{"id":482980,"date":"2026-06-08T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:47:13","slug":"lou-reeds-songwriting-credit-on-madonna-danceteria-song-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482980\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Reed’s Songwriting Credit on Madonna ‘Danceteria’ Song Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFriday (June 5) night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City during Tribeca Festival, Madonna debuted a nearly 14-minute visual project<\/a> centered around the first six songs from her upcoming album Confessions II.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe world premiere of the Confessions II short film was followed by a Q&A with Madonna, directors David Toro and Solomon Chase (TORSO) and host Anderson Cooper. There was a lot to unpack in the wide-ranging discussion: lasers shooting out of lower-body orifices, unreleased songs, hot n\u2019 sweaty bathroom hookups, a Benedict Cumberbatch cameo and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there was one small, unusual item Billboard noticed in the film\u2019s credits that was not explained during the Q&A (which didn\u2019t open up for audience or media questions at any point). In the Confessions II end credits, which contain the songwriting credits for the six Confessions II songs that appear in the film, Lou Reed<\/a> was listed as a songwriter on \u201cDanceteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLou Reed and Madonna are both musical icons associated with NYC, artists who forged their creative identities in the city\u2019s fertile but unforgiving fires. But as far as we know, they never creatively collaborated during the Velvet Underground founder\u2019s lifetime. The closest they seem to have come to crossing paths publicly was at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, when Madonna was inducted into the Rock Hall alongside Leonard Cohen and Reed was there to give Cohen his flowers.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, what gives? Well, Billboard reached out to Madonna\u2019s reps, and the reason is about what you would imagine. Madonna\u2019s \u201cDanceteria\u201d \u2014 a song inspired by the iconic, defunct dance club that Madonna frequented in the early \u201880s before taking over the globe \u2014 includes a small but famous portion of Reed\u2019s biggest (and only Billboard Hot 100) hit, \u201cWalk on the Wild Side.\u201d During \u201cDanceteria\u201d (which includes a lyrical reference to Debi Mazar, whom pre-fame Madonna hung out with at the NYC club and even made out with), the Queen of Pop briefly sings the immortal \u201cdo-do-do, do-do, do-do-do\u201d portion of that song. Thus Reed is duly credited alongside Madonna, Andrew Watt and Stuart Price as a cowriter on \u201cDanceteria\u201d for the interpolation.<\/p>\n

\n\tMadonna is far from the first artist to interpolate this portion of Reed\u2019s best-known song in the cultural mainstream. A Tribe Called Quest\u2019s 1990 classic \u201cCan I Kick It?\u201d interpolated it in 1990, as did Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (the pre-acting rap group of Mark Wahlberg) in 1991 on \u201cWildside.\u201d Marky Mark\u2019s version actually peaked higher on the Hot 100 than Reed\u2019s, reaching No. 10 compared to his No. 16 pinnacle. Haim\u2019s 2019 track \u201cSummer Girl\u201d interpolates the same bit of \u201cWalk on the Wild Side,\u201d too. And, of course, let\u2019s not forget the clean-shaven sounds of Hooray for Everything. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday (June 5) night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City during Tribeca Festival, Madonna debuted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,2646,12963,85,46,4556],"class_list":["post-482980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-genre-rock","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}