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Pure Sugary Delight...August 29, 2008 Alex "M" Twain It may not be Madonna's best album. But it is so fun and catchy I can't help but like it. Its "Confessions On The Dancefloor" promised to (catchy, poppy...). My favorite tracks on the album are Give It 2 Me, She's Not Me and Incredible.
Sugar and SpiceJuly 25, 2008 Jamieson Villeneuve(Ottawa Ontario Canada) Everyone likes candy right? From the moment it hits your tongue, candy will flood your mouth with many flavours: savoury, tart, tantalizing. You close your eyes and are transported to another world full of sweet delights and sugary pleasure.
Such is the case with Madonna's new album, Hard Candy. As soon as the first note plays, you know you're in for a sensational treat. Mixing R and B with hip hop, pop and some good old 1980's funk, Hard Candy is a flat out amazing musical experience.
After Confessions on a Dance Floor, I was wondering what Madonna's next musical offering would be like. She is constantly reinventing herself to stay ahead and on top in the world of music. Going from electronica (Ray of Light) to electronic country pop (Music) to hard core electronic funk (American Life) to neo-disco pop (Confessions on a Dance Floor), Madonna is constantly changing and evolving.
Many were worried about what Hard Candy would be like when rumours started floating around about an R and B influence. Madonna, who is known to work with influential producers, worked with Justin Timberlake, Timberland, The Neptunes and Nate Hills this time around. Many felt that the album would sub par and I worried that Hard Candy would not be as good as Confessions on a Dance Floor.
I needn't have worried. Hardy Candy is perhaps the most ambitious musical offering that she has ever done. It is also without a doubt her best work to date. Far from being an attempt to harness the urban market, it actually goes beyond the ideals of urban hip-hop and R and B. In true Madonna fashion, she makes the music her own.
Unlike Confessions on a Dance Floor where the songs were somewhat similar and flowed into each other from one to the next, Hard Candy is a musical candy box full of different delights and startling treats. Each song on the album has a different flavour, a different sound but somehow manages to work well; each song plays off the other songs and, collected together, give us a sticky and sweet musical tapestry.
What I love most about Hard Candy is its message: get up and dance. The theme runs through out the album but is especially notable on Give it 2 Me, Beat Goes On, Spanish Lesson, Heartbeat and Dance 2Night. There are no political or personal agendas here; instead, we are given twelve tracks that will make you want to get out on the dance floor and strut your stuff.
There are tons of musical surprises on Hard Candy. Just when you think a song will go one way, it veers off into an unexpected yet wonderful direction. Give it 2 Me breaks down into a wonderful and catchy beat box chorus. Spanish Lesson starts off with soft Spanish guitar and a wonderfully catchy tune but veers into a hypnotic chorus where we're told to do our homework and get up on the dance floor. Voices, the last song on the album, starts off slowly, almost sensually and then veers into a sexy electronic funk that makes you sit up and take notice. Surprise after surprise makes this Madonna's most fantastic album yet.
The dancing theme plays through out the album but the song that best describes what Hard Candy is all about is the track Dance 2night: Do it, do it/Let me turn you on/Let the music pull you through it/Till the break of dawn/Do it, do it/While the night is young/Let the music pull you through it/Till the lights go on.
With those lyrics, and indeed the lyrics of all twelve songs on Hard Candy, you can't help but listen to Madonna's message: get up and dance. Hard Candy is hypnotic as Madonna pulls us through her music and helps us give into the beat.
Hard Candy is Madonna at her best and most creative. It's also one of the best albums this year. One thing is for sure: with Madonna as our musical muse, we'll be dancing for years to come.
Get if only if you are a true Madonna fanJune 29, 2008 Martine(Montreal) I have all her CD's & I am a true Madonna fan for the past 20 years! Sadly, I have to admit that this CD is not that great, I bought it because I get everything from Madonna, but this CD is absolutely not the best. You will enjoy about 4 songs in total!
MADONNA Dances Back Onto The Charts-June 19, 2008 Paul S. Power(Nova Scotia, Canada) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There have been some reviews written for this CD that say Madonna just hit a speed bump on the musical highway. In her defense, she may not have been able to avoid that bump, the reason being that her last album "Confessions on a Dancefloor" was absolutely brilliant, a perfect album in every way, which eventually led to the most successful live concert tour of her career thus far, and those ticket numbers would be huge. The "Confessions" CD was a concept album of sorts with each song segueing into the next, creating a dance floor extravaganza. How can she top that? Maybe she doesn't, so she follows a different, yet familiar path. Calling out the 'big guns' in the form of Timbaland and Justin Timberlake helps a heap too; the first single, "4 Minutes", is a great song and you can tell by the sound of it that the two T's are making their mark in the grooves. I'm thankful that Madonna's 'people' realized just how good "Give It To Me" is; this is the best song on the disc and is the new single that's just been released. This is Madonna at her very best as this song is super-hot and funky. As for other tracks, it doesn't hurt the cause to recruit Kanye West into the fold to help the rap/groove of "Beat Goes On" and old school funk shines big-time on "She's Not Me", with Prince collaborator Wendy Melvoin's signature guitar playing pushing the overall groove of the number. How are the other tracks? To mention a few, "Candy Shop" is really good and "Dance Tonight" is a hot number that will probably end up on the urban charts soon. What ticks me off lately is when I read articles and reviews where people are taking shots at the fact that Madonna is almost 50 and shouldn't be strutting her stuff the way she does; this is age-ism and sexism at it's worst. For God's sake George Clooney is 47 and when was the last time you heard anyone making an issue out of that? Exactly. Madonna is a fantastic artist and entertainer who should just keep on trucking. Here's the way I look at it; Madonna at her very worst is far better than Britney at her very best. This is far, far from Madonna's worst album. She should be proud of this effort; it's actually one of her best, and definitely a CD worth buying.
Weak EffortJune 5, 2008 Grover(Edmonton, AB Canada) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wish I could say something good about this album but unfortunately it's bitterly disappointing...and this is coming from a long time fan. I've been listening to this CD for the last month thinking that it might grow on me but the longer I own it the harder it is for me to listen past the first four tracks.
Though there are a couple of good tunes like Give It 2 Me and Heartbeat, most tracks on here are mediocre at best - if not down right terrible. Not a single song really stands out. Songs like Incredible and Spanish Lesson will make your ears bleed. The lyrics are just as scary as the album cover...pathetic and uninspiring. It's such a shame that the same artist that gave us 'Ray of Light' would end up releasing such trash.
