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Old 04-15-2008, 03:03 PM
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they are both bitches, especially timbaland.
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I cannot find a recent Madonna - Hard Candy thread on kr??

Anyway, here's an interesting clip of Madonna, Timbaland and Timberlake in the studio: YouTube - Madonna, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland EXCLUSIVE footage

Interesting to see how Madonna cannot get Timbaland to do what she wants with her voice on the track, he just interrupts her when she's making suggestions and you can see Madonna being patient with him.
She looks like she's fuming. lol
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i don't see any emotion come across her industrially stretched face.
still. go madonna!!
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i don't see any emotion come across her industrially stretched face.
Really not ? I think it's so obvious. Weird.
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If that's her pissed off she's mellowed out quite a bit. In the Truth or Dare days she never would have been that subtle.

The song is starting to grow on me. I don't really mind her whoring to American tastes anymore, since realizing I liked "Say it Right" by Nelly Furtado better than any song on Confessions.
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Old 04-15-2008, 07:28 PM
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if i actually rewatch the video, she's actually very gilfish @ the 2:30 mark. in a smacked out way that courtney used to look circa her third nose.

in fact, with all that excessive lighting & powdering, her & cl look like carbon copies of each other. right down to the shitty crimped hair.

nevertheless, its still quite poor videoing & songing. & i just now noticed justin really is wearing a scarf.
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Well ok I love the single. I'm addicted and have probably alienated myself from my neighbors even further because of the amount of times I've listened to it in a row. I love Madonna now as much as I did when I was wearing my Beta version of Desperately Seeking Susan down to a strip of static. And I'll be a sort of fan of Justin's probably forever.

But the video? You can practically hear the "umph" she's making as she pushes herself onto the cars and rolls around as well as the "wait wait ok here we go wait" that came before that... breakdancing?... move. Still. She looks amazing.

Everyone's said what needed to be said about the studio youtube.
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ok bitches, 30 seconds surfaced online..

Sheena Beaston: Madonna - Hard Candy (Album Sampler)

i don't know... her voice has never been great, but i have always loved her voice somehow. her tone of singing sounds shitty on these previews anyway, it will be interesting to hear the final versions in HQ

i like Dance Tonight, Give It To Me, Miles Away, Beat Goes On and yes, 4 Minutes the best so far.

and Candy Shop is exactly the same as the one that leaked last year!

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Old 04-16-2008, 12:25 PM
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Thumbs up

The album seems to be getting decent reviews..Blender and Rollingstone both gave 4 out of 5 stars..


Madonna - Hard Candy
4/5 stars

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, Madonna has claimed writing or production credits on every one of her songs, even when she worked with dance-music artists such as William Orbit, Mirwais Ahmadzaï and Stuart Price. So itís surprising that her eleventh studio album — her final one for longtime label Warner Bros. — is an act of submission. For Hard Candy, Madonna's midlife meditation on her own relevance, she lets top-shelf producers make her their plaything.
A songwriting team of American chart royalty helps Madonna revisit her roots as an urban-disco queen. Madonna isn't even the star on the first single, "4 Minutes": Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills provide a clanging whopper of a beat, and her vocal bobs alongside Justin Timberlake's, fighting not to drown in the brassy funk of a marching band. Timberlake is the album's melody doctor, and he steals from his own broody "What Goes Around . . . Comes Around" on Madonna's "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You." Madonna co-wrote but didn't co-produce the Timberlake-Timbaland team's five songs, which smack more of their creators' stamps than her own. The songs are solid, but slightly anonymous, as though they could be stripped down and peddled to other singers.

The creative tension between Madonna and the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams crackles. Williams bangs on paint cans to generate the beat on the innuendo-laden opener, "Candy Shop", and pumps up the thumpy self-empowerment anthem "Give It 2 Me" with clubby synths that trumpet one of Madonna's favorite life-dance-sex metaphors: "Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath/I can go on and on." "Heartbeat" pulses like "Lucky Star," and the soulful "Beat Goes On" (which features an uninspired Kanye West cameo) is one of a handful of tracks with bells and whistles — the classic disco "toot-toot, beep-beep" — traceable to two of Madonna's touchstones: Chic, whose Nile Rodgers helped steer her early career, and Donna Summer.

