Music Monday: Madonna #RebelHeart #O2O

Katie March 16, 2015 0 Comments

Living For Love
Devil Pray
Ghosttown
Unapologetic Bitch
Illuminati
Bitch I’m Madonna
Hold Tight
Joan of Arc
Iconic
HeartBreakCity
Holy Water
Inside Out
Wash All Over Me

Before you read any further – Madonna’s latest CD contains songs about sex and drugs. If this is something you’re uncomfortable with you’ll either want to avoid this CD or you’ll have a few songs that you’ll want to skip. I don’t mind the sex songs but I did skip the few that had drug references just because that has no interest to me in my life or music.

This is the 13th studio album from Madonna and was released on March 6, 2015. Six songs had been available since December due to leaks – so Madonna put the pre-order up on iTunes with an immediate 6 song download.  The album includes songs Madonna wrote and produced with the help of Diplo, Avicii and Kanye West.

I found that a lot of the songs I didn’t like the first go-round, started to grow on me a bit more when I listened more.  This is a pop and dance album so it has some good beats.

Order on iTunes : http://bit.ly/REBELHEART

I participated in the Madonna Rebel Heart album review program as a member of One2One Network. I was provided an album to review but all opinions are my own.

Music Monday: Paramore Paramore

Katie March 16, 2015 0 Comments

Fast In My Car
Now
Grow Up
Daydreaming
Interlude: Moving On
Ain’t It Fun
Part II
Still Into You
Anklebiters
Interlude: Holiday
Proof
Hate To See Your Heart Break
(One of Those) Crazy Girls
Interlude: I’m Not Angry Anymore
Be Alone
Future

I’ve been hearing a lot of great things about Paramore lately, so I figured it might be time that I listened to a full album of theirs.  Late last year they released a Deluxe version of their self-titled album.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t get into it.  I was listening to it while doing some work on my computer (which is really how I listen to most of my music – it’s almost always the radio when I am in the car on the way to/from work unless it’s an extended road trip when the radio repeating itself quickly gets on my nerves) and the only songs that got me to perk up even the slightest were Ain’t It Fun and Still Into You – probably because I knew these from the radio.  I also seem to have a hard time getting into female singers (that aren’t 90s pop princesses, I guess) so that might have some to do with it as well.

I’ll probably give this album another chance at a later time to see if I still feel the same – but for right now I’m giving it 3 out of 5 stars.