MadonnaTribe: With your work at Spotlight Magazine you have been exposed to the Madonna tour from day one. What was your reaction and what did you feel when you saw the show for the first time in Paris after knowing almost everything about it?

Corinne Plourde: I loved it ! Even if I knew everything about it, it's incomparable to see it in real. Madonna was very beautiful and the show was fabulous.

MT: Which was your favourite moment of the show?

CP: My favourite moment was Mother and Father...

MT: How do you find this tour different from the previous ones?

CP: I think this tour was very similar to the Drowned World Tour with a more expressive Madonna. Some of the ideas are the same. The last tour is like a best of Madonna's career so I think everyone had a great fun with it.

MT: During the first week of September Paris was full of Madonna fans from all over the world. The shop Lucky Records, where sometimes people can find you, was filled with fans.
You had the chance to meet a lot of new people, how was that experience?

CP: It was great. I could meet a lot of fans and speak with them. I realized the potential of Madonna as someone who makes communicate a lot of people. I think this a real good thing.
And I could also meet the webmasters of Madonnatribe.com. I was so happy !

MT: During the tour, the "documentary crew" came to Lucky Records to meet you along with other fans. Can you tell us more about that? Did you get an idea of how this new documentary may come out and if it will really be different from Truth or Dare?

CP: Yes, we had the chance to have an interview with the crew. They were kind with us and very humble. They were very impressed with the Lucky Records shop. They have never seen a shop like this in the whole world! I don't know how the documentary will turn out but I think it will be very different from "Truth Or Dare". This is going to be more fans history instead of Madonna history.

MT: As a long time Madonna fan, what memories from the past did this tour brought to your mind?

CP: I didn't think to the past with this tour. I like living in the present...

MT: You became a Madonna fan in the eighties, what were the elements then (Madonna's songs? her look? her attitude?) that made you become a fan, and did you feel at the time that this passion could last so long?

CP: In the beginning, it was her songs... Later her character. I like Madonna for her personality and for her strength. This woman is a role model for me. And she's never disappointed me.

MT: Spotlight is one of the best and innovative magazines about Madonna ever produced. Is it difficult to put together, sometimes in a little time, a new issue and keep the same quality standards?

CP: Yes, sometimes I didn't sleep for 3 days to finish an issue. But it is a very big pleasure for me to do it, so....

MT: Over the years you have interviewed for Spotlight a lot of people that have worked with Madonna.

The last one being hair stylist Julien d'Ys who revealed to you how the idea of the Marie Antoniette wig came out for the Steven Klein photos.

What is the idea you have of Madonna from the tales of these people who have worked with her?

CP: I think that Madonna is a very hard worker.
And, everyone told me that she is a very simple woman, kind and fair.
But it is necessary to work well with her and to do everything fast.

MT: The latest issue of Spotlight is fantastic. Are you already working on the next one?

CP: Thank you very much. For the next issue, I begin to think about some articles and try to find some exclusive things!









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www.spotlight-theangel.com

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