SIMPLY MADONNA'S MOST AMAZING "CLASSIC" ALBUM!
HARD CANDY is madonna's last album with warner brothers...it's been 25 years since 1982's "everybody" and now she's still the reigning queen of pop, the world's best selling female artist of all time, and an icon of her generation!

what makes this madonna album simply her most amazing album is that she came back to her roots: dance music - with some hiphop twists!

CANDY SHOP - reminiscent of "where's the party" if you could get the rift. the opening song for this album simply wants its listeners to get up and dance!

GIVE IT 2 ME - one of the best tracks in the album. this time madonna asks her fans to give it to her - as she wants to break records, get arrested, or be undressed - whichever you want!

4 MINUTES - good but not great. this collaboration with timbaland and justin made the fans thought that madonna will be sporting a "new hip hop sound." although 4 minutes is a good track, it was earlier thought of to isolate the vintage madonna sound from the queen of pop. luckily, the rest of the album is still madonna!

HEARTBEAT - one of the best tracks. this song just brings back the madonna of the 80's. except for the new beats, this is definitely vintage!

MILES AWAY - a ballad that seems to belong to the "ray of light" album. this is another great track.

SHE'S NOT ME - a funny but nevertheless great track. once again, madonna lashed out at "wannabes" who wanted to dethrone her. nice guitar rifts that seem to belong to the "chic" era. definitely a hard disco track reminiscent of the late 70's and early 80's - where madonna first came!

INCREDIBLE - another great track. it's just hard to classify if its a dance track, since there are many stops, but one of its good parts is the voice loops which is seldom done nowadays. another seemingly "lost in the 80's" track.

BEAT GOES ON - my favorite track! i fell in love with this song the moment i heard the 30-second sample at amazon.com!!! a disco-inspired madonna track with great rappings from kanye west! she tried not to be repetitive in the refrain as madonna changed some lyrics and arrangements and placed some "echo effects" which is also no longer common today. the best track of the album!!!

DANCE 2NIGHT - another excellent track! this song has very good basslines and guitar rifts. propbably belonged to the early 80's! the second best track in the "hard candy" album.

SPANISH LESSON - not a bad track, but seemed misplaced in the entire album.

DEVIL WOULDNT RECOGNIZE YOU - despite being a ballad, this is a great track that belongs to this album.

VOICES - a great song to close the album, although the track seems
to belong from the "ray of light" album again. it is akin to "power of goodbye."

despite all the write-ups, HARD CANDY is a better album than "music" and "american life." i could even say that it even surpassed 2005's smash "confessions on a dancefloor" as the songs in HARD CANDY are more ear-friendly and groove-ready!

get the album and complete madonna's journey with warner brothers...

she will soon be starting a new with a new label...

long live the queen!

One of Madonna's best albums ever!!
A new wonderful album from the queen of Pop!
Madonna may be a 49-year-old working mom pushing 50, but she still loves her dance floor, her catsuits and her pop hooks. She's also an expert chameleon, co-opting current musical tastes for her own pleasure.

The album jumps off the disco of 2005's ''Confession on a Dancefloor'' with thunderous, up-tempo club grinds but also some surprisingly dark moments. The Neptunes - the production duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo - add retro-synth beats while Timbaland punches up the power R&B, along with Justin Timberlake and Nate (Danja) Hills. Madonna co-wrote and co-produced the album's 12 tracks, which swerve from the psychedelic-horn blitz of the Timbaland-produced hit ''4 Minutes'' to the swooping drama of ''Voices.''

We live in a Madonna world. And as long as she keeps releasing albums as vivid, relevant, distinctive and modern as this, we will for a some time yet.

HARD CANDY
another success .I LIKE SHE'S NOT ME THANK
S FOR GIVE THIS EXCELLENT EMOTIONS MADONNA THE BEST!

Madonna is SO over
Madonna and I are the same age and I've loved her music and have always looked forward to her latest release; she's written and sang some of the best "pop" music of the past 25 years.

But, it's time to move on. This album is bad. Listen to the 50 year old Madonna sing the lyrics to "She's Not Me"....it's really creepy. I was excited when I heard the Justin duet to hear the entire album. Unfortunately, nothing on this CD compares to that great song...and let's all admit that was 80% Justin Timberlake and the producer.

This CD is a verifiable dud...and a 50 year old shouldn't sing songs like these.

Short and Sweet
This album will be revered and reviled by the appropriate parties. The Madonna fanatics will herald the endurance and stamina of not just the artist physical prowess but her career, which is truly a remarkable feat. Her detractors will come down the pike exclaiming what an untalented Faustian invention she is and decry her as irrelevant, again. The opening to Madonna's new opus starts quietly with inverted syncopated beats and almost instantly pardon the pun if you will gets "into the groove" with the album's opener "Candy Shop". The song is immediately accessible and is reminiscent of some tracks from her r&b flavored album "Bedtime Stories", the tune is catchy if not ephemeral in its stay in your consciousness. The explosive, fun and unapologetically commercial first single "4 Minutes" bumps and grinds accompanied by thematically unstructured lyrics and like many of Madonna's musical projects the song is successful in implanting its clunky chorus in your head "tick tock tick tock".The track steamrolls the listener leaving them prostrate by the tracks powerful and entertaining energetic spirit."Give it 2 Me" the album's third and strongest track will really be the track that will define this album in retrospect. "Give it 2 Me" presents the artist in the millieu and genre that her most rabid and myopic fans would prefer her to stay in infinitely, dance music and the dancefloor. I have to say that I don't blame the fans. Madonna owns this track,you can practically see the disco balls and laser lights on this soon to be classic Madonna track with its bouncy and measured build up that does not invite you to the dancefloor but demands that you get on it immediately!. The album shifts from it's theme about candy,sweets and sugar on the provacative for all the wrong reasons (given the negative press coverage the artist has recieved regarding her marriage and alleged affairs) "Miles Away". The song illustrates the pitfalls and painful realizations of a long distance love affair that has come to an impasse. The inclusion of this track (which I personally like)creates a thematic disonance among a landscape of songs with lyrics such as "watch my booty get down like.." and "get stupid, get stupid". Hard Candy as a concept fails here. The song is quite frankly too anchored in real or perceived heartache on a album about confections. "Miles Away" would of been a perfect fit on the artist 2000 album "Music" or 2003's "American Life". On "Dance 2nite" Madonna pays homage to herself revisiting a groove and vibe that you can hear on her eponymous debut album " Madonna" and later "Like a Virgin" in songs like "Everybody", "Physical Attraction" and "Dress You Up". Madonna fans of a certain age will recognize that aspect of some of the songs on "Hard Candy". "Hard Candy" despite some thematic challenges stays musically consistent and taut. The casual listener will hear some very infectious and bouncy grooves.This makes "Hard Candy" a bonafide success. The Madonna fanatic and detractor for better or worse will project and inject their perceived ideas and feelings of the artist good and bad and they will miss the point , again. "Hard Candy" proves why Madonna is still here it's about the music always has been. To paraphrase one of the songs on "Hard Candy", were not her and we'll never will be.