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This is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, and was released first on April 28, 2008 and reached number one in thirty-seven countries.
Hard Candy has a hip-hop/urban pop feel, while remaining a dance-pop record.
It is dance music with a hip hop take on that genre.
This album has hints of her debut album but from another time and space so to speak.
Madonna revealed that she tested the new songs with family and friends and everybody liked different things and had different favourites.
The album art is super-cheap looking, but, Madonna has an expert and highly-paid team of publicists and managers who know what they're doing.
Madonna certainly looks hot but the way her legs are spread just looks really tacky and wrong for a woman of her age, no matter how good her body is.
The cheesy kind of candy effect, even though it is intentional, isn't great either and just looks like its been done on a low budget.
Madonna discussed how she was looking for producers that push the envelope and by working with them she hopes she can push the envelope as well.
This time out Madonna eschewed her usual preference for cool producers like William Orbit and Stuart Price, and gone mainstream, with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and the Neptunes in the producers' chair.
In "4 Minutes" Timberlake and Madonna trade verses, and the boy appears on the chorus, doing his best Michael Jackson impression while quickly crooning " We've only got four minutes to save the world".
The track ends after a brief breakdown where everything drops out but one Bhangra beats, some stabs of brass and Madonna's tick-tock's.
On the video, Timberlake, meanwhile, doesn't dance over the track with his usual graceful style.
Instead, he just sort of bleats just underneath it, and his hiccuping ad-libs are self-parody.
But Hard Candy is clearly a great CD by all standards regardless of how one feels about Madonna personally.
The tracks are all remarkably well conceived by nearly anyone's standards and nearly all of them ring with an indelible hook or unforgettable chorus.
Hard Candy is certainly her most consistent record so far.
Her 80s albums (except Like a Virgin which has only okay singles) all have very good singles but are weighed down by album track filler.
Hard Candy may seem less appealing and entertaining than "Confessions" was, but still a very enjoyable "kind of unnecessary" record.
Madonna is undoubtedly the real pop queen EVER.
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