Madonna #9: The Beat Goes On

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From BANG Media International via Monsters and Critics:

Madonna’s new song with Pharrell Williams is so "hot" it will "make the music speakers bleed".

The ’Hung Up’ singer has been in the studio with hit producer Pharrell creating tracks for her upcoming album, and he claims their collaboration will take the music industry by storm.

Speaking at the launch of his new shop Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream in New York on Wednesday (28.11.07), Pharrell said: "It was crazy. I don’t want to say too much. I’d rather wait for you to hear it. It’s awesome though. It makes the speakers bleed. It’s hot!"

Earlier this month, it was reported Pharrell had been recording with the 49-year-old singer at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles.

The pair reportedly bumped into Kanye West, who was working with Michael Jackson in a studio next-door, inspiring the hip-hop star to rap on one of Madonna’s new songs.

Last month, Madonna signed a $120 million, 10-year record deal with Live Nation Inc. and plans to release her first studio album with the label early next year.

Also set to feature on the hotly-anticipated LP are star producer Timbaland and ’SexyBack’ singer Justin Timberlake.

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EXCLUSIVE - Here are some of the latest news Drowned Madonna has heard and is allowed to report.

Madonna has been in Los Angeles to discuss details with Execs at Live Nation at their Los Angeles office.

As you know, Madonna is now in New York and today, Sunday December 2, she will attend the private screening of Guy Ritchie "Revolver".

Next days, probably on Monday, Madonna will go to Warner Brothers offices to discuss her new album.

Madonna is shopping around for video directors and choreographers for her first single! She is looking for NEW people to choreograph for her and she also would like to pair with a new director... BRAND new. But she wants only top A LISTERS video directors.

Madonna want a great video for her new single. The budget for the video is huge!

Choreographer and directors will send their reels to Madonna next week. Then, Madonna will narrow down to a few. Whoever will get call to talk to Madonna, will have to fly to New York City and listen to the single in presence of Madonna at the Warner Bros. offices and discuss about the video. Security is VERY tight!

Aren't you excited?!!?

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MadonnaTribe has received more info about one of the songs on Madonna's new album. One of the Five Songs we first reported on November 18 from the Timberlake/Timbaland session is a nice, mid-tempo love song with classic "Madonna lyrics" and a theme concept that loosely reminds of the idea behind the song "Like a Virgin".

Across The Sky, tells the story of a woman who is quite disenchanted by love, a woman who knows deception, a woman who lied and has been lied to quite a lot in her life. A woman who admits she is not a saint but that finally fells like a new person now that she has found a new love in her life and she is ready to travel "across the sky" with her man, poetically holding his hands in hers.

Musically the songs contains a lot of acustic guitars and has a very catchy chorus. Justin Timberlake is "oooing" on backing vocals. Apparently the song would be perfect for a third single release from the album.

Fans who might be worried that Madonna has been looking for much new musical directions with this album must be reassured that she has re-invented and adapted that genre to her own unique style.

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MadonnaTribe sources can bring more exclusive news about the title track of Madonna's new album. Give It To Me is a song produced by Pharrell Williams, and it's a very catchy uptempo track that reminds of early Madonna tracks from the "pre-Madonna era" such as "Love on the run". The fans who were worried that this album would be too hip-hop would be happy to know that it's very 80's in its structure and it's pure Madonna. A person who apparently heard the song said it sounds quite "cartoonish".

The "Give It To Me" phrase has nothing to do with a supposed "sexual content" as rumoured on a few Madonna forums, but it's said in the sense of "I'll handle the situation for you".

A male voice is also singing backing vocals on part of the second verse and Madonna reprises a couple of lyrics from "The Beat Goes On" on this one.

The break is very strange, the song basically stops suddenly while Madonna says "Don't Stop It" the male voice, probably Pharell himself says "to the left, to the right".

This song would also make a great single!

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MadonnaTribe has heard, and can finally report, some concrete exclusive info about the photoshoot Madonna will be doing for the cover of her new album. The Queen of Pop will be shooting the album cover on December 22nd in the United Kingdom.

She will be following again tradition, as the photographer is again Steven Klein. The album design will be once again in charge of designer Giovanni Bianco.

Stay tuned for further details.

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MadonnaTribe sources can bring more exclusive news about two tracks of Madonna's new album.
Of the lot of songs produced by Timbaland and Justin Timbelake that MTribe reported about shortly after they had their final mixing in Hit Studios Miami in November, "4 Minutes To Save The World" is possibly the one with a stronger "classic" Timbaland vibe.
If there's actually some "hip hop" or "urban" vibe in Madonna's new album, we've been told that "4 Minutes" is probably the track where you can feel it the most. The song has an instantly catchy vibe, with percussion layers and hypnotic synthetized strings. While in other songs of the album Justin can be heard on backing vocals - as exclusively reported on this site in mid-November - "4 Minutes To Save The World" is actually a duet as in this song's verse Madonna and Justin basically sing one line each or better answer one to another on a back and forth basis.

