Madonna - Confessions II OUT NOW (1 Viewer)

The trinity of Interscope studio albums just needed some really heavy trimming. All three of those projects didn't need to be longer than 10-12 tracks, so yeah, blame streaming and her lack of confidence for that. In hindsight, MDNA could have been better received were it not for the disastrous singles. Madame X was a bold statement with no precise artistic vision and an absolute commercial misfire. However for me, Rebel Heart fucked up her legacy in 2010s. Two dozens of mediocre songs nobody needed to fuck with.
 
The original uptempo Rebel Heart album was sublime. What we got was a major let down. Excellent tour though
 
Joseph said:
The original uptempo Rebel Heart album was sublime. What we got was a major let down. Excellent tour though
Click to expand...
Oh I dunno.. I wasn’t a big fan of the Rebel Heart Tour. In many ways it was the beginning of the end for her as a physical live performer.
 
But yes the unholy trinity of the Interscope albums reminds me of Bowe’s 80s era. I guess Madame X was probably her Black Tie White Noise though. And yeah Celebration Tour was Sound + Vision (a few years here and there notwithstanding).

Which means the original Confessions would be Scary Monsters, making Confessions 2 her Hours.
Hmm… well…
 
MDNA wasn’t a terrible record, objectively. It was just the wrong album at the wrong time in the wrong context and following up her then-worst studio album. If Hard Candy was her trend chasing, MDNA came across as her actually even further behind the then-current pop landscape. One misstep was bad enough but the post social media world was already far more savage in 2012 and she made it all the more easier for her detractors when it turned out that the GAYLUV official release was actually pretty much the same as the horrifying demo.
 
Masterpiece should have been first single as WE soundtrack sangle before MDNA announcement. Flop movie but hit single as she had done before (Live to Tell, Who’s that Girl etc).
Nice Madonna ballad, wash away the aftertaste of Hard Candy era etc.

Then she would have done Super Bowl with GAYLUV as a special song for the event and a bonus track on MDNA while the proper first single would have been …. Girl gone Wild. Yeah generic AF but by then it would have done ok due to the good will etc.
 
The horror when I found out the final version was just the demo with the added rappers was bad enough but then when it limped in at number 35 or whatever in the UK I think I cried
 
Weirdly, I felt the demo of GAYLUV had potential to be beefed up into her Bohemian Like You. I definitely downed a dosage of delusion there.

I'm Addicted and Love Spent are the peak extremes of the album. GGW somehow works as a triumphant rejection of good taste, but absolutely shouldn't - her Heidi Montag moment.
 
I'm sure I did this recently but HEY HO

1. Ray Of Light
2. Bedtime Stories
3. Erotica (there used to be an almighty chasm between the top two and everything else, but Erotica has massively closed the gap the last couple of years)
4. Madonna
5. Like A Prayer
6. True Blue
7. Music
8. Confessions II **HOT SHOT DEBUT**
9. Like A Virgin
10. American Life
11. Hard Candy
12. Madame X
13. MDNA
14. Rebel Heart
 
Updated ranking :

Ray Of Light
Erotica
Bedtime Stories
Music
Like A Prayer
Confessions 2
True Blue
Madonna
Confessions 1
American Life
Like A Virgin
I’m Breathless
Rebel Heart
Madame X
Hard Candy
MDNA
 
Like A Prayer
Ray Of Light
Confessions II
Erotica
Madonna
Music
Confessions On A Dance Floor
True Blue
Bedtime Stories
American Life
Like A Virgin
Madame X
I'm Breathless
MDNA
Rebel Heart
Hard Candy
 
funky said:
I'm sure I did this recently but HEY HO

1. Ray Of Light
2. Bedtime Stories
3. Erotica (there used to be an almighty chasm between the top two and everything else, but Erotica has massively closed the gap the last couple of years)
4. Madonna
5. Like A Prayer
6. True Blue
7. Music
8. Confessions II **HOT SHOT DEBUT**
9. Like A Virgin
10. American Life
11. Hard Candy
12. Madame X
13. MDNA
14. Rebel Heart
Click to expand...
You forgot the first Confessions
FICKLE FUNKY
 
Ray Of Light
Erotica
American Life
Like A Prayer
Confessions II
Music
True Blue
Confessions On A Dance Floor
Bedtime Stories
Madonna
Hard Candy
I'm Breathless
Madame X
Like A Virgin
MDNA
Rebel Heart
 
Hard Candy hive rise :disco:

I refuse to deny Beat Goes On, Devil Wouldn't Recognize You, Dance 2Night, She's Not Me, Heartbeat, 4 Minutes in the Year of our Mutha, 2026
 
Devil really should've been the third single over Miles Away. Give it 2 Me is also a much better song than 4 Minutes. Heartbeat is kinda shit but otherwise a very solid list, Louf (add in Voices, bien sûr).
 
Give It 2 Me was her first properly shit single for me. There were subjectively worse songs, but it was just so fucking CHEAP and GENERIC.
 
All these terrible opinions on Give It 2 Me.

giphy.gif
 
Give It 2 Me was decent; not compared to her highest highs and I thought there were better songs on the album to use as a single… but then there’s what came after. Even the two singles from Celebration made GI2M sound like Vogue by comparison
 
I'm a Hard Candy kind of girl, but even I don't care for Give It 2 Me. Beat Goes On was right there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Back
Top Bottom