Music by Madonna Cd Music Album Madonna's never really been a musical trendsetter; she's a trend champion. She's always felt an affinity with underground culture, but not until her soul-searching trip-hop breakthrough Ray of Light had this love been the sole mainstay of her albums. On Music, she's inducted the cool funk of Parisian electro-pop as the latest addition to her musical court, abruptly closing the chapter of the movement's niche status. Here, French DJ Mirwais Ahmadzai takes on the majority of production credit, with Light's William Orbit billed on two tracks; the result is a collection of songs that often links arm-in-arm with Franco-techno groups ranging from Daft Punk to Air. 1 Music Keyboards, Programmed By – Mirwais Ahmadzaï Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 3:45 2 Impressive Instant Keyboards, Programmed By – Mirwais Ahmadzaï Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 3:37 3 Runaway Lover Drums – Steve Sidelnyk Keyboards, Guitar, Backing Vocals – William Ørbit* Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, William Ørbit* Written-By – Madonna, William Ørbit* 4:47 4 I Deserve It Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Programmed By – Mirwais Ahmadzaï Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 4:23 5 Amazing Drums – Steve Sidelnyk Keyboards, Guitar, Backing Vocals – William Ørbit* Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, William Ørbit* Written-By – Madonna, William Ørbit* 3:43 6 Nobody's Perfect Keyboards, Programmed By – Mirwais Ahmadzaï Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 4:58 7 Don't Tell Me Arranged By [String Arrangement By] – Michel Colombier Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Programmed By – Mirwais Ahmadzaï Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Joe Henry, Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 4:40 8 What It Feels Like For A Girl Keyboards, Guitar, Programmed By – Guy Sigsworth Producer [Produced By] – Guy Sigsworth, Madonna, Mark "Spike" Stent* Voice Actor [Sample From "The Cement Garden" Courtesy Of] – Charlotte Gainsbourg Written-By – Guy Sigsworth, Madonna 4:43 9 Paradise (Not For Me) Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï Written-By – Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï 6:33 10 Gone Acoustic Guitar – Paul Stacey Drums – Steve Sidelnyk Keyboards, Guitar [Fx] – William Ørbit* Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, Mark "Spike" Stent*, William Ørbit* Written-By – Damian Le Gassick*, Madonna, Nik Young 3:29 11 American Pie Backing Vocals [Backup Vocals] – Rupert Everett Keyboards – Damian LeGassick Producer [Produced By] – Madonna, William Ørbit* Written-By – Don McLean Madonna relinquished unprecedented production control on Ray of Light, which resulted in the best album of her career. On Music, she does the same, dividing the CD into three distinct voices. Orbit's train-track-clacking drum loops churning under citrusy trance ("Runaway Lover" and "Amazing") shimmer for the headphone set. When Ahmadzai diverts from his pure-play French-style club burners ("Impressive Instant" and the title track), he employs several temporarily fashionable gimmicks such as vocoder effects ("Nobody's Perfect") and spacious keyboard work combined with acoustic guitar ("I Deserve It"). Lyrically, Madonna's introspection and love songs are some of her most intimate. Given the surrounding context of the album, "I Deserve It" is an outright folk song, and on "Don't Tell Me," she forgoes precisely enunciated singing for the aching plead of an emotive R B crooner. For a second time, instead of exploiting an of-the-moment subgenre, she immortalizes it. And in doing so, she simultaneously draws massive mainstream attention to a deserving class of dance music and raises the bar for Top 40 pop. --Beth Massa All used disks are professionally refurbished and test played before shipping and will play well in most machines. Disc's are also repackaged (labeled refurbished)