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70

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 1805 Ratings

  • Summary: The 14th full-length studio release for the pop artist features guest appearances from Anitta, Maluma, Quavo, and Swae Lee.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 21
  2. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Jun 12, 2019
    90
    Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant.
  2. Jun 14, 2019
    80
    Madame 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.
  3. Jun 14, 2019
    80
    While 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.
  4. Jun 13, 2019
    75
    Madame 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.
  5. Jun 14, 2019
    60
    Madame X is so admirably bizarre, all you can do is stand back and watch the girl go.
  6. Jun 11, 2019
    60
    Madame X isn’t just an album (if it is that at all) – it’s an opera, or a comedy of errors. It’ll make you feel confusion, frustration, happiness and maybe joy, but it will definitely make you feel.
  7. Jun 21, 2019
    40
    Overall, Madonna’s fourteenth album Madame X feels as if Mirwais had mostly completed a decent run-of-the-mill modern pop record, albeit with a cool hotch-potch global feel; hip nods in place to fado, dub and other micro-genres dunked amongst the trap and retro disco. But then just before sign-off, Herself went through the top-lines with a sharpie. ... None of these carefully curated flourishes feel as if they truly live inside the ‘whole’ of this music. Instead it all feels plonked on top of a template.

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 54 out of 890
  1. Jun 16, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Шикарный альбом. Просто космос. На репите. Отличная пластинка от королевы поп-музыки Expand
  2. Jun 14, 2019
    10
    This album it’s just amazing, different rhythms of the world in the same album! I love it!
  3. Jun 14, 2019
    10
    A Brilliant, Bizzare, Interesting musical trip. Well Done. One of her best. God Control The best Track
  4. Jun 17, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The best álbum ever!!!! And ever and ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever Expand
  5. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Thank you, Madonna, for continuing to work tirelessly. Madame X was not made for the charts, much less for specialized critics. Only those whoThank you, Madonna, for continuing to work tirelessly. Madame X was not made for the charts, much less for specialized critics. Only those who will be pleased with another work by the only Queen are those who know all about her vast and great career. Yeah! Expand
  6. Jun 18, 2019
    10
    One of her best works in a decade! Bizarre, intense wtih beautiful lyrics and a strong political message. Madonna is and always will be theOne of her best works in a decade! Bizarre, intense wtih beautiful lyrics and a strong political message. Madonna is and always will be the Queen of Pop for her capacity of reivention. Madame X proves it.

    Best tracks: God Control, Looking For Mercy, Extreme Ocident and Dark Ballet
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  7. May 29, 2020
    0
    Álbum sem coesão, músicas genéricas feito para tentar alcançar os charts mundiais.

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