Britney Spears was featured in a video clip during “Human Nature” in your Sticky & Sweet show. She’s stuck in an elevator and starts to go crazy. Is that how you analogize what’s happened in her career?
Yes. Didn’t that explain what I thought? “I’m not your bitch, don’t hang your shit on me.” I just think people should mind their own business and let her grow up. I think everyone goes off the deep end at one time or another, and she, like Michael Jackson, didn’t really have a childhood, so there are some inherent problems in that scenario. I have a lot of compassion for her, and I hope that she can find balance in her life. I don’t know how bad her meltdown was. One can’t believe everything one reads.
From a lyrical perspective, what are your favorite lines that you’ve written over the years?
I like the words to songs that aren’t very popular. “Miles Away” and “Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You.” They’re more personal and less accessible. I love the lyrics to “Like It or Not.” [Sings] “I’ll be the garden, you be the snake, all of my fruit is yours to take, better the devil that you know, your love will surely grow.” And I love “Paradise (Not For Me).” [Sings] “I can’t remember when I was young, I can’t explain if it was wrong.”
Does your oldest daughter, Lourdes, introduce you to new music?
She turned me on to the Ting Tings. There’s a band she loves called Disco Bitch. She’s into My Chemical Romance, and she’s outgrown the Jonas Brothers. She loves Lady Gaga, Ciara, Rihanna, T.I. and Justin. She lives with the iPod in her ears.
Is it a bittersweet feeling, parting with Warner Bros. after spending your entire career there?
I don’t know. The record business as we know it doesn’t exist anymore. The way people make, market and sell music is so different now. It’s just natural evolution. In many ways, it’s better, because kids have the chance now to get themselves out there without the middle man and all the bureaucracy and administrative bullshit that you have to endure. On the other hand, there isn’t somebody nurturing these kids along. I don’t know what the solution is. I’m sure it will all come around full circle again. It just feels like time to move on. I’m OK with it.
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She is so young
I ADORE Madonna I’ve been to two of her concerts and own every CD she has ever made. But she is becoming very strange now and mediocre. Choosing Paul Okenfold? Are you kidding me?
Wait for the next ones… David Guetta, Peter Rauhofer, Tiesto and other crazy dumbasses starDJS!
Have Madonna ever heard about James Murphy and the DFA Records portfolio?
She seems tired of searching new talents!
Her music sucks now. I’m starting to like Gaga better.
That goes for your comment too.
You seem to have a very high opinion of yourself. Why should we care about what you like better???? After all you are a Madonna hater.
And gaga doesn’t suck?????? I haven’t have such a laugh in ages.
I haven’t had such a laugh in ages.
Just give her a brake, after 27 years, she might have made some music mistakes or just boring songs;still she puts great sounds.Even when I dont like her new songs , i still give her credit for trying.
Please go and Listen to your Lady gaga and stay there and take Britney with you and all the wanna bees with you and i hope you have fun.
I also hope you enjoy Lady GaGa’s hidden disco stick , little pig :)
Lady Gaga is a mix of the worst in pop music in the lasts 10 years.
Her music reminds cheap dance tracks from the 90’s;
The annoying voice of Christina Aguilera;
Footsteps of Kylie and Madonna;
Style stolen from 80’s 90’s and many others popstars together…
Working with Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto or even David Guetta is the proof that you’re completely OUT of electronic scene.
I must say , they are boring. how about some peter rauhofer
Madonna will see the “light” again when she look at the small electronic clubs in Sweeden and Berlin and “transform” those sounds in pop music.
Her last huge hit was “Hung Up” in 2005. Someone will remember “4 minutes” or “Give 2 Me” in 2 years? I don’t think so.
No people, there is nothing new in the RS interview.
Just read it standing up at Barnes & Noble.
Basically, it feels like a walk thru her speech at the Rock & Roll Hall of fame. And the usual backstory about growing up in Michigan, losing her mother, living a hand to mouth existence as a dancer, how she got into singing…stuff we have heard a million times before. Its a good read, but nothing new.
she forgot to tell you that she is going to the moon.
Dom ass.
your comment, much like you, makes no sense. Moron…Dumb ass!
Finally a good interview. This time people just shut up and read . Whatever she says is her life.
i agree totally my dear piggy :)
how bout Rocco?What will Madonna do next?
Im gonna buy this maz,the interview seem interesting to read ….
So Lola is the one to blame for Madonna’s shitty album.
Girl has no taste at all.
The girl is 13, what did you expect? Thank god she’s outgrown the Jonas Brothers.
Come on man, now u’ll go aganits such lovely creature as Lourdes to blame her for all your lacks in life and come here to diss people?.
Feel compassion for people like you…but it’s not easy ,believe me!!!
What..? I was 13 too and I didn’t listen to the crap like she does.
And if Lola does have any influence on Madonna’s latest music choices and decisions she’s the one the blame for HC, celebration and similar crap we get lately.
F U
F U T ..