Japanese pressing of Madonna's 2008 full-length album includes one bonus track, 'Ring My Bell'. 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. 12 tracks..

A Waste Of An Album, I Guess This Just Was A Way For Her To Complete Her Contract With Warner Brothers. This CD Is A Mess.

The Sad Part Is How Well This Album Is Doing, This Album Was A Major Let Down, How Do We Go From A Hot Dance Album Like "Confessions On A Dancefloor" To This Garbage?, What The Hell Was She Thinking? or Was She Thinking At All?, What Is She Going Through?... Midlife Crisis?

My Goodness, Madonna Needs To get It Together, She's Falling Off The Tracks Big Time, "Hard Candy" Is An Insult To The True Madonna Fans. The Only Song That Sounds Like Anything "Madonna" Would Do Is "Miles Away", Everything Else Is Anything Anyone Else Couldv'e Done.

My Question From Listening To This CD Is "What Makes You Madonna?", "Why Are You A Legend?", For Her To Play This CD As The Answer To My Questions Would Be A Joke On Her Part.

madonna is so awsome and just keeps growing and growing with her fans.
her fan base continues to grow just like her marvelous talent!!
please dont ever stop producing your talent.
england has queen elizabeth.
we have MADONNA !!!!!!!!!
love you girl.

Madonna proves that she can tackle any sound and can make it her own. Madonna has proven this time and time again, although when names like Justin Timberlake, and Kanye West begin popping up, you wonder if she can make this work and be taken seriously. She aced it, and it's incredible that she did.

The ambitious set is not without its problems, though.

If there is one flaw with the album, many songs suffer over-production. On songs such as the Timberland-Timberlake produced, "Voices" and "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You", the bass is so loud, you can barely here the vocals or any other instruments used in the track, and they are in there, but regrettably are drowned out. This is a shame since you can tell that there's a great song in there, but it is just mess mix wise. Even with the volume turned down, the bass still dominates and can break one's speakers. This may work with a dance track, but these are ballads.

The song "Candy Shop" is probably the only wince-worthy song of the set, which is a shame since it's the opening track. There's too many cliches, and Madonna sounds pretty shaky in her delivery. It sounds as if this was one of the first songs she cut for the album. It's the one song where sparseness doesn't work. It could stand a little "over production". The song works much better live.

"Beat Goes On", a great disco-inspired song goes off the track when Kanye West appears. He makes a nice addition, but the way he is spliced into the track, sounds very patchy.

There are times when Madonna sounds more like a guest star in her own songs, mainly due to the production. However, duet-wise with Timberlake, ("Dance Tonight", "4 Minutes), it somehow works. They oddly work well together.

Best moments: Dance Tonight, Heartbeat, Incredible, Give It 2 Me, Spanish Lesson, Miles Away

One thing is that Madonna likes to change with every record and that she tries to stay updated and other is that she makes a crappy record just to be on the headlines...

The record has only 3 great songs: 4 Minutes, Give it to me and Beat goes on, but the rest really sound like Rihanna's or Britney's left overs.

It is too sad that a Legend like Madonna tries to fit the mold of talentless pop puppets like Spears or Rihanna...

Fiquei mto feliz ao comprar este otimo produto! recebi ate msm antes do esperado! vale a pena para colecionadores de vinyl e fans da madonna!