We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
The album offers a homey, bittersweet charm largely unique to the troubadour’s legendary catalog.
Dim the lights, pump up the volume, and join us as we imagine a future where we won’t be dancing on our own.
The singer addresses a generation resistant to defining itself against a backdrop of perpetual catastrophe.
The album advances the thesis that the nature of modern life is inherently carceral.
The album represents an evolution from trap easy-listening to big-canvas rap artistry.
The album demonstrates the tangled multi-dimensionality of both the singer’s own psyche and the act of sex itself.
That the singer continues to mine the same territory, both musically and conceptually, suggests the empress truly has no clothes.
The album solidifies the band as the boldest purveyors of something resembling what we used to call rock.
The house-inflected dance-pop tune finds the two overzealous vocalists duking it out to see who can outsing the other.
The album speaks to our current circumstances without being exclusively tethered to them.
The singles aims for euphoric, “Teenage Dream”-style heights but doesn’t quite reach them.
The songs on the album may be brief, but they more than make up for it with depth.
These songs comprise a guide for the singer-songwriter’s signature brand of rock and mastery of poetic memoir.
The album is a confident solo debut that suggests the singer has valences she’s just beginning to explore.
Overflowing with adventurous new ideas, the album opens up infinite new paths for the group to follow going forward.
We take a look back and reflect on the music that defined one of the most definable of decades.
The singer stretches her talents in adventurous new directions throughout the album.
We take a look back and reflect on the music that defined one of the most definable of decades.
The musician’s impeccable melodic instincts justify the album’s largely featherweight tone.
The purpose behind the album is unmistakably sincere, but the singer isn’t able to make the songs much his own.