Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.

Montague adopted a very strong notion of systematicity and regularity in translation, much stronger than mere effective computability of the translation function (i.e., automatability in principle).

But its particulars are nontheoretical enough to be distracting.

Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye.