September 26, 2000

Music

Madonna Music Maverick/Warners

Madonna

Music (Maverick/Warners)

Those who had the inclination and the necessary software could have accessed
Music several months ago from the Internet, but where's the fun in that?
In keeping with Madonna's ongoing flirtation with all things electronic
and European, Music is one of her more fruitful collaborations with
French-Algerian rave seer Mirwais, and over his bleep-squiggle disco
skills London's most famous mother professes her need to "dance with my baby" while observing that "music makes the bourgeoisie feel the rhythm". And she
should know.

Were this not Madonna but, say, Louise, chances
are it would be dismissed as saccharine designer posturing. But this is
Madonna and it's widely perceived to be a brave move forwards, though it's
not a patch on 'Beautiful Stranger' or, word has it, much of the material
on her forthcoming album. The video features Ali G. Like, cool.

Piers Martin