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Madonna

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Madonnas new album. I cant quite tell if this is the kind of music they call electroclash. But I suppose it probably is. The triangular wave from Milways Amazais synthesizerwith its perfectly jagged edgepulls her vocals along powerfully. The guitar sounds like water. The beat is like her arms, and like her legs. And the lyricsas candid as rapare full of first-person perspectives that stare wide-eyed at everything around them. It is she herself, and America, that are pushing her toward introspection here. The promotional clip for American Lifein which she, dressed in military fatigues, throws a grenade at Bush, and features blood-soaked babies, blood-soaked babies, blood-soaked babies, and Iraqi civiliansshakes the memory even if you havent seen it. Madonnas approach to taking on all sorts of things should be directly compared to that of Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki. Listen to it and see for yours