Madonna graces her 10th cover with Vanity Fair Magazine.
Inside the magazine the “4 minutes” singer discusses a variety of topics including the current situation with Britney Spears, writing and directing her first film, the music industry, her longevity in the business and the process of writing songs with Justin Timberlake and Pharrel for her forthcoming album Hard Candy.
Madonna made the record with Justin Timberlake, who co-wrote five of the songs and sings on four, Pharrell Williams, and the producer Timbaland. “I didn’t have any idea what kind of music I wanted to make,” Madonna tells Rich Cohen, the editor and interviewer behind her cover story.
“I just knew I wanted to collaborate with Pharrell and Justin. I needed to be inspired and thought, Well, who’s making records I like? So I went, ‘I like that guy and I like that guy.’ It’s not like we hit it off right away. Writing is very intimate. You have to be vulnerable and it’s hard to do that with strangers. I had ups and downs before everybody got comfortable, but I grew very fond of Pharrell and Justin.”
Cohen also adds that many of the songs are hybrids, traditional Madonna super-pop, workout tunes giving way to white hip-hop, Justin Timberlake showering cascades of rhyme.
I was listening to the music, and it’s a record I think Madonna fans will like, because it’s filled with songs you can imagine blasting from the room where they hold spinning class .
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