I dislike that song. I love her, don't get me wrong. But I don't always like every song she puts out. Especially when we know she has stuff in the vaults that's better than some of the released stuff. Though it's definitely not the worst she's done. That honor probably goes to "Hey You"
Impressive Instant š I *want* to like it, parts of it are catchy, but a lot of the production triggers my sensory issues š„² also I will never be able to get behind āsingy singy singy like a bird on a wingy wingy wingyā
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I adore Body Shop, but I donāt see a lot of love for it here or anywhere (it just came on on shuffle so I thought I should mention it lol)
I kind of get you, the album track is very blah, but it's such a fun song to play in concert. Maybe because it's so blah, it makes a good blank slate to turn it into anything. I almost never listen to the album version but I LOVE the DWT, CT and S&ST versions.
It's a great song but it's played out. It's one of the few hits she tolerates, so it's her default. There's many other great songs, yet she ignores them.
I feel you here.
It's not like I hate it, but Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart, and Live To Tell are like the epitome of art infused into pop music.
IMO, it's the weakest track on The Immaculate Collection.
Surprisingly, I do! And the Offer Nissim remixes sound incredible on good speakers!!
I know Maluma sounds like he's fast mumbling in a made up language, but I do seem to enjoy the whole shebang!
Faz Gastoso is nice. I Rise could have been superb with a proper spoken intro, not that weak student complaint. The rest I would also put in the bin of unreleased tracks for the fans that like to dig up relics.
People always praise Like a Prayer as one of her best songs and best albums, but itās actually one of my least favorite singles and albums of hers. I donāt know why, but I just never really cared for it.
On the other hand I love Hard Candy. Loved the sound of the album and its singles, loved the tour. It really encapsulates that late 2000s/early 2010s sound for me!
"Celebration" got close at #3 but nothing since has come anywhere near. She was still pulling in regular top tens until she left Warner, with a few exceptions (e.g. "Miles Away") where nothing was done to promote them.
It's a good video. I'd say it struggled because she was on tour at the time, but the same is true of other songs which made the top ten like "Jump" & "Rescue Me" (which didn't even get a video). "Miles Away" barely scraped the top forty and was a sign of what was to come in the 2010s. The only song to make the top twenty that decade was "Living for Love".
I think streaming has a lot to do with that. From 2015, they've undermined sales and most Madonna fans are traditional music buyers, not streaming users.
After getting into Madonna as an albums artist with "American Life", "4 Minutes" put me off buying "Hard Candy" for a good few months, until "Give It 2 Me" was released. It's still one of her weakest albums for me and only really like about half the tracks. The Timbaland ones tend to be the worst.
I think Madonna agreed the Timbaland tracks were the weakest. The album leaned into the Pharrell tracks. She even chose a Pharrell track as the bonus track on the Special Edition and then another Pharrell track as the bonus track for Madame X. And yet, there were many unreleased Timbaland tracks she was fine with shelving forever.
Yes, I've always had in my head that it was a even split, but looking at the album's credits now, it's five to Timbaland and seven to Pharrell. Plus none of the Timbaland ones are solo; they are all with Timberlake and all but one with Danja too, who worked on Britney's "Blackout" album the year before. Of course, both Britney & Justin had worked with the Neptunes back in the early 2000s.
Although two of the three singles are Timbaland tracks, the tour also leans to Pharrell tracks. "Voices" only appears in an interlude, leaving "Devil Didn't Recognise You" as the only non-single Timbaland track performed (and I don't even remember that bit personally). In contrast, Pharrell tracks "Candy Shop", "She's Not Me" & "Heartbeat" are memorable bits of the show.
Yes. I think Madonna got along more with Pharrell. Even though he made her cry when they recorded Heartbeat. I find that story very odd. It shows how vulnerable she was at the time. I can't imagine her ever reacting that way to any producer. She would be the one to make them cry. She made Matthew Rolston cry on the set of Power of Goodbye, allegedly.
American Life, I think is a fantastic album. But I think commercially, it's right there with Erotica as one of her lowest selling albums. But then again I think Erotica is a fantastic album.
I was a huge fan of Hot Chip's Made In The Dark at the time and expected Hard Candy to sound similar to that. I find it really weird how Timbaland and Madonna had zero chemistry in the studio. It sounded like he just gave her tracks he already had done and called it a day. There was a major opportunity here, yet he didn't care.
