I can still vividly remember the 22 April 2003, when I hung up the album for the first time ... it was a very sunny, for April pretty hot day ... American Life, which was the theme song for many getting used to at first for me, but I learned to appreciate and love song, though less lyrically (the rap nevertheless I found it very cool), but even more combined on a musical level ... the chopped staccato beat with warm guitars practiced quickly to me a fascination ... hollywood I immediately liked, a nice guitar driven pop song, which was coupled out at exactly the right time of year, with Hollywood making driving much more enjoyable ... I'm so stupid I also like rock due to various bonds, the long-drawn " i'm "Although at the beginning less my case, but does not detract from the song ... love can profusion you like hollywood see as cute little pop song that sounds closed just beautiful and located in ... nobody knows me is for I certainly no favorite of the album, but still a very cool song (in a positive sense) and a welcome change from the warmer gittarensongs ... now comes my first mega-highlight of the album: Nothing Fails, one of the most beautiful Madonna songs ever, the Choir is absolutely poignant and strong ... I love this song especially ... intervention is a first class piece which reminds guitar too heavily on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I like her singing particularly like this song ... now follows with X-Static Process my second highlight of the album and immediately became clear to me: bob dylan, it would have done no better, since X-Static Process a song could be in the style of his works ... with the song I connect personally very much. .. my favorite song on the album ... mother and father again is a very fascinating song, the song of the album that sounds the most like 80's ... here I like even even for once the vocal distortion, which at the end in a musical increase culminates which I found brilliant from the very beginning ... Die Another Day is for me the second best Bond song and I was really glad that he found space on American Life ... with easyride puts Madonna one of the best singles of all non times before, this is an epic song again, with all its strings, the understandable lyrics and the whole bombast, and the melancholy that surrounds this great song!
American Life is a very big album, musically and lyrically seen very interesting and complex ... sales are me basically in AL could not care less ... Madonna came back ground and personal, a self-tight, closed and atmospheric album, which you can hear always ... I liked some of the bonds and references to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Pet Shop Boys (nobody knows me) ... once again a successful magic moment in Madonna's musical create ... thx, la Ciccone ...
