| Hard Candy | 
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| Artist: Madonna
Label: WEA/Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  421 reviews
Sales Rank: 37
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
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Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Tracks:
| • | Candy Shop | | • | 4 Minutes | | • | Give It 2 Me | | • | Heartbeat | | • | Miles Away | | • | She s Not Me | | • | Incredible | | • | Beat Goes On | | • | Dance 2night | | • | Spanish Lesson | | • | Devil Wouldn't Recognize You | | • | Voices |
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Album Description
Special Collector's Edition/CD + Amary Box + Booklet. This special edition of Hard Candy comes in a DVD-sized hinged box with the full album PLUS two bonus tracks. Tracy Young's House and Rebirth remixes of the first single "4 Minutes." Also included in the case is a 16-page full colour booklet with pictures of Madonna and a bag of "Starlite" mint candies. Hard Candy is a brilliant uptempo collection that adds a hip-hop beat to the cultural icon's club sensibilities, thanks to collaborations with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, and Nate "Danja" Hills. Hard Candy punctuates the first 25 years of the album career of the most successful female artist in history with a musical exclamation point.
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Short and Sweet.....Sometimes July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most artist put out a crap album when they end their affiliation with their original label. Madonna may not have spent the time and effort she has with her past releases but for a swan song album this one is defintely a cut above the rest. The crime Madonna commits on this album is that this sound has been done over and over and the producers are household names that have produced everything since 2005.This album has echoes of her foray into R&B "Bedtime Stories".Say what you will but "Give It To Me " is shaping up to be a big hit for her, and as of today "4 Minutes" has gone double platinum. This albums only aim seems to be is to entertain and that's how it should be listened to. The album has a definitive groove and the songs compliment each other wonderfully. She even throws the Ray of Light crowd a bone with the lyrically threadbare "Miles Away" which could easily be a sequel to "The Power of Goodbye" with a beat. There are some awkward moments like in the Pharell produced "Heartbeat" which is admittedly a very catchy tune but the "watch my booty get down like..' refrain is a little uncomfortable like a drunken aunt or uncle at a wedding reception trying to be hip with the kids. Look there is nothing deep on this album and that's a good thing because quite frankly it's a great summer album. I'm sure as time passes people will revisit this album and realize how much fun it really is.Candy indeed this is so don't eat so much you will get fat!
Sounds Incredible July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the product arrived to my country - Argentina- in perfect conditions. It really sounds incredible and the pictures are owsome. I recomended it for avery fan of madonna and good quality sound.
Not her best, but still makes you want to move. July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Songs on this album are all definitely "sticky and sweet." I still loved her last album- mostly for the amazing transitions between songs- but this one has a different appeal. She once again has reinvented herself.
 The Mid-Life Crisis Album from Madonna July 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Madonna has never been a remarkable musical talent; she has simply always been a remarkably astute observer and creator of culture. She is the consummate chameleon with the correct response to every trend. I have always believed there is a streak of true depth to Madonna, despite her comfort in the superficial, and that depth lies in her commitment to the principle of free self-expression.
Madonna has lost that depth and the kernel of her genius in this album. Her "self" never emerges through the carefully packaged, retro-dominatrix club motif. For the very first time, we have no idea what Madonna is trying to tell us.
"Hard Candy" attempts to draw heavily on vintage Madonna. The sounds are produced enough to be squarely within our decade, but the song packages are reminiscent of the mid-80s. Even the album cover, with its neon and leather, is 1985. And yet the impetuous, creative, but curiously soft-spoken young woman from 1985 who relished her ability to stir the public with sharp edges is now so entrenched within her cocoon of status as a politically correct, music-industry legend, she has no motivation to manipulate us with this album.
All we hear are formulas. All we see are the hottest names in the business floating around the album to entice us to associate Madonna with contemporary musical power. It is all package, and no substance.
If there is any message here, the message is, "I may be pushing 50, but I am still a pop star". Like the stereotypical middle-aged man enduring an obvious mid-life crisis with a poorly conceived purchase of a flashy sportscar, Madonna is not conscious here of the narcissism she is projecting.
When "4 minutes" was released, (an odd mixture of the trendy global consciousness in Madonna's conceptual style and Justin Timberlake, who is just there because he is Justin Timberlake), my first response was to realize how much better "Blackout" is, and how terribly ironic it is that I am hearing songs from Madonna instead of Britney because while Madonna is a shrewd and confident master of public image, Britney is mentally ill.
Here, however, in Hard Candy, the limits of disingenuous posturing are seen; for once, formulas and shrewd marketing cannot take sail without any vulnerable and real person behind the package clamoring for expression.
 Surprise July 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every time a song by Madonna comes out it seems like she has reinvented herself. This time is no different. A bit of the beginning sounds of Madonna mixed with her later music. Her voice is clear and sounds as if it is embedded into the music. The flow is great as well as some of the people she has on this CD. Listen to the words on this CD, they are clear and understandable, unlike some other recently produced albums. Madonna by far has outdone Mariah and Janet. Leona Lewis is on her tale though - check her out too.
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