{"id":107613,"date":"2025-07-31T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107613\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:14:09","slug":"why-madonnas-ray-of-light-is-2025s-hottest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107613\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Madonna&#8217;s Ray of Light is 2025&#8217;s hottest album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But, perhaps most remarkably of all, Ray of Light helped to usher underground dance sounds into the musical mainstream. Mostly co-produced by Madonna and Orbit, with contributions from the singer&#8217;s longtime collaborator Patrick Leonard and another forward-thinking British record producer, Marius de Vries, it minted a distinctive, sonically stunning mix of electronica, trip-hop, techno, ambient and new-age music. Writer and editor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexgfrank\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Frank<\/a>, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-ray-of-light\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reviewed<\/a> Ray of Light for online magazine Pitchfork in 2017, says this blend would have sounded especially fresh to US listeners who bought the album when it first came out.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But, perhaps most remarkably of all, Ray of Light helped to usher underground dance sounds into the musical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-107613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948032875767483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}