AJayII reacting to American Life by Madonna (Re-upload)

All credits go to AJayII: / @ajaylush

[@chandler2289]

4:02 has me fucking rolling

[@badcigarettes5234]

💀💀💀💀

[@rodrigobrendonfernandes5246]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahhah

[@LadyGagaFiles]

I can’t stop laughing at her reaction 😂😂😭😭😭😂😂💀

[@sethlewis14]

the "hmmm"💀

[@luistorres513]

I was in tears. AJay was so confused LMAOO 😭

[@B4r8ie]

4:02 THIS HAS ME CRYING LMAOOO

[@youtubeisnow8503]

14:31 ajayii : "it sounds like her mother passed, I don't even know what's happening ??!" madonna : *literally responding to her* ajayii : 👁👄👁

[@andysxtx]

HHAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS THE BEST

[@k-fashion465]

I can’t even understand what Madonna said. I only understand "dad" and "all i did was sit and cry" can someone explain please ??

[@motomami2700]

​​@@k-fashion465 Madonna say "My mother died when i was five, and all i did was sit and cry"

[@omniainnihil4698]

9:02 her face when the gospel part began is priceless 😆

[@JerwinDapitan]

It made me burst out of laughter

[@AntonioGG2-8420]

I’m dying from 😂

[@vim92]

This is my favourite Madonna album. I used to listen to it in repeat for months during a certain point in life. Till today I relate this this album so much. It's not for everyone, not a lot of people will understand it, but it really is one of the most profound albums of all time IMO.

[@MariahIsSkinnyFuckBlueLives]

I feel like it might be Madonna's most polarizing album! It's one of my faves from her, but I know a lot of fans do not care for it at all 😅

[@toby4643]

American Life is my favorite album of hers! It's a fabulously and cohesively crafted concept album about American excess and materialism.😍😍😍😍 Probably the closest to socialist that Madonna ever got! (I'm a communist myself)

[@idrk3707]

@@toby4643lol

[@danverdeja]

"So she's a cat." Hahahaha

[@somdeuk_pm]

Timestamp?

[@panelacentrifuga]

@@somdeuk_pm 6:38!

[@lorettarichie157]

She was losing auto tune she says how many times I die

[@sitruckoom9845]

Her facial expressions say it all

[@lancematthewinocencio7207]

TIMELAPSE: 1. American Life - 0:35 2. Hollywood - 2:39 3. I'm So Stupid - 3:51 4. Love Profusion - 5:35 5. Nobody Knows Me - 6:27 6. Nothing Fails - 7:56 7. Intervention - 10:18 8. X-Static Process - 11:17 9. Mother and Father - 13:31 10. Die Another Day - 16:08 11. Easy Ride - 17:08

[@rayoflight8040]

Hello, i think you're Filipino, I want to interact with you!

[@davidcrazyrides]

wasn't there 12 song on this Album

[@MLawrenceDavies]

I was so relieved she loved Nothing Fails

[@emmae6223]

@@davidcrazyridesno?

[@alsimanche]

4:00 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i'm laughing so harddd right now

[@ethypoo]

YASS BJORK

[@wowpoopstaylorsversion3267]

4:01 💀💀💀

[@gabrielmoro3d]

This album is quite good. Love Profusion is a masterpiece and she said it’s ok. :(

[@zyrathesalad]

I love this album but I get why she would dislike it too haha. Love Profusion is really nice :)

[@Mysicalgreenunicorn03]

No this album is a masterpiece Ajayll passes on some of her best work

[@epiphany6189]

@Kurt Loder That’s not true because she likes a lot of Charli XCX’s stuff and some of Madonna’s experimental stuff, she just doesn’t like some of this and I can see why. Some of it can be messy/overbearing/weird to some people, but I don’t think she’s basic at all. And even if someone does only like “vocally/lyrically driven music” doesn’t make them basic. Someone could easily say that people who like electronic music are basic because it’s just done on a machine and not a real instrument so it doesn’t require talent.

[@Adnan-bg4yj]

@Kurt Loder well actually AJAYII loves experimental stuff but not all experimental stuff are good Ya know, American life has so many terrible tracks

[@ethypoo]

@Kurt Loder i love new york is an exception

[@jluebs]

Getting sick of having to explain this to people... autotune is making someone's voice/pitch sound better and shouldn't be noticed. Vocoder is an artistic choice to make your voice sound electronic.

