After years of working with producers from the world of dance music, she collaborated with R&B and hip-hop stars like Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West. Madonna’s 2008 album Hard Candy saw her return to the sexually charged pop of her earlier days. “Bitch I’m Madonna” (from ‘Rebel Heart,’ 2015).I may have been on the way to the studio and seen an exit ramp for San Pedro.' The video, in which she played a flamenco dancer, was one of her most theatrical Eighties clips, and its drama has impacted many of her inheritors – Lady Gaga famously ripped it off for her 2009 hit 'Alejandro.' At that point, I wasn't a person who went on holidays to beautiful islands. But Jackson didn't like the title, so Leonard tried it out on Madonna, who tailored the lyrics to fit her own idea of 'the beauty and mystery of Latin American people.' 'I don't know where that came from,' she told Rolling Stone years later, in reference to the song's specific imagery. He originally penned 'La Isla Bonita' for Michael Jackson (whom he'd previously worked with on the Jacksons' Victory tour and album). 'She's very good at finding a lyrical theme that fits the mood of the music,' Leonard recalled.

Madonna wrote the song with Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch. With that in mind, I’m giving Stay the same solid-but-unspectacular rating I gave ILY:1’s track.'La Isla Bonita' was unlike anything Madonna had recorded before, a Latin-tinged uptempo ballad complete with Spanish guitar, Cuban percussion and lyrics that explored dreams of exotic San Pedro. I would have played around with layering and harmony to distract from this fact, but the arrangement plays things pretty safe. And though Saturday give a solid performance, the group lacks the full-throated vocal power needed to match Stay‘s ambition. Its production wants to soar, but the song holds it back. The track scores major points for that, but it could have gone even farther in this direction. Where ILY:1’s track opted for a more reserved, ethereal version of the style, Stay embraces a punchier, guitar-led sound. I’ll always cheer on robust instrumentals and melodies. Along with ILY:1, they’re the second act to mine old Gfriend sounds today.Īs far as I’m concerned, this is a very welcome development. The group is down to four members and has substantially changed their sound for new single Stay (있을게). It’s been almost three years since I wrote about Saturday, which is practically a lifetime in K-pop.

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