Madame X * Madonna * Listen React Review * Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

[@ciaarcenico]

AMAZING REVIEW❤❤❤❤

[@popcultureweekly]

Thanks so much! It’s such an incredible album!

[@petermilonas8449]

Sensational review. This Madonna’s second best album. 12/10. Luv to Madonna. Doug has a great voice and is fair and complimentary. Not dismissive or disrespectful. Thank you Doug! 😊

[@MadonnaIsTheShit]

We (Madonna fans) need more reviews from you, sir! So thoughtful and intelligent! Thank you for showing Madonna the respect she deserves 💜

[@popcultureweekly]

Wow tysm! That really means a lot! I’m actually doing Ray of Light next to celebrate the 25th anniversary! I’ve gotten a lot of great recommendations on albums, but I think I’m also going to do Madonna’s whole catalogue eventually! (Sooner rather than later)

[@MadonnaIsTheShit]

@@popcultureweekly THIS!!!!! You just got a new subscriber 😉 I can't wait for the reviews!!

[@moonstone1159]

@@popcultureweekly Yay, ROL! Can't wait! I'm looking forward to it--and all the rest!

[@blueeyes4910]

finally someone who understood the beauty of this album, even if my favorite song is the one you don't like

[@popcultureweekly]

That’s the great thing about art, isn’t it? We can all see totally different things from the same piece. Tysm for watching!

[@elgabriel2983]

Madonna and this album is so underrated!

[@popcultureweekly]

Right?!?!?! Tysm for watching

[@Jsarson1976]

Totally I see this up there with Ray of Light 😊

[@TIVOSTUDIOS]

I think that this album is the most experimental and multicultural album she ever did, different from albums like Hard Candy I think this one will age the best

[@popcultureweekly]

I think it’ll end up being an American Life type of situation that gets better with age

[@runner4life551]

Oh definitely! Her experimental albums (RoL, Music, American Life, Madame X) seem to age way better than the ones where she's just following trends (Hard Candy, MDNA). Confessions is the exception though, it's straight dance-pop and disco and still perfection!

[@anittalovers23]

Listen BOYS DON'T CRY and LOBBY(ANITTA feat MISSY Eliott)

[@Jsarson1976]

Totally agree and will be praised in years to come.

[@runner4life551]

TIMESTAMPS! 00:00 Intro 01:29 Medellín (with Maluma) 03:59 Dark Ballet 06:53 God Control 11:07 Future (with Quavo) 13:12 Batuka 15:41 Killers Who Are Partying 20:01 Crave (with Swae Lee) 22:24 Crazy 24:14 Come Alive 26:23 Extreme Occident 29:10 Faz Gostoso (feat. Anitta) 32:50 Bitch I'm Loca (feat. Maluma) 34:55 I Don't Search I Find 36:46 Looking For Mercy 38:55 I Rise 41:03 Back That up to The Beat 42:37 Final thoughts

[@popcultureweekly]

OMG TYSM! You’re amazing!

[@reallywes6298]

I’m so glad to see someone give this album the appreciation it deserves.

[@popcultureweekly]

TYSM!! More M coming!

[@moonstone1159]

I've always liked her experimentation with vocodor effects and other electronic effects. This album grew on me and is one of my favorites.

[@universalsoulhealing]

It’s wonderful to hear you actually appreciate the details of the instrumentation and production rather than focus on the vocal effects. When this album came out there was such an ageist determination to claim that the production had been devised to conceal her vocal limitations, as if suddenly she could no longer sing more than three notes. In many ways Madonna’s voice is more raw on these tracks than it ever was on an Orbit track. This is clearly American Life’s long awaited sibling…It’s a shame Madonna’s persona overshadows the value of her musical genius. That’s not on her…just an unfortunate consequence of decades of being a socio-cultural agitator.

[@popcultureweekly]

I LOOOOOVE American Life & totally agree with you on literally everything you said’

[@moonstone1159]

@@popcultureweekly Love AL too!

[@briandubois-gilbert8182]

First time viewer-Really appreciate and enjoyed your reaction to this album. Your deep knowledge, appreciation and insight into pop music is so refreshing-specially when you compare Madonna’s artistry with today’s artists. Luv it when you superimposed some of the lyrics of her songs-gives it that much more impact and meaning. She worked on this album from 2017 thru it’s release in 2019 amidst a highly polarized geo-political climate that saw the rise of illiberal authoritarian right-wing regimes that’s anathema to her core socio-political beliefs and advocacy. I think this explains why this album is more political than celebratory or entertaining. The music videos and live tour performances of Madame X (as she’s achieved in her prior albums) gave more impactful and richer artistic visual and messaging than the audio version can do. As a student and lover of history, the numbers that stunned me was the haunting interlude of the coffin and the beautiful Portuguese religious hymn Maria, Máe de Deus, Maria, Máe de Jesus (not in the album, but in the live tour) where I think she honored the Catholic tradition of Portugal and the Marian apparition at Fatima. This introduced Batuca featuring the all-female generational Batukadeiras ensemble from Cape Verde Islands (former Portuguese colony). This music was unique, empowering, uplifting and healing that evoked the history, struggles, defiance and ultimate liberation of West Africans and their descendants, some of mixed-race or Creole, during the centuries of the lucrative trans-Atlantic slave trade when Cape Verde became the hub for holding, sorting, and the trading of millions of Africans captured as slaves and transported to the Americas thru the horrific voyage known as the Middle Passage. Madonna is unmatched in her artistic genius and vision. Looking forward for more coverage from your channel of Madonna’s music and artistry.

[@popcultureweekly]

Thank you so much for the historical background! That’s so fascinating. And thanks for watching!

[@steven-yu3tu]

I love this album and still listen to it from time to time. The first time I heard it, I thought Madonna really lost her mind but once you understand what it is and where it comes from, its pretty ambitious and beautiful. There are a few artistic choices I would change that I think would have kept it experimental yet made it more commercially listenable. In Medellin, I really wish she would have gone full chorus after the first pre-chorus. It would have drew people in sooner and those harmonies are just so good. There are a few places I would have toned down the auto tune. I know its an artistic choice, but isn’t necessary in all places. Your music knowledge is very solid and appreciated. I agree that its an album that is best from start to finish.

[@popcultureweekly]

Thank u so much! I really appreciate it! And I agree that skipping the chorus after the first verse gives musical blue balls 😂

[@TheMadonnasummer]

I love how you really took the time to delve into each song and appreciate the production and the amazingly prolific Madonna. Most people when they hear her name don’t ever take into consideration why she has lasted so long . She is a hard ass working and amazing artist, performance artist at that. Thank you for this amazing reaction/ review . I enjoyed this a lot 💜💜💜🪩🪩🪩👑👑👑

[@popcultureweekly]

Thank you so much! Next M video coming very very soon ;)

[@Princess7ives]

I subscribed for the Queen. Great reaction! I love Madonna, more reactions, please!

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm! Up next is Ray of Light for the 25th anniversary

[@e.s.9080]

Radio has written off Madonna as too old, unmarketable by whowhever decides demographics. The irony is that Madonna still manages without so-called acceptance. She's been long accepted, acknowledged and crowned, so she does what she wants creatively and has the money to reap the rewards or eat the losses. Not many of can claim that freedom. The other bit of irony is that her music always returns years later and is re-evaluated and accepted as ahead of it's time. She knows exactly what she's doing...have faith in her.

[@popcultureweekly]

Look at Like A Prayer now

[@kimbaedie]

Finally, someone who also loves Faz Gostoso as much as I do! Totally agree how this would have been a great summer song. Great album review.👍👍

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm! Yes Faz is so caliente! 🔥

[@graphiquejack]

I feel like she knew it could have been a hit, but she really wanted the artistic vision to be focused on the political songs, primarily. Interviewers were telling her it needed a video but she cheekily said she didn’t have the money for it. Lol

[@leco.xd.]

more anitta please, react anitta boys don´t cry

[@popcultureweekly]

Thanks so much! I’ll add it to the list!

[@2xrodri]

Up

[@sirex02]

A plus reaction mister! Finally a reactor that lets the music play then comments about what he's heard....Love Madonna ....I also have another artist request if you're familiar...Tori Amos please!

