Madonna - Hard Candy Promotion - EPK Track by Track Interview, 2008

[@luizantonio-yn2en]

she was goorgeous at this time! I miss this

[@richardc7869]

This album was awesome… as was the tour. For me… tied with Confessions tour….both are incredible!!

[@jonathanguzman6398]

totally, Confessions/Hard Candy/MDNA I feel are her Tour trinity. She mastered what she did in Blond Ambition.

[@BlueSix100]

She’s always so articulate - love her!❤️

[@bentoth6377]

I absolutely love hard candy ....the spirit and sound of her debut pop/disco/r&b but modernised. I don't get the hate some fans have for it all....Great, cohesive album...and her personal struggles with her failing marriage are as apparent as they are in this interview. Best artist ever 🙌

[@cowboystyle4513]

I love her laughter 🥰

[@drumsalive]

I love listening to her talk about her music x

[@SavannahsSuite]

Far and away, ‘ Across the Sky’, and ‘Miles Away’,and ‘ Give it to Me’, are the very BEST off this album!!!

[@PearlsOfPassion]

But Across The Sky isn't on the album. It's an unreleased song that was stolen from the vault and leaked to the internet. But yes, it's one of my favorite songs with her and I hope she'll release a deluxe edition of Candy Shop with Across The Sky as one of the bonus tracks. :)

[@miapuggioni]

Madonna is truly a real pop star!!! 👩‍🎤🎤🎶 Her watchword is "believe in your dreams or talents and never give up in life!!! Really wonderful and smart 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@Beneaththeglitterball]

Thank you. Madonna looks beautiful here

[@sagdragon64]

A great interview with good questions and awesome straightforward responses.

[@peretzo]

I’m going to listen to the album now

[@LoveAge]

Always have to do that after seeing one of these interviews ;)

[@b.b.4010]

I love it 😍

[@tdofeldt5742]

Is your sugar raw now?

[@elizabethschubert7803]

She looks pretty here!

[@danbrophy]

Thank you for this! Hard Candy interviews are so rare

[@lidiasalerno5424]

You truly satisfy my madonna obsession!! Thank u for uploading our Queen....AMAZING 😍😘♥️

[@carlosalenduran4630]

What a fantastic interview and she looks so beautiful here and I love hard candy the album the first time I heard it I didn't like it but I gave it another try and it's one of my favorite records actually

[@Damian-sn2sx]

Miles Away live in Buenos Aires as seen on the tour was one of Madonna's best artistic moments ever! She was glorious, have u seen it?

[@myrthahertli282]

I love Madonna so much yes❤

[@shanegrim5421]

Maryland guy here! Thanks for the shout out!

[@m.harden4117]

I love this interview. Thank you for sharing

[@peretzo]

Love her. LOVE your channel ❤️👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@daniellaplume2006]

She's so mature

[@scotsj1]

So articulate and intelligent. If I was the interviewer after the cameras have wrapped I’d ask for a 5 minute candid interview one on one as a fan just to get my own questions and answers about her whole career from what I perceived as my POV and see her interpretation from her POV

[@miaashley4892]

The queen

[@teacherlucas9982]

I wish it was stereo though it's a fascinating interview.

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

Madonna here reminds me of the Madonna that was interviewed when she arrived on MTV in 1983 up to 1985. She was so intelligent in the early years and then she got mega bitchy as time went on. This interview is very of the younger Madonna, she is very pleasant here and happy to talk music.

[@rebeccarpwebb4132]

Love ya Second divorce resorting to MADONNA FOR INSPIRATION AND GET UP N GO . THANKS GIRL UR RIGHT MUSIC SPEAKS AND HELPS .THANK YOU HUN

[@giambroneivan6760]

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[@giambroneivan6760]

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[@Maloveciri]

It’s interesting that this is the first time - seemingly - that she had to work around the schedules of her collaborators. Years before, producers and potential collabs would be knocking each other down to work with her.

[@jonathanguzman6398]

well Timbaland and Justin Timberlake were producing a lot of record in those years, maybe because of that

[@caiomigueldeoliveira5108]

Am I the only one who loves Hard Candy? 💕❤️ (Although I hate Justin Timberlake…)

[@Charlie-jl3ur]

Me too! Love Hard Candy, hate JT 🙃

[@estevaosilva4701]

Minha preferida

[@jbt6007]

She really had her full face overhaul during this phase of her career. Kinda scary where she went with all the plastic surgery. Hard to recognize her now.

[@hutch1197]

Agreed. You could tell she had some work done around "Confessions", but it was slight and she still looked like herself. But with this era, it was starting to look glaring and continually got worse.

