“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 number one on the Billboard Dance chart. That’s extra quantity 1s than anybody in any class, ever. On this episode, she talks about a type of number one hits: “Hung Up,” from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Ground. The music and that album have 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 Component and Taken). However the music additionally grew out of Stuart’s DJ units.
Madonna has a brand new career-spanning album out, known as Lastly Sufficient Love: 50 Quantity Ones, and in honor of its launch, Madonna and Stuart Value instructed me the story of how their collaboration and partnership led to one among Madonna’s largest hits.
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For a transcript of this episode, click on right here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
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