Madonna's "Rebel Heart" Track Reviews - Bitch I'm Madonna

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(You're gonna love this)

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(You can't touch this)

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(Cause I'm a bad bitch)

The last of the six new tracks from Madonna's Rebel Heart album was co-written and produced by deejay/producer Diplo and features the return of Nicki Minaj providing a rap interlude on the tune. This one's similar in scope to the MDNA track, I Don't Give a F***, which also featured Minaj, and is even more frenzied than their prior collaboration.  Bitch I'm Madonna is a lighthearted and fun track, and it sounds like they all had a good time making it.  It's not my favorite of the new tracks, but it does remain in the brain for awhile after a listen and it does have a great hook, too! 

If you'd like to check out Illuminati or any of the other tunes on Rebel Heart, pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

Be sure to check out my reviews of the first five tracks of Madonna's new Rebel Heart...

Living for Love

Devil Pray

Ghosttown

Unapologetic Bitch

Illuminati

Madonna's "Rebel Heart" Track Reviews - Illuminati

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Illuminati

The Illuminati conspiracy is a conspiracy theory which holds that there is a "global elite" society that is either in control of the world or is seeking to take control of the world. As with most conspiracy theories, beliefs regarding the Illuminati conspiracy vary widely. As a result, it is virtually impossible to give a synopsis of the Illuminati conspiracy. Popularized in recent books and movies, the Illuminati conspiracy has definitely reached "cult fiction" status.

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In this, the sixth new track off Madonna's Rebel Heart album, the singer tackles the age-old conspiracy of a secret ruling class, proclaiming its existence, but that no major players within today's pop culture are a part of it...

It's not Jay Z and Beyoncé

It's not Nickii or Lil Wayne

It's not Oprah and Obama

The Pope or Rihanna

Queen Elizabeth or Kanye

It's not pentagrams or witchcraft

It's not trying to s-stack for cash

Black magic or Gaga

Gucci or Prada

Riding on a golden cat

...but it's out there somewhere...

The all-seeing eye is watching tonight

That's what it is

Truth and Light

The all-seeing eye is watching tonight

Nothing to hide

Secrets inside

It's like everybody in this party, shining like Illuminati

Musically, this tune is vintage Madonna, electronica-dance style.  It may not turn out to be a chart-topper, but it just might get some play on dance floors with its nice, thumpy, bass-y dance jam.  If you'd like to check out Illuminati or any of the other tunes on Rebel Heart, pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

Be sure to check out my reviews of the first four tracks of Madonna's new Rebel Heart...

Living for Love

Devil Pray

Ghosttown

Unapologetic Bitch

Madonna's "Rebel Heart" Track Reviews - Unapologetic Bitch

It might sound like I'm an unapologetic bitch
But sometime you know I gotta call it like it is
It might sound like I'm an unapologetic bitch
But sometime you know I gotta call it like it is
You know you never really knew how much you loved me, 'till you lost me
Did you?
You know you never really knew how much your selfish bullshit cost me?
Oh, f**k you
It might sound like I'm an
It might sound like I'm an

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Ah, pushing new musical envelopes still!  Yes, Madonna's new stuff is surely her best in a long, long time.  Not that I'm diminishing anything she's done in recent years, but this new set of six songs is super-stellar and is quite possibly her most innovative since the continuous neo-disco classic Confessions on a Dance Floor.  The 4th track on Rebel Heart hearkens classic dancehall music.  That is, it's got a slow, infectious steady sort of reggae beat, and Madge's vocals blend perfectly with the music.  With all of these great songs, it's hard to pick a favorite, but this one makes me shake mah booty, lol.  If you'd like to pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

...and be sure to check out my reviews of the first three tracks of Madonna's new Rebel Heart...

Living for Love

Devil Pray

Ghosttown

Madonna's "Rebel Heart" Track Reviews - Ghosttown

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Ghosttown is one BIG song!  Though I always prefer uptempo songs, every once in awhile a ballad really gets to me, and such is the case with this one.  The first few times I listened to it, I kept thinking to myself that it sounds like someone else's song, not a Madonna tune...and it still does.  I could surely hear Celine, P!nk, Gloria Estefan, or even Gaga doing this power ballad...and Madge nails it, again in a big way.  This one's as dramatic as a song gets and it's yet another good sign that Ms. M is pushing envelopes again, breaking new ground and finding even newer ways to reinvent herself.  It's the one song off the newly released tracks that was not leaked beforehand, and it's a gem!  

If you'd like to pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

Be sure to check out my reviews of the first two tracks of Madonna's new Rebel Heart...

Living for Love

Devil Pray

Madonna's "Rebel Heart" Track Reviews - Devil Pray

Take my sins and wash them away

Teach me how to pray

I’ve been stranded here in the dark

Take these walls away

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The second track off of Madonna's new Rebel Heart album is both an acoustic and a religiously-themed track, two things which Madonna fans have become used to over the years (see I'm a Sinner, Miles Away, Nothing Fails, etc.).  These two aspects of Madonna music have never really boded well on the charts (withh the exception of Like a Prayer, of course, and that was many moons ago!), and this one probably won't either.  

That being said, Devil Pray is a pretty good song, and serves as yet another signal that Ms. M will be making a big splash onto the music scene once again.  This one picks up where I'm a Sinner left off. On that track, our heroine was reveling in her sins, (I'm a sinner, I like it that way...), though towards the end she calls upon the saints to wash them away.  In the same vein, this one speaks to the darker side of life, only in a more serious tone...

