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- Released on: 2008-04-29
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Customer Reviews
Delicious..but left a chip in my tooth!
Hard Candy is a good dance record. It has great beats but mediocre lyrics that are meant for the dance floor, except for a few select tracks. But it's not supposed to be a "deep" and personal record, it's supposed to make you MOVE!
The only track that should've been left of the album is "Spanish Lesson", which is the weakest track on the album. Thus, the chip in my tooth.
Diff but Good still
this album is stronger as individual singles than it is as an album of a "flowing sequential order"
Give it a year...
As with everything Madonna does, the haters are usually the ones to scream the loudest at first. They did it in 1992 with Erotica, in 2000 with Music, in 2003 with American Life, and now again in 2008 with Hard Candy. Over time, the perspective on all of her old "worst album ever" reviews starts to turn to a more honest, tempered opinion and respect for the material. Everything Madonna does musically is a step that only she has ever taken, so it's no surprise that the reactions run the gamut.
Hard Candy is certainly not her best album, but it IS an album that only Madonna could make. Many times, a negative review for Madonna is either a bitter, personal attack on her longevity or more about disappointment that she hasn't returned to one of her countless groundbreaking eras. Rarely do the harshest reviews of Madonna's music come from someone with a perspective on her career of making pop music better than anyone else in the world can.
A year from now, Hard Candy will stand strongly with her other once-lampooned releases that are now viewed as essential material to any pop catalogue. Well done on her part, in my opinion.
-Adam
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