Prince serenaded Madonna at an intimate gig at his Paisley Park studios in October. Madonna and her team joined about 30 guests at the Minneapolis complex at 1.30am, and the Purple One performed a short set including Guitar, Stare and Bill Withers’ Use Me. Thecurrent.org blog reports that Madonna was “perched on the edge of the stage at Prince’s feet, looking up at him adoringly as he sang.”
Prince, meanwhile, says pop is in a parlous state. “It’s a bad time for music in general,” the Purple One opines. “There’s not a lot of pop in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what’s happening. There might be music that sounds like me, but what good is that? You’re in the feedback loop.”