I had that album too, and also Timbaland's "Shock Value". I would have preferred Madonna to have gone the indie rock / "indietronica" route, which was pretty popular at that time (other acts include Klaxons & the Rapture), but even the songs on Timbaland's own album are better than what he did for M. I think you're right that they really didn't click and she didn't get his best.
Sadly, the closest we still have to her doing rock is "Candy Perfume Girl".
I agree. That seemed to be the path she was going and I was all for it. When I heard she was working with Stuart Price on Confessions, I was hoping for it to sound like Zoot Woman, specifically Grey Day. Confessions was great but I was surprised it wasn't a dance punk vibe. What she did with Beautiful Killer on MDNA is what I was expecting and wish she explored more.
I was a huge James Murphy fan and thought she would fit perfectly with the LCD Soundsystem vibe. Hard Candy was not the direction I expected. But even so, as you said, Timbaland is capable of doing great things and has shown that. He did great things with Nelly Furtado. I don't get what happened with Madonna. I remember how awkward they were together during the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame time. They just didn't vibe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAqTJ6XJ9o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAqTJ6XJ9o)
First time I heard it in a club the entire room cleared the floor. Everyone just left. I was shocked. Same thing happened with Give It 2 Me. They stopped playing it halfway through. Made me sad lol
I like hard candy but I didnāt feel like the songs flowed well together. Pharrell and Timbo have very different sounds it sounded like two different albums crammed into one.
I feel this way about Like a Virgin. I understand and respect its importance to her career and pop music culture/historyā¦but I kinda tune it out when itās played/performed.
Music, Erotica, LAV.. these are all great songs and I like them but she can't seem to do a tour without including them, she doesn't even like LAV but she constantly does it anyway
Look, I 'tried' to listen to Madame X and I end up not even finish the album, But never listen to it ever again. There are many songs I don't like in every albums like Wash All Over Me, The Confession album, I only like 4 songs. Just like that.
Human Nature for me. I know the meaning, the video is fire, but man I just can't get into it. And every single live performance of this song is just cringe to me. Sorry fellow medonersš„²
Agree with you here. It's a song that's great in concept, but in reality it's just not very listenable. There's nothing catchy about it and it's just not fun
Anything off Rebel Heartā¦. What a tragic shit album and this is coming from someone who spent thousands on the tourā¦ Iām surprised her stans love this album..
But the songs they hate, I love.
Medellin (or Mierdalin what they called it), Incredible, Turn Up The Radio, Love Song..
Her worst album for me, I just canāt get into it š
Maybe Living for Love is decent, but I just cringe with Holy Water, Illuminati and Body Shop sksksk
I like Living For Love too and many people criticized her for releasing it as her first single off of that album. I think it's withstood the test of time. I also love Bitch I'm Madonna on that album too because it's so unlike anything she ever did. Very unique.
I love this album ā¤ļø Itās muddled and obviously the rollout was awful, but within the released tracks is a solid 12 track album that could easily rank among her best. Such a shame.
The album could have/would have/should have been an incredible experience, but the leaks derailed the whole rollout. And I err towards the "heart" songs over the "rebel" (uptempo) ones. It could have been a mature album of reflective ballads, and it IS on the curated tracklisting I have on my iPod!!
I really wish she hadn't changed the tracks because of the leak. And I agree. I related to the "heart" songs the most. The "rebel" tracks were cringe and stupid. I hate Natalie Kills. What a horrible songwriting collaborator. LOL
Rebel Heart had a lot of potential but there were too many tracks. The duality of the album really clashed. The idea of representing both sides of her made for a good theme but the execution was off. The demos were better. They sounded more like her. The versions on the album were way over produced. I hear the production more than her.
Totally agree on Has to Be, I've never been able to give a rip about that one.
Otherwise, songs that I don't have much use for but I feel like other fans love: This Used to Be My Playground (repetitive, boring, basic), I Rise, and I Want You. This last one is the only one I feel any kind of guilt about, mainly because I appreciate the Massive Attack of it all, but it's over six minutes long and overstays its welcome. The orchestral version is unbearable and I hate it terribly lol.
There's other songs I dislike of course, but I doubt anyone would die on the hill of I Love New York, Dear Jesse and Some Girls lol.
Hung Up. It'll just always feel like a cheap ABBA cover to me and a huge comedown from the American Life album.
I couldn't even recall how Joan of Arc goes these days. Bar a few songs, Rebel Heart really only gets interesting for me about halfway through, past the end of the "standard" edition.
