“Danceteria Afterhours” is a nonstop guided tour through nightclub lore<\/p>\n
\n\tMadonna and Charli XCX<\/a> guide us through nightclub lore on their collaborative new single, a reworked rendition of the acclaimed Confessions II <\/a>track \u201cDanceteria.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProduced by Madonna, Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Stuart Price, \u201cDanceteria Afterhours\u201d delves into Madonna\u2019s nights in New York City at the legendary club Danceteria, which opened its doors in midtown Manhattan before settling at its 21st Street location in 1982. (Madonna<\/a> is said to have handed DJ Mark Kamin her \u201cEverybody\u201d demo at Danceteria, who played the single for the first time to a packed crowd; the club is also where she gave her\u00a0first live performance<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \n\tAlongside Madonna\u2019s verses name-dropping her fellow clubmates like Fab 5 Freddy, Basquiat, Rock Steady Crew, and more are Charli\u2019s own club recollections. In \u201cDanceteria Afterhours,\u201d Charli looks back at being \u201csweet 15 in a weird outfit\u201d and performing in London before fast-forwarding to hanging out with with A.G. Cook and Sophie in Los Angeles, where she finds \u201cdifferent DJs, flavored cocaine.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe result is a joyful collaboration that spans nearly 50 decades \u2014 with each verse simultaneously nostalgic and timeless.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tPrior to the song\u2019s release, Madonna and Charli threw a Club Confessions party with Saint Laurent during Paris Fashion Week and swapped a series of social media exchanges to promote the single. Rolling Stone<\/a>\u2018s Rob Sheffield praised Madonna\u2019s return to the dancefloor on Confessions II, calling it \u201cher best album since the original Confessions 21 years ago\u201d and \u201ca 64-minute nonstop groove that flows like a club-DJ set, each song fading into the next, drawing from all over the history of dance music.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMadonna is slated to take centerstage<\/a> for her first performance at the MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> in 23 years on Sunday, Sept. 27. The icon leads the night with 11 nominations, thanks largely to the short film she crafted<\/a> for Confessions II \u2014 the film is up for Video of the Year, as well as a swath of other categories including Best Direction, Cinematography, and Choreography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Danceteria Afterhours” is a nonstop guided tour through nightclub lore Madonna and Charli XCX guide us through nightclub…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,71538,134,24195,136],"class_list":["post-904582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charli-xcx","tag-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}