10-05-2008 08:15
Madonna has arguably been reigning as the Queen of Pop for the last two decades but, with her new album 'Hard Candy', she has taken an undeniable risk.
Despite changing the music industry when she teamed up with producer William Orbit on her 1998 record 'Ray of Light', Madonna now seems to be listening to the music currently in the industry and adapting her sound to fit in.
Moving away from the sound that shot her to fame, she has teamed up with producers Pharrell Williams and Timbaland and singer Justin Timberlake on the new record.
But has the risk paid off?
It seems it has with '4 Minutes', the single featuring the soulful voice of Justin, hitting the top spot in 21 countries including the UK, Australia and Canada.
The former boy band member also pushed her to experiment with her sound.
"It's an R'n'B/pop/dance record, but it's still Madonna. A couple of times I pushed her in a direction where it took a minute before we saw eye to eye," he confessed. "Her approach was, 'Well, I just haven't done that' and I was like, 'Yeah, that's why you should do it'."
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