![]() ![]() But the song also grew out of Stuart’s DJ sets. “Hung Up” began in part because Madonna was working on a film with director Luc Besson (whose films include The Fifth Element and Taken). The song and that album were co-produced by Stuart Price, an electronic musician, producer, and DJ from the UK. In this episode, she talks about one of those number 1 hits: “Hung Up,” from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. That’s more number 1s than anyone in any category, ever. She’s won seven Grammys, and has had fifty songs reach number 1 on the Billboard Dance chart. Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Becker and Fagen never truly enjoyed rock - with their ironic humor and cryptic lyrics, their eclectic body of work shows some debt to Bob Dylan - preferring jazz, traditional pop. Writing his obituary, the Associated Press reported that Steely Dans Walter Becker 'had the gift of relative anonymity in a field where celebrity can do incalculable damage. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions. She has 12 albums that have gone multi-platinum. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time. You can buy or stream “Viva Las Vengeance” here. In this episode, Brendon tells the story of how he, Grammy-nominated producer Jake Sinclair and Oscar-nominated songwriter Mike Viola all got together to make the song “Viva Las Vengeance.” The title track hit #1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. In August 2022, Brendon released the seventh Panic! at the Disco album, Viva Las Vengeance. In the eighteen years since, Panic! At the Disco has won American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music awards, and more. Panic! at the Disco is the Grammy-nominated project of Brendon Urie, who originally started it as a band with his high school friends from Las Vegas in 2004. Shawn Everett (listen to Shawn on the Perfume Genius episode) ![]() And you’ll hear the drums recorded by the late Taylor Hawkins, the legendary drummer of Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette, who passed away earlier this year ![]() You’ll hear the original voice memo that Mikaela recorded, and the demo she made with Ethan. The last track on the album is the song “Let Us Die.” Rolling Stone called it “the banger of the year.” In this episode, Mikaela breaks down the song, along with two of her collaborators on it: co-producer and co-writer Ethan Gruska, and multi-Grammy winning producer Mark Ronson. She’s a platinum-selling artist, and she put out her second album in July, 2022. King Princess is the project of Mikaela Straus, a singer, songwriter, and producer from Brooklyn. ![]()
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