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Writer's pictureKris Avalon

Madonna Fans Drag Rolling Stone For Calling American Life Her Worst Album



Madonna fans took to social media to get Rolling Stone all the way together via another one of their attention-seeking lists.


Not that long ago they were dragged for their attempt at rating who they believed to be great singers, and now fans are going to war over RS rating Madonna's ninth album American Life as her worst album.




American Life, the album's first single was polarizing to the pop world at first due to it's subject matter, and at the time the video was so controversial and ahead of it's time she removed it and replaced it with a far tamer visual of her singing against a green screen that showcased different flags.


Times have definitely changed since the album's release in 2003, because there's a whole YouTube video where we see Gen Z and millennials disecting and defending the subject matter in the original video.





Check out some of the clap back tweets against Rolling Stone:














Madonna, who is currently in rehearsals for her highly anticipated The Celebration Tour is unbothered by Rolling Stone's list.


Earlier this week, the pop icon announced that she’s releasing an exclusive 8-track EP celebrating American Life’s 20th anniversary and honoring late music producer and DJ Peter Rauhofer, who remixed many of her biggest dance hits.




In my opinion, Madonna has never really had a worst album. Even on albums people will deem her worst, they'll be full of catchy bops, and while RS may feel that American Life was her worst body of work, the album is full of catchy tracks.


American Life, Nobody Knows Me, Love Profusion, Mother and Father, X-Static Process, I'm So Stupid, Nothing Fails, Die Another Day - all bops among the Madonna fans.


Billboard chart placement is another story.


Not all the tracks I mentioned were released as singles, but it can't be denied that the album isn't cohesive and at times mixes aggressive, glitchy techno with poppy, soothing, folky acoustics via Mirwais' production.


Now I will admit when American Life first came out and she started rapping about soy lattes and double shottays, I did cringe quite a bit. However, 20 years later you can't get me to not recite that rap verse word for word.


As a Madonna fan and pop connoisseur, I got the point Madonna was trying to make with the album at the time. She was questioning fame, superficiality, people's obsession with fame, and challenging president George W. bush's lust for going to war.


The album overall explores culturally deep subject matter, and in my opinion this was Madonna at her most vulnerable, something clearly Rolling Stone's shallow brains aren't able to comprehend.




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