[@gnarlycat]

Both suck

[@NympholaChan]

Yeah... People seen to not have any sense of artistic, especially with Madonna's artistic choices

[@MariahIsSkinnyFuckBlueLives]

Auto-tune is versatile and can be used for very subtle pitch correction, or turned all the way up for that signature robot-like sound. It often is used along with vocoder in songs like Cher's "The Music's No Good Without You," but songs such as T-Pain's "Buy You A Drank" sound that way just with heavy auto-tune. Ajay is correctly identifying auto-tune in this video. I think the misconception stems from Cher's "Believe" producer saying that he used vocoder for the iconic vocal effects, because he didn't want to reveal the little-known new software he was using known as auto-tune.

[@swankhood]

Thank you for educating others

[@rodri.m_1507]

Autotune shouldn’t be noticed if it’s not used to the absolute max, if you do, it ends up kinda sounding like Cher’s Believe. Vocoder, though, is used to create artificial harmonies around the lead vocal, a great example of it is Imogen Heap’s Hide and Seek. Learn the difference between autotune and vocoder, please.

[@carolineneisha]

The funny thing is in your review of “Ray of light” you wondered whether “Frozen” was a James Bond song…and “Die another day” actually was 😅

[@cleo5942]

Mirwais makes her ears hurt. But the fans like me LOVE It. Genius of electronic music

[@jaymiegill9506]

Yessss

[@sebastianmorales3648]

I can't handle the perfection level that Nothing Fails has. Amazing song

[@ethypoo]

ajayii’s possible ranking of the madonna albums she’s viewed BASED on ratios: 13. hard candy 12. mdna 11. american life 10. madame x 9. confessions on a dance floor 8. like a prayer 7. erotica 6. music 5. ray of light 4. bedtime stories 3. true blue 2. like a virgin 1. rebel heart ajayii’s possible ranking of the madonna albums she’s viewed based on her reaction: 13. mdna 12. hard candy 11. american life 10. madame x 9. music 8. bedtime stories 7. erotica 6. true blue 5. like a virgin 4. confessions on a dance floor 3. like a prayer 2. rebel heart 1. ray of light

[@chris-mm8zl]

Confessions should be at least top 3

[@ethypoo]

@@chris-mm8zl i did this based on the ratio of songs with marks to no marks and which percentages were higher but if it were based on her reactions i think confessions would get 3rd or 4th

[@chris-mm8zl]

@@ethypoo yeah, i think she would eventually like every track or most of them on confessions, like she said they were all enjoyable for her.

[@ethypoo]

@@chris-mm8zl yeah, i was shocked she didn’t put more marks tho lol

[@brooklyn-baby]

Thank you sp much this is very useful

[@davidp8500]

Nothing fails IS Amazing, wonderful♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@dudedandify]

my favorite madonna album ever

[@funkayy4979]

It's so good, she doesn't get it AT ALL. I hate this reaction XD

[@henry_shouse]

a MASTERPIECE

[@depressedsquidward7539]

Not my favorite...

[@jamiesalley604]

My least favorite album from jrr

[@jamiesalley604]

@@funkayy4979 the album is not that good and if you hate it leave

[@moonstone1159]

One of my favorite albums by Madonna.

[@emmae6223]

Same

[@isaacjgl2657]

starting to become my fav Madonna album, i swear this is the blueprint for everything left-field in pop (hyper pop, Yeezus etc.)

[@Gabriel-qu5fb]

maybe for some but not hyper pop lmao

[@soaribb32]

There was a lot more experimental things happening before and after tho.

[@ethypoo]

i think music by madonna was more left field

[@doggievloggy6777]

No its not

[@doggievloggy6777]

@@Gabriel-qu5fb 100% hyper pop hyper pop is literally pop just experimental u guys just dont wanna admit when something's actually pop bc u dont think its cool

[@bulltrunch]

When I was listen to I’m so stupid. I thought the same thing. I thought there was something wrong with my iPod lol 😂 She thought there was something wrong with her computer lol. 🤣🤣 I couldn’t agree more. Best reaction 4:02-4:10 from her on this album. That look is priceless 😳

[@somdeuk_pm]

I keep rewatching that moment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aronkolk8877]

Nobody Knows Me is one of my all time favorite songs by Madonna!!

