Grande's close friend, Colleen Ballinger, said in a Q&A that she has heard some of the album. On December 31, 2017, Grande shared a snippet from the album on her Instagram, which was later revealed to be a track titled " Get Well Soon". Pharrell Williams told LA Times: “The things that has to say on this album, it's pretty next-level.” On December 13, 2017, Grande posted a photo and video on her Instagram Story in the studio.
Scooter Braun told Variety that the album has a more mature sound. On September 18, 2017, Riccardo Marcuzzo uploaded a photo on his Instagram Stories editing a song for Grande. On March 6, 2017, Grande confirmed during a Q&A that she had been working with Pharrell Williams for several months. In a Q&A, Grande said that she wanted to have 10 tracks on the album. On March 5, 2017, Grande confirmed, during the soundcheck of her Dangerous Woman Tour concert in Toronto, that the songs she had previously teased (" Got Her Own", " My Way" and " Sober") wouldn't be on the album. I've been working a lot and have been creating and feeling inspired." On January 10, 2017, Grande confirmed again by tweeting that she was done with the album, but later she deleted the tweet. She later clarified by saying, "I didn't mean to make an album, and I don't know if it's done at all, but I just have a bunch of songs that I really really like. On November 13, 2016, Grande confirmed on Snapchat that she was done with her fourth album. The “wannabe-Madonna”, accessory-drenched styling of 1983-1985 is how she’ll likely be best remembered, but this is the perfect pop package and certainly the strongest of all Madonna album covers.Following the release of Grande's third studio album, Dangerous Woman on May 20, 2016, which was met with positive reviews, Grande confirmed she began working and writing on the album on her Snapchat and Twitter later that month.
Madonna has long proven she’s far more than just a brilliant pop act but, in this glorious moment, there was a staggeringly simplicity to the brief. Looking back at Madonna’s diverse career, it’s now easier to read this era as just a (particularly successful) chapter of ever-changing performance art: create a persona – in this case, the biggest star on the planet – and watch it happen. Ranking as one of the world’s most recognisable album covers of all time, the Herb Ritts image, originally shot in black-and-white but later colourised, casts Madonna as a platinum pop icon, with an obvious reference to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe. Photographer: Ricardo Gomes | Designer: Steven Kleinīoth the best-selling record of 1986 and Madonna’s commercial peak, True Blue has shifted a staggering 25 million copies to date. Multiple editions of the album and memorabilia packaged with variant cover shots make the whole Madame X project very much a visual collaboration with Steven Klein and Madonna’s personal photographer Ricardo Gomes. One of the more theatrical Madonna album covers, the construct of the Madame X sleeve was a reference to her shape-shifting skills, with the cover art providing an homage to her late mother in striking Frida Kahlo styling… entirely impossible to pigeonhole, which – at this stage of her long career – is precisely how Madonna likes it. It happens all the time, because my references are usually off the Richter scale.”īringing the Madonna story bang up to date, Madame X saw The Queen Of Pop finally abandon the pressure to outperform her illustrious past with a creative concoction of wherever the mood took her – the influence of her Portugal home in the Fado-inspired I Rise, or the cultural cross-pollination of the hypnotic Batuka reshaping her sound into something more surprising than anyone could ever have anticipated on her breakthrough in 1984. “Then I thought: 25 per cent of the world might get this, probably less, it’s not worth it.
“It has layers of meaning and, for a minute, I thought it would be a fun title for my record,” she told Rolling Stone. A more controversial idea (among no shortage of controversial Madonna album covers) was to create a “Black Madonna” – abandoned because of the outrage it may have caused. She was allegedly referencing the toughness she’d needed to steer a career of her scale over such a long time, and the boxing theme seemed to fit that focus on perseverance and strength. The album cover featured a portrait created during sessions for an Interview magazine shoot, depicting Madonna in a boxing ring. The final studio album of her long-standing partnership with Warner Music, Hard Candy saw Madonna reclaim the pop crown in the US by collaborating with cutting-edge hitmakers such as Timbaland and Pharrell Williams.
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