While Madonna has been in the studio cooking up new music with Swedish superproducer Max Martin, and has been teasing a banjee bitch track with Sam Smith called Vulgar on social media (the track drops next Friday), The Weeknd, who's collaborative track with Madonna and Playboi Carti titled Popular dropped today (and is on the soundtrack to the new HBO series The Idol) says he's keen to work with the pop icon on her next album.
via: Uproxx
In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, The Weeknd spoke about how he’d like to make a full album with Madonna, saying:
“The thing is, I’ve always wanted to work with her. I’ve always wanted to write and produce a Madonna album… well, co-produce with her, of course […] because she’s a visionary and she has such a singular vision, and I just want to come into her world and create a classic Madonna album. That was always my dream. So this can be… hopefully this is the appetizer for that.”
He also said of “Popular,” “I’m proud of it. I’m definitely proud of it. Me and Carti had this… I mean, we’ve jammed out before. We’ve had a different version of this song prior. So I’ve had these vocals for a while and I’ve kind of just worked around it, and then kind of kept it in the tuck. But now it felt like it was time. It was time. And it felt right and it felt cohesive with this album that I’m working on right now. Or that I just actually finished. The Idol soundtrack, yeah. And so I’ve been producing the song for a while. And then Madonna, Madge. She’s the ultimate co-sign for this song, for this album, and for this TV show. And you’ll hear more of her in the show as well, too. She is the ultimate pop star.”
I can definitely see Madonna working with The Weeknd on new music, but I don't want her to solely work with him, since I can only take his music in small doses. I would love to see her collaborate with some UK producers, such as Xenomania and Richard X as well as The Weeknd on her next record. I'd also love to see her work with Honey Dijon, KAYTRANADA, and The Manhattan Clique.
And if the tracks she worked on with Max Martin turn out to be fierce bops, I'd love for them to collaborate on future projects.
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