Product Description

With a fresh style, a new sound and a hardened attitude, Madonna returns. 'Hard Candy' follows 2005's 'Confessions On ADance Floor' and sees the Queen of Pop make a trademark U-turn, from the polished future-disco of the last record to urban funk with an underlying hip hop influence. Producers include Timbaland, Pharrell and Nate 'Danja' Hills, while a collaboration with Justin Timberlake is also featured on the single '4 Minutes'.

Track Listing

1. Candy Store
2. 4 Minutes
3. Give It 2 Me
4. Heartbeat
5. Miles Away
6. She's Not Me
7. Incredible
8. Beat Goes On
9. Dance Tonight
10. Spanish Lesson
11. Devil
12. Voices

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-28
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Madonna's back.
I'm not really a fan of Madonna - I like the odd song. I fell in love with '4 Minutes' and decided to get the album. It definitely has a dance/techno feel to it, but don't let that put you off. Here's my mini review of the songs:

1. Candy Shop - Starts off good, but gets very repetitive.
2. 4 Minutes - Fantastic, as most of you know.
3. Give It 2 Me - Brilliant.
4. Heartbeat - Very addictive. I liked it.
5. Miles Away - Funky, and fun throughout.
6. She's Not Me - Upbeat, funky, fresh and a great beat.
7. Incredible - It's... incredible.
8. Beat Goes On - Hm... really good. Kanye West wasn't too bad, but he got a bit repetitive.
9. Dance 2night - Great. A solid beat, with great vocals and lyrics.
10. Spanish Lesson - Very different, but great. Very rhythmic.
11. Devil Wouldn't Recognise You - Great beat, with Madonna sounding great. Lots of variation.
12. Voices - Great end to the album.

Overall, a great return to form from Madonna. This album proves that she's still got some magic left in her. Definitely buy this.

Give this candy a try...
When the rumours started to fly that Madonna was doing another hip-hop/r n b album, after the success of Confessions on a Dance Floor, most people probably scratched their heads and wondered whether she would pull another reinvention just as successfully... and once again I think she has with a mixed bag of sweet treats this time round.

The whole album is divided into Pharrell / Timbaland-Timberlake productions and despite Madonna's insistence that you can't tell the difference, I can. Maybe I've been paying too much attention to the Timbaland production line of late...

Having just listened to Boys by Britney Spears; "Candy Shop" sounds very dated considering that Pharrell was panting over a beat for Britney about 7-8 years ago.

4 Minutes is the album's first single, so by now you will have heard the new Timbo/Timba sound. One to be loved or loathed.

Give It 2 Me is a great track (an instant love the first time I played the CD) and I've grown to like "Heartbeat" too.

"Miles Away" is a wonderful dedication to Guy and long distance relationships.

"She's Not Me" is another grower, is it about another woman in her relationship or about one of the contenders for Madonna's pop crown?

The main disappointment of the album is "Incredible" clocking up an impressive six minutes. The end section sounds like part of that Soulja Boy track , with the hollering - and I hated that.

"Beat Goes On" is a success, I can see it being a future hit single with the additional rapping of Kanye West - to the extent that it sounds like a Kanye West song more than anything else.

"Dance 2night" has a lot of Prince influences, both in terms of sound, song title and lyrics ("...Don't need no diamonds and pearls"). If it were released as a single, I get the feeling Timberlake may pop up in the video due to his backing vocals. Funky stuff.

"Spanish Lesson" is one of the messier productions here, due to M's inability to speak Spanish, but non Spanish speakers would know no different. Its inclusion is gimmicky but it's supposedly about a new dance craze called The Percolator, so it'll be on The Sticky and Sweet Tour I'm sure in the same way that "Jump" was a great visual element on The Confessions Tour: +DVD.

"Devil Wouldn't Recognise You" and "Voices" provide the slower numbers on the album, in the same way that "How High" and "Like it or Not" were on Confessions on a Dance Floor

Try this album and see what happens. It's grown on me in the same way that American Life has. What saves this album so far is that it is a Madonna album so therefore the diehard fans will pick this up, the major downer is that if it weren't a Madonna album this probably would have sunk a long while ago, considering that the following list have worked with Pharrell / Timbaland over the last few years:

Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake etc etc

Stale Candy!
over the years i have enjoyed listening to madonna and have several of her cd`s, but this is the worst release from her ever, trite ,boring lyrics that a primary school child could have written, forced dull tunes, its appaling on every level.