Madonna’s daughter pitched the idea of writing a song together to “heal” their relationship.
Writing a Song Together
The Queen of Pop and Lourdes “Lola” Leon, 29, collaborated for a track on her upcoming album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II, which drops on July 3, and it proved to be a meaningful experience.
Madonna, 67, told Interview magazine, “It’s hard for me to write a song about nothing. I have to tell a story. So I wrote about a lot of family trauma, and then we started making dance music. …”
“So many very important things have happened to me along the way. For instance, the song I wrote with my daughter, Lola. She approached me about writing a song together as a way to heal our relationship.”
“It was a really important moment, and it solidified the idea that now is the time to make this record.”
Dealing with Heartbreak
As the album came together, the Vogue icon faced multiple heartbreaks.
Madonna said, “All these symbolic things happened. My step-mother died, my brother was ill, my brother died, my daughter approached me… you know what I mean?”
“And then I thought, well, it’s like the script of my film. It begins with death, and it ends with death, but there’s all this life in between. Paradoxical subjects, obviously, but death is a part of life. It just felt like I had a lot to get off my chest.”
Clubs “Saving” Madonna
The Express Yourself hitmaker thinks the follow-up to her 2005 masterpiece, Confessions On a Dance Floor, which she worked on with her longtime collaborator Stuart Price, reflects her belief that clubs can “save” people, just as they saved her.
Madonna said, “And it always saved me. I have a song that’s not on the record called What Will Save Me. I did it with Arca and Stuart [Price].”
“We all talked about feeling like outsiders and how the club life and being on the dance floor make you feel like you’re part of a community, without saying anything.”
“It saves you every time, whenever you’re feeling down, whenever you feel like you can’t get it right, whenever you feel like a failure, whatever. Go out dancing because it will save you.”
The seven-time Grammy winner escaped a world of darkness thanks to clubs.
She added, “I went through all this darkness in the beginning, writing these songs with Stuart, and then we went full circle, and I’m like, ‘OK, now what happens? How do we get out of this? What happens when you walk into a nightclub or walk onto the dance floor or go to a rave?'”
Madonna’s Children
Madonna has two biological children: Lourdes with her ex-boyfriend, fitness trainer Carlos Leon, 59, and Rocco, 25, with her 57-year-old former partner, director Guy Ritchie.
The Like A Virgin performer also has four adopted children; David and Mercy, both 20, and 13-year-old twins Stella and Estere,