Madonna is everywhere!
Seriously, I popped on CSI: Miami last night, and the opening scene featured some soon-to-be murder victims driving with the top down, blasting ”Hung Up.” (Not a bad choice for a final request, but I digress.)
Anyhow, if (like me) you’ve driven your coworkers to the brink of collapse by playing Madge’s ABBA-influenced new single on repeat loop, well I’ve got news for you: Her full CD, Confessions on a Dancefloor, is streaming over at VH1.com. Right now. Go give it a listen, then come on back to PopWatch and share your snap judgment with us. Who knows? If I’m in a good mood, one lucky critic might just get an invite to hear me perform the entire ”American Life” rap at my favorite Manhattan karaoke bar. I promise you: it’ll be ugly!
All together now: "I’m drinkin a soy latte, I get a double shot-tay, it goes right through my body, and you know I’m satisfied…"
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Hi Michael,
I love your blog on powatch, read it and constantly harrass you with comments re: whatever you post.
I can’t comment on the CD though, I haven’t heard it and I refuse to listen to it on MTV’s The Leak or VH1. American Life was the first album of hers I listened to without first buying it at a store, running home, frantically ripping the plastic wrapping off of it with my teeth and cutting off all connection from the rest of the world and listen to it uninterrupted.
Even though the album itself was not up to par to her previous CDs, it also felt like something else was missing.. and it was that excitement. So, I will buy it when it’s released next week and if this blog is still up.. I’ll post my review then.
I have been listening to the new Madonna for almost 2 weeks, and it has not left my stereo or iPod. I think the whole album is fantastic, I like how she tips her hat to many old school disco and dance styles(including herself)and then makes them sound modern and fresh.
I am one of the few people who loved “American Life” it was a different album and she really pushed herself, I loved the use of guitars on that album too.
The new album is just so much fun to listen to, standout tracks include “Get Together”, “Hung Up”, “Sorry” and I really love “Push”, it’s a non stop dance party.
Madonna shows us she still knows how to get into the groove. Nice job Madge! Yes, I plan to buy the official copy next week too!
I haven’t much enjoyed Madonna’s last two albums, but this one is everything I love about ol’ Madge: it’s some of the best gay dance music I’ve heard in ages — and that’s my highest compliment! The lyrics to “Jump” make it an anthemic, singalong-style gay club stomper: “We learned the lesson from the start, my sisters and me/the only thing you can depend on is your family.” Madonna’s cranked out her own version of “We are family,” and I adore it. These are the tunes that will be filling club dance floors for months, and in some anthemic cases, years. Sure it’s derivative (Kylie, Donna Summers, Abba, etc etc etc), but lord, it’s good.
I’m half way through listening to it right now and so far am in love with this album. “Sorry”, “Let It Will Be” are amazing and of course the wonderful “Hung Up” which is so cleverly crafted to incorporate that ABBA sample that I don’t even think of “Gimme Gimme” when I hear it.
With all the homogenized rap/rnb music dominating the radios these days and the overabundance of faux rock chicks, Madonna is such a breath of fresh air. She even shows other dance/pop divas like Kylie how it’s done (and I love Kylie). I don’t know how I’m going to concentrate at work today listening this album. Welcome back Madonna!!
While I love “Hung Up” and have it on repeat, I’m on the fence about the rest of it. I’m on “I Love New York” and the lyrics are irritating me… but I’m loving the overall danciness of it. I’ll have to finish the whole thing before I make a final decision on whether or not it’s a yay or a nay.
…wait, the tide is turning… the song after “NY,” “Let It Be?” That’s a yay. Maybe things are looking up…
tick, tick, tock it’s a quarter to two.
love it!
This is her most perfect album she has ever released. There is not one bad song on it. My favorites are Jump, Sorry, and of course Hung Up. I love all the aural and lyrical references from Pet Shop Boys to her own stuff. Like it or Not is great in that it checks Papa Don’t Preach and Fever at the same time. I can’t wait for the tour next year.
They played the entire album at Velvet Nation in Washington, DC last Saturday night. The biggest reactions were to Jump, Sorry, and How High although anytime a COAD song came on the dance floor got packed.
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! Madonna is back. There is not a bad song on this album. It’s light, fun, bouncy and addictive. I love it. She’s still got it!!
Sorry my review is only for those spanish-spoken readers. Love the album by the way.
Confessions on a dance floor es el último disco de Madonna (sale el 15 de nov a la venta). No quiero abundar mucho en tema sin antes aclarar los siguientes puntos desde mi punto de vista:
Como fan de Madonna, este nuevo álbum si me gusto mucho, aunque acepto no es el mejor ni quedará en la historia entre sus mejores (Like a Virgin & Ray of Light). Las canciones son muy, muy buenas… ideales para oir en el coche, en el antro, pre-antro, pos cuando uno quiera bailar, y, después de dos años es un material mucho más alivianado, menos intenso, con más velocidad, sin baladas.
