SmthngOfADreamr]

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. That was the sound of me puking. This song is a vomitous piece of garbage. (Sorry for my bluntness, but I really don't like it.) Isn't it time for her to go into one of her genre changes already. This sounds like the songs on Music, only less listenable and more overproduced. The thing i dislike about it most is that electronic thing that they do with her voice. She's capable of better. Think about her ballads like "Rain" or even newer songs like "Ray of Light," and then listen to this garbage. Someone should really stop her. Thank God for Stevie and her resistance to change.

[WelshWitchPMD]

Well, I heard this song today on a radio station that does not play the Mac. I was just on that station for a silly reason. Well, anyway I am not a fan of Madonna. When I listened to the song the sounds reminded me of an 80s Atari video game. Needless to say I did not like the song. Love video games however. Now I hope this station plays Peacekeeper at some point but I doubt it.

[dissention]

I love the new song! I think it has quite possibly the best lyrics she's ever written! The chorus is a killer, too. I think we are at this point in time where we need a song like this out with it's message for everyone to hear. The lyrics really make you think about the important things in life, not the material things that we are force fed every day by greedy corporate America. LUV IT! :nod:

[gldstwmn]

Tried to download it on WinMx and got this fake file saying "What the **** do you think you're doing?" Oh Maddy!:laugh:

[dissention]

I got the same thing! LOL! I got it my copy off of WinMX, you just have to download the right one to get the song. Keep trying, it's great!

[myndpeace]

Ya want a copy of this song? Last time I was there (Saturday) it was free on www.vh1.com.

I've got mixed feelings about this song. So far I think it's better than anything on "Music," but as a whole I'm not too thrilled with her "new" sound. Lyrically, I strongly agree with her message, but I sort of find it ironic that someone like Madonna, who has over the past few years been accused of being a symbol of the saccharine-coated refuse that passes for American culture these days, is writing a song like this.

[iamstevienicks]

by far her worst album!!!

Only 2 half decent songs on there, Love profusion and Nothing fails

Oh how I miss 80s/early 90s madonna :(

[dissention]

Originally posted by iamstevienicks
by far her worst album!!!

Only 2 half decent songs on there, Love profusion and Nothing fails

Oh how I miss 80s/early 90s madonna :(

The more I listen to it...the more I agree! I used to like it, but listening to it now, it's painfully awful. One of the worst records.

But I still love the title song (except for her lame attempt at rapping, it's nauseating).

[coldplay]

Originally posted by iamstevienicks
by far her worst album!!!

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Short words couldn't speak more truth. Aside from the repetitious style - the lyrics are so conscious in there denouncement of fame that it just becomes a tiresome crusade. Yawn factor=huge.

[Janet]

You have to figure, her life is perfect. She has her husband whom she loves, her children, all the money and fame in the world...so she has really nothing to sing about. I think she had to make up stuff and try turn her life into creative art.

Writing has to be inspired. I think she mostly wrote about her feelings and I guess now she just has run dry...perhaps?

I would like it if her next album was raw...and sing about her kids, growing old, being only with one man, but do it in a way so that we connect. There are alot of people who are Madonna's age and hit the stride of life...but they still want music and she is in a position to give it to them.

Let Kylie do the electric slow stuff, Madonna was always more vital that that.

[coldplay]

Originally posted by Janet

Writing has to be inspired. I think she mostly wrote about her feelings and I guess now she just has run dry...perhaps?



Madonna's epiphany reminds me of when Geri Halliwell broke with the Spice Girls and was being interviewed on Parkinson. She mad a lousy interviewee because she kept ramming 'self-realisations' down the audiences throat. Any question Parkie would ask Geri - Geri would somehow turn it back into an 'I've seen the light' answer.

Madonna has been on the same tangent now through three albums (Ray of Light, Music, American Life).

That's the problem with a chameleon like Madonna - its okay to express the sentiment but getting stuck on it, is a disaster.

The irony about Madonna's epiphany is that her musical image has largely shifted from sex to violence (Die Another Day, What It Feels Like For a Girl, American Life). What sort of divine awakening is that?

[Janet]

Thats what I meant I guess.

She had to reach to find something to write about so she chose violence because her feelings and life are not inspiring enough...I don't really know.

But she has lost IT and needs to get IT back before her next album.

[diamondsnake]

Originally posted by Janet
Thats what I meant I guess.

She had to reach to find something to write about so she chose violence because her feelings and life are not inspiring enough...I don't really know.

But she has lost IT and needs to get IT back before her next album.

I like her new album. I think all of the songs are wonderful (Sans I'm So Stupid, which I can't stand the big IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII note that goes on for ten seconds), even Mother and Father (which is arguabley the strangest song on the album) has grown on me. The title track, while different, is sort of fun. You can't play this song in the background without people stopping what they are doing and dancing to that little rap. It is sort of fun!

Maybe one day this record will get the respect it deserves, like Tusk, which not everyone appreciated when it first came out.

[Sarah]

I hate the quasi-rap part. I drinking a soy latte.. blahblahblah.

Her voice just irks me on that part and the words are so dumb. (I know I know. blahblah reflection of american life..blahblah..) but it just makes it sound like a Weird Al song gone serious.