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Rebel Heart… it doesn’t feel like a Madonna album, her vocals aren’t great most of the time, and there’s a hollowness to it. 

Ironically, the stuff Danja and Timbaland produced back in 2006-2008 is still enjoying great popularity and is even having a bit of a viral comeback. So yeah I wouldn't say it aged horribly, more like the very opposite.
I feel like with Hard Candy people unfairly hate on it because it followed the very fan-pandering and popular COADF. Hard Candy kind of lacks an identity because the visual concept and them got switched around so many times throughout the era. It was indeed very inconsistent. It was also a bit of a defeat for M because she succumbed to what was popular at that time. It definitely paid off though, because the album was still very successful and outside of the US, it did very well commercially.
The real stinker was MDNA which ended her commercial appeal especially due to its abysmal lead single choice.

Yeah, I still find myself going back and listening to the demos way more often than the finished product too.  😢 

Thanks for all of your choices and thoughts Everyone. So appreciated. Keep them coming! 

It’s easily Rebel Heart for me. It just doesn’t feel like a Madonna record. It’s a mess and has some truly terrible songs on it. There are a few tracks I like but nothing that’s above mid-tier Madonna. 

Madame X is not my favorite but it's definitely not my least favorite. It's pretty underrated actually. After Rebel Heart and Mdna and even hard candy Madame X sounded new and weird but refreshing... 

Yeah, I still find myself going back and listening to the demos way more often than the finished product too.  😢 

For me it is Rebel Heart. There’s some good stuff buried on there but all in all it sounds disjointed and rushed to me. 
there’s that saying “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and for me, Rebel Heart is the opposite of that. The whole is weaker than the sum of its parts imo. 
also, I think I’m still just butthurt that a lot of the arrangements I liked from the leaked demos didn’t make it to the final album. Like, I will never get over the Avicii arrangement of Rebel Heart being replaced with the arrangement on the album. And while we’re at it, why is the title track relegated to bonus track status?
Rebel Heart is the most glaring black stain in her catalogue for many reasons for me. 

Yes, it was the single mix outside of the US.

Yes, the edit is from The Color Mix.

I'm afraid you're right...we hope in vain...it's sadistic

Real or fake I'd rather have Charli work on M15 I'd love a club album with some hyperpop elements.

Yeah, I still find myself going back and listening to the demos way more often than the finished product too.  😢 

I can feel you, the disappointment for the final release was huge for me too. When I think and talk about that album I actually consider also the demos. It's the excepionality of that era, the excitement, the sense of absurd and it was definitely the way we experienced those songs. I remember it as a unique experience and when I listen to the demos, wich is quite frequent, I feel like I'm listening to "Rebel Heart". There are songs like WAOM or JOA that I NEVER listen in the album version. I must have heard that solemn bore of WAOM three times at most in ten years   while the Avicii's demo with the title track one are my favourites from the whole session.

For me it is Rebel Heart. There’s some good stuff buried on there but all in all it sounds disjointed and rushed to me. 
there’s that saying “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and for me, Rebel Heart is the opposite of that. The whole is weaker than the sum of its parts imo. 
also, I think I’m still just butthurt that a lot of the arrangements I liked from the leaked demos didn’t make it to the final album. Like, I will never get over the Avicii arrangement of Rebel Heart being replaced with the arrangement on the album. And while we’re at it, why is the title track relegated to bonus track status?
Rebel Heart is the most glaring black stain in her catalogue for many reasons for me. 

Hard Candy (aged like milk), MDNA (need a proper master, too loud) and Rebel Heart (the demos are light years better) 
Madame X is not thaaat bad, but it is totally forgettable. I only like Medellin, lol. 

Probably MDNA for me. There are some good songs in it but the only song I think is truly great is Love Spent.
Superstar and B-Day Song never should have been released, they are some of the worst songs she ever did.

MDNA. Half the tracks on the record shouldn't have gone past demo stage.

Rebel Heart is my pick. I will point out that Ghosttown, Messiah and the title track are highlights for me on that album but for the most part, it just drags on and on. It's way too long of an album especially factoring in all of the special editions that extend the length unnecessarily. That album should have been way shorter and should have only been whatever songs she did on the tour including the interludes.

Mdna 
But i really love Girl gone wild, Gang Bang, I don't give a, and Masterpiece 
The other songs are not for me 

Overdramatic? Moi? Baby, you must have confused me for the FIFTEEN PLUS PARAGRAPH RANT above me. 💋 

The attitude of some fans that any artist ‘owes’ them anything, or that they are somehow being ripped off by not having deluxe editions etc is bizzare to me. 
 

Or super deluxe extended uncut girthy 28 track edition 

Overdramatic? Moi? Baby, you must have confused me for the FIFTEEN PLUS PARAGRAPH RANT above me. 💋 

The attitude of some fans that any artist ‘owes’ them anything, or that they are somehow being ripped off by not having deluxe editions etc is bizzare to me.