IT JUST WOULDN'T BE THE SAME...

i think as long as there is madonna that i will always feel like i'm forever 14 years old in the months before a new album release from her.

here is the cover of her 11th studio album. wait! only 11? dude, she's been around my WHOLE life... wssup with this just being her 11th album? well, let's see ... the first album, 'madonna' (1), 'like a virgin' (2), 'true blue' (3), apparently 'who's that girl' and 'you can dance' don't count so moving on... 'like a prayer (4), i don't think 'i'm breathless' or 'the immaculate collection' count either so... erotica (5), 'bedtime stories'(6), 'something to remember' though incredible, doesn't count and the 'evita' soundtrack is not in the count so.. 'ray of light' (7) 'the next best thing' soundtrack doesn't count here so.. 'music' (8) and 'ghv2' doesn't count if 'immaculate' doesn't so.. 'american life' (9) 'remixed and revisted' 'i'm going to tell you a secret' do not count so 'confessions on a dance floor' (10) and 'the confessions tour' cd/dvd doesn't count, it's just live so... 'hard candy' is INFACT #11. all this plus all the pre-record contract stuff that leaked (which if you haven't heard is VERY VERY punk and cool) and all the b-sides and contributions to film other than i listed above, plus leaked demos... there's a lot of shit out there from madonna. so... basically, i feel 14 all of the time.

this is the coolest album cover of her career i think, though 'true blue' 'like a prayer' and 'confessions' sure do have their place in my heart, because if you look at her belt, it has "give it to me" embedded on it. what's great about this, if you're kinda psycho like me is that you know that the m-dolla wanted to name her album 'give it to me.' i frowned on her idea since there's yet ANOTHER album that was released before her record deal with sire with the same name. a bunch of really forgettable dance tracks with some dude named otto-van something-or-other. it's loops of her singing or saying maybe 5 or 6 lines over and over and over again with a bunch of shitty dance music that is enough to fill a whole cd. So anyway, aside from the fact that the facial part of the pose resembles her very first album incredibly... it seems like the shoot was done when she was still going to call it 'give it to me.' and then, like willy wonka came around and was like "oh no you don't, girl!" and slapped the big ole' 'hard candy' font across the picture like a stamp. makes a boy giggle.

so, instead, in just a bit over a month we all get... "hard candy." how fun =)

everyone's freaking out about how it's going to have a hip hop dance vibe to it. like she's never done this. well, firstly... 'erotica' was pretty damn hip hop (wasn't 'did you do it' a full rap song?), and 'bedtime stories' was full of different producers, including babyface who was all over her biggest hit ever, 'take a bow.' how does babyface differ from timberland? ...people, you can relax, madonna will be madonna whoever is singing with her, and we'll love it (we loved 'take a bow' for 7 weeks in the states as a #1 single).

"4 minutes" the first single, hits radio on monday! hoot!