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In Billboard’s backstage chat with Madonna at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, the conversation turned from her new music on her forthcoming album Madame X (out June 14) to the possibility of a new concert tour. (Watch the interview above; tour chat starts at the 5:55 point.)
Billboard asked about the possibility of a tour maybe happening at some point, though also wondered aloud to the diva if she is even allowed to say anything about a tour right now.
“Uh, it’s… it’s been spoken about in such a deep way,” Madonna said, “that I’m actually having production meetings.”
So, the tour is probably happening? “Yes!”
Billboard then made an appeal to have Madonna consider adding in one of her three top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits (out of a record 38) that she’s yet to play live: “Rescue Me” (No. 9 in 1991), “This Used to Be My Playground” (No. 1 in 1992) and “I’ll Remember” (No. 2 in 1994).
“I’ll tell you why [they haven’t been performed]: Because they’re very laidback dreamy songs,” she said, suggesting that they don’t fit into her very high-energy, kick-butt shows.
Billboard countered: “‘Rescue Me”s kinda punchy.”
Madonna: “‘Rescue Me”s kinda dope! I’ve actually… I’ll consider that one. Your love has given me hope, OK? To quote the song.”
We closed the interview by bidding Madonna farewell, letting her know how we’re looking forward to seeing her on whatever that tour is that may or may not be announced soon. “Whatever dressing room I might be performing in,” Madonna says, jokingly, adding: “You’ll come anywhere, right? Small cabaret? A stadium?”
Billboard: “Starbucks down the street? I’m there.”
Madonna: “OK, see you there!”
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It’s been a huge couple weeks for Madonna.
The Queen of pop last month announced a new album, Madame X, and released the first single from it, “Medellín,” featuring Maluma. The pair stormed Las Vegas on Thursday night to perform the song for the first time at the Billboard Music Awards.
And now, a new track, “I Rise,” which arrived at midnight.
It’s a mid-tempo piece with touches of Autotune and, as the title would suggest, its all about self-empowerment. On it, Madonna sings: “There’s nothing you can do to me that hasn’t been done/ Not bulletproof, shouldn’t have to run from a gun/ River of tears ran dry, let ’em run/ No game that you can play with me, I ain’t one.”
Madame X is Madonna’s 14th studio album and it’s slated for release June 14.
Stream “I Rise” in full below.
Madame X arrives June 14th via Interscope Records. Along with the Maluma-featuring lead single, “Medellín”, the album features collaborations with Migo’s Quavo and Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee, along with production from Diplo and Mike Dean.
Madame X Tracklist:
01. Medellín (feat. Maluma)
02. Dark Ballet
03. God Control
04. Future (feat. Quavo)
05. Batuka
06. Killers Who Are Partying
07. Crave (feat. Swae Lee)
08. Crazy
09. Come Alive
10. Extreme Occident *
11. Faz Gostoso (feat. Anitta)
12. Bitch I’m Loca (feat. Maluma)
13. I Don’t Search I Find
14. Looking for Mercy *
15. I Rise
* = deluxe version
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Universal Music cannot confirm any official ‘Medellin’ remixes are to be released at this time. It is unknown whether official remixes are on the release schedule in the near future. We hope to update you with positive news soon.
The avatars (not holograms, so they weren’t visible to the naked eye) wove in and out of the inventive performance, bursting into butterflies and puffs of smoke. There were a number of environmental effects that livened up the show, including digital rain, clouds, greenery and splashes of color, which married with the physical side in an attempt to tell a cohesive story. Madonna has reinvented herself countless times over her storied career, so it’s perhaps little surprise that she tried something like this, a spectacle for which she reportedly paid $5 million.
Jamie King, Madonna’s long-time creative director said he was looking for something special for the BBMAs. “After meeting with [Madonna’s manager] Guy Oseary, we settled on the idea of incorporating augmented reality into the performance,” he told Engadget. “I wanted to explore a way to involve her Madame X personas into the performance as well as the possibility of the real Madonna actually being able to perform with [them].”
The team brought the concept to a new creative AR company called Sequin, which took on the challenge of piecing the performance together. While it was the first time Madonna and Maluma performed the song live, it also marked the first project for Sequin.