Debe/tiene que oírse de jalón por lo menos unas 3 veces, para captar la gran producción y mezcla de las 12 canciones que Jaques Lu Cont logró junto a Madonna a todo volumen.
La Señora se copia a sí misma en algunas canciones; logramos captar frases, samples, de canciones como Human Nature, Papa don´t Preach, Love Song, Holiday. Así como samples de ABBA, Jackson 5, y Donna Summer. También podemos ver claras influencias de Daft Punk, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys y hasta Kylie Minogue.
Sorry, Push y Isaac son hasta ahora mis canciones favoritas, así como el ya overplayed single Hung Up.
Aquí dos artículos interesantes uno de MTV, donde se analiza mucho el disco y el review de RollingStone donde el disco recibe 3 Estrellas y media (nada mal para una señora de 47 años vestida en leotardo rosa que nos pone a bailar sin parar).
All I can say is that I didn’t think it was possible for me to love Madonna any more than I already do, but after listening to COAD today, I am at an all new high!! This thing just gets you wanting to dance. I love Hung Up, of coure, but Sorry and Jump are right there for me. Screw the rap and r&b crap out right now and tune to this!!!
AMAZING!!! I love this record! The best album out there!
Amazing. Definitely the best album since “Ray of Light.” Really, really great.
Great CD… I can’t wait to get home so I can Stream it again!!! Is Tuesday ever going to come!!!! I love this new CD.. and only Madonna can buck the trend of Formulaic R&B one hardcore rapper + slutty sounding woman singing over a nursery rhyme sample=Radio Overkill. The saddest part about this is how much radio has shunned the Hung Up single… but this new disc is absolutely amazing.. one of her best!!
Holy mother of re-invention!!! The new album rocks!!! Talk about a return to form…Madge just hit it out of the park. If “The Power of Goodbye” and “Music” had a love child it would be COAD!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!
What a great CD. It puts you in a great mood!
It’s like I redeveloped a massive crush on Madonna.
Welcome back the queen of pop!
There should be words to descibe how phenomenal this album is. Far exceeds my expectations and blows Music and American Life out of the water. To an extent, it’s better than Ray of Light and shoudl be on every year end Top 10 list. Let’s have faith that the mass public and critics will listen to it with an open mind, they won’t be let down.
I am a longtime Madonna fan and I was dissapointed with American Life , but she has made an amazing return with “Confessions”. This music is in her blood and I went out Saturday night and Hung Up was played in every club out in Chicago! I will be a Virgin Records tommorrow to get my copy!!
Um, could her lyrics get worse??? The beats are great; but these are even worse attempts to “rhyme” than Americn Life.
I’m sad for her. Especially the reaction she should get to the lyrics for “I love NY.”
I too have been a long standing Madonna fan (since I was 5 years old and first heard “Material Girl”, and I too was disappointed with “American Life”. However, I have heard the full Confessions on a Dancefloor Album and absolutely love it! Madonna may have some absurd lyrics at times, but she always has (i.e. Lucky Star). Overall her song writing abilities have been WAYYYY underrated in the last 2 decades. I mean will people ever let her win? Sure Celine and Mariah have better voices but have they EVER written their own lyrics? Give Madge some props on this one people! People have criticized her previous albums for being too political, or too overtly sexual. So what was her response? To go back to the dance pop style that made her famous. And man oh man the queen of pop is back! Some of the songs on this album (i.e. “Sorry”, “Push”,and “Jump” are the catchiest songs she has sung in YEARS. They evoke memories of “Like a Prayer”,and “Holiday”, arguably 2 of the best songs in the history of popular music. And yes, on “How High” she does lament yet again about the so called trappings of fame and how it’s not all its cracked up to be, with with a beat and a hook like that WHO CARES!!! As for the first single, “Hung Up”, I love her throwback to the days of disco. There IS a reason that ABBA decided to let her use their music in this song-they respect her longevity in the business. Her goal with this album was to just make people dance, and get away from all of the problems in the world. All I know if my feet won’t stop tapping the entire time this album is playing. I think on November 15th, alot of other people will notice they are inexplicably tapping along and dancing in their charis to “Confession on a Dance Floor”
Holly Shit!!! Like A Prayer, Ray of Light, Confessions on A Dance Floor, wow I didn’t think she could give me any more.
I have been a fan of Madonna since she came out. She is an excellent artist yet why can’t anyone tell her the truth about her new song and video, confessions on a dance floor? It is NOT Madonna, she can do much better! It did not catch my teenagers attention or mine. I love You Madonna but you can do much better. The video does not grab or show wrath and power as you normally do. It does not say MILF although I can give you a few pointers. Eve<<<<<<- SMILES
It could not have been more perfect!
