Madonna's Confessions 2 Studio Sessions

The first batch that we got of the Studio Sessions, Stromae, Andrew Watt, and Stuart Price.

Let's start with Stromae, since that's what is behind Liberty.

They were working on My Sins Are My Savior, and it was fun to watch Madonna get a bit of a French lesson from Stromae.

What were your favorite parts? I wrote a couple highlights about each video as I was watching things that just struck out.

Liberty, as a connoisseur of French language, what was something that stuck out about this particular video?

so initially I wasn't able, like, you know, what we got were kind of like, um, I think I kind of saw stills or whatever of what she had written as like lyrics.

And I, right away I was like, okay.

And you know, some errors, but it's fine.

We allow, we allow it because I think, you know, we all know that Madonna, as far as like handwriting and she kind of writes as she like thinks, you know what I'm saying? I don't know how to explain that better, but

The stream of consciousness.

Yeah, well, even in her English...

She makes some grammatical mistakes here and there.

It's endearing, I find it.

And so the same thing happens with her French.

I think she writes as she hears.

It was really awesome, though, to hear Stromae talk about, oh, that's not very French, right? That's not the way we would say that, which is really important because linguistically, you don't want to sound...

Like, like you've just translated it from English.

You want it to be like a real phrasing that a French person would use.

So I truly appreciated that.

I also, though, appreciated the sort of what might have been Madonna's way of kind of correcting him and that he didn't know certain words.

films that, you know, in her mind as a French person, well, Stromae is actually Belgian.

But, yeah, so that's why he was asking, like, is he Belgian?

Right, when she mentioned Marquis de Sade.

Marquis de Sade, yeah.

Yeah.