While you might not recognize the name, you’ll probably be familiar with the work of co-founders Lawrence Jones and Robert DeFranco. At The Future Group, their projects included those dramatic flooding visualizations for The Weather Channel, an AR-enhanced performance by K/DA at last year’s League of Legends World Championship Finals and effects for this year’s Super Bowl, for which they were nominated for an Emmy
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Universal Music just confirmed to us that unfortunately there are no plans at this time to release ‘Medellin’ on any physical format as a single, digital only.
Two brand new Madame X inspired shirts have been added to the official store, to order click HERE
AS VEGAS, NEVADA – MAY 01: Madonna and Maluma perform onstage during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 01, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for dcp)
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Madonna promised to put on a spectacular performance at the Billboard Music Awards last night and she didn’t disappoint.
The Queen of Pop performed her new single Medellín live for the first time with Maluma. In typical Madonna style the performance was a huge production and she continues to set the bar high. Watch it below:
Performing alongside holograms of herself in her various Madame X guises, Madonna was joined by Maluma on an impressive set that saw them dancing in the street, in a bar and through the audience.
The performance came to an end with Madonna, Maluma and a series of dancers doing a conga line around a stage in the middle of the audience with the Madame X holograms around them.
Medellín is the first single from Madonna’s upcoming Madame X album, due for release on 14th June 2019. The song has been picking up widespread critical acclaim since its release and that live performance is sure to help it shoot up the charts.
Yesterday Maluma announced the release of his new album 11:11 on 17th May, which will feature a new collaboration with Madonna.
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Madonna talked with Billboard’s Keith Caulfield behind the stage at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday (May 1), chatting about getting ready for her performance with Maluma, the way toward making her new album Madame X, and from where she drew the motivation for its title..
To get ready for their BBMAs performance of their collaborative song “Medellin,” Madonna disclosed to Billboard that she began practicing numerous months prior to nail down the innovation, the green screen personas, and the actual performance with Maluma.
She likewise opened up about how she united with Maluma in the first place, clarifying that “Medellin” was one of the first songs she had composed when she previously begun her new record, yet she set it aside for later when she started working with different musicians in Lisbon.
“I thought I need to sing with a man on this song cause it’s a song about desire and longing,” she said of listening to it when she returned to the song. “I liked the tone of his voice, so I asked him to be on it with me.”
“I had no idea how many songs I was gonna end up with,” she said of narrowing down the tracks on the album. “The record was born in Lisbon…originally, I’d worked with a lot of Portuguese musicians, and sang several songs in Portuguese, and then it kind of expanded to different countries, to Brazil, to Colombia, and then interspersed working with Mirwais, the French producer, so the song kind of, it’s really a global album.”
Whenever inquired as to whether the record is a concept album, seeing as she takes on various personas, for example, equestrian rider and teacher, she downplayed it..
Madonna additionally uncovered how she settled on the title, Madame X, clarifying that it was a name given to her when she was 19 years of age and first moved to New York City.
“A woman who I looked up to and admired [Martha Graham] gave me that name because she said she couldn’t recognize all my different personas because I kept changing the way I looked,” Madonna recounted. “That was in the beginning of my career when I didn’t think about who I should be or what I should be. I was experimenting. And so I felt like I had come full circle and gave the record that name, cause I’m in the same frame of mind.”
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Maluma,Madonna. Maluma as they perform “Medellin” at the Billboard Music Awards, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
2019 Billboard Music Awards – Show, Las Vegas, USA – 01 May 2019
What happens when the Queen of Pop joins forces with Latin music’s biggest star? You get a jaw-dropping performance worthy of its own special.
Madonna and Maluma showed up and showed out at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. The two graced the stage and performed their new single, “Medelln,” which is straight off the 60-year-old icon’s forthcoming album, Madame X.
Similar to their over-the-top music video the two superstars pulled out all the stops for the star-studded ceremony with ornate ensembles, wildly audacious sets and more.
Viewers and audience members alike were in awe when several holograms of Madonna appeared onstage to perform with the duo.
Madonna performed at the Billboard Music Awards for the first time in over four years. The 25-year-old Colombian reggaeton singer held his own at his first-ever performance at the Billboard Music Award. Maluma discussed the opportunity to collab with Madonna while speaking with E!’s Jason Kennedy on the red carpet.
“It was crazy, I went to the VMAs,” he recalled of meeting Madonna. “I met her over there, then I was touring in Europe and in London she called me and she said she had a song for me called “Medelln.’ I’m from Medelln, Columbia and it’s crazy that she said that she wanted me to be part of the project.”
