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| Artist: Madonna
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Rating:  474 reviews
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
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Release Date: April 29, 2008
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 you can dance April 29, 2008
J. Abercrombi (Kobenhavn)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
HARD CANDY TRACKS
1) CANDY SHOP - 4:15 (produced by: Madonna & Pharrell Williams)
This song reminds me of Madonna's hugely successful single "Hung Up." But in "Candy Shop" Madonna uses the sounds of synths and electronic equipment, her lyrics are both strong and funny. As usual Madonna is often using innuendo as she sings "Don't pretend you're not hungry, there's plenty to eat..."
2) 4 MINUTES - 4:04 (produced by: Madonna, Timothy Mosley, Nate Hills & Justin Timberlake)
(featuring Justin Timberlake)
This is one of my very favorite songs on the CD for all the same reasons why the entire world loves it. 4 Minutes is fast and beautiful and breathtaking. Madonna's theme de jour on this track is love and s-e-x! This song totally sounds futuristic; I wouldn't be surprised if my grandbabies listened to this song.
3) GIVE IT 2 ME - 4:47 (produced by: Madonna & Williams)
Both Warner Bros. and Madonna are very interested in using this song as the 2nd single for "Hard Candy," because it helps bridge the gap between Madonna's older sound and newer sound. On this track, Madonna's pure bubblegum pop as she sings "if you can handle it, undress me..."
4) HEARTBEAT - 4:03 (produced by: Madonna & Williams)
This is such a fantastic studio album track because it has the potential to be a number 1 single. It has such a catchy hook but it's not one that will knock you out too soon.
5) MILES AWAY - 4:48 (produced by: Madonna, Mosley, Hills & Timberlake)
It's ethereal, mid tempo and guitar-heavy. It has that fabulous hand clapping bit during the middle which reminds everyone that Madonna's an original who sets her own rules.
6) SHE'S NOT ME - 6:04 (produced by: Madonna & Williams)
OMG so much like "Thief of Hearts." Madonna sings about someone who's obsessed with her and who dresses like her, but there can only be one Madonna!
7) INCREDIBLE - 6:19 (produced by: Madonna & Williams)
A ravishing slow ballad which reminds me of what Madonna said in her "Something to Remember" CD, "it's about the music & it's always been about the music."
8) BEAT GOES ON - 4:26 (produced by: Madonna, Kanye West & Williams )
(featuring Kanye)
This song has come a long way since it was first leaked to the net, last summer. Fans will appreciate the album track much more because it's totally reminiscent of New York's underground disco life of the 70's and early 80's that Madonna was so much a part of. Kanye is such a superior singer, producer, entertainer who both compliments and adds to something already perfect!
9) DANCE 2NITE - 5:03 (produced by: Madonna, Mosley, Hannon Lane & Timberlake)
Madonna has totally retrogressed to her "you can dance" days with this record because it's totally hedonistic and pleasurable and danceable. Although it does have somewhat of a dark feel to it.
10) SPANISH LESSON - 3:37 (produced by: Madonna, Williams)
Madonna opens the song with, "Yo te quiero means I love you." This is a fast-moving Spanish/English track. As Madonna's fans know already know, she has a passion and a talent for sining in Spanish.
11) DEVIL WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU - 5:09 (produced by: Madonna, Joe Henry, Mosley, Hills & Timberlake)
Madonna purrs "Over and over you're pushing me onto the floor and I keep coming back for more" in her sexy sweet-sounding melody that is all too familiar by now. This song isn't exactly a ballad but it does have a somewhat somber tone, as it opens.
12) VOICES - 3:39 (produced by: Madonna, Mosley, Hills, Lane, Timberlake)
This is perhaps Madonna's most out-there track. She saved the most unique and personal song for the end, with lyrics like "Are you walking the dog or is that dog walking you.
