'Wasn't even the whole butt': Madonna reveals how a WARDROBE MALFUNCTION in the '80s almost ended her career
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: On an episode of the 'The Tonight Show' hosted by Jimmy Fallon, aired on Wednesday, August 10, 63-year-old pop royalty Madonna claimed that her management believed her future was over following a wardrobe malfuntion in the early 1980s. Madonna, made an appearance on 'The Tonight Show' to promote her next album, 'Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones,' which will be available on August 19.
When Madonna appeared during the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, her dress accidentally flipped up, revealing a portion of her 'derriere'. The pop superstar's representatives believed at the time that this incident would mark the death of her profession. "Like a Virgin,' a song by the artist, which she claimed she believed was scandalous, proved to be far less contentious than her accidental wardrobe malfunction. Fallon also noted that the song was actually scheduled to be her debut single.
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"I did that show and I walked down the very steep stairs of the wedding cake and I got to the bottom and I started dancing around and my white stiletto pumps fell off," said the music star. "And I was trying to do this smooth move like, dive for the shoe and look like it was the choreography. And my dress flipped up and my butt was showing. Can you imagine? Those were the days when you shouldn't show your butt to have a career. Now it's the opposite," she added. "It happened by accident and when I didn't even know my butt was showing. It wasn't even like the whole butt it was just like a butt cheek, like half a butt cheek. Yeah, when I went backstage, my manager told me my career is over with."
All 50 of her #1 songs on the Billboard singles charts are included in her upcoming album, which also includes a handful of collaborations. However, there seems to be a particular musician she is most eager to work with. She said, "I mean, there's one artist that I worship more than anything, and I would love to collaborate with him, that's Kendrick Lamar." 'Mr Morale & the Big Steppers,' the rapper's most recent album, was also dubbed "history in the making" by her.
The 'Headline Playlist-Madonna Edition' segment saw Fallon incorporating a variety of Madonna track names together into a tale about Donald Trump citing the Fifth Amendment in his New York testimony. Following the monologue, Fallon brought back Classroom Instruments with Madonna, one of their most well-liked bits, for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak.
Madonna's music from 2009 was presented by the artist herself, Fallon, and The Roots using a wide range of instruments, including a triangle, keytar, different shakers, and cymbals among others. The performers would sometimes dim the lights amid the show so that their glow-in-the-dark clothing would brighten up.
Prior to the interview, Madonna stated that she had sold over 400 million albums and that she was sporting newly fitted dentures. She asked him to let her know if she began to slur as a joke. The pop star jokingly advised Fallon to take a vacation for a week when he asked her if she would lead the show if he fell ill. Everyone applauded and cheered in agreement when she asked the crowd if they'd like her to be the show's host.
On being questioned about how she felt when people first began grooving to her music, she shared a tale about a club named Danceteria. "I want to tell you when I finally got this guy, Mark Kamins, to play my cassette, it's a song called Everybody. It's on his record and I swear to god, I had to promise everything to him to get it played. And when he played it, everybody got up and started dancing to it and it blew my mind I mean, seriously, like that was everything to me," she said.