Chords for Madonna Talks "Madonna" & Hates the Press

[Bb] Don't know if I asked you this three years ago
Why do you have one name as opposed to what [Ebm] two names?
I got up, you know, Madonna.
Chaconi Leibovitz
_ I _ mean, did you market yourself coming out that way?
I didn't I had no idea
I mean I when I started when I got signed to a record deal
I was Madonna Chaconi [D] and then it just got shortened and then it was Madonna and then same
I mean, I didn't want to like rock the boat I guess in the beginning
Do you know why you were named Madonna?
It's my mother's name.
I was named after my mother
So you're a junior on the mother's side.
Yes.
I'm a second.
Do you have a good childhood?
_ _ _ Yeah, I did I mean I think I think I had a I had a moments of
chaos and
Sometimes I suffered.
I mean my mother died when I was little and that was difficult for me for a while father raised you
Father and then eventually he remarried in my stepmother.
Yeah, how did that work?
Sometimes that can be very hard.
[N] I I mean truthfully I didn't accept my stepmother when I was growing up in retrospect
I think I was really hard on her.
Was she trying?
Yeah, she was
You were close to your mother
Yeah, and and I'm very close to my father and and I didn't want to accept change.
I was one of the in show business mmm _
Everyone tells me [Eb] I did I mean when I talked to my relatives they all say, you know
You sang when you've been a [B] showgirl since you were five and I don't remember it
But I guess did you ever think as you were a teenager like doing something else when I was a teenager?
I wanted to be a dancer.
I wanted to move to New York and be a dancer.
That was my goal
That was my dream.
It was pretty small from where move from Michigan where?
_ Detroit Pontiac Rochester
What took it into singing?
well, I was dancing for years in Manhattan and not making a very good living [Bb] and I started auditioning for a musical theater and
somebody saw me at an audition singing and dancing and put you in a show and they said hey
Sweet out.
We're gonna make you a star type of thing
They were French and they took me to Paris and they kind of put me into this star making machinery
But I wasn't ready for it.
[C] And after six months I flipped out and had to come back to New York
It's too much too soon and I wanted to earn it.
What was your first break?
_ [N] That it probably started off with a song on the radio and then it start and then I think it was
An appearance at the MTV Awards was think I was rolling around on the stage in my underpants
All right, and I think I did something like that.
Did you deign to do that?
We're no words.
Did you was it in a sense?
Was it planned?
[Gb] Was it?
Yeah.
No, why'd you do it?
I don't know just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I was very impulsive in my youth
[E]
Still are
I'm trying not to be I'm trying to think before I say and do you know?
There was a no connect between brain and mouth.
I just was living in the [C] moment and
Living it like an instinctive animal a lot of that can work for you, but it can also work against
There's a lot of pluses and a lot of minuses.
Yeah, it's important to see the end in the beginning
How did you deal initially with fame? _ _
Well, I thought it was
Fun in the beginning.
I mean [G] I didn't [B] mind it at all
It's like people pointing to you.
I'm knowing you on the street.
Yeah, sure it appealed to my ego.
Hmm
Did it at any time turn sour?
_ Sure, I mean
When people start chasing me down the street and I never had a moment of privacy, you know, or when people started
Taking shots at me and being nasty in the press things like that
I mean then I went through a period of feeling like really put upon and oh the press is beating up on me
They're not being fair, but no, I just don't care
Really?
Yeah, don't read the stories.
Don't read the newspapers.
Don't read magazines and don't watch TV.
Sorry. _
_ _ _ I
Watch this interview though
What did you get what out of if you if you stay away from print?
I mean at the end of the day, it's not gonna do me any good.
I mean most of it is sensationalist
_ Television magazine press whatever _ _ and
If you get attached to the good things the nice things people say about you and you get [Bb] attached to getting wanting [N] approval from people
And you're [Ebm] going to also be affected by people saying negative things about you and I'd rather just be
Detached from at all because it doesn't mean anything in the end.
It's completely ephemeral
_ completely illusionary and
[N] So I'd like to pay attention to what's real.
Is it also weird that so many people are interested in your personal life?
I mean that kind of weird do you think it's weird?
But you know, I suppose they're interested in all celebrities personal life
Yeah, why do you think?
Living vicariously through everybody, you know them as larger than life.
Yeah, and enjoy seeing them have troubles
I think everybody does it's like that what the old watching the car accident thing, you know
You can't take your eyes off of it people like to see you go up and they love to see you go down
Do you do it about others?
_ _ _ Um
I'm sure I'm guilty of it.
You know, I like to say, you know, I do find myself
I hear a little bit of a snippet of gossip about something and I go.
Oh really and then I go I'm doing that
I'm doing that that's not easy to get caught up in totally totally.
It's our nature and I'm trying to work against that
you also became a kind of a marketer didn't you I mean you knew how to
What do you mean merchandise yourself?
You promoted yourself?
Well, well, yeah
Don't all singers and no some don't well, I mean you are selling your own image, right?
We know some are very good at it and some are not so good at it.
Some choose wrong management
So yeah, you've always been good at that.
Mm-hmm, right haven't you pretty good?
I won't say I'm also are a risk taker.
Yeah, but you did speed the power the power on Broadway
Yeah, no most people say hey, she's a singer.
She's a dancer.
Why is she doing a day?
Risk a David Mamet play she can't be making eight billion dollars a week.
Yeah, they don't pay that on Broadway
[Ebm] No, they sure don't why'd you do it for the experience?
I mean, I don't need the money and I'm in the I'm in a very luxurious place in my life
I can do things because I want to do them because I want it.
I want the [Bb] experience
You just did a play recently, right?
I did I did a play and I [N] will pay for that either
Yeah.
Yeah, but it was a fantastic experience and I enjoyed every minute of it
What what do you like about?
_ theater
Like how real it is
I like that you are really out there with no protections when you make a movie you get a chance to do another take
When you're on stage
You say the line wrong.
That's it.
It's out there.
It happened and I like the immediacy of it
I like how you can feel the energy of the audience
It's real acting and you go from start to finish you go from start
[Ebm] No, no, it's it's it's it's preferable to acting in film
But boy you must have had something when you came out of the dressing room, right [E] being a star as you are the crowd
You mean the crowd?
Yeah, it was insane
It's insane
Yeah, we had to have police barricades to get me out of the theater every night _ _ _ _ _