Hung Up — 4 out of 5 stars
I did not like it at first, it started to grow on me and as the days got closer and closer to the album’s release, I found myself completely taken over and infatuated with Hung Up — Hearing it from the album for the first time I now undersand why it’s the first song on the album and sets the mood for the rollercoaster of emotions yet to come.
Get Together — 4 out of 5 stars
I like this song, as I started my run I let myself be whisked away to places and emotions not often tapped on. I felt like I was 12 all over again and felt a rush of excitement and anticipation for the songs that I had yet to listen to.
Sorry — 5 out of 5 stars
I absolutely LOVE this song! Once again, it reminded me of classic Madonna. It made me think of Burning Up almost immediately!
Future Lovers – 2 out of 5 stars
I am disappointed by this track; I loved Mirwais production on Music and American Life so I guess my expectations were a bit warped. I think it’s the chorus that annoys me more than anything else. I like how it flows into I Love NY but I just don’t like the track itself.
I Love New York – 4 out of 5 stars
This song is good, it’s pop and upbeat. It has all the right ingredients for it to be a good pop song complete with throw-away lyrics. I wish the lyrics themselves were a bit better but I cannot say that it damages the song as a whole.
Let It Will Be – 5 out of 5 stars
Another bullseye from M! This song is phenomenal; I love the production and the lyrics, her singing and the emotions it conjured up in me when I first heard it. It has quickly become my favorite track in the entire album.
Forbidden Love – 3 out of 5 stars
I don’t like this song all that much, I like it a bit better than Future Lovers but I could easily do without it being on the album.
Jump – 5 out of 5 stars
Initially, I didn’t like this song as much as the others; it took a while for it to grow on me. The melody is undeniably catchy though and it eventually pulls you in and makes you want to JUMP along with her. This song is another one of those gems on this album that bring up reminiscing of previous times in my life. It’s very happy and exciting.
How High – 3 out of 5 stars
This song is ok, it sounds a bit like filler. I don’t like the excessive use of the vocoder or other voice effects and the lyrics are too much like Ray of Light; lot’s of introspection from M and that’s all good, it’s her album but for me I think I’ve heard it from her many times before and it’s getting somewhat repetitive.
Isaac – 5 out of 5 stars
I love this song! Perhaps it is because the endorphins from my run kicked in right before this song started; as soon as I heard the chanting at the beginning the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and my ears perked up. I felt my senses become tense with excitement and was immediately lost in the song while I was running. I really like the world music beat to it. I like the guitar throughout the song, I understand the lyrics and it is very touching that she is so concerned not so much with what religion we follow but with the fact that we should awaken to our own light and our own understanding of life and our purpose on earth. Regardless of what the song means to me or anyone else, and perhaps because the first time I heard it I was high on my own endorphins, I cannot help but love this song; absolutely brilliant!
Push – 4 out of 5 stars
This is a very good song, it’s a love song, it’s an emotional song, it’s a friendship song and it is soul baring. It can be a song dedicated to a parent, a mentor, an advisor, a sister, a brother, a lover etc. The sentiment in it is emotionally charging which makes it a good fit even though the song itself isn’t necessarily “dance”.
Like It or Not – 5 out of 5 stars
This was a great choice with which to close the album. It’s Madonna’s unapologetic “eff”OFF-FLICK THE MIDDLE FINGER punk gesture at all her critics who lauded her for her religious beliefs, political beliefs, moral beliefs, etc. As always, she cannot be contained or fit into any one mold and this song should put all those worries and comments that “Madonna is no longer relevant, has lost her touch or has nothing more to say” to rest.
What a lousy album Madonna has produced from the so-called panels of professional producers.The lyrics from “I love New York” was uggh….rubbish….her voice is basically drown in the music beat.Moreover her songs are gravitating towards the retro times.Yeah..she seems to be “re-inventing” her music, but sorry she’s definitely heading the wrong direction and you and I know that this type of music won’t cater to a large demographic group of people.After two weeks in top ten on Billboard 200 Albums, you’ve slip off 10.Sorry Madonna, I think you should stick to what u do best which is writing storybooks for children, being a good wife and mother than to shake booty and show some butt cheeks.It’s just morally degrading.
where r the lyrics? but w/ or w/o lyrics, i just love this song!!!!!!!
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My review of “Confessions On A Dance Floor” is hopefully better late than never.
This CD took a while to grow on me as I was (apparantely) one of the few who liked her previous CD “American Life”. COADF is, imo, a return to Madonna’s essential dance music days and she cleverly (as always) picked the right collaborators to sound fresh instead of just going the easy, “resurrect the 80’s sound” way like many artists are doing. The music here is really good and original.
My essential tracks:
Hung Up
Get Together
Sorry
Forbidden Love
Jump
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