Years later I could from durchgenallten "Nobody knows me" no longer leave and discovered almost in passing that "Easy Ride" and "Nothing Fails" definitely two of Madonna's best, most beautiful and most profound songs EVER have. What should have been on this CD in 2003 as bulky for me or difficult to access, me remains a mystery and can not be explained. Perhaps reverses a shoe 'it - keeps this music and wearing just a little longer than the "Into the grooves" and "Hung ups" - this album is not in the first line of fun, it moves and touches. If you immerse yourself in the texts a, to get down to business here. The album is not really happy - it skin and tweaks and sometimes it also cries. Self-love, religiousness, parental and prejudices, not unusual Madonna topics - but here it is consistent and musically. Never before an album was so well-produced, sophisticated songs such, yet impressive in simple riffs or Lines. While "Ray of Light" with William Orbit floats through oceans and galaxies pushes us "American Life" in the earth, on the ground and our face directly to the cold mirror.
Never before, and so far not even then, Madonna was like here and titles such as "X-Static Process" or "Nothing Fails" are extremely misunderstood sizes. Madonna makes a lot of funny things, but every now and then quite fantastic music and therefore it is an international star, not because of the nipples!