[@stevealvyzak288]

I was never a big fan of Madonna‘s music and only knew her for her most popular songs like hung up , papa don’t preach etc but one day I stumbled upon love profusion and it reminded me of my childhood so I decided to listen to the whole album and oh wow … it was /is a masterpiece … such an interesting sound and very risky for such a popular persona/ singer ! The euro/electronic influence is very apparent but it’s done so beautifully that it ends up becoming a thing of its own … an amazing album

[@danytargaerys712]

Interesting that she compared it to MadameX, because Madonna did American Life with Mirwais. And he was the co-producer/writer for Madame X as well.

[@backup153]

No wonder why they both suck

[@MARK-ni9oc]

American Life was outstanding and interesting. I don't think Madame X has that unfortunately.

[@srdgzgd]

6:38 "So she's a cat" LMAOOO

[@yousfiabdelali]

4:00 😂😂😂

[@thomasmurphy83]

This was/is my favorite Madonna album. However, I know it’s one of her least acclaimed albums. I think the lyrics hit me at the right time. Loving to re-watch your vids!

[@zyonelzin4865]

She’s playing the guitar on E Fails,,,,her ballads are all amazing “ Something to Remember “ Compilation

[@somdeuk_pm]

4:00 💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@omedicoeomonge]

“So she’s a cat” I yelled 😂😂😂 Anyways, I love most messages on this album ❤ I was so young at that time and have affective memories about that time ❤

[@eduardomarinho1274]

One of my fav albums

[@levoe]

-Madonna: I have so many lives🎶 -“So she’s a cat?”

[@ethypoo]

ranking the tracks: 11. i’m so stupid - 7.1/10 (i can definitely listen to this song every now and then but it’s definitely my least played from this album, that’s why i put it at #11) 10. mother and father - 8/10 (i like the intention of this song) 9. american life - 8.1/10 (even though this song has a really important message, the lyrics and production still feel very amateur and chaotic) 8. nobody knows me - 8.5/10 (i’m very surprised that this song wasn’t chosen to be a single) 7. hollywood - 8.5/10 (i don’t like how high pitched and childlike madonna sang her vocals during parts but overall i do like this song) 6. die another day - 8.8/10 (this was a great sneak peek into the album, and it showed a transition between music to american life) 5. intervention - 8.8/10 (i think this was a pretty cutting edge acoustic track on the album) 4. easy ride - 8.8/10 (i love this track musically) 3. love profusion - 8.8/10 (this is a lovely track) 2. x static process - 8.9/10 (another track i like plus i would’ve really liked this to be a single) 1. nothing fails - 9.4/10 (this is the best song on the album)

[@Fantazaelia]

Lol I’m so stupid is my second fav track on this album

[@therandomname69420]

Take away 5 or 6 or 7 points and I agree

[@yckfides5613]

"Nobody Knows Me" was indeed a single, although it had little promotion.

[@andrewsavoy1881]

American life as an album was not my favorite on first listen. 2nd listen i liked a couple of songs. 3rd listen i liked most of the album. By the 5th listen i was hooked. Its definitely a grower

[@Nunnyabiz15]

If she thought Mother and Father was sad wait til she hears Promise To Try 🥺

[@sherloncosta3962]

Amo que ela amou justamente as minhas favoritas do álbum, Nothing Fails e X-Static Process ❤

[@nicolasjurado6]

Ajaill,you are one of my favorite KZbinrs, I love your expressions, I can't stop laughing with the faces you make while reacting to my favorite albums 😂😂😂

[@henriquepinheiro2726]

This is one of my favorites Madonna’s albums ❤️

[@squares4u]

Girl HUH????

[@vitordecastr0]

can't believe ajayII didn't enjoy Die Another Die one of the best songs by Madonna!!!

[@zyonelzin4865]

Her mom passed away at 5 years old cancer and her dad kind of abused her she came out of 13 siblings,,,, her father and her have reconciled Amen 🙏She won an award for “ Masterpiece “

[@ethypoo]

i love this album

[@moemoeanisong]

It's always so weird for me, someone whe's grown up in the 2000s listening to typical 2000s pop/electronic music, to see nowaday's youth react negatively to that kind of music. Because I truly ADORE it. I love that "sonically????" aspect of it

[@Red_Rebel]

Don’t feel bad if AL is your favourite album. Ajay is not a fan of EDM she’s more into ballads.

[@AntonioGG2-8420]

American Life is a misunderstood masterpiece.

[@ScribblebytesWorldwide]

I feel like if Madonna kept the demos for AL as is, a lot more people woukd like it. But as a work of Art, it's her best album ever.

