In a new interview with Billboard, Diplo reveals details about his work with Madonna that we've all been waiting for. Here's what we learned:
1. Diplo and Ariel Rechtshaid have been in the studio with Madonna for three sessions in New York so far, and he thinks the tracks are coming along great.
"I think three are just like amazing, smashes," Diplo told them. "One is super weird. Late one night in the studio we got a little bit drunk and she improvised a little hook and we made a song out of it. I think it's going to be a breakthrough if she can manage to get everything together and get it out properly."
2. Madonna doesn't really drink in the studio, but when she does, she drinks rosé
3. The collaboration began earlier this year when Madonna invited Diplo to her Oscar party. Although he couldn't attend, the two began texting, and Diplo send her some song ideas. He never expected her to take them seriously.
"She wrote me back like a 20-page text, notes about all these songs," he said.
4. He said that Madonna really liked a hook of a track that he crafted with MNEK, a London songwriter who worked on the Disclosure album, so they are they revamping the verses for her.
"I need those verses [from Rechtshaid]. I want to wrap that up," he said. "That song is on like version 20. It went from a piano ballad to a 'Turn Down for What'-style song, which I didn't like. Now it's somewhere in the middle, which is a more pop record."
Madonna announced she was working with Diplo back in May when she posted photos to her Instagram account with the captions, "Working with @Diplo got me like................WHAAaaat?" and "Diplo is a slave driver! Got me working all hours of the night in the studio. Had to sneak into the bathroom!"
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