Are you ready for tonight?
hen Madonna called out ageist reactions to her 14th album this month, I felt a nasty lurch of guilt in my stomach. ReviewingMDMA in 2012, I was mean about her decision to invest so much “desperate” energy into maintaining the impression of eternal youth, leaving her looking and sounding “exhausted and unhappy and making me feel the same”.…
In 1994, Madonna journeyed to Ronda, Spain to film the torero-inspired music video for “Take a Bow.” During the shoot, she half-cheekily informed MTV’s Kurt Loder that she was “Spanish in another life.” It’s the kind of claim that might raise some eyebrows today, but 25 years later, the influence of Latin culture on Madonna’s music…
Exclusive interview in VISÃO magazine: “I won’t leave Lisbon”…
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The album is the work of an artist reawakened, and one who’s got something to say. **** June 12, 2019 By Sal Cinquemani Photo: Interscope Madonna’s 2005 EDM opus Confessions on a Dance Floor is considered by many to be the 21st-century standard for both every new album the singer releases and contemporary dance-pop at large. Though…
Madonna – Madame X (Live Nation/Interscope/Maverick) UK release date: 14 June 2019 by Nick Smith published: 12 Jun 2019 in Albums Madonna is back with her first new music in four years, the product of her lived experiences in her new home city, Lisbon, which she has described as “a melting pot of culture musically, from Angola to…
Queen of Pop’s 14th record is such a cultural melange that it sometimes verges on collapsing in on itself. At other times, though, what is thrown at the wall sticks beautifully Madonna’s new album is full of dance tracks. But if any one of them came on in a club, there would be at least…
Dutch Grazia has a two page spread on Madonna fighting ageism and Madame X in their current edition. This has been added to the press section of our dedicated Madame X page.
Madame X Madonna ★★★★ Madonna is the queen of reinvention and Madame X, her 14th studio album, marks another new brilliant, bonkers chapter in her 37-year career. The 13-track CD (15 on the deluxe version) was inspired by a recent spell living in Lisbon, where she clearly imbibed the Portuguese diaspora’s music. Madame X is stuffed with…
Flawed by design, please sympathise’, soebat Madonna op Madame X. Gespeend van gebreken blijft haar veertiende studioplaat inderdaad niet. Maar Her Madgesty klinkt na tien jaar éindelijk nog eens gedurfd en spannend. GUNTER VAN ASSCHE12 juni 2019, 10:30 In Vogue gaf La Ciccone onlangs te kennen dat mensen haar doorheen de jaren vaak monddood probeerden te maken. “Omdat ik niet…
