MDNA 12 years later.

[Suedehead]

Her 'EDM' album

I actually like It

 

[Suedehead]

10 Girl Gone Wild
07 Gang Bang
07 I'm A Dick, Ted
05 Turn Up The Radio
03 Superstar
06 GAYLUV
08 Some Girls
07 I Don't Give A
01 I'm A Sinner
08 Love Spent
10 Masterpiece
09 Falling Free


10 Beautiful Killer
09 I Fucked Up
-1 B-Day Song
08 Best Friend
06 GAY LUV remix
08 Love Spent Acoustic

 

[Suedehead]

OK so it's probably one of only two Madonna albums with a -1 but no 11

Can you guess the other one?

 

[Suedehead]

Some of it is 'fun' dirge like TUTR and GAYLUV
But some of it is OFFENSIVE dirge like SupaSTAR and Bidet Song
And for that,
It's unforgivable

However, I maintain that 'Master Plate' is her best ballad since 'Nothing Fails' AND THENCEFORTH.

 

[Halli]

I love it, lots of memories for me, being a huge fan this was the first time I saw her live in Hyde Park 2012, this album is a fave of mine like American Life is - not a critical or fan favourite but the songs I like on it are similar - the sentimental ones.

08 Girl Gone Wild - I class this with 'Celebration' the track - bit throwaway at the time, would kill for this now.
07 Gang Bang - Genius, shite, novelty, themed. Worked well within the show and the gun theme she had going on. I guess?
08 I'm Addicted - #thetouristhepromo- the perf of this from MDNA would translate straight to TV promo
09 Turn Up The Radio - Love this, basic as hell but just love it, and love the Sharon Stone look in the video. All round yes from me
08 Superstar - See above, basic, but quite sentimental. Like the melody in this one.
06 GAYLUV - Fun for Superbowl, the video was good Track, not so much
06 Some Girls - Decent track I guess, not my bag
07 I Don't Give A - see above
06 I'm A Sinner - we are getting filler and rushed at this point aren't we.
10 Love Spent - This should have been the lead single with a superb video that starts off not dissimilar to Mel B's 'Feels so Good' at the start, but Madonna ends up in a English Castle finalising the divorce. Amazing track.
10 Masterpiece - I agree with the Golden Globes, sorry Elton
08 Falling Free - nice closer

10 Beautiful Killer
10 Fucked Up - Madonna at her haunting best in the verses
02 B-Day Song
08 Best Friend

 

[lolly]

08 Girl Gone Wild
06 Gang Bang
09 I'm Addicted
04 Turn Up The Radio
04 Superstar
04 GAYLUV
05 Some Girls
06 I Don't Give A
04 I'm A Sinner
08 Love Spent
09 Masterpiece
07 Falling Free

 

[jivafox]

In hindsight an iconic era

 

[lolly]

06 Beautiful Killer
10 I Fucked Up
01 B-Day Song
07 Best Friend

 

[Halli]

I Fucked Up is majestic, isn't it

 

[Suedehead]

The fact that that actually gave us a song abbreviated as GAYLUV
Your faves could nevah

 

[Suedehead]

In hindsight an iconic era

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The Avicii UMF mix is everything (that I Got)

 

[VV]

09 Girl Gone Wild
07 Gang Bang
10 I'm Addicted
09 Turn Up The Radio
07 Superstar
09 GAYLUV
08 Some Girls
07 I Don't Give A
07 I'm A Sinner
08 Love Spent
09 Masterpiece
08 Falling Free


11 Beautiful Killer
10 I Fucked Up
08 B-Day Song
10 Best Friend
09 GAY LUV remix

 

[Iguana]

I enjoy it as a whole if you remove Superstar and Some Girls. I'm Addicted remains a huge favourite.

07 Girl Gone Wild
08 Gang Bang
11 I'm Addicted
08 Turn Up The Radio
04 Superstar
07 GAYLUV
04 Some Girls
07 I Don't Give A
08 I'm A Sinner
06 Love Spent
09 Masterpiece
08 Falling Free


10 Beautiful Killer
08 I Fucked Up
02 B-Day Song
07 Best Friend

 

[Joseph]

10 Girl Gone Wild
06 Gang Bang
09 I'm A Dick, Ted
01 Turn Up The Radio
05 Superstar
08 GAYLUV
07 Some Girls
05 I Don't Give A
02 I'm A Sinner
07 Love Spent
07 Masterpiece
07 Falling Free


06 Beautiful Killer
05 I Fucked Up
01 B-Day Song
05 Best Friend
07 GAY LUV remix
05 Love Spent Acoustic

 

[Dark Carnival]

11 Girl Gone Wild

 

[RS]

-1 MDNA

 

[VV]

It's certainly nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.

 

[lolly]

It's certainly nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.

And B-Day Song is certainly nowhere as good as an 8.

 

[straightorbroken]

10 Girl Gone Wild
10 Gang Bang
10 I'm Addcited (edit: sorry Ted)
08 Turn Up The Radio
09 Superstar
04 GAYLUV
10 Some Girls
06 I Don't Give A - this did slap in the golden triangle
10 I'm A Sinner
11 Love Spent
10 Masterpiece
10 Falling Free

10 Beautiful Killer
10 I Fucked Up

MDNA MNDBLWNG

 

[funky]

I couldn’t even rate this, I can’t remember it. Haven’t listened to it fully since it came out.

