Madonna Lost a Battle With Her Producer Over ‘Vogue’

Madonna is the sort of fiercely driven artist who usually seems to get her way. On the other hand, Madonna’s producer told her he would change part of “Vogue” whether she liked it or not. Here is how that turned out.

Madonna battled her producer over the ‘Vogue’ bass lines Shep Pettibone is a dance artist who worked with the Queen of Pop on tunes like “Deeper and Deeper,” “Rain,” “This Used to Be My Playground,” and, of course, “Vogue.” During a 2015 interview with Billboard , Pettibone discussed how “Vogue” came together. “Um .

.. the piano was added, for instance, after she sang the song,” he said.

“The bass lines in the verses were changed to make them go with the verse better. Before that I think it’d just been like a two-bar loop of the bass line throughout the entire song — which she liked. “She didn’t want me to change it,” he added.

“But I was like, ‘I’m gonna change it anyways.’ So ..

. [Laughs . ] She wanted to keep it very underground, and I was like, ‘Just trust me.

Let me do what I do.’ Which she did.” The song was almost the B-side of another Madonna tune Pettibone revealed the tune didn’t take too long to finish.

“I would say I sent her the track [and] within possibly like two weeks she came to New York to sing it,” he said. “I think right after that she was on to something else, and I think it was within a week or so that I finished up the production and the mix and sent it off to Warners.” Or.