New Madonna album...ugh

So, at the behest of Matt, I downloaded the new Madonna album, which I actually found out isn't that new...its from 2005...but I won't split hairs on that. So I threw it in my play list and kept it as background noise while I was doing some research on the floor.

I kept an honest ear open...listening..pretty damn objectivly actually, since I've never considered Madonna to be someone worth making girlie screams over. And to tell you the truth....I wasn't impressed. To me this was average...actually typical Madonna. She's reinvented herself to sound exactly the same...all over again.

I was even objective enough to listen to the album a second time, after an interlude of Our Lady Peace, yea...still didn't impress me. Honestly the music is House-y classic electro beats. Nothing spectacular there, especially since someone ELSE most likely did the mixing/ initial design for them. Which ok, I can agree to, because you need to have a certain degree of experience to creat good mixes like that. So lets say that, like all her other albums, someone else worried about the "music" and her job was to bring the words and the voice. Her voice was fine...kudo's on keeping it strong over the years. That's about where my positive feedback ends.

The lyrics sucked. Case in point..... track 4 "I love New York"...I've seen steaming dog turds IN New York that had better composition than that! How old is the woman? 45? 50?...she's an accomplished singer with a body of work decades long....and she's incorporating the term "dork" into her songs??? Are you kidding me? Oh...by the way (warning sarcastic remark!)...I love that your lyrics still rhyme in some of them...how quaint.....

I'm not going to say I was disappointed, I wasn't really expecting much. And there's no way I'd ever be drunk enough to think that I could do better...but I know I've heard better....off the top of my head.....Chris' December 2006 Mixtape (he just gave me a copy at NYE) (see friend list>Chris>latest blog[I'm not doing that shit for you!]) was mixed better, and more thought provoking than that. By comparison, the flow of the songs was better, the mood of the set was better....etc.
Yea....look for this new album hitting my recycle bin now.