Linda Perry is leaving a torrent of very striking headlines while promoting her new album, ‘Let It Die Here’. The former member of 4 Non Blondes and later composer of hits for stars like Christina Aguilera is becoming comfortable with artists like Billy Corgan or Green Day. Now he also has wax for Madonna.
Perry assures in a recent interview that he wants to compose an album for Madonna when the star retires: a more naked work and less focused on following trends or hiding vocal defects. He criticizes that Madonna “only follows trends” and that she is obsessed with “competing with Charli xcx”, and suggests that she should make an album “with strings and songs that she can sing at Carnegie Hall”, instead of what she is currently doing. She claims that, where she was once a leader, everything about Madonna now “seems weak and not powerful.”
Perry doesn’t hold back and says: “I would love to put that woman in a studio, slap her a couple of times and tell her: ‘Wake up and go back to being the Madonna you were. You’re a leader and we have to get back there.'” Some of Perry’s ideas – strings, some vocal nudity – were already implemented in ‘Madame X’, Madonna’s last album, which did not follow as many trends.
As for Madonna’s voice, Perry suggests that, if he were to produce an album for the Detroit artist, he would seek to “focus on the power that her voice can have, not on the power of autotune and all those effects that she uses now to hide herself. I would expose all her flaws and try to make a more acoustic record, something she could perform sitting in front of an elegant audience, at Carnegie Hall or wherever.
Linda Perry is right that Madonna’s recent work has followed trends rather than imposing them. However, ‘Madame On the other hand, the suggestion that Madonna should make music to sing at Carnegie Hall seems to have a certain component of ageism, as if Madonna, being 67 years old, could only make music “according to her age.” Is it possible that Linda Perry is projecting too restrictive a view on Madonna’s career, especially in regards to her right to continue making pop and contemporary music?
However, Perry acknowledges that Madonna would never make an album of that type and admits that he has “a thorn in her side” because he has rejected her many times. As many Madonna fans will remember, this collaboration came close to happening at one point in history: Madonna was about to record ‘Get the Party Started’, P!nk’s 2001 hit composed by Linda Perry, but it ultimately didn’t click. With these latest statements, we do not believe that this collaboration is closer today, precisely.
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