trinket
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It's almost as if I'm noticing her music becoming progressively juvenile as she ages. I'm not saying she needs to be singing Celine Dion type ballads, but damn...L-U-V Madonna! really?
Yeah, that's an interesting comment. I think it might be a combination of things - some music lovers/critics/purists insist that today's pop/dance music is getting more simplistic/inane as an overall trend, although it can be hard to separate that out from the "Well back in my day...!" arguments of those people just growing older and their nostalgia for the sound of that time. So we may not expect something as sophisticated as the "Ray of Light" album which is over a decade old, or even some of her earlier stuff (think of the "Like A Prayer" album - ambitious and all over the map in terms of influences/styles/artistic chances).
I wonder if "Ray of Light" (as textured and wonderful as it is) would totally bomb if it were to come out today because the public is used to Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or Justin Bieber with relatively repetitive, simple, straight-ahead songs that are based on repetition, and not long, lilting melodies or dense or unusual textures/instrumentation. Lady Gaga may take chances artistically with her look or personas, but does she take those same chances musically?
The second thing also could be that in her/her producers' calculated attempt to appeal to a younger audience, they're approaching the music in this way - what they believe the current sound/trends are, as my paragraph above - and have slightly misstepped/misjudged it. Sort of like a 40-something soccer Mom trying to be completely cool with her teenage daughter's friends and missing the trends, lol. But I would have to give Madonna more credit than that because she's had longevity in the business and that doesn't come from misjudging any sort of trend.
































