Yanko 9,860 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/madonna-strikes-back-inside-her-star-packed-new-album-rebel-heart-20150114 Madonna Strikes Back: Inside Her Star-Packed New Album 'Rebel Heart' About the Leak: "It was an unprecedented leak: Nearly a full album's worth of work arrived four months before its planned April release date. "She was devastated," the singer's longtime manager Guy Oseary says. Madonna's response was swift and dramatic: She decided she would complete six tracks and get them up for sale on iTunes as soon as possible. The songs leaked on a Tuesday; they needed to be online by Friday if fans were going to buy them before 2015. "The deadline for getting this music out was a 50-yard dash," Madonna says. Some in her camp urged her to not rush out the songs, but she insisted. "Starting Wednesday, it was like, 'You've got to get this music out – I can't take it,' " adds Oseary. "What could we do? You've got to just battle through it." With most of Apple about to go on holiday break, the challenge wasn't simply mixing and mastering the tracks to Madonna's satisfaction, but getting them loaded into the iTunes store, which can be a laborious process. (Oseary, who also manages U2, worked closely with Apple on the surprise release of U2's Songs of Innocence last September.) Madonna and her team worked for nearly 72 straight hours to make it happen, getting key help from Interscope's Steve Berman and iTunes' Robert Kondrk. She didn't learn until 11:30 p.m. Friday that the finished songs were indeed going to reach fans before the new year. But the payoff was immediate: The songs, which Madonna called "an early Christmas gift," shot to the top of the music service's charts in 42 countries. "The fans are extremely loyal," she says, "and I'm really supergrateful for that." (The full 19-track album now has a March 9th release date.) "Every time a country would tweet about getting it, it put a smile on my face, because it meant it was working," Oseary says of the iTunes rollout." About collaborating: "The first step was finding the right collaborators. For years, she used to work with only one producer on her albums, but that hasn't been the case since 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor. For Rebel Heart, she again worked with an array of stars, including Nicki Minaj, Chance the Rapper and Nas, often posting photos of the sessions on Instagram. "Writing music, you have to be vulnerable," she says. "It's almost like writing your diary in front of somebody and reading it out loud. Some people made me feel comfortable and I felt connected to them, and other people seemed very strange to me." Minaj, who turns out a ferocious rap on "Bitch I'm Madonna," was again one of her most in-sync creative partners, having also appeared on MDNA. "Whenever we work together, she sits with me and listens to the song and says, 'Tell me what this song is about to you,' " Madonna says. "She's very methodical in her thinking. It's a back-and-forth until she gets it right."" About the lead single: While MDNA was widely considered Madonna's "breakup album" (she had divorced British director Guy Ritchie in 2008), she dives headfirst back into personal territory on Rebel Heart, writing about triumph after heartbreak on "Living for Love," a buoyant throwback house track produced by Diplo. "Lots of people sing about being in love and being happy, or they write about having a broken heart and being inconsolable," Madonna says. "But nobody writes about having a broken heart and being hopeful and triumphant afterward. That was my challenge. I didn't want to be a victim." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Did they just repost this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini 103 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 i can't wait to see her look for that era, i hope she will respect a theme line and a strong image Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Child 18,997 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 "Lots of people sing about being in love and being happy, or they write about having a broken heart and being inconsolable," Madonna says. "But nobody writes about having a broken heart and being hopeful and triumphant afterward. That was my challenge. I didn't want to be a victim." ‘If religion be the cause of disunity, then irreligion is surely to be preferred.’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernier 3,786 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I feel like I've read this before :emma: Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Boy 41,703 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Going to read this later "Rat Boy's a nasty, trashy, sleazy, classless"- River Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde 14,857 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 "But nobody writes about having a broken heart and being hopeful and triumphant afterward. That was my challenge. I didn't want to be a victim." Buy 1989 by Taylor Swift in stores worlwide now. In other news, I'm starting to stand her a bit more so she better not **** it up on the Grammys 'cause I see something b---hy coming after all this kindness... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister 9,907 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 exciting to have Madonna back again and so soon The future's uncertain and the end is always near. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runway 27,876 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 That triple Adele/Taylor/Sam Smith shade is real! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveandMagic 1,731 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 That had to really suck having her stuff leak. Good for her for pulling through. But then she's Madonna, b---hes! Lol Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show. I should really just relax." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringDaNoize 1 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Very interesting and very cool. Lmao Anyway, the amount of tracks reminds me of mdna. The music itself too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 104,782 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 OMGGGG, YAASSSS!! She is effin work with NAS, y'all!! NAS!! :legend: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ 𝒮𝓀𝒾𝓅𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃 (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini 103 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Very interesting and very cool. Lmao Anyway, the amount of tracks reminds me of mdna. The music itself too always there commenting negatively on madonna's thread lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringDaNoize 1 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 always there commenting negatively on madonna's thread lol What exactly was negative Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini 103 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 What exactly was negative come on lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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