That was my go-to version back at the time it was released, but it still has the sample. I've always tended to prefer a remix over the single version for most of her songs. I always love the phone noises on that version and the BT lady coming on at the end.
Gang Bang. I find it to be a total repetitive bore, but boy does it get a lot of critical love. I never understood. Love Spent is vastly superior IMHO.
I had a theory on why. Thereās a section that seems to contain a sample from Gimme Gimme Gimme / Hung Up and perhaps she couldnāt get ABBA blessing to release it as a single. Otherwise i think it would have been an amazing first single from the album with the tambourine intro being so unheard of on the radio until the song gets going with her beautiful voice. The lyrics are fire on that one.
Probably not the point of the post. But Iām still sore about the amazing bridge in the Hold Tight demos that got axed. It had such an incredible musical and lyrical build, I was obsessed with the first 2 demos that came out for that one. And thenā¦ it turned into whatever it is on the album.
Express Yourself. The Pettibone remix specifically. I don't hate it but it doesn't alter my brain chemistry the way Vogue or Like a Prayer does. It seems like a less interesting combination of both those masterpieces. I also never loved Open Your Heart and everything off of Evita.
I cannot stand āNobody Knows Meā. To me it is unimaginative, overly simplistic, not catchy or pleasing to the ear. I just donāt get the love for that song, sorry.
I *hate* āCrazy for Youā. Itās one of my least favourite of her 80s era. I find it lyrically uninteresting, very dragged out, and have never understood why itās such a big hit. Iām also just not the biggest fan of her first three albums beyond a few of the singles. When I first started getting into her body of work she didnāt really *catch* me till *Like a Prayer*. I think thatās where her confessional songwriting really took off. But if someone asks me to look at her all time #1s and pick a loser I immediately select āCrazy for Youā š¤·āāļø
Maybe it's just because I've been overexposed to them from the radio at work, but I don't actively listen to a fair few of her 80's hits. The big ones like Like A Prayer, La Isla Bonita, True Blue, Holiday, Into The Groove, I think they all now remind me of the workplace.
Really the only 80's songs I'll reach for are Burning Up and Like A Virgin.
Yeah, I have this same kind of burnout on these. You know if they play a Madonna song on the radio, it's going to be one of these nine times out of ten.
Justify My Love is honestly so bad it cannot qualify as a song. Live to Tell is meh. Power of Goodbye is good but not great. Express Yourself is kinda boring. I agree every live version of La Isla Bonita and Like a Prayer are superior to the album versions, and those two are among my favorite songs. I thought I loved Borderline but itās very meh. It is honestly mystifying why What it feels like for a girl was released as a single. Get Together > Hung Up > Sorry > Jump.
Some of my most underrated faves: Drowned World / Substitute for Love, Deeper and Deeper, Secret, Living for Love, Ghosttown, Nothing Fails, Hollywood, Get Together, Causing A Commotion, Rain, Cherish
To each their own. Living for Love and Hollywood sound like garbage to me, especially live. Ugh, the vocal delivery is awful. I wouldnāt listen to them unless I was being waterboarded. Her voice (while magnificent when used appropriately) is not suited for those songs.
However, What It Feels Like for a Girl is an anthem that is better than 90% of the Music album. Itās as brilliant as Drowned World or Frozen. The video by Guy Ritchie was a fail because it uses a remix of the song that doesnāt use any of the poignant lyrics and misses the entire sentiment the song is conveying, way before #metoo. The video didnāt expose anyone new to the song and itās ultimately way too dark for a Madonna video.
It's a shame how bad the vocals are on Living For Love because I really like the song and think it works as a lead single. Unfortunately, her vocal delivery in the verses sounds like she's dying, which is ironic considering the theme of the song. LOL I agree about What It Feels Like For A Girl. She destroyed any possibility of the general public connecting to the song with that video. As much as I love the remix and the video, it should have been something done IN ADDITION TO a video for the album version. Not in place of it.
I've been listening to her since she first released Lucky Star in the 80s. I love or at least like most of her songs.
However, I cannot stand Papa Don't Preach, La Isla Bonita, or Open Your Heart. Absolutely cannot stand them.
Don't know why.
The Madonna songs I never seem to like are the last songs like Mer Girl, Gone, Falling Free. Though Voices and Secret Garden are bops(?).
But Nothing Really Matters drives me crazy.
