Artiste: Madonna

Label: Universal

With a burgeoning thirty years of career Madonna has been reinventing herself from time to time and has proved the world that her desire to bring bold new ideas to the mainstream is unparalleled. But it seems like with the 12th studio album ‘MDNA’, the pop queen has decided to take a detour through her life and career.

`MDNA’ is a self-referential mix of the singers own material in its various stages. Setting the tone of the album to concise Euro-pop dance tracks, Madonna has tried to recall her glory days avoiding the emulation or recreation of the tracks.

The album comprising of 12 numbers begins with a breathy track 'Girl Gone Wild' which is a quasi-serious prayer for forgiveness. Confessing her deed and personal struggle faced at the start of her career, the track is an out-right Madge number filled with heavy club beats. 'I'm A Sinner' and I’m Addicted’ follows the same streak of spelling out message and conveying her luminous life. The tracks are perfect club banger number with an escalating tempo featuring well-processed synths and vocals.

Coming back to her core genre, the Material Girl introduces the much needed pop flavor in the album through a range of synthy pop tracks ‘Turn up the Radio,’ ‘Some Girls,’ ‘Superstar’, ‘Love spent’ and ‘Give Me All Your Luvin’ featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. The numbers highlight heavy beats with added club-banger and EDM music that blend well with the processed vocals of Madonna. ‘Superstar’ also features Madonna’s eldest child ‘Lourdes’ as a background singer who is backed by handclaps, harmonies and 80s music.

The album gets sexier and darker with dance number ‘Gang Bang’ delivering the theme of revenge and murder. The ode showcases singer’s obsession with death and murder while producer William Orbit, who reinvented her career with ‘Ray of Light’ induces a curious mix of bleeps and bullets.

Getting away from the sinister theme and tracing the past history, MDNA further introduces the sharp contempt power ballad tracks ‘Masterpiece’ and ‘Falling Free’ which elaborates Madonna’s unhampered vocals. The number exposes pending maturity of the album revealing the affection of freedom and personal atonement. The Golden Globe-winning song ‘Masterpiece’ was also featured at the end credits of her directorial debut ‘W.E.’

Overall, MDNA is a mixed bag of party-record including various genres like pop, club, EDM and ballads. The album plays with new electronic tune brought together by William Orbit and Martin Solveig. The album tends to fall all-over the place with the myriads of genres but churns winning tracks like ‘Falling Free’ and ‘Masterpiece.’ MDNA is no break-up album but definitely strikes the chart with the thriving aspects of pure house dance music like Girl Gone Wild, I’m Sinner, I’m Addicted and ‘Give Me All Your Luvin’.