L'album de Susan Boyle avec "You'll See" de Madonna sort le 24 novembre.

Susan Boyle Debut To Feature Covers Of Madonna, Monkees, Rolling Stones
Thu. October 08.2009 12:57 PM EDT
'Silent Night' and 'Amazing Grace' also on I Dreamed a Dream, due out November 24.
by Gil Kaufman

It's one of the most eagerly anticipated cover albums in years. On November 24, "Britain's Got Talent" phenom Susan Boyle will drop her debut effort, I Dreamed a Dream, featuring the songs that made her an Internet sensation earlier this year, as well as some takes on tunes by the Rolling Stones, Madonna and the Monkees.

After more than 300 million people checked her out on YouTube following her run on "Talent" — where she eventually came in second to dance crew Diversity — Boyle got to work on the album, which has already hit #1 on Amazon.com preorder chart months before its release.

In addition to the Stones cover "Wild Horses," which Boyle recently performed on "America's Got Talent," the album will reprise her heart-stirring cover of the "Les Misérables" song "I Dreamed a Dream," as well as such inspirational standards as "How Great Thou Art," "Amazing Grace" and "Silent Night."

Boyle will also tackle the jazz standard "Cry Me a River," Madonna's 1995 song "You'll See," the Monkees' "Daydream Believer," the contemporary folk tune "Up to the Mountain," the 1960s pop song "The End of the World" and a song called "Proud."

Also included is one original track written for Boyle, called "Who I Was Born to Be." One of Boyle's other beloved covers, "Memory" from the musical "Cats," however, is not included in the collection.

Though Boyle struggled with the spotlight during her run on "Talent," in a statement, the 48-year-old singer said she's excited about the album's release. "It was my greatest ambition to release an album, and I have finally achieved it," she said. "This amazing journey has helped me find my own identity and fulfill my wish. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream."
Source: VH1/MTV News.

Susan Boyle

Madonna - Greatest Hits Collection ''Celebration'': Regardez la pub officielle.

Click the pic below to watch the official teaser. Cliquez sur l'image ci-dessous pour regarder la pub officielle.

Source: Madonna.com.

Madonna - Greatest Hits Collection ''Celebration'': Couverture de l'Album.

The cover for “Celebration” was created by street pop artist “Mr. Brainwash” who is best known for “throwing modern cultural icons into a blender and turning it up to eleven.”
Source: Madonna.com.

La voix traitée de Madonna fait une apparition dans le nouvel album de Britney.

Washington, November 28 : Britney Spears' new album 'Circus' has a song that contains Madonna's processed voice.
The Material Girl's trademark voice can be heard for about 50 seconds in the song titled 'Kill the Lights'.
A whole verse has been sung in Madge's voice, including the line: "There's more to me than what you see."
The song is about paparazzi, one of the least interesting subjects known to man.
Britney even makes a throwaway reference to Madonna in later in the song, which is suggested to eligible to become a big dance hit in clubs.
"Is Madonna gonna get the best of you?" Fox News quoted her as teasing.
Circus is scheduled for release on December 2, but it is all over the internet in different forms.
It is said to be a well-produced album with lots of catchy dance tracks.

Source: NewKerala/ANI.

''Hard Candy'': Edition Deluxe avec des titres bonus le 14 juillet en France.


Sortie physique de Give It 2 Me et édition Deluxe
25/06/2008 - 15h00

Après le succès de son single 4 minutes avec en featuring Justin Timberlake, Madonna ne perd pas de temps pour dévoiler son deuxième tube Give It 2 Me, extrait de son dernier album Hard Candy.
La reine de la pop sortira son nouveau single le 7 juillet prochain. Dans le clip on retrouve Pharell Williams, producteur de ce titre.
Par ailleurs, une édition Deluxe comportant un nombre de titres plus important sera disponible le 14 juillet prochain.

Source: NRJ.


Madonna : son nouveau single pour juillet.
Le 24/06/2008

Après le titre 4 Minutes en featuring avec Justin Timberlake, le prochain single de Madonna, extrait de l'album Hard Candy, sortira dans les bacs le 7 juillet prochain. La sortie d'une édition contenant plus de chansons devrait suivre pour le 14 juillet. Parallèlement, le clip de cette chanson produite par Pharrell Williams a été dévoilé. Il a été tourné à Londres et réalisé par le photographe de mode Tom Munro. Dans un décor coloré, Madonna se trouve tour à tour dans une salle de danse, puis dans des scènes en noir et blanc.
Par ailleurs, le frère de l'artiste, Christopher Ciccone, s'est lancé dans l'écriture des mémoires de sa soeur. L'information a été révélée par la maison d'édition Simon & Schuster, qui éditera cet ouvrage à la mi-juillet avec un tirage à 350 000 exemplaires. Christopher Ciccone avait laissé planer le doute sur l'identité de la célébrité sur laquelle il était en train d'écrire, incitant même les librairies à commander son futur livre sans en connaître le sujet.

