With Madame X, the Queen of Pop delivers her most bizarre, challenging work yet. No stranger to crafting a new persona for each tour, Madonna’s latest creation feels a bit like cheating. Among other things, the eponymous Madame X, she tells us, can be a professor, prisoner, student, mother, child, teacher, nun, singer… the list […]
After almost 40 years at the top, Madonna is back to her best with a 14th studio album, Madame X. Boasting 15 tracks, Madame X is heavily influenced by Madonna’s experiences of living in Portuguese capital Lisbon. The ambitious project reunites her with longtime Madonna producer Mirwais and she also forges collaborations with the likes […]
★★★★☆ Als Madonna geen voetbalmoeder was geworden, zou haar nieuwe album een heel andere plaat zijn geworden. Omdat haar zoon David een voetbalopleiding wilde volgen, verhuisde de queen of pop met haar gezin naar Lissabon. Daar kende ze niemand en dus vroeg ze aan haar enige vriendin ter plaatse om haar aan Portugese kunstenaars voor […]
★★★★☆ Madame X is een enorm gevarieerde plaat, die na intensieve beluistering alleen maar boeiender wordt. Wie gaf er eigenlijk nog wat om Madonna na haar dramatisch slechte optreden in Tel Aviv tijdens de finale van het Eurovisie Songfestival? Wat kwam ze daar trouwens doen, met de van raptrio Migos geleende Quavo, een jongen die haar zoon […]
De zangeres maakte van haar veertiende studioalbum haar meest theatrale ooit.
Singer and songwriter Madonna’s albums from this century fall into two categories: the playing-it-safe ones and the “WTH is she thinking?” ones. You might be tempted to assume the mega-weird ones are better, but nothing is ever that straightforward in the Madonna universe. ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ was her totally safe execution of an […]
Haar afgang op het Eurovisiesongfestival diende welbeschouwd ter promotie van haar nieuwe album. ‘Madame X’ ligt er nu. Doet Madonna er op haar zestigste opnieuw toe? ‘Ik heb geen levende vrouwelijke rolmodellen. Niemand doet wat ik doe’, citeerde het blad Vogue Madonna (60), die sinds enkele jaren met haar kinderen in Lissabon woont, in zijn […]
Madonna was na het Eurovisie Songfestival, waar ze dit jaar optrad, weer even wereldnieuws.
Her latest is full of bold moves as well as moments that trigger that “worried about Madonna” feeling Madonna albums from this century fall into two categories: the playing-it-safe ones, and the “WTF is she thinking?” ones. You might be tempted to assume the mega-weird ones are better, but nothing is ever that straightforward in the […]
3 out of 5 stars Queen of Pop’s 14th record is such a cultural melange that it sometimes verges on collapsing in on itself. At other times, though, what is thrown at the wall sticks beautifully. Madonna’s new album is full of dance tracks. But if any one of them came on in a club, […]
Madonna – Madame X (★★★★) Game of Thrones mag dan wel sinds enkele weken afgelopen zijn, Queen of Pop Madonna probeert haar troon opnieuw te veroveren met haar nieuwste album. Madge heeft zeker en vast haar stempel gedrukt op de muziekscène en liveshows voor eeuwig veranderd. Ze heeft zichzelf sinds 1983 verschillende keren heruitgevonden en gooide het […]
The thing with Madonna is you can’t compare any of her releases. With each of her album cycles, she reinvents herself. Another time, another place. Another sound, another story. So when the Queen of Pop, 60, unveiled her latest alter ego, an eyepatch-wearing, self-described “secret agent” she dubbed Madame X, fans didn’t even bat an eye. The […]
Madonna’s Madame X is a prime example of an A-list artist who knows she can do what the heck she wants – and boy, she does. Her 14th studio album could just play it safe with the sort of infectious music that has taken dance floors by storm since the 1980s. It doesn’t, though this was implied by […]
(Live Nation/Interscope/Maverick) The lows, featuring white-saviour narratives and witless lyrics, are really low. But by embracing Latin pop, Madonna sounds more natural than she has in years We all get old, but never at the same age. Some of us are old when we’re children, bringing briefcases to school and talking to adults at family […]
While Bruce Springsteen gracefully accepts his senior citizenship on his new album, “Western Stars,” Madonna isn’t having any part of acting like an old lady on her “Madame X” LP, which also drops Friday. Sounding more energized and adventurous than she has in years, for the first album of her 60s, she’s still pushing herself to […]
Despite some lyrical missteps, she’s passionate and satisfyingly unconcerned with mass consumption on her best album since “Confessions on a Dance Floor.” Here’s a little-known pop-diva fact: Madonna used to have nightmares about Whitney Houston. In a 1995 “Primetime Live” interview, she described a dream she had in which she learned that her greatest ’80s chart rival’s then-latest […]
(Live Nation/Interscope/Maverick) UK release date: 14 June 2019 Madonna is back with her first new music in four years, the product of her lived experiences in her new home city, Lisbon, which she has described as “a melting pot of culture musically, from Angola to Guinea-Bissau to Spain to Brazil to France to Cape Verde”. In […]
★★★★ Madonna is the queen of reinvention and Madame X, her 14th studio album, marks another new brilliant, bonkers chapter in her 37-year career. The 13-track CD (15 on the deluxe version) was inspired by a recent spell living in Lisbon, where she clearly imbibed the Portuguese diaspora’s music. Madame X is stuffed with influences, with African […]
De nieuwe Madonna is gedurfd en ruimdenkend. Madame X plaatst persoonlijke thema’s in een veelkleurig, internationaal kader.
Bizarre or bold, delusional or avant-garde, this album is guaranteed to make you feel something – good or bad, or even both… Expecting the unexpected is the wrong way to go into ‘Madame X’, after all, this is Madonna. If anything, expecting the expected (and then some) would be a more appropriate way to digest what really […]
3 out of 5 stars Very few living artists compare to Madonna for cultural impact and musical legacy. Over almost four decades in the public eye she has caused controversy for merely existing. On Madame X, her 14th studio album, she uses various personas and borrows heavily from Latin hip hop, dancehall and reggaeton to […]
BOLD experimentation, controversial political comment and downright epic pop. That’s why Madonna’s highly anticipated new album marks yet another phase of her groundbreaking chart career. For the creator of some of the biggest pop choruses in history to throw caution to the wind and create some of her most daring music ever, at the age of 60, […]
Score: 4 out of 5 stars Bold, bizarre, self-referential and unlike anything Madonna has ever done before, ‘Madame X’ finds the star with a glint in her eye (the one without an eyepatch, that is) Madonna’s latest persona ‘Madame X’ borrows her name from the historical figure Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau: a socialite and occasional muse […]
