Madonna - "Rebel Heart" (2015)

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13th studio album released on March 6, 2015 by Interscope Records. For the album, she had worked with Diplo, Avicii, and Kanye West. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200. 

I thought this was a major improvement from MDNA. Feels more consistent for me. My top 5 fave tracks are Living For Love, Devil Pray, Rebel Heart, Unapologetic Bitch, and Ghosttown. I also like Bitch I'm Madonna, Best Night, Body Shop, Wash All Over Me, and S.E.X.

"Living For Love"
#8 Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
#1 Dance Club Songs
#9 Dance/Electronic Songs
#3 Singles Sales
#36 Mainstream Top 40



"Ghosttown"
#18 A/C

#38 Adult Top 40
#1 Dance Club Songs
#3 Singles Sales




"Bitch I'm Madonna" ft. Nicki Minaj
#84 Hot 100
#1 Dance Club Songs
#5 Dance/Electronic Songs





"Hold Tight"
#97 U.K. Singles Downloads

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Some good moments, but a strange and messy album overall.

It's basically a combo of Madonna-doing-Madonna-parody (Holy Water, S.E.X.), Madonna singing about Madonna (Unapologetic Bitch, Bitch I'm Madonna, Veni Vidi Vici, Rebel Heart) and what sounds like random demos that were thrown at her (Devil Pray, Illuminati). Not saying all of those songs are bad, it's just odd.

Living For Love is good, even if it's essentially a slightly lesser 90s house Madonna track. Ghosttown is excellent. Messiah is lovely, so is Wash All Over Me.

I know she didn't enjoy the process much and honestly you can hear the chaos. Definitely better than MDNA though and the tour was great.