from PopJustice Blog (Thanks to Ericka):
Yesterday Pet Shop Boys gave media the chance to pre-listen to “Yes”, their forthcoming new record, in London, for review purposes only and, after the album listening, Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys frontman) held a Q&A session with reporters.
One of the several questions they asked was about Pet Shop Boys latest (scrapped) collaborations and Neil shockingly stated that after remixing “Sorry” in 2006, they were contacted again by Warner, in 2007, and asked to write & produce some tracks for an album Madonna was planning at the time (which later became “Hard Candy”)
Sadly, the same week Warner’s changed mind and according to Neil own words “we got told to forget it as they decided to shove her down the r&b route” Neil stated Parlophone asked them to write for Kylie’s “X” as well, before deciding to send Minogue out to other producers instead (one of the tracks featured on “Yes” (titled “Pandemonium”) was actually written & demoed for her, along with other 5 cuts)
Sticky & Sweet 
Tom Munro 
Revolver 
Hope For Haiti 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna - Celebration 
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration 
I Am Because We Are 
Filth and Wisdom 
I Am Because We Are 
Miles Away 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna Confessions 
Madonna 2009 
Give It 2 Me 
Give It 2 Me 
Hard Candy 
Hard Candy 
4 Minutes 
4 Minutes 
I didn’t think her voice was as good as on other records
No way does anybody, including the suits at record label, shove Madonna down any r&b route.
She makes and takes her own route.
DAAAAAAAAAMNIT!
PSB could have made some great music with M
when instead,
M headed to the ghetto via the Mickey Mouse club…
for me, Hard Candy is a good album – but not a great one
now i will wonder what could have been,
and what should have been…
ah well…
=0(
I’m with you about HC not being one of her greatest material.
there are some tracks on HC that i really like
but there are some tracks that i really do not like,
which for me is odd, since it had been a long while
since M had produced some sounds that i feel were
downright mediocre and boring
but,
i am looking forward to hearing the new / next sonic direction M will be taking on her next full length album
something to look forward to
=0)
I think this collaboration would be great. Hopefully she didn’t dismiss them for good. But then again I see why it didn’t work out, she probably didn’t want another pure dance album after Confessions…
yes, t might be similar to sme of her early work
I would love to hear an Madonna album produced by Pet Shop boys. Maybe some other time :(