Madonna
Ray Of Light

THE REVIEW

Madonna will never make an album like this again! Because she has lost her creativity and tries in every way to buy off critics by producing works decidedly outside her repertoire.
But in '98 she created, so to speak, since half of the work was done by Orbit, a mystical album with the real potential to remain the most successful experiment of giving a soul to techno, a genre I really like very little, but in the hands of Madonna/Orbit, it managed to express palpable emotions.
Forget all the prejudices about an artist who has tried for 20 years to please both the public and critics with clever marketing moves and shocking twists, but has never stopped being creative, has never rested on her laurels, and especially has never taken herself too seriously, an artist with formidable irony and who managed to bring even heavier and culturally evolved topics to an audience still immature and unprepared for styles and lyrics of more difficult understanding.

This is the most striking example, a melodic, mystical album, with lyrics that speak of family, spirituality, and everything that transformed Madonna from the porn diva of Erotica to Esther the super religious, it may all be marketing and falsehoods, but fortunately, what remains is the music, and here there are chapters of formidable music, my favorite song "Skin," where Madonna’s voice is as heavy as the various electronic loops, and it feels like being in a half-turned world, or "Sky Fits Heaven," or the beautiful "Mer Girl," where you find a Madonna evidently tired, who speaks to her daughter telling her that the forest hides dark plots, or "Frozen," a song also accompanied by a beautiful video, this is indisputably Madonna’s best album, where for the first time she’s discovered as a 360% artist, maybe she even took herself too seriously, maybe all this happy mom sheen is a farce, but who cares... this album moves me, and that's not a small thing for me.