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Jun 12, 2019Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant.
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MojoJun 25, 2019The pace plods on some mid-tempo tracks, but overall this is a personal, politically-charged mix of dark thoughts and good vibes. [Aug 2019, p.88]
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Jun 14, 2019While it chafes against pop-musical expectations and outright defies them at times, “Madame X” does embrace that planet-altering ideal lyrically as well as musically, making it Madonna’s most compelling album in years.
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Jun 14, 2019Madonna is not merely returning to her origins on this fourteenth album, a regenerative fervour thrives on Madame X, traversing a gamut of disparate genres, stirring curiosity and wonder with rhapsodic intensity.
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Jun 14, 2019Madame X not only amply rewards such close listening, but its daring embrace of the world outside the U.S. underscores how Madonna has been an advocate and ally for left-of-mainstream sounds and ideas throughout her career.
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Jun 12, 2019Madonna has a reputation for being a trendsetter, but her true talent lies in bending those trends to her will, twisting them around until they’re barely recognizable, and creating something entirely new.
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Jun 8, 2019Madame X is certainly a fluid album, but one tempered by Madonna’s solid confidence in her own aesthetic decisions.
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Q MagazineJun 6, 2019This is Madonna on top of the world, looking down on creation, God complex at cruising attitude. [Summer 2019, p.110]
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Jun 6, 2019Sonically restless, Madame X doesn’t imitate current pop trends as much as it mangles them into new shapes. A record that grapples with being “just way too much”, ultimately, it refuses to tone things down.
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Jun 6, 2019All this baroque weirdness knocks the album off its axis, but most of its 64 minutes are actually full of very decent pop songcraft. ... Throughout, there is more density and musical adventure than at almost any other point in her career.
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Jun 13, 2019Madame X is best, though, not when it goes all CNN on us but when it plays primarily like a musical travelogue, taking us to magical mystical places so fascinating that we might not even notice the stormclouds overhead.
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Jun 6, 2019She still has a lot to say on Madame X’s 15 tracks. ... But its global sounds and millennial guest stars, including rappers Quavo and Swae Lee, can feel more like obligatory flag-planting than organic evolution. As an artist, Madonna owes nothing to some ageist, retrograde idea of what she’s allowed to be; if only Madame felt like a more compelling rebuttal to all that.
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Positive: 1,561 out of 1805
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Mixed: 72 out of 1805
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Negative: 172 out of 1805
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Jun 14, 2019A Brilliant, Bizzare, Interesting musical trip. Well Done. One of her best. God Control The best Track
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Jun 14, 2019Her best album in years. She has an incredible capacity to reinvent herself and this is the prove.
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Jun 14, 2019