Source: Virgin 17.


News sorties-albums : Madonna : un nouveau single pour le 7 juillet
24/06/2008

Ca vient de tomber ! Après le succès interplanétaire de 4 Minutes To Save The World, en duo avec Justin Timberlake, Madonna compterait bel et bien sortir un nouvel extrait d' Hard Candy  le 7 juillet prochain !
D'ailleurs, le clip a été produit par Pharrell Williams (Nerd) et a été réalisé par le photographe de mode Tom Munro, à Londres.
Par ailleurs, une nouvelle édition de l'album (contenant plus de titres) devrait voir le jour le 14 juillet prochain.

Source: TeeMix.

By Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 07:47 AM PST

You’re reading it here first… Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and Warner Music International are partnering to bundle Madonna’s latest album, Hard Candy, on handsets in 27 countries. Starting this month, the bundles will come in two versions - one with five tracks from the album, another with the full release plus extra wallpapers and ringtones.
SonyEricsson already started offering vouchers with its W890 Walkman, allowing those in Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to buy the album later, and those in Belgium and Czech Republic get a CD with their W380i handsets. Now the handset maker is bundling the album digitally also in south and central America and the Caribbean.
Samsung had already struck a deal to pre-bundle Hard Candy on its F400. Sony Ericsson said it hoped its move would drive up mobile music adoption, which still languishes behind expectations. SonyEricsson has previously pre-loaded Def Jam artists on to another of its handsets and SonyBMG has stated its intention to make a bigger splash in all-you-can-eat mobile music downloads. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) got the exclusive on the Madonna album but staggered track releases by the week. A special remix of the 4 Minutes single has also been doing the rounds as a mobile offering, also used by Verizon.

Source: mocoNews.


Madonna Songs to Be Bundled With Sony Ericsson Phones
Posted on 5th June 2008

Sony Ericsson and Warner Music International (WMI) have announced an agreement enabling new music and mobile content from Madonna’s new album, HARD CANDY, to be sold with selected Sony Ericsson mobile devices in twenty seven countries. High profile marketing campaigns in each country will promote the availability of the phones and Madonna’s eleventh studio album for Warner Bros. Records. HARD CANDY has debuted at number one in thirty seven countries, with “4 Minutes”, the first single from the album, also hitting the top spot across the world.
From this month, a range of Sony Ericsson phones pre-loaded with HARD CANDY will be sold in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The phones will retail in two packages, one with five tracks from the album, the other with the full album and both with extra content such as wallpapers and ringtones. In a staggered roll-out that began in May, a download voucher for HARD CANDY and an array of additional content including an exclusive “4 Minutes” remix is being ‘bundled’ with purchases of the Sony Ericsson W890 Walkman phone in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. Sony Ericsson W380i Walkman mobiles in Belgium and Czech Republic are already available with a HARD CANDY CD.
John Reid, Vice Chairman WMI and President, Warner Music Europe, said, “The evolution of mobile handsets along with technological convergence continues to open up new ways for us to distribute and market our artists’ music. This partnership with Sony Ericsson further expands HARD CANDY’s global promotional reach and puts exciting content from the album direct into the hands of Madonna fans all over the world. Not only that, packaging music from a global megastar with new Sony Ericsson phones will help drive sales of music-enabled devices and contribute to the uptake of mobile music”.
In January, Sony Ericsson unveiled the next stage in the evolution of their PlayNow platform, the popular over-the-air download service. It was announced that Warner Music Group was amongst the companies partnering with Sony Ericsson to add over 5 million new tracks to the platform.

Source: cellular-news.


Le nouvel album de Madonna sur les téléphones Sony Ericsson.

Commençant ce mois-ci, les téléphones seront disponibles dans 27 pays en deux versions - une avec cinq morceaux de l'album, une autre avec l'album complet plus des papiers peints et des sonneries. 

Revue: "Hard Candy" de Madonna par San Jose Mercury News.


