"4 Minutes", by American singer-songwriter Madonna (pictured), was released as the lead single of her eleventh studio album Hard Candy (2008), featuring vocals by American singers Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Madonna her 37th top-ten single and breaking the all-time record previously held by Elvis Presley. It also received positive reviews and topped the charts in twenty-one countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. An uptempo dance-pop song with an urban and hip hop style, "4 Minutes" incorporates Timbaland's characteristic bhangra beats, with brass, foghorns and cowbells. It was performed by Madonna on the promotional tour for Hard Candy and the 2008–09 Sticky & Sweet Tour. The song received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical at the 2009 ceremony. In the accompanying music video, Madonna and Timberlake are running away from a giant black screen that devours everything in its path, including them, in the end. She cited the song as the inspiration for the documentary I Am Because We Are (2008).

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Minutes_(Madonna_song)

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1602:

English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold led the first recorded European expedition to visit Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Gosnold

1793:

Inventor Diego Marín Aguilera, the "father of aviation" in Spain, flew one of the first gliders for about 360 m (1,180 ft). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Mar%C3%ADn_Aguilera

1869:

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (both pictured) founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association

1997:

During the dedication of the Laos Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, the United States first publicly acknowledged its role in the Laotian Civil War, which had ended 22 years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War

2010:

Upon her return to Sydney three days before her 17th birthday, Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

plangent: Having a loud, mournful sound. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plangent

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter. But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may find good witches and bad witches. But I must confess most of the witches I have known were very respectable, indeed, and famous for their kind actions.   --L. Frank Baum https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum