"I Love New York" - Madonna
I think most of us agree this song is pretty embarrassing, right? But it's solely to do with the lyrics, would you agree? I was just listening to it and the music itself is really fun, up there with the best on the album. I think if she'd written this song in her 20s people would've been a bit more forgiving, but as it is...
Still, the music reminds me of all that darkly melodic club music at that time when I was first going out to clubs. I actually really like this. Just gotta take the words out of it, haha.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 20, 2022 10:23 PM
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I thought the song was her kind of oblique homage to Blondie. The lyrics are deliberately stupid, like Blondie's were. I love the song. One of Madonna's best.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 19, 2022 9:03 PM
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That's a really interesting theory, R1! I like it!
I actually don't dislike this song as much as others seem to, either. Musically it's one of my favourites from the album.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 20, 2022 2:02 PM
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The lyrics are dumb, but sonically perfect, capturing the energy of the city. I like her live Confessions tour performance, where she throws in some Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" guitar riffs.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 20, 2022 2:36 PM
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A shoutout to her fellow Detroit native, Iggy Pop.
Blondie's lyrics could be dumb, repetitive nonsense. But there was a catchy beauty in them. And the hooks were like sugar. Madonna's song catches that idea and updates it. At least updated it to 2005.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 20, 2022 2:39 PM
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I was listening to this on Apple Music and noticed this song starts and ends with street noise which it doesn't on my album. I don't know why I'd forgotten that the album was released in two versions - a mixed and an unmixed version. To me the mixed version is THE album, so it was interesting hearing this song in a slightly different way.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 20, 2022 10:23 PM
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