1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/americanlife.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''This type of modern life, is it for me?\ |
3 | This type of modern life, is it for free?'']] |
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5 | ''American Life'' is the 2003 album by Music/{{Madonna}}. It's one of her most controversial ventures due to its angry nature, experimental nature, and Political satire. |
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7 | It features "American Life", "Hollywood", and "Die Another Day", which was the theme song of the Franchise/JamesBond movie [[Film/DieAnotherDay of the same name]]. The first video for "American Life" was so controversial that Madonna ended up creating another one that was more friendly to the video networks that featured it. |
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9 | !!Tracklist |
10 | # "American Life" - 4:58 |
11 | # "Hollywood" - 4:24 |
12 | # "I'm So Stupid" - 4:09 |
13 | # "Love Profusion" - 3:38 |
14 | # "Nobody Knows Me" - 4:39 |
15 | # "Nothing Fails" - 4:49 |
16 | # "Intervention" - 4:54 |
17 | # "X-Static Process" - 3:50 |
18 | # "Mother and Father" - 4:33 |
19 | # "Die Another Day" - 4:38 |
20 | # "Easy Ride" - 5:05 |
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22 | !! ''Nobody Tropes Me'': |
23 | * AmbiguousGender: "American Life" |
24 | --> ''I tried to be a boy'' |
25 | --> ''I tried to be a girl'' |
26 | ** Also on "Nobody Knows Me" Madonna states she "is not that kind of guy" |
27 | * AmericanTitle: The album and TitleTrack |
28 | * AutoTune: Used during "Die Another Day" and "Nobody Knows Me". |
29 | * BoastfulRap: A sort of ironic and surreal one happens on "American Life", in which she raps about the privileges she has and sarcastically demands more. |
30 | * {{Bowdlerize}}: The first music video of "American Life" has a strong anti-war message with a lookalike of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush appearing, criticizing the then on-going wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This video caused a lot of uproar and was replaced with another video showing her singing "American Life" with several nations' flags behind her back. |
31 | * CelebrityIsOverrated: The main point of "Hollywood". |
32 | --> ''There's something in the air in Hollywood'' |
33 | --> ''I've lost my reputation, bad and good'' |
34 | --> ''You're ridin' in your car in Hollywood'' |
35 | --> ''You got the top down and it feels so good'' |
36 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Possibly Madonna's most grim album/era. |
37 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: Madonna's face in black-and-white. |
38 | * DespairEventHorizon: Implied with "X-Static Process" |
39 | * FaceOnTheCover: A close-up of her face done in the style of revolutionary Che Guevara. |
40 | * GospelMusic: Several tracks are backed by the London Community Gospel Choir. |
41 | * GriefSong: "Mother and Father" describes the complications of losing a parent at a young age and the difference in perspectives between parent and child. |
42 | * HeavyMeta: "American Life" |
43 | --> ''I tried to be the best'' |
44 | --> ''I guess I did it wrong'' |
45 | --> ''That's why I wrote this song'' |
46 | * LocationSong: "Hollywood", about the hollowness and glitter of the life there. |
47 | * MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "American Life" criticizes UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. The original music video showed her throwing a hand grenade to a lookalike of US President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. |
48 | * NewSoundAlbum: Very much so. A mix of electronic, folk, gospel, rock, and pop makes for a strange sounding record. |
49 | * OneWordTitle: "Hollywood", "Intervention" |
50 | * PrecisionFStrike: "Fuck it" in "American Life", which was censored out of the second video version and radio edits. |
51 | * ProductPlacement: "American Life" |
52 | --> ''I drive my Mini Cooper'' |
53 | * ProtestSong: "American Life" is partially about how the American dream is not what it seems. The original video protested the Iraq War. |
54 | * RecordProducer: Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, and Mark "Spike" Spent. |
55 | * ShoutOut: The album cover provides a shout-out to the famous photograph of UsefulNotes/CheGuevara by Alexander Korda. |
56 | * SillyLoveSongs: "Love Profusion". |
57 | * StockSoundEffects: "Hollywood" starts off with sounds of tweeting birds. |
58 | * TitleTrack: "American Life". |
59 | --> ''American life, I live the American Dream'' |
60 | --> ''You are the best thing I've seen'' |
61 | --> ''You are not just a dream'' |
62 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: "X-Static Process" |
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