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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
It would appear Madge has lost the last ounce of her former talent.  |
Without having yet heard the song, I have to disagree.
The problem is not Madonna's talent, it's the constant re-invention of her "sound" that she perpetuates by never working with the same producers. Every album has different producers, who are also actually co-writers. She usually only writes lyrics with a bare-bones melody, and the instrumentation is filled out by her chosen producers. Think Stevie and Lindsey, Gypsy for instance - the Bella Donna outtake versus the Mirage version - totally different sounds for the same song, and nothing like the demos, really.
Madonna is always searching for a new, fresh sound for her music. The fact that your tastes are no longer aligned with hers doesn't mean she's lost anything other than your ear.
I hated Erotica when the single came out, and was indeed certain the
whole album would be dreadful. I thought Secret was positively the worst song she had ever done - it sounded
weird and very un-Madonna-like. Of course my mind was quickly changed when I got Bedtime Stories and played it to death. I listened to American Life once and forgot it existed for 5 years, and now I'd rank it in my top 3 Madonna albums ever. It wasn't that the songs were bad, it was that my tastes at the time were just not there.
If she always followed the same formula, we would never have had Erotica - hailed at the time as a sound that no one else was making, Ray of Light, also a landmakrk album that sounded like nothing she'd ever done. Confessions on a Dancefloor - pure disco and totally unique among Madonna albums.
Artists have to change and grow, or else they become stagnant. Imagine Fleetwood Mac with no Tusk, no Tango, no Mirage - just copy after copy of Rumours. Snooze...
I'm not saying you'll come to like this album, but if you are a Madonna fan, then don't write it off without giving the
album a chance. It's not even out yet.