First you love me and I let you in made me feel like I was born again

Welcome to the New York Times pop cast your iconic ironic of musical tablature. I'm your host Ben Ratliff.

I let down my God, I fell into your arms.

Well, God, who was, I didn't hear the alarms.

Now I'm down on my knees.

Alone in the dark, I was bound to your game.

You fight a shot in my heart.

Oh, took me to heaven that me for them. And today we're talking about Madonna's new record Rebel Heart with John Pirellas, hey John.

Hey Ben. Hey, Ben.

First, the quick backstory.

This is a record that has been worked on for the last year or whatever.

Two years.

Two years.

And it was leaked.

Part of it was leaked.

Work tapes were leaked because you can hear the difference if you're a total

nerd between the songs that came out as leaks and the songs that Madonna eventually released,

the songs that Madonna eventually released,

the work tapes are basically the same track throughout.

The songs Madonna released go through changes. They have more special sauce

poured on them. Oh I see. So what came out to me seems to be preliminary stuff

before she went on to the next producer or went to the next remixer or like did the next computer

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