Madonna ‎– American Life

Hey, it wasn't even that bad, matter a fact, it was much better than I thought, even perhaps, a better album than "Music"...the latter was a fun and solid body of work, with a lot of great moments...but this album has a bit more, it displays both the girlie-carefree side of "Music" and the spiritual side of "Ray of Light"
...it's a balance somewhere between her last two albums.

...I'm not so sure about how swell her rhyming skills are, but other than that, there are a lot of great songs on here, and more than half of them on the album can stand as singles on their own...she has managed to become a very creative songwriter over the past few years...and I think that is something she (unfairly) does not often get credit for. ...Despite the shameless plugging in the James Bond film (ie: "Die Another Day") Madonna is turning her cheek to shallowness, and social decay...it is Madonna turning
completely cynical for a change, finally.

...The production, mostly electro-pop concieved by Mirwais comes in cue just in time during the over-rated hyped-up
electroclash movement, so she still proves she is always "up with the times"...but *luckily*
always thinks ahead of most people...her point of view, and blessed snow-blind talent saves her...but for the next album, if there is a next one, I'd like to hear her drop the showcase production, and produce a whole ablum on her own...it's probabbly the only thing she has not concurred yet.

I believe the only audio difference between this and the regular retail version is that the phrase "fuck it" in track 1 is censored.