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Heute vor 10 Jahren kam Hard Candy raus. x

Why 'Hard Candy' is Madonna's Last Great Album
4/28/2018 by Chuck Arnold


For most, Hard Candy is not a classic Madonnaalbum like 1989’s Like a Prayer, 1998’s Ray of Light or her eponymous 1983 debut. It’s generally not even considered on the level of its Grammy-winning predecessor, 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor. The album -- which arrived stateside 10 years ago on April 29, 2008 -- only spawned one top 10 single, “4 Minutes” (which hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100), while most of her previous studio LPs had multiple ones.
And even "4 Minutes," a clattering collaboration with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and some marching band, felt more like one of the Tims’ bangers than a Madonna song. In fact, probably the biggest quasi-knock against Hard Candy was that, with Timbaland, Timberlake and the Neptunes behind the boards, it found Madge working with A-list pop hitmakers for one of the rare times in her career up to that point. (Nile Rodgers, on 1984’s Like a Virgin, and Babyface and Dallas Austin, on 1994’s Bedtime Stories, also come to mind.)





Gone was the hip factor of William Orbit on Ray of Light, Mirwais Ahmadzaï on Music and American Life, and even Stuart Price on Confessions on a Dance Floor. There was almost a feeling that Madonna had sold out, as if one of the biggest pop stars in history could do that simply by trying to make popular music. That bad album cover -- where the then almost-50-year-old came off as if she was trying too hard, striking a dominatrix-meets-prizefighter pose -- certainly didn’t help matters.

But in retrospect, Hard Candy is, from start to finish, the last great Madonna album, if not up to her outright classics. There is no filler. There are no bad tracks. Zero. (Even the flamenco-flavored “Spanish Lesson," a frivolous addition to Madonna’s catalog of Latin-infused nuggets, is a guilty pleasure.) The same can’t be said of the more beloved Confessions on a Dance Floor, another club-ready affair that had that forgettable moment when Esther took over on "Isaac."






As the main men on Madonna’s producing and songwriting squad, Timbaland, Timberlake and the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) were in top form. On opener "Candy Shop," which sets the sexy tone for the rest of Hard Candy, the Neptunes get the party pumping with an almost sinister slinkiness. There is really nothing sweet about this sugar — it's just plain hot and raw.

That special Neptunes sauce clearly inspired Madonna to sound more erotic than she had since, well, 1992’s Erotica. Although the Neptunes also produced the second single "Give It 2 Me," a classic Madonna anthem with a determined groove to match the lyric, they really hit peak level with the back-to-back tracks "She’s Not Me" and "Incredible." Ranking among Madonna’s best deep cuts (put “Candy Shop” in that category too), the sassy "She’s Not Me" and the euphoric "Incredible" are both shape-shifting, six-minute epics that start on one dance floor and then transport you to another where the get-down goes on without missing a beat.






Later, on "Beat Goes On" (featuring Kanye West), the Neptunes channel Chic with a bumping bass line. And on the next track, the shimmering "Dance 2Night," Timbaland and Timberlake keep the disco vibe twirling. Madonna and JT, grinding on and around each other, display even more chemistry on "Dance 2Night" than they do on "4 Minutes." The Tims also worked on the ballad "Miles Away," the album's third and final single, which mixes the folktronica of Music and especially American Lifewith a stuttering Timbaland beat. "I guess we’re at our best when we’re miles away," sings Madonna, hinting at the marital problems that led her to split with Guy Ritchie later in 2008.

In the end, Hard Candy was a sweet victory lap for Madonna as her last of 11 studio albums for Warner Bros., the label where she became the most famous female artist on the planet.

Und mal wieder ne Huldigung als ultimative Gay-Ikone.

Madonna by Nick Levine

Illustration by James Davison.

Nick Levine is a writer and journalist from south London via south Buckinghamshire. He writes about music, pop culture and LGBTQ+ issues for publications including Gay Times, Refinery29, i-D, NME, Time Out and GQ, and has interviewed the likes of Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and Britney Spears.