[@solarflaresoftruth]

@@hutch1197well people do continue to age and so it would be hard to know what part natural aging plays in how she looks. Also, two years later, don’t you think Madonna looks more like herself than she has in many years? How does that factor in?

[@alinaveed20]

Not only does this interviewer lack confidence, his questions are straight up stupendous. How did you get to working with those artists? ( Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharell ). Seriously is that a question? She's Madonna ffs.

[@bubbles776]

I missed her in a certain sacrifice it was her slide 1:10 🥕

[@coveronly228]

She looks amazing here. Too bad she has destroyed her natural beauty with facelifts and filler.

[@Lommy9999]

She used a lot of fillers here.

[@edgarscirulis1129]

Her first facelift was already back in 2003, here she has used botox since 99/00 regurarly and the first filler in 2007, you can see the cheeks, but nothing is overdone yet, things went downhill after 2009

[@ernestgutierrez6428]

It’s ironic, because I remember this year 2007/ 2008 and people were saying the same thing then as they are now. Example “ she had cheek implants” “ she over did it with filler” and now people are saying she looked great here 🤦🏻‍♂️.

[@edgarscirulis1129]

@@ernestgutierrez6428 I think she was the most beautiful in her late 40s 2005-2008

[@ernestgutierrez6428]

Really?! I disagree, respectfully. She looked gaunt and to thin during that time period. She broke 7 bones and was going through a bitter divorce, I think that stress, emotional and physical showed

[@jakee778]

Her style is great in this period , same time as she launched her clothing line which I wonder why she didn’t continue .

[@PearlsOfPassion]

Do you mean the collaboration with H&M? That was in 2006. She had her dancers from the tour model the clothes, and she looked sensational in that 70s hairdo. :)

[@davidchenowith3479]

It is just my opinion but to me she doesn’t sound so passionate about this album as with others. She looks amazing and I absolutely love the way she talks as always , though 💙 👸🏼

[@peretzo]

I think she was just unhappy in her personal life, that's why she seems exhausted and less energetic. She created Hard candy when her marriage was breaking down. And the album was released around the time of her divorce 😔😔. She was not dispassionate about the album though. Just exhausted and disillusioned and heartbroken from life

[@rogerdebougainville889]

I'm definitely not passionate about Hard Candy. but yes, she looks great.

[@je32132]

It’s still one of her best albums to me though. Sticky and Sweet tour is also the highest grossing tour by a female artist.

[@escapingboredom6958]

@@peretzo also in 2009 her brother wrote a book about her . 2008-09 was her tough period.

[@rogerdebougainville889]

26:35 Her last record with Warner Brothers is NOT as great as her first for them ! Sorry, but I found Hard Candy a real chore to get through, only 7 tracks are okay-ish. I am not at all interested in hearing Pharrell, Justin, Kanye and Timbaland on a Madonna record -- they are all buzzkill. ugh

[@Patrick3183]

This is where the surgery began

[@michael65]

So pretty here. What a shame she couldn't leave her face alone.

[@escapingboredom6958]

She thought the question was about her personal life at 26:09

[@NotTheVibe]

mother was shook lol

[@crystalthieves]

she sounded so sad in that answer. specifically the part about staying loyal… rare show of raw emotion from her.

[@Nicolas-yl1me]

5:50

[@EdisonSilva-j5u]

Edison

[@rhonda2555]

Didn't know that Kanye doesn't write anything down. That must take forever to get there.

[@RobertfSullivan]

RFS Israel *

[@LoveAge]

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[@AndreUtrecht]

Here she is an adult. Somehow she regressed to being a young twenty something ... but, I mean,... it is not a bad thing per sé of course... but it seems so... different personalities coming out. Almost like it is a psychological change... it is fascinating though. It is like a change happening to adolescents ... one day they are the cute regular kid and then all of a sudden they dress like Marilyn Manson or like a hip-hopper.... She changed after her divorce... Here she seemed like sophisticated .... now she is like... I wonder if she's mentally healthy right now.... since like when she was biking around on stage on the kid's bike dressed like a clown.... I mean.... if she was my sister or mother or close friend..... the worrying thing is also that she is disrespecting herself, disrespecting her body.... she let's (probable men, male surgeons) cut into her body. And at the moment she is fully modifying her body. In the 1990's I was under the impression she wanted to be healthy and natural.... I mean, of course she can do what she wants, it is her life..... But somehow she feels broken and sad these days. She is gone in a way. Perhaps that is her way to deal with her pain? Guy Ritichie's new wife looked a bit like the Madonna here in this video. Perhaps he was a dominant force in her life, partly also deciding what she looked like, because that is what he loved? And now to fully get away from him and perhaps to hurt him, but also perhaps to not recognise herself anymore as the image that Guy Ritchie loves, she totally modifies herself into a totally unrecognisable form.... I'd be worried if I was close to her. But people with this much power and money.... like Elvis, the man looked ill in the last stages of his life.... he should have retired, and go somewhere peaceful ... in stead he was performing.... audiences applauded him while he clearly did not look well and the people around him also didn't stop him. Madonna is not like just as Elvis right now but.... she is lost, for sure. It is sad.

