It was a week ago today that we brought you the leaked snippet of Madonna's newly recorded track "Candy Shop"... one of several demos that may find a final home on her upcoming album (due for a November 2007 release).
Madonna in a promotional shot for her 2003 GAP ad with Missy Elliot. Note the slightly inappropriate hand gesture ;) typical Madonna for ya!
This Friday, we've got some added info for ya... according to insider sources of Mr. Perez Hilton (who I don't tend to trust, but that's just me...), we can reveal the titles of the songs recorded for the album. Bear in mind this is not the final tracklist, as all of these songs are still in the demo stages and some will end up on the cutting room floor. But anyway, here's the supposed list of songs that were recorded for the album... and a few notes about them:
01. Sleep Deprivation
02. Turn It Up
03. Going Down
04. Little Thang (feat Justin Timberlake)
05. It’s The Beat
06. Tight Fit
07. Black
08. Off The Hook (feat Timbaland)
09. Candy Store (feat Pharrell)
10. Eleven Minutes
11. Do I Care
12. Freelancer.34
13. U n M
14. Starlight
15. Hit It Hard
16. Got This Down Right
* SLEEP DEPRIVATION is a favorite by both Madonna, the producers and the label. Very Likely to become a single. Apparently it's "revolutionary and fierce".
* GOING DOWN has really raunchy lyrics, and it started as a joke. Justin Timberlake worked on it with Madonna.
* LITTLE THANG includes a verse by Justin Timberlake. It’s described as a "midtempo summer jam with a fresh beat".
* BLACK is described as "organic, crazy and it will rumble your worlds".
* OFF THE HOOK is the Timbaland collaboration. Two were recorded, another one he’s saving for his next solo record. Single possibly, the executives loved it.
* CANDY STORE probably WON'T be on the record, along with HIT IT HARD and DO I CARE. Apparently, Madonna is "over them".
* FREELANCER.34 is "very experimental" and still completely unfinished. Might become a sort of intro or outro to one of the songs.
* U n M is another label favorite, supposedly it’s something very new for Madonna.
So there you have it. I don't know who these "insiders" are, and there's a very good reason that some - maybe even all - of these songs are real. But right now... I'm not buying!!
I mean, if they ARE real, I'll be really disappointed. I'm definitely a Madonna fan, and I welcome a new sound for her record... but Madonna is supposed to be the icon who invents what's cool. These titles sound so ridiculous, like they belong on a 50 Cent album... and will justifiably give ammo to critics who scoff at a 50-year-old yogi mom trying to sound 'hood. Uhh... does anyone remember the backlash from the "rap" in "American Life"? And at least that could have been interpreted as ironic (at least, that's how I saw it). Madonna using the word THANG and trying to be legit? That just strikes me as ridiculous. And "Off the Hook"?? What is she, a suburban soccer mom trying to act hip? Why doesn't she just have a single called "Talk to the Hand, Homegirl!"
I don't know... obviously we know that "Candy Shop" is a real track... and I find it suspicious that this "report" says it WON'T be on the record. Because according to this tracklist, it's her only major collaboration with Pharrell Williams. I find it unlikely that she would throw out the only track from one of her "brand name" collaborators.
I wasn't nervous about Madonna having a "hip hop" sound to her record before. I mean, as one of her readers commented a few posts back (and wisely so), she has indeed worked with R&B producers in the past... Babyface, Dallas Austin, etc. Even a song like "Justify My Love," which she worked on with Lenny Kravitz, had an early '90s hint of R&B. But back then, it seemed like Madonna was still the one with her hand on the driver's wheel... the producers were just her car. If these song titles are real, it makes me nervous that Madonna officially handed over the wheel to a bunch of (talented, yes, but nonetheless overexposed and trendy) producers simply to ensure another American radio hit... and I wonder if that car won't go straight into a tree.
Give me hope, Madonna!
Alright guys... take it or leave it, doubt it or believe it... but that's the news for now. Hope you all have an awesome weekend!
Later,
JOHNNY
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