Woo! Just added to the playlist today and straight onto the B-list! It's bound to end up on the A-list in a couple of weeks. :clap:

great news! hopefully it'll revive the album's fortune in the uk.

I doubt the album will shoot back to #1 or anything like that, but I do have a feeling it'll help sales A LOT.

Yeah, I think it will give the album a decent boost. Unlike "COADF" where the single releases all worked on the one level, "Give" will highlight to people that the album doesn't all sound like your typical R'n'B/hip-hop flavoured set.

I have a feeling it will serve "Hard Candy" rather well.

Exactly. It's classic Madonna dance-pop with a twist. A very, very different animal to "4 Minutes".

I am not very sure it can help a lot...'Hollywood' never helped AL after the first single fiasco (and it was much more pop than the not very commercial 'American Life')...and here is the case of an album with a huge first single but dismal sales...the fact that she wont probably promote it , wont help either...I really hope eventually she can hit the no1 spot, like she did with 'Sorry'

Can't wait to hear this like everywhere!

I fuckin love the song!

I am gutted the radio edit doesn;t have the funky little breakdown bit with her and Pharell in the middle any more.

I am delighted that's gone. All that "to the left, to the right" shite has been done to death.

Her little break down dance on the promo tour was absolutely horrific.

But I love it in the song! It's such an energy builder!

That was the best bit of the song. The rest of it sounds very Cascada-lite.

:blink:

I do like the song once it gets going, but it's very euro pop ..... the Pharell bit set it apart from other euro songs though. Without it, it's a Eurovision entry..... :srkisrle2:

I don't agree at all.

"Give It 2 Me" is FAR more commercial than "Hollywood". Also, there isn't the air of flop about the album that there was about "American Life". GI2M is also following up a huge hit single, not a minor hit like AL.

Well said.

Oh and I'm glad they cut the naff "to the left, to the right" bit :clap:

I want to hear the radio edit!!

Absolutely. I quite like the "ping pong" feel of the music, but the words on top of it are toe-curling ... and only the hundreth song to pull that "to the left, to the right" shit.

riiiiiiiight...and she doesn't repeat her own shit at all does she? How many times can she recylce waiting with anticipating, tick tock, sampling vogue in deeper and deeper et al?

That was the only passage in the song I really didn't like. It was down right embarrassing...Get stupid, to the left to the right. :blink:
She's better than this and so are her fans. It's tired and never was cool to begin with.
Long live the radio edits from this album :beer:

I concur entirely.

Repeating her "own shit" I can live with. But shoe-horning in something that has been done by dozens of other artists just to give a track an "urban edge" is mortifying.

I don't adore it or anything, but I like the fact that the track takes such a completely different turn at that point. It's cool if they've removed it for the radio edit though, but I prefer the album version.

Oh, yeah, I love things like that. And, as I said, I really like the music track. But it's as if some record exec said, this isn't urban enough, and in went the lame chanting. Which is why I am rather suprised to see it axed from the radio edit - it's one part designed to appeal to American radio.

(See also: "See my booty get down" and "Work!")

Hollywood was dire and nothing else on AL could have saved it from it's insipid flop self. The only redeeming track was the brilliant DAD which had already been released.

I think GI2M will boost album sales in Europe & UK but the US is another thing. Hopefully the song pulls a TAB and boost HC weekly sales back up to 70-80k per week in the US. :srkisrle1:

Does anyone think HC will reach the million mark in the US? :unsure:

Oh people..... its just a bit of fun in the song....something to detract from the rest of the hideously banal lyrics.

I fucking love the 'see my booty get down' bit!


you funksters are so square.

You cannot be serious. The 4 Minutes radio edit slaughtered the song. Totally.

Naff-tastic! You are SO the grandad at the disco. I bet you're the first on the dancefloor when the intro to Agadoo kicks in!

:johnnox: :dance: :whoam:

i start to think this could actually do relatively well in america. gwen fans should be all over it.

I know that it is very commercial and it is a very strong single but the fact that the album is already out of the top10 is really worrying...HC like most of Madge's albums is the kind of album that makes its majority of sales on the first weeks of release...albums like 'Rockferry' on the other hand which have a very good world of mouth and critical acclaim enjoy healty sales for a long period of time (that was the case of 'Ray Of Light')...so I worry that the single will do very well , but it wont magically change the fate of the album...

I really hope that I will be proven wrong, because HC deserves to do a lot better than its currently doing...

I personally love 'Hollywood' ...I cant understand why some fans hate that song..if that was the first single from AL , it would have been huge...

Hollywood is awful song with one of the worst videos she has ever made

Of course it will help a lot simply because 4 Minutes haven't been the fiasco that AL was and there's been no backslash at all with this album.

there may not be a backlash but word of mouth for hard candy is far from positive. i'm yet to meet a casual fan who's heard the album and thought it was good.

Still B-listed on Radio 1 in today's new playlist.

No sign of it on Radio 2. It's not really the kind of thing they play though.

:hurt: why it hasnt been A-listed yet? ugh


if I recall well, '4 Minutes' was playlisted in Radio 2...so I guess they will definitely playlist 'Give it 2 Me' which is much more poppy than 4M..

I smell a radio flop

Well at the moment it's certainly looking that way! It's out on July 7th, so it still has just under a month to grow though.

Looks like Kylie is the real UK radio star :sadbitch: