"Revolver" Leaks, William Orbit Speaks

by Bradley Stern
filed under: Britney Spears, Madonna, Mirwais, William Orbit

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Today, the full demo of “Revolver,” a supposedly new track of Madonna‘s upcoming Greatest Hits package has leaked. I’m still too dubious to believe that this will actually be used, but for the purposes of this post, I shall entertain the notion.

“Revolver” is like an increasingly urban spin on anything off of Britney‘s Blackout–most notably “Radar” and “Piece Of Me.” It’s not as good as those two tracks, but it’s probably more fun than anything off of Hard Candy. Mercifully, the song does not beg for relevancy as pathetically as something like, say, “4 Minutes,” but it’s still too heavy-handed with “modern” production style to be considered unique in any shape or form.

What I’m getting at is that “Revolver” would be a step up from Candy…just not a big one. It’s fun, though…

Secondly, William Orbit has been doing some radio interviews around the UK to promote the release of his new album, My Oracle Lives Uptown which, alas, proved not my cup of tea upon hearing it a few weeks ago. Nonetheless, he had this to say to BBC Radio regarding Madge’s new sound:

She’s into Britney Spears’ last record. Not the last one, the one before. That Britney record with ”Piece Of Me” on it. She wants that brilliant sound. I absolutely adore the sound of ”Piece Of Me” and so does she. It’s one of my favorite tracks when I DJ and I play it. And I love playing Madonna’s song ”Music” she did with Mirwais and she’s right now looking for a sound that is similar to that. And I can’t make that sound even if I tried. It doesn’t come out that way. It all softens up in the end and she’s more into that hardcore dancing thing and so forth.”

Hm. Well, if it’s hardcore that she wants…

Thanks to Candy-Store.org for transcribing…head to their site to hear the whole thing!

DL: Revolver (Demo)

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  • xolondon

    Urgh. For me it’s a relinquishment of her POWER as she tries to compete with 22 year olds. Maybe this will be good, but the whole thing sounds terrible. “I want to make a record that sounds like the record Britney made on drugs TWO years ago.” WTF? And the fact that Revolver is like Incredible in that she won’t have had much of a hand in writing it speaks to my issues with Hard Candy. I want more Madonna in Madonna and she seems hellbent on not doing that. I get the sense she was in the kitchen with Orbit and Price – and abdicated a lot with Mirwais.

    As she ages we’re seeing the results of her short attention span.

  • Christian

    By the way, I’ve collected over five hours worth of recent radio interviews with William Orbit here:
    http://veryrandomstreams.blogspot.com/2009/04/william-orbit-interviews-and-radio.html

  • will

    i just wanted to clarify, this definitely isn’t madonna singing but people are claiming it is her on the vocal. this singer has a completely different timbre than madonna. anyhow regardless, can’t wait to hear more. this sound is v. different from the w. orbit i’m used to.

  • Brad

    Actually, this is not William Orbit on production. He’s simply spoken to Madonna recently (and offered up a few tracks that didn’t make the cut for the Greatest Hits).