Track Listing

1. Candy Shop
2. 4 Minutes
3. Give It 2 Me
4. Heartbeat
5. Miles Away
6. She s Not Me
7. Incredible
8. Beat Goes On
9. Dance 2night
10. Spanish Lesson
11. Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
12. Voices

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40 in Music
• Brand: MADONNA
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of discs: 1

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.

Customer Reviews

The worst Madonna album ever
I have been a Madonna fan forever, but this album is bad, there are some exceptions, but most of the songs sounds like those side B songs that they used to put in those vinyl singles of yesterday.

My sugar is Raw
Madonna's Hard Candy is her 11th official studio album, and I think it is one of her best. In terms of enjoyable, this album exceeds expectations, its catchy light hearted and I can't get enough of it. Although albums like "Ray of Light" "Music" "Something to Remember" and "True Blue" are among her strongest..this album carries itself in its own right as her most enjoyable. It's mindless fun, and it's got alot of really good songs on it. I love "Heartbeat", "Miles Away", "She's Not Me", and "Incredible" because theyre so much fun. "Candy Shop" is a great one with some really unique sounds, and I love, of course, "4 minutes". "Beat Goes on" "give it 2 me" and "Spanish Lesson" shine her producers (Neptunes) talents alot. This album is a must, I love every song!!

SIMPLY MADONNA'S MOST AMAZING "CLASSIC" ALBUM!
HARD CANDY is madonna's last album with warner brothers...it's been 25 years since 1982's "everybody" and now she's still the reigning queen of pop, the world's best selling female artist of all time, and an icon of her generation!

what makes this madonna album simply her most amazing album is that she came back to her roots: dance music - with some hiphop twists!

CANDY SHOP - reminiscent of "where's the party" if you could get the rift. the opening song for this album simply wants its listeners to get up and dance! a mixed bag of the sound of the 80's, the technology of the 90's and the blending of music of the new millennium!

GIVE IT 2 ME - one of the best tracks in the album. this time madonna asks her fans to give it to her - as she wants to break records, get arrested, or be undressed - whichever you want!

4 MINUTES - good but not that great. this collaboration with timbaland and justin made the fans thought that madonna will be sporting a "new hip hop sound." although 4 minutes is a good track, it was earlier thought of to isolate the vintage madonna sound from the queen of pop. luckily, the rest of the album is still madonna! however, the remixes of this song really rocks and brought out its inner beauty! congrats to justin timberlake and timbaland!

HEARTBEAT - one of the best tracks. this song just brings back the madonna of the 80's. except for the new beats, this is definitely vintage! this track seemed to belong between the LIKE A VIRGIN and TRUE BLUE era...

MILES AWAY - a ballad that seems to belong to the "ray of light" album. this is another great track. the other great ballad in this album is "devil wouldn't recognize you."

SHE'S NOT ME - a funny but nevertheless great track. once again, madonna lashed out at "wannabes" who wanted to dethrone her. nice guitar rifts that seem to belong to the "chic" era. definitely a hard disco track reminiscent of the late 70's and early 80's - where madonna first came! one of two 6-minute tracks (the other is incredible) that is really a bonus for fans since madonna doesnt record songs that long nowadays!

INCREDIBLE - another great track. it's just hard to classify if its a dance track, since there are many stops, but one of its good parts is the voice loops which is seldom done nowadays. another seemingly "lost in the 80's" track. the lyrics - "sex is incredible" - brought back "erotica" memories in a nice way. this fun track clocked at around 6+minutes, but you wont realize it's over till it's over. this track is...incredible.

BEAT GOES ON - my favorite track! i fell in love with this song the moment i heard the 30-second sample at amazon.com!!! a disco-inspired madonna track with great rappings from kanye west! she tried not to be repetitive in the refrain as madonna changed some lyrics and arrangements and placed some "echo effects" which is also no longer common today. the best track of the album!!!

DANCE 2NIGHT - another excellent track! this song has very good basslines and guitar rifts. propbably belonged to the early 80's! the second best track in the "hard candy" album.

SPANISH LESSON - not a bad track, but seemed misplaced in the entire album. madonna's humor is clearly present in this track.

DEVIL WOULDNT RECOGNIZE YOU - despite being a ballad, this is a great track that belongs to this album. it rivals "miles away" from being the best ballad track in the HARD CANDY album.

VOICES - a great song to close the album, although the track seems
to belong from the "ray of light" album again. it is akin to "power of goodbye."

despite all the write-ups, HARD CANDY is a better album than "music" and "american life." i could even say that it even surpassed 2005's smash "confessions on a dancefloor" as the songs in HARD CANDY are more ear-friendly and groove-ready! this is the sequel to the 80's madonna - a persona we fans have been missing for a long time...

get the album and complete madonna's journey with warner brothers...

she will soon be starting a new one with a new label...

long live the queen!