[@whalewolf7477]

There is a difference between art and autotune

[@happyswiftie6075]

@WhaleWolf period. The dude should get new ears respectfully

[@felipeyoutube04]

Her best album? Are you kidding me? AL is crap, disposable. Ray of Light is a true masterpiece.

[@sss1969]

@@happyswiftie6075 its their opinion? they’re not forced to agree with whatever you want

[@whalewolf7477]

@@sss1969 and we aren’t forced to agree with them so we are replying with our opinions

[@brunohuannnogueira8455]

Love this album and love Madonna too ❤️

[@jordonhanlan]

AJay doesn't understand how iconic the rap is 😅

[@fabioandresclavijo1090]

No girl American Life has nothing to do with MDNA. American Life is another level, it not for everyone.

[@Beefbrother1]

Ajay fully missed the concept of this album lmao

[@altuzarraok]

It's my second favourite Madge album

[@AntonioGG2-8420]

I don’t mind American Life. It Madonna’s misunderstood album 💿.

[@abdelghanibacha4790]

Ajay always always manages to make me laughhh😂

[@MlNAJ]

her face (7:11) is SENDING ME 💀💀💀😭

[@Stronggi]

This is in my top 3 Madonna albums. I can understand that people don't like it though.

[@jamespearse4512]

She doesn’t get it, this album is so ahead of its time and sonically amazing. No other major pop star experiments the way Madonna has

[@LASMONN]

In my opinion Love Profusion and Nothing Fails are the best

[@amandalepre]

Got this album when it was released in 2003 when I was 19. Nothing Fails is LEAGUES above everything else IMO- it's wonderfully constructed, with the nice choir throwback to Like A Prayer. The others I appreciate are Hollywood, Intervention, X-Static Process, Die Another Day... but Nothing Fails soars beyond. It almost feels like it doesn't fit inside the rest of this album. Here are my feelings regarding this album sonically: The production / engineering / mastering are some of the more poorly-aged relics of the early-mid 2000s. There was a push at the time to create albums very loud, & very compressed. While it worked well for some genres (it sounds massive with rock), it doesn't feel right for her sound. It has a fatiguing quality to the listening experience, & I'm not sure if this was intentional. The extremely hard-panned instrumentation was such a... strange creative decision- & makes this album feel very disorienting. American Life is a prime example, as well as other acoustic-heavy tracks. I'll chime in on the auto-tune: I loved how she utilized it in Music. Here, it's starting to feel forced... and well, it will continue on with later releases. More and more. This is unfortunate, because a lot of these songs have extremely good potential... had they been produced & engineered differently. I strongly disliked this album for many years, but I've recently come back with fresh ears & a fresh mindset. However, I still find myself needing to take a break after 3-4 songs, due to those very aggressive sonic choices... that may or may not have been intentional. Lastly, I am very aware that this album is highly regarded by some of the M fandom... I want desperately to see it in the same way- & I have tried! My critique is coming from a place of love, & I want to articulate it as best as I can. I am a seasoned fan, having been a child when Immaculate was released, & having followed her step by step along the way since, all throughout the 90s, through Music, and then, here. I'm hoping we can perhaps one day get a newly mixed and/or mastered version of AL. We did just see the 20 year anniversary, & part of me hoped we'd see something like it this year. Perhaps another time, time will tell.

[@ferencssalvoski3721]

Like almost Indietronica from early to mid 2000s, nothing of this sounds really good, but it's not only the instrumentation, her voice sound awful, and really awful. I used to like as a teen, but since I grew up and listened to a lot of music, I can't see anything good in this.

[@waterteal]

Everyone came here because of “I’m so stupid” reaction

[@ineternalsuffering791]

She likes Harry styles what did we expect

[@teqkilla]

She’s gonna tear down MDNA and uplift rebel heart

[@MariahIsSkinnyFuckBlueLives]

Ajay wants an entire Madonna album consisting entirely of "hmmmm mmmmm" vocalizations lmao

[@immisael]

16:31 Yes! Beautiful Killer, haha... xD

[@itsalexney]

I tend to take Madonna rapping as more of an interpretive word thing lol

[@fernandolerma6114]

I love this girl reacting to Madonna but maybe she didn't understand the concept of American Life, Mirwais uses exaggerated autotune as a style.

[@zyonelzin4865]

Look into “ Sooner or Later “ Live version her Vocals Gurllllllllllllll

[@tadeoz1980]

Madonna Queen Of Pop

[@sadfish1208]

This was 2003, pure avantguarde

[@JonasTunes]

What happened to ayjay's KZbin channel?

