Paper Magazine Partied With Madonna
In case you didn’t see those photos of Madonna French kissing two women on her Italian birthday vacation, the Queen of Pop is once again here to remind us that she’s still crazy, sexy, cool, even at age 64. Madge was interviewed for the latest issue of Paper magazine, and she posed for three covers wearing a pink bob. In one she’s licking model Andrew Darnell’s nipple, in another she’s Frenching him, and the third cover shows her squatting on the dancefloor, probably on the verge of taking a disco piss. Madge also shared footage of the Paper photoshoot on her Instagram. In quick flashes, it looks like a fun rave-type party, but, in reality, you know most of those models and dancers suffered severe neck injuries trying to cram their faces into every shot.
The Paper piece is to promote Madonna’s latest remix albums, Finally Enough Love and Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, which come out today. The albums mark Madonna being the first artist to achieve 50 number ones on the US Billboard Dance charts. In the interview, she talks to Nile Rodgers, co-founder of the band Chic (as in, “Le freak, c’est chic!”), producer on Madge’s album Like A Virgin, and creator of DiscOasis, an ongoing pop-up ’70s-themed disco/rollerskating party. They discuss making great dance music in the seventies and eighties, and Nile says, “In those days, you could just go to a club and get a DJ to play your song if they liked it”:
Nile: We’re artists who come from this real, tactile world. It was sort of like the Roman Colosseum, thumbs up or thumbs down. People responded to your music by coming onto the dancefloor or leaving, or staying on the dancefloor. And you knew right away. If you can’t satisfy the people right away, chances are…
Madonna: It wasn’t going to happen.
Nile: Right.
Madonna: Also, when I work with people in the studio now and they play music for me, I always say, “How are you going to play this live?” It’s always my first question.
Madonna says making music that people wanna shake their asses to was “intuitive,” and not premeditated. She also credits her background as a dancer for her instincts:
Madonna: I think it comes from me being a dancer, first and foremost, and training as a dancer, and coming up in the theater, viscerally connecting with an audience through my body and through music physically. When I began making music, that became a very important component. What is the lighting like? What are the costumes? How am I going to move? Can I sing and move at the same time? Where can I take a breath? It’s all very important.
Here are Madonna’s Paper covers and footage from the shoot:
In my opinion, the best Madonna song to shake your ass to is “Into the Groove.” When I was a teen, I was bopping along to the song in the car, and I told my father, “You know, Madonna wrote this song in 5 minutes!” My dad replied, “Yeah, sounds like it.” An epic burn… completely ruined by the fact that I can’t find any online proof that Madge actually wrote the song in five minutes. Stupid VH1 ’80s specials jumbling together in my head causing me to re-write music history…
Pic: Paper Magazine