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104.5 CHUM FM presents an exclusive interview with Madonna on Thursday, October 20 at 6 p.m.
In her only Canadian radio interview, the global superstar talks to CHUM FM’s Maie Pauts about her highly anticipated new CD, Confessions On A Dance Floor.
Icon, pioneer and innovator, Madonna has been making music history for over two decades.
She’s won multiple Grammy Awards, her international sales have topped over 200 million albums and she’s earned 33 number one dance hits, five chart-topping albums and 46 Top 40 singles.
With her latest CD, Madonna returns to her roots and brilliantly re-invents dance music for today with 12 original songs capturing the excitement and energy of her early hits.
Recorded earlier this year in London, Confessions On A Dance Floor features the debut single “Hung Up” and was primarily co-produced and co-written by Madonna and Stuart Price. Mirwais Ahmadzai, the Grammy-winning duo of Bloodshy and Avant, Anders Bagge and Peer Astrom of the Murlyn Music Collective and Joe Henry all serve as collaborators.
Don’t miss Madonna in an exclusive Canadian radio interview, Thursday, October 20 at 6 p.m., only on 104.5 CHUM FM.
source : cnw.ca

Madonna has told how she wrote a grovelling letter to Abba asking if she could use their music on her new single.
The pop superstar wanted to sample Gimme Gimme Gimme for her latest record, Hung Up.
The Swedish band’s songwriters, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, rarely let other artists use their tracks.
Madonna told gay magazine Attitude: “I had to send my emissary to Stockholm with a letter and the record begging them and imploring them and telling them how much I worship their music, telling them it was an homage to them, which is all true.
“And they had to think about it, Benny and Bjorn. They didn’t say yes straight away. They never let anyone sample their music. They could have said no. Thank God they didn’t.”
Andersson said recently: “We get so many requests from people wanting to use our tracks but we normally say no.
This is only the second time we have given permission.
“We said yes this time because we admire Madonna so much and always have done. She has got guts and has been around for 21 years. That is not bad going.
“If it wasn’t any good we wouldn’t have said yes. It is a wonderful track, 100% solid pop music.”
The Fugees are the only other act granted the honour, they used a sample from Abba’s The Name Of The Game on their 1996 track Rumble In The Jungle.
Hung Up features on Madonna’s new album, Confessions On A Dance Floor.
“I’m not in the mood for a ballad. I can’t be bothered,” she said. “I wanna dance!”
Madonna chose to give her first interview promoting the album to Attitude.
Editor Adam Mattera said: “Madonna is without doubt the biggest gay icon of all time and this album is set to be the biggest of her career. We are thrilled she has chosen to speak to Attitude.
“She opens her heart like never before and had a real laugh with us. Her fans will be back-flipping through Soho when they read it.”
:: The full interview is in the November issue of Attitude, on sale this Friday.
source : utv

Madonna is in the city, promoting the November release of her CD, “Confessions on a Dance Floor” and her documentary, “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret.” (I have heard ” and even danced to ” “Confessions,” and it is so much fun!)
A few vintage (as in culled from an old interview) Madonna remarks about disciplining her children have recently resurfaced. Some people are aghast ” no TV, picking up your clothes, no exposure to relentless media. Yet M’s two kids, Lourdes and Rocco, impress those who meet them as not only well-behaved, but unusually on the ball, sensitive and imaginative. Mrs. Ritchie insists they read. Literacy Partners might consider Madonna as a guest reader some year. She knows the joy and power that comes from losing yourself in a good book.
But Madonna is like any other mom in some ways. Just the other day she and Lourdes dropped in at the dessert emporium Serendipity 3. M had an egg-white, herb omelet with tomatoes. Lourdes enjoyed the Pasta Angelical, sans prosciutto. Then mother and daughter indulged in Serendipity’s famous Frozen Hot Chocolate. Those within earshot commented that 9-year-old Lourdes conducts herself like a “young lady.”

