If there is someone in this planet known for being a performer through and through it’s her, so my expectations were through the roof. So many of her songs mean a lot to me - as I’m sure is the same case for most of you reading this, so in the end, I had to go with the song that meant the most to me at this time in my life.Īt the time of writing this, it’s been two months since I was blessed by seeing Madonna live for the first time. I’ll be honest, I had ten 11’s in mind for this. Her versatility across genres spans decades.
If there is a genre of music that exists, Madonna has done it and made it her own. Her discography is the most expansive in any artists’ catalogue. "I’m sure everyone will say this but choosing an 11 for Madonna is impossible. Let's jump into our 11/10s straight away, shall we? We kick off with whose prostitutions has worked. I think this is about as close as "Frozen" got to having a controversy I guess it's only right that it had one as a Madonna lead single. But all you need to know is that is that Madonna won in the end, and didn't have to pay anyone a single dime, and Belgians can now listen to "Frozen" without the thought police raiding their den or whatever. There's an entirely tedious story about the fact that song was actually banned in Belgium for eight years between 20 because someone claimed that Madonna had ripped them off, but then someone else claimed that that someone had ripped them off, and it was a whole mess. "Frozen" takes all of these things - the lyricism of a Leonard co-write, the futureproof sounds of Orbit, Madonna's everything - and pulls them together into one of her most timeless singles, mingling the past, present and future meticulously. With Orbit, Madonna found exactly what she had been looking for a style of music that borrowed heavily from electronica and the British club scene at the time, but also from something more worldly and classic than she had been before. It was then that Guy Oseary reached out to William Orbit - who had done remixes for M in the past - and asked him to submit a few things to whet queen's appetite, and. but Madonna just couldn't seem to find someone to take the album in the sonic direction that she wanted.
Babyface, she ended dumping off entirely, but she ended up keeping the stuff she did with Patrick Leonard, along with songs with Rick Nowels. Babyface, who she had worked with on Bedtime Stories, and Patrick Leonard, who she had worked with on pretty much everything else. Sessions for Ray Of Light initially started out with Babyface and Patrick Leonard, which is a bit of a strange mix of new and old. We can analyse until the end of time, but regardless, "Frozen" is the winner, and a worthy winner at that. I wonder if it was the bigger, more varied voting pool, the fact that the entire discography had to vie for a single 11/10 from voters rather than several, or if the fact that said entire discography was being rated together for the first time. I wasn't expecting it to be this result either.
Personally, I knew it would always come down to the two tracks that we had in our finale tonight, but I wasn't expecting it to be as close and. Who could have predicted this? Ray Of Light finishes an absolutely dominating run with its lead single vanquishing its nearest competition and managing to take the crown for the Madonna Discography Rate 2020. HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 124 ( Honeychurch Ahmadzaï Boy Raquel French On Noir FICTION Perfume Girl Life Ghost C Something Is Death SCORE: 7.5 x 1 ( SCORE: 10/10 Madonna’s done a lot of amazing things in her career (and as last year proves, she continues too), but nothing quite as amazing as Like a Prayer.ġ1 x hay Down PLACEMENT: UP 1 - 2 of 210 (9.791) Listening to it feels communal whether you’re getting your life to it on the dance floor or sitting alone in your bedroom. It’s simultaneously cool and corny in the way the best 80s music often is, Madonna sounds so alive on it, the production shifts from heavenly to menacing to utterly joyful, and it contains the best use of a gospel choir in any pop song ever. I don’t have an emotional connection to it in the way I do with some other songs I’ve given 11s to in the past, although I believe it was the first Madonna song I ever got into, but it’s just a flawless song.
I really thought I’d get around to writing some commentary for Like a Prayer, but honestly, I wouldn’t have done it justice. A little bit disappointed sure, but Frozen is a 10/10 top, so I’m trying not to be too pressed. I had feeling Frozen would win (since it’s beaten Like a Prayer before) and considering the fact that several of the tracks were done a biT dirty (the title track definitely shouldn’t have been the album’s only track in the top 20), I'm not overly surprised.