Entrevista completa Vogue Italia Julio 2026:
https://www.vogue.it/article/intervista-madonna-cover-vogue-italia-luglio-2026-esclusiva
Los algoritmos y I Feel So Free
It is not only social life that has changed, but the way music and the recording industry are understood. “Once you were around painters and musicians and dancers and artists in one place and working from a very pure place for each other. I value that experience a lot. Nowadays you don’t do that anymore,” Madonna continues. “Now to have a record deal you think about how many followers you have. That’s why in Bring Your Love I say ‘Don’t try to distract me with numbers’. For me it started not thinking about the charts, the streaming numbers. Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art.”
Numbers return in the lyrics of I Feel So Free: “That’s why I like to go dancing / Safety in numbers.” “It’s completely the opposite,” she says. “In this case numbers give you safety. You’re with a lot of people and you don’t feel judged, you can hide.”
Madonna y Patty Pravo
The relationship between Madonna and the queer community has also been an unstoppable osmosis of aesthetics, messages, social battles and artistic influences.
At times in unexpected and international ways, as with her recent cover of Patty Pravo’s La Bambola, from one gay icon to another. “I remember listening to it when I was young, and I thought about it again when Mert Alas told me he wanted a soundtrack for the Dolce & Gabbana campaign. In the studio, Stuart Price and I created several versions, there’s even a dance version,” Madonna reveals. “I also had the honour of performing it live at Milan Fashion Week. Patty and I texted for a bit, and I asked for her blessing. She was very pleased.”
Artistas italianos que le inspiran
Madonna could talk for hours about the inspirations she draws from Italy, for instance: the directors she loves so much, Visconti, Pasolini, Antonioni, Rossellini and “oh my god, Fellini”, but also Italian disco from the 1970s, not forgetting another icon, Raffaella Carrà. “The way she danced and dressed, always pushing boundaries, and that’s what I like.”
COADF 2005 vs Confessions II
Confessions on a Dance Floor itself was a thrilling musical journey, but also an intensely reflective and, in the end, cathartic one. It was not only a 10-million-copy success, but also a means by which an entire generation claimed dance, a genre often dismissed as superficial, finding a new dignity in euphoria and coming together.
Its sequel seeks to recreate that spell, to the point that Madonna herself insists that “to rave is an art”, with a resonance that, in these troubled times, also feels political.
“We’ve always lived in tough times in the past,” reflects the pop star. “What really makes it tough now is that we don’t have each other. We struggle to come together, march in the streets. You could look into each other’s eyes and say: ‘Well, we have each other, our families, our friends.’ Now we are isolated. I hope my record is an antidote.”
