Like a Virgin

You, you, you learn by making mistakes, unfortunately, for some of the people you worked with early on.

Um, and one, I mean, uh, one clear moment was by the time I'd moved to Phonogram, um, I was asked by my buddy Paul Conroy, who had left Stiff and was now working at Warner Brothers, he said, "Well, can you cut some of these videos down to 30-second promos that we can pay for commercials?" And one of them was Madonna's Like a Virgin-

Oh

... and which was sh- I'm ...

And like you've mentioned before, I just love all those early Madonna singles.

Borderline, Papa Don't Preach, Like a Virgin.

Lucky Star.

Yeah.

This is...

I thought that was Like a Virgin.

Sorry, guys.

So did I.

That is so incredibly selfish, but also perfectly Tarantino.

Right, because Mr. Brown's main thing in that movie is the opening monologue about Madonna's Like a Virgin.

Tarantino just wanted to deliver his own monologue on screen.

That is just a perfect example of the duct tape nature of Hollywood.

[laughs] What did she do this year? She what?

At the VMAs, 42 years after her performance of "Like a Virgin" at the inaugural awards show.

I know she's still touring.

I didn't know she had an album out.

But the point is-

I never subscribed either.

I just know Like a Virgin.

« Touched for the very first time.

if MTV would say, oh, we're going to pay people to run their videos on our channel again and bring back what people want, then yes, keep doing it.

If they're not, it feels fitting to, as Fallon said on Jason's show the other day when we were on his TV show, It seems fitting to end it because she did the very first VMAs, Like a Virgin, with that performance.

And then the very last closing of it.

Because unless there's going to be some place where people can go besides YouTube and the artist's own channel, I think it has something to do with paying them money now.

What's Madonna's best song?

Like a Virgin.

Material Girl.

Hmm, yeah, Material Girl or Vogue.

[laughs]

I like, hmm, what'd you guys pick?

Like a Virgin.

Spanish pa- uh.

And Madonna was the first one to perform at the first VMAs.

She performed Like a Virgin in 1984.

And also the VMAs came famous for artists acting unpredictably and like not everyone not knowing what was going to happen during the performances or even during the ceremonies whatsoever.

There was a lot of surprises.

This one, she would be performing twice.

She did the opening performance with, of course, Madonna, Britney and Missy.

They performed like a virgin Hollywood and Work It.

Christina and Britney performed the opening section of Like a Virgin while Madonna, Britney, and Christina moved into Hollywood and then followed by Work It.

You posted a-

Well, yeah, so there was a viral tweet going around of an old performance that he did of Like a Virgin from, I think, like, 2001 or something-

Mm-hmm

... which then put me on down rabbit hole of Brandon Boyd.