In the end, Madonna and Elton John have apparently made pop icon peace ― or, on the very least, reached détente ― after publicly buying and selling barbs with each other for about 20 years.
On Monday, Madonna revealed she’d been within the viewers at “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend to catch John’s efficiency with fellow musical visitor Brandi Carlile. Later, she and John hugged it out backstage ― a candy second captured for posterity on the Queen of Pop’s Instagram.
“We Finally Buried the Hatchet!!!” Madonna wrote. “Over the decades it hurt me to know that someone I admired so much shared his dislike of me publicly as an artist. I didn’t understand it.”
The seven-time Grammy winner stated she’d determined to attend this weekend’s taping of “SNL” upon studying that John could be showing.
“I needed to go backstage and confront him,” she added. “When I met him, the first thing out of his mouth was, ‘Forgive Me’ and the wall between us fell down. Forgiveness is a powerful tool. Within minutes. We were hugging.”
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And the 2 music legends may quickly be hitting the studio collectively, as Madonna famous that John had written a track for her and desires to collaborate.
John responded to Madonna’s put up by thanking her for “forgiving me and my big mouth” and commending her on her years of HIV/AIDS advocacy work.
“I’m not proud of what I said,” he wrote. “Particularly when I think about all of the groundbreaking work you have done as an artist ― paving the way for an entire generation of female artists to succeed and be true to themselves.”
He went on to notice: “I’m grateful we can move forward.”
Madonna and John seemed to be on good phrases for a lot of the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s. The pair posed collectively backstage on the 1995 Brit Awards and, three years later, briefly shared the stage alongside Roberta Flack and Sting as a part of a Rainforest Basis Profit Live performance at New York’s Carnegie Corridor.
Their relationship appeared to bitter, nonetheless, on the 2004 Q Awards when John accused Madonna ― who was one of many night time’s winners ― of lip-syncing.
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“Madonna, best live act? Fuck off,” John stated on the time. “Since when has lip-syncing been live?”
The Rocket Man went even additional in 2012 when he and Madonna each acquired Golden Globe nominations for Greatest Unique Track. Talking to NBC’s Carson Daly forward of the ceremony, John stated Madonna “doesn’t have a fucking chance of winning tonight.”
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Seems, he was fallacious, as Madonna’s track “Masterpiece” from the movie “W.E.” snagged the award. Her win was shortly dissed by John’s husband, David Furnish, who known as her acceptance speech “embarrassing in its narcissism” in a prolonged Fb standing, in line with the Hollywood Reporter.
Later in 2012, John escalated the feud even additional when he took purpose at Madonna’s Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency and subsequent MDNA Tour, and in addition accused her of chasing developments that didn’t swimsuit her.
“Her tour is a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger cunt,” he instructed Australia’s Channel 7 program that very same 12 months. “If Madonna had any common sense, she would have made a record like ‘Ray of Light,’ stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and made great pop records, which she does brilliantly. But no… And she looks like a fucking fairground stripper.”