On the other hand, we've been told that "Dance Tonight" sounds like the funkiest song of the lot. You could say it's a dance track from the beginning to the end - there's dance in the title, dance in the theme, dance in the lyrics, and dance in the instrumentation.
It has a captivating late 70's - early 80's disco sound - fingered bass, claps, triangle - recalling songs that made the history of dance as we know it and groups like Kool & The Gang, Skyy, Delegation, even a bit of the early Michael Jackson and huge references to the signature sound of Narada Michael Walden and to the origins of disco-rappping.
To compare it to another Madonna songs the most similar thing that comes to mind is "Don't Stop" or maybe "Your Honesty" from the Bedtime Stories sessions.

Lyrics-wise "Dance Tonight" also shares the same idea of fun of Don't Stop reprising the classic Madonna theme of letting yourself go and be guided by music, and doing positive things while you dance the night away.

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Op donderdag 13 december 2007 18:06 schreef Hapertje het volgende:
Madonna heeft een plekje gekregen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

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Our collaborator Enrique has received the sheet with all the 2008 scheduled releases for Spain.

The tentative release date for Madonna new album in Spain is April 22nd which fits what Drowned Madonna exclusively revealed about the release date. The album will also be available in USB format.

The document also lists a new Madonna Collection - including all her singles, rareties and new songs - to be released November 25.

Finally a new Timbaland album is due november the 4th and according to the document it will include a collaboration with Madonna as well as other artists like Dido, Linkin Park, Cher, Kenya West, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Akon and Mary J Blige.

Other big releases for the year 2008 are new Cds from Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Fergie, Janet Jackson and also about latin artists Paulina Rubio, Alejandro Sanz and Shakira.

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M-Tribe friend and Community member Mike from Madonna Download reports today that radio stations in the US recieved the heads up for Madonna's new single.

Madonna is reportedly expected to be in Los Angeles next week, and it is understood that at the same time her single will hit the radio, although nothing has been confirmed or officially announced yet.
M-Tribe reader Gary also reports that raido dee-jays have been hyping the new release saying that the new single, featuring Timbaland and Justin Timberlake is expected to hit the waves "any day now".

Thanks to Mike and Gary.

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It's not every day that Warner Bros. Records gets a visit from the Material Girl herself. Well we didn't exactly roll out a red carpet - but we did build a plastic brick path inspired by the Candyland game that Miss M. happily strolled down on the way to our conference room which was completely transformed into a palatial pink and white candy emporium. All we knew was there was a song on her upcoming CD that mentions a candy shop - henceforth our theme. And of course, Madonna's love for candy - especially hot tamales is pretty well known. This was strictly for the Warner Bros. Records employees - no press, no photographers, no cell phones. Madonna, always the perfect hostess screamed out different song choices to our resident dj by numbers. "Jesse, play no. 5 next" and so on. We were treated to l0 songs with comments by the artist on some of her collaborators Pharrell, Justin, Timbaland, an appearance by Kanye West, etc.
Every song was a knock out with two apparant favorites being Four Minutes to Save The World and Candy Shop or Candy Store (not decided)...Madonna mentioned she was a little nervous as it was the first official playing of the music. Thankfully it was a room filled with Madonna fans who cheered after every song was played. Champagne and soda and lots of candy later, we all agreed that we felt blessed that we worked at Warner Bros. Records.

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Some info about the album photoshoot: Think bricks, graffiti and jeans.
Very Blond on album cover. Hair is straight. Lots of Jewelry.. (think Into the Groove)

Promo performances and video look: Blond in the 1st single video. Think Beautiful Stranger for hair style...loose curls. "Block Party" theme.


Album name info: One of the first working titles was "subculture Lady"...then "give it to me", "UrbanBeat Queen" and lastly Madonna is very interested in "Block Party"

Madonna will (most likely) premiere her new single next week while in LA. Most likely doing a radio interview. A press release is expected very soon. It has been reported several radio stations have already received the single.

Also, as litfuser stated...album is supposedly coming out Feb. 29 (friday for Italy) which would be a March 4th release for the US.


I gathered this info from Fanzine and their member: besolino
this info comes from someone who is working with D&G on the style team.
Thank you.

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After the exclusive report of the new album listening party which took place on December 3, 2007 at Warner Bros. offices in New York, and all the other exclusive news about Madonna's upcoming album tentatively called "Give It To Me," we were snowed under our readers letters requesting the lyrics of the first single "4 Minutes To Save The World" and it's sound.

We didn't want to ruin the surprise, so we waited to add more details. But now we decided to add just a few info about the sound.

We at Drownded Madonna think that "4 Minutes To Save The World" is very Timbaland sounding with "The Way We Are" vibe. Its power is the beat, which is awesome. A completely new sond for Madonna that will blow you away!

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Here's an interesting excerpt from a WWD.com article about Chanel’s couture show:

Madonna’s stylist, who goes by the name of B., was also in the audience. Having just wrapped up working on Madonna’s next album cover, shot by Steven Klein, the trendsetter said she was returning to London the next day to style a music video featuring Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. “Madonna’s look is going to be more edgy, more fresh—with no more disco,” she said.

Special thanks to MadDorian.

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MadonnaTribe has heard more news about Madonna's long awaited new album. The Queen Of Pop's new record will contain a song titled Ring My Bell, which is NOT a cover of the popular 1979 disco song by Anita Ward but a totally new and original track.

In more new album related news, after the first single "4 minutes to save the world", which is a song with a strong urban vibe, Give It To Me, a classic Madonna pop song, is being considered for the second single release at this stage.

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MadonnaTribe has heard more about the final number of tracks of Madonna's new album.
In November 2007 we reported 13 tracks were selected to be included in the album.

Latest reports inform us that the final version of the standard album will now contain 12 tracks.

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Many years after recording "Who's That Girl" and the full Spanish versions of her hits "You'll See" (Veras) and "What it feels like for a girl" (Lo que Siente La Mujer), Madonna is digging back her love for Latin culture as she will be singing again frases in Spanish in one of her new songs.

We heard reports that in a track to be featured on her new album, the Queen Of Pop is going to explains the English meaning of Spanish frases such as "te quiero" (I Love you), "callarte" (shut up), "besame" (kiss me), and many more.

Spanish guitars are also present in the song that is reportedly produced by Pharrel and has a nice urban feel.

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The MadonnaTribe team would like to apologise with the site's readers for providing an unaccurate information about the director of Madonna's new video.

"4 Minutes To Save The World" has not been directed by longtime Madonna collaborator Jonas Akerlund as we previously reported, but by French duo Jonas and Francois. Sorry for the mix up.

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Op vrijdag 8 februari 2008 22:37 schreef Erotica_ het volgende:
Dit nummer lijkt trouwens verdacht veel op 4MTSTW: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cafyxuOcfV0

Naja, het nadeel van een samenwerking met Timbaland

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Madonna
Title TBC
Warner Bros, 28 April

It doesn't have a title yet, but the direction of Madonna's new album, her last major release before she turns 50, seems clear: the Barbour-wearing Queen of Pop is hitting the street.
Two of the three tracks we heard in an exclusive playback boast productions from the biggest beatmakers in hip hop.
Timbaland evidently reserves his best work for the highest-paying customers because lead single "4 Minutes to Save the World" is a mighty effort, powered by superhero horns, ticking clocks and Justin Timberlake's falsetto. On "Candy Shop", a sticky clutch of not-so-subtle innuendos ('Come into my store/ I've got candy galore') is traded over a snappy Pharrell Williams beat. "Give it to Me" slinks into more familiar dance-pop territory, but the chatter behind this album suggests that R&B and hip hop will be its main flavours.

Not a revolutionary move from Madonna, but at least she's working with the right people.

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Justin Timberlake was interviewed in today's Hollywood Daily People issue. They of course asked him a few questions about working with Madonna and here's what he had to say:

You worked on Madonna's new album with Timbaland. In what direction did you take her?
Basically, our job was to reinvent her sound. My thing was producing her vocals - really experimenting with rhythm. Everything she does with rhythm is straightforward. What I do is more staccato and R&B. So the challenge for me was writing songs, then saying, "How can I make this sound more like Madonna?" I'm a big fan of her first album. So my mission was to write a modern-day "Holiday." I wrote a cool house record for her called "Miles Away" that I think is a smash! She sounds great on it.

So is it an R&B Madonna?
It's an R&B/pop/dance record, but it´s still Madonna. Her voice still sounds like she's 18 year old! It trips me out that she's 49. She´s always been rough and tough. Her last couple of records, she's like, "Rrrrrrr!"

How did she react to your ideas?
A couple of times I pushed her in a direction where it took a minute before we saw eye to eye. Her approach was, "Well, I just haven't done that." And I was like, "Yeah, that´s why you should do it."

So did you teach Madonna how to beatbox?
[Laughs] No, no. We left that to me and Tim.

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2008 20:15 schreef Prego het volgende:

het begin van 4mtstw is al uitgelekt toch? of is het alweer een fake?

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More details are emerging about Madonna's new album. Nate "Danja" Hills and Timbaland, who co-produced Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds, are co-producing some tracks on Madonna's yet-to-be titled album and Danja tells EW.com that the pop queen's next effort is "very up-tempo, upbeat and urban — it's a Virginia-based sound." Madge was joined in the studio by another influential Virginian, Pharrell Williams, but Danja emphasizes that the album's urban edge doesn't mean the 49-year-old star has lost her pop cred.

"It's everything rolled into one," he says. "It'll be a classic album." As previously reported here, Timbaland and Timberlake will appear in the video for Madonna's first single, "4 Minutes to Save the World." The album is slated for an April debut. The single drops in March.

Source: EW.com