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| Hard Candy | 
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| Artist: Madonna
Label: WEA/Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $6.89
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Buy New/Used from $6.69
Avg. Customer Rating:  (446 reviews)
Sales Rank: 76
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
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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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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Japanese pressing of Madonna's 2008 full-length album includes one bonus track, 'Ring My Bell'. 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. 12 tracks..
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| Customer Reviews: Read 441 more reviews...
 Madonna album?? NOT August 21, 2008
Having been a diehard fan since 1983, this is painful to write. Almost as painful as listening to HC. This is the first time ever I have not bought a Madonna album. I have listened to this entire album and it was torture. I attempted a second listen and found myself barely making it through, using FF and skipping. I am so glad I did not waste my money.
I agree with many other reviewers that this was hastily thrown together using overrated producers and done to death sounds that are rehashed from the 90's. This is her worst work to date, but then again I don't believe that any work really went into this. I don't even consider this a Madonna album.
I sure hope she can make these songs at least tolerable to sit through in concert, because she does put on the best concerts, but even then I don't know if I could bear hearing these songs at such a level. I could barely listen to them at mid volume on my laptop.
She is MIA with this album and truly is the guest. Her influence is there in snippets and even then gone so fast I had to keep reminding myself this is Madonna. Her best work to date "Ray of Light", "Erotica", "Confessions", "Immaculate Collection" is well worth the money and repeated plays and keeps growing on you. Even with the best tracks "MA" and "Devil Wouldn't...", it is not memorable at all.
Apparently Madonna wanted to get her obligation to WB over with as fast as she could. Apparently no one told her that she was making an album. She is lost in the hip-hop hype sound that most people were sick of hearing ten years ago. Here's to hoping for her next album, she leaves the candy producers where they belong, on a shelf to rot.
 Who That Girl? August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a yankee doodle dandy ... kinda like deja vu all over again ... [(... a bit GUI though ? ...)][(... say it ain't so, Jack ... [the buck stops here?] ...) (*-mile away ...) (... beep, beep ...)]
Great album, classic Madonna August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is a mix of Madonna's roots in dance pop with a little street edge. Some of the tracks in the middle of the album depart from this and frankly seem a little out of place, but overall it is fantastic.
 Sounds Like American Life.....Remixed August 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Madonna's most recent effort was released to a lot of hype on the heels of the single "4 minutes". Well, dont believe the hype, this album is just about as dissapointing as american life, though nothing can take that albums place at the top of the crappy album hall of fame. There arent any really memorabale performances here, and it sounds like madge is trying to cater to the urban music crowd and stave off the big 5-0. This is Madonna as Keyshia Cole and it dosent work.
consistently good August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i grew up on madonna and as time goes by, she gets better and better. this album is a good example of that. i don't pay attention to that "reinventing herself" stuff. its the music that is not reinvented but evolving and adapting to the sound of popular culture, as long she likes, madonna can keep putting out music that people will enjoy
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