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È bello, brutto, pompato, schifosamente dance, è "Donna Summer rianimata dai Daft Punk", sesso a caccia di sesso, è "la mirror ball del Danceteria che si schianta su Ground Zero", nient'altro che un ritorno al passato, nient'altro che una furba, colta antologia di citazioni: a volte velate, altre no.

Tutto vero, tutto falso. Con un solo punto fermo: è Madonna, e funziona. Ancora una volta. Definitivamente abbandonata la pista "elettrorock" di "Ray Of Lights", Louise Veronica Ciccone, insieme al fidato Stewart Price (aka "Les Rhythmes Digitales" vel "Jacques Lu Cont", forse non un genio, ma un maestro sicuramente), sceglie di far girare il tutto intorno ad un motivo semplice semplice, ma così stramaledettamente di moda: la dance anni '80.
E allora balla, canta, provoca, sculetta, cita chiunque gli passi per la testa (Abba, Prodigy, New Order), cade nell'autocelebrazione più pura (gli archi di "Let it will be" ne sono un esempio, e poi "Push", che tanto ricorda "Like a prayer"), strappa vocoder dalle mani dei Kraftwerk ("Sorry"), e non si vergogna di derubare i Daft Punk dei loro strumenti migliori (i filtri) spargendo qui e là gocce di spiritualità condita di French Touch (Air).

È un disco da ascoltare, da ballare, sempre d’un fiato per preservare l’inganno. Da sottolineare la grande fluidità nel passaggio da canzone a canzone: e sembra di ascoltare non un normale album, bensì una sorta di “mixato”, un ininterrotto continuum di “confessioni” .
Si parte a mille con “Hung up”, il primo estratto, si prosegue con i numerosi richiami retro di “Get together” , per arrivare al secondo esplosivo singolo, “Sorry”, forse il brano più energico e coinvolgente dei Dodici, e si va avanti, sempre senza soluzione di continuità: “Future Lovers” (vedi Donna Summer), “I love New York”, “Forbidden love” (vedi Kraftwerk), e poi “Jump”, che con il suo ritmo riesce a spingere “on the dancefloor” anche i più timidi e impacciati.

Chiudono il tutto “How high”, “Isaac” (la voce in coda al brano è di Yitzhak Sinwami, rabbino del London Kabbalah Centre), e lo scuro, morbido step sequencer di “Like it or not”. È sicuramente banale sottolineare il grande stile che caratterizza tutto il disco, ma lo si deve, perché prima di essere elettronico-dance-celebrativo alla nausea è pur sempre e soprattutto pop, grande pop, e se si toglie lo stile, scompare il gusto di ascoltare. E di ballare.

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01   Hung Up (00:00)

Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting for you

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do

Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
I don't know what to do

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Ring, ring, ring goes the telephone
The lights are on but there's no one home
Tick tick tock, it's a quarter to two
And I'm done
I'm hanging up on you

I can't keep on waiting for you
I know that you're still hesitating
Don't cry for me
'Cause I'll find my way
You'll wake up one day
But it'll be too late

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Every little thing
Every little thing
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you

Waiting for your call
Waiting for your call
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
So slowly (x11)

I don't know what to do

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby, night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Every little thing
Every little thing
Im hung up
Im hung up on you

Waiting for your call
Waiting for your call
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

(Fade as clock ticks)

02   Get Together (00:00)

(It's all an illusion)
(There's too much confusion)
(It's all an illusion)
(There's too much confusion)

Down
Down
Down in your heart
Find
Find
Find the secret
Turn
Turn
Turn your head around
Baby we can do it
We can do it alright

CHORUS
Do you believe in love at first sight?
It's an illusion, I don't care
Do you believe I can make you feel better?
Too much confusion, come on over here.


Can we get together?
I really, I really wanna be with you
Come on check it out with me
I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too

I search
I search
I search my whole life
To find
To find
To find the secret
And all I did was open up my eyes
Baby we can do it
We can do it alright

Do you believe that we can change the future?
Do you believe I can make you feel better?

Can we get together?
I really, I really wanna be with you
Come on check it out with me
I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too

Can we get together?
I really, I really wanna be with you
Come on check it out with me
I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too


It's all an illusion
There's too much confusion
I'll make you feel better
If it's bitter at the start
Then it's sweeter in the end

CHORUS

Can we get together?
I really, I really wanna be with you
Come on check it out with me
I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too

Can we get together?
I really, I really wanna be with you
Come on check it out with me
I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too



It's all an illusion
There's too much confusion
I'll make you feel better
If it's bitter at the start
Then it's sweeter in the end

03   Sorry (00:00)

Sorry

Je suis désolé
Lo siento
Ik ben droevig
Sono spiacente
Perdóname

I've heard it all before
I've heard it all before
I've heard it all before
I've heard it all before
(repeat)

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say you're sorry
I've heard it all before
And I can take care of myself

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say 'forgive me'
I've seen it all before
And I can't take it anymore

You're not half the man you think you are
Save your words because you've gone too far
I've listened to your lies and all your stories
You're not half the man you'd like to be

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say you're sorry
I've heard it all before
And I can take care of myself

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say 'forgive me'
I've seen it all before
And I can't take it anymore

Don't explain yourself cause talk is cheap
There's more important things than hearing you speak
We stayed because I made it so convenient
Don't explain yourself you'll never see

(Sorry in multiple languages)
(Sorry, in english, looped multiple times)

I've heard it all before

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say you're sorry
I've heard it all before
And I can take care of myself

I don't want to hear
I don't want to know
Please don't say 'forgive me'
I've seen it all before
And I can't take it anymore

Don't explain yourself cause talk is cheap
There's more important things than hearing you speak

04   Future Lovers (00:00)

I'm gonna tell you about love
Let's forget your life
Forget your problems
Administration, bills and loans
Come with me

In the evidence of its brilliance (4x)

Spoken:
In the demonstration of this evidence
Some have called it religion
This is not a coincidence
Would you like to try?

Connect to the sky
Future lovers ride, their ambitions high
Would you like to try?
Let me be your guide
Put aside your strife
Future lovers hide love inside their eyes

In the evidence of its brilliance (4x)

Not controlled by time
Future lovers shine for eternity
In a world that's free
Put away your past
Love will never last
If you're holding on to a dream that's gone

I'm gonna tell you about love
Would you like to try?

In the evidence of its brilliance (4x)

There's no love like the future love

Come with me

Connect to the sky, future lovers ride
Their ambitions high
Would you like to try?

Brilliance ... (4x)

In the evidence of its brilliance

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Altre recensioni

Di  CRAVESTMAN

 Questo disco è LA SUMMA DELLA DISCO ANNI 70-80-90-00.

 La bravura sta nel sapere sempre rielaborare il passato per farne qualcosa di nuovo piacevole a tutti.


Di  manovalanza

 Madonna fa una scelta anticlassica: parlare di ansia e rassegnazione sotto uno strato di miele dance.

 Il mondo dello spettacolo è carne da macello, spremuto da un business che sacrifica la salute degli artisti.