36. Madonna, “Hung Up”
“Hung Up” employs a ticking clock to represent fear of wasted time, but 마돈나 isn’t 노래 about aging 또는 saving the world—she’s talking about love. It had been years since Madge sounded this vapid. With its pitched-upward vocals, infectious arpeggio sample from ABBA’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight),” and the bridge’s unironic, archetypical key change, the track decidedly points to the past, and it proved that, 20 years into her career, 마돈나 was still the one and only Dancing Queen. SC
33. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me”
Madonna’s Y2K-era dalliances with electronica could oftentimes verge on the theoretical, so it’s a tad ironic that the one hit from her Orbit-Mirwais daze that still packs fully loaded pistols is also the most engrossed in chemistry-set beat science. “Don’t Tell Me” is first and foremost a concoction: two parts 옥수수 pone, one part glitch, with reliable disco strings to serve as the catalyst. What seals the deal, though, is that lyrically Madonna’s on board too. Tell the 땅콩 버터 of acoustic guitars to stay away from the 초콜릿 of digital 베이스 drones, but don’t tell 마돈나 she can’t eat both and spit back manna. EH
25. Madonna, “Music”
From its generic 제목 to Madonna’s anonymous vocal performance, “Music” is a blank slate of a song. To wit, the song has had almost as many makeovers as 마돈나 herself. Okay, so not quite that many, but each of the performer’s tours during the last decade has featured a new incarnation of the song: Kraftwerk-inspired electronica, ’70s disco, and most recently, ’80s hip-hop (the 다음 logical embodiment would be ’90s house). If 음악 truly is a universal language, then “Music”—in all of its meta reinventions and retro dialects—might be the best piece of evidence we have that 음악 really does make the people come together. SC
“Hung Up” employs a ticking clock to represent fear of wasted time, but 마돈나 isn’t 노래 about aging 또는 saving the world—she’s talking about love. It had been years since Madge sounded this vapid. With its pitched-upward vocals, infectious arpeggio sample from ABBA’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight),” and the bridge’s unironic, archetypical key change, the track decidedly points to the past, and it proved that, 20 years into her career, 마돈나 was still the one and only Dancing Queen. SC
33. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me”
Madonna’s Y2K-era dalliances with electronica could oftentimes verge on the theoretical, so it’s a tad ironic that the one hit from her Orbit-Mirwais daze that still packs fully loaded pistols is also the most engrossed in chemistry-set beat science. “Don’t Tell Me” is first and foremost a concoction: two parts 옥수수 pone, one part glitch, with reliable disco strings to serve as the catalyst. What seals the deal, though, is that lyrically Madonna’s on board too. Tell the 땅콩 버터 of acoustic guitars to stay away from the 초콜릿 of digital 베이스 drones, but don’t tell 마돈나 she can’t eat both and spit back manna. EH
25. Madonna, “Music”
From its generic 제목 to Madonna’s anonymous vocal performance, “Music” is a blank slate of a song. To wit, the song has had almost as many makeovers as 마돈나 herself. Okay, so not quite that many, but each of the performer’s tours during the last decade has featured a new incarnation of the song: Kraftwerk-inspired electronica, ’70s disco, and most recently, ’80s hip-hop (the 다음 logical embodiment would be ’90s house). If 음악 truly is a universal language, then “Music”—in all of its meta reinventions and retro dialects—might be the best piece of evidence we have that 음악 really does make the people come together. SC
