Billboard ranks Madonna's 'American Life' from worst to best.
Three years earlier on, Madge further extended her Queen of Pop reign by aligning herself with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, then a relatively unknown Frenchman whose production style was built on swooping laser-like synths, finger-picked acoustic guitars and chopped-up rhythms that left you wondering whether your CD player had skipped.
This dream team was responsible for half of her hit 2000 album, including standouts “Don’t Tell Me,” “Impressive Instant” and “Paradise .” On this occasion, though, Madonna tasked Mirwais with co-producing the entire record.’s sound failed to match its striking cover art – a graffiti portrait of Madonna cosplaying as Cuban rebel Che Guevara – its lyrics were a little more revolutionary.
Audiences appeared to be confused by this combination of the familiar and the radical, however. Although it topped the Billboard 200 in its first week, it moved 241,000 copies in its first week, compared to’s first-week total of 420,000, according to Luminate. It remained Madonna’s lowest-selling album until 2012’s
. But does the record deserve a reevaluation two decades on? Twenty years after it first hit the shelves , here’s a ranking of its 11 tracks.While its title and the additional presence of co-writer Stuart Price would suggest some kind of ‘80s-tinged electric odyssey, “X-Static Process” is, in fact, a disappointingly bland campfire sing-along which has nothing in common with the dancefloor confessions that would soon follow.
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