Tiga – Shoes

Tiga

Madonna is about as vocally accomplished as a dying dog; she continues to abuse audiences at her faux-spectacular live shows, and her acting career has been about as successful as my last effort to win the lottery (I didn’t understand the damn thing and gave up).

What she can be eternally applauded for, however, is the team she surrounds herself with. Despite her limitations, this entourage has written catchy pop tunes for her across countless albums, kept her looking young and in fashion, and spun the media perpetually in her favour. You may be wondering what all this has to do with the first single off of Ciao!, the latest album from Montreal’s Tiga. Well, Tiga himself has revealed that a “very famous international superstar” is his guest vocalist on the track, but that this guest had insisted on complete anonymity. Almost zero research on the net revealed to me that this guest was none other than Her Madgeness. Another gem of an idea from one of the world’s great marketing teams? Well, it may have been, but it seems another department of her suited minions has failed to do its homework.

True to Tiga form, ‘Shoes’ has a wobbly bassline that juggles with your internal organs, while the two vocalists share their passion for haircuts, gloves and, er, shoes. It is funky electro equally as adept as his earlier work, and would most certainly bother the dancefloor… in 2005. Tiga was an electro master half a decade ago, and although he’s doing nothing wrong now, times have changed, and he’s fallen prey to what he celebrates on this record – the changing face of fashion. Consequently Madonna’s crew, who usually have their paws so firmly on the pulse, have also tapped into a four-year-old scene. Perhaps even they are starting to creak from rust. Lets hope she is confined to the scrap heap sooner rather than later.

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