Rebel Heart
by Madonna
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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 822 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 107 out of 822
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  1. grinfinoria
    Mar 15, 2015
    3
    But once , Madonna care much about the things that the media likes to rebel heart a commercial album , made to the market, and that's not cool, My opinion is one of the worst forms of working
  2. Bgiselle
    Mar 16, 2015
    3
    That's a poor album! This album this along with MDNA as one of the worst of his career. Lotus by Christina Aguilera is definitely better than that. I'm really praying for her career.
  3. gagaeb12
    Oct 29, 2016
    3
    классно когда в 120 или сколько мадонне лет можно записать как ты пердишь позвать дипло чтобы он сделал ремикс на это сделать немного подпевки потом позвать гарбаж сксерокопировать этот файл и продать 900 тысяч копий этого за годклассно когда в 120 или сколько мадонне лет можно записать как ты пердишь позвать дипло чтобы он сделал ремикс на это сделать немного подпевки потом позвать гарбаж сксерокопировать этот файл и продать 900 тысяч копий этого за год
  4. CreativeOne
    Mar 10, 2015
    0
    If you want to buy an album because 2 songs are good then this is the album for you. The EDM vs Hip hop feel is there in three songs in which the beat switches from EDM to Hip hop a couple of times within each song. Also L4L sounds like she just built a new song on the same Chord Progression as Girl Gone Wild. Girl Gone Wild was not a hit why did she feel a remix to that song would be aIf you want to buy an album because 2 songs are good then this is the album for you. The EDM vs Hip hop feel is there in three songs in which the beat switches from EDM to Hip hop a couple of times within each song. Also L4L sounds like she just built a new song on the same Chord Progression as Girl Gone Wild. Girl Gone Wild was not a hit why did she feel a remix to that song would be a hit. Ghosttown and Iconic are the best songs on the album. I hope they catch momentum. Anybody that tries to say to you that **** I'm Madonna is a good song is a flat out liar. With lyrics like:

    (We're jumping in the pool and swimming with our clothes on
    I poured a beer into my shoe and got my freak on
    The neighbor's pissed and says he's gonna call the Five-O
    If they show up then we are gonna give a good show)

    on that song, you can tell she is just trying to hard. Is Five-O still a thing?

    or on Devil Pray where she sings:

    (And we can do drugs and we can smoke weed and we can drink whiskey
    Yeah, we can get high and we can get stoned
    And we can sniff glue and we can do E and we can drop acid
    Forever be lost with no way home)

    is just mehhh... The song has a good beat. Better lyrics would have been nice. I still feel she is recycling music with this one too. Sounds too much like Don't Tell Me which had an amazing beat with great lyrics. This is a bad remix.

    I could continue with each song on Rebel Heart, but you get my point. It's a great remix album for hardcore Madonna fans, but there is nothing new here. Save your money.    … Expand
  5. Fra94
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    This album for sure is better than MDNA, but it still don't have nothing special except two songs, the album is very very poor and really boring nothing special here
  6. Music4Lyfe
    Jun 17, 2015
    0
    Madonna is now a try hard. She was better when she actually made trends happen and not someone who follows trends. If only she would make work that was similar back in the 80s and 90s or Confessions.
  7. iloveaha
    Apr 8, 2015
    1
    There is something tragic about this record that had it's origins in HC and progressively infected subsequent works and the result is this ode to 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?' RH is that bad and it elicits more sympathy than reverence. No one has bothered to inform Ms. M that her era is bygone and she owned it all but now the lease is not being renewed, however she persist in tryingThere is something tragic about this record that had it's origins in HC and progressively infected subsequent works and the result is this ode to 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?' RH is that bad and it elicits more sympathy than reverence. No one has bothered to inform Ms. M that her era is bygone and she owned it all but now the lease is not being renewed, however she persist in trying to fit in with today's vibe knowing that she has no more trails to blaze, just burned bridges behind her.

