Los Angeles Times Entertainment "'Rebel Heart' is a far better album than 'MDNA' -- cleaner, crisper, more sober, less a flimsy attempt at drawing fickle youth ears and more a sturdy rhythmic platform to showcase some of the most striking tracks she’s made in 15 years," writes po Read more ...p music critic Randall Roberts.
"Madonna cites as inspiration rebels Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley and John Lennon, all of whom 'changed the world. They took the road less travelled and they made all the difference. You can’t be a rebel and not be willing to take the consequences.'"
Madonna named her 13th studio album “Rebel Heart.” The title fits the Madge mold of past titles: adjectives, a noun or two, perhaps a preposition, combined to suggest a loose theme.