Why I love MadameX

[madonnaultimate 961]

I wanna start off by acknowledging that evolution and change is part of the human psyche, we all change in this world. The question for me is changing towards which direction? MadameX I believe is the best direction Madonna could follow. A truly great, greatly under estimated album, career and personal choice for Madonna. 

She's more awake, more driven, more outspoken, calm, honest, fearless and maybe content (?!) than she ever was. On a personal level , through ups and downs, Madonna built a loving family, an insane career and money and she evolved as a human- not only her approach and art got more multi layered but she has achieved the power in this world to drive people - a leader from many aspects.

MadameX is the manifestation of real thoughts, human thoughts unfiltered and raw. (If Ray of Light was a stage where she started growing as a person,questioning things, finding a path to follow  MadameX is running down that road with a clear destination)

Lyrically ? I LOVE it ! All of it. Let me add some personal highlights here

- I went back to my 17th year, allowed myself to be naive, to be someone I've never been. 

- Cause your world's such a shame, cause your world's in so much pain. They are so naive They think we are not aware of their crimes. We know, but we are just not ready to act
The storm isn't in the air, it's inside of us

- Everybody knows they don’t have a chance to get a decent job, to have a normal life. When they talk reforms, it makes me laugh, they pretend to help, it makes me laugh

- Not everyone is coming to the future, not everyone is learning from the past

- Get that old man, put him in a jail where he can't stop us, where he can't hurt us 

- And I'll be a woman, if she's raped and her heart is breaking. Wild is the world and lonely is the path.

- I'm tired of being far away from home, far from what can help, far from where it's safe

- Front line, I won't stand in the back, 'cause you want me to

- I guess I'm lost I had to pay the cost. The thing that hurt me most was that I wasn't lost (love this!)

-Freedom's what you choose to do with what's been done to you

 

Musically? Love it!

It's an album I will listen to start to end, very unique songs for very specific emotions, sonically great and i love the pairing of the old and the new, a lot. She explored and created in a time where a LOT has been done in art. I do adore the abuse of autotune if its done properly, and in this album it is done very good.

Visually? Stunning

Music videos? All INSANE !

Tour? Not a world wide tour but an amazing tour and concept where you could feal a warmth you couldnt in arenas.

Despite the issues, the problems, the malfunctions, the pain Madonna fought her way through of it all to deliver her message, thoughts, fears to us - She admitted feeling so lonely at some time and she really seemed to be. And she found her way again.

What Madonna does and expresses in MadameX is something the world is not quite ready for yet and I'm truly hurt that despite trying to build a better world while we have the ability, for earth and for our species, we are so resilient to change and I think this is what Madonna has been doing her whole life and I admire - embracing change.

 

Why do you? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gilbert 501]

love reading your thoughts. i share a lot of your thoughts on the album. i wont say it is my favorite album from her, but i even get some enjoyment out of the songs I least like. the more i listen to the album, the more i like it.  i will admit upon first listening i wasnt too impressed with the over used vocal effects. for some songs like Future, it works, but other times its not necessary. its like that one word you hear in Ghosttown where you hear the obvious autotune. I am like "why"? it sticks out like a sore thumb and its one of my favorite songs from her ever.

what is cool about Madonna is that she doesnt ever do the same album twice. she keeps moving on and evolving. sure she goes back to certain themes and genres, but it still is a step up from before. i know some will disagree but i try to look for what i enjoy from her than what i dont. thats how i am about life. too much shit brings us down as it is, so why look for it in an artist we enjoy?

[MDNA22 1,159]

I love the production on most of the tracks - almost all of them have a calming hypnotic feel and quality to them 

[steady75 9,559]

With more sophisticated melodies and hooks this album would be one of her best. There’s just something missing. I don’t know if it’s her voice that doesn’t bring the chorus home anymore or whether it’s a considered effort to lean away from hooks and singalong choruses. 
the project is so ambitious and beautifully delivered. We really were spoiled. 
She posted the God Control video today In honour of Pride and the Pulse nightclub shootings. I wonder if she has been holding back the remixes for pride month? 

[WopaelWopael 714]

I think it should be:  I'm tired of being far away from home, far from what can harm*, far from where it's safe

[o_g_c_x 2,785]

I love Madame X even more one year later taking into account the latest releases...

[Blue Prince 995]

I'm sure Madonna today is proud she created Madame X. Before everything else, her job is music and her expression through it. So so many things happening this year serve as real life videos to what she is saying on this record. And it wasn't even prophetic. It's about things that have been going on and are still going on and now people are realising a little better. And it's good to be an artist on Twitter and criticize abuse of power and all the shit that's going wrong in the world, it's good to be an artist out on the streets protesting. But all of it can be done by all of us. It requires some different kind of courage to dedicate an important piece of your work to conveying important messages.  Especially from artists not directly affected. Records after all stay there in time, waiting for us to discover them. I spent last year vibing and dancing to Madame X and I am spending this year finding consolation there. I hope people who need it more than I can find it on Madame X as well. People who had rejected it when life was easier.

[Voguerista 11,707]

Thanks so much. I loved reading your thoughts. It's not my favorite album but, I love that it's so full of deepness and depth theatrically, lyrically and musically....and for great causes. I don't always agree with Madonna politically, but, I respect her none the same, her compassion, and how she can put her all into everything she does.  I especially loved the videos which were all so well produced. (And I loved all of her wigs during this era too. ?)