[@popcultureweekly]

Awesome tysm I’ll add her to the list. Any particular album you think is like a “classic” album of hers?

[@sirex02]

@@popcultureweekly Tori Amos is a child Prodigy who began playing piano at age two and has performed over a thousand shows. She's touring this summer. She's released sixteen albums. You might wanna start with her proper debut called Little Earthquakes. She did release a failed big 80s pop rock synth album with her band Y Kant Tori Read...a fan favorite. Enjoy the journey with one of the deepest and most prolific singer songwriters of our generation.

[@shadowboxercl]

@@popcultureweekly from the choirgirl hotel

[@ejm6460]

I feel that you fully understood and appreciated this album ❤️

[@terrystorey]

I always thought they were saying CON troll. Emphasis on CON. I love that you called her RapDonna. I personally love RockDonna, which she morphs into once in a while also. This album was the only album I listened to for two years straight. I feel like it is one of her very best albums. Top 5 imo. She's a genius. This was the best album in 2019 imo. It's too bad that the masses could not see this, and they continue to listen to the same drivel that all sounds the same.

[@popcultureweekly]

I totally agree! Tysm for watching! Ray of Light is up next!

[@moonstone1159]

The political connection she makes between "God" & "Gun/s" with "Con" is powerful!

[@Phippa64]

Great reaction! Please review more Madonna.

[@popcultureweekly]

Ray of Light is up next!

[@First-q6l]

This is my 2nd favorite Madonna record after Erotica! I like her more artsy side vs. the standard pop sound.

[@popcultureweekly]

I love it so much!

[@bentoth6377]

Masterpiece 👌

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm! Ray of Light is next :)

[@getrealoky9947]

This Album is great! Typical Madonna experimental! Future is soooo gooood

[@popcultureweekly]

I totally agree!!

[@caios1433]

Anitta is so good

[@popcultureweekly]

I’ve got her on the list to review :)

[@anittalovers23]

​@@popcultureweekly React ANITTA's album VERSIONS OF ME with 2 billion streams

[@andersonbs2702]

o mundo é selvagem, o caminho é solitário, é, é, é... The world is wild, the path is lonely, yeah, yeah, yeah...

[@MrEdOliiver]

So cute the way you say "caçacha"...🇧🇷

[@popcultureweekly]

Haha am I pronouncing it wrong?

[@MrEdOliiver]

@@popcultureweekly it's "cachaça" but I think it's cuter when you say...😁

[@fernandoalayola8338]

Amazing Álbum !!! Great Reaction

[@popcultureweekly]

It really is! Tysm!

[@ejm6460]

I wish you could also hear a bonus track "Ciao Bella", you would truly appreciate it I feel

[@rodrigorodrigo1230]

the reason why i like this vids of people reacting to music is bevause even though i may have lstened the album 10000 times, the people who reacts always found something new. it happens all the time, but this was definitely, my favourite of all the ones ive seen.. hahaha

[@popcultureweekly]

Oh wow tysm! That’s such a huge compliment !

[@galactictiger9947]

Top 3 best Madonna's albums ever 🔥 great reaction

[@popcultureweekly]

TYSM!!

[@josephprovencher6345]

I absolutely appreciate your reaction to the Queen of Pop, and this is my first time on your channel and you've done so great by that I've subscribed and put it all notifications! Looking forward to what you'll react to next ❤

[@popcultureweekly]

OMG wow tysm!!! I really really appreciate it!

[@josephprovencher6345]

@@popcultureweekly not a problem at all, I genuinely hope your channel grows

[@noproblemnostress963]

More Madonna please

[@popcultureweekly]

Ray of Light is up next for its 25th anniversary!

[@ejm6460]

I always said that Crave was the centerpiece of the whole album. Prior to that was a very experimental music but at and after Crave she marries the two: the creative and commercial

[@escapingboredom6958]

Great reaction. I can see you already did your homework and know why she created this album. Looking forward to more reactions. Subscribed to your channel for my Queen ❤️

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm!! Ray of light is up next!