MADONNA: A LOOK BACK
WITH 'HARD CANDY,' MADONNA FIGHTS HARD TO KEEP HER SEX-POP TITLE
By Ann Powers
Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 05/04/2008 01:40:04 AM PDT

Before "Hard Candy" - her 11th studio album released earlier this week - Madonna had never before opened her legs for an album cover.
Two decades ago, her patchouli-scented belly adorned the sleeve of the intimate "Like a Prayer," and in 2005 she showed a bit of derriere for the disco-nostalgic "Confessions on a Dance Floor." She's played with self-exposure in her scandalous 1992 book, "Sex," and in plenty of videos. But now the mistress of organized fantasy has put out, front and center.
Taken by her frequent collaborator Steven Klein (whose spread-eagle shots of Madge have appeared in magazines, including this month's "Interview," and art galleries), the photograph shows its subject sitting back like a fighter in a corner. She's corset-clad, wrestling belt around her waist, binding her hands with black tape. Her tongue registers more strongly than her half-closed eyes; her hair is styled in an androgynous pompadour. The background looks like cracked peppermint. She is Venus and Mars, the embodiment of sex as war.
"Hard Candy" is a coldly effective show of prowess that should yield several hit singles beyond the irresistible, nonsensical "4 Minutes," which has already topped charts internationally and inspired a viral video from upstart Miley Cyrus.
Madonna's pugilistic mood extended to her choice of collaborators - the album's 12 cuts unfold as a battle between rival production teams the Neptunes and Timbaland-Timberlake, who established their reps (in part) by updating Madonna's style to suit Britney Spears and Nelly Furtado, and now have a field day trying similar tricks at the source.
As a lesson in the contemporary deployment of female allure - and a survey of Madonna's career as an exhibitionist - "Hard Candy" is powerful, precise and coldly revelatory. As an exploration of female sexuality at midlife, it's depressing.
Throughout her career, Madonna has explored the two poles of sex - its transformation into a product and its potential to become the opposite, a liberating force beyond laws. "Hard Candy" comes down firmly on the side of the marketplace.
It opens with "Candy Shop," a Neptunes track that pops along on a conga beat and some double-time heavy breathing - and where better to situate our predatory guide (go ahead, call her a "cougar," everyone else does) than in a store full of tempting treats?
Right away, Madonna tinges her sweetness with menace and the will to win.
This ambivalence about desire extends throughout the disc, along with the distinct message that, when it comes to hotness, there's no extra room at the top. There are a few contemplative moments, notably the Tim-team produced ballads "Miles Away" and "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You," which set their meditations about troubled long-term relationships against thick layers of instrumentation and effects.
"She's Not Me," the album's midpoint centerpiece, mixes a Rick James bass line and melody with the hand-clap beats of Prince's "Kiss," but it turns those excited expressions of male desire into a tale of women battling over a man.
"She doesn't have my name," says Madonna of her replacement - an interesting choice, given the sacred connotations of her famous moniker. Yet Madonna doesn't take this comparison further; she misses the chance to suggest that sexual connection might be a matter of soulfulness as well as long legs and perfect hair.
Instead, she offers a warning: Watch out for admirers who try to pimp your style.
These assertions of ownership counter the problem Madonna caused herself by choosing her producers this time out: They can't help but reference their work with younger female artists, since it followed Madonna's lead in the first place. It's incontestable, however, that artists like Furtado, Spears and Gwen Stefani wouldn't even own a map if not for their spiritual mother's years of intrepid journeying.
Perhaps "Hard Candy" is simply one last roar before Madonna mellows into the autumn of her years, reflecting upon all she's accomplished and throwing down wisdom instead of a gauntlet.
But even if she gets this latest fight out of her system, Madonna already might be done with nostalgia. Her previous album, the house-music-warmed "Confessions," was as sweet as "Hard Candy" is lip-puckering.
Madonna knows better than anyone that looking backward is dangerous for pop stars, especially women. It can lead them into the most vicious competition of all - with their younger selves.
Given this compulsion to keep moving, "Voices," the ballad that closes "Hard Candy," feels genuinely heartfelt. Intoning lyrics about dominance and submission over a Timbaland, slinky, movie-soundtrack groove, Madonna revisits the sexual underworld where she first daringly ventured more than a decade ago.
She drags Timberlake along, which had to be fun for her - imagine that alpha male under a whip! But the song's hard questions about commerce and control seem meant for the diva herself.
And who can blame her for getting a bit wistful, invoking the now somewhat dated language of master and servant? At least in that black leather underworld, it's always clear who's on top.

Source: San Jose Mercury News.

Revue: "Hard Candy" de Madonna par The Washington Post.


