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Madonna
Like the music. Can't stand to look at the Cover of the CD. What was she thinking. Have to hide CD cover from my kids. Yuck!
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What a shame..
..she didn't delete the woeful Spanish Lesson, the repulsive 4 minutes and the bitchy She's Not Me and put the brilliant outtake Ring My Bell on instead while expanding the remainder. Instead of being a leader, Madonna has become a follower. There's classic Madonna here no doubt about it but after the devilish brilliance of Confessions on A Dancefloor, Hard Candy is something of a disappointment. I think Madonna has stopped planning tracks for the ear and instead delivers what will sound great live as is evident with the crowpleaser Give It 2 Me. Since I'm down here in Australia, I guess I'll never enjoy the full impact of her master plan. Hope she shelves those 2 Timtwits for her next outing.
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A very good album with some awesome songs and a few misses
Besides a few songs that I did not like, I would have given this 5 stars. It stars off with Candy Shop which has a hip hop feeling to it in the beginning and Madonna starts singing "See which flavor I Like And I'll Have For You". This song is basically relating to the Hard Candy title with a lot of lyrics referrring to candy not too many interesting or new sounds or danceable. She has a in your face "my sugar is raw" which I loved. It's a good song opener, I give it a 5. 4 Minutes, which was the first single released, is a great track, very danceable featuring a duet with Justin Timberlake and Timberland singing in the back. She and Justin sing we only got 4 minutes to save the world with Madonna singing tick tock over again and time is waiting no hesitating. The lyrics with the music incorporated in it is awesome. I give it a 5. The remixes are great too. Give It 2 Me, which was the 2 single released is my favorite song. It's full of energy and some use of the synthesizer is incorported. This song is absolutley amazing!! I give it 5+. The remixes are ever better OMG. Hearbeat, starts out with a hearbeating and the use of electric synthesizer throughout the whole song is great. It's a slow song and Madonna sings about feeling free when you dance and it's a stunning song. I give it a 5 +. Miles Away, the third single to be released, is another absolutely beautiful slow song which is mostly played by the acoustic guitar which also makes it great. It's song about being so far away from your loved ones, 5+. She's Not Me is a midtemp song about someone copying someone else's looks in anyway to be like her and the other person does not like it. It's more of a song someone from high school may relate too. I give it a 5. Incredible is an incredible song no pun intended. She sings about wanting to go back when to certain times because they were so good. This songs has in a few parts a good excercise feel to it with the synthesizers going back and forth which is great and she sings "it's time to get your body moving" during that time. Both of these incorported tell you to move your body. I give it a 5+. Now for the down fall for the next 3. I did not like. The Beat Goes On, is a mediocre songs. It's not that great but it's not that bad either. It has a couple of good sounds and good lines throughout by Madonna when she sings "Say what you like do what you feel you you know exactly who you are" among other lines, but it has too much rapping in it by one of the rappers and it's too hip hop. I give it a 3. Dance Tonight sounds like it would be great danceable track it's not. Its another duet with Madonna and Justin Timberlake. This one sounds like Madonna just doesn't even wanna sing it and didn't care about the song at all. There's little music overshadowed by them talking back and forth. It could have been a totally different song or a better version of this if Madonna really wanted it to be perfect and put her usual originality with good sounds and some great lyrics. This just sounds like a J.T song. I think that's what she intended. I give it a 1. Spanish Lesson starts with a good guitar beginning that's about and then hip hop?? and all these different sounds put together makes the song a mess. The song basically says she just wants to fall in love and yo do our home work, not a good song and the lyrics arent that great. I give it a 2. The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You finally we hear the real Madonna apart from the ones I did not like. It sounds with some very powerful emotional sounds and she sings about a relationship being over but she still comes back to him. Even though the devil does not recognize him and she doesn't either. In the middle you hear a rain sounds and thuder which are beautiful and it ends with the acoustic guitar. I give it a 5+. Voices isn't that great either. The sounds are very lame and nothing interesting at all. I give it a 2. Over great album -3 the songs I did not like and the medicore one; I highly recommend it!
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How did we get from Ray of Light to this?
I was a big fan of Ray of Light, American Life, Music, Confessions..., etc. I was very excited to see Madonna coming out with a new album and figured she would continue with the more mature sound/less outrageous attitude she embraced starting with Ray of Light....I was mistaken.
I understand Madonna became famous thanks to her sexuality-injected early songs (Like a Virgin, etc) but was hoping that was all behind her. Aside from the dumbed-down, unappealing lyrics and unappetizing 50+ year old in-your-face sexual Madonna, Timbaland is an overplayed hack and doesn't have half the talent of William Orbit or Mirwais...overall I am very dissatisfied with this album & it will stay on the shelf.
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Fair and unbalanced
There's one thing you can count on with Madonna - there's new music always coming down the pipeline, and every CD is different. This one isn't going to be one for the ages.
Overall, it's a decent album. It's not anything revolutionary or an attempt to kick the industry in the behind, like "Confessions..." and "Ray of Light" were. But it's different from the last, in style and tempo, so she's holding true to form.
"4 Minutes" didn't seem to get as much top 40 fanfare as I thought and that might have been a sign that the entire album isn't going to be well received. "Give it to me" is the follow-up which hasn't had much, if any, airplay.
The album starts strong with a goodie in "Candyshop" which is followed by "4 minutes" which is still decent after 200 listens. The first half of tracks are all very good. It should have stopped at an EP. The second half I would consider "filler songs" and just don't seem to be really good.
Overall, I guess it's average. Some good, some bad. Every Madonna listener has already bought it and is going to the next concert tour. You just have to decide whether you can live with half an album or wait until the next one.
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