[@irina1296]

This is a World Music Album from Madonna. Once again, she made something FRESH and DIFFERENT. I'm in minority but Madame X is my 5th favorite Madonna album. I love its concept too. Most favorite tracks of mine are Looking for Mercy, Batuka, God Control, Future, Crave and I Don't Search I Find

[@EmilioCadernMne]

Will you talk about Madonna's albums? Well, You've got a new follower from Mexico! Great review! Madame X is such an underrated album! With much American Life vibes, and that just can be good

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm! The Ray of Light listen comes out tonight!

[@EmilioCadernMne]

@@popcultureweekly I’m watching it right now! 🫶🥰

[@anthonyflynn6228]

Great review! This one took me a while because of the vocal effects. I am now used to them and can appreciate the complex work this is. My favorite album is still American Life.

[@popcultureweekly]

I LOVE American Life

[@zanyzander]

Loved it. Was hoping u would include Funana and Ciao Bella.

[@popcultureweekly]

I was going back and forth on if I should include them, but decided against it. Now I feel like I should have lol. Thanks for watching!

[@Iza_Santanna]

React to Anitta - Boys don't cry Anitta Queen worldwide 👑 she is very power woman singer in 5 languages

[@anittalovers23]

React ANITTA's Performance in the VMAs and the Global hit ENVOLVER by ANITTA! ANITTA is on GUINNESS BOOK! She was the first female latin artist to reach the top 1 Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, iTunes, KZbin Music Video and BILBOARD GLOBAL consecutively with a solo song and she wons the VMAs, AMAs, EMA, PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS, LOS 40 MUSIC AWARDS and she was nominated to the GRAMMY React the album VERSIONS OF ME album with 2 billion streams

[@popcultureweekly]

She’s on the list for upcoming reacts! :)

[@AppleCinnamon1]

Finally Enough Love and Future are my favorites but I love the other tracks too especially Looking for mercy.

[@hutnerbaekUBS]

Subscribed for Madonna! 🙏❤️ Thank you for this.

[@moonstone1159]

If you haven't already, another masterul and controversial artist to review is the Spanish singer (from Barcelona, Spain) is Rosalia. Her first two albums "Los Angeles" and "El Mal Querer" are especially powrful. She will be around for a long time.

[@popcultureweekly]

She’s on the list! Thanks so much for watching

[@EAB82]

I love Madame X.. Come Alive is my favorite

[@3O2Nick]

LETS GO, KYLE!

[@jimmybelc2057]

You should react to confessions on a dancefloor it’s masterpiece

[@joasdavi693]

Great review 👏👏👏👏

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm!! Thanks for watching

[@ralfgraebel4257]

Madonna is the Love of my life....she is a brilliant Artist and she has the right to do what she wants to Bring her music to Life....i d'ont Like every Song but why should she Produce Hit after Hit....a Artist is Not a hitmachine

[@popcultureweekly]

I couldn’t agree more! Tysm for watching! I’ll be doing M’s whole catalogue from the start forward :)

[@California_dreaming]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@popcultureweekly]

TYSM! Lots more M coming!

[@ManiaDeEstrelato]

Anittaaaa❤ queen

[@popcultureweekly]

I’ll be doing an album of hers soon!

[@dalee72]

I'm a big Madonna fan but although I appreciate the experimental aspect and especially the political messages in the album but this is one of my least favorite Madonna albums. I don't like the over use of autotune on the album. I like only 2 songs on this album which are Come Alive and Faz Gostoso. Are you going backwards chronologically in her discography? If not then I suggest that you start from the beginning with her debut album Madonna and on in order to appreciate her evolution as an artist.

[@popcultureweekly]

I took your suggestion :)

[@OBJUAN.]

Don't forget these two additional tracks:kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZfChp9qnbGoqqM&ab_channel=MegaMixMasters

[@popcultureweekly]

I was debating whether to do the international bonus tracks at all. Ended up choosing Back That… due to the TikTok craze

[@dncmsc1]

You got rhythm 🕺

[@popcultureweekly]

Ayyyy tysm!

[@ennyonline]

Thank you for reacting! Keep the videos coming. You should react to Beyoncé's new album. :)

[@popcultureweekly]

Thank YOU for watching! Great suggestion I’ll put it on the list!