Madonna Gives Hip-Hop Fans Some Sugar 
By J. Freedom du Lac
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 29, 2008; Page C01

It is not yet time to stick a fork in Madonna. The grande dame of pop isn't done just yet.
Pop music is supposed to be a young person's game, but Madonna, as she's done so often throughout her quarter-century career, ignores the rules by sounding vital and relevant, even as she approaches her 50th birthday.
"They say that a good thing never lasts, and then it has to fall," she sings on her new album, "Hard Candy."
"Those are the people that didn't amount to much at all."
The 11th studio set of her career -- and her last for Warner Bros. Records, the longtime label that she's leaving for a wide-ranging deal with concert promoter Live Nation -- "Hard Candy" is a heady, frisky sugar rush of urban dance-pop come-ons in which Madge finally gets into the hip-hop groove.
"See which flavor you like/And I'll have it for you," she coos in album opener, "Candy Shop," a hooky song driven by a twitchy, syncopated drum pattern. "Come on into my store/I've got candy galore." Advertising herself as "your one-stop candy store," she purrs: "Sticky and sweet/My sugar is raw."
The recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has succeeded for so long, with more than 200 million records sold worldwide since 1982, in large measure because she's always had a knack for identifying interesting trends and adopting them as her own. (Well, that, along with self-promotional genius and sheer personality.) Though lust is hardly a new addition to the "Sex" author's repertoire, the sound on "Hard Candy" represents a welcome new twist for Madonna: It's dance-pop pressed through a hip-hop filter with the help of several urban-music studio heavies -- namely Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills. (It's another signature Madonna move, as she's been collaborating with hot producers since the early days of her career, when she teamed with the likes of Jellybean Benitez and Niles Rodgers.)
Given hip-hop's long-standing ubiquity, Madonna is arriving late to this particular party, suggesting that she might be slowing down in her advanced age. But even if she's not starting any new trends in following the lead of Nelly Furtado, Gwen Stefani and such, Madge still manages to sound perfectly at home in the hip-hop world, where her sharp pop sensibilities -- particularly her ability to craft killer hooks -- are given a mostly fresh rhythmic framework.
If it's not the boldest move of her career, it's still a successful gambit from one of the great all-time shape-shifters.
It works best when Madonna isn't trying to act like she's down with the hip-hop kids, which just sounds weird. In "Heartbeat," for instance, over a stuttering beat accented by a cowbell, we find Madonna quasi-rapping the line "see my booty get down" over and over as Pharrell eggs her on: "A little lower, baby." Awk-ward!
More cowbell, less of Madonna's booty raps, please. (She should leave that to the pros, as with Kanye West, who cameos on "Beat Goes On.")
Much better is the album's lead single, "4 Minutes," which Madonna co-wrote with Timbaland, Hills and Justin Timberlake, who also makes a vocal cameo. It's a busy, brassy song propelled by a detonative marching-band beat, and it's one of the most thrilling things Madonna has done in this decade.
"Give It 2 Me" is also a highlight, a thumping, super-sexualized banger in which Madonna demands "it" over lurching synth stabs and a rump-shaking rhythm. "Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath/I can go on and on and on," she sings convincingly. Maybe 50 is the new 25.
And, in fact, it's easy to forget that Madonna is just months removed from the half-century mark and that Timberlake wasn't yet 2 years old when her first single, "Everybody," was released in 1982.
This is not the soundtrack to "The Cougar Den," though, as Madonna wears her youthful sexuality well, managing to avoid sounding creepy during her multiple come-ons.
Pop music's Everlasting Gobstopper, she keeps on ticking -- and, um, licking -- as time and trends march on.
DOWNLOAD THESE:"4 Minutes," "Incredible," "Give It 2 Me".

Source: The Washington Post.

Les dossiers Madonna.


Posted on Mon, Apr. 28, 2008
The Material Girl turns 50 this year and celebrates with a new CD and groundbreaking record deal. We look at how the pop icon has reinvented herself during the last 25 years.
By PRESTON JONES
Star-Telegram staff writer
 

Madonna's Hard Candy, in stores Tuesday, is the latest sonic and stylistic reinvention from a woman who's made a very lucrative career out of being a savvy musical chameleon. From her 1983 self-titled debut (has it really been that long?) through Candy, the self-proclaimed Material Girl has been at pop music's bleeding edge, influencing the next generation while simultaneously stirring up headline-grabbing controversies.
The Detroit native turns 50 this year, a milestone augmented by the end of her major label recording career.
Hard Candy is Madonna's 11th studio album and one that completes her contract with longtime industry home Warner Bros. (she still owes the label a final greatest hits collection, due out later this year). But moving forward, Madonna's breaking ground again: She's one of the first superstar acts to sign a "360 deal," reportedly worth $120 million over 10 years, with concert promoter Live Nation. The revolutionary deal encompasses all of the pop icon's touring, recording and merchandise for the next decade, handing her more of the profits.
From her tunes and her threads to the next wave of would-be Madonnas, here's a look at the Queen of Pop's reign.

