Photograph: David McGough/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Proof that Madonna can still do classically simple pop singles nearly four decades into her career.
Cigarette lighters in the air are optional. The atmospheric verses to this mid-90s ballad look towards Madonna’s Ray of Light masterpieces. Her delivery suggests she’ll save herself.īefore being signed, Madonna was a New York no-waver (and Thurston Moore’s neighbour). Over propulsive early-90s electronica, Madonna tells us she’s “drowning/Baby, throw out your rope”. “Drunk by six” and smoked too many cigarettes? Madonna’s singing your song, a well-honed, slow piece of pop theatre. Widescreen, affecting nostalgia from the soundtrack to the underrated women’s baseball film, A League of Their Own. Reached No 4 in Madonna’s chart-gobbling summer of 1985.Ī quiet, gospel-dazzled jewel from American Life, written by Guy Sigsworth (Seal, Björk, Goldie) and Welsh singer-songwriter Jem.Ī simple meditation on LA’s golden district, anchored on a fantastic Roland bassline and a reflective sun-dappled guitar. The quaking desperation in her vocal stays the right side of emotional.Īn awkward, pleasingly punky track for the Matthew Modine wrestling film Vision Quest. Madonna’s best performance in Evita, in the 1996 film’s brand new Webber-and-Rice composition. Photograph: Richard Young/REX/Shutterstock Unforgivable spelling too.Ī slighter facsimile of the imperial Into the Groove, protesting too much about its abilities to coax out the noise police. This 2012 candy-pop chorus really fizzes, but Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.’s cheerleading whoops, and their raps, quickly dissolve.
Still going “hard or we go home” after 33 years, Madonna employs perky youthful melodies here. Oddly sexless Sex-era single, not helped by awkward synthesised sighs, and a slapdash direction to “put your hands all over my body”.Īn understandable if curt greeting.
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Another Suitcase in Another Hall (1996)Įva Perón throws her husband’s mistress out on the streets, and Madonna’s wavering vocal goes full collywobbles. Photograph: A Unimedia International/REX/ShutterstockĪ Paul Oakenfold EDM co-write for her second Best Of with shadows of her old selves, but more light is required.Ħ9. Madonna in the video for Like a Prayer, 1989. This duet with Britney Spears is all obvious raunch, without solid roots. Madonna is usually better when she’s striding alone.
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Unnecessary trance-era update of pop’s most achingly simple song about sex, with electronics that diffuse any thrill. The filter sweeps used brilliantly throughout Confessions on a Dancefloor don’t sparkle here. There have been better ideas.Ī Benny Benassi-assisted club banger, with a terrible title. “Bring ya knife into a gunfight,” she adds. Over an oddly laboured beat, we’re told her body’s “fully loaded”. Instead, its cut-up electronics sounded half-dead.
This 2003 Bond theme aimed for a sound of icy, imperial tyranny. Madonna inhabiting a white male American classic was a great idea on paper. “Save yourself/Don’t rely on anyone else” goes the planet-rescuing advice. A corny charity co-write with Pharrell Williams for Live Earth.
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