November and Classic Black & White Music Videos

Ever since I posted P!nk’s “I Don’t Believe You” video a few days back, I’ve been gradually obsessing over B&W music videos, which is something that happens about once a year. As much as I love color, there’s just something about B&W images that elevates the artistic merits of a video and it sort of really puts the [...]

Videos of the Week: Ryan Adams’ “New York, New York” and Madonna’s “I Love New York”

I know, I know, you don’t have to say it: this New York obsession part honeymoon of mine is getting to the point that even I am gonna barf at how sickly and eye-rolling annoying is getting. It’s all I can seem to talk about! It’s even worse because I used to make fun of [...]

Celebration CD Review or Madonna, The Beatles, and Elvis Presley.

Being that this is a greatest hits compilation, this isn’t so much a review but just commentary on the material offered.  Having racked up a staggering amount of hits that just seems infinite at this point; unless a huge multi-cd box set gets released, no compilation like this is ever going to be able to [...]

Song of the Month: Madonna’s “Celebration” (Benny Benassi Remix)

The album version of “Celebration” is quite poppy and very European techno-ish, which isn’t bad but not quite ahead of the curve.
The Benny Benassi remix of “Celebration” is the real deal: grittier, dirtier, sexier, which is exactly what we want of Madonna, and not to mention pumping and catchier than the swine flu. It just [...]

Incoming: Madonna’s Celebration

Who else can get away with promoting an ultimate greatest hits collection by saying: “34 songs that changed the world” huh? Nobody else.
So Lets join in the Celebration 29 Sept 2009.

Videology: Madonna–The Erotica Era 92/93

Trying to continue with the tradition of taking a video–usually the lead single’s video–from our newly anointed Classics albums, in this case: Madonna’s Erotica, and showcase it as video of the week: reminding people of its greatness or introducing it to those who never knew about it.  I came upon the extremely hard decision of [...]

The Classics: The Brazen and Stylish Ambition of Madonna’s Erotica.

She’s been stylish, daring, provocative, against the Establishment, non-conformist, outspoken, and ahead of the curve among other things before and after, but nothing else on her catalog has ever been as in your face and brazen as Erotica.
For my take on the music videos from the album click here.
 

Abandoning her pop sound entirely (I’m Breathless doesn’t [...]

Video of the Week: Madonna’s “American Life”

Like we did with America’s Sweetheart and Mono, it only makes sense that after officially including Madonna’s American Life album into our *classics* section, we now discuss the title track’s video–the original video, not the censored version issued after she pulled this version off the air.

Much has been said about the imagery of the original video and the [...]

The Classics: The Uncompromising Virtue of Madonna’s “American Life”

Of all the artists the entertainment industry has given us through out history, no one has been, is, and will forever be more difficult to review than Madonna.  When it comes to Madonna (even more so than Courtney Love who we talked about previously) it’s just about impossible to listen to the music and give [...]