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| "Workin' up a sweat/ that's what music's for," Madonna sings on "Heartbeat," the pumped-up fourth song on Hard Candy, her latest album, due April 29. The pop diva makes good on her promise – singing her way through an hour of Euro-flavored dance tracks infused with retro, house beats. PEOPLE.com got an early listen – and here are five fast facts about Madonna's latest: | ||||
| • On "Spanish Lesson," produced by the Neptunes, Madonna does, in fact, go bilingual, offering loose translations of phrases like, "Entiendo," which she says means, "I get it," over a funked-up flemenco guitar riff. (Literal translation: "I understand.") | ||||
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Kanye West offers a fast-paced rap on "Beat Goes On,"
the eighth track, breathlessly rapping, "I think I'm going
to try something new." |
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The singer indulges her choral side on the album-closer "Voices,"
which features production by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nate
"Danjahandz" Hills. The song builds to a dark, cinematic
crescendo, as the album closes with one lone tone. |
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Madonna sings, "You always have the biggest heart/ though we're
6,000 miles apart," on "Miles Away" – perhaps
inspired by living and working far away from hubby Guy Richie? |
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In case you didn't realize, Madonna really wants you to dance: Two
songs – the opening track "Candy Store" and "Beat
Goes On" – include overt calls to "get up off your
seat," as she sings on the latter track, bolstered by the Neptunes'
production and West's rapping. |
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| Source: People.com / Posted: Saturday, 5 April 2008 | ||||
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