Sounds
The singles from her 1983 debut (Lucky Star, Borderline, Holiday) sound paradoxically quaint and timeless when held up against, say, the club-ready thump of 2000's Music. For most of the '80s, Madonna was content to spin out one monster hit after another, even dabbling in soundtrack work as the '90s got under way. She has changed her approach to music-making with almost every album, moving from innocent pop to sex-drenched meditations to elegant, austere anthems. With Hard Candy, Madonna's embracing a fusion of hip-hop and pop to a degree that she hasn't previously.

Styles
The phrase "Madonna wannabe" entered the lexicon early in her career, thanks to John Skow's May 1985 article in Time magazine. As Skow wrote, "hundreds of thousands of young blossoms whose actual ages run from a low of about eight to a high of perhaps 25, are saving up their baby-sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings and fluorescent rubber bracelets like Madonna's." That particular look fell out of favor in the mid-'80s, as Madonna moved into a more sexualized period (pointy cone-shaped bras, anyone?) and eventually, embraced the retro, disco-chic look she favors today.

A NEW GENERATION OF SINGERS OWES A DEBT TO MADONNA

Avril Lavigne
A seeming devotee of Borderline-era Madonna, this Canadian pop-punker was the subject of an amusing YouTube mash-up involving Lavigne's Girlfriend and Madge's Material Girl. What's scary is that it wasn't as jarring as you'd expect -- if the three-chord lovesick rock song ever peters out for Lavigne, maybe she'll bust out a cover of Justify My Love.

Britney Spears
Perhaps the most visible Madonna acolyte in pop music today. Ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake famously referred to Spears as a "Madonna wannabe" a couple months back when inducting the Material Girl into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Spears and Madonna also collaborated on Me Against the Music on Spears' 2003 record In the Zone. Oh, and there's that business about her making out with Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards ...

Bjork
An artist you wouldn't think to connect with Madonna but, in a lot of ways, the Iceland native has a viable career thanks to Madonna's willingness to explore pop music's boundaries, artistically, commercially and sartorially. Both women have collaborated with super-hot producer Timbaland (albeit with drastically different results) and they've both worn infamous outfits in public that have haunted them (that cone bra and that swan dress, respectively).

Gwen Stefani
Perky No Doubt frontwoman and successful solo artist whose fashion sense and not a little bit of her polyglot sound is owed to Madonna. As Stefani told Elle magazine in 2007: "A lot of my influence came from her early work, like directly, like a Xerox." Figures, since way back in 2001, it came to light via an interview with Launch.com that Stefani and Madonna (whose surname is Ciccone) are relatives. "We really are related because, just pay attention closely: My grandma's sister's husband's mother is a Ciccone from Detroit," Stefani told Launch.com.

Rihanna
Call her the 21st century Material Girl. The Umbrella star was unabashed in a July 2007 interview with Paper magazine: "The other stuff I did was easy breezy -- a lot of [it] I felt was stuff that any artist could have done. [My new album Good Girl Gone Bad] only a certain artist can do. ... I want to be the black Madonna." It's probably a bit early yet to see if Rihanna will take as many chances as Madonna -- does anyone want to see Rihanna's Truth or Dare? -- but the potential is certainly there.

Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram pop music critic, 817-390-7713

Source: Star-Telegram.

Revue: "Hard Candy" de Madonna par The Sunday Times.


Madonna: Hard Candy - the Sunday Times review
From The Sunday Times
April 27, 2008
Mark Edwards

3 stars / 5

If I had a pound for every Madonna album that has been hailed as a “return to form”, I’d have, ooh, five or six quid by now. Undoubtedly, you will hear - if you haven’t already - that Hard Candy is a return to form.
The question is, what form? The form of Like a Virgin? Don’t be silly. Like a Prayer? Nope. Ray of Light?
Well, no, not quite, but Hard Candy does feature the best songs Madonna has come up with in the decade since Ray of Light, a stunning trio packed right in the middle of Hard Candy: Beat Goes On, the collaboration with Kanye West; the fizzing, rattling Incredible; and She’s Not Me, a song in which Madonna reminds herself how good she can be, and which contains the most gorgeous breakdown you’ve heard in years.
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Source: Times Online.