Overall, from memory, a generous 5/10

 

[VV]

And B-Day Song is certainly nowhere as good as an 8.

Perhaps I was a little bit generous, but it's quite a fun one to slip into a birthday party playlist!

 

[lolly]

Perhaps I was a little bit generous, but it's quite a fun one to slip into a birthday party playlist!

Only passive aggressively

 

[Jark]

time doesn't make something that was shit suddenly passable and not everything deserves a reappraisal. certainly not MDNA. I took I Fucked Up and ran!

 

[Jark]

Masterpiece was such a shit, ultra-reductive ballad moment from the woman who once gave us Live to Tell. such rubbish lyrics and grating melodies. hate! zero!

Love Spent could have been the best song on here if not for that vocal and the shockingly tinny production from Orbit (who was really phoning it in here)

 

[Sheena]

Masterpiece is dreadful lyrically, yes, but it’s melodically beautiful. I love it.

As for Love Spent, I kind of agree that it’s undercooked for the reasons @Jark says. But far worse is the “this will do” production thrown at the likes of Turn Up The Radio.

 

[RS]

Masterpiece was such a shit, ultra-reductive ballad moment from the woman who once gave us Live to Tell. such rubbish lyrics and grating melodies. hate! zero!

Exactly what I feel about I Fucked Up. Awful from start to finish

 

[Finn]

Madonna's last true album was Confessions on a Dance Floor, in 2005.

MDNA, and all her other post-2005 albums, are mere b-sides/rarities/demo albums. They are not canon.

#SelfPreservation

 

[Joseph]

I like a fair bit of Rebel Heart (mostly in demo form) but overall I agree.

I think you could piece together a decent album from the last four though

 

[OutSynk]

I've been revisiting the latter half of her discography lately and while this album was a mixed bag some of these are still max tracks like Some Girls, Love Spent and I'm a Sinner. THAT'S what the album should've been. One of her main problems since this album has been just too many cooks in the kitchen. Even Madame X suffered from it (among other things). Hard Candy almost sounds like a masterpiece now considering what came after.

Anyway, where is @Suedehead with the annual Madame X reappraisal thread.

 

[straightorbroken]

These still hold up:

Gang Bang
I'm Addcited
I'm A Sinner
Some Girls
Love Spent
Masterpiece
Falling Free
Beautiful Killer

I Fucked Up is nice too, but I cringe at the lyric. I can get on fine with Turn Up The Radio and even find Superstar somewhat charming, but she should be striving for what Love Spent delivers at the 2:10 mark - the judicious luxury gives me a pearl necklace just thinking about it.

I think how this album was formed and how she presented it with the feeble lead single truly kicked herself off the pedestal and she's struggled ever since despite the numerous flashes of promise.

 

[Pipo]

MDNA would have worked wonders as a 1-track CD single, the one track being Love Spent, of course xx

 

[Jark]

I fucked Up absolutely clears everything else on MDNA. it's well produced, well written, fun, has heart, she sounds good...

the other good-ish tracks, even Love Spent, have some disastrous vocals and mixing going on that make them tough to listen to

 

[OutSynk]

These still hold up:

Gang Bang
I'm Addcited
I'm A Sinner
Some Girls
Love Spent
Masterpiece
Falling Free
Beautiful Killer

I agree with this list though Gang Bang just screams trend chasing with that dubstep breakdown (did Orbit even approve of this? he must've been dying inside), it's still fun I guess. The ballads are ok but inessential.

I don't actually mind GAYLUV. I'm not saying I WANTED it but it's not the horrible piece of shit some people make it out to be. I even like the dubsteppish breakdown, it isn't so banal here. And sometimes I just like to randomly burst into NOW MOVE as if Nicki had just seen the DISGUSTANG video.

 

[VV]

The best songs are on the bonus disc, but I still think this is a great album by most pop artists standards.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I never saw the appeal of Falling Free, it sounds like she had glandular fever while recording it.

 

[straightorbroken]

I agree with this list though Gang Bang just screams trend chasing with that dubstep breakdown (did Orbit even approve of this? he must've been dying inside), it's still fun I guess. The ballads are ok but inessential.

I don't actually mind GAYLUV. I'm not saying I WANTED it but it's not the horrible piece of shit some people make it out to be. I even like the dubsteppish breakdown, it isn't so banal here. And sometimes I just like to randomly burst into NOW MOVE as if Nicki had just seen the DISGUSTANG video.

Gang Bang with a Quentin Tarantino video as the lead single would have been quite something.

GAYL had potential had they fully pursued its slightly Bohemian Like You direction of the demo. I hate the video, but it was kind of fun in it's bizarre Desperate Real Housewives skit kind of way.

And "Glandular fever vocals" - I remember saying that at the time actually

 

[Loufoque]

I love Love Spent, Masterpiece and Falling Free. Girl Gone Wild is fun, but it's not really Madonna (aka God) tier.