Christ sakes, she's almost 60 years old and is entitled to make whatever music she chooses to. She's already done everything and if she's inspired by some of these younger peoples musicality and wants to work with them so be it! It's a testament to the fact that Madonna is "young at heart" which at 48 I can relate to because I still find myself getting excited about new pop artists where most people walk from the mainstream music making at a certain age much younger than mine. I always think it's exciting when Madonna makes an album and some are better than others but there are ALWAYS at least a few really good songs even if the entirety of the project doesn't always work. Her last project generated over 40 songs that most of us real fans got our hands on and within that massive set of recordings there was a great Madonna album for all of us. We got to pick and choose. Who the hell cares if songs are hits anymore? Radio plays the same twenty songs for months on end, there is not nearly the room for songs to be hits the way there once was and that's been the case for nearly thirty years now. In the 80's songs came and went in a matter of a few months. Every week there was an average of 4-6 new debuts within the top 40. It was fun back then, now it's boring and I don't give a crap about if a song is a hit. Some of the best music these days is not on the mainstream airwaves and that certainly is not the barometer for quality. I admit at this point I'd be pleased to hear that Madonna was working with an unknown because it would be more exciting, but that doesn't always mean the finished product will be great like it was with Ray Of Light or Confessions. Bedtime Stories was made with a number of known producers at the time and that is a great album. I would prefer that she stick to just a couple producers and not go crazy with a half dozen different ones for the same project, but that doesn't mean that I'm not willing to be open to what she's working on. What I do know is that if there is any artist out there poised to have a hit record so good that age won't stand in the way, it's Madonna. It would be a perfect bookend for her to have one more album that generates a song or two that radio plays. Cher managed to do it in 1998 with Believe while in her early 50's at the time. It's not likely, but it's not impossible either that Madonna could pull through once again with something completely fresh and unexpected.