Madonna: Rebel Heart (Interscope) Verdict: No stumbles ★★★★★ 4/5 The omens for Madonna’s first album in three years have not
Four Stars When it comes to Madonna, you just never know. The line between inspiration and cold calculation is blurred
Discussing Madonna around a dinner table will likely garner her some ridicule. “Relevant” seems to be the last compliment people
Three stars out of four Madonna’s 12 previous albums — Like a Virgin, Bedtime Stories and her relatively epic Confessions
Madonna will try anything once. Including vulnerability, humility, sincerity and — believe it or not — acting her age.
3,5 start out of 5: Madonna gets down with Kanye, Avicii and more on a supercatchy, sexed-up album For many
It’s been years since Madonna had released some new material, which would be good enough to please both critics and
Redelijke popplaat ★★★★★ 3/5 Voor wie nog twijfelde: die achterwaartse val van Madonna, van een trappetje tijdens haar optreden op
Only Madonna could turn an album that leaked three months before its release date into an event. Rebel Heart, her
When Madonna sings on the title track of her latest album, Rebel Heart (***1/2 out of four; out March 10), that she
After attending a recent playback, Amy Pettifer gives her initial impressions of Madonna’s latest musical offering; ballads, EDM and all.
The internet is a funny place – so full of porn and hate, but so often as obsessed with propriety as a Victorian maiden aunt. Recently, it decided that women of 56 can’t fall over; online wags reminding them that walking up stairs in capes is solely the preserve of youth.
Madonna’s influence on modern pop culture is something that can never be taken away from her. For over 30 years
Madonna is in her renowned essence on her 13th studio album entitled Rebel Heart. Three years ago, the album, MDNA, garnered the hit, “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the pop anthem featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. Nevertheless, this time, the queen is back to cause havoc.
Rebel Heart pairs classic songwriting and contemporary adventure in Madonna’s least desperate album in years, says Neil McCormick. “Who do you
★★★★★ 4/5 The lyrics mine familiar tropes of sex, dance, religion and celebrity but the music pushes out from her
Even after more than three decades in the game, Madonna is still full of surprises. In the early hours of
The early ’80s Madonna bopping around in her Lucky Star video single-handedly fueled my lifelong fixations on the artist and pop
She’s back. After a series of so-so albums for the past decade, Madonna has released another piece of evidence in testimony of her status as the Queen of Pop.
Madonna named her 13th studio album Rebel Heart. The title fits the Madge mold of past titles: adjectives, a noun
Watching Madonna attempt to wrestle the 21st century into submission ahead of her new studio album, Rebel Heart, has been
Many pop acts, and most female pop artists, inextricably link themselves to youth. Stars exploit the beauty, rebelliousness and vogue
The previous two Madonna studio albums, “MDNA” (2012) and “Hard Candy” (2008), have come off as transparent attempts at co-opting the latest waves of dance music. She used to be a step ahead of the mainstream, artfully cannibalizing underground dance club moves and turning them into pop gold. Now she was playing catch-up.
The question of whether Madonna, thirty-two years into her career, can remain relevant to today’s music scene is a question that comes up repeatedly when listening to Rebel Heart, her thirteenth studio album. Following 2012’s MDNA, which was considered a disappointment by both the critics and the general public, and improving upon it, was always going to be the challenge facing Madonna. However, Rebel Heart presents some of Madonna’s strongest songs in years.
