While her illustrious career has spanned more than five decades, Madonna revealed Wednesday on The Tonight Show her reps thought her career was over after an accidental backside flash in the early 1980s.
The 63-year-old singer appeared was promoting her new album Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones on The Tonight Show, which will be released on August 19.
Madonna performed at the very first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, when her dress flipped up and showed part of her backside… which her reps thought would be the end of her career.
Career: While her illustrious career has spanned more than five decades, Madonna revealed Wednesday on The Tonight Show her reps thought her career was over after an accidental backside flash in the early 1980s
Promoting: The 63-year-old singer appeared was promoting her new album Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones on The Tonight Show, which will be released on August 19
Fallon pointed out that it said in the liner notes Like a Virgin was supposed to be the first single, which Madonna said she thought was ‘controversial,’ though it turned out to be nowhere near controversial as her wardrobe malfunction.
‘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 in my white stiletto pumps fell off,’ Madonna began.
‘And I was trying to do this smooth move like, dive for the shoe and look like it was choreography. And my dress flipped up and my butt was showing. Can you imagine,’ she added.
Liner notes: Fallon pointed out that it said in the liner notes Like a Virgin was supposed to be the first single, which Madonna said she thought was ‘controversial,’ though it turned out to be nowhere near controversial as her wardrobe malfunction
Smooth move: ‘And I was trying to do this smooth move like, dive for the shoe and look like it was choreography. And my dress flipped up and my butt was showing. Can you imagine,’ she added
‘Those were the days when you shouldn’t show your butt to have a career. Now it’s the opposite,’ she continued.
The music icon added that it, ‘happened by accident and when I didn’t even know my butt was showing,’ adding, ‘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.
Old days: ‘Those were the days when you shouldn’t show your butt to have a career. Now it’s the opposite,’ she continued
Accident: The music icon added that it, ‘happened by accident and when I didn’t even know my butt was showing,’ adding, ‘it wasn’t even like the whole butt it was just like a butt cheek, like half a butt cheek
Over: ‘Yeah, when I went backstage, my manager told me my career is over with
Her new album features all of her 50 #1 hits on the Billboard singles charts, which feature a number of collaborators, though there is one artist she really wants to work with now.
‘I mean, there’s one artist that I worship more than anything and I would love to collaborate with him that’s Kendrick Lamar,’ Madonna said.
She added that his new album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, which was released in May, is, ‘history making’ and ‘mind boggingly brilliant’ and ‘insane.’
New album: Her new album features all of her 50 #1 hits on the Billboard singles charts, which feature a number of collaborators, though there is one artist she really wants to work with now
The show opened with Headline Playlist – Madonna Edition, where Fallon found a way to work a number of Madonna song titles into a story about Donald Trump pleading the 5th during his New York deposition.
After the monologue, Fallon revived one of their most popular segments – Classroom Instruments – with Madonna, the first time they’d done so since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Madonna, Fallon and The Roots performed her 2009 song Music with a number of instruments like a triangle, keytar, various shakers, cymbals and more.
Segments: After the monologue, Fallon revived one of their most popular segments – Classroom Instruments – with Madonna, the first time they’d done so since the COVID-19 pandemic
Instruments: Madonna, Fallon and The Roots performed her 2009 song Music with a number of instruments like a triangle, keytar, various shakers, cymbals and more
They were all wearing glow in the dark clothes that lit up when they would intermittently turn the lights off during the performance.
Before they started talking, Madonna ‘corrected’ Fallon by saying she sold over 400 million albums, and telling him she is wearing new grills that she designed herself… and asked him to tell her if she starts lisping.
Fallon asked if she would host the show if he was sick, and she joked that he should ‘take a break for a week.’
Glow up: They were all wearing glow in the dark clothes that lit up when they would intermittently turn the lights off during the performance
Grills: Before they started talking, Madonna ‘corrected’ Fallon by saying she sold over 400 million albums, and telling him she is wearing new grills that she designed herself… and asked him to tell her if she starts lisping
When she asked the audience if they would like her hosting they all erupted with applause.
He asked what it was like when people started dancing to her music for the first time, she told a story about a club called Danceteria.
‘I want to tell you when I finally got this guy, Mark Kamins, to play my cassette, it’s a song called Everybody,’ she said.
‘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 added.
Host: When she asked the audience if they would like her hosting they all erupted with applause
Dance: He asked what it was like when people started dancing to her music for the first time, she told a story about a club called Danceteria
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