[@draconic7087]

Her regressing to being a young twenty something is in fact a bad thing. She lost all her class

[@lillyrose3545]

I really wish she had stopped the fillers and surgeries here. I don’t recognize her anymore. I am conflicted because she gave me girl power and accept who I am sexually, etc.. I guess I always just thought I could look up to her as she aged and I age. She always seems so secure so it is hard to understand how we ended up where we are today.

[@kellyhardyman9509]

Is his name Timberlake,not Timberland did he say something or do something to piss her off because she on purpose forgets how to pronounce his name!!! Maybe he was the Diva!!! She has to have Aqua in her chart as she is so non conformist and shock value like Howard Stern but as a singer and an advocate for females and feminism!!!!!She was my sole reason I got into running because she transformed from an overweight(by Hollywood's standards ) to untouchable Queen of Pop overnight and she hired a trainer to whip her into her fighting shape I aspired to be like her and competed in 8 City to Surf's because of her massive positive influence on me during the 80's and 90's

[@DonaldEly]

Timberlake (Justin) is a different person from Timbaland (the producer).

[@suzsiz]

what happened Madonna?? Now she looks like a Lady Gaga/ Kylie Kardashian Plastic Clone. Scary!

[@Lommy9999]

I forgot about Timbaland!

[@0512d1d]

It breaks my heart ❤ again. she suffers from sadness cause 😔 Guy Ritchey is an asshole he let her down completely. I wish I can bring her happiness back to live that she will recover from all the pain and unjust what is done to her. The first breakdown and also for her brothers sisters and father was her Mother that sadly passed away it is so unfair so hard. Something has to go in to place she thought. She deserves to be loved as wel as her family 👪 ❤. Express yourself is the outcome that works for her. She want to become a star to get in the picture and she is a star In hope that people will love ❤ her to make her sadness go away. But the thing is she depends on managers that make her or break her. She put all her love ❤ and talents in the music 🎶. She was a great singer because it came all from within and that is for real that character that ambition her beauty her specialty that is Madonna ciccone that gives her that love that energy that character. She just asked to be loved But she put to much in it she became a roll model for Hollywood the society used her and that was her second breakdown it makes her 😔. I have seen her transformations after transformations and it is not Madonna anymore she is not happy. We and Hollywood are only consumers remember love ❤ has to come always from both sides but it came only from her side she has not received any integrity of love back. We should be ashamed 😔 the only thing that she received is money 💰 but she said money is not the most important it makes it only worse. Whe have should listen to her. This is the result not te be proud of as a society. The world has a disturb vision of her she is not a mean selfish person or bitch. She need it to protect her self against a selfish society. I see underneath a person that has so much passion and character and fire 🔥 that makes me loved her whe should respect her and I hope that she will see the love and light in her live again knowing that there always people are that are not fake but real they really cared about her

[@dudedandify]

she's pretty unenthusiastic about the whole album, its seems.

[@frigidworld]

Clearly this interview was staged... Interesting but no mention at all of the end of her relationship with Guy Richie which is all over this album! lol Madonna wanting to be in control of her narrative again. Good for her!

[@seanahmed9079]

i find her to be somewhat demure in all her interviews promoting Hard Candy.

[@tye81]

This album is underrated . It was better than Confessions

[@Jamesmlvc]

I totally agree with you. The only thing I can't understand about the album is, why did Across the Sky not make it onto the album?

[@conatcha]

No way, man.

[@rogerdebougainville889]

nope, I disagree. Confessions is much better cuz it isn't marred by the presence of Kanye, Justin, Pharrell and Timbaland -- they are all buzzkill.

[@ozyvillanueva9277]

Not better than Confessions but a good album. A lot of songs left out that should’ve been put in.

[@AurumEtAes]

We might yet get a Hard Candy special edition with Across The Sky etc. Would be a much better album for it. Here’s hoping, I guess

[@Saintelyk]

Fake news. MADONNA IS GONE LIKE TOM HANKS. WAKE UP!!!

[@robertalfons5068]

She was 5 years too late with timbaland....sorry it was a big flop and not in time

[@LoveAge]

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