[@donryan3153]

Love Spent is my favourite song on MDNA, and there's a whole story to that song I could tell you about but it's a rarity in Madonna's discography. Masterpiece and Falling Free are outstanding tracks too.

[@amandalepre]

does anyone know the album order of her reacts? Like which was the first album she reacted to, etc.

[@NathanHautain]

She went backwards, started with Madame X and ended with Like A Virgin

[@PureSparkles22]

6:39 So she's a cat lol

[@yvesus7]

4:05 😭😭💀

[@MarsMMV]

8:00 so I remember

[@eLReyyyyyy]

This album is amazing, not for people who only like traditional pop music. It’s meant to challenge you, it’s meant to make you think

[@Bluerock121]

Please stop with that pretentious crap. People can not like this album. You’re so annoying for acting like anyone who disagrees “only likes traditional pop music”

[@eLReyyyyyy]

@@Bluerock121 I’m allowed to be pretentious. I certainly elicited a strong reaction from you so there must be some nerve I hit 😂

[@squares4u]

@@eLReyyyyyy Yeah it makes you “think” alright… and realize this album was just not it

[@fenady79kindayam74]

This my fav album

[@jorgesblog8017]

I'm sure no Madonna fan agree, but I think after The 90's Madonna started taking a looot of Björk elements 🤷🏽‍♂️🥲 but she couldn't get good critics for it.

[@samueldennisLCSW]

X-static process for the win! Best track

[@cocopun]

At least she like nothing fails

[@andres.alegre]

This reaction was home of fobic

[@toby4643]

What's fobic?

[@mitchman3006]

Pause at 1:35

[@Powhart]

You need to react to Kylie's music now, that she's getting back on top as she should be!

[@stefaniweaver6563]

Love this album. Very underrated. I give it 5 stars

[@stefaniweaver6563]

Madonna lost her mother at 5 and her father never acknowledged it . He married the house keeper afterwards. Watch the Howard Stern interview.

[@joelparkinson3562]

one of my least favourite M albums but i LOVE die another day and love profusion

[@Los-Lounge]

Love ajayIi

[@jamesbillettjnr]

You give me goose dumps when you sang ....I'm not religious

[@zyonelzin4865]

She redid the video she became human because of 911 she released alit of videos one needs to look at the visuals to understand the lyrics,,, Die another day a James Bond movie,,,,, not a fan of certain songs are atrocious like I’m stupid lollll

[@andreysousa9546]

4:01

[@toneythompson1125]

You need to look at the video to the music

[@miriaborgess]

♡♡

[@DavidTyler]

wait she diss the theme from james bond

[@tamerhaddad5518]

She sounds like miley cyrus tryna WHAT-

[@happyswiftie6075]

REP

[@ballspenguin2264]

I think she was trying to drag out the word “rap” but it ended up kind of R Kelly 💀

[@EmilyTressa]

Some of the songs on the album are great but some personally I think some have too much going on. I love Nothing Fails, Die Another Day, And X-static Process. Honestly the only song I can’t stand is American Life. I think the electro sound is so cool and that this album is underrated and overlooked. Wish she didn’t call it American Life or have that as a single since it’s the worst song on the album.

[@ethypoo]

honestly i love it, but i agree the production on that track is a little overbearing but the lyrics are amazing

[@duke56299]

Actually I love American life! I think it’s one of her best songs! And the rap part I love! Lol

[@dantedash]

tbh i feel like you either love Music or this album lmao. they're so similar but so different

[@kamaal_i]

i love both, american life more

[@javiereduardoperez2839]

Mirwais production really aged quite bad

[@wqndavoidzz5033]

14:37 HELP HER REACTION-

[@chayo4537]

13:22 me 😭

[@soaribb32]

That album is messy is all hell lol

[@bastian_x.x]

The autotune is too much

[@EmilyTressa]

Yeah I think sometimes it’s fierce but sometimes it’s just overdone and over produced.

[@bulltrunch]

@@EmilyTressa so true. Madonna went autotune since the album Music. Which is quite unfortunate. Her first seven albums were absolutely stunning 🤩 and had no autotune at all. I miss her real voice.

[@ma71o]

She is the one that don't know that she lost their mother at five years old - _-

[@DjTrackcube]

Is that something everyone has to know? I don't think so

[@toby4643]

​@@DjTrackcube right. Most humans don't know that

[@vitordecastr0]

I don't like American Life at all, just Like few songs