Add in tasteful strings, and this a pop confection that is first rate.

It gets applied indiscriminately to ancient traditions, foreign-language pop confections, non-European classical music and mild exotica with a routine electronic beat.

Although most of her Columbia hits were disposable pop confections, she also recorded many lasting standards.

He referred to it as a "grand pop confection" that represented the only time McCartney approached the "drive and density" of his tenure with the Beatles.

He might exorcise some of the anger, pain and passion that have been glimpsed around the edges of his pop confections.

The disk contains five tracks from the band's first album (all the bouncy pop confections you can't escape on the radio).

Tony Cummings called the song's "R&B pop confection hugely catchy".

They're vintage Ben Lee, setting shaky vulnerability to indie pop confection that's got more depth than it initially lets on.

He compared Miguel to Kelis, "whose work has an undeniably commercial cunning to it, but who never fails to imbue her pop confections with real personality".

But as the album continues, Madonna the serious present-day star takes over from Madonna the pop confection, reflecting on fame, wealth, religion and restlessness.