Allright people, from now on I am going to make weekly album reviews here in my blog. The first one is Madonna's much-hyped about new album "Hard Candy", which comes out this Tuesday and which I got one week before it came out, as in exclusively.
Madonna has always craved attention and has always strived for re-invention. For her last album, "Confessions of a Dance Floor", she adopted a 70's-vibe theme and created a whole amazing concept for it that developed on the music, the look and the tour. For this album, Madonna wanted to go mainstream and hooked up with the "hottest" hip-hop producers on the business, Timbaland, and Pharrell Williams.
I guess you would say it's a safe bet right? Well, it worked for Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado and almost every single pop artist last year, but for the Queen of Pop, not so much. Madonna is too big of a legend to put herself out there as everyone else. The first single of this album "4 Minutes" in which she performs with Justin Timberlake as well, is probably the biggest dissapointment of the whole album. This song, which has basically the same elements as every single song on Fergie's album, is a sad attempt to sound relevant and hip in 2008, although it has worked because the song has gone number 1 in the UK and top 5 in the US.
The album as a whole does have some good things. Especially the songs "Candy Shop", "Give it to me", "She is not you" and "The Beat Goes On" featuring Kanye West. Madonna did successfully mixed her pop music standard with the beats of this super-producers. I guess the beats are the only reason the album is half-good, but I was midly dissapointed to see Madonna going for the same bridges on her songs as every single pop act out there.
Madonna is probably the biggest singer in the world. Ever. And in this album she tries too hard to be a current artist, when in reality she is and will always be. If you enjoy songs that completely revolve around beats (which I do sometimes) you will like the album, but If you are expecting a "Ray of Light" kind of album this time, you will be dissapointed. Too much celebrity duets, too much beats, too much synthesizer, and a pop diva that slowly fades throughout the album. I think I will like the new tour better.
P.S: The album is defitinely a grower though, which after 15 times will start sounding better.
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