Diplo offers more details about Madonna collaboration
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6228953/billboard-cover-diplo-on-his-katy-perry-connection-madonna-collaboration-and-8
Ever the source for information on Madonna’s upcoming album, Diplo has once again opened up about his time collaborating with her over the past few months. In a new interview with Billboard, Diplo talks about being in the studio with Madonna, how some of the tracks have evolved, and what happens when Madonna gets drunk on the job. Here are more details on Madonna upcoming album that Diplo shared with Billboard magazine than what we learned last night.
Note that Billboard reports that Madonna’s upcoming album is expected to be released this fall!
"I think three [tracks] are just like amazing, smashes." ~ Diplo
Diplo and Ariel Rechtshaid have been in the studio with Madonna for three sessions in New York so far, and are clearly psyched about how the tracks are coming along.
Madonna gravitated to the hook of a track that Diplo crafted with MNEK, a London songwriter who worked on the Disclosure album. When it became a Madonna song, Ariel Rechtshaid and MNEK went back into the studio to work out the verses.
Right when Billboard’s Jonathan Ringen met Diplo for the cover story, Diplo’s phone rang. He answered it, joke-barking, “What do you want?†and then, before the person on the other end could speak, said, “Stop being a little bitch.†The next moment he turned serious. “Are you going to be in the studio? I need to get some stuff from you. Text me when I can meet you tonight.â€
It was Ariel Rechtshaid, and Diplo was trying to reach him to discuss four or five songs they’re working on for Madonna’s next album, especially that track crafted with MNEK.
“That’s what I was talking to Ariel about,†says Diplo. “I need those verses. I want to wrap that up. That song is on like version 20. It went from a piano ballad to a ‘Turn Down for What’-style song, which I didn’t like. Now it’s somewhere in the middle, which is a more pop record.â€
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