Proselytizing pop star Madonna has declared that “most priests are gay” and warns her fans that people “are going to go to hell, if they don’t turn from their wicked behavior.”
In her latest documentary, “I’m Going to Tell You A Secret,” which airs Friday on MTV, the lapsed-Catholic-turned-Kabbalah-devotee lectures on the perils of “the material world,” instead of extolling its benefits.
“The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion, that we think is real. We live for it, we’re enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing,” the pop icon now known as Ester insists. “I refer to an entity called ‘The Beast.’ To me ‘The Beast’ is the modern world that we live in.”
But, Madonna, we are living in a Material World. And we are Material Girls. But we digress . . . .
The 47-year-old mother of two also proclaims that, “Most priests are gay,” during her video but tragically does not expound on the pronouncement. Because she’s Madonna. And she doesn’t have to.
source : bostonherald

New website for Madonna’s official Fan Club is now online.

A worldwide radio premiere yesterday heralded the arrival of Madonna’s new single, Hung Up – the first stage in a rumoured £5m campaign to promote her forthcoming album Confessions on a Dancefloor.
Her last album, 2003’s American Life, was the worst-selling of the 48-year-old singer’s career. Hung Up certainly represents a departure from its ungainly blend of solipsistic lyrics and bungled efforts to court controversy: a video for the title track was withdrawn because its anti-war imagery was “inappropriate” in light of the US invasion of Iraq.
A brash, superbly constructed pop track, it eschews lyrics about the perils of materialism and aims squarely at the dancefloor and radio. Based on a sample from Abba’s 1979 hit Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), it manages to further camp up one of the campest tracks recorded.
Employing her musical director, Stuart Price, as producer seems to be a masterstroke. Madonna has always been most potent when translating cutting-edge club music into mass-market pop – her early hits were based on the electro-funk of mid-80s New York clubs, Vogue on house music and Ray of Light on trance techno. Price is at the cutting-edge of club music and as been responsible for a series of superb remixes for the Killers, Gwen Stefani and New Order.
Her recent years have been far from vintage ones: American Life’s lacklustre sales, the failure of her cinematic collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie, and bad publicity surrounding her involvement with Kaballah. These three elements suggest a career on the wane. But between 1992 and 1994 she brought out the excruciating erotic thriller Body of Evidence and the patchy Erotica. She shook off that period with the hugely successful Ray of Light album. Hung Up suggests Madonna is about to pull off the same trick again.
source : guardian

Madonna shows she’s still the queen of the disco with latest record.
Whilst Madonna has been making the headlines for her rural family life with film director Guy Richie and children Lourdes and Rocco, she’s had her hot new album and latest incarnation as dancefloor diva on the backburner.
Madonna Louise Ciccone has been one of the major movers in the music industry for over 20 years with her ability to shake up pop music by working with the hottest producers, writers, stylists and image makers to produce her unique sound and look.
Her latest stirring is no exception and shows that the queen of pop has by no means hung up her dance shoes and is no doubt set to be a huge success. Listen to the debut single Hung Up from the album Confessions On A Dance Floor by clicking the link below.
Described as the ultimate disco record, Madonna says she wants people to jump out of their seats saying: “My record is about having a good time straight through and non stop.” She then describes the 12 delicious tunes on her album of pure ‘unapologetic’ dance music.
“Dance halo”
“She has a dance halo over her head” says Madonna’s co-producer and partner in crime, Grammy-award winner Stuart Price. “It’s in her blood. The music came straight from the gut – no preconceived notions – unencumbered – not over edited – just very spontaneous. We sat in my little studio at home and the songs just flowed very quickly,” concluded Price.
Future disco
With one foot in the early roots of her career as a “dance artist” and the other foot planted firmly into the sound of “future disco”, Madonna returns to the clubs with a vengeance “Confessions On A Dance Floor” is scheduled to be released on Warner Bros. Records, November l5th, 2005.
The album’s first single Hung Up is scheduled to be released on November 7th.
source : gm.tv

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