Bonus Tracks:
** 4 Minutes ~ Tracy Young House Mix Edit
** 4 Minutes ~ Rebirth Anthem Mix Edit
** Ring My Bell 3:54 on the Japanese CD or available on iTunes
** Give it to Me 4:59
 Dreadfully boring May 12, 2008
Karlis Streips (Riga, Latvia)
19 out of 31 found this review helpful
This may be a "musical exclamation point", as the blurb for the album claims, but it is also an album with lyrics which sound like they were written by a third-grader -- repetitive, simplistic and just plain dull. The album is expertly produced, but you cannot expect anything else from someone with Madonna's experience and moolah. The content is instantly forgettable, and that is too bad for a woman who has produced such brilliant music in the past. Perhaps it's time for Madonna to hang it up and focus on her new film production career instead. The aforementioned moolah should at least mean that she can do whatever she wants there.
Hardy Candy April 29, 2008
Dogville (Sunny Island)
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
It's tough to be a pop star when you are Madonna, possibly the most hardworking woman in the world. The recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee returns for her swan song with Warner Bros., Hard Candy. While Confessions on the Dance Floor was decidedly electronic disco, Hard Candy is what Madonna does best - a dance record without all the preaching and profundity.
Candy Shop, the opener, is outright campy with a hypnotic beat and tongue-in-cheek lyrics like "Come on in to my store, I've got candy galore. Don't pretend you're not hungry, I've seen it before." Give It To Me may have been co-written by Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes but reeks of early Madonna circa 1983(think Everybody). 4 Minutes might be the crowd-pleaser but is not the best on Candy. On Heartbeat, Madonna goes basal, singing about dancing and being so free on the dance floor, all to a hard rocking beat. It's so glorious that you'd immediately imagine yourself working out a sweat to it.
Elsewhere, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake work their magic through tracks like Miles Away, a glowing electronic track about long distance love; She's Not There with its funky trademark interlude/bridge; and Incredible, Madonna's ode to hubby, Guy Ritchie's powerful bed thrusts. Devil Wouldn't Recognize You, the stylish ballad about a cheating lover, is set to grace Madonna's live tracklist in years to come. The album closes with the most lyrically introspective song about breaking free, Voices.
Hard Candy is what happens when FutureSex/Lovesounds meet Confessions on a Dance Floor. Despite of what everyone else does on Candy, at every point, it's hard not to notice Madonna's presence. It's been a long while since Madonna just wants to have fun and get into the groove. Like a song from her last album, like it or not, our grand lady of pop is here to stay.
rock and roll hall of fame should be very proud May 5, 2008
Micaloneus (the Cosmos)
17 out of 33 found this review helpful
This comes from the latest inductee to the rock and roll hall of fame...Madonna, and it really is the worst album she`s ever released. A very uninspired disc with awful lyrics, and a cover photo that is beyond ugly. It's time for this "lady" to grow up. My advise, save your money Madonna fans.
Oooooh............The Irony! April 30, 2008
the anti-critic (Boston, MA)
16 out of 30 found this review helpful
Isn't it interesting that Madonna's latest "Hard Candy" and Duran Duran's latest "Red Carpet Massacre" both feature contributions from the likes of Justin Timberlake and producer Timbaland, yet Duran Duran's album is light years better: as a dance record, as a pop album, lyrically, vocally, you name it. And this is not the first time we've been subjected to Madonna's "gansta bitch Barbie" persona ["Music", anyone?] It didn't work so hot then, it still aint working now. Worse, she really does come off like some 'past it' veteran riding the coattails of Furtado, Stefani, etal. Sad, very sad. The song structures are awkward and contrived, her vocals sound pretty tame, and those lyrics would embarrass Hannah Montana, for Chirssakes! Of course, the Madonna fanbase of cultist proportions will not approach this CD with even an ounce of objectivity, and dismiss any honest criticism as mere 'hating', but when you consider Miss Thing just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [over older musicians who've actually recorded rock music for three decades,] giving her a free pass with this mess of urban contemporary iPod fodder would be really inexcusable. And let's not even discuss the abysmal duet with Justin "4 Minutes." It felt way, way longer listening to it - less Kabbalah, more songwriting classes, please.
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