She dives into everything with such gusto … I was drinking too much and I said stupid things. I don’t know where we stand.
Her sister Melanie, who I adore, told me: “If you know anything about M, she doesn’t have a sense of sentimentality. Nobody hears from her for yonks. Family members don’t hear for yonks. Then, of course, she wants something from you or she’s working with you, you’re hearing from her every 10 minutes.”
She’s not really somebody that looks back. I could get a call tomorrow, you know?
I might just say, “Do you know what, M? You’re quite stressful. I mean that with kindness and respect. But you don’t half push. You’re really funny to work with. You have a good laugh. I like your expeditiousness. But it would seem that I’m never doing it fast enough for you. If I were to work for you, could you cut me an inch of slack?”Famed music producer William Orbit talking to The Mirror about his falling out with Madonna after working together on her 2012 album MDNA.
Related: Rufus Wainwright just spilled the tea about Madonna: “She’s been quite mean to me a couple of times”
abfab
Ha! And here I was thinking that doing Xtacy together made you all huggie and lovie-dovie……..
bachy
MDNA was not one of my favorites, but it was fascinating to hear from all of these top-of-their-game players regarding their high-presh collaborations with The Cone Bra of Pop. Live to tell!
DomitoJo
oh, have other producers that worked on that album spilled more tea??
ho
She is old and now pathetic. Step aside with some dignity left
Jack
You’ll be out at the club at 60 very single and being called an old pathetic troll. And not even 1/1000th as relevant and respected as Madonna. And you’ll never even connect these dots of your ageism and disrespect. So consider this, me, telling the future you. Karma is a bitch.
Ronbo
Hard working talented people don’t usually step aside – they need to be surpassed. That’s not happening, Is it? Consider that Madonna has been making great, relavent music decade after decade after decade.
The queer community was the first to support her. Let’s not become just a parody of bitchy, young, gays attacking people – afterall, time only works in one direction. You aren’t getting younger – try being better instead.
white-queer-african
@Ronbo, I am speechless! Suddenly you trying to be holier than the Pope? You being nice and standing up for an old hag? Madonna!
You fool me not.
LumpyPillows
Apparently ageism is still fair game. Be better people.
Ronbo
@WQA You claim to be “speechless” yet your hate and division are on full hypocitical display. Is that all that you are?
Why did you take my comments so personally, when I wrote ” Let’s not become just a parody of bitchy, young, gays attacking people – afterall, time only works in one direction. You aren’t getting younger – try being better instead.”? Your response: unsolicited personal attacks which reveal your opposition to using the same tactic of kindness and compassion which secured our legal equality.
You really should try to be better. And please feel free to quote me. If you are going to write such hateful nonsense – please actually quote me! It’s a good way to actually learn to differentiate between your paranoia and reality.
Man About Town
I had to googgle “yonks” — looks like Madonna’s not the only one in her family influenced by British culture!
Mr. Stadnick
HaHaHa the family of fake brits!
Paris in Santiago
If Madonna does it, she’s horrible and old and mean.
But if a man does it, it’s for art, and what a visionary, timeless!
I am so over gay men. She’s been an advocate for LGBTQ for decades, and in my eyes, she can do no wrong. Questionable sometimes yes; but I cut her slack. No one will ever appreciate her dire circumstances when she came to NYC as a kid. Thank the universe she fell into a group of gay men with substance. They saw the Star quality in a sassy Italian girl, and supported her dreams, as they did so with one another. She fit right in.
ScottOnEarth
Madonna didn’t get (and stay) where she is by being sentimental, kind, thoughtful, carefree and selfless. By most accounts, she’s a dreadful human being but she has what it takes to get to the top and stay there for decades. I would never want to know her as a person but, professionally, I respect the success she made for herself.
Ronbo
Madonna is just a human being. Wealth and power (that she justly derived from commercial success) almost always changes people. Not changing is as difficult as pushing a camel thru the eye of a needle. It can be done; but, it’s rare.
Please post the name of the wealthy person whom you think became better or at least maintained their compassion and kindness in the midst of glittering gold and fawning adoration.
smittoons
Her plastic surgery is horrifying, but I was happy to buy Madame X and respect her right to party like she’s 30 and be a badass. Her POV is still relevant and she’s earned the right to do whatever she wants with her life and her career. As for the LGBT+ community, she did right by us time and time again and I will not forget that.
CNY1983
somehow she made it through the wilderness of poverty. somehow she made it through. to the tune of half a billion dollars so she will always have the last laugh. well, until her head is so heavy from all the fillers that it can no longer be supported by her neck and the discs in the vertebrae will give her constant pain. Then it doesnt matter how much she has, life for her will suck.
the end
[email protected]
I remember when we appreciated people who stood up for us. If you don’t like her music ( I do) and think she’s awesome (I do). Don’t listen. But don’t deny her the respect she has clearly earned. Bitch!!
Den
“No one will ever appreciate her dire circumstances when she came to NYC as a kid.”
Huh!?
Her father was an engineer for an auto manufacturer in Detroit, she went to good schools where she excelled, She maintained an A average, studying dance in college. And when she went to NYC she managed to take dance classes with Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham! She managed to travel through Europe as a back up dancer, had roles in indie movies and had two bands. AND she had her first recording contract within three years of moving to NYC, her first successful recording one year after that! Though she was the victim of a horrible sexual assault, her time in NYC hardly seems like “dire circumstance” (NYC was pretty crime ridden in the 80’s), nor did she have a poverty stricken childhood.
She was just a smart and driven young businesswoman who managed to parlay mediocre singing talent, decent acting, and excellent talent as a dancer into a pop career.