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Of the nine Rebel Heart tracks released so far, here is my ranking:

1.  Devil Pray
2.  Joan Of Arc
3.  Ghosttown
4.  Living For Love
5.  Hold Tight
6.  Iconic
7.  Unapologetic Bitch
8.  Bitch I'm Madonna
9.  Illuminati

Actually Illuminati is the only track I don't care for.  All others rank from brilliant/awesome to good.  And there are 10 more tracks to come on March 9 (and maybe even a few more bonus tracks).

While the Grammy's performance might not really be one of her most iconic performances, it's an exciting time to be a Madonna fan, with so much new music to enjoy.  At the same time, being a Madonna fan is exhausting.  She is just so divisive.  She always has been.  For thirty years now, she's been written off as talentless and slutty.  Now, you add in the ageism, and it's infuriating.  People want a woman in her fifties to behave a certain way, and when she doesn't, she is considered desperate.  What the general masses fail to get is, she's not being desperate; she is being Madonna.  She is not your average person.  If she were, you wouldn't be talking about her now.  She would have disappeared many moons back.  Or maybe she wouldn't have even appeared to begin with.  Her DNA is just not that of your average human.  She has a voracious appetite to push the envelop and to challenge the status quo.  She doesn't believe in conventions.  You might not like anything she does while she is doing it, but all the while you are hating, she is changing our culture.  So I look back and am exceedingly proud that I chose the right one to follow from the beginning.  I mean, geez, what if back in the day, I had joined the Cyndi Lauper camp instead.  Cyndi Lauper is talented as heck, but come on, my musical idol does not go on Celebrity Apprentice - ok?  And if she did, she would win the whole thing and shut Donald Trump down.

Anyways, back to Rebel Heart, I have no idea how this album would go down in her discography.  But this era is just starting to get good.