r/Madonna • u/Efficient_Chapter_11 • 2d ago

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Lately, I’ve been coming around the fact that this three album run is her imperial phase-not commercially but artistically.
Mother has never shied away from genuine experimental sounds and sonic weirdness but here she’s genuinely so bizarre musically,it’s giving me life. Even her contemporaries were very obviously started to get stuck in 00’s mainstream homogenous sounds and then we have the Queen of the universe doing completely her own unique thing.
Music is probably the most forwardthinking pop album I’ve ever heard and American life has some of her best songwriting there+Mirwais magic.

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u/DreamyDeen 2d ago

I couldn’t agree more!!! American Life is such an ageless sound of an album. I hope one day on its anniversary Madonna puts out a Deluxe version.

Ray of light is iconic.

Music is endlessly relistenable.

Also, she looked absolutely stunning during those eras

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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 2d ago

Listening value of “music” is truly absurd.

American life has some of her best introspective works to me-x static process one of the highlights and I love “mother and father” to death. To turn story of losing parent as a child and the one who’s left neglecting you into this weird,glitchy madness is just such an absurd idea but works so well 😭

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u/Secret-Lullaby 2d ago

To Have And Not to Hold, I Deserve It, Nobody Knows Me ughhhh she did THAT

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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 2d ago

To have and not to hold appreciation,I’m livinggggg. It has become top 3 on ROL to me and it isn’t number 3!!

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u/bloodhoney17 1d ago

If there are any Bowie stans on here... this run of albums is her Berlin trilogy. I said what I said.

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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 1d ago

Omg another Bowie Stan? 😍 him and Madge are two of my favourite artists of all time and yes, I totally agree!!!

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u/bobbyThebobbler 2d ago

If you remove AL from the equation, it was yet another imperial phase for her commercially. Confessions actually sold almost the same as Music after that.

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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 2d ago

And what a glorious “return” it was as well purely musically speaking. Just decided not to include it here because it’s not as left field as these three-although it’s just as good

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u/Impossible-Mind6791 2d ago

It's a trilogy

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u/Efficient_Chapter_11 2d ago

Exactly-Madge at her most innovative. Sister albums