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 <title>The Week in Music: How&#039;s Your Hip? Madge, Dame Bassey Hop To; More Malkmus; Bauhaus Back </title>
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 <description><![CDATA[<!--paging_filter--><p>Madonna turns 50 this year and whether one loves or hates her, one has to wonder how many listenable albums she has left. This is as much because every album represents another persona, another clone of the same DNA, as the fact that the woman is turning <i>50</i>. Eventually, she's going to transform from a M.I.L.F. to a M.I.L.A.L.M. (Mom I'd Like to Act Like a Mom). When a quality version of the single "Four Minutes to Save the World," off her new album <i>Hard Candy</i> (due April 29th), was leaked onto the Internet last week, fans could be forgiven for cringing a bit at Madge's cool-as-a-cucumber delivery being drowned out by the "urban," brassy hip-hop beats. Was it Mommy telling us to turn the music down? <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/week-music-madge-m-i-l-l-m-dame-bassey-certainly-more-malkmus-bauhaus-back">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p>]]></description>
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 <dc:creator>Jake Brooks</dc:creator>
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