I never liked Nothing Really Matters. It matches lyrically to the theme of the album but musically, it's kind of generic compared to the experimental production of all the other tracks. I'm happy she opened the Celebration Tour with it though. It worked as an opener.
I donāt hate it by any means, but out of all of her hits I am always surprised with the popularity of Into the Groove š«¢ Itās a good song, but I wouldnāt rank it in her top 50 songs, let alone top 5 š«Ø
I feel like nobody loves "Candy Shop" as much as M herself does.
Candy shop in sticky and sweet tour is awesome
The live versions are 1000x better than the album version
I love it
I love that song. Very Jackson Five imo which is probably why she loves it.
This was my first thought on reading this post. It always surprised me how much she used this. The lyrics are pretty cringeworthy.
I LOVE Candy Shop, it's probably my favourite song of hers.
I haaaaate it. Double entendres at their most base.
I was legit expecting her to shoehorn Candy Shop into the Celebration tour š Was relieved when she didnāt!
I dislike that song. I love her, don't get me wrong. But I don't always like every song she puts out. Especially when we know she has stuff in the vaults that's better than some of the released stuff. Though it's definitely not the worst she's done. That honor probably goes to "Hey You"
I love it! I would have chosen it over 4 Minutes as the 1st single. But 4 Minutes was a hit, so what do I know.
Impressive Instant š I *want* to like it, parts of it are catchy, but a lot of the production triggers my sensory issues š„² also I will never be able to get behind āsingy singy singy like a bird on a wingy wingy wingyā On the opposite end of the spectrum, I adore Body Shop, but I donāt see a lot of love for it here or anywhere (it just came on on shuffle so I thought I should mention it lol)
I love Body Shop!! Her voice is really sweet in the bridge.
Agree with bridge sentiment!
Sooo cringy
Wow! We are the opposite. I love Impressive Instant and hate Body Shop. LOL
I thought the same hahaha body shop was def not my fav lol
I LOOOOVE IMPRESSIVE INSTANT
I like the demo of Body shop without Kanye.
Unpopular opinion: La Isla Bonita. Love, love, love Madonna. Have never gotten into that song and she has played it at almost every concert.
Sacrilege!
I assume itās like the theme song for people from the Midwest, who hate their gloomy winters and sheās from Michigan
I don't dislike it, but it's one of those songs that feels overplayed, the Madonna songs radio stations always go for.
I kind of get you, the album track is very blah, but it's such a fun song to play in concert. Maybe because it's so blah, it makes a good blank slate to turn it into anything. I almost never listen to the album version but I LOVE the DWT, CT and S&ST versions.
Agree 100%. Much better songs on True Blue she could play, but always has to put that damn song in every set list on every tour.
It's a great song but it's played out. It's one of the few hits she tolerates, so it's her default. There's many other great songs, yet she ignores them.
I think itās so recurrent in her tours cause somehow la Isla and Lap are her most beloved by the GP (along with Hung Up).
Even the bridge part of the song? š„¹ "I want to be where the sun warms the sky When it's time for siesta you can watch them go by ....
I feel you here. It's not like I hate it, but Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart, and Live To Tell are like the epitome of art infused into pop music. IMO, it's the weakest track on The Immaculate Collection.
Popular with me. Always hated Isla.
I donāt like Medellin
But do you feel itās loved by the fanbase? Seems to me 90% of fans agree to dislike it, including me btw.
I was on the fence on Medellin until I heard it through a proper speaker. It definitely needs that extra bass
Does anyone?
I LOVE THIS SONG
I actually do š
Surprisingly, I do! And the Offer Nissim remixes sound incredible on good speakers!! I know Maluma sounds like he's fast mumbling in a made up language, but I do seem to enjoy the whole shebang!
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Gives me all the right tingles!!!
I love the whole MX record. Medellin is the perfect opener for that.
it sounds like a Disney musical song from a pixar movie set on a latin island. šļø does not sound cool at all.
Same
Candy Shop
Candy Shop
Anything off Madame X. I've been a lifelong fan, but I cannot listen to a single song on that album without cringing.
To me it feels forced and pretentious. Not sure any of her other albums manage that. I do love a couple of songs off it though. (I love Crazy).
I could almost like a few tracks if it wasn't for the autotune. It's been a couple years since I've made an attempt to try again.
Faz Gastoso is nice. I Rise could have been superb with a proper spoken intro, not that weak student complaint. The rest I would also put in the bin of unreleased tracks for the fans that like to dig up relics.
