‘American Life’ Won’t Dent Mass Pop Consciousness

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly reviewed Madonna’s new album ‘American Life’. Tucker says he doesn’t think the album “is going to dent mass pop consciousness in any appreciable way, and, of course, mass penetration is an absolute fundament of Madonnaology.” Tucker adds, “You can give her a Razzie, you can try sweeping her away with dismissals of irrelevance in a 50 Cent world, but you can’t count her out. At its best, her new album offers blunt, questing, decisive music at a chaotic time. At its weakest, she sounds like a gal who’s grown content with hubby and kids and the hard-earned privilege of hiring the help to keep herself at tip-top tautness.” Read more.