LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW

You told Rolling Stone recently that you miss the simplicity of the music business the way it used to be.

Of course I do! Who wouldn’t?

What was more simple?

I made a demo, I took it to a nightclub, I gave it to a DJ, he played it, people danced to it, an A&R guy was there, he signed me, I made a record. Then my song – if everyone liked it, fingers crossed -- was on the radio. It was just simpler. There wasn’t Twitter and Facebook and Snapchat. Even before MTV, there was really just live shows and the radio, and that was it.
You also didn’t have situations where half your record leaks before you’re ready to put it out.
Half of it? You mean all of it. Or practically all of it, in various incarnations. That’s part of the technology thing, which brings people perhaps a little too close.

When that happened, you spoke frankly about how invasive it felt. Three months later, has that feeling diminished?

Oh no, it’s still very fresh on my mind, and I’m still very upset about it.

You don’t think the official album has supplanted the leak in people’s brains?

I think their brains have been contaminated by what they’ve heard. And because I was continuously being hacked into – with all the different versions from all the different producers I was working with in all the different recording studios -- it started making me second-guess everything. I had extreme anxiety.
Some of the demos that I had done, I actually liked as demos; I liked the simplicity of them. But then people were commenting on them: “Oh, I can’t wait to hear the finished version.” And I thought, Well, what if this is the finished version? And then other people were saying they liked things as demos that I had changed the production of.
In a way, it was almost like doing a test screening of a film. I went through this with my last film I directed, where the audience’s comments actually weighed in and gave Harvey Weinstein the right to say, “If you change X, Y and Z on your film, I’ll spend more money on the marketing.” But that’s not the movie I want to make. So from the point of view of the artistic process, it was devastating. And it still is.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...ry.html#page=1

This makes me so upset. I wish she wouldn't have been able to see the comments and reviews on her leaked work, for her sake.

Thank you Madonna but I think we can judge them by ourselves. I got your point but this happens to all artists.

And for God's sake who listens leaks besides stans and some fans come on.

tbh i heard the living for love demo for the first time in a long time today accidentally thinking i was listening to the final, and omg it's sounds so much better

A whole album leaking months before the release happens to all artists?

4-5 different versions of the songs AND the final versions?

Sis...

Cute. Which other pop gurls entire album has leaked months before release?

I feel so bad for her, it must be terrible.

This doesn't happen to all artists. This is actually a very unique situation where the entire album leaked MONTHS before it was even meant to be announced. On top of that, there are multiple versions for a lot of songs. How many other times have you heard of this happening? So many non-fans know about these demos.

Most of the demos sounded so much better

So you think the album would sound completely different if the whole thing hadn't happened?

I really wonder what the album would of been like if nothing leaked she said in a interview that she would of been able to to do more and work with more people but since she was forced to rush it out she could't.

So this is why she ruined Wash All Over Me?

And Rebel Heart

They literally reverted to an earlier demo of the track.

I'm not a fan and i havent listened to those leaks.. I think that only die hard stans listened them all.
But.. The leaks was all over the news back then, in fact it affected the album production and promotipm

This makes me so sad.

So upsetting.

The LFL demos. Love them.

Addicted demo>>>>>>>>