“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“The good news about "Hard Candy" is that "4 Minutes" is one of only two or three misfires on a fascinatingly mainstream big pop album. It's the sort of widely appealing album that Madonna hasn't really made since the 1980s, and it's one of her most immediately pleasing in years upon first listen. Void of quasi-political message songs or vaguely confessional lyrics — which hung like millstones around "American Life" and portions of "Confessions on a Dance Floor" — "Hard Candy" is the dance-and-feel-good-about-who-you-are Madonna of "Get Into the Groove."

-New York Sun
April 29 2008