Hard Candy screams ‘contractual obligation’ from start to finish. Instead of Madonna leading the pack and being ahead of the curve, American Life’s unedited video was ahead of the curve just like Confessions’ bubbling Euro-disco was right before that took off, she’s following the pack. And not just following, but doing it about five years too late for a collaboration with Timbaland to re... read more
“Hard Candy screams ‘contractual obligation’ from start to finish. Instead of Madonna leading the pack and being ahead of the curve, American Life’s unedited video was ahead of the curve just like Confessions’ bubbling Euro-disco was right before that took off, she’s following the pack. And not just following, but doing it about five years too late for a collaboration with Timbaland to really mean anything. By 2008 it had seemed inevitably that she would eventually get around to working with him. If this album had been released by any nondescript pop tart, Britney for instance, then it probably wouldn’t have arrived with such a shrug.
Justin Timberlake and Timbaland offer, oddly enough, both the best and worst of the lot. “Voices” is an awful hot mess to end the al” read more
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