{"id":452473,"date":"2026-05-30T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452473\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:01:16","slug":"ouch-linda-perry-disses-madonna-after-years-of-pop-diva-denying-her-collab-requests-everything-about-her-seems-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452473\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! Linda Perry Disses Madonna After Years of Pop Diva Denying Her Collab Requests: “Everything About Her Seems Weak”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As one of music history\u2019s most prized female songwriters, Linda Perry has penned hits for some of the biggest names in music including Celine Dion, Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, and many more.<\/p>\n

But, for all her top-selling and award-winning collaborations over the years, Perry recently admitted a dream tag team with a certain Madonna<\/a> continues to elude her \u2013 much to her chagrin.<\/p>\n

Look inside to hear how her voiced frustration over the duet denials has led to her landing in hot water with the Queen of Pop\u2019s loyal fans.<\/p>\n

While chatting it up with our buds at Consequence<\/a> recently, Linda admitted Madonna remains #1 on her collaborator bucket list despite the diva consistently denying previous requests to join forces in the studio \u2013 a missed opportunity the songwriter referred to as a \u201cthorn in my side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s turned me down so many times. When Madonna is ready to retire, she should make that album with me because I\u2019ll make her such a great album,\u201d Perry said (as seen above) before sharing, \u201cSo Madonna, call me when you\u2019re ready to get back to your f\u2014ing strength, alright?\u201d<\/p>\n

Madge, who earned her biggest hit of this decade as a song leader with the April-released \u2018Bring Your Love<\/a>\u2018 featuring Sabrina Carpenter, is preparing to release her 15th studio album \u2018Confessions II.\u2019<\/p>\n

For Perry, however, the 67-year-old\u2019s proclivity for tag-teaming with younger artists is diluting her brand.<\/p>\n

In fact, while she praised the 67-year-old as \u201cone of the greatest\u201d and a trend \u201cleader,\u201d Linda also argued the Pop monarch\u2019s latest musical output (like \u2018Bring\u2019) makes her appear more of a trend \u201cfollower.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s trying to compete with\u00a0Charli xcx and this and that. Everything about her seems weak to me and not powerful,\u201d Perry relayed. \u201cSo I would love to get that woman in a studio, slap her in the face a couple times and say, \u2018Wake up! Get back to who Madonna is and what you represent. You are a leader,\u2019 so we got to get back there and focus on the power of what her voice can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch!<\/p>\n

At writing, Madge has not responded to Perry\u2019s stinging criticism.<\/p>\n

\u2018Confessions II\u2019 \u2013 the conceptual sequel to 2005\u2019s blockbuster \u2018Confessions on a Dancefloor\u2019 album \u2013 is due on digital shelves July 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As one of music history\u2019s most prized female songwriters, Linda Perry has penned hits for some of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,230206,1385,157,111,139,69,27037],"class_list":["post-452473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-linda-perry","tag-madonna","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-weak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}