Like Confessions, Hard Candy celebrates dance as salvation, but even the euphorically groovy "Heartbeat" and "Dance 2night" strike wistful notes. Although the uptempo set features no ballads, the dominant lyrical themes — regret, yearning, distrust — are far from upbeat. Morphing from a syncopated shuffle into a lathery, orgasmic hysteria, Pharrell's "Incredible" is a challenging song about longing for a relationship's idyllic beginning. There's a melancholy pining in Timbaland-Timberlake's lush "Miles Away," which implies that all is not peachy in the house of Richie. "You always have the biggest heart when we're 6,000 miles apart," Madonna sings. International pop megastars — they're just like us!

The album's weakest moment is its most emotionally vapid. Madonna dips into Español for the painfully literal "Spanish Lesson." She has said the music was inspired by a Baltimore dance called the Percolator but seems more indebted to Timberlakeís fast-strummed "Like I Love You." Fortunately, there's also the bass-popping retro-boogie "She's Not Me," where Madonna imagines her lovers feeling buyers' remorse for being seduced by a copycat who "doesn't have my name." The offender who's "reading my books and stealing my looks and lingerie" could be any young pop starlet. But it also seems like an oddly timed barb at Madonna's now-fallen successor, Britney Spears, who has teamed up with many of the guys on Hard Candy — Pharrell, Danja and (ahem) Timberlake — and Madonna herself.

Madonna can still scoff at wanna-be's half her age because she's stayed so flexible with her sound. (She's performed a similar feat with her body, devoting herself to a yoga regimen that's made her impossibly elastic — name another near-fifty-year-old who can still rock a hot crotch shot on her album cover.) Even when she wrestles with Pharrell's abrupt stylistic changes or lets herself get absorbed in a Timberlake melody, Madonna still finds her way back on top. The atmospheric closing track, "Voices," poses the question "Who is the master, who is the slave?" before its operatic wind-down ends in a dramatic bell toll. The answer to both questions is still Madonna.


Madonna: Hard Candy : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:46 PM
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See, I downloaded the previews last night and loved all ofthem except Spanish Lesson ... clearly, though 30 seconds doesnt really give you much.

I am really anxious to hear Give It 2 Me, Heartbeat and Miles Away. The rest sounds pretty cool too ... I keep reading "whatever you expect, don't" ... and that RS review seemed pretty decent?

WHY ISNT THERE A LEAK???
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I know!! I have listened to the leak just now and so far I only dislike only 3 songs on it judging from the clips: Candy Shop, Incredible and Spanish Lesson, which sounds like a shitty Gwen Stefani outtake lol

So far, this can shape up to be good.. i'm excited again..
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oh and why did she choose those god-awful remixers for the 4 minutes single?? its fucking tracey whats herface and peter rauhoffer all over again

she should've gotten mstrkft or some remixers from ed banger rec. to do the job i think. she needs some remix cred fast i think.

here an unofficial remix, it decent:
Discobelle.net » Blog Archive » Madonna - 4 Minutes (DJ Illo's Stutter Mix)
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i love 4 minutes. but, this is the least excited i have been about any Madonna album.

is it just me or does she look like sarah jessica parker now?
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From the clips I think I'm going to like most of this album (mind you, I had pretty low expectations). However, some of Pharell's songs sound dated, but I'm thinking I'll get over that.

'Give It 2 Me', 'Miles Away', and 'Heartbeat' sound the best to me.
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i'm still on the fence here....it's very dancey and very gay club anthem sounding.
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appearantly is has leaked.. does anyone have it??
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Only 8 tracks have leaked. I will post them as soon as I DL them.
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I want to know what Cleetus thinks of Hard Candy. Seriously. I feel like he would like it.
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im surprised im not repulsed by this album but i actually like most of the tracks. im also glad its not blackout v2

incredible is one of the worst madonna songs ive heard in a long time. something about is just really wrong, i cant put my finger on it.

the updated version of the beat goes on is really good, reminds me of 80s madonna
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