Originally Posted by AdzPower:
“I can't believe MDNA is almost 2 years old, it still feels so fresh to me, the sound of it....Madonna may not have put her all into the album in terms of work because I know at the time of recording she was focused on the movie but she definitely has an ear for sounds that are ahead of their time.”
In so many ways YEAH! i have come to lvoe the MDNA album more and mroeso...while i wish a couple more months were spent o nthe album to really ensure a cohesive flow perhaps....the themes on the album and styles and lyrics and productions came fro ma eprsonal and dark place as well as a more happier realm too.
and i have come to love that and in time it has gotten much better than i gave it credit for...i mean sure some songs wer eleft o nthe cutting room floor for a few years...but Madonna found them and shook lyrics up and productions up.
Across MDNA we had - Dance/Techno/Rave/EDM prominance, we had FOlktronica elements, Retro Pop/Pop Rock, allusions to New Wave/Synthpop as well as Trip Hop/Electronica and Some Urban undertones too...and what i loved was it was a total cooking pot of ideas and thouvhts an styles...and i ADORED that each song...feels like TWO, the way the productions mixed it up halfway through a song...as if through a journey...like i love how angrier gang bang gets and how "high" Im Addicted gets i love that Superstar goes from euphoric power pop to a more sonic/edm vibe, Love Spent is a perfect example of how the techniue works and makes you wish it were on for longer too.
Yeah...MDNA has hlped me a lot recently in a year where most "Pop" has been disappointing (i love ARTPOP, and Britney Jean is a decent album too) here came Madonna effortlessly creating a very focused and dark disco album that is both contemporary in vibe and ahead of its years on trends that happened only recently. And that deserves praise in itself
Im Addicted
Love Spent
gang bang
Beautiful Killer
Masterpiece
Im a Sinner
all potential MASSIVE hits to have happened but alas never did happen....sad to say...could imagine beautiful videos to them...anyways.
As for Penn...while its nice and nostalgiac to see them both together...the main thing i loved about them was that the bitter divorce/trials in their love inspried my favourite album of all time in Like a Prayer
