 | Madonna Ray Of Light
4.0
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| Ranking: #161 for 1998 | |
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | April 15th 22 |
Madonna's Live Laugh Love album. She largely abandons pop grooves to go into softer, contemplative music. Frankly the best aspect of this is the flutes and other instruments that are added here and there, and this new style kidna works on the flagship track 9, but for the most part it is either cringe (8), offensively boring and corny (11,13 which definitely bumped the album down a point), or more generally just entirely forgettable. Some of the tracks do have beats - it is the only saving grace on 2, 3 is an upper okay funky track with a nice vintage feel, 5 goes into techno almost which has the merit of waking you up a little bit but that's about its main appeal despite a few good ideas here and there, and although not a jam and ending on a fadeout, 6 is quite funky too. 7 is kinda 5 but more relaxed, and marks the start of a long, long, way too long stretch of low blood pressure music for moms who are suddenly getting deep into yoga. I guess 10 kinda works too after 9. Way too long, lots of fadeouts, only one track that I kinda want to jam again (9), why this album is her top rated one here at a tie is beyond me. 3.1
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| 3.0 good | zaruyache | December 13th 15 |
Aesthetically pleasing downtempo pop, but not much more than that. The album's much too long and it never really goes anywhere particularly interesting. There are a few standout tracks here and there, but for downtempo this is, imo, rather lackluster. It all sort of just blends together into this mishmash of chill Madonna toonage that never tries (or succeeds) to distinguish itself from anything else.
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