The bond between queer pop fans and a glamorous, self-actualising female pop star can be a fairly superficial one. These days, what cishet pop diva doesn't say the right things when she's asked about LGBT rights, or shown photos of drag queens "doing" her? "Wow, they could teach me a thing or two!" I'm not suggesting any particular performer has cultivated a queer fanbase for cynical reasons; I'm just saying it's pretty obvious in 2018 that your new favourite pop star is going to be pro-equal rights. Calling yourself an LGBT ally just isn't difficult or controversial any more.

But the bond between queer pop fans and Madonna is a little bit different, I think, and a lot more deep-rooted. Before she became the "Queen of Pop", a title it's hard to remember her ever not having, Madonna Louise Ciccone was a scrappy misfit from Michigan whose formative years were frequently shaped by gay men. Her first big queer influence was her teenage ballet teacher Christopher Flynn. "He was the first man - the first human being - who made me feel good about myself and special," Madonna told Interview magazine in 2010. "He was the first person who told me that I was beautiful or that I had something to offer the world, and he encouraged me to believe in my dreams, to go to New York. He was such an important person in my life."

When Madonna moved to New York City in 1978, with just $35 in her pocket according to legend, she was drawn to cool and creative types, people she felt she could learn something from. For a time, she slept on pop artist Keith Haring's sofa. Martin Burgoyne, an artist who tended bar at the legendary Studio 54 nightclub, became her best friend. Both were young gay guys and as HIV/AIDS ravaged the city's queer community in the 1980s, both tested positive. By the end of the decade, their pal Madonna was no longer a super-driven wannabe living in a dingy apartment on the Lower East Side. She was a pop superstar who used her fame and influence to raise awareness of the disease that was hurting the people she'd come up with, a disease so stigmatised that President Ronald Reagan wouldn't even say its name in public.

In 1989, she and Christopher Flynn laid on a high-profile AIDS benefit, a dance marathon, in New York City. The same year, she included an AIDS fact sheet with her Like a Prayer album, which went on to sell 15 million copies worldwide. "People with AIDS - regardless of their sexual orientation - deserve compassion and support, not violence and bigotry," the sheet stated. The following year, Keith Haringand Christopher Flynn lost their lives to AIDS-related illnesses. Martin Burgoyne had already succumbed back in 1986.

During her imperial phrase, which I'd probably peg as 1985 through 1990, queer culture informed Madonna's art as well as her activism. Most famously, her iconic 1990 single and video Vogue spotlighted a dance form that originated on the Harlem ball scene, a place where gay and trans people, mainly gay and trans people of colour, could live out their own fantasies of becoming a superstar. Some commentators have argued that Vogue is cultural appropriation: a wealthy white woman had made herself the face of a queer subculture rooted in oppression and a lack of privilege. Others cite it as an example of Madonna's genius for taking underground ideas into mainstream. Either way, I reckon she had an instinctual grasp of what that scene was all about. "When all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today," she sings on Vogue’s first verse. "I know a place where you can get away - it's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for."

Madonna spotlighted queer lives more overtly in her influential 1991 documentary film Truth or Dare (aka In Bed with Madonna), which followed her on 1990's fabulously controversial Blond Ambition World Tour. (A quick recap: she simulated masturbation on stage while performing one of her biggest hits, Like a Virgin, and the Pope called for a boycott.) Obviously Madonna was the film's leading lady, but her gay male dancers were its witty, vital, and inspiringly open supporting players: two of them even shared a backstage kiss, pretty risqué stuff at the time. The dancers' interactions had such an impact on young gay boys that they were later celebrated in their own documentary film, 2016's Strike a Pose.

Madonna's music has fluctuated since 1990: sometimes it's been tremendous; other times, less than tremendous. But her bond with queer pop fans has never weakened, even if today's LGBT teens probably regard her as a Cher-style "legend", rather than the cultural lightning rod she was to the generation above. There are so many reasons why Madonna appeals to queer people: she's unapologetic, shocking, camp, principled, never quite satisfied. She refuses to let anyone else police her body or how she chooses to dress. Her best music, like 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor album, just makes you want to move.