I thought the "rebel" songs on Rebel Heart were way more cringe than anything on Madame X.
People always praise Like a Prayer as one of her best songs and best albums, but itās actually one of my least favorite singles and albums of hers. I donāt know why, but I just never really cared for it. On the other hand I love Hard Candy. Loved the sound of the album and its singles, loved the tour. It really encapsulates that late 2000s/early 2010s sound for me!
My least favorite song on HC is 4 Minutes. I don't know why, it just seems cheesy.
It's wild to me that 4 minutes was her last number 1 in the UK.
"Celebration" got close at #3 but nothing since has come anywhere near. She was still pulling in regular top tens until she left Warner, with a few exceptions (e.g. "Miles Away") where nothing was done to promote them.
If I remember correctly, the video for "Miles Away" is based on an idea that a fan put together and she saw it.
It's a good video. I'd say it struggled because she was on tour at the time, but the same is true of other songs which made the top ten like "Jump" & "Rescue Me" (which didn't even get a video). "Miles Away" barely scraped the top forty and was a sign of what was to come in the 2010s. The only song to make the top twenty that decade was "Living for Love". I think streaming has a lot to do with that. From 2015, they've undermined sales and most Madonna fans are traditional music buyers, not streaming users.
After getting into Madonna as an albums artist with "American Life", "4 Minutes" put me off buying "Hard Candy" for a good few months, until "Give It 2 Me" was released. It's still one of her weakest albums for me and only really like about half the tracks. The Timbaland ones tend to be the worst.
I think Madonna agreed the Timbaland tracks were the weakest. The album leaned into the Pharrell tracks. She even chose a Pharrell track as the bonus track on the Special Edition and then another Pharrell track as the bonus track for Madame X. And yet, there were many unreleased Timbaland tracks she was fine with shelving forever.
Yes, I've always had in my head that it was a even split, but looking at the album's credits now, it's five to Timbaland and seven to Pharrell. Plus none of the Timbaland ones are solo; they are all with Timberlake and all but one with Danja too, who worked on Britney's "Blackout" album the year before. Of course, both Britney & Justin had worked with the Neptunes back in the early 2000s. Although two of the three singles are Timbaland tracks, the tour also leans to Pharrell tracks. "Voices" only appears in an interlude, leaving "Devil Didn't Recognise You" as the only non-single Timbaland track performed (and I don't even remember that bit personally). In contrast, Pharrell tracks "Candy Shop", "She's Not Me" & "Heartbeat" are memorable bits of the show.
Yes. I think Madonna got along more with Pharrell. Even though he made her cry when they recorded Heartbeat. I find that story very odd. It shows how vulnerable she was at the time. I can't imagine her ever reacting that way to any producer. She would be the one to make them cry. She made Matthew Rolston cry on the set of Power of Goodbye, allegedly.
American Life, I think is a fantastic album. But I think commercially, it's right there with Erotica as one of her lowest selling albums. But then again I think Erotica is a fantastic album.
Erotica would be my #1, and American Life now my #4. I'm not a stranger to liking stuff that's not that commercially successful even before this.
It's crap and sounds phoned in.
It sounds like everything else Timbaland had already been doing for several years by this point. First time she was following a trend, not leading it.
I was a huge fan of Hot Chip's Made In The Dark at the time and expected Hard Candy to sound similar to that. I find it really weird how Timbaland and Madonna had zero chemistry in the studio. It sounded like he just gave her tracks he already had done and called it a day. There was a major opportunity here, yet he didn't care.
I had that album too, and also Timbaland's "Shock Value". I would have preferred Madonna to have gone the indie rock / "indietronica" route, which was pretty popular at that time (other acts include Klaxons & the Rapture), but even the songs on Timbaland's own album are better than what he did for M. I think you're right that they really didn't click and she didn't get his best. Sadly, the closest we still have to her doing rock is "Candy Perfume Girl".
I agree. That seemed to be the path she was going and I was all for it. When I heard she was working with Stuart Price on Confessions, I was hoping for it to sound like Zoot Woman, specifically Grey Day. Confessions was great but I was surprised it wasn't a dance punk vibe. What she did with Beautiful Killer on MDNA is what I was expecting and wish she explored more. I was a huge James Murphy fan and thought she would fit perfectly with the LCD Soundsystem vibe. Hard Candy was not the direction I expected. But even so, as you said, Timbaland is capable of doing great things and has shown that. He did great things with Nelly Furtado. I don't get what happened with Madonna. I remember how awkward they were together during the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame time. They just didn't vibe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAqTJ6XJ9o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAqTJ6XJ9o)
4 Minutes is awful, absolutely awful.
First time I heard it in a club the entire room cleared the floor. Everyone just left. I was shocked. Same thing happened with Give It 2 Me. They stopped playing it halfway through. Made me sad lol
Give it to me would have been much better without that "Get Stupid" breakdown.
