Rebel Heart
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Rebel Heart
Rebel Heart is the thirteenth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Madonna. Interscope Records released it on March 6, 2015. Following the completion of her MDNA album and its promotion, Madonna worked on Rebel Heartthroughout 2014, co-writing and co-producing it with various musicians, including Diplo, Avicii, and Kanye West. Unlike her previous endeavors, working with many collaborators posed problems for Madonna in keeping a cohesive sound and creative direction for the album. - WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Madonna gets down with Kanye, Avicii and more on a super-catchy, sexed-up album.
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CoS
leans too steeply into too many trends at once, making it a scattered affair that flashes between drudgery and brilliance.
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Pitchfork
Rebel Heart finds her recoiling and resigning from it, refusing it, examining her own history and crushing it under her boot heel.
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TIME
It’s the realest, and the best, Madonna has sounded in quite some time.
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sputnik music
Bitch, no one cares.
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The Telegraph
she’s in the game again.
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SLANT
best album in at least a decade.
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Entertainment
A love it/loathe it debate.
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The Guardian
Half of Madonna’s 13th album seems concerned with proving she can keep up with the kids. The other half is mature, reflective – and far more affecting.
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The Quietus
Rebel Heart tracks a left ventricle/right ventricle split between the spirit of a defiant, angry trailblazer, and a more insouciant, romantic soul.
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THE burg
Madonna is at her best and most provocative when she lets down her guard a bit, stops worrying about whether she’s hip or hip-hop enough for contemporary primetime, puts away the lingerie, and just reflects on what it’s like being this strange being of her own creation.
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INDEPENDENT
A confirmation of Madonna's sustained musical relevance.
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DAILY NEWS
Madonna's album bares her soul in a way she never has before.
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glide magazine
Rebel Heart is better than anything Madonna has put out in a while.
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The National
fine collection of sturdy pop tunes where finally Madonna allows herself to look back and pilfer from her peak periods of the early 2000s and late eighties.
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The Los Angeles Times
Madonna channels defiance and devotion on confident 'Rebel Heart'.
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AV/MUSIC
Madonna bridges her bulletproof past and reflective present.
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NOW
This array of styles flows nicely thanks to Madonna's ear for simple and clean melodies.
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popMATTERS
very much the first Madonna album that’s actually about Madonna with a majority of these tracks commenting on her own history and accomplishments with varying degrees of success.
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NME
feels like a wasted opportunity.
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ALL MUSIC
Certainly, the ambition remains, along with the hunger to remain on the bleeding edge, but she's allowing her past to mingle with her present, allowing her to seem human yet somewhat grander at the same time.
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Boston Globe
her most satisfying effort in a decade.
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paste
Rebel Heart is not a perfect record--it meanders at lengthy 19 tracks--but it does boast some of the most introspective and lyrics Madonna has ever penned.
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Chicago Tribune
an unusually personal album that seems less about keeping up and more about taking stock.
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musicOHM
for all its flaws, there’s something undeniably addictive.
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billboard
Blends Inventive Beats and Maximalist Pop.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
it suffers from the same malaise of of overabundance.
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The Line of Best Fit
It’s often amazing, and occasionally crap. If she deleted half of its tracks, it’d be the comeback record she was hoping for.
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SPIN
even in the record's clunkier moments, it's gratifying to hear Madonna leaning defiantly (and gleefully) into what many would consider to be the less savory elements of her personality.
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PRETTY MUCH AMAZING
For every godawful moment, which come and go with a sad frequency on Rebel Heart, there are glimmers of virtuosity buried within the overworked mess.
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PPCORN
This is her greatest work since 2005’s Confessions On A Dance Floor.
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The Washington Post
“Rebel Heart” will sound like a string of poor decisions made by an icon with evaporating confidence and deteriorating taste.
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Cryptic Rock
The music is made for the dance floor, including electronic elements and samples to create a groove.
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Digital Spy
Rebel Heart has enough truly great songs to reinforce Madonna's status as a pop chameleon.
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plugged in
it's all present in a jumble of love, sex and spirituality that gets mashed messily together.
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The Irish Times
Overall, though . . . is it safe to say it? it’s good to have her back.
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cleveland.com
'Rebel Heart' is defiant to a fault.
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The Daily Californian
‘Rebel Heart’ could use a bit more beat.
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Bearded Gentlemen Music
an elder stateswoman trying to regain a piece of her youth.
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TimeOut
Queen Madge’s latest album is more pop than flop.
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Live in Limbo
I seriously love this album.
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breathe heavy
‘Rebel Heart’ is proof that when it comes to pop music, age is just a number.
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PHOTO groupie
Simply put it's a highly evolved work of pop genius!
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NOTED
Poor old Madge. How did she get this wan, this tired, this inconsequential?
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The Front Row Report
Madonna delivers a simultaneously complex, introspective, fun, and sexy album that won’t let you down.
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the Filtered Lens
“Rebel Heart” may not be a masterpiece, but it’s one of the better pop albums of the year so far.
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Thomas Bleach
has some strong material but its riddled with messy b-side worthy tracks that shouldn’t have seen the light of day.
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thump
Safely Evolves Without Reinventing.
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METRO WEEKLY
Madonna's big-budget and lavishly promoted new album has fallen off a cliff and is nowhere to be found.
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REFINERY29
Rebel Heart may be a new take, but it's the same badass Madonna.
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Shane Marais.net
It’s almost as if Madonna, who has reinvented herself into a corner, has no new masks to wear.
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VADA
Rebel Heart then is not a return to the dance floor, its considerable running time unusually contains almost an album’s worth of ballads and mid-tempos.
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Medium
I think she did a very exquisite job on the album.
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muumuse
Long live the Queen.
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brent music reviews
Madonna Sounds Fierce on ‘Rebel Heart.
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EDWIN ROMAN
Is dumbing it down the only way to appeal to young people?
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Detroit Metro Times
this could be one of Madonna's loosest, campiest records.
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