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| 4.5 superb | caiocoletti | January 15th 11 |
'American Life' is a pop revolution in concept, but it works better if you don't take it THAT seriously. In the end, it's a just a collection of killer pop tracks, with the usual Madonna know-how. Personal favorites: Hollywood, Love Profusion, Nothing Fails, Mother and Father.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | January 5th 23 |
Suburbian soccer mom: the album. Now I cannot be 'objective' with this, having been raised to it, but I have to say nostalgia does not save many of its tracks. The issue is mostly pacing. The album starts with 3 of its best, catchiest tracks in the style of its perhaps somewhat outdated, but still super fun and very much my jam brand of pop full of triangle synths and electronic drums. All three bangers, although 3 perhaps less so. Then we have a long spell of tracks that, albeit not bad per se, are on an ever downward trend in energy. 5 is fun in that it outdated pretty badly, but by 8 we are at the mellowest ballad and it's frankly downhill with my rating. The album finally goes back to more of a beat, more catchiness, and more synths on 9 which feels like a deliverance but is also fun in its own right, before the album throws the banger 10 at us. Would have been a good conclusion, but it felt obliged to also give us 11, which whilst a fun calmer song is not as much of a finale as 10 would've been. Playlist album for sure. 3.3
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| 3.5 great | Anothertwo | June 18th 17 |
A fun effort full of sparse electronica and lyrics that ream modern American life and ideals. Her criticism of beauty-obsessed culture would sound a lot more convincing if her career hadn't hinged on sensationalist showing of skin since Record No. 2, but most of her complaints are valid. At times, the record sounds like a precursor to M.I.A.; elsewhere, it sounds like a stripped-down "Music." It's not perfect, but it's more of a risk than her prior few albums, and that is worth applauding. At least it's different, another color Madonna the Chameleon effortlessly morphs into.
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| 2.0 poor | MT76 | August 21st 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Yris | July 31st 23 |
| 3.0 good | MvdW | February 15th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | El Olam | December 4th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Get Low | February 1st 22 |
| 3.5 great | Adol | October 22nd 21 |
| 2.5 average | dukyka | March 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Zeuzo | January 21st 21 |
| 3.5 great | M8SZA | June 26th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | edirp | February 24th 20 |
| 2.5 average | xgausez | October 21st 19 |
| 2.5 average | kodama | October 15th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | disguy | August 20th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | igi78 | July 11th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Ewgads | March 26th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Kb667 | December 14th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Bkb0123 | December 14th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | December 2nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | THFYH | November 7th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | November 26th 16 |
| 3.0 good | loulou | October 12th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | artyzmu | September 18th 16 |
| 3.0 good | stromz | August 8th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Jakor | July 5th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | rasi | November 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | MOZTR | November 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | shaunly | June 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dylan | March 16th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Loru | March 3rd 15 |
| 3.5 great | HipPop | January 6th 15 |
| 3.0 good | kaki | June 12th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Amebix | May 15th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Luk31 | December 30th 13 |
| 3.5 great | mbsmith | September 18th 13 |
| 3.5 great | cor | July 9th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Iliana | October 12th 12 |
| 2.5 average | t67 | September 20th 12 |
| 2.5 average | mifzal | May 27th 12 |
| 3.0 good | ZedO | May 16th 12 |
| 3.5 great | jrcven | March 24th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | Rudy K. EMERITUS | November 22nd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Saulo | October 23rd 11 |
| 1.0 awful | Skipdog | September 21st 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | Sparkle | February 22nd 11 |
| 1.0 awful | qwe3 | June 14th 10 |
| 3.5 great | fjrz91 | March 12th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | theoedd | December 23rd 09 |
| 4.5 superb | miky182 | November 8th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | mvdu | June 6th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Taylor | December 14th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yellow | June 30th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | BSX | February 6th 08 |
| 4.5 superb | Steeed | January 18th 08 |
| 2.0 poor | Holoh | January 6th 08 |
| 3.5 great | iamsb | January 4th 08 |
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