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...former, Confessions on a Dance Floor is not for you. If you're the latter, close the blinds. Because the words get goofier, and the song gets faster, and pretty soon all you hear are echoes of Madonna's voice behind a glossy thump and a grinding guitar hook. It is possible to remain still while that happens, but only if you are made of wood...
...defining moment of the new Madonna album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, arrives during the song I Love New York. Over a pulsing synthesizer, a ticking clock, a rumbling timpani and countless other perfectly calibrated whirs and beeps, Madonna declares, "I don't like cities, but I like New York/Other places make me feel like a dork." This is not the most ridiculous lyric ever uttered in a pop song--that remains "Yummy yummy yummy/I got love in my tummy." Still, it is awfully silly, and before you press on with the album, you will need to ask yourself...
...shape shifting, Madonna has always been most comfortable when she's dancing--or singing about dancing ("You can dance, for inspiration," she proclaimed with adorable plasticity on Into the Groove back in 1985). After her dour 2003 album, American Life, she has migrated back to her safe place, and it's nice to hear her strutting again. Almost all of Confessions feels like I Love New York--exuberant, campy, shameless and cool. The songs flow into one another with no regard for things like track numbers (the album is premixed, as opposed to remixed), and nuggets of dance history--from...
...Madonna detractors will point out that most of this wizardry is the work of other people, notably Stuart Price, the British producer who has accumulated a dozen or so musical aliases (Les Rhythms Digitales, Paper Faces) in his 28 years on the planet. She didn't break too many pencils working on the lyrics either, but as Mrs. Ritchie might say on the manor, horses for courses. In dance music, words exist to be repeated, twisted, obscured and resurrected. How they sound in the moment is far more important than what they mean, and Madonna knows that better than anyone...
...only difference is that Madonna never read Word Up! magazine, and was already a multiplatinum artist when Marley Marl’s generation of rappers were busy creating a culture for her to exploit...