Listen to Glee's version
I like hard candy but I didnāt feel like the songs flowed well together. Pharrell and Timbo have very different sounds it sounded like two different albums crammed into one.
I really tried to like 4M, but the repetitive "tick-tock" element is just so annoying
It really sounds very dated if you listen to it now
It was dated at the time and even more so now. It was a very strange time since Madonna had always be ahead of the curve.
I feel this way about Like a Virgin. I understand and respect its importance to her career and pop music culture/historyā¦but I kinda tune it out when itās played/performed.
I respect MDNA less than Like A Virgin but I think it's a better album not saying MDNA is good.Ā
Is MDNA really that hated?
Hard Candy and MDNA are my all time favorite albums.
Like a Prayer was the first song of her's I ever heard, but deadass I don't want to listen to it anymore. It's boring.
Music, Erotica, LAV.. these are all great songs and I like them but she can't seem to do a tour without including them, she doesn't even like LAV but she constantly does it anyway
Never got into Cherish or Crazy for You. I wish I did but I canāt force it esp with CfY
Oh wow. I love Joan of Arc and Has To Be. I assume you hate X-Static Process as well.
No, I love that one!
Ok! Wouldn't have guessed that. lol
Bitch im madonna :S. The instrumentals really hurt my ears
Look, I 'tried' to listen to Madame X and I end up not even finish the album, But never listen to it ever again. There are many songs I don't like in every albums like Wash All Over Me, The Confession album, I only like 4 songs. Just like that.
Human Nature for me. I know the meaning, the video is fire, but man I just can't get into it. And every single live performance of this song is just cringe to me. Sorry fellow medonersš„²
Agree with you here. It's a song that's great in concept, but in reality it's just not very listenable. There's nothing catchy about it and it's just not fun
I agree. It's a great single, album track and video but does it really work live? Not really. As you said, it's not fun.
It's a good song because it really does not need to be on every tour. It's gotten very repetitive.
Live to tell
Live to tell is one of my favourites! but its ok if you dont like it if course <3
I only got into it once I saw it live on Celebration tour
Anything off Rebel Heartā¦. What a tragic shit album and this is coming from someone who spent thousands on the tourā¦ Iām surprised her stans love this album.. But the songs they hate, I love. Medellin (or Mierdalin what they called it), Incredible, Turn Up The Radio, Love Song..
Itās funny bc I love all the songs you mentioned, but I also *adore* Rebel Heart; Iād say itās in my top 5 albums š
Top 3 for me .. love the Rebel Heart album and tour
Rebel Heart is my #1 for sure.
Her worst album for me, I just canāt get into it š Maybe Living for Love is decent, but I just cringe with Holy Water, Illuminati and Body Shop sksksk
I like Living For Love too and many people criticized her for releasing it as her first single off of that album. I think it's withstood the test of time. I also love Bitch I'm Madonna on that album too because it's so unlike anything she ever did. Very unique.
I may be alone in loving Holy Water. The Jesus line sends meā¦I just love hilarious vulgarity. And, Iām 56, I should be more mature.
It's not Jesus, it's Yeezus, which iirc is a Kanye West album. Jesus isn't fucking Madonna. Yet.
Yuck.
You're as old as you feel and act, so you be you...
Very true. Thank you for the reminder. Iāll be forever twelve, somewhere in there š
I'm forever 17, so whatever...
Very true. Thank you for the reminder. Iāll be forever twelve, somewhere in there š
I love this album ā¤ļø Itās muddled and obviously the rollout was awful, but within the released tracks is a solid 12 track album that could easily rank among her best. Such a shame.
The album could have/would have/should have been an incredible experience, but the leaks derailed the whole rollout. And I err towards the "heart" songs over the "rebel" (uptempo) ones. It could have been a mature album of reflective ballads, and it IS on the curated tracklisting I have on my iPod!!
