UK Magazines: QX
Posted: 30 October 2007

Journalist Steve Pafford interviewed the Pet Shop Boys for the current issue of gay magazine QX (issue 660) - which is available free in UK bars and clubs. The interview included these few paragraphs about working with Madonna:

I'd wondered how Madonna fitted into their scheme of things. The boys has wanted her to sing 'Heart' but eventually recorded it themselves, giving them their fourth No.1 in the process, and she less than graciously returned the favour by asking them to be a mere support act on her Who's That Girl tour in 1987, when the duo were at the peak of their commercial clout! Any talk of recording together? Nope. 'She'd be impossible,' Neil conceded, 'It would never work'.
But fast forward to 2005 and the finely tuned 'secret ears' that David Bowie once described Tennant having must have pricked up considerably when he heard Confessions On A Dance Floor, 'because so many of the reviews mentioned that the album sounded like us, and in fact then she mentioned us as one of the inspirations for it.'
Indeed, producer Stuart Price revealed that when they were recording the album in his flat, Madge shouted 'Pet Shop Boys - I fucking love them!' So being hailed as an influence by the Queen Of Pop herself would have undoubtedly allowed Neil to rewrite and revise his opinion of Her Madgesty, and when Barbara Charone, Madonna's UK publicist, called him up, 'I thought she's finally going to ask us to remix a single, but she said, 'Would you like to interview Madonna?' and I said 'No, I'm not a fucking journalist!'
Striking while the iron hoof's hot ' that put the idea in my head. 'Jump' sounds like it's got a bit of 'West End Girls' in it to me,' he acknowledges. 'But the song we thought sounded most like us was 'Sorry', so we asked to remix it and within 12 hours we were doing it,' prompting Neil to freely admit that 'I've always wanted to sing a duet with Madonna.'
And surprise, surprise, guess who dared to 'add a load of vocals,' with Neil playing the 'pathetic guy' in the lyrics? Madonna told him, 'That was really cheeky of you but it worked,' and went on record as preferring it to the original, even sampling his dulcet tones of her last tour. 'I felt quite proud that I was in her show,' he beams. 'She called it a 'killer remix'.'

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[Edited 11/2/07 10:30am]

Their remix of "Sorry" is the best Madonna remix that I've heard in years.She should just let these guys do all her remixes.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...fg4BHdgRwQ

I miss the Confessions era! That was alot of fun.

they should produce an album together.

superspaceboy said:

That would be awesome. I loved the original "Sorry" but the remix is a whole new level. Probably her best track in many years.

VinnyM27 said:

Indeed. Most of the other remixes from the entire confessions releases sounded a bit generic. Her remixes, while still nice that she still does them and really are the vehicle that she uses to get out her "singles", sound really uninspired. Conversely, the PSB remixes are usually very special.

SoulAlive said:

superspaceboy said:

I agree,the 'Confessions' remixes were really disappointing.The 'Sorry' maxi-single was the only one worth buying.

SoulAlive said:

Remixings in general have been very dissapointing, including most of Madonna's recent ones.

PSB touched on this recently in an interview (or notes for one of their rereleases), talking about how modern remixes often are just these repeatious beat monsters that often don't add on to the original but often struggle to incoroporate it (something to the effect). Their remix of "Sorry" does not do taht. You can still recognize the original, very much, but it's an added level of stuff that makes it sound real good. I buy most of Madonna's maxi singles...I'm probably going to try to give them a listen again but will probably dump them soon.

so what

madonna is an entertainer not a real artist

VinnyM27 said:

I thought the maxi for Music was good.