Hard Candy is a Sweet Spot in Madonna's Late Period (with Miles Marshall Lewis) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and guest Miles Marshall Lewis look back Madonna's 11th studio album, 2008's Hard Candy, an album where the Queen of Pop uncharacteristically played catch-up with her pop star progeny, enlisting Timabland, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell to help get her music back in American radio's good graces. The gambit only minorly paid off. The album received mixed reviews and while lead single "4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake" reached the top ten, the album was middling performer commercially. But how has it aged? And how does it stack up again other latter period Madonna albums? Louie and Miles dive into all this and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here. Just dropping a preview of our latest pop pantheon all access episode |
| 0:04.6 | in which Miles Marshall Lewis joined me for a discussion looking back at Madonna's 2008 album |
| 0:09.5 | Hard Candy. We get into everything about the album, how we viewed it at the time, how we're |
| 0:14.1 | thinking about it now, how that's all changed, and what exactly is going on on this record that |
| 0:18.6 | feels like a linchpin moment in Madonna's discography. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you enjoy this episode and you want to hear other episodes like it, plus the rest of this episode, |
| 0:26.9 | plus a bonus episode of this show weekly, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon |
| 0:31.1 | or click the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:34.2 | All right, so I'm here once again with pop culture critic, |
| 0:37.4 | an author of the Kendrick Lamar |
| 0:38.6 | BioPromis that you'll sing about me, Miles Marshall Lewis. Miles, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me again. It's great to be here. |
| 0:45.8 | So we're here today to talk about another icon. Last time we got together, we talked about |
| 0:50.2 | Prince. I know that's one of your all-timers. I wanted to talk a little bit about Madonna today on |
| 0:57.2 | the Patreon show for numerous reasons. One is she's currently on a massive world tour, a greatest |
| 1:03.4 | hits tour, a victory lap of sorts for her, you know, 40-year career as one of the most important |
| 1:09.2 | pop stars of all time. And also because hard candy, |
| 1:12.5 | I think is like a very interesting entry into Madonna's catalog that I've had like my own |
| 1:18.0 | personal journey with over the last 15 years since it came out where at the time, I think when it |
| 1:24.4 | came out on the heels of confessions on a dance floor, which is one of my all time favorite Madonna albums. And essentially I think when it came out on the heels of Confessions on a Dance Floor, which is one of my all-time |
| 1:29.1 | favorite Madonna albums. And essentially, I think after a run of nearly unbroken, like, albums |
| 1:35.7 | that I really admire pretty much like throughout her career, it was the first time that I felt |
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