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Madonna's “Girls Gone Wild” Induces Existential Dread, Cultural Bewilderment
Title — a drug allusion that might have been mildly edgy in about 1988 — should have been another clue that Madonna’s days of being at the vanguard, as opposed to wheezing along in the pack, were long behind her.Even so, “Girls Gone Wild” is dreadful. Head-scratchingly, cringe-inducingly, depressingly horrible. It’s like every pop music cliché of the last ten years rolled into three hellish minutes and 19 seconds, a gestalt roll call of influences from an artist who’s clearly lost any power of innovation she may have once possessed. It’s like its creator has sat down and decided exactly what she needs to do to create a chart-topper — what producer to work with, what persona to project, what lyrical angle to take.
And good grief, the lyrics. We often (rightly) criticize male musicians for refusing to grow up — so surely it’s about time Madonna lost her interminably dull Catholic-girl-gone-bad schtick? For all that she’s frequently held up as an example of a strong woman succeeding in a male-dominated industry, here Madonna has about as much to do with feminism as Rick Santorum does with broad-mindedness. The lyric to “Girls Gone Wild” is a list of tired lapsed-Catholic clichés that only serve to reinforce the idea that sex, drugs, and those 808 drums are somehow guilty pleasures, as opposed to just, y’know, pleasures. Healthy pleasures, even. “I know I shouldn’t act this way/ I know good girls don’t misbehave/ But I’m a bad girl anyway,” moans Madge over the middle-eight, as your correspondent slowly loses the will to live. Honestly, this sort of piffle is puerile enough coming from Gaga and Ke$ha, let alone a 53-year-old adult who a) should know better and b) should surely have more interesting things to say with the global stage that her career has granted her.