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Two songs stand out on Ray of Light as Madonna's best work in the last decade. "Frozen," now dominating the singles chart, is an exotic paean that best represents her new sound. In fact, the best part of the song has Madonna barely singing at all. Her subtle hums...
Water is a prevalent them on Ray of Light. Indeed, Madonna equates water with redemptive healing, using it as a symbol for her spiritual awakening. Every once in a while, the results are strained. "Swim" has the singer escaping to the bottom of the ocean floor, but the lyrics seem...
So the album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out...
Many of these moments emerged in their first piece, Haydn's Quartet in D Major, Opus 20. The second movement, Un poco adagio affectuoso brought a confluence of musical constraint and emotional effervescence. In giving the upper melody to the cello, the bass line to the viola and a flirtation...
The album does have its low points, however. "Lonely Girl" doesn't maintain its momentum as well as the other tracks on the album--it's the kind of song that you almost want to sing along with and you almost want to dance to, but in the end you...