“Hung Up”
Madonna is the best-selling feminine recording artist of all time. She has 12 albums which have gone multi-platinum. She’s gained 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 Flooring. The track and that album have been co-produced by Stuart Worth, 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 embrace 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, known as Lastly Sufficient Love: 50 Quantity Ones, and in honor of its launch, Madonna and Stuart Worth instructed me the story of how their collaboration and partnership led to one in every of Madonna’s largest hits.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
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