Exclusive Madonna interview just aired on Swedish tv
The exclusive Madonna interview on Swedish Tv SV1 done during the promotion of Confession On A Dance Floor has just aired. This nice half hour tv special also had interviews of Johan Renck, the director of the Hung Up and Nothing Really Matters videos.
Madonna on going to New York for the first time:
The number one priority that I had when I went to New York was that I wanted to be in a dance company, a professional dance company. I wanted to make a living as a dancer.
On music coming around:
Music came in after years struggling as a dancer and being poor and thinking: oh God I can’t keep living my life this way, I’m always broke. So I met a girl, actually she was Dutch. Her name was Angie she played the bass, she was in my ballet class and she said: Hey let’s start a band!
So that was the first time I got into thinking about music.
On “making a difference”:
I that making a difference in the world has got to do with your own development, with your own growth and change. And you own point of view about your place in the world. And I think that comes in time. I didn’t start out with my music thinking: I’m going to make a difference in the world. I thought: I’m gonna be somebody but I didn’t think oh God I wanna make the world a better place. That’s how I was thinking.
On success and fame:
I don’t think anyone starts out their careers thinking about the things that are going to come to them when they become famous. Most people just say I wanna make it, I want to be successful. You don’t think about anything that success brings. And it’s a double edged sword. With success and fame comes and enormous responsability.
And an enormous ammount of scrutiny so there is an upside and a downside and you have to have a sense of humor to get through it all.
On controversy of in the 90:
Well I feel that controversy is always swirling around me anyways, so I don’t point an area of my life versus another as being controversial.
How do I feel about it looking back to the nineties? Well that was a tough time for me but I also felt like the world misunderstood what I was trying to say and do. And people gave me a hard time unnecessarely. Now if I had done now what I did then I’m sure I would have never gotten such a hard time from people. Times change and people often react in a very way towards things that are unfamiliar or different. And obviously when you are challenged and you have a tough time you learn and grow a lot. Ultimately I have to look back at that time as the best thing that ever happened to me. That’s where I truly learned the huge responsability that comes with being famous. People absolutely listen to everything you say and do. Scrutinize you, give meaning to things you never meant to give meaning to, that often the things you say can often be taken out of context and I learned what big influece I have on people and I think that was an important lesson.
On Bloodshy & Avant:
I liked the records they did with other people. My daughter was listening to Rachel Stevens and also Britney Sprears and they worked on tracks for both those girl’s records and I felt they were really catchy and danceable and I like them so I wanted to work with them.
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