My own "Madonna moment" came during a Religious Studies class at my all-boys secondary school - weird in a way, but also strangely appropriate given Madonna's love/hate relationship with the Catholic faith. Her 1998 album Ray of Light had just come out to pretty ecstatic reviews, and my teacher, clearly a fellow queer, decided to base an entire lesson on the themes it explored: spirituality, parenthood, emotional growth, confronting your demons. Who knows what my classmates made of the lesson, but closeted, spotty, awkward little 13-year-old me felt, well, touched for the very first time.

Madonna may not be a perfect queer icon or a perfect queer ally. But she is an authentic and loyal one who's played a significant part in helping to normalise queer culture. As her almost unbearably poignant World AIDS Day Instagram post shows, she hasn't forgotten our past. When she did a Reddit AMA in 2013, a fan asked her: "If you were a gay man, would you be a top or bottom?" Madonna's response: "I am a gay man." Normally I hate it when cishet women say this kind of thing, but I think this particular cishet woman has earned herself a pass.

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mutti ist in nyc evtl. #metgala2018

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Wenn man bei Google " Madonna neues Album 2018" eingibt erscheint das: Fortherockandroll Erscheinungstag 11.05.2018. 8 Lieder werden mit Titel angezeigt. Ist das ein Fake? Finde sonst nichts darüber 🤗

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Gute Frage was das sein soll Vielleicht erlaubt sich da jemand einen Scherz. Wären eben alles Coversongs

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Das habe ich nicht nachgeschaut. Man findet auch nichts weiter im Netz darüber. "Rockalbum" als Bezeichnung... hatte mich schon gefreut👍

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Das habe ich nicht nachgeschaut. Man findet auch nichts weiter im Netz darüber. "Rockalbum" als Bezeichnung... hatte mich schon gefreut👍

3 beiträge in 6 jahren und 2 davon bei mutti du überlebst bestimmt auch ne zombie-apokalypse. die madonna des ioff.

es gibt auch gerüchte das es neuaufnahmen ihrer alten classics sein könnten...weiss nicht was ich davon halten soll...
die freaks @madonnanation behaupten sie würde bei der metgala auch nen neuen song performen.

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Sind 6 Jahre schon um (Zeitkapsel) Bin halt nicht der große Schreiberling.
Bin mal gespannt, was passiert, denn ich glaube, es wird ganz überraschend ein Album veröffentlicht, damit nicht der große Datenklau wie beim letzten Album passieren wird. Und nur mal so nebenbei: MDNA ein Flop? Rebel Heart ein Flop? Wenn man sich die Klicks bei youtube anschaut, bestimmt nicht und heute wird jeder zweite die Musik dort downloaden und NICHTS dafür bezahlen. Da sollte die Plattenfirma in der Anfangszeit mal ein Auge drauf haben, dann stimmen auch die Verkaufszahlen wieder. Geht bei anderen Künstlern ja auch

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Bin mal gespannt, was passiert, denn ich glaube, es wird ganz überraschend ein Album veröffentlicht

das glaub ich auch evtl sogar ein visuelles album.

thema der #metgala2018 ist übrigens
"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"



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Sie wird schon alles richtig machen 🤗 Hat sie doch fast immer. Nur geht mir das gegen ihr Alter gebasche ziemlich auf die Nerven. Wie sie schon bei der "Woman of the Year" Rede sagte: Für eine Frau ist es die größte Sünde Alt zu werden. Nur denken immer alle Bascher, sie wären unverwundbar und würden nie altern 😂🤣😂🤣

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es ist offiziell mutti wird die #metgala2018 veredeln.
und sie hat ein paar neue ma(hd)onnavids hochgeladen.

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das glaub ich auch evtl sogar ein visuelles album.

thema der #metgala2018 ist übrigens
"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"



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Oh, das ist ja praktisch. Dann können alle Wannabes diesmal auch zugeben, dass sie sich wie Madonna in den 80ern/90ern gekleidet haben.

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