Review:People
The same issue also gives a rave review to Madonna's "American Life" CD,
calling it a "Great American Dream".
American Life
Madonna (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
Reviewed by Chuck Arnold
In the liner notes to her ninth studio disc, Madonna thanks Gibson
manufacturers "for my bitchin' new guitars." The instrument, which the
singer played on her Drowned World tour in 2001, is all over her latest,
although Madonna leaves the actual strumming to producer-musician
Mirwais Ahmadzai. The result is one of her most artful, adventurous
albums, a work that deftly combines the pulsing electronica of 1998's
Ray of Light and 2000's Music with the kind of organic-sounding acoustic
guitar that you might expect on a Jewel CD. Call it futuristic folk.
This electro-acoustic approach, which Madonna earlier experimented with
on her fab 2001 hit "Don't Tell Me," breathes Life into her and
Ahmadzai's bottomless bag of techno tricks on songs like the propulsive
title track. Meanwhile the disc's more hardcore electronica numbers,
such as the zig-zagging "Nobody Knows Me," have an almost rockish feel;
you can imagine a garage band playing them live. Best, though, is
"Nothing Fails," which, with its spiritual lyrics ("I'm not religious/
But I feel such love/ Makes me want to pray") and glorious background
vocals by the London Community Gospel Choir, is a "Like a Prayer" for
the 21st century.
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