On March 12 2003, Warner Bros. issued a press release for Madonna’s American Life album:
A new Madonna album, American Life, has been set for a worldwide release on April 22nd.
The enduring icon’s first new collection of original material since 2000’s multi-platinum smash Music, American Life is being hailed as Madonna’s most accomplished, original and intensely personal album to date; a resonant and revealing emotional journey that marks a new highpoint in a career that has for all time redefined the expressive potential of contemporary music.
Recorded over a full year in London and Los Angeles, American Life, the artist’s tenth studio album, features eleven new Madonna compositions, including the title track and debut single, which ships to radio March 25th.
“All of these songs reflect my current state of mind. I feel like I have just woken up out of a dream. They range from dismay and anger to joy and certainty. Hopefully, I have taken the personal and made it universal,” stated Madonna regarding her new album which she wrote and produced with Mirwais Ahmadzai with whom she also collaborated on her previous release Music.
The American Life CD includes the title track, as well as the following songs: Hollywood, I’m So Stupid, Love Profusion, Nobody Knows Me, Nothing Fails, Intervention, X-Static Process, Mother & Father, Easy Ride, and Die Another Day, the hit theme song from the James Bond film of the same name.
The American Life single is also the subject of a brilliant new video from the pioneering multi-media visionary, an artist who single handedly invented the short music film medium. In a stunning collaboration with director Jonas Akerlund, American Life expresses a panoramic view of our culture and looming war through the view of a female superhero portrayed by Madonna set against a backdrop of current cultural obsessions. It’s a penetrating examination of our national psyche. The video is scheduled to air the first week in April.
Remixes of the American Life single by, among others, mega-hot hip hop diva Missy Elliott, Peter Rauhofer, Felix da Housecat and Maverick Records artist Paul Oakenfold will be available in various configurations over the next several months.
An extensive schedule of appearances, performances and special events has been set in conjunction with the release of American Life including an appearance on an episode of the hit NBC-TV comedy Will And Grace.
One of the most original and innovative artists of the modern era, Madonna has sold hundreds of millions of albums, topped charts across two decades, created an enormously influential body of work in video and film and stood at the forefront of socially conscious artists worldwide. With American Life, Madonna has once again reached deeply into her own life as the source and substance of her extraordinary artistry.
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My favourite album. It was a great era. Would’ve loved to have seen Nobody Knows me with an actual release with the concert footage and just having a video for the criminally underrated Nothing Fails.was a big failure. From what I recall in Aus, they released Nothing Fails EP, Remixed & Revisited and Love Profusion all the same week. Nothing Fails wasn’t eligible to chart as it was an EP but did chart onthe Dance Albums Chart at #6.
Die Another Day and Easy Ride end the album in spectacular fashion! Unfortunately, the rest of American Life is a misfire!
Not a high point. And nowhere near as inspired as Madonna seemed to think it was
Agreed. I think it could have been stellar but had too many quirky bits mixed in with songs that should have been greatness. But we got gems like “Nothing Fails” and 232 different versions of the AL video 🙂
One of her best albums of all time!! Too bad the conservative media tried to ruin her career when she was right all along.
I liked “Hollywood” and “Nothing Fails,” but I never really connected with the other songs on the album. I remembering hearing a snippet of “American Life” on the radio and thinking, Oh no. This is going to crash and burn. She was sooooo ridiculed in the States at the time for the mini-cooper rap.