36. Madonna, “Hung Up”
“Hung Up” employs a ticking clock to represent fear of wasted time, but ম্যাডোনা isn’t গান গাওয়া about aging অথবা saving the world—she’s talking about love. It had been years since Madge sounded this vapid. With its pitched-upward vocals, infectious arpeggio sample from ABBA’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight),” and the bridge’s unironic, archetypical key change, the track decidedly points to the past, and it proved that, 20 years into her career, ম্যাডোনা was still the one and only Dancing Queen. SC
33. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me”
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