Keepin’ it sticky and sweet: Madonna’s new album Hard Candy rated track-by-track Naaz reviewed the album at the official Warner Bros. Canada listening party in an exclusive Toronto night club. Here is her impression of Hard Candy, track-by-track: 1. Candy ShopAt first, I didn’t think Candy Shop was the best track to start the CD with, […]
Dominance isn’t just a fetish for Madonna, it’s her religion. It’s no accident that she opened each show on 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor tour by clenching a riding crop in her hand, jerking a gagged male dancer around by a leather leash. And she never puts down the whip: Since 1986’s True Blue, […]
Fear not, Madonna fans. The Material Girl still controls her material on her new album, “Hard Candy” (Warner Bros.) On her previous 10 studio albums, control was never questioned because Madonna had it. She co-wrote and co-produced everything she did. She always called the shots. But throughout “Hard Candy” – filled with the work of […]
It is not yet time to stick a fork in Madonna. The grande dame of pop isn’t done just yet. Pop music is supposed to be a young person’s game, but Madonna, as she’s done so often throughout her quarter-century career, ignores the rules by sounding vital and relevant, even as she approaches her 50th […]
Laten we het niet te lang hebben over de cover van Hard Candy, de nieuwe Madonna. Want op de goedkoop ogende verpakking zien we de 49-jarige Queen of Pop in een nietsverhullend vechtpakje en in een pose van een lachwekkend sekslijn-meisje. It’s a knock-out? Nee! De tijden dat Madonna met haar outfit (of liever zonder) […]
Beoordeling Sentimento.be: ***1/2 Sinds vrijdag 25 april is het nieuwste album van Madonna, Hard Candy, te koop. Volgens de woordvoerder van Madonna is voor een snoepjesthema gekozen omdat Madonna simpelweg ‘gek is op snoep’. De titel refereert verder naar een contrast tussen stoer en schattig. Het album start met het nummer ‘Candy Shop‘, met een […]
Nothing spiritual here! Madonna finally gets back into the groove with an old-school dance CD. You’ve seen the video for “4 Minutes,” Madonna’s flirty duet with Justin Timberlake. Perhaps you’ve heard that roughly half of her new album, Hard Candy, was produced by the Neptunes, with the remainder entrusted to the team of Timbaland, Nate […]
Hard Candy: we’re supposed to read the title as a self-congratulatory pun on Madonna herself, a sweet soft centre in a crisp hardbody shell; but there’s another, more telling pun here, reflecting how a once diverse talent has ossified into simply satisfying the sweet tooth of functional dance-pop. Why else would she turn to off-the-peg […]
This afternoon we went to a brilliantly decorated room in East London to hear the new Madonna album while sipping champagne & eating jelly beans. Sounds good huh? Well it was! Anyone fearing a full on urban attack – don’t worry. ‘Hard Candy‘ is full of long disco pop songs – it just has some […]
Helen Brown reviews the most famous woman in pop’s latest album, Hard Candy Clad in three different black corsets, Madonna straddles the front covers of next month’s Elle, Dazed and Confused and Vanity Fair magazines. On the latter, the famously muscular arms of pop’s bionic woman appear to be holding up the globe, and the […]
On Madonna’s 11th album, Hard Candy, the queen of pop invites us to imagine her as a confectioner running a musical sweet shop. But, after sitting through the 12 tracks on offer here, you’ll begin to wish she’d stocked more than two varieties of candy. Those flavours come from two of America’s most bankable songwriting […]
MADONNA’s new album Hard Candy is her most lyrically revealing collection ever – picking over the bones of relationships in meltdown. Tracks frankly dissect the pain that comes when partnerships sour. The 49-year-old has never been more confessional than on a string of tracks on the collection which is released on April 28. Here’s my […]
Rating: 3/5 As finishing touches were being applied to the East London premiere of Madonna’s latest album, academics specialising in adoption at the University of Liverpool announced what they called The Madonna Effect – a phenomenon “in which parents in Africa surrender their children for adoption thinking they will enjoy a better life”. Whatever context […]
Hard Candy drops on April 28th but I have already been fortunate to have a sneak listen to the record at an exclusive playback in London today. A handful of journos piled into 3 Rooms in Shoreditch to hear it. The decor was totally fab – giant candy emblazoned with Madge pictures and a lovely […]
“Workin’ up a sweat/ that’s what music’s for,” Madonna sings on “Heartbeat,” the pumped-up fourth song on Hard Candy, her latest album, due April 29. The pop diva makes good on her promise – singing her way through an hour of Euro-flavored dance tracks infused with retro, house beats. PEOPLE.com got an early listen – […]
To best savor the sweet-tart sound of Hard Candy, it’s best to heed Madonna’s introductory come-on. “Get up out of your seat,” she coos over one of Pharrell Williams’ trademark spare grooves. “Come on up to the dance floor.” Indeed, Hard Candy, online and in stores today, is designed for nonstop club play and serious […]
Candy ShopM: Ok, this was leaked and divided people.L: The lyrics are ridiculous! I love it!M: Some journos will probably slate it, but it’s a statement and sounds much better in the context of the album. It’s like an entree. It’s her saying “so what if I’m 50. I still like to fuck – so […]