Earlier this month, while chatting on Apple Music’s Beats 1, Madonna said the Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy was “great to work with.” From their memorable performance tonight and their off-the-charts chemistry, it’s easy to see what the pop icon means.
“He’s one of the most easy going, open, warm, generous… doesn’t leave the studio until the work is done. Has great work ethic,” she said of the “Mala Mia” singer. “I adore him. Nothing but great things to say about him.”
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At the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Madonna continued the kickoff of a new chapter in her career with her first live performance (alongside Colombian singer Maluma) of “Medellin,” from her forthcoming Madame X album, set to release on June 14.
No surprise that there were plenty of bells and whistles, including computer-generated images of herself in the chameleon-like range of styles from her new fashion-forward video of the first track from her 14th studio album that dropped last Wednesday at a world premiere hosted by MTV.
The Queen of Pop’s commanding new aesthetic is one part dominatrix and another part sultry pirate, complete with a riding crop, fishnet stocking and a signature eye patch.
Stylist and i-D fashion editor Ib Kamara, with Eyob Yohannes on board as styling consultant, created the look that taps into Madonna’s alter-ego “Madame X,” a name given to her at age 19 by Martha Graham of the famed contemporary dance studio in New York.
Graham was known for wearing gloves, and Madonna repeated them throughout her video, as she did at the BBMAs, donning black fishnet gloves with bold “M” and “X” rings worn over the top, paired with a flouncy black-and-white polka-dot and glittery black lace dress with a tie neck.
Front and center was her new trademark Madame X fashion accessory — a style-wise black leather pirate eye patch with a red X made of Swarovski crystals by Gregory Kara, who made a series of eye patches for the video and pre-drop interview (also in solid black, solid red, and white embellished with custom safety pins by Gareth Wrighton). There is also a branded version sold with her tour merchandise that lets fans tap imitate the trend.
Madonna’s singing-and-dancing partner Maluma, styled by Julian Rios, coordinated in a sleek all-black button-front shirt with matching trousers paired with red suspenders and tasseled red arm bands.
The Billboard Music Awards is produced by Dick Clark Productions — a division of Valence Media, the parent company of the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group.
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At the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, Madonna did what she does best: got everyone talking.
At the show, the 60-year-old singer took the stage to perform her brand-new single with Maluma, “Medellín,” off her upcoming album Madame X. As usual, the icon surprised fans by doing the unexpected.
During her performance—which reportedly cost $5 million—Madonna took inspiration from Colombia—her new single is named after the country’s capital, after all—by bringing some Latin American flair to the live act. Specifically, the performance began by Madonna lying beneath a fake garden that eventually took her to various locations like a city square and, at one point, the clouds. Can we also take a trip to South America?
If that weren’t enough, Latin heartthrob Maluma danced alongside Madonna for his reggaetón-infused lyrics as four—yes, four—CGI and holographic versions of Madonna tapped their feet to the choreography next to the duo, making for the ultimate 2019 optical illusion.
Ahead of her performance, Madonna heavily teased fans with what to expect by posting rehearsal footage of their dance-heavy number.
Another historic Madonna live performance for the history? We’d certainly say so.
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Steven Klein just uploaded two gorgeous shots from the Madame X shoot, we have added these to the gallery on our Madame X page
Life is no longer a mystery – Madonna will perform her chart-topping anthem Like A Prayer at this month’s Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, it has been revealed.
The queen of pop will also sing a song from her new album, Madame X, during the grand finale on Saturday, 18 May.
Two days prior to that she will take to the stage during the event’s second semi-final for a highly-anticipated interview about her affection for Israel and the song contest.
Israel’s public broadcaster KAN confirmed last month that the 60-year-old icon will make an appearance on stage, with the expected $1million (£770,000) cost being met by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams.
Her Eurovision gig will mark the fourth time Madonna has performed in the Holy Land, following on from shows in 1993, 2009 and 2012.
Madonna has also enjoyed personal trips to Israel previously, having become involved with Kabbalah following an introduction from her friend, Jewish actress Sandra Bernhard.
Netta Barzilai earned Israel its fourth win at the Eurovision Song Contest last year, meaning the 2019 grand finale will be held in Tel Aviv on May 18.
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