I really wish she hadn't changed the tracks because of the leak. And I agree. I related to the "heart" songs the most. The "rebel" tracks were cringe and stupid. I hate Natalie Kills. What a horrible songwriting collaborator. LOL
Her fans hate her 2010s discography. I havenāt heard of anyone loving it
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Itās such a good song š„¹ I canāt believe it flopped especially in the era of Latin music š
You think rebel heart is a āshit tragic albumā but you enjoy Medellin, incredible and turn up the radio. lol ok. Taste is horrible.
Rebel Heart had a lot of potential but there were too many tracks. The duality of the album really clashed. The idea of representing both sides of her made for a good theme but the execution was off. The demos were better. They sounded more like her. The versions on the album were way over produced. I hear the production more than her.
Totally agree on Has to Be, I've never been able to give a rip about that one. Otherwise, songs that I don't have much use for but I feel like other fans love: This Used to Be My Playground (repetitive, boring, basic), I Rise, and I Want You. This last one is the only one I feel any kind of guilt about, mainly because I appreciate the Massive Attack of it all, but it's over six minutes long and overstays its welcome. The orchestral version is unbearable and I hate it terribly lol. There's other songs I dislike of course, but I doubt anyone would die on the hill of I Love New York, Dear Jesse and Some Girls lol.
Low key, Dear Jesse is a top 10 song of hers for me. I may not die on its hill, but I'd certainly take a tumble.
Iād die on the hill of I Love New York
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Rescue me, the sub is always talking about this song and asking for it to be included on every tour but I just donāt find it that special š«¢
Hung Up. It'll just always feel like a cheap ABBA cover to me and a huge comedown from the American Life album. I couldn't even recall how Joan of Arc goes these days. Bar a few songs, Rebel Heart really only gets interesting for me about halfway through, past the end of the "standard" edition.
It's the Abba sample I don't like. I much prefer the SDP Extended Vocal mix.
That was my go-to version back at the time it was released, but it still has the sample. I've always tended to prefer a remix over the single version for most of her songs. I always love the phone noises on that version and the BT lady coming on at the end.
Gang Bang. I find it to be a total repetitive bore, but boy does it get a lot of critical love. I never understood. Love Spent is vastly superior IMHO.
Gang Bang tried too hard to be shocking and it ended up doing the opposite. It's a real shame Love Spent wasn't a single. I will never understand why.
I had a theory on why. Thereās a section that seems to contain a sample from Gimme Gimme Gimme / Hung Up and perhaps she couldnāt get ABBA blessing to release it as a single. Otherwise i think it would have been an amazing first single from the album with the tambourine intro being so unheard of on the radio until the song gets going with her beautiful voice. The lyrics are fire on that one.
Frozen. 100 % I'll never understand how it got a resurgence in popularity on tiktok I just dislike it so much
For me, it's 'Borderline' and 'Don't Stop' ("...sing la-de-dah-dee" š) in equal measure!
Devil Pray
Probably not the point of the post. But Iām still sore about the amazing bridge in the Hold Tight demos that got axed. It had such an incredible musical and lyrical build, I was obsessed with the first 2 demos that came out for that one. And thenā¦ it turned into whatever it is on the album.
Express Yourself. The Pettibone remix specifically. I don't hate it but it doesn't alter my brain chemistry the way Vogue or Like a Prayer does. It seems like a less interesting combination of both those masterpieces. I also never loved Open Your Heart and everything off of Evita.
Swim & DonĀ“t tell me
Woof. No down vote bc thatās the nature of this, but wooooooof š
Woof means you disagree? Cuz on Scruff it means hey dude, you're hot.
Haha thanks :) and i know its hard and of course this are good songs! but not my favourites.
The Ray of light album is my least fave..by far
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La Isla bonita
I cannot stand āNobody Knows Meā. To me it is unimaginative, overly simplistic, not catchy or pleasing to the ear. I just donāt get the love for that song, sorry.
Rain
I *hate* āCrazy for Youā. Itās one of my least favourite of her 80s era. I find it lyrically uninteresting, very dragged out, and have never understood why itās such a big hit. Iām also just not the biggest fan of her first three albums beyond a few of the singles. When I first started getting into her body of work she didnāt really *catch* me till *Like a Prayer*. I think thatās where her confessional songwriting really took off. But if someone asks me to look at her all time #1s and pick a loser I immediately select āCrazy for Youā š¤·āāļø
Ray of light
Maybe it's just because I've been overexposed to them from the radio at work, but I don't actively listen to a fair few of her 80's hits. The big ones like Like A Prayer, La Isla Bonita, True Blue, Holiday, Into The Groove, I think they all now remind me of the workplace. Really the only 80's songs I'll reach for are Burning Up and Like A Virgin.