[@brunorafael8440]

React - Anitta - Álbum Versions of me

[@popcultureweekly]

Tysm! I’ve got her on the list!

[@shaunhoward6838]

Can u please do Kylie Minogues 2020 DISCO album?! Kylies a Queen 👑💯👌

[@popcultureweekly]

You’re the 2nd person whose asked so it’s on the short list :)

[@shaunhoward6838]

@@popcultureweekly cheers bro ill keep my eye out 👌💯💿

[@kristianberg4264]

As a 40yr Madonna fan, I can say one of my least favorite albums after American Life. Crave is the only song I can tolerate.

[@popcultureweekly]

It’s definitely different but one of my favs

[@kristianberg4264]

@@popcultureweekly -I respect that, I’m one of the few, as most seem to like it, though I always enjoy her experimentation & growth.

[@albertramirez9770]

🎙️”If I was abducted by gay aliens, that’s what be playing” 🌈👽🌈👽👈🏼 LMAOROTF 😂👏🏼😍👍🏼

[@popcultureweekly]

😂😂😂 Tysm for watching

[@bertramlobberts4987]

React ray of light album

[@popcultureweekly]

It’s up next! :)

[@AppleCinnamon1]

🤍💙❤💪✌😘🌹🌿🌾

[@wagnercorrea_]

Madonna is a legend!

[@popcultureweekly]

1 million %!!

[@netolemos7474]

React to like a prayer by Madonna

[@TheGamerClubber]

I LOVE MADONNA ❤️...but MADAME X is my least favorite. TRACKS I LOVE: ✓ GOD CONTROL❤️ ✓ FUTURE ❤️ ✓FAZ GOSTOSO❤️ ✓ CRAVE ✓ CRAZY ✓ I DONT SEARCH, I FIND ✓ DARK BALLET (but I like the REMIX / DANCE version most) ✓KILLERS WHO ARE PARTYING ✓COME ALIVE ✓ I RISE

[@popcultureweekly]

That’s most of the album, though lol ;)

[@TheGamerClubber]

@@popcultureweekly Crazy, right? But I have a stronger conection with CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR & EROTICA. --- I know its Madonna style to be brave and dare New things but...c'mon...BATUKA? 😬😬😬

[@ikelwin]

react to anitta songs

[@popcultureweekly]

That’s on the list! Someone suggested an album of hers I’m going to do coming up :)

[@ikelwin]

@@popcultureweekly great, also react to her music videos. It's a plus!

[@giancarlo5316]

Very good ideas and material but really bad editing .... Madonna's lost the plot since 2015 at that issue 🤔

[@christinepugliese-lf8fy]

I like the Madame x theme, all the women in one woman for the nuanced and rhythmic representations by Madonna👍👍🫶🫶🙏🙏

[@popcultureweekly]

Totally agree!

[@jartober]

Bad album that she promoted for years after the release. God Control wasn't really hers , Medellin is awful...I could go on and on. If you think this is an outstanding album, please revisit Erotica and ROL, Bedtime Stories. To each their own, but it's just terrible. The best song that wasn't even on the album is Ciao Bella.

[@popcultureweekly]

Hard disagree on it being bad. But it’s all subjective, which is the great thing about awry. The melody to the chorus of God Control wasn’t hers, to which she offered to pay the original songwriter for. I do love Ciao Bella!! I do love Ray of Light, that’s up next to review :)

[@jartober]

@Pop Culture Weekly she only offered AFTER it was revealed. She gave him no credit early on. She could have made the album brilliant but it certainly did not wind up that way.

[@naurking5388]

Out of all her albums you reacted to her second worst 💀

[@popcultureweekly]

Lol awwww no

[@jartober]

Exactly. No real Madonna fan would love it. He's clearly just getting into her lol. Some of us are old and have been there since 82

[@naurking5388]

@@jartober there's not such thing as real fan, you ain't special. The album is mediocre cause it's mediocre, nothing else.

[@jartober]

@@naurking5388 absolutely there are. A real fan can mean many things. Especially when it comes to Madonna.

[@13dxavier]

The album is great. Been a fan since 89