Madonna - MDNA

Overall later era Madonna has been my favorite incarnation of her. She's been on fire since "Ray Of Light" and "Beautiful Stranger". Her last album was a good collection but it paled in comparison to the last few before it. Her return is welcomed as she usually teaches all the current crop how to make a modern dance record. Here on MDNA the mighty one uses more of Robyn's styled electronic pop than she would probably care to admit. The album starts off with the second single and the supposed to be controversial "Girl Gone Wild" as it is now tied to a lawsuit from the idiot who created the DVD series of similar name. Let's focus on the song itself and what we have is an ok pop song that lacks a true hook. The chorus isn't great even if the verse sections of the song have a nice dance floor groove.

Where the album shows some superiority of the pop diva's on the charts at this point is track two "Gang Bang". This song has all the chops a great electronic song needs to be successful. Madonna shows Lady GaGa how to Madonna with the song "Turn Up The Radio" that makes GaGa's crap like "Judas" and "Mary The Night" sound like third rate wanna be's and does so with great ease. The first single on the album is about as immediately memorable that she's ever written. The song not only has all its parts in place she includes one of the most original and awesome new pop diva's there is on it, being Nicki Minaj.

Madonna keeps the streak going with "Some Girls" that again sounds better the louder you play it. This is a club hit for sure and only time will prove that statement correct. The diva queen brings a little old school herself into the mix with "Superstar" all the while sounding completely fresh and current. MDNA is not only a brilliant record in 2012 it's one of Madonna's best and most complete albums to date. She just about hits a home-run on every track up until track eleven. Of course she drops a few duds like "Masterpiece" and she returns to her "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" era with "Falling Free" not my favorite song once again. It's as if she just could decide which songs to eliminate and chose not to making the album sixteen tracks when it should have been about twelve.

The song all the kids will want to download on I-tunes "I Fucked Up" is just ok with a good chorus. The albums last two tracks are good and bad with "B-Day Song" being the good and "Best Friend" being the bad. It's a little disappointing that album falls off the rails in back end to a point of near disaster. Madonna should have some big hits from this album and a few more dance chart hits as well but that doesn't excuse the crap she allowed on the back end of this record.