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Apr 17, 2012[The music] is not exactly bad, but has about as much creativity and passion behind it as a spreadsheet.
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MojoMar 30, 2012She gets into her stride with French electronic maestro Martin Solveig. [May 2012, p.84]
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Mar 29, 2012A few breakdowns and builds fly off the rails on the clubbier numbers, but the better songs balance shiny, modern production with exuberant melodies and timeless songwriting.
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Mar 27, 2012An album that's competent, but equally perfunctory.
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Mar 26, 2012MDNA runs the gamut of quality from ghastly to mediocre to brilliant, but it's not the unmitigated disaster that many feared.
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Mar 26, 2012Madonna may have done this stuff first, but nowadays Lady Gaga does it better. MDNA? Meh-DNA.
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Mar 26, 2012It's Madonna's conservatism that drags her latest record down to the status of a ragtag collection.
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Mar 26, 2012Continuing Hard Candy's pattern of awful try-hard title and 'show the young uns you've still got it' bangers, it's disappointing in its lack of ambition.
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Mar 26, 2012It's a retread of almost everything she's said before in the past 30 years, and though ultimately catchy, it lacks any subtlety or nuance to make you feel this is doing anything but reaching.
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Mar 26, 2012It [the song "I'm a Sinner"] makes you crave her next album, not this one.
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Mar 26, 2012The album offers evidence that the singer has fallen behind, that she is no longer setting the conversation in a genre she essentially invented - blending Top 40 pop with club music.
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Mar 26, 2012Large chunks of MDNA are shockingly banal, coming across not so much as bad pop songs per se, but as drably competent tunes better suited to D-list Madonna wannabes.
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Mar 23, 2012Madonna's infinite varieties have certainly staled.
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Mar 22, 2012MDNA turns out to be just another Madonna album. It's already had the biggest single-day pre-order in iTunes history: business as usual for the most remarkable business enterprise in pop.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 418 out of 700
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Mixed: 150 out of 700
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Negative: 132 out of 700
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