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| Hard Candy | 
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| Artist: Madonna
Label: WEA/Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  474 reviews
Sales Rank: 259
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 093624988496
UPC: 093624988496
EAN: 0093624988496
ASIN: B0015D3Z4O
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new sealed. In stock in our warehouse, and ships right now. 20% chance the case has a crack or two.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Completely out of place May 4, 2008
16 out of 34 found this review helpful
This CD is completely crapp musically, melodically, vocally and lyrically...the unpleasant cover photo is also one of the factors that contributes to somebody hesitating to buy the album. As for Justin Timberlake, he is the overrated/lousiest song writer/producer/artist ever in the music industry...and Madonna teaming up with him is nothing but a big joke. I would have given a zero star review if only I could. I own all her previous albums and singles but will definitely skip this one as this is not a Madonna album to me. For those who provided a five star review, it is time for an ear treatment and be truthful...please don't mislead other potential buyers.
Come Into Her Store, She's Got Candy Galore April 29, 2008
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
"When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on and on" chants Madonna three tracks into her new LP "Hard Candy," and with the Queen of Pop staring down her 7th stateside chart-topping album such a claim is more than justified. The living definition of pop music chameleon, she indeed offers a delicious array of confections precision-tooled to hit a listener's sweet tooth. There is some padding, and no obvious follow-up single exists for mega-hit "4 Minutes," but this does the album no disservice. Madonna manages to acknowledge her past and keep things contemporary all the while avoiding pretense or retreads, making for a wholly interesting recording.
Collaborating with the likes of Timbaland and Justin Timberlake has caused some to question whether Madonna is taking the easiest possible route to continued pop success, but the most obvious - and fortunate - thing about "Hard Candy" is that it is wall-to-wall Madonna both in songwriting and atmosphere. Rather than grafting herself on to their winning production values she ingeniusly uses them to amplify her material. The result is an album plum full of dancefloor-ready anthems and a smattering of low-key ballads that manage to be mainstream yet cutting edge.
Sizzling club thumpers like the suave "Dance 2night" and ultra-addictive "Give It 2 Me," for example, recall the awesome, frenetic energy of 2005's "Confessions On a Dancefloor" but would still sound at home on Top 40 radio. Elsewhere, the bittersweet "Miles Away" has one of the most poignant, endearing hooks of any ballad in Madonna's lengthy catalogue.
Opening the floodgates of engrossing, colorful melodies is "Incredible" with its incessant, yearning energy. "Beat Goes On" featuring Kanye West packs similar zest, and "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" percolates with raw sexual energy, icy snyths and a frothy, guitar-laden melody.
The sexy, slinky "Heartbeat" with its mercurial melody and awesome vocals is destined for radio waves, and "She's Not Me," despite being over-long and not quite finding its hook, contains one of Madonna's most intriguingly self-referential lines. Comparing another woman to "the flavor of the month," she makes her declaration:
"She's not me/She doesn't have my name/She'll never have what I have/It won't be the same."
Indeed, pop stars come and go by the dozen, but through it all there is only one Madonna.
Through two and a half decades' worth of trends, fads and fashions Madonna has rarely lost her footing and always come back roaring, and "Hard Candy" reveals her inner lioness in a way that is not only totally late 2000's but totally listenable. She re-defined musical boundaries not only for women but pop artists in general for many reasons, and artistic stagnation is not one of them. This is definitely a "Candy Shop" worth many return visits.
This limited edition is by far her most spiffy to date. Featuring two awesome remixes of "4 Minutes" as bonus tracks on the CD, 30 glossy photos and even a package of Starlite mint candies are included as well. Diehards will find even more to appeal to their asthetic need for all things Queen of Pop.
Another Repetitive and Weak Madonna Album April 29, 2008
15 out of 42 found this review helpful
This CD is another piece of c..p that is loaded with made up sounds and from it you can see that Madonna can't sing at all. Weak lyrics and bad songs. Don't buy it because will be a waste of MONEY. I am selling it because is horrible..... Terrible CD. Instead try something else. Try something better. This ALBUM really sucks!!!!
Madonna please retire!!!!!
Pathetic attempt to still matter April 30, 2008
15 out of 31 found this review helpful
It's hard to be less relevant than Mariah Carey, but Madonna has nailed it to the floor. At a certain point, you should know that when you seem to be struggling to be the next Cher, it might be time to just et the haggis. There is nothing to recommend this, which is essentially audio wallpaper for the overweight ladies at Curves. Sad, really...
Awful! What was I thinking? May 15, 2008
15 out of 25 found this review helpful
What a mistake! I should have known from the flat, cliched, and plainly unattractive cover this would be bad. Terrible production, fake sounding ( or maybe they were fake) drums, her vocals were mixed as if in a distant tunnel with those gdawful drums beating the life out of the mix. And the worst lyrics. Cliched and babyish and dull dull dull.
And Madonna herself- I will give her credit, her voice was pretty good but she seemed depressed and lifeless actually. No pizazz or charisma. As if she was going thru the motions knowing she would make even more money than any human really needs, and doing "sigh" one more set of pictures showing her as "That madly sexual creature everyone expects". She has a great body, she can dance as we all know, but that was the ugliest outfit of all time. (I am all for any and all women being creative and beautiful and sexual no matter their ( our) ages, and maybe Madonna thinks she looks great and sexy. To each their own but to ME, I shoulda known. )
This music was just so bland and UN funky, UN soulful and unlistenable.
I am SO glad I also ordered that Marvin Gaye box set.
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