Madonna performs at a private show promoting Hard Candy at the Olympia concert hall stage in Paris, France on Tuesday.

In an interview with AP, Madonna talked about the collaboration process of Hard Candy. “I thought of it as a true and equal collaboration. … I like to think that when you listen to the record, you don’t just go, ‘Oh, that is a Timbaland record or that’s Pharrell (of the Neptunes).’ That you hear it and you go, ‘There is something new and different about it.”

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Madonna and Justin Timberlake posed backstage after performing together at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday night.

The pair performed in celebration for the release of the Material Mom’s new album, Hard Candy, which was released on Tuesday. The 38-minute six-song set included the tracks “Hard Candy,” “Miles Away,” “4 Minutes,” “Hung Up,” “Give It To Me,” and “Music.”

“Give it to me, New York,” Madonna yelled during the concert. “I don’t see you people dancing up and down enough.”

Spotted in the crowd: former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell (she blogged about it) and designer Zac Posen and actress Fran Drescher (both pictured here).

For a full report on Madonna’s concert, visit MTV.com.

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Guy Ritchie, aka Mr. Madonna, takes his daughter Lourdes, 11, and son Rocco, 7, to the UK Premiere of Speed Racer held at London’s Empire Leicester Square on Tuesday.

Speed Racer zooms into theaters everywhere (including IMAX) on Friday, May 9.

For the first time in BET history, Madonna will stop by 106 & PARK on Friday. Her latest album, Hard Candy, is in stores NOW!!! Have you picked up your copy yet??

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Lourdes Leon, the 11-year-old daughter of the Material mom, laces up her Roxy high-tops and holds hands with actor father Carlos Leon as they leave NYC’s Kabbalah Center after Saturday service.

Madonna herself was also seen leaving the building on her own.

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Madonna’s new album, Hard Candy, will be released this Tuesday, April 29 and The New York Times had a lot of positive to say about it. Here are some highlights:

– Madonna uses “Hard Candy” to renew her brand and defy skeptics, yet again.
– No one since Madonna has come close to achieving the same alchemy of flirtation, pop proficiency, concert spectacle and self-guided tenacity.
– “Hard Candy” also taps into exactly the sounds that current hip-hop reclaims from the disco era: electro keyboard riffs, filtered voices and bits of Latin percussion.
– Her grand statement on “Hard Candy” is nothing more than that she’s still around and can still deliver neat, calculated pop songs.

To read the full review, check out NYTimes.com.

Lourdes Leon, the 11-year-old daughter of Madonna, shows off her fierce fashion sense with a pair of shiny lace-up high-tops as she leaves the Kabbalah Center in New York City on Friday night.

Those yellow and purple shoes are the hotness!

Earlier in the day, Madonna hiding under a hoodie as she arrived with actress pal Debbie Mazur. Lourdes came later with her actor dad Carlos Leon.

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Executive producer/writer Madonna (in Gucci) joins director Nathan Rissman at the premiere of their new movie I Am Because We Are during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday in New York City.

I Am Because We Are is a documentary directed by Nathan Rissman and produced by Madonna, about Malawi orphans who have lost their parents or siblings to AIDS.

For more information of Madonna’s film, visit IAmBecauseWeAre.com.

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Lourdes Leon, the 11-year-old daughter of Madonna, holds hands with her actor father, Carlos Leon, 41, while walking through New York City’s Upper West Side on Monday afternoon.

The father-daughter duo looked fierce as they stared down paparazzi. Loving the black-and-white striped tights!

Madonna’s new album, Hard Candy, will be released in just a little more than a week — Tuesday, April 29!! Earlier today, NY Magazine published an exclusive interview with the Material mom. To read the interview, visit NYMag.com. Here are some excerpts:

You and Angelina Jolie take a lot of flak for your charity work. People say it’s a fad. It’s not just celebrities. I think people are just strangely suspicious of people who want to do something good.

Tom Cruise was at a recent fund-raiser. Do you sympathize with him? I do. I don’t care if people worship turtles or frogs—if they’re good people, that’s all I care about, and he is a good person. I think he gets a raw deal, just as I think the orphans in Malawi get a raw deal, just as I think a lot of marginalized people get a raw deal.