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...Hard Candy”—and this time she’s out for blood. Abandoning the purple onesie and disco ball, she has reinvented herself yet again, this time as M-Dolla: the prize-fighting urban pop queen. If the album cover is any indication, she’s back with a vengeance, determined to keep her competition...
...help them find a new sound. Madonna, however—after the massively successful disco redux “Confessions on a Dancefloor”—didn’t need to hire the most obvious and dependable people in the music industry to produce her new album...
...leaving Warner Records, the only label she’s ever called home, and attempting to prove she’s worth the $120 million Live Nation offered her to jump ship. Whatever the reasons behind her decision to work with these hitmen, the results are quite brilliant. The album may initially sound like everything else on the radio right now, but we’re soon reminded that this is Madonna, and Madonna will never sound quite like anyone else...
...Fortunately, the first single “4 Minutes” is not indicative of the album as a whole. The song, reminiscent of Timbaland’s recent Flo Rida production “Elevator” and Nelly Furtado’s (superior) “Promiscuous,” is hooky and catchy but tries too hard to be like everything else on the Billboard...
...final round. The three rounds of competition were separated by several performances of dance, spoken word, and beatbox. A competitor in last year’s battle, Lev A. Shaket ’10 returned this year to deliver an original rap. Akrobatik, a Boston rapper whose 2005 album was selected as one of Rolling Stone’s top 50 records of that year, closed the event with a short performance. An accomplished freestlyer himself, Akrobatik said he was impressed with the evening’s competitors. “It takes a lot to just get up there...