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Does Madame X era deserve some acclaim?

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Videos

Without any doubt, Madonna served some of the best videos this year. VMAs didn't even nominate God Control for Video for Good category. MTV keeps being shit and turning its back to legendary artists who still got it. jj3  At least Billboard put Dark Ballet video  on some list. It would be a crime to ignore Medellin and God Control, and then include some other inferior videos. 

 

Album

In general, I don't expect it to appear on lists of the best albums, because it isn't great. However, it has a chance to appear on lists of the best pop albums, just because the competition isn't really big.

 

Singles

I am not biased, but Medellin and Crave are some of the better singles this year. They deserve praise. um2 

 

Thoughts? 

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Medellin and God Control Videos are Amazing 

and she looks Amazing in the Crave Video as Well 

 

Visuals were pretty good.

also the pre Album Instagram teaser Visuals slayed

 

and the Madame x Theme Is great

wish we would get more Videos like medellin connecting to the Album Titel 

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She deserves some praise for a couple of the videos of this era... especially considering her poor music video output over the last few albums. But as for the album itself... no. The album had a strong theme, however that kinda fizzled after the first single. The album itself is rather patchy and over-produced... which is strange as several of the songs sound so unfinished and incomplete. The lack of any real vocals on the album is also a downer... far too much autotune/vocoder. It is not an album that will stand the test of time.

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• Medellin, God Control, and Dark Ballet are some of the best music videos she’s put out since like the late 90s

• for ONCE her team seemed to have a semi-competent hype/release plan. Y’all are forgetting how amazing it was when the dropped on insta out of nowhere or when that first “welcome to the world of Madame X” teaser dropped

• the mysterious world traveler theme could’ve been played a bit more cohesively sure but still a really cool concept and nicely builds on the world music vibes she’s been building in her last few tours (Isaac in Confessions, Gogol Bordello in S&S, Kalakan trio in MDNA, Spanish section in RHT)

• she did like 8 million press interviews which was fun to see

• some of the best overall looks since like... BS era honestly

• she hasn’t been this obviously invested in and dripping with passion for a project since COADF

• in concept the theatre residency tour is such a cool idea and despite a bumpy start too soon to tell how it plays off (I’ll let y’all know how tonight goes)

 

Ya the album continued the overbloating trend started with MDNA and could have used a bit more editorial clarity and focus but overall I would at least rank this as an above average era even if the album is not everyone’s cup of tea mad3

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