{"id":592,"date":"2015-03-19T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=592"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"musically-speaking-reviewing-rebel-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Musically Speaking&#8230;  Reviewing Rebel Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am a little cynical when it comes to Madonna&#8217;s musical releases as of the last few years. They&#8217;ve offered a lot of fun music, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and were certainly conceived for the dance floor. I&#8217;ve just wanted something as fantastic as Ray of Light. Her latest foray into the Pop Music realm is Rebel Heart. I didn&#8217;t download the leaked songs, but I heard a number of early mixes on <a title=\"Soundcloud : Madonna\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/madonna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>;\u00a0many I found really good and interesting. What I can say about her latest album to drop is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>1. You get a lot of music for your money! $14.99 in iTunes for 19 songs.<br \/>\n2. The release has a huge range, musically. I&#8217;d say there&#8217;s something for everybody: light, serious, soft, tender and emotional.<br \/>\n3. She&#8217;s bearing a lot of herself in her lyrics, many\u00a0songs are very introspective. Some are annoyingly too Pop for my tastes, but look who we are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorites are: <a title=\"Body Shop\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/everybodyeah\/madonna-body-shop-nighshift-edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Body Shop<\/a>, <a title=\"Madonna - Inside out\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/loveblonde1\/madonna-inside-out-2015-edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Out<\/a>, <a title=\"Madonna Rebel Heart\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/smarty-smarty-valid\/sets\/madonna-rebel-heart-dj-fmsteff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebel Heart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am a little cynical when it comes to Madonna&#8217;s musical releases as of the last few years. They&#8217;ve offered a lot of fun music, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and were certainly conceived for the dance floor. I&#8217;ve just wanted something as fantastic as Ray of Light. Her latest foray into the Pop Music realm is Rebel Heart. I didn&#8217;t download the leaked songs, but I heard a number of early mixes on Soundcloud;\u00a0many I found really good and interesting. What I can say about her latest album to drop is&#8230;. 1. You get a lot of music for your money! $14.99 in iTunes for 19 songs. 2. The release has a huge range, musically. I&#8217;d say there&#8217;s something for everybody: light, serious, soft, tender and emotional. 3. She&#8217;s bearing a lot of herself in her lyrics, many\u00a0songs are very introspective. Some are annoyingly too Pop for my tastes, but look who we are talking about. My personal favorites are: Body Shop, Inside Out, Rebel Heart &nbsp; Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[158,166],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}