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Review of "Hard Candy"

DoubleAquarius said:
Thanks for the comments and personal takes on "hard candy." It's grown on me, too, I am a Madge fan, but coming off "Confessions" is huge. I even dig "Bedtime Stories" her other R&B album, just it seems like this album is missing a "Take A Bow" or "Secret". You know, DA!
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There's nothing like Take A Bow or Secret in HC but there's Devil Wouldn't Recognise You, which is a beautiful song in it's own right. Put it on repeat, you'll love it soon enough!

I kept playing the album continuously & now I'm loving Incredible & Dance 2Night (2 tracks which I couldn't get into at first). I'm even starting to warm up to Spanish Lessons! And the tracks that I took to from the start, I love them even more now. I am really really loving Hard Candy.
 
the album is wicked. love how she keeps her music fresh.

And cant wait now for the sticky and sweet tour will be there on 23rd August and 11th September I hope.
 
>>>If you didn't buy it you were never really a fan.

Well, if "fan" is short for "fanatic", then no. I don't buy albums by label anymore. I'm not gonna buy an album just because it's Madonna or Prince or anybody else. All my favorite artists have put out at least one crappy album that I either didn't buy or wish I hadn't. They're fallible. I'm cool with that. But if they want my $15, they'd best earn it.

Ever since "Music", Madonna has been retreating more and more onto her albums. Up until that point, yes, she often used hot-name producers, but they always sounded like collaborations. They sounded like she was meshing with them, and putting her own personal stamp alongside their style. But starting around 2000, she sounded like she was getting lazy. Not only was her voice getting processed more (a bandwagon that all other divas have climbed aboard - it's the style, now, dontchano), but the songs sounded less like her work. They could've been "(producer) featuring Madonna" tracks. On American Life, I at least give her credit for trying to make her presence known via the lyrics, but I found those horribly clunky and embarrassing. Musically, it was still all the producer.

Now, she's pretty well vanished. The best I can hope for now is that the producers give her a good track to put her vocals on. And that's kind of sad. That's sort of Mariah Carey territory. I'm not saying that that's bad, but it's not what she was. I'm used to Mariah being "write me a hit, and I'll sell it". Madonna was more "let's see what we come up with together". Now she seems content to be the producer's puppet.

And yes, the Robyn album kicks ass. Who the hell knew? :)

Lex
 
I am a relatively new fan of Madonna's. I've only really started getting into her music just before Confessions came out. Anyway, when that album came out I was totally blown away. So i waited anxiously for Hard Candy.

Anyway, when i finally got it, I was excited by all the pre-release hype, another all dance album, a more hip-hop, rnb, rather than synth heavy disco-esque pop extravaganza which was Confessions. My first listening of the album left me feeling uneasy. Doubtless, I liked it, but did I love it? I listened to it more often and slowly began to fall in love with some songs like 'Incredible.'

Now what i know for sure is that I love this album. Some of my favourite tracks are as originally found 'Incredible,' but also 'Devil Wouldn't Recognize You,' (the only track i personally think that producera were given total free reign, that being primarily Timbaland, and a nice change), Dance 2night & Beat Goes On. Also I strangely like Candy Shop, which like many Madonna songs I recognise as being rather inane but still I like the song.

All in all, I agree with Rolling Stone's 4 out of 5 rating.
 
I Have LOVED Madonna ever since "like a prayer" she is an Idol to me. I used to think "true blue" was a throw away, but ever since seeing 'live to tell' at the confessions tour i went back for a listen and now i LOVE it! anyway i gotta say her best has come out ever since "ray of light" (frozen is brilliant) and my favorite album from her is "American Life" it was so techno and cool! 'Love Profusion' and 'Hollywood' are amazing! but Hard candy has been a bit of a hard listen. I do really like 'Devil...' and '4 minutes' but the rest have been rather dissapointing. I am hoping with more listens it will settle. Also i gotta say Hung up live at the confessions tour was AMAZING! I love Madonna!
 
well, it was a BIG disappointment at first, but i like it now... especially miles away and give it 2 me~ although the album sounds more like Timbaland's rather than Madonna's...
 