And we can do drugs
And we can smoke weed
And we can drink whiskey

Yeah we can get high
And we can get stoned

And we can sniff glue
And we can do E
And we can drop acid
Forever been lost with no way home

Yeah, the aim of the track is to make the Devil pray, pray to keep her upon the path of sin, as she once again calls upon the holy to help her and set her back upon the right path.

 Mother Mary, can you help me?

Cuz I’m gone astray

All the angels that were around me

Have all flown away

The ground beneath my feet’s getting warmer

Lucifer is near

Holding on, but I’m getting weaker

Watch me disappear

Ooh ooh ooh sing hallelujah

Ooh ooh ooh save my soul

Ooh ooh ooh the devil was here to fool ya

Until my story’s told

Oh those sing hallelujah's!  I always love that.  Devil Pray probably won't make much of a splash on any type of chart, but it's got a great, steady rhythm and it's surely good enough by far to fall into the realm of songs to remember for Madonna fans everywhere.  Take a listen...

If you'd like to pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

Be sure to check out my review of the first track on Rebel Heart, Living for Love, right here.

Merry Christmas from Madonna, Drops Six New Songs from Rebel Heart

In case you've been living away from the Internet today, you might have missed that at midnight last night, Madonna dropped six tracks off of her upcoming album, Rebel Heart.  The drop was made at midnight last night and I was as surprised and joyful as I could be, quickly running to iTunes to pre-order the album so I could download the finished tracks.  

The singer made the six tracks available out of frustration by the many leaks that have plagued her most recent work.  She released a statement that explains it all...

"I was hoping to release my new single 'Living for Love' on Valentine's Day with the rest of the album coming in the spring.  I would prefer my fans to hear completed versions of some of the songs instead of the incomplete tracks that are circulating. Please consider these six songs as an early Christmas gift." (Rolling Stone)

Sista is pissed!  Lucky for us, though, we get an early taste of what's to come in Rebel Heart, and so far me likey!  Stay tuned for my own track by track reviews, and if you'd like to pre-purchase the album and get the new tracks, click on the link below.

Song of the Day - Dangerous - David Guetta, featuring Sam Martin

David Guetta makes a return to the music scene with the release of his sixth studio album, Listen, which is now available on iTunes.  Though the album was released just three days ago, this song, featuring Sam Martin on vocals, is its fifth single and I'm sorry to say that I am not impressed with any of the songs I've heard thus far.  The new stuff signals a change in Guetta's funky dance stylings that's a far cry from his last two smash albums, 2011's Nothing But the Beat and his previous breakthrough smash, One Love.

Guetta singlehandedly became the first of a new type of musical artist, the disc jockey/producer, who would consistently collaborate with the days biggest stars and make songs that would hit the mainstream big time.  Tunes such as Titanium with Sia, One Love featuring Estelle, Turn Me On with Nicki Minaj, Sexy Bitch with Akon and so many others were all monster hits that were heard all the time on dance floors and radio stations around the world.

Like all musical acts, though, David Guetta's style has changed and to me it's no longer got that mainstream dance feel to it that I love so much.  The new stuff has got a more hardcore, rockish edge to it, which is not normally my style. That's not to say I won't download the entire album.  There are other tracks that look promising, including this one and others that feature stars such as Emile Sandé, Nico and Vance, John Legend, Nicki Minaj once again, as well as other artists who may or may not mesh well with the deejay/producer's new style.  We shall see...

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Song of the Day - 7/11 - Beyoncé

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you most likely have heard that Beyoncé dropped two brand new songs this week from her upcoming Platinum Box Set and on Friday night she unleashed another surprise in the form of a purposely amateurish video for one of the songs, 7/11.  The vid, featuring a lot of wiggling and jiggling, has already racked up the hits on YouTube, with more than 12 million page views to date.  As for the song, I say meh.

I've always had a sort of love/hate relationship with Beyoncé.  I compare her to a modern day Diana Ross, having gotten her licks with a girl group before breaking out in a big way all on her own, but I always felt that she did it all and became a superstar way too fast.  I understand that it's just the times, and in an age of oh-so-instant movement from artist to listener, people take such leaps into the stratosphere without really having to do as much as they had to do back in the day.  Okay!

As with most people, I've enjoyed Bey's music, both with Destiny's Child and as a solo artist, and I do think she makes a pretty good role model as far as someone in her stature.  That being said, I hearken back to my buddy Rich, who gave me pause to think about the music.  He recently asked me what I liked about her Get Me Bodied one day when it came on the radio in the car.

I don't get it.  It's not really a dance song.  How do you dance to that?  

I saw his point.  When you actually listen to the song, which I still love, you can hear how it's just kind of all over the place musically, and as for the vocals, it's just Bey being a sassy diva...drop drop to yo' knees, arch your back girl...

Keeping that in mind, I was never a huge fan of her surprise eponymous marketing ploy that was her last album.  With the exception of maybe three or four songs, the rest of that album is kind of how Rich described that song I love, only they're even more-so full of dissonant music set to equally frenzied lyrics.  And so it is with 7/11.  Sure, Miss B is the Thang these days and everything she does seems to get spun off in nothing but positivity even when it's not really so original or even good.  So it is with this one.  I actually like the other one she released this week, Ring Off, much better.

So check it out for yourself if you're a Beyoncé fan, and let me know if you find a quality in it that I just don't see.  Perhaps I'm just too much of a non-conformist.