Madonna reveals love of Japan’s music, food and fashion
Madonna swept back into Japan for the first time for 12 years to promote her new album, revealing a love of all things Japanese: food, fashion, men and – most of all – heated toilet seats.
The pop icon also said she hoped to return here on any future tour.
“I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture. Some of my videos and my performances on stage have been influence by Japanese music, fashion, martial arts.
I love Japanese food,I probably eat more Japanese food than you do.”
She even learnt a sprinkling of the local lingo for the trip: “Gomennasai” (sorry), she said. “My Japanese cook taught me that.”
But above all, “I’ve missed the heated toilet seats,” she told the few hundred star-struck journalists who quizzed the pop diva on her inspirations, ideas on parenting, advice for young Japanese and views on Japanese boys.
“You’re very cute,” she replied to a male reporter who plucked up the courage to ask this last question.
Madonna took a break from the pop scene earlier this year after breaking several bones falling from her horse on her 47th birthday. But she looked fully recovered as she posed for the paparazzi in knee-high, lace-up black leather boots and burgundy sequined trousers and matching top.
The Queen of Pop arrived in Japan on Tuesday with a few dozen strong entourage and was met by a couple of hundred fans at the airport. While here she is due to perform at some club events to drum up interest in her album.
“Confessions On A Dance Floor”, a collection of frothy disco numbers, marks a return to the songstress’s dance days after a foray into semi-acoustic sounds with her 2003 album “American Life”.
She said she wanted to make a record that “from beginning to end, you just want to dance to for an hour.”
The multi-Grammy Award winning singer, composer and actress has reinvented herself more times than perhaps any other artist and since meeting film director husband
Guy Ritchie has embraced the image of an English country wife.
“Like a cat with nine lives, I keep coming back,” she quipped.
Madonna also has ambitions to direct a film.
But, unlike her husband who is known for his black comedies set in the London underworld such as “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, she says she would prefer to make a love story.
“I want to make a story that will really inspire people,” she added.
Just as soon as she is finished with that heated toilet.
From AFP via Yahoo! News