Music (2000) ( )

Rolling Stone (10/12/00, p.86)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dirty, casually urgent....[It's] her most radical sonics yet....intimate, futurist pop..."

Spin (1/01, p.73)
- Ranked #18 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]".

Spin (10/00, p.173)
- 7 out of 10 - "...It's the first Madonna record in years that feels as effortless as the dance-pop of her Ciccone youth..."

Entertainment Weekly (9/24/00, pp.72-3)
- "...[She's] encased in a jet-stream, hard-disco beat and continually contorting her voice....MUSIC burps and thumps harder than RAY OF LIGHT, and it allows her moments of playful humor absent from that predecessor..." - Rating: B

Q (1/01, p.93)
- Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".

Q (10/00, pp.108-9)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...A brave, radical and punchy album....thrilling non-stop Eurocentric disco....this is Madonna without a safety net."

Uncut (10/00, p.86)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Nursery rhyme melodies hang off twinkling, cut-glass keyboard lines..."

Mixmag (10/00, p.179)
- 3 out of 5 - "...It's full of Mirwais' trademark production gimmicks: stuttering vocal edits, tortured analog synth howls and oceans of vocoder....Yet the album's finest moment is the ruthlessly simple guitar-and-voice ballad 'I Deserve It'..."

Vibe (11/00, p.173)
- 4 discs out of 5 - "...A masterpiece of brilliantly arranged keyboards, futuristic drums and electronica dressings....it's a weird and fresh-sounding mix..."

Melody Maker (9/26/00, pp.50-1)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of her slickest and sexiest sounds since 'Justify My Love'....impressive..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(10/00, p.102)
- "...Still doing what she does best - giving a lick of pop genius to the unlikely genre of experimental dance music."

NME (Magazine)
(12/30/00, p.79)
- Ranked #47 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".

NME (Magazine)
(9/16/00, p.35)
- 8 out of 10 - "...A bionic record, a triumph of advanced mechanics and the faultless design of a consumate superstar..."