So yesterday Madonna premiered the second single Girl Gone Wild from her forthcoming album MDNA and the critics have spoken. I already gave my review when I premiered the track (to sum it up it sounds like a leftover track from the Confessions on a Dance Floor vault) and not all the reviews of her new track are on the positive side. If we can quote a line from her Confessions track Sorry, "I've heard it all before." Check what some of your favorite music critics had to say below...
:: Entertainment Weekly: “Compared to the album’s first single ‘Give Me All Your Luvin,’’ this track is less Gwen Stefani-at-a-pep-rally and more Cyndi Lauper-at-Le-Bain…”
:: Chart Rigger: “I’m pretty much of two minds about Madonna’s second MDNA single ‘Girl Gone Wild’: 1.) lyrically, it’s extremely cliche (’You got me in the zone, DJ play my favorite song!’) and 2.) musically, it’s the best thing we’ve heard from her since the Confessions On A Dancefloor era.”
:: Pink Is The New Blog: “I love that album so I’m digging this track. It’ll take a few listens for me to really fall in love, tho. It does sound a lot different than ‘Gimme All Your Luvin’’ … but is it a better single or not?”
:: Arjan Writes: “Yes, the Benny Benassi-produced tune is a solid dance number that, yes, perfectly caters to her loyal fans, but it doesn’t quite live up to what I believe she can deliver.”
:: Vulture: “‘Girl Gone Wild,’ her latest single off MDNA, not only owes its title to the artistic vision of Joe Francis, but its chorus is built around the lyric, ‘Girls, they just wanna have some fun,’ which is of course a lesson that we learned from Cyndi Lauper about 30 years ago. It doesn’t help matters that the song is a paint-by-numbers, 808- and Tanqueray-referencing dance track that falls even flatter when compared to its source material.”
:: Forbes: “The astonishing thing about this is that Lauper has always been the Madonna also ran — a real musician and composer who’s been overshadowed by her rival since they each started their careers. Madonna is in the Rock Hall; Lauper is not. Lauper writes her own music and has released some of the most underappreciated albums of the last 20 years without a lot of money behind her.”
:: Unicorn Booty: “It sounds like they hired a Madonna robot to sing the track, but it works. Does this mean we’ll never be rid of Madonna, because she’s actually an android super-human who has been sent to force-feed us ridiculously catchy dance music for all time?”
:: Flavorwire: “There’s no such subtlety here, only a mega-rich dominatrix ranting at you to HAVE FUN GODDAMMIT while you cringe on the couch and wish she’d just go away. The horror, the horror.”
:: Crave Online: “A saccharine escapade, ‘Girl Gone Wild’ is a benign track meant for life inside the club. It’s safe territory for the Material Girl, whose team of producers and songwriters are meticulously dedicated to keeping her fanbase equally satiated and unchallenged (because we’re all still trying to get that atrocious ‘American Life’ clip, wherein she rhymes ‘latte’ with ‘Pilates’).”
I think the reason why critics are being so hard on the Queen of Pop is because after three decades of always giving us something to think about as well as dance to, we expect so much more when it comes to quality music. I've got my fingers crossed that her sessions with William Orbit will in fact be sickening!
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