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Music

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Album Description

Japanese Limited Edition reissue of the Queen Of Pop's #1 2000 album. Includes two bonus tracks, American Pie (from the motion picture The Next Best Thing), and Cyberragga, both of which were not on the domestic release. Features the worldwide #1 title track, along with the Top 10 single Don't Tell Me and the #1 club track What It Feels Like For A Girl, which had a controverisal music video that was banned by MTV. Warner Bros

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

Mama Madonna returned from the spiritual world and got her groove thing goin' once again for Music. Flanked by Ray of Light's tried-and-true producer William Orbit and a French newcomer, DJ and producer Mirwais, Madonna pours her heart out on the dancefloor, combining self-revealing lyrics with retro-electro beats. Reinventing herself as an urban cowgirl pimpette, Madonna once again sets the standard for mainstream pop, which will probably only be topped by her next release. --Beth Massa

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Madonna's never really been a musical trendsetter; she's a trend champion. She's always felt an affinity with underground culture, but not until her soul-searching trip-hop breakthrough Ray of Light had this love been the sole mainstay of her albums. On Music, she's inducted the cool funk of Parisian electro-pop as the latest addition to her musical court, abruptly closing the chapter of the movement's niche status. Here, French DJ Mirwais Ahmadzai takes on the majority of production credit, with Light's William Orbit billed on two tracks; the result is a collection of songs that often links arm-in-arm with Franco-techno groups ranging from Daft Punk to Air.

Madonna relinquished unprecedented production control on Ray of Light, which resulted in the best album of her career. On Music, she does the same, dividing the CD into three distinct voices. Orbit's train-track-clacking drum loops churning under citrusy trance ("Runaway Lover" and "Amazing") shimmer for the headphone set. When Ahmadzai diverts from his pure-play French-style club burners ("Impressive Instant" and the title track), he employs several temporarily fashionable gimmicks such as vocoder effects ("Nobody's Perfect") and spacious keyboard work combined with acoustic guitar ("I Deserve It"). Lyrically, Madonna's introspection and love songs are some of her most intimate. Given the surrounding context of the album, "I Deserve It" is an outright folk song, and on "Don't Tell Me," she forgoes precisely enunciated singing for the aching plead of an emotive R&B crooner. For a second time, instead of exploiting an of-the-moment subgenre, she immortalizes it. And in doing so, she simultaneously draws massive mainstream attention to a deserving class of dance music and raises the bar for Top 40 pop. --Beth Massa

 

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Customer Reviews

J. O'steen Said: Perfection ( Aug. 26th 2010 )

I feel this is one of her most cohesive and brilliant albums. Many seem to feel let down after Ray of Light. I don't get that. Ray of Light is a one of a kind. But Music, the album, is just stunning to me. Different genres of music. Just the right amount of followup with electronica and loved the guitar in it. If you don't like electronica, don't buy this, because it is interspersed throughout. Her vocals are manipulated on a few songs, but it works. I used to think I liked American Life better than Music, but I've changed my mind as time has gone by. Where she went wrong with American Life is the rapping she added in some songs. So contrived and not her. I still like the rawness and emotional vulnerability of American Life a lot, but Music is a much better album overall.

Amanda L. Davis Said: Not too Much Electronica but Just Enough ( Jul. 7th 2010 )

I'm not normally a huge electronica fan, but I did like this CD. It has just enough of that kind of sound to make the music interesting and unlike that normally played on pop radio, but the songs aren't too weird either. I really liked all of them.

hungup555 Said: Her 8th album. ( Apr. 4th 2010 )

I don't know what to say about Music, except that it's really good. To be honest, I think she made the right decision in going to Evita and getting that voice training. She had a good voice before (still does), but with her work on Ray of Light, she just got better. My most favorite tracks on this album are Music, Runaway Lover, Nobody's Perfect, Don't Tell Me, What It Feels Like For A Girl (mostly the remixes), Paradise (Not For Me), and Gone.


Andre S. Grindle Said: Music Makes The People Come Together ( Mar. 26th 2010 )

It seems strange to say this but the the title track of this album is.....one TERRIFIC SONG! It's a great pop/funk-hip-hop type tune musically and one of the best produced of it's kind in that era but with a hook like "music makes the people come together" (plus the video-you remember) gives you to realize that Madonna hasn't lost her understanding of the music and most importantly the OVERRIDING MESSAGE behind funk since her days working with Nile Rodgers and her early aquintainship with David Byrne. This album had the odd place of following up Ray of Light which was where Madonna went from being primarily a singles act capable of delivering an occasional good album to a critics darling and a wizard in the 90's AOR electronica field. William Orbit again produces but when you here the title track you realize your getting something very different. Hi NRG type songs such as "Impressive Instant" and the elongated psychedelisized electronica of "Paradise (Not For Me)" look strongly to the flavors of the previous album. At the same time nothing about this is AOR-it's actually a more traditional Madonna album with a couple hit singles and other things. Lucky for her the "other things" are NOT filler. There's a lose concept running throughout this album. On almost alternative countryish numbers such as "I Deserve It","Amazing" and "Gone" we suddenly find Madonna as something of a confessional singer-songwriter with a lot of world weariness and perhaps it would seem with the songs mildly downbeat nature,aggresive acoustic guitars and such her blockbuster Maverick singing Alanis Morrisette's own variety of music had rubbed off on the labels boss a little as these songs cut back a lot on Madonna's trademark stylized image. She would go even further down this road on the less popular follow up release American Life. "What It Feels Like For A Girl" extends on the funk atmosphere again only on this occasion slickly done and with some nice touches of 70's sounding electric clavinet type keyboards. The other hit "Don't Tell Me" actually is a glue that mixes both the funky dance music and the singer-songwriter styles on this album with a bit of a stop-n-start British 2 step beat that was really popular at that time. Musically this album is assembled with a lot of abrupt musical jump cuts and doesn't flow together to the degree her previous release did. But much like David Bowie before her Madonna is a chameleon by nature and from her it's always best to expect the unexpected.

Chad DeFeo Said: Madonna ... MUSIC (2000) ( Oct. 5th 2009 )

In 2000, Madonna released her twelfth album entitled, MUSIC. While the Techno sound remains, this album is very different from RAY OF LIGHT, featuring a Futuristic Techno Dance sound for the new millennium. With this album, Madonna, once again, proves to us fans that she truly is the Queen.

MUSIC
The album's first single. This track is another one of Madonna's most energetic songs. How can anyone resist the urge to hit the dance floor when this song is being played? I know I can't.

IMPRESSIVE INSTANT
This song is one hell of a tune. I really wish it would have been released as a single. I think it could have been a huge hite.

RUNAWAY LOVER
Awesome song. Sounds very reminiscent of Madonna's RAY OF LIGHT era.

I DESERVE IT
Great song.

AMAZING
Another awesome song, sounding very reminiscent of Madonna's RAY OF LIGHT era.

NOBODY'S PERFECT
Great song.

DON'T TELL ME
The album's second single. I seriously love this song. It is another one of Madonna's very best songs.

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL
The album's third & final single. This is a great song, with a great message. The music video for this song was Madonna's second music video to completely banned from MTV & VH1. Only this time, it was due to the music video's violent nature.

PARADISE (NOT FOR ME)
Great.

GONE
Great sng.

This is another one of Madonna's greatest pieces of work. This album is a true work of art, and all Madonna fans should already have this album. Just remember that, "...Music makes the people come together. Music makes the bourgoisie and the rebel..."