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Hard Candy | 
| Artist: Madonna
Label: WEA/Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy Used: $7.00
You Save: $11.98 (63%)
Rating:  423 reviews
Sales Rank: 41
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
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: CD IS IN LIKE NEW CONDITION
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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
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 418 more reviews...
 One of Madonna's best albums ever!! July 20, 2008
K. Zaher (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A new wonderful album from the queen of Pop!
Madonna may be a 49-year-old working mom pushing 50, but she still loves her dance floor, her catsuits and her pop hooks. She's also an expert chameleon, co-opting current musical tastes for her own pleasure.
The album jumps off the disco of 2005's ''Confession on a Dancefloor'' with thunderous, up-tempo club grinds but also some surprisingly dark moments. The Neptunes - the production duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo - add retro-synth beats while Timbaland punches up the power R&B, along with Justin Timberlake and Nate (Danja) Hills. Madonna co-wrote and co-produced the album's 12 tracks, which swerve from the psychedelic-horn blitz of the Timbaland-produced hit ''4 Minutes'' to the swooping drama of ''Voices.''
We live in a Madonna world. And as long as she keeps releasing albums as vivid, relevant, distinctive and modern as this, we will for a some time yet.
HARD CANDY July 20, 2008
PERUZZI MARCO (bologna, italy Italy)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
another success .I LIKE SHE'S NOT ME THANK
S FOR GIVE THIS EXCELLENT EMOTIONS MADONNA THE BEST!
Short and Sweet July 16, 2008
Unquiet American
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album will be revered and reviled by the appropriate parties. The Madonna fanatics will herald the endurance and stamina of not just the artist physical prowess but her career, which is truly a remarkable feat. Her detractors will come down the pike exclaiming what an untalented Faustian invention she is and decry her as irrelevant, again. The opening to Madonna's new opus starts quietly with inverted syncopated beats and almost instantly pardon the pun if you will gets "into the groove" with the album's opener "Candy Shop". The song is immediately accessible and is reminiscent of some tracks from her r&b flavored album "Bedtime Stories", the tune is catchy if not ephemeral in its stay in your consciousness. The explosive, fun and unapologetically commercial first single "4 Minutes" bumps and grinds accompanied by thematically unstructured lyrics and like many of Madonna's musical projects the song is successful in implanting its clunky chorus in your head "tick tock tick tock".The track steamrolls the listener leaving them prostrate by the tracks powerful and entertaining energetic spirit."Give it 2 Me" the album's third and strongest track will really be the track that will define this album in retrospect. "Give it 2 Me" presents the artist in the millieu and genre that her most rabid and myopic fans would prefer her to stay in infinitely, dance music and the dancefloor. I have to say that I don't blame the fans. Madonna owns this track,you can practically see the disco balls and laser lights on this soon to be classic Madonna track with its bouncy and measured build up that does not invite you to the dancefloor but demands that you get on it immediately!. The album shifts from it's theme about candy,sweets and sugar on the provacative for all the wrong reasons (given the negative press coverage the artist has recieved regarding her marriage and alleged affairs) "Miles Away". The song illustrates the pitfalls and painful realizations of a long distance love affair that has come to an impasse. The inclusion of this track (which I personally like)creates a thematic disonance among a landscape of songs with lyrics such as "watch my booty get down like.." and "get stupid, get stupid". Hard Candy as a concept fails here. The song is quite frankly too anchored in real or perceived heartache on a album about confections. "Miles Away" would of been a perfect fit on the artist 2000 album "Music" or 2003's "American Life". On "Dance 2nite" Madonna pays homage to herself revisiting a groove and vibe that you can hear on her eponymous debut album " Madonna" and later "Like a Virgin" in songs like "Everybody", "Physical Attraction" and "Dress You Up". Madonna fans of a certain age will recognize that aspect of some of the songs on "Hard Candy". "Hard Candy" despite some thematic challenges stays musically consistent and taut. The casual listener will hear some very infectious and bouncy grooves.This makes "Hard Candy" a bonafide success. The Madonna fanatic and detractor for better or worse will project and inject their perceived ideas and feelings of the artist good and bad and they will miss the point , again. "Hard Candy" proves why Madonna is still here it's about the music always has been. To paraphrase one of the songs on "Hard Candy", were not her and we'll never will be.
Sounds Incredible July 14, 2008
Gabriel Biasella (Argentina)
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
Hunter Camberleigh (Massachusetts, USA)
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.
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