Hard Candy: Madonna bangs out another album
April 8th, 2008 admin
Clad in three different black corsets, Madonna straddles the front covers of next month’s Elle, Dazed and Confused and Vanity Fair magazines. On the latter, the famously muscular arms of pop’s bionic woman appear to be holding up the globe, and the bold font strapline reads: “Unbowed. Uncowed. Still taking on the world”, followed by an asterisk link to the small print at the cover’s corner which reminds readers: “And she’s almost 50!”
She doesn’t look it, of course. She says women shouldn’t be defined by their age, which is cool, although the feminists who once cheered on her blonde ambition are increasingly troubled by her seeming denial of nature.
But what matters at a media preview of her new album, Hard Candy, is not how she looks, but how she sounds.
Madonna is regularly hailed as the mistress of reinvention. Like a Dragons’ Den entrepreneur, she shops for producers to find street subculture sounds that she can market to the mainstream.
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