Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time. She has 12 albums that have gone multi-platinum. She’s won seven Grammys, and has had fifty songs reach number 1 on the Billboard Dance chart. That’s more number 1s than anyone in any category, ever. In this episode, she talks about one of those number…
Madonna is the queen of re-invention. This has been true since her debutante days, where she managed to metamorph from era to era with alarming ease; from the bubble-gum materialism of Like A Virgin, the grand religious undertones of Like A Prayer to the sadomasochistic sexual politics of Erotica.
Met Hung Up bewijst Madonna in 2005 nog altijd een van de grootste popsterren ter wereld te zijn. En daarvoor schakelde ze de hulp in van een andere grootheid: ABBA. In 2005 heeft Madonna een zeldzame dip in haar carrière achter de rug. Twee jaar eerder brengt ze haar negende album American Life uit, waarvan de verkoopcijfers…
ABBA – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) Sometimes a song becomes famous as a sample because of its repeated use. And sometimes, it gains notoriety for quite the opposite reason. According to Lucy O’Brien’s 2009 book Madonna: Like an Icon, in 2004 Madonna told producer Stuart Price she wanted him to concentrate on creating…
Fifteen years ago today I traveled to Mannheim Germany by train to try and attend the taping of Wetten Dass. You see, Madonna was planned to perform her new single ‘Hung Up’ and after seeing the MTV Awards performance I just HAD to be there. I did not have a ticket, so there was no…
Fifteen years ago today one of Madonna’s biggest ever hit singles was released. ‘Hung Up’ a collaboration with Stuart Price sampling Abba’s ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ made for a brilliant instant dance smash hit! In fact it was Madonna’s greatest hit single in Holland to date, spending SEVEN weeks at the number one position in the…
On to the next era in our discography! After concluding the ‘American Life’ era and uploaded the singles to the current Madame X era, the time has come to start off one of Madonna’s most succesful era’s: ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’. Hung Up was the first single to be taken from the 2005 album…
When Cher released her cover of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” on Thursday (Aug. 9), it was only a matter of time before someone mashed it up with Madonna’s 2005 hit “Hung Up,” which samples the Swedish group’s classic. Turns out, it took less than 24 hours: Toronto-based singer Alex Simpson took the liberty…
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