The first modern pop star Madonna turned herself into a global superstar with sheer determination and a brilliant grasp of pop culture. Good job the album is like a guided to tour to all that’s great about pop in 2015 then… It seemsed like even Madonna was going to have a late career flop album with even radio ignoring her and would have to rely on greatest hits and fleshy bits to pad out the tail end of her sojourn. It’s a theme that carries her 13th album that has had an awkward start to life being after being leaked all over the internet and roundly ignored in the iTunes presales. Even if its celebrating the matador – that cruelest of sports – her new look has the concrete cool of someone who is plugged to the haywire livewire of the fashion world. If nothing, pop is about breaking conventions and if people want to sell sex at any age then that’s cool with us.
Unlike the Daily Mail we have no problem with her flaunting her fleshiness at 56- infact that’s a cool thing. Instead of skulking in a corner her new album like the thirty seconds after capegate sees her dusting herself down and coming back fighting with a collection of songs that nearly always sets the pace instead of following and like all great pop stars from the Beatles to Bowie she has that knack of taking from the cutting edge and making it her own and placing it into the mainstream on a record that combines the very remote edges of the modern dance with the madness of Atari Teenage Riot and the big plonky pop ballads of Elton John…schizophrenic? – yes! Good job that she is the most self aware pop star ever.
Or was the fact that everyone wanted to be Madonna so badly that the real Queen of Pop was now having to play catch up? The Brits appearance went from disaster to triumph in one giddy onstage trip and capegate may be the saviour of a career that was starting to f-f-f-fade. the cover hints at sado masochism and the the schizo album does naval gazing and raunchy sex back to back. Suddenly in thirty seconds Madonna went from veteran pop star with a 13th album to flog at the tail end of her career to front page fodder and the hottest news on the block with THAT FALL. The album went off to a shaky start- leaked on the net and the first track dive bombing on iTunes but it is, perhaps, almost her greatest work with moments of sheer pop genius and killer grooves.Īnd it took that stumble at the Brits to wake everyone up. Not boring smelly serious stuff but an innovative popaholic. It feels like a lot more- she has been around forever- as long as we have in our various ways- a permanent fixture for our generation and part of the pop wallpaper. Skip the ballads for many moments of dislocated dark pop groove genius for what could be her best album yet…
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