Saturday, April 26, 2008

my sugar is raw (sticky and sweet) and botoxed

at least i know that if my car broke down, madonna could come over and push it to the local car repair.

madonna's 4 minutes to save the world is starting to grow on me the more that i listen to it.

although i don't think the video is great, it's at least pretty interesting. it sorta made me feel weird when i saw the two couple making out and you can see their internal organs, but a good weird feeling.

i like the fact that the video alludes to justin timberlake just finished having a threesome with that couple, like a hired femme gigolo.

it's a shame that we have one of the best dancers of the 80's, 90's and one of the best dancers of the 00's and the dancing SUCKS. i blame it on madonna's obsession with yoga and pilate poses. it hints to slow-mo break dancing, except that she'd probably break a hip if she did try real break dancing.

one thing that i've noticed is that madonna is really into climbing through things. she did it heavily in 'hung up' and 'sorry' and 'jump' and 'me against the music' which leads me to think that's a metaphor for something kabbalist.

the black/clear thing that eats into each scene is pretty cool. it reminded me of the nothing in "the never ending story" as well as italian futurist, surrealist, and cubist angular paintings. notice the repeated shapes (triangles) in the following youtube video.

futurism, cubism, surrealism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRQ7xQTScA



cool right? i studied that in college, so i thought it stuck out quite a bit.

madonna's overall album is amazing. i hated 'confessions on a dance floor' A LOT. i thought it was very self-helpy and weird in a bad way and by no means a dance album. i cannot wait to see the music videos for: candy shop, give it 2 me, she's not me, beat goes on (i think this will be the second single...) and i find 'incredible' wwwwaaaayyy too long and is more of a filler since i think even pharrell was bored by it. 'spanish lesson' is just pure bad pop. i also think that 'devil wouldn't recognize you' has a similar beat to justin timberlake's 'cry me a river,' and i also love that song. so i'm very excited to buy the collector's edition as well as the regular edition of the album when it comes out on tuesday. two bad songs on an entire album is not bad at all.

two reasons why i think this album is successful is because it has such a great combination of euro pop with american hip hop/r&b. it's gritty but still light. i have to say that when you feature kanye or pharrell, you're gonna get something that deals with 'being unmodest yet modest about being flashy/rich and candy,' which is so addictive for some reason. i do feel that pharrell probably suggested some reject beats that came off of gwen stefani's 'the great escape' album. and the second reason is that madonna's voice is slightly smoothed out to give it a cleaner sound. actually, a third comment about why this album is good is because it sounds as though it was written for a young black female r&b singer, like ashanti or beyonce or shareefa or even maybe estelle.

madonna - 4 minutes to save the world ft justin timberlake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-BJY00nHI

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