Madonna
celebrated the release of her new album “Hard Candy” with an intimate 38-minute
concert at Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan
on Wednesday night.
"Hard Candy" is on its way to become Madonna’s 10th UK
number one album, also threatening to knock off Mariah Carey’s E=MC2 from the
top of the US
album chart.
Many
Madonna fans have waited in line for more than two days, in order to attend the
concert, but they all declared it was worth waiting.
To them,
Madonna dedicated the song “Hung Up,” expressing her sympathy.
"All you people I saw sleeping in the
street last night," she said, as quoted by the New York Times, "this song is
for you."
"Anybody who knows me knows how much I hate to wait," she
added at the end of the song.
During the intense half an hour, Madonna was in best shape
as usual, singing, dancing, playing the guitar and showing off her fit, muscly body.
She opened the concert with "Candy Shop," a new song, while
she sat on a golden throne, dressed in black and bearing a glass scepter. She
then accompanied herself with an acoustic guitar while singing "Miles Away" and
surprised the audience with an industrial version of "Hung Up," from her 2005
album "Confessions on a Dance Floor."
After performing a couple of songs from her new album, she
closed the show with her 2000 hit "Music."
The surprise guest of the night was Justin Timberlake, who
emerged from behind a video screen, causing the public to scream. The members
of the audience were thrilled to snap photos of the two, as they showed off
their hot dancing skills on their latest single "4 Minutes."
For "Hard Candy," Madonna also collaborated with Pharell Williams
and The Neptunes.
"Even though I have made what seems like 100 records, every
time I put one out it’s like the first time and the best time," she told the
excited audience at Roseland Ballroom.
