“Hung Up”
Madonna is the best-selling feminine recording artist of all time. She has 12 albums which have gone multi-platinum. She’s received seven Grammys, and has had fifty songs attain no 1 on the Billboard Dance chart. That’s extra quantity 1s than anybody in any class, ever. On this episode, she talks about a kind of no 1 hits: “Hung Up,” from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Ground. The track and that album had been co-produced by Stuart Value, an digital musician, producer, and DJ from the UK. “Hung Up” started partly as a result of Madonna was engaged on a movie with director Luc Besson (whose movies embody The Fifth Aspect and Taken). However the track additionally grew out of Stuart’s DJ units.
Madonna has a brand new career-spanning album out, referred to as Lastly Sufficient Love: 50 Quantity Ones, and in honor of its launch, Madonna and Stuart Value informed me the story of how their collaboration and partnership led to considered one of Madonna’s greatest hits.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
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