{"id":36966,"date":"2025-07-31T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36966\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:38:10","slug":"why-madonnas-ray-of-light-is-2025s-hottest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36966\/","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":2,"featured_media":36967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-36966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}