Madonna - Hard Candy

Japanese pressing of Madonna's 2008 full-length album includes one bonus track, 'Ring My Bell'. Hard Candy is a brilliant uptempo collection that adds a hip-hop beat to the cultural icon's club sensibilities, thanks to collaborations with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, and Nate "Danja" Hills. Hard Candy punctuates the first 25 years of the album career of the most successful female artist in history with a musical exclamation point. 12 tracks.. Album Description

Disappointing

I love the song 4 minutes so I was expecting the rest of the album to be similar which it wasn't. I do really like a slower song called, "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" but besides that I wasn't crazy about the rest of the songs. August 23, 2008

Hard Candy

Madonna is still the best. This Cd is one of her best.
ja August 23, 2008

Madonna will always evolve whether you like it or not

Even Madonna herself admitted to everyone on VH1's Behind the Music 10 years ago that she's not the best singer in the world; but the main reason why she went into the music industry is that she had something to say!

I did like her vocal performance in Evita, but let's face it; she trained really hard for the role and really convince us that she can do it. She's not a Broadway singer, so going back to her pop roots vocally would be fitting!

As for the album...why is it that an artist especially someone who has been around for 25 years, who tries to do something new and evolve with their work gets criticized for being a sell-out or joining the bandwagon of mainstream just because they happen to choose to work with today's hot producers/hit-makers? As musicians, they continue to get inspired by one another - music is universal, what the hell does it matter if she's trying to do something new? You praise her for doing something different because she does NOT repeat herself, yet, slam her at the same time by saying, "Madonna is trying to get street cred from today's hip hop producers". What if her main reason for the collaboration is to just interpret a genre of music that she currently enjoys listening to?

Madonna is an average singer who made these songs her own. But let's listen to the words and message she's trying to tell us. Remember, this is the same Madonna who encouraged us to express yourself and open your heart.

Enough said... August 21, 2008

Madonna album?? NOT

Having been a diehard fan since 1983, this is painful to write. Almost as painful as listening to HC. This is the first time ever I have not bought a Madonna album. I have listened to this entire album and it was torture. I attempted a second listen and found myself barely making it through, using FF and skipping. I am so glad I did not waste my money.

I agree with many other reviewers that this was hastily thrown together using overrated producers and done to death sounds that are rehashed from the 90's. This is her worst work to date, but then again I don't believe that any work really went into this. I don't even consider this a Madonna album.

I sure hope she can make these songs at least tolerable to sit through in concert, because she does put on the best concerts, but even then I don't know if I could bear hearing these songs at such a level. I could barely listen to them at mid volume on my laptop.

She is MIA with this album and truly is the guest. Her influence is there in snippets and even then gone so fast I had to keep reminding myself this is Madonna. Her best work to date "Ray of Light", "Erotica", "Confessions", "Immaculate Collection" is well worth the money and repeated plays and keeps growing on you. Even with the best tracks "MA" and "Devil Wouldn't...", it is not memorable at all.

Apparently Madonna wanted to get her obligation to WB over with as fast as she could. Apparently no one told her that she was making an album. She is lost in the hip-hop hype sound that most people were sick of hearing ten years ago. Here's to hoping for her next album, she leaves the candy producers where they belong, on a shelf to rot. August 21, 2008

Who That Girl?

It's a yankee doodle dandy ... kinda like deja vu all over again ... [(... a bit GUI though ? ...)][(... say it ain't so, Jack ... [the buck stops here?] ...) (*-mile away ...) (... beep, beep ...)] August 16, 2008

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