{"id":19796,"date":"2019-09-18T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2019-09-18T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:55:42","slug":"nyt-review-madonna-is-still-taking-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2019\/nyt-review-madonna-is-still-taking-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Review: Madonna Is Still Taking Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Pareles, <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>&#8216; chief pop music critic since 1988 and a musician himself explains how Madonna&#8217;s <strong>Madame X<\/strong> show reimagines pop spectacle for a theater stage, merging her newest music and calls for political awareness with striking intimacy in a concert focusing on new songs and the present moment. In other words, Madonna is still taking chances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As both album and show, \u201cMadame X\u201d is Madonna\u2019s latest declaration of a defiant, self-assured, flexible identity that\u2019s entirely comfortable with dualities: attentive parent and sexual adventurer, lapsed Catholic and spiritual seeker, party girl and political voice, self-described \u201cicon\u201d and self-described \u201csoccer mom,\u201d an American and &#8211; more than ever &#8211; a world traveler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click here to read his review on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/18\/arts\/music\/madame-x-madonna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nytimes.com<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; a subscription is necessary to access the full story but you can register for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Pareles, <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>&#8216; chief pop music critic since 1988 and a musician himself explains how Madonna&#8217;s <strong>Madame X<\/strong> show reimagines pop spectacle for a theater stage, merging her newest music and calls for political awareness with striking intimacy in a concert focusing on new songs and the present moment.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2019\/nyt-review-madonna-is-still-taking-chances\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[719],"tags":[445,720,326],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tour-nyc_003.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-59i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}