'Love Profusion' is the most annoyingly normal song on Madonna's most innovative album. 2003's American Life is a startlingly original work of post-9/11 folktronica, Mirwais Ahmadzaï's stuttering vocal treatment and sparse electroclash textures melding guitars and synths to produce an aggressively left-field pop album. The lyrical concepts are some of Madonna's best, investigating the intersection of the personal, political and cultural in a world tarnished by the horrors of 9/11 and saturated with materialism. Interspersing critiques of a fame-hungry culture with love letters to Guy Ritchie (the marginally less awful of her two husbands), American Life rejects the stereotypes that 1980s 'Material Girl' Madonna had sought to cultivate, and aims to answer the question of what 'the American Dream' actually is these days. The fourth and final single, 'Love Profusion', advocates cutting out all the noise, and instead focusing on the on...