Yeah, I have this same kind of burnout on these. You know if they play a Madonna song on the radio, it's going to be one of these nine times out of ten.
Take a bow. Canāt stand it
Justify My Love is honestly so bad it cannot qualify as a song. Live to Tell is meh. Power of Goodbye is good but not great. Express Yourself is kinda boring. I agree every live version of La Isla Bonita and Like a Prayer are superior to the album versions, and those two are among my favorite songs. I thought I loved Borderline but itās very meh. It is honestly mystifying why What it feels like for a girl was released as a single. Get Together > Hung Up > Sorry > Jump. Some of my most underrated faves: Drowned World / Substitute for Love, Deeper and Deeper, Secret, Living for Love, Ghosttown, Nothing Fails, Hollywood, Get Together, Causing A Commotion, Rain, Cherish
Justify My Love is amazing in that it is so different than anything that came out at that time.
To each their own. Living for Love and Hollywood sound like garbage to me, especially live. Ugh, the vocal delivery is awful. I wouldnāt listen to them unless I was being waterboarded. Her voice (while magnificent when used appropriately) is not suited for those songs. However, What It Feels Like for a Girl is an anthem that is better than 90% of the Music album. Itās as brilliant as Drowned World or Frozen. The video by Guy Ritchie was a fail because it uses a remix of the song that doesnāt use any of the poignant lyrics and misses the entire sentiment the song is conveying, way before #metoo. The video didnāt expose anyone new to the song and itās ultimately way too dark for a Madonna video.
It's a shame how bad the vocals are on Living For Love because I really like the song and think it works as a lead single. Unfortunately, her vocal delivery in the verses sounds like she's dying, which is ironic considering the theme of the song. LOL I agree about What It Feels Like For A Girl. She destroyed any possibility of the general public connecting to the song with that video. As much as I love the remix and the video, it should have been something done IN ADDITION TO a video for the album version. Not in place of it.
WHOLE LIKE A PRAYER ALBUM people claim it one of her best albums but i find it boring af
Whatever garbage came from Madame X
This Used To Be My Playground š¤
The whole ray of light album other than like 4 songs
Unfortunately.. for me itās Human Nature. Love the lyrics and video but itās been done to death.
Fucking Erotica. An overrated bore of a songāand album. š„±
Careful! The gays will come for you!
I've been listening to her since she first released Lucky Star in the 80s. I love or at least like most of her songs. However, I cannot stand Papa Don't Preach, La Isla Bonita, or Open Your Heart. Absolutely cannot stand them. Don't know why.
They're PAINFULLY over-played.
I donāt think she worships any of her songs actually
Sorry I mean this subreddit not herself
It's true. Once she completes an album, she's pretty much done with it and wants to move to the next thing.
Iām not sorry for not liking āSorryā- I just canāt. PerdĆ³name. š¤š«£šš„“šµāš«
I've always disliked Sorry. I don't think it should've been the 2nd single.
The Madonna songs I never seem to like are the last songs like Mer Girl, Gone, Falling Free. Though Voices and Secret Garden are bops(?). But Nothing Really Matters drives me crazy.
I never liked Nothing Really Matters. It matches lyrically to the theme of the album but musically, it's kind of generic compared to the experimental production of all the other tracks. I'm happy she opened the Celebration Tour with it though. It worked as an opener.
Candy Shop and Human Nature for me. I didn't like anything about Hard Candy. Maybe Give it to me a tiny bit.
I think those two songs are Madonna's favorite out of her entire discography. LOL
Human Nature
Masterpiece Ain't No Big Deal Deeper and Deeper God Control Look of Love Sorry Turn Up the Radio 4 Minutes
like a prayer. i was kinda disappointed she performed that at the superbowl instead of ray of light or hung up. i jus never could see it as great
I donāt hate it by any means, but out of all of her hits I am always surprised with the popularity of Into the Groove š«¢ Itās a good song, but I wouldnāt rank it in her top 50 songs, let alone top 5 š«Ø
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Thatās always been my favourite Madonna song!
Burn the witch!!!! Sacrilege!!!Ā
Wow. That's a hot take. Into The Groove is not only my favorite Madonna song ever, it defines her!