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| 1. Music 2. Impressive Instant 3. Runaway Lover 4. I Deserve It 5. Amazing |
6. Nobody's Perfect 7. Don't Tell Me 8. What It Feels Like For A Girl 9. Paradise (Not For Me) 10. Gone |
Madonna relinquished unprecedented production control on Ray of Light,
which resulted in the best album of her career. On Music, she does the
same, dividing the CD into three distinct voices. Orbit's train-track-clacking
drum loops churning under citrusy trance ("Runaway Lover" and "Amazing") shimmer
for the headphone set. When Ahmadzai diverts from his pure-play French-style
club burners ("Impressive Instant" and the title track), he employs several
temporarily fashionable gimmicks such as vocoder effects ("Nobody's Perfect")
and spacious keyboard work combined with acoustic guitar ("I Deserve It"). Lyrically,
Madonna's introspection and love songs are some of her most intimate. Given
the surrounding context of the album, "I Deserve It" is an outright folk song,
and on "Don't Tell Me," she forgoes precisely enunciated singing for the aching
plead of an emotive R&B crooner. For a second time, instead of exploiting
an of-the-moment subgenre, she immortalizes it. And in doing so, she simultaneously
draws massive mainstream attention to a deserving class of dance music and raises
the bar for Top 40 pop. --Beth Massa
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