superspaceboy said:

from an old thread here called "Prince's involvement on 'Like A Prayer'?

", that I saved on my pc

Taken From Songwriting Interview 1989:

Interviewer: You and Prince wrote "Love Song" together, which is a wonderful
song. Did you and he work together or did he give you a track?

Madonna: No, he didn't give me a track. We sat down and just started fooling
around. We had a lot of fun. What happened is that he played the drums and I
played the synthesizer and we came up with the original melody line; I just,
off the top of my head, started singing lyrics into the microphone. And then he
overdubbed some guitar stuff and made a loop of it and sent it to me, and then
I just started adding sections to it and singing parts to it. And then I sent
it back to him, and he'd sing a part to it and add another instrument and send
it back to me...it was like this sentence that turned into a paragraph that
turned into a little miniseries. So it was great. It was a completely different
way to work. And because of our schedules and everything, and he was in
Minnesota and he likes to work there and I like to work here. So we kind of
sent it back and forth. He's great. He's a real interesting...unique talent.

Interviewer: And it was an easy connection from the beginning for the two of
you?

Madonna: Yeah, it was. We started out being real admirers of each other's work.
And, you know, we're already successful so we didn't have to prove anything to
each other. We were on the same level. And I don't think he's had that same
opportunity with other people that he's worked with. Because generally he tends
to dominate everything.

Interviewer: "Act of Contrition," the closing track of Like a Prayer, has
backwards masking and other mysterious elements. Did he have anything to do
with that one as well? The credits only say, "Produced by the powers that be."

Madonna: Yeah, he did. He played guitar on it. He also played guitar on "Keep
it Together."

Interviewer: I noticed on "Act of Contrition" that you have the choir from
"Like a Prayer" reversed on that.

Madonna: Yeah, we turned the tape and played everything backwards.

Interviewer: Your idea?

Madonna: Yeah. And then, of course, the whole thing, the saying of the prayer
(on "Act of Contrition") and everything, that was totally conceived of in the
studio, in the control room. Pat put out a microphone, and I just started
fooling around; and that was free-form, too. Whatever was on my head. It's
totally unedited.

TonyVanDam said:

Webo Girl, her publishing company is admin by Waner/Tamerlane Publishing.

ehuffnsd said:

go2theMax said:

That's a great interview! I printed it out a long time ago

SoulAlive said:

It's not like she was under oath.

"Yeah, oh yeah I did that"

MikeMatronik said:

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Please do but mention that U2 owns their masters because of the things Prince said about the topic about 15 years ago. It would be nice to stop blaming P for not owning his WB masters. I would think his mgmt would have tried to work something out.

cream72 said:

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She is a white woman

ehuffnsd said:

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Cheek said:

I know...something just wasnt right about that edited mish-mash collection

laurarichardson said:

because women have a lot of power in this country.

laurarichardson said:

Perhaps,but I don't think Prince did himself any favors by waging a huge,public war against them and writing "slave" on his face As you can see,other artists were able to successful negotiate with their record company and gain ownership of their masters.

laurarichardson said:

Oh,stop it please

paisleypark4 said:

Madonna didn't have anything to do with that compilation.Warners wanted to cash in on the 'Drowned World Tour' hype,so they hastily compiled that CD on their own with very little assistance/input from Madonna.Like Prince,she doesn't really like to look back....she's more focused on new projects and the future.Hopefully,she will work with them on the 25th anniversary box set.That promises to be a major project.