    The songs themselves are laborious to listen to. When they are good they make you wish a younger voice was performing them. When they are bad you wish she would have had the strength to admit it. This album has the feel of a hostage situation with producers tied to chairs being forced to crank out "newish" sounding material or else! Maybe it was out of pity or respect for such a grand icon that these poor guys trudged ahead-who knows. In the end you see and hear the fading starlet doing her best Norma Desmond. She is ready for her close up but really she needs to let the camera fade back leaving whatever dignity she can salvage intact so that she can finally take a long overdue bow and realize that its not her place to party with the young people in a skirt that's way to short and tacky and only brings to mind our grandmother trying to relate to the children who are too loving and polite to take her back to her place before she does something else to cement the fact that for the remainder of her career she can do nothing more than make an utter fool of herself.

    Grace Slick said it best when she stated that 'no one wanted to see her try to get up on stage at this point'. She is happy with her legacy as rock royalty and is satisfied and doesn't feel the need to recreate past glories. Madonna really should take a page from that book and allow herself a graceful exit and the satisfaction of knowing that she will forever be a legend and that it is enough to have "came, saw and conquered",    … Expand
  8. Parachutes
    Nov 19, 2016
    0
    worst album ever. , ‘Rebel Heart’ feels like a wasted opportunity. Trite self-empowerment anthem ‘Iconic’ informs us that there’s only two letters difference between Icon and I Can’t
  9. jseph1234
    Apr 15, 2015
    2
    This was a very sad album for Madonna. My jaw dropped when I listen to the first song. I was like
    "Man THIS is Madonna???" It had absolutely, NO Soul to it and musically was just a jumble of synths. From there it remained the same...The same, soulless feel to the whole thing that, I couldn't even listen after the third song. It was just TOO tragic!
  10. Yosa
    Jun 23, 2015
    1
    Ghostown was what brought me to search out madona again, what I found was one bad album. I love her music, but her latest attempt was awfull, love ghostown though, it has some presence of sound in the first part that the album misses;
  11. adrianvandelzel
    Oct 22, 2016
    1
    Podría ser un buen disco si se hubiera dejado de temas adolescentes que no la ayudan en nada. Debería alejarse ya de esos sonidos porque la hacen sonar totalmente ridicula.
  12. Gregory185
    Oct 3, 2015
    2
    I'm a fan of Madonna's earlier work but this one just doesn't do it for me. Instead of once being the trendsetter she once was, she's following what younger generations are doing and it's not fitting her. She should put more thought and focus into her music instead of relying on shock value.
  13. charlieking
    Jun 21, 2018
    0
    worst album ever. , ‘Rebel Heart’ feels like a wasted opportunity. Trite self-empowerment anthem ‘Iconic’ informs us that there’s only two letters difference between Icon and I Can’
  14. vinnynguyen
    Jun 17, 2017
    1
    A very forgettable album at best, no tracks worthy of continued interest. Too many songs for a listener to even be bothered. Sorry Madonna. You aren't what you used to be.
  15. wi_bart
    Oct 24, 2016
    3
    Rebel Heart sounds messi. It's interesting how Dipplo could make this poor work. **** I'm Madonna is gross, it feels reductive. Probably one of the worst songs ever produced. Althought you can find great tracks as "Living for love" these are very unusual to find.
  16. Bishoppp
    Jun 27, 2018
    0
    um lixo, essa velha desnecessária só serve pra isso né amores? Pra passar vergonha. Além de genérico é fracassado e sabemos o motivo...
  17. FRDQG
    May 29, 2020
    0
    Went does it look like she's just trying too hard? What's going on with her?
  18. Pauloesco
    Jun 7, 2020
    0
    A boring, long, tedious album, very little commercial, madonna is over, it no longer exists, it is better that you retire with dignity, your time is over, madonna is over!
  19. KatyPerryIsOver
    Nov 25, 2021
    0
    It doesn't look and sound like Madonna. Madonna, what happened to you?………..

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Consequence
    Mar 26, 2015
    50
    Rebel Heart leans too steeply into too many trends at once, making it a scattered affair that flashes between drudgery and brilliance.
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  2. Mojo
    Mar 19, 2015
    60
    Rebel Heart is the first Madonna album for a while that's at least as much for listeners as it is for dancers. Sometimes this shines too hard a light on what she has to say. [Apr 2015, p.88]
  3. Pitchfork
    Mar 13, 2015
    51
    Rebel Heart grows confusing and irreconcilably uneven as it progresses.
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