Hung Up (2005)

Hung Up’ is part of Madonna’s 10th studio album, ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’. This album was released in 2005 and winning the Grammy award for best electronic/dance album. The genre of this song is Dance-Pop which is known as a style of electronic dance music and a sub-genre of pop music that evolved from 1980’s disco music as we can see the props and costume make the song more realistic and match the genre of dance pop in 1980s Disco music. It is the mixture dance beats with a Pop-House and R&B song structure. Besides that, this song also incorporates the sound like ticking clock to symbolize fear of wasted time. For Madonna, indeed time goes by so slowly. Hung Up is a Tearful Dance on her mother's grave and she cries the song with existential sadness. Most Dance/Disco songs are happy and upbeat. Not this one. In Hung Up, Madonna is Crying on her Sad Dance Floor! The performance of the physical discipline ‘parkour’ also can be seen in this music video.