Hard Candy is also an R&B album mixed in with some techno aspects. It's a different sound. It's a "black" sound, and not everyone is into it. Perhaps that's why I think it's one of her best albums since Ray of Light. I was getting tired of the same old run down beats and the same run down message. Sometimes you just need to shut the hell up and sing. And she finally accomplished that to me and I know why I fell in love with her in the first place.

And for those saying it sounds like a Timbaland album...well, if you want to sound black you go get black people to help you. So naturally you are going to sound like them by the time the album gets finished, but I thought there was more than enough of "Madonna" in there and Timbaland was only there for a few verses and mainly the beats.

It's high time the older artists come back and show these younger artists how its done. Music is in a big depression right now IMO, and its good to see people are trying to bring it back.

My 2 pence


So you go get black people to help you make that sound. I think it was pretty cool Madonna going this route because she pulled it off better than a lot of the other off color artists trying to do the style.
 
Have to say im hooked on this album now.
Love Beat goes on, Voices, Shes not me and starting to love Candy shop
 
I must say I am shocked a little by people saying Madonna's album is not that great. I have never been a Madonna fan, though I do like some of her songs, I don't own any albums of hers. I am a Mariah fan 'til the end. I even loved Glitter (movie and album). When Madonna's "4 Minutes (To Save The World)" came out, I liked the beat. That's about all. I think if you changed beats, it would not be as catchy as it is, but that's the same with 75% of hit songs that's out there now. I wasn't a fan of MC's "Touch My Body" when it first came out, but being a fan, I stuck it through and came out lovin' the song, though not a favorite. "It's Like That" is better to me. I have not heard any other song from "Hard Candy", so I can't make a fair judgement on if I like the album or not. I do know that the album debuted at #1 in about 27 countries. For an artist to be here for 22 years, that's great. Mariah's made Top 5 about everywhere, #1 in US, United Chart, Canada, etc. Mariah's "E=MC2" is selling much better in the US than "Hard Candy". It is about to pass the million sold mark and will be only the second album of the year to do so. That's crazy, only one album has sold more than a million?!?! I remember when albums sold MILLIONS and MILLIONS of copies! I miss the CD single, too. Ahh, good 'ole days. Mariah's album is really great. I am not sure if it's better than "The Emancipation Of Mimi" or not, but that's a classic album, it is just as good I think. If you don't have it, you should buy it. The songs are fun and you'll catch yourself singing along with them!!
 
Sorry but how can a thread about Madonna Hard Candy become so much about Mariah .

Hard candy now in my top 3 Madonna Albums
 
In my opinion, Ray of Light is VERRRRRRY overrated... Not that it's a bad album, but for me, it's very moody, blue and it seems to have an overall theme of betrayal (Power of Goodbye), Sadness (Drowned World/SFL) and even more sadness (Frozen).

I hated the Music CD at first but now love it. 2 of my favorite songs on that CD are "Impressive Instant" and "Paradise/NFM"

American Life. Seriously. Did anyone even buy that album?

CONFESSIONS!!! Easily my FAVORITE of the four... I listen to it all the time! I love every song on that album except "Push."

Hard Candy. Well what can I say? I'm about 50/50 at this point but I will admit I was highly disappointed at first. "It's growing on me." One thing I couldn't and still can't stand are the 2 or 3 songs on the album that are about 8 or 9 minutes long each. I would absolutely LOVE "She's Not Me" if it just stopped at about 4:35 and not drone on for 3-4 more minutes. Dance 2Night and Beat Goes On are my instant favorites!

Anyone else think it's a little... weird... that Madonna sings to Justin in 4 Minutes, "Come on, boy... "

Just seems... creepy.
 
Hard Candy wishes it could be within a million miles of American Life in terms of greatness.

HC is a big pile of mediocre machine-made, cookie-cutter pop/r'n'b that's 3 years out of date.

Shame, but it's her worst album ever.
 
there are just to many throw away trakcs for me like Dance 2night, Increadible, Hearbeat, Cnady shop, beat goes on, spanish lessons. Its really dissapointing to me. but i am excited to see what diresction she takes with live nation.
 
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